Seedy, Greedy & Needy - an excerpt

I've always gotten good reviews from employers and clients because I'm a workhorse, always getting my work done efficiently and correctly.

It's not until they steal my money, lie about me, or abuse my integrity that I wind up leaving them behind.  For I've been the victim of greed and lies too many times to ever willfully participate in it again.

Still, the traps are set. 

And hope often blinds one to subterfuge, even when it's grotesquely in your face.

You see, I wanted to talk storytelling with someone in the business, so I began DMing with the 'managed account for fans of Travis Fimmel'. 

I thought for sure, given what the account knew about the seemingly very private man, that I could at least get into Travis' ear with one of  my stories.

Sadly, however, shortly into the 2-years of DMing I realized I was really communicating with the actor Travis Fimmel himself, for many reasons which I provide in detail a little later on in this book.  For now, I just want to focus on why I chose to go down this strange and unusual path.

You see, my enthusiasm and desperation combined perfectly just then to blind me to how wrong and immoral Fimmel's actions really are, how disturbed this creep has to be - fundamentally - in order to manipulate fans the way he does.

So, I continued to participate in this blind-faith DMing with Mr. Fimmel through his 'managed account' for nearly 2 years - because I recognized in him a creature who was terribly sad and lonely - which was something I definitely could relate to.

But after a while, as I saw how he uses anonymity to belittle folks, folks already hurting due to the myriad of impersonators (that Fimmel and his employers were not only tolerating but promoting) I began to see the man for who he really is.

A man who uses people to get what he wants, be it acclaim or a scapegoat.

Our conversations were dry and boring and he always centered them around himself.

Not once did he say a nice thing about the folks he'd worked with, grew up with, or even his family.  Yet he didn't hesitate if there was blame to be thrown around.

This man wanted me to know he was legit - without letting me know he was legit - because that's the mind game he loves to play - because he thinks it proves how much smarter he is than everyone else.

As I  witnessed more and more narcissistic behavior from him it eventually turned my stomach so much that I decided to block him.

When Travis immediately blocked me back I decided to have some fun with the smart ass little twerp, so I opened a couple of new accounts just to tease him about his 'super stealthy' disguise on Twitter. 

ALWAYS I revealed who I was right away, because I'm not into the same sort of games Fimmel and his friends quite obviously enjoy playing.

But my chiding fell upon deaf ears and a cold heart, because instead of looking at what was going on from a 30,000 foot view, Travis was stuck staring right at my kneecaps, unable to process any of it.  Unevolved folks can't understand concepts they've never encountered before, and words like 'responsibility', 'accountability', 'integrity', fall upon deaf ears when it comes to Travis Fimmel and his cohort of 'friends'.

Personally, I was stunned, more than stunned.  I was dumbfounded he would do such a thing, as pretend to be his own fan account when so many of his fans were already (for decades it seems) being hurt by fake and phony Fimmels - every damn day.

It just didn't make any sense to me.

However, as I witnessed his machinations continue, as I saw more and more women, gay men, and transgendered people fall for his antics online, and getting hurt because of it - I knew I could not remain silent any longer.

So, I did the only thing a normal, moral person would do, I tried to bring his mind games to the attention of his then bosses - who are the final beneficiaries of his image - both online and in the real world.

Little did I know, however, that his employers are totally in on it.



To Be Cont....



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