I feel like ranting. Just for my own peace of mind. If I don't write it, it's going to eat at me and Karl is sick of this story now.
"Susan McKunterson" (not as an insult or well.. maybe, but also because he last name is stupid as fuck, confusing, and difficult to remember how to spell). The self proclaimed Geek Princess trapped in the body of a drooping 34 year old hag with a husband and two kids she tries to pretend she doesn't have because they make her look yet even more old. And she certainly doesn't want that. My drama with this bitch is old news really but I get little reminders of her existence every time I think I've forgotten her.
I first met Susan on WoW. What a fucking surprise huh? The breeding ground of the most childish and obnoxious people you may ever meet over the interwebs. So I needed a raiding guild because the one I had been in was losing it's founding leaders. They had decided to quit WoW for a while as any self respecting player will do from time to time to keep their sanity. When they left, no one really wanted to take the reigns and I was alone. Karl played WoW as well but was not into raiding, so he was usually in shitty guilds that weren't even capable. I came across Mostly Harmless and I was pleased with their progress of game content, their member count and rations of classes (never join a guild with one warrior and fifty hunters). I had grouped with some members and thought they were nice enough, if a bit arrogant, but it seemed like a good guild so I applied. I got in no problem and things started out well.
I should take a pause here to explain the female player vs. female player war that occupies nearly every WoW server I've ever had the displeasure to play on. Evidently, there is some unwritten yet widely known golden rule that states all females must treat each other like complete and utter shit in WoW. In the sausage fest that this game is you would think the best thing to do would be for the girls to band together to create the greatest Raiding/PvP guild Azeroth has ever seen. But no. It's cloak and dagger all the way. I tried to steer clear of this crap the best I could. I made it a point to be quiet, never giggly and annoying or disruptive over vent or in guild chat. I kept to myself when in the presence of other females because of what happens when one becomes threatened by you in the game. I could tell you a million horror stories but I'd be trailing off. It's girls against girls in WoW because we are a rare breed. Once a girl has her following of drooling virgin pimple faced nerdy boys who take them to get all the "epix" you had better not cross her.
When I joined Mostly Harmless I spoke at length with the guild leader. "Sydnie" the rogue was quite charismatic and I prepared for my first guild run, which was to be just a good long instance run. Just to see if I played well with the members. We hopped in vent, I said "Hello, can everyone hear me alright?" and that's when the shit hit the fan. Immediately the guys started in with "Ohhhhhh! Syd, it's another girl! What do you think about that?" Apparently there were no other females beside herself in the guild at this time. And I would soon find out why. So her entire attitude toward me changed dramatically after that instance. A normally talkative Susan (her real name of course) got very quiet. Speaking only when she needed to. I knew what was going on, I could feel the negative vibes permeating. Still, I just remained nice and pulled together. The series of snappings began shortly after this night. Sydnie would find any and all reasons to hurl insults and subtle "fuck yous" at me during raids. I would be the only one called out for a wipe, or a mistake, even while other people were saying "No, it was my fault. I pulled accidentally." I was approached by guys asking in tells "What did you do?! Omg, she's pissed at you! lolz" I really didn't find it funny. It's not funny when someone is truly being hateful to you for NO reason other than the fact you share a similar physical feature, like sweat bags with nipples on your chest. God forbid. I stuck it out. I figured the best way to show her I wasn't like all those girls she obviously hated was to hang in there and just kill her with kindness. I was nothing but nice to her. I found out she was an artist.. so we had something outside WoW in common. I praised her art, complimented her, and just shmoozed away any chance I got. Well, one day I needed help killing an elite so I asked if any guildees were nearby. None were but Syd aka Sue or Susan piped up and said "If you can wait until this battleground is over, we'll come help you. That is, she and her weird WoW best boy-friend Andromeda or "Andro", even though she's married. I'll get to more of that later. So I waited a while, and then along came a guy needing to kill the same elite. So we grouped up and readied for the fight. I wrote quickly in guild chat "Nevermind, this (insert class here, I can't remember what he was) who needs the guy too. He's gonna help me." And I turned to the battle and did my thing. After the fight I mounted up and glanced back down to G-chat to see Sydnie had just blown a bit of a gasket. "I SAID if you would wait until this BG was over we would help you! But since SOMEONE can't wait five fucking minutes...." This made me blink a bit and really caught me off guard. So I thought. My first instinct was to bite her fucking head off of course. Second was to apologize. Honestly, at that moment the straw just broke the camel's back and I said to hell with it and quit the guild. I'd had just enough of the Theater that Mostly Harmless was for that woman, her being the star Drama Queen in the show. I was immediately bombarded with tells calling me a whore and something about how she'd been so nice to me but was glad I left because I needed to grow up. I took screen shots of everything she said and thank god I did because a lot of people had to be shown these screen shots before they even believed me. I ignored her tells. I put her on ignore and said nothing. I thought it was over but a few minutes later got another tell from one of her alts saying pretty much the same shit. I ignored again and didn't say a word.
This is getting long now, so I need a way to sum it up. Basically, Sydnie or Susan or Sue had this following of drooling guys on WoW in her guild. This is weird to me because she's married. She is also a great artist and has actually been in magazines and this is probably another reason I hate her. Shame on me for being jealous (I'm actually not anymore but I'll explain that too in a second). I come across her artwork on dA a lot while searching for stuff and I end up finding out more weird shit about her. She apparently met a guy on WoW (the aforementioned Andromeda) who became her "best friend". She then displays pictures of her on dA with said friend meeting him in person for the first time. She dedicates two thirds of her art to this friend as well. And judging by the pictures (her next to Andro while her husband scowls in the background) there is some fishy weird shit going on. She's got kids that she admits to having in conversation but doesn't boast about on dA like a loving mother should. Upon closer inspection of her artwork you can see that she is clearly being praised for the same shit that many other deviant-tarts are: Taking a bunch of stock images from other people, layering them in a cute set up and drawing some swirlies with a glow brush. It chaps my ass when I see people getting praised for art like this. It's fake. And somehow she banks more than a full time job off of this crap. Getting digital-artist of the year awards on dA and shit. Plagarism at it's best. Steal art, be 33 and married with kids, as childish as your 12 year old, meet creepy guys in person you've met on World of Warcraft (no offense Julien! lolz) and lavish in all your praise. All hail the princess geek hag Susan McKunterson. (Oh.. and she's fat.)
I'm going to hell.