/lit/ - Literature

>>22712473
If someone is set on being swindled, whether because they're naïve or because they've got an ego or whatever, yeah, it's going to happen. But the stuff with Ryan comes with the extra scumbag move of having actually done something good for a while. Him taking what was a decent, legitimate-ish project and then pivoting to take advantage of the goodwill is a dickbag move, especially when it comes with his comical bullshit about trying to bring people together, uplift writers, start a movement, etc.

If you look long enough at it, it's clear bullshit, but someone getting roped in from their good impression of &amp is going to go through stages leading up to getting ripped off. Consider especially that getting involved in Lamp Standard was first pitched, and is still stated on the website, as entirely free. Yet somehow the very first guy to try it out ends up taking (if he's lucky) a 50% cut.

>>22709443
It was the thing with Atlas, which wasn't just
>I don't like Atlas, don't let her in.
I'd told him there was some really serious stuff going on, enough for me to go to the police, and that it was still persistent. I told him I was worried it'd start happening through &amp again. He acted nice and conciliatory, but was also pretty weird at that point.

Later on Atlas sent him an email to try and contact me, which he replied to before I got out my own asking him to ignore it; he said he would from then on, but because I had access to his email I saw that he had forwarded his email chain with Atlas to one of his private accounts. I didn't say anything about it because by then it had become pretty clear Ryan was screwed up, plus it wasn't something I felt safe to intervene in.

There's lots of in-between, but someone told me that he'd more or less taken her on as his protégé, which (along with other things), lead me to suspect that something fucked up was going on in the background. Other people seemed to clue in as well (given the grooming accusations that came up later, which I wasn't the one to start). Not only that, but he was encouraging her towards things that could have had legal repercussions or wound up that way (meaning the shit involving me), which is fucked up in itself.

The problems with Atlas stopped in July, and it's stayed that way since then. But having a crazy egomaniac influencing the unstable person that had been obsessed with me was unfun, and it's clear that recently he's been trying to manipulate and terrify her back into a state like that again. Beyond Ryan's personal love for dogging vulnerable women, I've had the thought for a long time that he also saw it as a way to scare me into putting up with him. But that last part might just be paranoia.

>>22713179
Could be what was posted above about it being a matter of no copyright. Arguably makes it scummier.


I'd bet fifty cents the thread gets dogpiled tonight.