Kate Leth
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Kate Leth = infected with GOTIS You can help by not giving her any attention.
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—Kate, every other day. |
Kate Leth is a horrible ham beast comic writer; cut from the same mold as writers like Sara Due McCormic, Noelle Stevenson, and Jess Fink, in that she's a narcissistic attention whore who owes her entire career to Tumblr.
Kate or Die
Kate spawned as a clerk in the Nova Scotia comic book shop Strange Adventures. She posted comics on her site Kate or Die that amounted to no more than the cute scribbles that mom would stick on the refrigerator, albeit with a lot more whiny self-absorption. For reasons that remain elusive, these inane doodles were deemed good enough for the pussy hungry geeks at Comic Alliance to give her a regular feature. From there, she climbed the ladder, getting writing gigs for KaBOOM! Studios on nostalgia/autistic fare like Adventure Time and Fraggle Rock. Finally, she graduated to writing titles like Edward Scissorhands for IDW, and Hellcat for Marvel.
Most of this would be unremarkable since it's a given that any gash who slobs herself out on Twitter will be given a job in comics nowadays, and Kate is definitely no stranger to Twitter, writing more nonstop texts in a day then she probably writes comic scripts in a year. Because we need DUH-VERSITY, and teenage boys have abandoned comic books for easier to obtain online porn, publishers now grab any broad with a reputation that they can in hopes of separating Tumblr girls from their cake money.
What makes Kate-or-Diet especially comical is the gaping hypocritical gulf between everything she says and does. It'd be easier to believe that there are two separate people named Kate Leth who keep mixing up their Tweets than to compute how a single person can be so blatantly two-faced and lack any self-awareness. She complains non-stop about how hard it is for women in the industry, but then complains about people who ask her about being a woman in the industry (not to mention the record speed in which she rose in the industry). She cries about oppression and prejudice, then makes Tweet after Tweet about how awful white men are. She claims to be bi/queer/whatever but is only known to have dated two white men (while Tweeting about how awful white men are). She cries about objectification when she's not making sexual jokes or posting pics of some someone's abs or ass. She talks about what a strong, powerful feminist she is when she's not posting about all of her anxieties and insecurities and about how she cuts herself. She blathers about her work-outs and how fit she's getting until she tires of that and then pushes fat acceptance.
We could go on and on (she certainly does), but the bottom line is that Kate is a phony who will say or do anything she can to keep people interested in her. This is evident in the multiple times that she has erased all of her texts and locked her Twitter when contradictions began to pile up, only to unlock and start all over because she needs a steady stream of attention. This will be a process that repeats forever since she has the emotional maturity of a teenager with no impulse control and a constant need for validation. As she is fast approaching thirty, a train wreck is certainly on the horizon and the results aren't going to be pretty.
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Kate doesn't want to hear about sexy women, even though she's, like, totally queer you know. -
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"Stop asking me about being a woman in comics. Now here's comic after comic about being a woman in comics." -
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This week really sucked, guys. -
Fuck whitey, right Kate? -
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Kate's a bit of a mess. -
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Damn it, Kate, get some therapy. -
Kate likes a wee nip of the bottle. -
What is it with her setting people on fire? -
Hardcore geek girl. -
"No, I didn't say anything in a drunken rage. Why do you ask?" -
Kate's Twitter comeback from being absent in less than 24 hours to talk about how triggering harassment is.
The Valkyries
In another bid for devotion, Kate launched the Valkyries, a collection of similar attention starved trolls who work in comic stores and talk about how guy nerds are such misogynist creeps and how this one time-a guy wouldn't buy his daughter a comic because he said "girls don’t read" comics-but I gave her comics for free anyway and now she’s president-and this all totally happened-for reals.
Beyond gathering and posing for photos to show their solidarity (and how wide a room has to be to encompass them), there doesn't seem to be much of a point. Not surprisingly, reports from those who were part of it indicate that it eventually devolved into a collection of Tumblrites trying to out-whine each other over who is triggered more. Kate certainly hasn't helped any of them get jobs in the industry or leave the crappy confines for retail for more artistic pursuits. In fact, Kate's Valkyries project seems to exist mostly so that there are a large group of people who are there for HER. She has referred to them as her "army" on more than one occasion and aside from being a giant hugbox for them to blubber into, most of Kate’s concerns for it amount to there being something for people to remember KATE by, because that's the important thing.
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To be fair, they probably could crush any opposing force, especially if there's cake on the other side. -
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Kate’s Kunt Kauses Kancer
Kate's biggest contribution to feminism was no doubt when she helped a married man cheat on his wife. During one of her many, many drunken escapades, she blurted out info about being in a warped bondage sex relationship with a married middle-aged man who later died of cancer. While she quickly tried to purge this info, eagle eyes snapped the screenshots, and it didn't take long for internet sleuths to piece together that the mystery man was father of three, Kirk MacLeod. Did having sex with Kate actually rot the guy from the inside out, or was he killed by a vindictive wife who couldn't handle that he cheated on her with something like this? The world may never know.
Tips for trolling Kate
Hard to say. She loves the attention. Even insulting her is giving her validation, but if you want to pick on some sore spots:
- Ask her if she slept with any married men lately.
- Insist that she really isn't Bi, but just a boring straight girl (and a skank at that).
- Insist that she's not a real geek girl since all of her writing revolves around superheroes doing shit like hanging out and dating as opposed to doing superhero stuff. It's true, but she doesn’t want her followers to know this.
- Tell her that she hasn't cut herself enough because her head is still attached.
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Kate hates gatekeepers in the comic community.
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Wonder which Tweets were before and after her fling with Kirk. -
Kate hates creeps who hit on people. -
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Those misogynists. They're OUT THERE! -
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Kate's definitely Bi, Queer, what's the new sexuality this week? -
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See, you can make fun of Kate all you want. She says it's okay. -
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Kate's brief brush with exercise. It didn't last. -
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Hey, Jeremy, look what your girlfriend brought home. -
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We get it Kate, you're a tramp. -
What is it with her tonguing things? Keep the antiseptic handy around her. -
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But only one won't give you herpes. -
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Kate hammers out a new script. -
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Kate interviews for a new comic position. -
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Even the community Kate panders to gets fed up with her crap. -
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This is your writer for High Guardian Spice.
External Links
kateordie - Kate's Tumblr, where most of the comedy can be found.- Escapee from Leth's Valkyries cult has some dish
kateleth - Kate's Twitter. Purged all of her "Kill All Men" tweets to cover her tracks before working on High Guardian Spice.
High Guardian Spice - A Kiwi Farms thread discussing Kate Leth and High Guardian Spice.
See Also
- David "Walky" Willis
- Questionable Content – Leth, Willis, and Jacques all seem to belong to the same clique of social justice assholes who make comics.
- Andrew Dobson – What Leth would be if she didn't have a gash.
- The Mary Sue – Kate is the poster girl for this horrible site.
- Crunchyroll - Kate now works there to unleash the horrors that is High Guardian Spice because social justice.
- Comicsgate
- Julia Alexander - Her Gamergate counterpart.
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