TornadoCreator

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TornadoCreator (Photo taken in 2004)

TornadoCreator (also known as Billy McKenna) is a broadcaster and web designer born in Birkenhead, England on April 8th 1986.

1 Biography
2 Website
3 Online Radio
- 3.1 Bunny Suicide
- 3.2 The Helix
4 Roleplaying
5 Trivia
6 External Links

[edit] Biography

TornadoCreator is the creator of the website Angry Bastards - originally a rant-orientated website which had been running since June 2004 which was abandoned in May 2006 due to lack of funding. At the end of October, TC started the furry radio show Bunny Suicide with Fatmandell to emulate 2 Sense after it ended. After only 3 months the show was added to the FBC and later to Storm FM in January 2006 although it was later removed from Storm FM due to the station rarely playing any shows, music or broadcasting anything at all.

TornadoCreator considers himself a creative person, he is a Manga Artist as well as a Fur Artist although has said on many occasions that he finds it hard to create original pieces, considering himself amateur at best. He plays both Clarinet and Piano and has written many poems and short stories one of which was published in 1995 called 'I like the sound of...'

In 2004 TornadoCreator became a student at the Bangor University where he is studied a Chemistry BSc, unfortunately having to leave due to medical reasons for an operation to remove a growth from his chest in the beginning of 2005. He has since had multiple jobs and early 2008 applied to join the British Territorial Army. He is currently still living in Bangor, Wales.

During his time in Bangor he has become part of many societies including the JCR, Animé Society and Viking Reinacting Society. His first and most active society however is BWRPS which he has been a member of since 2004.

His avatar within the fandom is a phoenix, chosen for poetic reasons reguarding the nature of the life of a phoenix in comparison to his own. TornadoCreator spend a good deal of time never actually revealing if he followed a religion in an attempt to remain fair and balanced during debate. In 2006 TC actively denounced the existence of the Holy Ghost as part of the Blasphemy Challenge. TornadoCreator has since professed to being a strong atheist and has openly said on many occasions that he considers religion to be a delusion that is damaging the world.

During his free time TornadoCreator has been know to enjoy Role-playing, War-gaming, Drawing and Computer Games as well as being an avid listener of the FBC. He has spent a lot of time recently looking for work and accommodation and was at one point homeless. He has openly mentioned that he has slept on the streets and gone days without food however says that "the experience was worth having as it has put a lot of things into perspective and taught me a great deal so isn't something I would want to change".

[edit] Website

TornadoCreator runs a website called AngryBastards.com which used to contain rants in text form similar to that of Maddox (from The Best Page In The Universe), most of which written by TornadoCreator but others from people such as DrakeGTA and The Almighty Shoe also posted some rants. The website has now been restarted entirely as an information site for "The Angry Bastards Team" who are the ones who make Bunny Suicide (see Online Radio). There is a rants section prepared but new content is yet to come and older content seems to have been removed.

DrakeGTA who originally wrote a lot of the text-based rant content for the website has since taken down his website www.drakegta.com after becoming a Christian and deciding that the site promoted his feelings of hate, rather than carry this on he preferred to remove it and start anew without something like this in his past. Despite this TC and DrakeGTA still talk frequently, there is no animosity between them at all and TC has removed Drakes rants from angrybastards.com out of respect for Drakes wishes.

[edit] Online Radio

[edit] Bunny Suicide

It has been suggested that this item be merged with Bunny Suicide. (Discuss)

Bunny Suicide Logo

Bunny Suicide is a radio show fashioned after the late 2 Sense and hosted by UK furs. The show is based around letters answered by TornadoCreator and his co-hosts in an agony aunt style although some answers are humorous and/or extremely opinionated. As well as the letters Bunny Suicide contains a segment called the American Dumb Laws and general conversation on the current affairs. Apparently the show will include other small entertainment segments on it's return.

The show has been running since October 2005 and has reached its 19th episode as of May 2006. It was originally part of a website called AngryBastards. It was then later distributed at DrakeGTA and finally added to the shows list at FBC. It is intended for mature audiences, as the show contains comments which some viewers may consider offensive.

After 19 episodes the show was abruptly ended after TornadoCreator's computer broke beyond repair causing the loss of the only complete archive of the show as well as his ability to record the show. Currently only episodes 6-14 are known to be retrievable from various sources.

During the brief history of the show there were a total of 5 co-hosts.

Fatmandell, the most regular of the co-hosts was in all but 6 of the 19 shows, he is an Oceanography Student in Bangor University originally born in Yorkshire, England in 1987.

Paddi joined the show later and became a welcome change from the more wild opinions and comic conversations that TC and Fatmandell discussed bringing a slightly more grounded and logical perspective into the show, from in Newcastle, England. Paddi was born in 1986, he is also a student at Bangor University.

Cyrus co-hosted the show for a total of 3 shows during the Christmas period when the other co-hosts where out of town, the brother of TornadoCreator, currently a student in Birkenhead, born in 1988.

Jaie, the host of The Brainstew and the General Manager of the FBC appeared on the show once, this was on one of the later episodes which is unfortunately lost.

Réizàr, another host for the FBC with Mediaphillia, appeared on Bunny Suicide twice, including one occasion in which TornadoCreator and Réizàr appeared on each others show in the same weak. Again these were some of the later shows which are currently lost.

The show was due to return exclusively to the FBC on September 22nd 2006 where it will also be available in the Podcast and Downloads section along with all other shows on the FBC. It was unfortunately delayed by a week due to unknown circumstances and returned on September 29th 2006. The show started again from episode 1 as TornadoCreator has deemed the past shows a previous 'series' and due to more than half of the episodes being lost would rather start the series from scratch calling it "Bunny Suicide ver 2.0".

The name Bunny Suicide for the show does not in fact have anything to do with the books by the same name which TornadoCreator has said he enjoys but due to an audio-clip sent to TornadoCreator of Garr saying the words 'Bunny Suicide' in the tone made famous on 2 Sense. This audio-clip was then made into the intro-music for the show and it is believed that it will be used again for the next series.

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[edit] The Helix

The Helix is a failed show started by TornadoCreator for the FBC. The idea behind it was a show based around DVD commentary however the show was too long and too specialized so the show was taken of the air after only one show. TornadoCreator has said he does not plan to ever bring this show back believing it to be too difficult to manage. The co-host for this show was Fatmandell.

[edit] Roleplaying

TornadoCreator has been roleplaying for almost 10 years now and during this time has had many different characters although no long term characters stood out until he was roleplaying frequently with other experienced roleplayers when he joined BWRPS. During his time roleplaying he has explored all aspects of the hobby including Computer Based RPGs and Video Games, Table Top Wargaming, Internet Roleplay Via Skype, LARP and obviously Dice-Based and Diceless Roleplaying.

TornadoCreator has during his time at BWRPS also took the opportunity to become a GM in a lot of games. GMing games of Shadowrun 3rd Edition, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Advanced Dungeons And Dragons (AD&D) and organising Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Mordhiem games.

[edit] Trivia

(As documented by the fur fandom's NemFX)

TC's mother is an accomplished cook, however this skill does not appear to have passed on to TC who describes himself as a 'shite cook'

Has a brother named Tony (who cohosted two of the earlier shows, 4 and 5) and a sister.

Was engaged for two years.

Broke his hand while roleplaying once.

Despite his height, about half of his cohosts have managed to read over his shoulder while on air.

Has two main threats to his listeners: 'I will beat you with sticks.' and 'I will come to your house, sit on your couch, and talk to you.' the latter usually followed by a random number of hours, or additional threats involving butter, the +5 thong, and the pink bunny suit.

Has a fondness for bacon, but prefers fried chicken, going so far as to claim that everyone (including vegetarians) should eat fried chicken during each meal.