I did that the other day, ita. It made me hate the internets for a while. And tracking down the story of one of the secondary players (I think sapphsmum or something like that) made it worse.

Oh dear. I think I'm a terrrrible person. I started reading that account this morning and I just got hooked. And didn't go to college. But it's just fascinating. From the outside, anyway. Being anywhere in the actual orbit of the thing must be horrific. The only part of it I'd ever vaguely heard of was the fadom scruples bit.

Jars, you played ditched ditch digging school to read HP Fanwank?

The only part I'd heard of was the Cassandra Cla(i)re issue which was really just an aside in this tale. Actually, I hadn't remembered the details of that one correctly, but had conflated it with CousinJean's offer to write fan fic for cash.

Jars, you played ditched ditch digging school to read HP Fanwank?

Well, yes. Hence me being a terrible person. And seeing as how it's nearly three here, I really should head in and do some actual work.

And I think a friend who was vaguely involved in HP fandom told me about the Cassandra Claire thing, but I didn't know any of the names.

I remember Fandom Scruples; I remember feeling particularly guilty/flattered/guilty/odd about the fact that AJ Hall, who was NOT on the list of Wicked And Nasty Fanfic Writers initially (as LoP didn't contain the Big Hot Sex) got added to it because she recommended my story (which DID contain Big Hot Sex) in her LJ. And yet I didn't get added to the list, despite having written the fic that got her blacklisted. It was a weird feeling.

Little did I suspect that the whole Fandom Scruples thing was but a teeny tiny fraction of a whole big ass crazy conspiracy.

Bonkers.

I'm not in HP fandom at all (aside from reading the books and watching the movies—and I haven't read the last book yet). So I really haven't looked into the whole msscribe thing. Would I get the story if I didn't have the fannish background?

Would I get the story if I didn't have the fannish background?

Most definitely. It reads like a true crime/whodunnit sort of a thing.

That's funny, Fay, because when I went to the Fandom Scruples LJ, while reading through the big story, I wondered how you'd been overlooked for the blacklist.

Calli, I'm not in HP fandom at all, and haven't even read half the books, and don't read HP fanfic, have never even read one story. The wank still drew me right in. It's a fanwank story, more than an HP story.

I stayed up until 1 am on a work night reading the Msscribe story and didn't finish it until the next day. I'm not in HP fandom, but I had heard about several of those incidents via fandom_wank. It's just amazing that one person did all that, I keep wondering did she make notes to herself about the various puppets, write down some kind of biography? although she couldn't keep some background issues straight.

I'm not really into the Harry Potter fandom but I was able to follow the story pretty well. I stayed up until 2 am reading it. My mind, she is boggled. I do feel badly for those who were duped by Msscribe.