No, the Msscribe Saga is, as someone described it, basically Becky Sharpe taking on fandom and clawing her way up the social ladder using whatever it takes. Her entire involvement in fandom was geared towards getting in with the in crowd.
Read 'The Woman Who Sued Herself' on Journalfen, because it's just remarkable - the online avatar Msscribe really
is
a MarySue, up to and including much-vaunted unusual eyecolour and good singing voice. And she goes from unknown to sharing-a-room-with-Cassie-Claire (UberBNF of Potterdom) within 5 months, as a result of a concerted campaign to become Somebody.
It's just astonishing.
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with EVERYONE.
Also - cracking sonnet, there! Go Team!
For Cindy, I would say it's mostly the story of a woman with a lot of time on her hands using sockpuppets and fandom schisms in order to ascend into the upper echelon of HP fandom and make friends with the biggest of BNFs.
I think it's the goal that makes the whole thing so wild (in the MsScribe story). She stirred so very much shit for so long, anonymously, under all those names, so that ... HP fans online would think she was cool.
Ooh, links. Thankee people. There goes my evening.
Hee. Fay and amy, my last post was an x-post with yours. I love both your summaries. You two have paid more attention to the story than I have. I may have to read more of it.
Becky Sharpe taking on fandom
I'm marrying this analogy.
Did anyone here ever read the Victoria Bitters saga from the LotR fandom?
Oh, ha. I met Victoria Bitter at a con once, before she pulled all this. At the time, I remember thinking, "She's a bit off, isn't she?"
Little did I know.
I had to reread the high points of the Victoria Bitter thing. I have to say, between channelling the imaginary spirits of imaginary hobbits, growing magical penises, and appearing on an actual milk carton, she's still got msscribe beat.
OH MY GOD. I just read this comment in the bad_penny saga:
Tripzy, a Draco/Hermione 'shipper, decides to send JKR a letter explaining how she got it all wrong.
Is it wrong that I want to buy tons of Harlan Ellison anthologies and pimp them to Tripzy?
... between channelling the imaginary spirits of imaginary hobbits, growing magical penises, and appearing on an actual milk carton...
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....no, I got nuthin'. But I'm clearly going to have to read this saga. Wow.
Oh, ha. I met Victoria Bitter at a con once, before she pulled all this. At the time, I remember thinking, "She's a bit off, isn't she?"
I think you win the understatement of Ever award, shrift.
I had to reread the high points of the Victoria Bitter thing. I have to say, between channelling the imaginary spirits of imaginary hobbits, growing magical penises, and appearing on an actual milk carton, she's still got msscribe beat.
Okay, that's what I thought, too. The MsScribe one seems more mean, or something. The whole MsS thing is so deliberate.
For batshit insanity, literally incredible fandom events, 'shipper wars, embarrassing the fandom with its VIPs and actual bilking of money, I think the VB thing really can't be topped, unless the exact same events play out that way again, and end in mpreg.
