I think there's been more than one incident of that sort of thing, at the Bronze and elsewhere. But I don't see it as fannish craziness so much as general anonymity-on-the-internets craziness.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 08, 2006 10:51:07 am PST #8632 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Strega - Mar 08, 2006 11:31:44 am PST #8633 of 10001
I have read that Claudia Christian was shot (using blanks) by someone dressed as a Tribble, who hid the gun inside the costume. I am unsure how accurate this story is, though.
Harlan Ellison's "Xenogenesis" includes first-hand accounts of craziness. Like the time Alan Dean Foster was GoH at a con and someone threw a cup of vomit in his face.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 08, 2006 12:00:54 pm PST #8634 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh! My friend Gary was at a horror-themed con in the 80s and saw someone open a vein so Clive Barker could sign a book or painting with his blood. As it turns out, Barker is squeamish in real life—his eyes rolled up in his head and he fainted right there in front of the autograph line.
Spidra Webster - Mar 08, 2006 12:03:42 pm PST #8635 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
As it turns out, Barker is squeamish in real life—his eyes rolled up in his head and he fainted right there in front of the autograph line.
That's priceless. I don't approve of what the person did but I find it hilarious that a horror author is blood-squicked.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2006 12:10:31 pm PST #8636 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, that person was just not right. Couldn't he have brought it in a vial like a civilized person?
victor infante - Mar 08, 2006 2:37:47 pm PST #8637 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Horror writers are often more squeamish than you'd think. I remember a Dean Koontz signing, where he hid in the back and the staff had to bring books bakc to him, because he was being stalked. (Which, admittedly, must suck, but on the other hand, kind of weird.)
And then there's the famous Dave Barry story about how, after a Rock Bottom Remainders practice, the whole group of them went out to see some horror movie (can't recall which) and Dave Barry looked over midway to see Stephen King sitting next to him, clinging to his wife's arm in fear.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 08, 2006 5:40:05 pm PST #8638 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Damn. Pity the movie's marketers didn't have someone with a camera phone at that screening.
Kristen - Mar 08, 2006 9:52:15 pm PST #8639 of 10001
It's been so long I don't recall for sure, but I have a vague sense of it being after she turned down Joss' offer to return for Season 7. Maybe someone who felt betrayed by her not reprising the Tara role and making all right with the world again?
It wasn't the fans who were upset that the real person actress had a boyfriend and was not, like her character, an actual lesbian?
UTTAD - Mar 09, 2006 12:30:20 am PST #8640 of 10001
Strawberry disappointment.
Would Pruittgate count as fan crazy or not?
tiggy - Mar 09, 2006 2:18:51 am PST #8641 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
It wasn't the fans who were upset that the real person actress had a boyfriend and was not, like her character, an actual lesbian?
not only that, but the person she chose to be her boyfriend.
Would Pruittgate count as fan crazy or not?
Pruittgate was more a case of VIPs being the craxy ones and dragging the fans along with them for the ride.