Comments | heidi8: Partly Response-ish

heidi8

Partly Response-ish

Sep 30, 2006 21:21

I admit that I haven't read all of the posts from Micheka aka Laura aka Purple Popple aka Partly Bouncy, but I've read enough to know that people are going to have questions.

But more than that, it seems from Michela's account that various users of the Sugarquill and Gryffindor Tower forums/sites have been hearing lies about me for years. There's ( Read more... )

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titti October 1 2006, 01:51:08 UTC

> What is important is that people heard this story and believed it to be
> true. The story helped stem a great deal of criticism regarding Heidi and
> Cassandra Claire's actions out of fear that the duo would do similar
> things to the unfortunate person who crossed them.

See, I agree with the first part, that it was important, but not with her conclusion. If anything it shows that you can't trust every story you read on the internet.

heidi8 October 1 2006, 01:57:42 UTC

No, you can't - look at the kitten bonsais! But there's no Snopes for fandom...

photosinensis October 1 2006, 02:49:51 UTC

I've always thought that the idea of a Grand Unified Fandom Conspiracy theory was amusing. To see it posted as the absolute truth, however, just takes the joke a bit too far.

Simply put, I have a hard time believing a cabal of two that doesn't include sockpuppets.

hedwig_snowy October 1 2006, 03:31:57 UTC

I am amazed how little people understand despite reading the words right in front of them. It didn't seem odd to anyone that she justified her dislike for you by posting a rumor because it's a given in the minds of some people who then spread it? Gee, been on the internet long folks ( ... )

heidi8 October 1 2006, 11:19:23 UTC

The reason I haven't been defending myself this summer as things have been posted attacking me has been, in large part, because I wasn't around for a really long time. When the msscribe stuff was heating up, I was off to Maine for a bar mitzvah and from that day through the first week of August, I was traveling for all but 10 days. I couldn't keep up with reading or with responding.
I'd planned to catch up when I got back in August, but then Brian - my sister's husband - had a seizure and heard attack on July 31 - the same day we flew home from LA. The next night I went back to LA, and he died two days later, so the weeks after that were spent at the funeral, sitting shivah, and helping my sister pick up the pieces of her life. When she went back to LA a week ago to pack to move, a window opened in my life for the first time since early June. Liz comes back in a week and I don't know what will happen then in terms of time, but at least I'll be "local" more than I was in june/july.

hedwig_snowy October 1 2006, 19:23:52 UTC

I wonder how your sister would feel about your constant mentioning of the death of her husband when you're attacked. It's such a transparent attempt to gain sympathy.

hedwig_snowy October 2 2006, 15:01:31 UTC

Ah, the absence of empathy, thy name is fandom. Get a life eh? And, you just used the same rationale that you're assuming of someone else. How clever.

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heidi8 October 1 2006, 11:32:06 UTC

In a psychological way, it was a method of controlling the information release and response. If you asked me about it, you'd be banned for life from Bad Penny. What a way to make sure that anyone who wanted to remain a member of Bad Penny couldn't ask me or anyone else mentioned in there, from folk to praetorianguard to Sinead or bookshop about anything in there.

hedwig_snowy October 2 2006, 15:04:34 UTC

That was similar to the idea I saw on one of the 'character's' LJ profile about not having a person's friends defend them. The assumption is of guilt and bringing in evidence that denies us our 'fun' is just not kosher.

shezan October 1 2006, 16:24:42 UTC

Well, it's her unique use of dramatic keywords she seems to like in meanings unrelated to what, actually, most dictionaries give them. There's "stalking" and there's "PR" and there's "accepted norm" and there's...

kelleyscorpio October 1 2006, 04:37:51 UTC

I don't know where she's getting hte idea that Sinead stalked Cassie but on the matter of sinead, I'll defer to [info]kelleyscorpio's post to Michela on B_P back in June - Kelley, I know you sent me the link this week and that was the first time I'd seen it, but I can't find the url now - let me know so I can edit it into this if that's ok?

Sure, it's right here:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_penny/1074.html?thread=10546#t10546

I made a sort of follow-up post with more specific info in Part ... 4, I think, so a bit bummed that comments are gone. I have the majority of it, though, so will find that and post it, too.