"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on"

[narcissam]

I've already made this statement on Journalfen. Now I'm posting it here. It's probably all that I'll say about this over here on LJ. People can defriend me if they like over this, but I feel it has to be said.

Since I'm thanked as a source in the MsScribe affair, I'll explain my connection

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[sonetka]

Sweet stuttering Jesus. People have gotten PhDs for less research and story-untangling than went into this (and I mean this in an entirely complimentary way, NM - in ten or twenty years, you could get a really excellent book out of this and things like this - Folie A Net, anyone?). This was mostly Before My Time, as they say - the only bit I remember is light_music wigging out at the Robert E. Lee/Harriet Tubman icon.

I can't blame anyone for believing the parts of the story they happened to see - if I'd been around then, I'm sure I would have joined in with the rest. I mean, what's more likely - random nutjobs posting nasty things or an enormous, Oliver Stone-type spider conspiracy all being handled by one insane Mastermind at the center of it? I know what my vote would be.

Reading about people like Msscribe makes me despair of my own fiction. Never, ever in a million years could I even have imagined someone like her. I suppose in earlier days she could have become another Morton Smith or John Payne Collier - a convincing, expert forger who creates the "newly-discovered evidence" that makes them famous, for awhile. I guess on the whole it's better that she confined her sociopathic wooing to fandom. But oh lord, oh lord ...

[persephone_kore]

I kind of remember fandom_scruples and people gleefully angling to get on the list. I also remember hearing that Gryffindor Tower was shutting down and thinking it was surprising and sad on general principles, but also wondering who the heck they were. I guess I came in during their isolationist period, or it was just my general oblivion.