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[cleolinda]

So Sister Girl came home from Georgia--turns out she wasn't going whitewater rafting, she was going to a whitewater park--with tonsilitis. We're still not sure how she managed that, if it's apparently not contagious. Because if it is contagious, I could totally see her picking it up at a water park, but that also means that I am totally screwed, because I'm going to be the one taking care of her. She's really badly off, by the way--she cried all the way to the doc-in-the-box and cried all the way back, and is currently drugged up on Percocet. And this was her week off work and school, too.

I haven't been feeling so good--I'm still in Stage Two cleaning but I'm getting a little burnt out with it, and I'm kind of feeling depressed in general. Kind of feeling like I had a forward impetus last year and I let it slip through my fingers. I'm not where I thought I would be this year--haven't accomplished what I'd thought I would. I can't tell if this is hormonal (it would be about the right time for that) or brain chemistry biting me in the ass again. That, and I'm just tired all the time. This may be in part because Lucky keeps waking me up at three in the morning to take him outside, and his skin condition's acting up and he's scratching all the time. And a good bit of "all of the time" happens to be "on my bed while I'm trying to sleep."

To counteract all that, I am self-medicating with Kylie Minogue. What?

Meanwhile, the Harry Potter fandom is at a standstill reading this. Pack a lunch before you dive in (first entry's near the bottom). Fortunately, if you're new to the saga, the last installment is going up tonight--and, keep in mind, the penultimate installment's comments reveal that the accused has confessed to at least some of the sockpuppets, and the evidence is such that if she's admitted to two, she's pretty much connected to most, if not all, of them. I wouldn't mention this at all, except that the basic premise of the saga is that several trolls and kerfuffles (pottersginny, fandom_scruples, Gryffindor Tower, the trolling of Christina's journal while she was in the hospital) were all the work of one person over the years, and a lot of people have been hurt. In fact, the truth coming out has caused a lot of people--many of whom acted in good faith but on this person's misinformation--to make amends and old wounds are being healed. We still don't know who "Charlotte Lennox," the pseudononymous fandomer writing these entries, is, but I have hopes that she'll reveal herself in the final installment tonight. The whole thing is still very much in progress, but I imagine it's going to have a huge effect on fandom in general.

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[lezopez.livejournal.com]

I had insanely high hopes that it would be up before I got home from work. *sigh*


(BTW, the fact that Charlotte Lennox's friends call her tl;dr continually cracks me up)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeee.

Yeah, the posting pattern so far has been noonish and tennish, so it's probably another hour before the last part'll be up. Not that that stopped me from refreshing constantly about 9 am this morning.

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

It'll only be truly satisfying if the last installment reveals that Charlotte Lennox is Voldemort.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Not msscribe herself? Because that would be pretty awesome, in a ded from wtf kind of way.

[altiloquent.livejournal.com]

I spent hours today reading that and clicking on links and just being utterly fascinated by the crazy in this fandom.

Also, feel better. I hate that sort of off feeling you're having now. And, in hopes that it will make you smile, look at the cutest icon ever.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Sending good vibes toward you and your sister.

And ugh, I will be so glad when this whole expose is over. It's good that it's getting out in the open, but I have many friends on both sides of the issue, and it's been so messy and disturbing reopening old wounds. I think the HP fandom is going to need a very stiff drink and some prozac after this.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I do feel really badly for people who, like I said, acted in good faith because they had been deceived. Most people, so far as I'm seeing, are handling it with as much grace and decency as you could hope for.

[missmp.livejournal.com]

Having my sleep schedule messsed up always messes with my mood. Is there any way you could pass Lucky off to your mom for a few days to see if a good night's sleep makes you feel better?

And as you can maybe tell from my outraged posts at SF, I am obsessed with the msscribe saga. I'll be glad to have the last installment over with, to tell the truth. Then I can start pretending this woman never existed.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

We've started giving him some kind of pill that may make things better; he sleeps all over the house, so generally after I've taken him outside at three in the morning, he'll settle down in the kitchen where it's cool and I get some peace.

You think the saga's bad? I was all up in Chapter Nine when it happened, man. Charitygate was *awful.*

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

Having friends on both sides SUCKS, man. At first it was like "hee" but now it's like "God, end already."

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

Er, the msscribe thing, I meant. Obviously.

A question

[platinum-cobra.livejournal.com]

Did you ever get my package. I sent it to your p.o.box a loong time ago and never found out if you got it, or if it was lost forever.

Hope Sister Girl feels better (I had tonsilitis and had to et my tonsils taken out. it sux). And hope your funk lets up, and you can finally finish the monumental task that is cleaning your room.

<3 Ines

Re: A question

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know--what was it?

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Damn, the year I left the HP fandom and this is what happens. .:shakes head:. We so crazy.

I will spend all of tomorrow reading the saga of msscribe.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Wait, all of this drama is about...fanfic writers?

I...I... *head 'splode*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

at the rate this is all going, I won't be surprised if msscribe has something to do with limeybean of the Fake Death to Help the Emo Kids fame. Or not. This shit is insane.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know, man. It's like she's responsible for every single HP-related wank before Half-Blood Prince came out (after which it was Harmonian wank all the time).

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Will there be an HP fandom group hug after this is all over?

Also this has to mean something ominous: "Charlotte Lennox" is an anagram for "A con he next troll."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's also the name of an eighteenth-century writer.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

I'm reading part four right now. It's just all so bat shit insane. I mean all that just so she could be BFF with a BNF and maybe internet famous. I just...there's no words.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, it gets worse.

[girlsetsfire345.livejournal.com]

Man, Cassie Claire was the shit back then. Those were the days...
Of course now everything's gone to shit.
Oh well, now we have Sean Biggerstaff.
:)

[caitlen.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I'm completely AGOG at this whole shebang debarcle. I mean, WTF? Is this ACTUALLY for real? I was asking myself, and then reading in here (and giggling myself silly at one of the threads up there about who IS this person) it obviously is real.

I mean, omgwtfpolarbear. Siriusly. I remember putting my TOE in at an LJ just before HBP came in, that dealt with H/Hr, and then whipping it out faster than you can throw a fish after the book came out, cause it was a load of WANK.

Fandom - what happened to plain old smut?

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

Wow. That just makes me stare gob-smacked. And realize how long I've been in the Harry Potter fandom, because I remember the events in those posts, just not shown in the way that they have gathered them all together.

Oh, Harry Potter fandom. You truly are the insanest.

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

Looking through the fandom thing just for the hell of it, and it shocks me how many accounts one person can maintain and keep straight. Hell, I can barely rememeber who I am most of the time, and I'm just one person!

[kpachayagolobka.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go to whitewater park without tonsilitis! Sister Girl seems to find interesting ways to get herself in a lot of pain... best wishes to her, I hate those so sick life sucks feelings!

[entropy-and-me.livejournal.com]

I feel like......there must be a psychology experiment that could come out of all this wank stuff. I mean, is it just me, or is it actually a little scary that people not only have long drawn out debates over the fictional love-lives of fictional characters, but actually resort to more than a few sociopathic behaviors in order help their side along?

[katytowell.livejournal.com]

Aw. Dude. That... you shouldn't post links like that. I'm not a Potterhead in any way, shape, or form, but I... couldn't... stop.... reading that! GAH!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I should never have clicked on the HP fandom thing, b/c now I can't stop reading it aieeeeee! It's kind of weird reading it, as I remember when way back when the Cassie Claire stalker thing and the pottersginny thing and all that stuff went down.

Still reading... (oh dear)

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Kind of feeling like I had a forward impetus last year and I let it slip through my fingers. I'm not where I thought I would be this year--haven't accomplished what I'd thought I would.

I took something you said around the start of the year as my resolution for ... ever: to finish things.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Figured you're often one to have an opinion or be curious of others'.

Any thoughts on the whole Vox (http://buneater.livejournal.com/94880.html) thing?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I totally fear change, so I'm not happy about any of this. Thing is, though, I'm still not entirely sure what it's all about, so I'm trying not to form an opinion until I'm more informed.

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

This is ADDICTING.

My one problem is the double-posting in the charlottelennox journal and the bad_penny community - two separate sets of comments to work my way through.

...eh, it's not like I was doing anything else with my time.

[sweetdaddydavid.livejournal.com]

Ok, for those us (probably just me..) that are completely fandom-illiterate, does anyone (Cleo?) want to give me like a short overview of what the hell is going on with that HP Fandom thing and why it's so horrible? I tried reading the first three sentances of part one and my eyes glazed over.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

This woman, Dionne/msscribe, wanted to get into the big BNF (Big Name Fan) circle of friends that included Cassie Claire (she of the Very Secret Diaries and the Draco Trilogy) and Heidi, who runs the Fiction Alley archive and contributes to the Leaky Cauldron news site. To that end, she made up a dozen sockpuppet accounts to praise herself, stalk herself, harass others, troll communities, gain sympathy, make herself look good by comparison, and take down the fanfic archive Gryffindor Tower, all while making it look like the Gryffindor Tower people were the bad guys for sheltering a "stalker" (who was actually msscribe). And then she harassed a cancer patient just for good measure. The Charlotte Lennox accounts are basically the first time anyone's sat down and said, "Okay, you know the trolls/stalkers fermatojam, fandom_scruples, pottersginny, and sporkify? They weren't separate people--they're all really msscribe. She was behind all of it. She harassed you and she harassed herself." It's like unmasking Keyser Soze.

And yeah, if you don't know anything about fandom in general, there's no reason any of this would make sense. It took me a while to even figure all that out.

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

1. Am in not in the HP fandom, but that shit is still fascinating.

2. On an unrelated note, whatever happened to your M15M store? Is that still up and running?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

1. I know, dude. I think hundreds of non-HP people have been reading it and boggling. Really, it's a cautionary tale for anyone on the internet.

2. I haven't checked on it in a while, but it should be.