Fandom Crazy: An Epic Saga

[drakyndra]

I take back everything I have said about the craziness of Doctor Who fandom. There is no fandom crazy like Harry Potter crazy.

...And yet somehow I, little fandom n00b that I was, managed to remain completely oblivious to all this until about 2 years ago.

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[msgenevieve.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeee!

I spent over an hour pouring over that earlier this afternoon when I should have been doing many other things. It's outstanding.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

I remained oblivious to it until about three months ago. How sad is that?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I went out last night, and then slept in. So I woke up to all this waiting for me.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, when I say I was oblvious to it until about 2 years ago, that's when I started getting the first hints of it. It wasn't until this, really, that I started to realise the sock-puppet thing and the nanny thing and the GT vs FAP thing were all connected.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

*takes brief look*

*is overwhelmed by sheer weight of cracked-out narrative*

*wibbles, and perhaps cries a little*

*ded of crazy*

;)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

When you retreat back to Doctor Who fandom for sanity reasons, you know there is serious crazy going down.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm up to the bit about the abused woman in Pakistan who is liberated by this woman's porn.


Fuck, this stuff is GOOOOOOD.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Take another look at the index - there's 10 pages of this stuff.

It's like the best crack ever.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, two new parts up since I last checked. Awesome.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It just goes on and on...

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm only up to something terrible that's about to happen to do with GT and Nimbus.

*would be chewing popcorn if still had teeth*

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Wait, pottersginny? Have I not heard of her?

*reads on*

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It's only up to Chapter 4 posted. *wants more*

*pities Nos's poor teeths*

[melliyna.livejournal.com]

*is terrified and amused at the batshit all at once*

I really am a complete fandom ignorant - I still keep expecting people to use earth logic. And keep things in perspective. Obviously I should not be so silly as to assume this.

Or possibly go back to my happy place hanging with the sane corner of the HP fandom.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

msscribes is everyone in that fandom?

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick.

Should I now be glad or sad that I've never been interested enough in HP to join the fandom?

This whole chronology is a mixture of the hilariously bizarre and the slightly disturbing.

But yeah, mediocre smut-fic written by blow-job-giving Jezebels will liberate oppressed women in Pakistan. Obviously.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Apparently, she's like misscam. Only, you know, it was true.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

If you read onwards, it seems highly likely that was a sock-puppet.

But yeah, crazy liek whoa.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

WAH IT ENDED

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Think of it like a chaptered fanfic - more is coming, you may just have to wait a little. If you have the bad_penny comm on your JF flist, it'll show up there.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

WHY MUST PEOPLE START POSTING BEFORE THEY ARE DONE WRITING?!

...TV should do taht with two-parters. "And if you want part two, please write in with praise!"

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Since there is, you know, an index listed, they probably have it all planned out. It's like my links lists - they take time to write up and do the HTML and all, even if you have all the info already done.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

i have no patience.

mostly i want to know how this woman managed to last all these extra chapters after the GT thing

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, she made friends with all the BNFs, became a BNF and so none of the people on her side would hear a word against her. Despite the evidence. And she showed up again in that Civil War icon wank.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

All this reminds me that I need to write Rose/Romana.

...I dont know WHY, I just know taht it does.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Sweetheart, I think everything reminds you of that.

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

This is truly wondrous - thanks for linking it. I mean, I'd heard bits of it before - the fall of Gryffindor Tower, the thing with the nanny, a little bit about MsScribe... the really strange thing is that MsScribe certainly isn't a bad author - none of it is stuff that must be sporked, it's certainly not badfic, and by many accounts she can write pretty damn good sometimes. Why did she do it? It's kind of like Jeffrey Archer - pretty reasonably successful by anyone's lights, why did they have to cheat and lie just to get more?

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Cheese doesn't.

Though it will now.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

From now on Rose/Romana will remind me of cheese.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I think it's that she wanted in with the BNFs. And as someone said in one of the comments to them, it's not like now, back then BNF-ness was a Big Fucking Deal. "They made people, and made pairings" was the quote, I believe. The analogy would be getting into the popular crowd at school - some people will do pretty much anything to achieve that.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

As it SHOULD

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's true enough that BNFs made pairings - hell, I've heard it said that the Draco Trilogy is mostly responsible for making Harry/Hermione as a 'plausible' a pairing as it was in fandom. Similarly with Draco - you still get people to this day - wasn't there another wank about it really recently - complaining that canon Draco isn't as 'good' as that Draco... didn't the Draco trilogy basically create fanon Draco, complete with leather trousers, snarkiness, and all?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you about the Harry/Hermione thing - until I read those fics (Well, the first two, I got bored by then and never read more than a chapter of the third) - I would never have considered it, what with the screamingly obviousness of Ron/Hermione and all. And I don't know if the trilogy created fanon!Draco, but since it was pushed to pretty much everyone when you entered the fandom, it certainly got it the massive exposure and popularity.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

So many old names. *is nostalgic*

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

ZOMG!! Part five is up!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Eek! And I was half-way through mina_de_malfois, too. *races off to read*

[livii.livejournal.com]

I've been enjoying this so much; I got into the fandom in January 2002, though I was pretty segregated from a lot of this stuff. Still, it's a huge walk down a wanker's memory lane. And it remains utterly batshit, plus lots of new info...hurrah!

[melata-fic.livejournal.com]

Wow. It's like piecing together all the names and tidbits of rumours I've heard into one large conspiracy. I like it.