[ SECRET POST #3472 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3472 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[shortysc22]

Ms. Scribe, Andy Blake and Cassandre Clare are mine.

Especially the whole creation of fictionalley.org because Cassie Clare got kicked off ff.net for plagiarizing.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[sparrow_lately]

One of my ninth graders--the SWEETEST, smartest, most lovely girl too!--was reading a Cassie Clare book for her independent reading last semester. It was so weird--I was like she has NO IDEA

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[shortysc22]

I think we talked about this back then. Most people have no idea. One of my best friends and her cousin were super in to the Mortal Instruments books and I refuse to read them.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[sparrow_lately]

We probably did! It's so weird to see a cultural object like that in a context where it just carries none of the implications you associate with it.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[shortysc22]

Exactly! My friend pointed the books out to me in the bookstore and when I saw the author I was all "nope, not going near that"

I was out of the circle by the time it was announced she was publishing, though I do remember the whole kerfuffle of her removing all of her stories.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[sparrow_lately]

I was a little too young to be involved but I think I arrived just as her star was well and truly falling. I was a total lurker so I just witnessed in shock and awe, lol

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[shortysc22]

I was on the fringes and just sat back and watched it happen. I'm glad I never got too involved in that fandom.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I can beat a lot of people currently paying attention - not that it's a competition, hell no - because I was actually on ff.n when CC got blacklisted. Like, part of the discussion on the old ff.n forums (when it first happened) and everything. It's even how I made some of my fandom friends.


... then I feel depressed because I realize everyone else got a life between 2001 and 2016. ;)

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I always like fictionalley and had no clue it had anything to do with CC.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[shortysc22]

Fandom wank used to have the whole timeline and I think it might even be slightly tied in to the Ms. Scribe saga.

Heidi and Cassie Clare were part of a super tight knit clique of mean girls.

I liked fictionalley before I found out about their history and also how nonsensical they were about accepting fics. I had fic rejected and they only suggested to get a beta reader, but if you don't have lots of fandom friends, it's hard to find a reliable beta reader. I even found one, but fictionalley still would reject the story without giving me specific points.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[(Anonymous)]

Ahh. I only ever used it to read, which might be why I didn't know all the drama.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[shortysc22]

A lot of it happened behind closed doors and I found out a lot of the drama through fandom wank years later.

Re: Favorite vintage internet/fandom drama

[(Anonymous)]

The ties to the Ms. Scribe saga came from Ms. Scribe's efforts to suck up to Cassie, Heidi and their circle. It ended with Ms. Scribe creating that troll journal, Fandom Scruples, where she threatened to report a whole bunch of smutfic writers to the FBI under something called the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, unless they either took down their fic or password-protected it by a deadline she specified. She named herself along with Cassie, Heidi, and a lot of others on her blacklist. Nobody realized who was doing it.