[ SECRET POST #4060 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4060 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Altered Carbon]


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03.
[Celeste]


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04.
[Travelers, Philip and Trevor]


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[Cassandra Clare (formerly Cassie Claire)]


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06.
[French pair skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprés]


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[Final Fantasy X -Will-]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 16 secrets from Secret Submission Post #581.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was because she had a habit of doxxing anyone who pointed out her plagiarism? I remember a blow-up where she called someone's college and tried to get them expelled.

[philstar22]

Yup. There was a lot of stuff. She's a bad person. I just find some of the reactions here rather intense in a way I don't quite understand.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Okay, now I know you're a troll, because doxxing is beyond heinous. *Blocking*

[(Anonymous)]

If you're genuinely trying to understand why she's an evergreen source of irritation, frustration, and schadenfreude in fandom circles, try examining it from a different angle. Why isn't this stuff discussed in any other circles? That's weird, right? Creative types love to gossip. And generally once someone is successful enough to be signing TV and movie development deals, it's inevitable that any weird drama or baggage from their past will catch up with them quite abruptly.

Everyone in fandom knows that you have to keep your real identity separate from the one you use to post, say, Ron/Ginny incest fanfic, and most of us aren't insane enough to dox anyone who leaves us negative feedback and try to get the person expelled from their university – but in a universe where that isn't quite so singularly weird and awful, a pseudonym is handy for that, too!

I think to a lot of people, it's just incredibly galling that CC got the best of both worlds – her "original" YA novels shot up the bestseller lists because she tied them to her fandom persona, and yet somehow she's been able to completely avoid any consequences that should rightfully stem from such a careless choice. But anyone who's read up on the situation knows that recurring themes with CC have always been 1) strategic networking with influential or particularly skilled people, so she can have them step in and fight her battles whenever trouble starts brewing, and 2) shockingly cutthroat bullying and silencing tactics, which are also strategically deployed.

In light of all of that, I think it's pretty understandable why people in fandom have decided to keep this story alive, and why the wells of resentment and bitterness run so phenomenally deep.

[(Anonymous)]

It's hard to feel anything but loathing when you saw first hand the damage she did. She hurt people I cared about because she is a bad person.