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[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I just looked up thanfiction on fanlore and the first paragraph alone was so much. Then I did a quick ctrl+f on the homicide mentioned and saw the way they updated their FFN profile in 2013.

I have known my fair share of dramatic people in my life, but thanfiction is an entire folio. holy fuck. the mind boggles.

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[mistressofmuses]

I did a deep dive on him about a year or two ago, reading through the blog archives of the people who were once involved with him, as well as a couple receipt blogs and things. Truly it is just WILD.

I saw a handful of the big things happen in semi real-time via other people on LJ talking about it when they happened, (the whole thing with the con, "his son, a sparrow" etc.) and yet for a long time didn't realize so many big drama-rific events centered on *the same person.*

Fandom cults sure are a bonkers fucking ride... And that isn't even getting into the fact that a woman was murdered and he did his best to capitalize on it for YEARS.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I realized yesterday that a friend had told me about flamethrower's $500 donation milestones per chapter. But they told me 2.5 years ago and while I remembered the absolute bonkers insanity of making $14500 from a single fic (and that's just the milestones mentioned in the author's notes at the time), I had no clue who the author was who did it. The name just left my brain entirely.

Truth really is stranger than fiction (oh god, I realized the pun as I was typing but I'm keeping it anyway). If you had told me that one person had been THAT DRAMATIC in the span of a single lifetime, I never would have believed it and yet there it is on fanlore, for anyone to read.

[mistressofmuses]

I feel like I'd vaguely heard some mention about that in a conversation about monetizing fic, but I had no idea of the username attached and hadn't ever read any of her fic.

Right? Kumquatwriter's blog (his ex) is well worth the read for details on at least a good portion of the early days of batshittery. It's astounding to me how many outrageously dramatic events in fandom all trace back to the same damn person!

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

it's like the singularity of wank!

[mistressofmuses]

ISN'T IT? It's truly a gift that keeps on giving. Platonic ideal of wankery - it has it all!

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

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