littleweasel
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Post by littleweasel on Mar 15, 2005 13:40:37 GMT -4
A friend of mine had an interesting experience with a crazy fan. He's a third tier sleb...well, sleb is a strong word...he's part of an ensemble cast on a sketch comedy show, and is known as The Cute One.
Anyway, a friend of ours had googled him and found some kee-razy fan fic written by a gay fan. It was graphic and hard core and detailed to the hilt. I was so, so uncomfortable reading it, even though it had a huge disclaimer at the top, saying that this was fiction, it's not based in any kind of truth, etc.
Seeing the effect it had on my friend, who made us all vow never to speak of it again, I can only imagine what it's like for the SMGs and Domlijah's of the world, to have people absolutely obsess about you, given the fact that, for a living, you speak words that other people have written.
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Post by Smilla on Mar 15, 2005 20:23:46 GMT -4
Hate mail? You received hate mail? I don't know why that surprises me, considering all the other posts in this thread, but it does. Man, I thought I had a couple of obsessions going with various forms of entertainment...but the kind of folks mentioned here make my hobbies seem tame. Ahhh.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2005 22:28:43 GMT -4
I think that's the curse of anyone who doesn't like the SO of a "heartthrob" type. If you have anything even slightly critical to say or that deviates from the standard "they're so cute" and "she's so lucky," you're branded "jellus" and not a real fan. It makes it tough when the SO, you know, sucks and you just can't help but snark. Or, y'know, some of these people are actually just wacked. In X-files fandom, a scary place in and of itself, there exists the "snoggers" who believe in the complete and undying love between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Clearly unable to distinguish television from reality, they were (and still are) overwhelmed with psychotic, stalker, teeny-bopper rage when Duchovny got married to someone who was not Gillian Anderson and they realized they weren't going to get to see their "Mulder and Scully in twue wuv" scenario played out in real life. And thus began the numerous websites, the endless speculation about when Duchovny would realize the error of his ways and get divorced (it's been eight years; they're still waiting) and on a more "fucking crazy" note, the death threats, which included their young kids. The Internet is a frightening, frightening place.
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Post by Smilla on Mar 16, 2005 1:15:28 GMT -4
Oh. My. GOD. Ladies and gentelmen, the thread is won. Jesus H. Christ. I knew of the crazees who believed that David and Gillian were somehow an item, when in reality, they sort of dislike each other--or at least, seemed to while the show was on--but...threats? About his children?! That is...way beyond. Damn.
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fiona3
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Post by fiona3 on Mar 16, 2005 14:38:51 GMT -4
Hate mail? You received hate mail? Yep. I had to change my email address. Some fans are batshit crazy.
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kaylee
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Post by kaylee on Mar 16, 2005 16:39:44 GMT -4
I once got hate mail because I said mean things about gasp! Justin Guarini at TwoP.
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Post by Binky on Mar 16, 2005 17:18:41 GMT -4
The X-files fandom had the unique (at least I think so, for the time) aspect of an obsession with the actor's private lives. This was before the rise of RPF and before sites like celebritybabyblog. The Snoggers are the same ones who think Duchovny fathered Anderson's daughter (despite the fact that the kid looks just like her dad). But some fans were always obsessed with Anderson and Duchovny's kids.
Many years ago, I remember there was a convention for the TV show The Sentinel, and I recall there being a little drama over co-lead Garret Maggart not showing up or maybe it was just not talking about fan fiction. Apparently he was deeply uncomfortable with the great deal of slash fan fiction, in much of which his character was raped.
If I were an actor, I wouldn't read any kind of fiction about me/my character. That would just creep me out too much.
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jollityfarm
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Post by jollityfarm on Mar 16, 2005 17:58:57 GMT -4
I think it's fairly standard to imagine that the female lead and the male lead are an item in any series. I remember gossip in ordinary magazines about ten years ago about Duchovny and Anderson, even though it came to nothing. It seems that whenever a man and a woman (or two men, since LotR) appear together in something, they must be having sex (a cynic would perhaps suggest that this is because it has been so often the case since acting began).
But, of course, when most normal people are given ultimate proof that the rumours are not true (as in, for example, when one of them marries someone else), they might say "shame, they'd have made a good couple" but will probably get over it. It takes a special kind of person to assume there's some coverup/forced marriage/secret society going on, in this culture and this day and age.
It might be a little easier for the Domlijah/Viggorli tinhats to cling to this one, though, since it is true that lots of celebrities are in cosmetic relationships to cover up their private lives. But when one of the costars of the couple is one of the most out homosexuals in the business, it's a little difficult to believe that any of the rest of the cast might have been forced by "PR" to enter into fraudulent relationships for the sake of the movie's success.
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Post by katiebear3 on Mar 16, 2005 20:15:04 GMT -4
I've read that because Ian McKellan is old and wrinkly they don't mind his gay activism, but because the other cast members are fuckable young men, they need to keep their gayness quiet in case it turns off women with crushes on them.
Whatever.
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Post by Smilla on Mar 16, 2005 22:06:46 GMT -4
What?! I've never read about that particular wrinkle of this fandom. I've read about the affair Anderson and Duchovny allegedly had at the beginning of the series, and I read Anderson's completely innocuous joke about telling Duchovny she was pregnant, and about his also joking response about feeling his knees buckle after she told him, (the joke being, I guess, that Duchovny "feared" he was the father). I had no idea there are crazees out there who speculate he truly is, "in actual fact," as Moronica Reyes would say. Good LORD. I'm horrified.
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