monsterzero
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Post by monsterzero on Mar 13, 2005 11:33:14 GMT -4
Not really. I believe it's more of a cultural lack of caring that makes neurotic people like these scary fans become so obsessive. They either come from poor homes with limited human interaction or they believe they do in order to 'fit in' and 'belong' to a group just for that interaction. I don't blame religion for this at all: sure in the past it may have been the focus for these crazy people who take it too far to compensate for something, but then again that's the fault of the person obsessing. With them, anything can be an obsession.
In short, I think it's just some people need to take stock of reality instead of shutting themselves off from it.
Oh geez. Now that...is disgusting to the WTF! level. And I'm a man who owns the hardcover version of Tom Baker's autobiography. I'm used to ver odd things.
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ldhenson
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Post by ldhenson on Mar 13, 2005 21:02:59 GMT -4
I second that question...what's up with Cassie Claire? I only know of her from her very funny LOTR fics, so what's happening now?
On a different note...Real People Fic (slash or het) gives me the Sideshow Bob shudders. I remember back in the day when, if you really felt the urge to write fanfic, you kept your hands off the real people. There wasn't much drama over the non-use; it just wasn't done, and that was that.
I really don't know what to make of its popularity nowadays.
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Post by Malle Babbe on Mar 13, 2005 21:22:50 GMT -4
Real People fic goes way too far into John Hinckley territory for my own comfort. While she's not to everyone's taste, I've always had a soft spot for Mercedes Lackey's books, which made her troubles with some of her scarier fans all the more upsetting. She wrote 3 books that focused on an occult investigator who was also a Guardian, similar to a Slayer in the Buffyverse, but with a more general mandate to protect the mundanes from those that wish them harm. The first one was really good, the other two not so much. Due to lackluster sales, she didin't write any more in that series. Weeeeeell, some of her fans either ascribed darker motives to her ending that series (The Man was putting Misty down, you see) or were extremely put out over the fact that these books didn't validate their own worldview (nothing quite as scary as a militant fluffybunny, even the CTWS would be scared of them!) Her own account of the situation can be found here. As of 2004, she's been doing the convention circuit again, but it still pisses me off that she had to go through something like that. Why don't some of these scary fans go after Bin Laden instead? They'd be doing the world a favor!
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megjac
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Post by megjac on Mar 13, 2005 21:38:36 GMT -4
Forgive the newby, but what is the "Cult of the Tremulous Wounded Starchild"? and as to scary fans, I was an x-phile until Duchovny jumped ship. When I started on that fandom there was a fan the usenet group obsessed about his floor plan he was drawing up of Mulders apartment, that was about the least odd thing those people did. Later I went to a con and they had various watches out for us to look at. I said "Hmm, a mans watch", the folks around me were all "Ohhh! thats the watch that the soon to be dead day player wore for the first two minutes of "Random Episode" . I did not get it.
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Post by Malle Babbe on Mar 13, 2005 22:03:38 GMT -4
The "Cult of the Tremulous Wounded Starchild" refers to Michael Jackson's more rabid fans. The ones that go beyond thanking his post-"Bad" albums have artistic merit to ascribing Christ-like attributes to him, and creating badly Photoshopped threats on the life of DA Tom Sneddon.
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Post by Smilla on Mar 13, 2005 23:05:45 GMT -4
While for the most part I find many of them to be perfectly reasonable and friendly individuals, it's the more obsessed fans of Kiefer Sutherland who get on my nerves and frighten me sometimes. Yes, I understand, the man's attractive, but...he's done some not so great stuff in life, you know? Like lots of celebrities, and lots of non-celebrities. His physical qualities and talent as an actor don't make him a god. I know that the people who get confused about this aren't unique to Kiefer-fandom, but I swear, I have yet to post a complaint about him on any board anywhere and not have someone on said board seek me out and insult me somehow, even for the mildest stuff. Irritating and a bit weird.
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elle2
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Post by elle2 on Mar 14, 2005 1:17:42 GMT -4
I've always been terrified of Orlando Bloom fansites and also Rosie O'Donnell fans are just crazed ! I remember a lady on one of my assignments crying while explaining Rosie's good deeds.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2005 2:14:17 GMT -4
This was always one of my absolute favourite threads over there--one of a very select few (pretty much along with "Movie Manners Cost Nothing", off the top of my head) which I strictly forbade myself to read at work, because I knew that something would make me crack up in an inappropriate way.
That's about it...I'm not all that into LotR, and while I like HP and Buffy and Alias I'm not obsessed with them, so my exposure to crazies is fairly limited. I depend on you all to bring me the hilarity! Or terror, depending on specifics. Real People fic? Definitely terrifying.
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Post by Smilla on Mar 14, 2005 8:32:14 GMT -4
Ah, the Buffy fans...or maybe I should make that, ergh, [fearful stomach clench]the Buffy fans[/fsc]. I liked Buffy, back before I kind of burned out on it, (just pre-season seven, which I did watch almost all of anyway) and in my travels online at that time, I would come across the sites organized by and for the more enthusiastic Buffy fans. Some of that shit represented the worst, most unhealthy obsessional fan worship I've ever seen. It's not quite on par with MJ's Cult, (I have yet to hear of a Buffy fan committing suicide or threatening to or anything that nutty) but those folks definitely give Trekkies a run for their money. The examples that freaked me the most? I once saw a seventy page+ plain text analysis of how long it would take the estimated vampire population of Sunnydale to devour the world, even if Buffy took out six to seven vampires every night. Complete with what my math major ex-boyfriend said (while shuddering) were mathematically correct calculations to "back up" the creator's assertions. And then there were the freakish, infamous "Fans of Willow and Tara" (does anyone remember their ads on TWoP?). I actually felt bad for them after what happened to both Willow and Tara, because they honestly seemed heartbroken by those plot developments, but not as bad as I felt for their fanship-damaged psyches.
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megjac
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Post by megjac on Mar 14, 2005 8:53:31 GMT -4
The great banner ad wars! "Willow and Tara are the magic!!". Ew. I didn't like the ad, but I loved the blow back from everyone else. Who can forget "Seriously. Monkey".
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