Fascinating Fandom story

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merylemon found this ( http://www.journalfen.net/users/charlottelennox/784.html ) fascinating journalistic story about a specific fan in Harry Potter fandom. I've no idea if this person is still active in it, but from what someone says in a comment after section 8 of the story, she still is.

I highly recc this. It's thorough, it's interesting, it's an eye-opener about sociopathic fannish behavior, and how people react and are played very adroitly by someone like this person.

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*meep!* Oh my god. That's just insane!

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Insane is a polite way to put it. Can you imagine anyone truly putting that much effort in trying to be a big fish in a little pond like that? Okay, okay, I know you can, and we know a couple of people online who do...but the amount of effort this wackadoo broad put into it is simply amazing. The phrase "get a real life" springs to mind. She's an expert at human behavior, that's for sure.

I wonder what BetaCandy would say about this nutjob.