The MsScribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography/The Background
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Timeline
- Early 2001—The Websites are Founded
- Late 2001 - The Stalking War
- 2002 - The Uneasy Peace
Excerpt
The Background:To understand the Msscribe story, you have to know a good bit about the Harry Potter fandom before Dionne aka msscribe aka light_music aka [info]delawarean (now aka [info]dejaspirit) entered it. Feel free to skip any parts you're already familiar with -- this is meant for those who are new to the fandom.
Early 2001 -- The Websites Are Founded:
In the beginning, there was the HP4GU (Harry Potter For Grownups) list on Yahoo (well, it was somewhere else first, then Yahoo). One of the first (of many) disturbances to the peace of HP4GU was the great H/H vs. R/H shipping war, featuring "listmom" Penny Linsenmeyer, Ebony/AngieJ, Cassandra Claire, and Heidi on the Harry/Hermione side (even though Heidi shipped Draco/Hermione, she was loyal to her H/Hr-shipping friends) and Cap'n Kathy/Eleanor Gamgee, Zsenya, Moey, and Firoza on the Ron/Hermione side. The disputes started nice and quickly grew nasty. This was around 2000-2001.
Links
Main text:
- The Msscribe Story, Preface and Chapter One at bad_penny WebCite backup archive.is backup
- The Msscribe Story, Chapter One - The Background at charlottelennox's Journalfen WebCite backup archive.is backup
Links mentioned in the main text:
- Plagiarism And All That at the Fandom Wank wiki (Wayback Machine link)
- Cassandra Claire on Harry/Ginny: (Claire now appears as "Name Changed 702")
- Alpha and Omega by Imogen at PhoenixSong.net (also at Sugar Quill and FanFiction.Net)
- Cassandra Claire on Alpha and Omega: (Claire now appears as "Name Changed 702")
- Deconstructing Harry by Chryslin at harryandginny.co.uk WebCite backup Wayback Machine backup
- Cassie Claire's official statement on stalking incident (Wayback Machine link) WebCite backup
- Cassandra Claire on the stalking:
- In other news..., dated 12 December 2001 (Wayback Machine link) WebCite backup
- Ugh, dated 19 December 2001 (Wayback Machine link) WebCite backup
- pointless late night rant, dated 22 December 2001 (Wayback Machine link) WebCite backup
- untitled post, dated 22 December 2001 (Wayback Machine link) WebCite backup
- H.M.S. Gin-and-Vomit (Ginny/nobody) thread at FictionAlley Park, post #98250 onward, 30 January 2002 WebCite backup
- The Very Secret Diary Of Aja at Fandom Wank wiki (Wayback Machine link)
Links mentioned in the comments:
- Sincerely, the Fandom Police at the Fandom Wank wiki (Wayback Machine link)
- avada_sarcastic's profile at LiveJournal (Wayback Machine link)
bad_penny comment threads:
- On Gryffindor Tower, started 16 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- white_serpent's notes on the account, started 16 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- On Sinead & HP4GU, started 17 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- Cassie Claire Plagiarism & Fandom Climate, started 16 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- On FictionAlley's origins, started 16 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- Chryslin & Cassie Claire Stalking, started 17 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- Chryslin's letter continued, started 18 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- purplepopple's June calendar, started 22 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup