The MsScribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography/Msscribe Conquers All
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Excerpts
At this time, Msscribe had achieved all her goals. She was friended by everyone she had wanted to be friended by and she could easily have reached any pinnacle of fandom popularity she wanted to reach just by her own considerable talents. Okay, she was only a mediocre fic-writer (in my opinion), but she was a fantastic live journalist -- witty, iconoclastic, eloquent, imaginative, and unfettered by any niggling insistence on factual accuracy. She wrote the kind of posts that get recced and linked not just in the fandom but all over the internet (if you Google "msscribe" you will find several links to her "To Gays and Lesbians On Why They Need To Get Black" post). She was also extremely talented with graphics -- in fact, if you Google her real name, you can see that she now presents herself as a professional photographic artist, particularly skilled in digital graphic manipulation. No wonder her LJs and her icons were always so striking! In addition to all that, she had a warm, outgoing personality -- generous, charming, and often screamingly funny. She was not the kind of person who would find it hard to make friends. So why did she continue to the next step? I suspect she was simply addicted to the excitement, the attention, the adrenaline rush of pulling strings and manipulating people and dancing on the edge of exposure. Or maybe she wanted to be a BNF before Nimbus. For whatever reason, she went on.
Timeline for this Chapter
- April 2003 - Msscribe and Killiganhashope
- May 2003 - Msscribe and Pottersginny
- Late May 2003 - Msscribe and RunechildUK
- Still May 2003 - Msscribe and GT_Hidden_Room
Complete timeline is here.
Links
- Main text for Chapter 3:
- Chapter Three - Msscribe Conquers All at bad_penny [WebCite backup]
- Chapter Three - Msscribe Conquers All at charlottelennox's Journalfen [WebCite backup] [WayBack Machine backup]
- the links mentioned in the main text along with the comments and threads on one page: Webcite backup; Wayback Machine backup