The MsScribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography/Preface (Disclaimers and Acknowledgements)
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Excerpts
The purpose:
The primary purpose of this fandom biography, as with any story, is to provide entertainment and amusement for its readers. Msscribe is a fascinating person and I believe that many people will find her eventful fandom life interesting. My secondary purpose is to preserve fandom history that is in danger of being lost -- for instance, I rescued the Fermatojam pages originally captured and posted by anatsuno from Google cache. Msscribe's story includes or touches upon many scandals and conflicts of the past five or six years in a certain sector of the Harry Potter fandom. My third purpose is to try to explain events that were complicated and hard to understand when they happened. I hope this account will provide a coherent explanation and clear up many misconceptions.
The evidence, permissions and collection (emphasis in original):
All posts, comments, and webpages quoted or shown as exhibits in this narrative are public, or were public when they were captured, or else I have explicit permission from the writer of the text to quote them. Much of my narrative is based on downloads from public posts on Msscribe's Live Journal captured on June 6, 2003 by fandom member dianora. Most of those posts are now friends-locked, but they were all public when downloaded. The same is true of the handful of other formerly public/now friends-locked posts that are included here. They were public when they were either downloaded, screencapped, or quoted by a fandom member or captured by Google, the Wayback Machine, or LJ Seek. Msscribe's real-life full name is not mentioned or linked in this account.
Occasionally, the narrative includes quotes from friends-locked posts and comments, and emails. All of these are quoted with the permission of the writer of the text quoted. This will always be noted in the text, as well.
See The Ms.Scribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography: The Preface for more.
Links
Main text:
- The Msscribe Story, Preface and Chapter One at bad_penny WebCite backup archive.is backup
- The Ms.Scribe Story, Preface and Table of Contents at charlottelennox's Journalfen WebCite backup archive.is backup
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
charlottelennox comment threads:
- Sock accusations, started 19 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- Charlotte Lennox accusation and response, started 21 June 2006 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- comments page 2, 22 June 2006 - 7 March 2007 WebCite backup archive.is backup
- comments page 3, 20 April 2007 - 4 August 2010 WebCite backup archive.is backup