Two Comments

[kivrin]

If you're having trouble finding enough situations to watch with horrified fascination...

I would dub the Pay Me For Fanfic 'Cause I Wanna Be A Writer trainwreck the Wankiest Wank That Ever Did Wank, had the bizarre Victoria Bitter saga not utterly, and for all time, blown the bell curve on that sort of thing.


If you're looking for a nice lesbian romance film...

Skip Salmonberries. k d lang is awfully awfully cute, but otherwise, it's two hours of "what? and the... huh? why'd they... huh?"


Thank you, drive through.

Comments

[breadandroses.livejournal.com]

It's quite dark here under my rock, and I can't figure out what that whole Victoria Bitter thing is about. 'splain, please?

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Well, it's all very, very, VERY complicated... but the short version, as I understand it, is that in 2001 some young chick calling herself Victoria Bitter became a big noise in LOTR movie fandom, writing lots of fic and starting/helping to run a Sam fansite. Subsequently, she:

- claimed to be the reincarnation of a hobbit and to be receiving messages in The Actual Hobbit-Language
- moved across country, faked her own death (not merely online but in the real world as well) and started going around as a guy named "Jordan Wood" who claimed to be 1) on the run from the IRA (the Irish one, not the financial thingy) 2) the illegitimate cousin of, or psychic other body of, Elijah Wood.
- scammed a huge number of people, including Sean Astin and some of the other actors, out of money and time with plans for LOTR events to benefit a bogus charity.

Saskia has it right, it really does go beyond wank into a realm of Really, Really Frightening Mental Illness.

[breadandroses.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's...wow.