The Ugly Underbelly of Fandom

[keiramarcos]

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[winter_elf]

Wow... that's like... wow. glad you have a way of filtering future blackmail.

*facepalm* I am so upset with the RT news. I was enjoying that story! How were those idiots pestering the author outside of RT? I didn't think the author's email were available - or maybe they knew her from before? UGH. I hope she give you the info of the idiots to ban from the site and I'm so sorry at what happened.

[amkave]

I've followed the Author in question for a *really* long time. I was delighted to see her on RT knowing challenges have been hit and miss because her life is super busy and chaotic. I was also devastated when a reader went around all the protections set up for RT authors to dig at her.

As I understand it it was a reader who has done it to this Author before and had a working email address. The author has a giant body of work and her followers and cheerleaders know she writes what she can when she can, and if derailment happens, well maybe that massive epic only gets three quarters done. As longtime readers we are okay with that, because sometimes she comes back around to a story or scenario or universe.

Several years ago she locked down most of her work and moved it off most archive sites, just so she didn't have to deal with trolls.

She may take a few months off but hopefully she'll be back. As I told her we'll still be here to support her.