how sweet....to be an idiot...

[leelastarsky]

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/928529.html

Oh, fandom wank, thou comest to me in my darkest hour and dost bring me naught but joy and much mocking merriment. *glee*

Comments

[adrianna-r.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't think it's at all funny.

She wanted to have the feeling of being a published author and in the process she did something extremely stupid that might ruin any public reputation she ever dreamed of having. Especially if she was actually planning on being an original published author later in her life.

Also, um... hi >.>
I'm a fan of your art, and a lurker supreme. Rearing my head up for this 'cause something like this has actually happened where I live and almost came to legal blows.

[maeglinyedi.livejournal.com]

She wanted to have the feeling of being a published author and in the process she did something extremely stupid that might ruin any public reputation she ever dreamed of having.

Yeah, if she were a young, inexperienced writer. But this lady is the co-founder of a poetry publishing company, has written instruction manuals in the past, and claims to work as a book editor. In other words: she should REALLY know better! That's why people are coming down on this so hard. If she were just a misinformed first-time author, people still might have laughed, but they probably wouldn't take it out on her like that.

[adrianna-r.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not saying she isn't insanely moronic. I'm just saying that it's hard for me to really believe she'd do something like this for anything less than high personal gain. Seeing as I don't think she was counting on making lots of money out of this, the high gain is probably emotional, or PR-related (in the bizarre 'bad publicity is better than no publicity' sense).

She's still damn stupid, and harmful to herself and to the fandom (if Lucas' lawyers choose to do a fandom crackdown on the major fan sites).