ah, HP, how art you the crucible of humanity...

[permetaform]

in reference to a fan with cancer: http://www.4christina.org/

quoted wholesale from here

I am so disgusted I have no words to describe how low and vile, truly evil the fans of heidi8 can be. I've said before about some real gems that I wished they could go about fandom marked in some way, so other people could see them coming and be forewarned. I can't. But I can spread this message as far as I can, which I will do in this journal, my LJ, and my GJ. Because these people display behavior that is so fundamentally gross, they should be shunned.

On LJ, they go by:

* kiwiria
* light_music
* countess_shell
* aome
* deathp4nts

What did they do?

They took it upon behalf of heidi8 of the Harry Potter fandom to troll a dying woman's journal. She has a rare form of cancer, and is in the hospital right now possibly fighting for her life. If she comes home, she will be faced with these heidi8 supporters doing their best to smear her name, and even in some places, calling her illness into question.

this post explains more, with the pertinent links and more information.

More about the wank at cimorene111's journal.

[wank addendum] [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

The reason why this raises my hackles: it's not hard to post a link, even for someone you dislike. Personally, it's tons easier for me to make a comment than to send off an email; what disturbs me is that so much brouhaha was raised because heidi8 didn't want to post a simple link.

And to me, who links to tons of shit and gets requests to post links sometimes, this is just eyebrow raising in the level of...I dunno, 'indifference'? 'hate'? 'disgust'? that it takes for someone to not even take the 5 seconds it'll take to help out a fellow human being. It's easy; and even if it's posted it just gets thrown into the judgement of public opinion. "BNF"s can't do *anything*; herding fandom is like herding *cats*. The only thing BNF's *can* do is raise awareness, and it's not hard to advertize.

At all.

[edit] the response by heidi8; which, okay is more than a link, but still, it still is just a request for a 'shout out'. Not for anything major, a link, a word, maybe even a pimp of cleolinda's project (the movie parody project).

gah, fandom. you so silly.


The fan with cancer's info page: http://www.4christina.org/

Her ebay page where she's selling the crafts she's been able to make.

From what I can tell, her husband's lost his job and she lost her insurance; I'm not asking ya'll to help if you are already strapped for cash. But, and only if you are able to, help out a little?

[edit] guede_mazaka's looked through her website and found some backing info to this fan's claims.

btw, ya'll have great comments that I want to respond to, but it's 1pm and I gotta run (I'll be back around 10ish)

Comments

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I haven't checked out the links yet, and I don't especially want to get dragged into wank myself, as much fun as it sounds, but I gotta say this from the devil's advocate side. I don't tend to link much in my journal anyway, but I would be really hesitant to link a private charity that wasn't of someone I didn't know personally, if I didn't have time to thoroughly investigate the situation. I've seen enough false charity scams to be automatically suspicious, and while I personally will randomly donate money to uncertain causes, I wouldn't want to direct someone else wrong. Not that I have any idea if that's what happened - the trolling personal journals seems rather outside that? But...

[permetaform]

heidi8 is the same one who massively helped fundraise to get CC 4 laptops (of middle to high-end range).

and it's not hard to go, "would someone take a look at this and figure out if it's something I should pimp?"

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

ah, okay, that gives me better perspective on where the wank is coming from. Geh, messy. (And I really didn't mean to cast any aspersions on the charity's sad circumstances; I've just had a couple close calls with fraud that make me a suspicious bitch.)

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Christina was known to her-- about the time the laptops thing came around she was publicized as a more worthy cause and there was a whole thing about it. I do think you have the right to pimp whatever you want in your journal, and I think Christina should've emailed about it rather than making the huge public thing it's become, but it really wouldn't have killed Heidi to post the link.