How long has this been going on?

[heidi]

I'm posting this and dashing back to finish packing, and I'm on a plane half of tomorrow, but I wanted to make a quick comment re Laura Hale/Michela/PartlyBouncy/PurplePopple. Note: I'm not linking to her or even incorporating her actual usernames because as I learned years ago, she has clear gifs on her pages and her wiki and tracks where things come from, and I don't think anything needs to go directly from my LJ to anything connected to her.

Back in 2001, she emailed my law firm, as she posted on her voy forums (they're still public):

I e-mailed the firm Heidi was at and ASKED if what she said was legally sound... (They remember that too. Shortly after it, Heidi moved to NY I think...)

Date Posted: 13:55:46 09/09/02 Mon
Author: Laura

(Note: I didn't move to NY after that, although I had lived there three-plus years before. And I didn't leave the firm. But it sounds like she thinks I was fired because of her email or because I was discussing copyright laws online - and I wasn't.)

Five years later, in the middle of the whole bad penny kerfuffles, she registered the domain name heidi[insertlastname].com and pointed it to her fanhistory page about me, where she also used my real name. I believe that both of these acts were unethical - but that's not why I'm reiterating them now.

It clearly shows a pattern of using real names linked to fannish names/pseuds in connection with people she dislikes. This isn't something she thought of because some OTW members use their real names in connection with the nonprofit, while still participating in fannish interaction under pseudonyms. This is a standard practice for her and I personally would find it reprehensible even if she hadn't used it to hurt me.

ETA: Someone just sent me a link to this where Laura seems to be trying to sell fanhistory. The whole site.

Huh. WTF? Ew.

ETA2 There's something much cheerier here - caffienekitty's The Henchmans' Union's "So You're Evil, Now What?" Introductory Package from Doctor Horrible. The perfect cheer-up!

ETA on October 29, 2008 to redact my last name so I can make this public.

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Are they?

Cool! Also, it's about fucking time.

At this point, I generally shrug about it, but it's just so damned tacky.

Oh, fannish history, you are a bizarre little creature.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Yes, White Serpent told me she went through and edited your last name out. She did it on my page under ari_o. It is weird that the page has been edited like a dozen times but with very little change. And all it says is wank related tangent stuff. Nothing about who I actually am or what I have actually done. And I'm just fine with that.

It is tacky. And she is a moron.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Nifty. Maybe it'll move out of the google-rankings within the next few months - unless Michela puts them back in?

Sorry, I know I sound a little pessimistic about it. And I really don't want to!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

If you didn't sound pessimistic in this instance I would worry. I have never understood what her problem is -- besides the fact that she is nuts.

FH doesn't come up until bottom of 3rd page on google.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Her initial anger at me dates from me not being able to beta read a paper she was writing for a college class on fanfic and law in May of 2001 - because I was busy with my sister and Brian's wedding. A month later when Cassiegate happened she was thus already pissed at me because I'd blown her off, or something, so emailing my law firm may have been an "outlet" for her indignation?

The first few weeks that she was on hpfgu-otchatter (all the posts are still on that yahoogroup, btw) we got along fine!

How's that for fandom history?

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I remember bits of that. I was lurking.

How did I not know you are on FB? *facepalm*