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Maura Labingi ([info]mauralabingi) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2003-12-20 18:58:00


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Current mood:*sporfle!*
Current music:"I know all there is to know about the crying game..."
Entry tags:fandom: lord of the rings, person: victoria bitter

Lord, forgive me for what I am about to do.
But it's just too fucking funny to resist.

Remember Victoria Bitter? Sure ya do! After all, when someone becomes possessed by the spirit of Merry the hobbit, starts babbling in tongues, fakes her own death, convinces numerous people who really ought to know better that she's "Jordan Wood" (in other words, Elijah Wood, complete with a magical gender-switch that, according to her besotted partner in folie-á-stupid, OrangeblossomB the webmistress of the Bit of Earth fansite, included actually physically growing a dick) that's a person who's made themselves pretty goddamned unforgettable.

And now s/he is back! First on the side of a milk carton, then busted for identity theft. (The relevant post is about halfway down the page, by "Turimel".

The suckers sheep Bit-of-Earthers are stunned and shocked to find out that their pal "Mister Frodo" was A) a woman pretending to be a man, B) a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be Elijah Wood, C) a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be Elijah Wood pretending to be Frodo, D) the sole beneficiary, along with Orangeblossom, of quite a bit of the money the site raised through various charity events.

I have the feeling that this one is just going to get better, because wank involving Victoria Bitter is never less than operatic in its scope. Mean-spirited, I sit back and enjoy.

EDIT: If you want the Cliffs Notes background to this sprawling epic o' splurt, the lovely [info]mpoetess has done an absolutely masterful job of recapping the whole ginormous bewildering tangled thing: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.

It's like the Citizen Kane of wank. It's just so beautiful. *stares*

EDIT 2: No, I don't know for sure whose identity she's being charged with stealing. Right now my money's on Elijah Wood, since one of the "charity events" was supposed to have Elijah as a celebrity guest and solicited donations and sold a bunch of tickets on the strength of that. (And this is, after all, the woman who introduced herself to Sean Astin as Jordan Wood, and then roped him into being the -- very perplexed -- go-between for her "marriage proposal" to Orangeblossom.)



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[info]mpoetess
2003-12-21 06:05 am UTC (link)
All Hell breaks loose, of course. It's all over the lost Blurty version of Fandom Wank, and their supporters are either backpedaling or staunchly trying to defend them... Gossip posted left and right.

Someone -- might have been our OP in this post -- finds a pic of "Mr. Frodo" that OB had posted in her own LJ recently, then had mysteriously deleted -- but she was unwise enough not to protect the index to her pesonal directory on boe.net. So it was possible for anyone to just go to it online, find the pic, point and say "Look. Mr, Frodo. It's VB with a buzz cut and blue contacts." (That's the pic currently being used as the default icon on the VB journal, by the way, courtesy of The Ex Boyfriend.)

After MUCH wanking here, there, everywhere, dramatic declarations by supporters that its' *their* business, everyone claiming OB is lying is cruel and evil and and and and... Finally Frodo deletes 'his' lj, after having never said much about the whole thing 'himself.'

And after several days of arguing and lying and still claiming Frodo is a man "but I can never prove it to you people -- even if I scanned his driver's license you'd say it was faked" OB deletes hers as well.

There are still a few people in their 'circle' who are around online though -- one of whom was the guy nicknamed "shopping cart bob" who is the guy on the messageboard link who's saying "Don't post personal info about Jordan" out of one corner of his mouth and "that little shit owes me 1000$" out of the other end. Another was diamondtook who appears to have become part of OB and VB/Frodo's little "Bag End".... house? Commune? Whatever. So some further wank can be gleaned from skimming over public entries there -- including the fact that the whole gang apparently moved to Cali recently. Hence, presumably, the "She's missing" newspaper article.

When last heard from, "Mr. Frodo" was calling 'himself' Jordan Wood, and living as a man -- and engaged to OB. Now, here's where we get back into "hobbits? wahhh???" We'd all have understood if any one of them had just said, "Look, she's transgender, she wants to live as a man, therefore we're saying that "VB" is dead, and the new person is the person she was meant to be all along" or anything similar. It was the insistence that Frodo is and always was a man and has a Very Real Cock Thank You that made it all so wanky and crazy in the first place.

But. She apparently doesn't just want to live as a man, which everybody would just say "oh, ok, trans, we're cool with that" if there hadn't been the whole fake suicide drama. She thinks/claims/various personages have reported -- that she's *actually* turning into a man. And...
That man is Elijah Wood. She's channeling his... spirit, or something. Jordan, btw, is EW's middle name. More pics surface, and yes, it's still VB in boy's clothes and blue contacts. She was actually at the BOE groundbreaking thing where Sean Astin was helping them.

And then there was this. *points at upward current wank*

And yes, though I wasn't wanking very loudly at the time, having genuinely liked VB when I met her, there is a very smug feeling, listening to all the people at the Prancing Pony going on about how saddening it is that they've been taken for a ride when so many of them were the ones going "It's none of our business and we wish you'd just leave OB and Mr. Frodo alone and we don't believe you anyway," almost a year ago.

--

Most Assuredly Not The End But At Least I'm Done.

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[info]thebratqueen
2003-12-21 06:15 am UTC (link)
/me applauds

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[info]shoiryu
2003-12-21 06:15 am UTC (link)
You? Are my hero.

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[info]nekoneko
2003-12-21 06:26 am UTC (link)
The best ever. I shower you in *heart*s, and a Neil Gaiman icon.

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[info]iamtheenemy
2003-12-21 06:27 am UTC (link)
That is the most whacked out shit. She's BECOMING Elijah Wood? This isn't a science fiction novel, and it's not like EW is some sort of messiah or mythic figure. He is a fairly popular actor now, who will probably (unfortunately) fall back into the realm of B-star status after the hype for LoTR has ended.

Why oh why would people willingly give these obviously unstable individuals their hard-earned money?

Excellent recap.

Steph

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2003-12-21 09:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sparkle_bitch, 2004-10-26 08:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]elfy, 2003-12-21 10:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]thebratqueen, 2003-12-22 06:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elfy, 2003-12-24 07:25 am UTC

[info]mauralabingi
2003-12-21 06:34 am UTC (link)
Goddamn, that was like the Mahabharata of wank! *cheers*

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[info]snacky
2003-12-21 06:42 am UTC (link)
Oh, you so RAWK!

I remember it all from the Blurty days. Good times. How sad we lost all the primo wank we had there!

In terms of wankiness, the VB story takes the cake. As hesychasm would say, it takes it, runs with it, trips over it, gets up with it splattered all over its crazy-ass self, and then proceeds to do things that are completely horrifying and unholy to it.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2003-12-22 09:45 pm UTC

[info]kyuuketsukirui
2003-12-21 06:44 am UTC (link)
Wow, thanks for writing all that up! See, I knew someone could do a better job than my half-assed attempt. :D

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(no subject) - [info]mpoetess, 2003-12-21 07:09 am UTC
P.S.
[info]snacky
2003-12-21 07:02 am UTC (link)
The part where OB claimed Mr. Frodo had an actual cock? I read it as a comment in Versaphile's LJ. So, that bit of wank didn't get deleted when we were TOSed from Blurty.

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[info]crickets
2003-12-21 07:05 am UTC (link)
Holy cow! What a trainwreck. LOTR has surpassed HP as wankiest fandom by miles. And thanks for typing all of that out. Sheesh...

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Re: Pardon my ignorance - [info]maureenlycaon, 2003-12-22 05:09 am UTC
Re: Pardon my ignorance - [info]crickets, 2003-12-22 07:57 am UTC

wizzard
2003-12-21 07:06 am UTC (link)
Excellent summary. The wank on blury is what actually got me posting instead of just lurking. It was all so mind boggling.

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[info]telesilla
2003-12-21 07:10 am UTC (link)
Hot damn! You know if someone tried to submit this as a novel no publisher in their right mind would touch it.

Er ... the wank, not your summary which was brill!

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(no subject) - [info]linaelyn, 2004-01-10 11:39 am UTC

[info]sweetle
2003-12-21 07:14 am UTC (link)
Great recap. I just have one more question:

If VB is turning into Elijah Wood, does that mean that Orangeblossom is turning into Dominic Monaghan?

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(no subject) - [info]iamtheenemy, 2003-12-21 07:26 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2003-12-30 01:41 am UTC
no I think it means she is turning into sean astin - (Anonymous), 2004-03-05 01:39 pm UTC

[info]icediamond
2003-12-21 08:04 am UTC (link)
I'm not sure whether to be amused, or horrified. ...I'll stick with amused. More entertaining. *wanders off muttering to herself*

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[info]kijikun
2003-12-21 08:24 am UTC (link)
O_O My fricking 107 little gods, WTF? I feel like I just reas a script to one of Lifetimes moives of the weeks. Whoa. Damn. Thanks for filling me in. I feel even worse for those over at Bit of Earth..

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I hear meredith baxter birney's phone ringing from here - (Anonymous), 2004-03-05 01:48 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2003-12-21 10:34 am UTC (link)
Thank you! I've been reading bits and pieces of that since I happened to meet Orangeblossom in a movie theatre two years ago but I had never gotten the full story.

Someone should archive this so it can be linked to the next time this comes up (because we all know it will).

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[info]elfy
2003-12-21 11:04 am UTC (link)
And once more I am glad that I live in the bottom half of Australia, where our wanking is localised, and never big enough to splurt all over the net. Not to mention the fact that the psychos in my end of the world everyone else would consider "slightly eccentric". Yay for Australia!`

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[info]trismegistus
2003-12-21 11:49 am UTC (link)
I love you oh so much right now. It's almost unseemly how much joy reading that breakdown has brought into my life.

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[info]yadda
2003-12-21 05:57 pm UTC (link)
*applaudes*

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(no subject) - [info]yadda, 2003-12-21 05:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-12-30 07:11 pm UTC

[info]psychofangirl
2003-12-21 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Wow...just wow...

That's about all I can come up with.

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[info]versaphile
2003-12-22 03:55 am UTC (link)
*applauds* It's like a walk down memory lane, except less painful than doing it myself.

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(no subject) - [info]bookshop, 2004-01-03 08:58 am UTC

[info]sagralisse
2003-12-23 12:53 am UTC (link)
A most excellent summary! Thank you!

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[info]folk
2003-12-23 09:36 am UTC (link)
*gasps for breath* Wow. Fountain O' Wank.

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[info]afrai
2003-12-24 06:20 pm UTC (link)
God, that's just. So fucking scary.

I actually really liked a few of VB's LOTR stories, long before I'd ever heard of the wank. So weird.

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Sorry about the anonymous posting... (no code) - (Anonymous), 2003-12-26 06:51 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2003-12-30 02:11 am UTC (link)
I just want to say this: SANET and the soon to be Samwise Gamgee.net are our last best hopes for Fankind after this massive insanity. BoE has always made me feel weird somehow and now you've made it clear that I was right. What gets me is not the transgender stuff, if that's her business, that's her business. But, the damage to the Sean/Sam fandom.....I am hoping it's not something that can't be healed.

Any Sean fans reading this, come on over to SANET and you'll be welcomed with open arms. The Prancing Pony has moved here, thank god. But only if you're sane......Sanity is a definite requirement ;)

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(no subject) - [info]khym_chanur, 2004-05-26 01:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bookshop, 2004-01-03 08:59 am UTC

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