Current mood:

Gobsmacked

Fake journals. Fake children. Real WTF by the truckload.
I can't even begin to explain all of this, but I found out about it through fake_lj_deaths.

Apparently, a user in the LJ rating community nouglybabies by the name of cold_still_life was busted as a fake. Not only did they not have any children of their own, but they actually stole photos from someone else and passed off those children as theirs. They also passed off the father of those kids as their husband, AND via IP matching, they were outed as having no less than 37 (yes, you read that right-- 37) different sockpuppet LJ's:

http://community.livejournal.com/fake_lj_deaths/223885.html

Because fake_lj_deaths is Friends Only until a hoax is proven, I'm providing the direct links they gave for those that aren't members of the community:

The first post, asking for cold_still_life to prove who she is-- http://community.livejournal.com/nouglybabies/743534.html

The post when the real identity of the parents was discovered-- http://community.livejournal.com/nouglybabies/744652.html

The running tally of all of the sockpuppet LJ's at her IP address-- http://community.livejournal.com/nouglybabies/745085.html

On an even weirder note, at least four of those socks had babies that died, and there's a whole host of Buffy/Whedonverse style WTF thrown in for good measure, because apparently her "children" were named after different characters, like Cordelia, and she supposedly had a four year old that was obsessed with BTVS.

I'm just shaking my head at all of this. It's too weird for words. o_O

EDIT: Thanks to redcoast in the comments, we now have more linkage here.

EDIT the Second: An example of her batshittery can be read here. Yeah, sure that's a four year old talking. Heh.

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	redcoast 2006-09-04 05:23 am UTC (link)
	Okay. There's a host of posts about her on a baby board here and here, apparently. On Greatest Journal's "LJ User Secrets" comm, somebody posted first this, concern about her kid's obsession with Buffy. Then this, this, and this. Some IP stuff I found funny on the last one. I'm gonna check the fakers comm I'm a member of to see if I missed anything. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	redcoast 2006-09-04 05:24 am UTC (link)
	Apropos of nothing, www.ljdrama.org now reads nothing but "LOL, BITCHES!" When did that happen? (Reply to this)(Parent)

redcoast
2006-09-04 05:36 am UTC (link)

squishybear on LJ saved her journal before she deleted it

http://www.delishsale.com/drama/cold_still_life/20060902204311/
http://www.delishsale.com/drama/cold_still_life/20060902192814/
http://www.delishsale.com/drama/cold_still_life/20060902193751/
http://www.delishsale.com/drama/cold_still_life/20060902195343/
http://www.delishsale.com/drama/cold_still_life/20060903160953/

The last one is her last post, with comments outing her. She deleted her journal shortly afterwards, apparently.

She's also a member of every fake-outing comm she could join. O.O

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	Ribbons? zealot 2006-09-04 06:02 am UTC (link)
	Wow, the links even further illustrate the batshit. Thanks for collecting these. My name is Hannah and I'm obsessed with diapers, breastfeeding, my children. Obsessed with diapers? She must be a mom! That's like someone who's pretending to be gay saying, "I'm obsessed with balls, lube and, uh... oh, right. Cock." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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redcoast
2006-09-04 06:09 am UTC (link)

Nah, the best part is the extremely detailed stories with her 4-year-old fake kid:

For awhile, she chatters about her game (Tara and Willow have made up. Spike goes to Narcotic's Anonymous with Evan so that he won't have a Crash Bandicoot addiction anymore. Illyria is married to Knox and they have a Peanut Butter baby whose name is Lily McClure. Wesley and Fred have one too, his name is Angel Spike Wesley Xander Doyle Charles Riley but they call him Cowboy Guy.) and then for awhile in character as Fred Burkle. After twenty or thirty minutes, she grows serious. "Mommy, is there private detectives in real life?"
"There are," I reply, subtly correcting her grammar.
"Maybe I'll work for one."
"Cordelia, they're not like the detective agency on Angel."
"I know that, Mommy. But I'd work for them anyway. I could answer the phone. We Help The Hopeless, I could say."
"They're not like on Angel, Cordy," I remind her gently. She has difficulty separating fantasy from reality.
"I know. But I could say that. It would be nice. We could help people find their cats and their babies." She pauses, looks at me. "Or find out if their wives are in love with other people."
Perhaps she doesn't have such a difficult time after all. Simply, she, like me, enjoys throwing in a reference to her great loves.
"Hey mommy," she says, leaning forward on her elbows, looking at least ten, for that gesture only. "Remember Mica?"
Mica was one of the students at the art camp neighboring the camp my husband was a counselor at in July. Cordelia adored her, and since she's semi-local, we've visited her a few times. Mica gave Cordelia a ring like Buffy's and told her that she was everything good in the world. "Yes, I remember Mica."
"I like her." And then Cordelia is silent again. She watches a piece of fluff fall from a tree, studies one of the abandoned props from Fred, Illyria and Tara Meet, part 4, with mild interest. "Mommy?"
"Yes, Cordelia?"
"Did you know that wishes don't come true?"
"Oh really?" Usually Cordelia is a firm believer in wishes coming true. I'm honestly baffled by this.
"Yeah. Yesterday I wished I had long beautiful hair like Fred, and that I was a grown up and I had a science lab and a bunny named Feigenbaum and a boyfriend named Wesley who loves me even after I'm dead. And GUESS WHAT?! I'm still just Cordelia Bauer who's four years old and who has regular hair and a toy microscope and a dolly named Miss Ethel and a brother named Isaac who just sometimes drools on me. It sucks, man, it sucks."
I'm biting my lip and trying not to laugh. "Cordelia, there's a lot of time for your wishes to come true."
She sighs. "But I wanted that one to come true right now." She tilts her face up to the sky. "Oh, if you're listening, Powers That Be, I promise I won't push the button and die!" Then she shakes her head and turns back to me. "Maybe it'll come true now." And then she runs inside, grabs her action figures, and acts out a short scene of Fred, Illyria and Tara Meet, part 5, before Daisy comes back up the street and it's time to go pick Evan up from NA.

I know I should cut it, but LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

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	Re: Ribbons? zealot 2006-09-04 06:20 am UTC (link)
	Holy lord! Such detail. Such bullshittery. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? (Anonymous) 2006-09-04 06:21 am UTC (link)
	She has difficulty separating fantasy from reality. Indeed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? notjo 2006-09-04 06:43 am UTC (link)
	the hell? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? (Anonymous) 2006-09-04 07:29 am UTC (link)
	You know there is something wrong when your daughter talks in stilted sentences that appear to be the work of a fanfiction author imagining the dialogue of four-year-olds. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? vengeance_bean 2006-09-04 11:47 am UTC (link)
	Is there anyone who believed that a four year-old said that? For real? O_o (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ribbons? puipui 2006-09-04 04:47 pm UTC (link)
	If there is, then they can't have been around that many actual four-year-olds. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? mastervex 2006-09-04 11:57 am UTC (link)
	Uhm. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? pfeffermuse 2006-09-04 01:29 pm UTC (link)
	Gak! That's funny. But in a way you've got to give her some credit. At least "her" four-year-old doesn't sound like some of the older kids (eight, nine, ten, eleven) that I've read in fanfic that sound like they're channeling the speech patterns of two- and three-year-olds. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ribbons? redcoast 2006-09-04 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	She's gone the opposite direction, it seems. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? ladyrogue 2006-09-04 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	People believed this?! I'm lucky I understand my four-year old nephew when he's asking for juice! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ribbons? yattara 2006-09-05 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	I can understand my fiancé's five-year-old niece, but yeah, they are not that articulate at that age. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Ribbons? hickorydickory 2006-09-04 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	It sucks, man, it sucks. Ahahahaha! Pure gold! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	slackerbitch 2006-09-04 08:21 am UTC (link)
	Reading through some of this: Cordie and I just watched Seeing Red. Tip: It's no less fucking depressing in the morning than it is at night. Blah. Didn't anybody bitch-slap her for letting her nonexistent four-year-old watch an episode of Buffy involving attempted rape and murder? My (real) four-year-old niece sticks to SpongeBob and Dora... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	redcoast 2006-09-04 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	Man, some parents do that. I remember Harry Knowles got into trouble for showing his little nephew Dawn of the Dead or some such. Most of the little kids I know would start sobbing and run out of the room. (Except little-kid me. I insisted on rewatching MacBeth's beheading in slow-motion because I missed it the first time when I was about six.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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