Oh, I wasn't involved in any way with LOTR fandom besides occasionally visiting TheOneRing.net looking for pictures of Sean Bean, and I read 'When A Fan Hits The Sh*t' and enjoyed it. Likewise, I'd be fascinated if someone did a long overview of the outbreak of sockpuppetry in the Rat Patrol fandom, and I don't think I've ever seen an episode of that.
If someone's saying 'Look, this person behaved badly and got away with it, and here is the verifiable evidence to prove it' I'll generally take a look, mostly to see whether anyone involved is actually more batshit than the most batshit people I've ever encountered personally, but I had a look at the table of contents for the latest one and I can't honestly be bothered. Let people who enjoy reading that kind of thing read it and people who enjoy deploring it deplore it; I'll be over here reading the war memoirs of the Countess of Ranfurly.
Which I heartily recommend, by the way. She's been thrown out of Egypt for being an 'illegal wife', hopped ship from a transport in Durban (and a good thing too, as the transport then sank), made her way back to Cairo via train and light plane, got a job in the SOE, realised that the people in charge of the office were being criminally lax at best and double agents at worst, smuggled documents in her bra, had her mail mysteriously opened, and now she's fetched up in Palestine and is worried about her husband who's a prisoner of war in Italy and their butler who she had to leave in Cairo with a dog and an upright piano. Can the 'Inner Circle' or their detractors do better than that?
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If someone's saying 'Look, this person behaved badly and got away with it, and here is the verifiable evidence to prove it' I'll generally take a look, mostly to see whether anyone involved is actually more batshit than the most batshit people I've ever encountered personally, but I had a look at the table of contents for the latest one and I can't honestly be bothered. Let people who enjoy reading that kind of thing read it and people who enjoy deploring it deplore it; I'll be over here reading the war memoirs of the Countess of Ranfurly.
Which I heartily recommend, by the way. She's been thrown out of Egypt for being an 'illegal wife', hopped ship from a transport in Durban (and a good thing too, as the transport then sank), made her way back to Cairo via train and light plane, got a job in the SOE, realised that the people in charge of the office were being criminally lax at best and double agents at worst, smuggled documents in her bra, had her mail mysteriously opened, and now she's fetched up in Palestine and is worried about her husband who's a prisoner of war in Italy and their butler who she had to leave in Cairo with a dog and an upright piano. Can the 'Inner Circle' or their detractors do better than that?