She went down to lj comm carterhaugh...

[azurelunatic]

Basically, when you get "Black Jack Davy" stuck in your head for more than three days, you may wind up going to some somewhat more extreme lengths to get it out. My method involved Tam Lin. So then I was thinking about how the bit where Tam Lin is demanding a favor (if you know what I mean) from Janet, and how (depending on how it's played) it could either be kinda rapey, or it could be just a really bad pickup line. And then -- well. There are really no excuses.

norabombay was not actually awake when I was flailing at her, so she got more or less the following dumped in her IM:

okay so this Janet chick is out roaming the wilds of LJ, and she happens upon this gorgeous two-rose userpic that's in this comm that her bff runs. so she totally snags it.
and tam_lin, whose userpic it is, says "lol, no, why u go stealin' my userpic, now you gotta give me a little somethin' somethin'"
they have an argument that encompasses all of the userpic wank there is, was, and ever will be
but they wind up exchanging info and about 9 months later Janet posts this fic with a mysterious co-author
her bff's all "ok, spill, who's the co-author"
Janet: "lol no, you don't know him"
tam_lin comes back and says "ok, shit is about to go down & I'm'a get dragged thru fandom wank"
"but no matter what happens, it's really me I promise"
and then fandom_wank totally outs tam_lin as a nested series of sockpuppets
but when it's all over, janet is still standing by him (okay, her, because one of the items of sockpuppetry was gender, and femslash Tam Lin/Janet = DO WANT)
and they write horrible babyfic together forever.
THE END.

There is no defense for this travesty, except it was really really hilarious at 6:30am.

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[epershand]

I quite literally giggled out loud.

[azurelunatic]

As if dumping this in Nora's IM box were not bad enough, I then proceeded to call her (at 7am my time, and she's not a morning person right now) and babble this at her. We laughed all the way until I hit work.

[sara]

*cackles* I would read it. I would read it a lot.

[azurelunatic]

It is like this *cornucopia* of sockpuppetry on tam_lin's fault that f_w uncovers. It is a thing of epic epicness, and Janet's sort of just sitting there stunned that one person could actually be pulling *that fucking many* strings. It was the icons that did it, tam_lin basically put up fandom catnip icons under a bazillion accounts and then dragged through the mud everybody who dared snitch one. Plus the other stuff. (I'm not sure what the other stuff was, exactly, but there must have been other stuff.)

[sara]

I vote for faking her own death. Or, wait -- horrible illness FOLLOWED BY faking her own death.

[azurelunatic]

FAKING HER OWN DEATH BY IMMOLATION.

[pengolodh_sc]

My impression from reading f_w a few years, is that faking their own death by spontaneous self-combustion would often have been the most appropriate, or at least the method most compatible with their own past behaviour.

[emceeaich]

First, I love the meta of all this. Meta is the *best* fandom.

Second, I realize that I've seen these sort of Tam Lins in SL, they are the people with a zillion alts, and your wondering how that works, seeing the world through so many lenses, and do they even try to aim all the focal points at the same stage, or is it all internally partitioned and catalogued.

[cleverthylacine]

I suspect they don't--the fun of having a billion RP characters/sockpuppets/personas is that you don't have to look at the same parts of everything in the same way all the time.

[synecdochic]

I would read the fuck out of it.

[azurelunatic]

meekandmild: look, stay out of the comm today ok?
greenskirton: huh? why?
meekandmild: there's this nasty character in there who's causing all sorts of wank, and you're my best friend and I don't wnat u to get dragged thru the mud too, k? it won't be for long, just until I sort out who it is & ban their happy ass.
greenskirton: k. whatev.


meekandmild: so who's this mystery co-author?
greenskirton: hahaha
meekandmild: no, seriously, who is it?
greenskirton: still not telling
meekandmild: oh come *on*

[not_a_sniglet]

Please please please please please filk the song with this? Please? Because I would laugh for a billion years.

[castiron]

I now want to request this fic for Yuletide.

[azurelunatic]

Every ballad needs a fandom AU fic.