more Anne Rice wankery

[rm]

So obviously, Anne Rice is a popular topic over on Fandom Wank, and well, someone emailed her about the wank, and she replied.

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/515245.html?thread=41459373#t41459373

This is the Internet car crash I can't look away from.

Comments

[deslea.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one here thinking that somewhere along the line she's become totally unhinged? As in, genuinely mentally ill?

[rm.livejournal.com]

No, you're not... which is if why you read through teh rest of the nearly interminable fandom wank comments you'll see more than a few people being like "woah, this isn't good, let's just... stop."

I mean, I think she's always been somewhat mentally ill, but her ability to cope with the world as most of the rest of us has clearly gone significantly south and she's fortunate enough to have the resources that this won't fuck up her life in all sorts of mundane ways.

But yeah. It's awful.

And it's not funny.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of glad amazon took it down, the internet is a little scary when things are going wrong, it's SO easy to reach so many people so fast, yow.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's been written up in a bunch of newspapers now.

[ellegina.livejournal.com]

If I had just heard about this on the street and had not seen the proof--I would have not believed it. Very sad, actually.

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

wow....'unihinged' is the exact word I was thinking while reading it...

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

That's really pretty sad. She's probably got a touch of schizophrenia -- there's always been that link between that and creativity, and paranoia is often the most recognizable symptom.

Did you notice, though, how so many people turned this into an issue of money? "All that wealth must be going to her head" etc. It's sad that that's what so many people think of first. This has nothing to do with money and everything to do with self-esteem and spotlight. But those three things are so tangled up in Americans' heads.

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Crap that's a sad thing to say. I hope it's not prophetic.

You're right though, the only factor money really plays is that it gives people a lot bigger cushion to act out their craziness, and I wouldn't be surprised actually to find out that it did lead to a higher eventual suicide rate. Going longer without help.

At that group home I used to work at most people were on welfare, but there was one guy who was a former CEO at a huge company. We could never really figure out how he fell so far.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

God, I was hoping this was all just a particularly odd Internet hoax. That's truly unfortunate.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I agree , it's all quite unfortunate - but it alco echoes of things that I have experienced from days not far enough behind me yet.

I can almost claim empathy. I've been there, and for frightengly similar reasons.

This makes it ven more so scary for me to read this and see her reactions, because I've been there and done that.

Wow, that really distrubs me.