Luna

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It's a good read. I was in NZ when it happened so it wasn't until the "hotdog down my hallway" lady thing that I went back and immersed myself in that thread.

I personally am lolling at the unnecessary argument I had with max and chaki

as someone who's been impersonating a woman in the rock critic community for years i am mostly just aghast at her sloppiness

now playing: the lollies - Susan Is A Lesbian Now.mp3

― chaki, Monday, October 15, 2007 1:48 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

classic

still feel like there's a movie and/or reality show in all this

Seriously. She scammed so much money, it seems much more sinister than the Catfish story.

I was away from ilx because of medical issues when Luna day happened, it was fascinating to go back and read later. Luna had always seemed off to me -- not because I thought she was scamming people out of money or anything, but there was just something very saccharine and twee about her that rang false. And the pictures seemed fake. I thought she was just a shut-in who wanted attention, not a genuine con artist.

this is my fave:

are you really defending this behavior, ms misery?

Trust me, you wouldn't want me to show up at any of your shows.

well i dont expect you to. i dont make crappy rockabilly.

― chaki, Monday, October 15, 2007 1:06 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what i knew then had me thinking, "god get some help, girl, and leave these people alone" and now i'm thinking she should possibly go to prison and probably hell (if it existed.)

lmao @ chaki

i hope all of those luna defenders find out the truth. not because i want them to feel bad but because they deserve to.

not deserve to feel bad, to fin out the truth.

fin out? sorry tuomas.

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but what if her DOGS aren't real either

― a puppy, Monday, October 15, 2007 4:34 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

this post is killing me rite now

i don't really like chaki but that was a legendarily heroic performance

I think by this point everyone knows Luna is a grifter extraordinaire, although I don't think everyone knew exactly how successful she was

kind of a lesson for internet white knights in there somewhere

i'm dying to know the delete details, i must say. but i respect that maybe i shouldn't know.

ditto

was she good at words with friends? she ever drop a 100-point word?

this has all been v. enlightening, i always assumed luna was a dude pretending to be a woman or something; i guess that could still be the case.

I don't really see how what chaki did was 'heroic' - why didn't he just come out with it instead of confusing and upsetting people?

(This is from the perspective of someone who never had any interaction with luna ever, so I certainly wasn't a defender of her back in the day. Whoever said chaki had a reputation for being an asshat to women and people thought he was continuing that persona was otm, though.)

xxp I have a suspicion, which makes me wish I believed in hell.

She posted on loads of wdyll threads, always with photos of the same model type. Somewhere there's a real woman walking around with zero idea that someone on the internet pretended to be her for like four years.

Welcome to ILX heaven.

So did she get $ out of anyone else? Can this be answered anonymously?
I think painting her as some mastermind con artist is giving her too much credit. My take is she was starved for attention, and it wasn't til quit her job and moved out of state that she turned to "taking charity". Like I don't even know if that was the prime motivation behind the lies. Attention was, and then oh fuck I have no money hmmm maybe I can get some through this avenue...

i think the fact that you were still talking to her until like yesterday is pretty good evidence

dude she's the only person I play in WWF that routinely trounced me. but course now I just assumed she cheated!

i suspect your suspicions are correct, andrew.

grifter of money ..... and of words with friends points!!!

not only was she a con artists, but she used the internet anagram server in WWF.

oh shit, are you guys hinting towards... I don't want to post initials

serious question: it wasn't til quit her job and moved out of state

are you sure that ANY of this is true? are you not skeptical of every single detail involving her?

I keep reading WWF as 'World Wrestling Federation'. Or possibly 'World Wildlife Fund'. Oh it is all so confusing.

are you sure that ANY of this is true? are you not skeptical of every single detail involving her?

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:13 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Slocky please don't pretend that you have a better handle on things than people closer to the situation. I wasn't "talking to her until like yesterday". Like M White, less and less frequent "hey how you doing??" texts/emails over the years. And xmas cookies! She never asked me for any cash or gifts in almost 10 yrs. If she was a world-class con artist, 1 score over 15 yrs isn't a very good resume.

haha J0rdan OTM, that's why I was all "are you SURE that was her husband" upthread

don't pretend my dn ends with a Y.

Slocky please don't pretend that you have a better handle on things than people closer to the situation. I wasn't "talking to her until like yesterday". Like M White, less and less frequent "hey how you doing??" texts/emails over the years. And xmas cookies! She never asked me for any cash or gifts in almost 10 yrs. If she was a world-class con artist, 1 score over 15 yrs isn't a very good resume.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:14 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just sayin'... she sounds like a pretty master manipulator to me

Who cares what's true at this point?

"the situation"

Who cares what's true at this point?

also OTM

Attention was, and then oh fuck I have no money hmmm maybe I can get some through this avenue...

This sounds quite plausible to me.

I have a very lovely photograph that she bought for ME... (Of course I had to frame it.)

This was the same line of thinking that got brought up on Luna Day. Question everything! She's really a he! That's going too far imo and just shows a lack of knowledge of most liars operate.

You guys need to stop hinting hinting abt the deleted username, it's making me rly rly wanna know

Well to be honest I don't care because I'm not and never was close to her. If you were then I guess you might be invested in her and some sort of truth.

Also if you got cookies and pictures out of the scam too.

This was the same line of thinking that got brought up on Luna Day. Question everything! She's really a he! That's going too far imo and just shows a lack of knowledge of most liars operate.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, we're definitely the chumps here

I get the tendency to look at it like "she suckered these people with these lies...I'm going to inoculate myself against such a thing and declare it ALL to be lies" but that's rooted in face-saving more than objective analysis of the situation and of these sort of situations in general.

really should surround myself with more liars.

GD's right. Luna mostly fibbed around the edges. The grifting I think is far more recent. I never sent her anything but little birthday presents and vice-versa, she sent me books and, actually, some very nice cufflinks that I remain surprised she was able to find.