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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
1:42 pm [darksumomo]	LJ Wank Ahoy: Hey, you're getting your Facebook in my LJ! LiveJournal, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to allow automatic reposting of LJ posts to Facebook and Twitter. In return, people on Facebook can now use their Facebook ID to respond to your posts. They've also reinstituted pingbacks so that you can see who on LJ is linking to your entries. People are not happy about this. There will be already is wank. ETA: Stupid Free Drama is on the case. Never mind. It's now locked. Current Mood: *thud* Current Music: Birdsong (241 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
10:39 pm [alya1989262]	Once more with fapping! On Violinist.com, a community of, well, violinists, Mark Roberts posts the following discussion topic: so the violin is held together by glue made from rabbit skins, and then there are gut strings and horse hair, does any one else find it difficult being a vegetarian violinist? That'll go over well, right? First comment: The issue is irrelevant because all of the animal products that are used are by-products and violin making is not the primary objective for slaughter. Second comment: If our ancestors did not eat meat, we would still be monkeys and would therefore never be able to make music. No offence!!! Other people point out there're synthetic replacements for almost every animal by-product in the violin. More people reply with objections to replacing "bits and pieces" of their instrument, remarks that horses don't have to be slaughtered to take their tail hair, and this from Sander Marcus: I don't see what everyone feels so guilty about. After all, we violinists often torture and kill composers. But wait! Mike Harris feels "the often-heard line about byproducts of the meat industry is a huge cop-out." And Rebecca Hopkins seems to think the OP was attacking her life choices: Why does it sound like people who think using animal parts are wrong, expect everyone to comply with their ideas? Our first commenter comes back to defend himself against Mike Harris' allegations, more defensiveness, demands that everyone plays nice... The discussion progresses: chicken is delicious! You can't be 100% vegetarian [they mean vegan, I guess]! But you can try! You have to compromise! You can do other things for the environment! You don't know the history of evolution, I do! Oh, and: What a magnificent plug for a concert - no horses were harmed to make this music And then suddenly the thread devolves into limericks: That old drunken Gin joint player Did not want to be an animal slayer, Repenting for his sins He traded all his violins For a honky tonk with no Ivory layers. Yeah, I don't even know. (70 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
4:10 pm [qem_chibati]	Deleting your LJ? - Now with extra-Flounce. LJ introducing a new feature? Like shooting wank in a barrel! With the repetitive you broke styles, again! and but why is LJ so slow lately? Except the major new feature introduced in release 68- I expect fandom_wank will get front row seats in seeing featured: When a user deletes their account, they will now be given the option to delete all comments and/or community entries at the same time http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/60169.html?style=mine The wank has already started with points against being about threads no longer making sense in communities, value of community archives and but how will I know who I ran out of LJ anymore. D: and points for yay greater user control, and yay fresh starts. Current Mood: Mildly Amused Current Music: Missa Syllabica III Credo (45 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 21st, 2010
2:02 am [darksumomo]	Hollywood to IMDb: Stop listing our ages! The Wrap reports EXCLUSIVE: Battle Raging Over Age Listings on IMDb One of the biggest movie sites in the world, IMDb.com, is facing a hornet's nest of controversy over its policy of publishing the ages of actors and writers who say it leads to ageism, TheWrap has learned. The Writers Guild of America, West, is leading an effort to convince the massive database -- used by virtually everyone in Hollywood and far beyond -- to permit people to remove their birth dates from the site. "The Guild has a contract with IMDb to provide credits information and does not release information on age," Neal Sacharow, a spokesperson for the WGA, told TheWrap. "We have raised our concerns with IMDb about its listing of ages." It's not just the writers who are upset. The actors are as well. Representatives from Hollywood guilds including the Screen Actors Guild have reached out to the site to see about taking down the birth dates of people who are not movie stars like Angelina Jolie or Leonardo DiCaprio, according to an individual knowledgeable about the talks. (A spokeswoman for SAG declined to comment.) The guilds argue that not just writers and actors, but also below-the-line workers as they crest 40 face fewer job opportunities in a business that tends to prefer 25 year olds. Listing their ages publicly is exacerbating the situation, they say. Now, ageism isn't funny. But a culture clash could be. But IMDb isn't eager to make the change, according to people knowledgeable about the disagreement. Part of the issue seems to be a cultural one. IMDb comes from internet culture, which is data-focused and oriented to revealing everything imaginable (though not from a corporate perspective -- just try to find a phone number for Google). Meanwhile, veterans of the entertainment industry are not particularly tech-savvy and often fearful of the reveal-all nature of the web. It's Wikipedia wank with show business egos careers involved! There is already deletion wank going on in the comments, most of it blaming IMDb. For example: "My comments got removed along with everyone else's. What happened, Wrap? Did the IMDB tell you to take the comments down? If so, they're awfully attentive to the comments section here, and not to the 1000's of people who are trying to communicate with the website. That'd mean they care more about their image than the people who have a problem with the site. People without whom the site wouldn't even exist, I might add" "The other comments look like they were removed. THE WRAP should put them back up. There were 40 more comments. Almost all denouncing IMDB as the ageism machine that it is." The comments section at The Wrap looks like an insider's game, and the insiders don't like IMDb. On the other had, the Huffington Post's article on the subject display the fan reaction, and the nearly 400 comments and counting are blasting the ageism of the entertainment industry, while some are just telling the crybaby stars to suck it up. The possibilities for fanwank (and, sadly, a lot of unfunny) are endless! ETA: LJ-cut doesn't seem to be working. :-( Current Mood: Caffeinated (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
12:17 pm [spawn_of_kong]	Censorship & The Oncoming Storm So two upcoming classic Doctor Who DVDs this year in the US are "The Space Museum"/"The Chase" and "Planet of Fire." So far, so good. But wait! Fans are informed that these US versions will have material different from that in the original UK versions (a clip of the Beatles from "The Chase" and a making-of documentary for "Planet of Fire"), due to music rights. On Amazon, some fans could hardly care less about these changes. But others are not amused. At the moment, things seem fairly civil between these two factions, but, well... see icon. (Special mention goes to David W. Curry, who continues to stir the ashes by implying that anyone who's okay with the changes is not a true fan.) Current Mood: Indifferent (24 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 7th, 2010
3:34 pm [beejium]	It's just been announced that a new series of Torchwood will be produced, in a joint production between Starz and BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/torchwood_new_series/ The series will star John Barrowman and Eve Myles, and will be run by Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, and Jane Tranter. It will be set in "locations in the U.S. and around the world." No wank so far, but... it's Torchwood. Keep your eyes peeled! (Here's the LJ comm link: http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwho/6215264.html) (29 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
4:58 pm [knitmeapony]	Katherine Kerr says: your fanfic is lazy, Hamburger Helper, and/or porn http://aberwyn.livejournal.com/181755.html And this includes the professional transformative works: If someone can think of no better idea than to take a classic kid's book series and try to wring a few more bucks out of it, like the whole 'Wicked' series, then they should get a real job. Comment #2 is fellow author Jim Hines getting snarky with it. ETA: Typo fix. ETA2: Moved to main comm in light of Hamburger Helper fanfic, deeply ~insulted~ 'ex-fans', and assorted OP flailing. (193 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 9th, 2010
3:16 pm [issendai]	Russet Noon: The Movie? Likely to stay clairvoyant because, well, Lady Sybilla. Also likely to never come to anything because, well, Lady Sybilla. On April 2nd, Lady Sybilla posted--then deleted--a press release titled "Twilight Lexicon's Lori Joffs Refers to Russet Noon as "The story that must not be named" on MTV". From the Google cache: ( Text for the linkphobic. ) ...The hell is the "Voldemort treatment"? ETA: Courtesy of reeve, the Twilight Lexicon article where Lori Joffs explains that "The Novel That Must Not Be Named" is Meyers's canceled fifth novel, Midnight Sun: When Lori Joffs stated the following to MTV “About 90 percent of the fandom is just excited to have anything,” said Lori Joffs, co-creator of Twilight Lexicon. “It’s the small little bit of about 10 percent of fans who are interested in another story. The story that must not be named.” Said novel that Lori was referencing was Midnight Sun, which the Lexicon routinely, jokingly calls “Dark High Noon” or “The Novel That Must Not Be Named” in order for Stephenie Meyer not to see the title in print. (82 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 5th, 2010
11:06 am [phosfate]	Gateworld says: Fuck tha haters! This will end well. http://www.gateworld.net/news/2010/04/for-cryin-out-loud-youve-had-your-say/ Current Mood: *sporfle!* (24 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 9th, 2010
4:45 pm [sablemouse]	Arashi BNF mini-war I say mini-war because it has yet to explode across LJ and Vox, and may not due to bahleetion. Arashi (JPop boy band) has really grown in popularity in the last couple of years, but especially last year since their 10th anniversary. With the rise in CD and DVD sales, there is a corresponding rise in BNFs. The more Japanese you know, or the more information and media you are able to share, the bigger the BNF. On top of that, it's a pretty touchy fandom because most of the fannish activities would be considered illegal by the company that Arashi is part of, Johnnys Entertainment. matsubunny is a girl from Spain who is able to very quickly upload tv shows and scans thanks to her sources/friends. She publicly accuses another girl on Vox, ArashiNino (image-heavy warning!), of taking information, scans and tv show uploads without giving credit. Or worse, adding her own credits to the information and telling people that they have to thank her for providing the goodies. ArashiNino goes and accuses her of the same thing, and then deletes her post. Apparently coz someone asked her to. My little fandom, all grown up now *tears* ETA: More proof from the accuser. Disclaimer: I do know the people involved, have interacted with them on occasion, but haven't actively been in fandom for the last year. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
9:45 pm [darth_buttocks]	Talk about People NOT Learning... As I'm sure a lot of you are aware from Fandom_Wank, Twicon has gone belly up, with much moaning and gnashing of teeth by the fans who lost a load of money in the deal. Plus lots of blame going around for the Twicon Partners Bailey Gauthier and Becky Scoggins, neither of whom had any idea what was happening with the money. But apparently Becky is not going to let a little financial setback (if you call something in the tens of thousands little.) keep her from moving onward! NO! She's already got another deal in the works: The Hillywood Show Cruise! FYI: The Hillywood Show is a comedy troupe that's gotten famous off of it's Twilight parodies. They've become a regular fixture at the Creation Twi-Tours and put on a show at Twicon 09. So Becky's gotten in good with the group and is trying to run a chartered cruise with them. The fans on the Hillywood show forum are interested, but don't have any details yet. I wonder how long it'll be till some disgruntled Twicon fans start coming in there. (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
9:51 am [reeve]	Gamer shows off his collection; others are not impressed On the Cheap Ass Gamer forums, praystation claims that CAGs aren't backing up their game system collections with pictures. So he does. The general tone of the comments that follow is, "Goddamn, that setup is so messy and lame," and there is snark. Praystation posts some classy replies. Later on, a newbie shows up to defend him. Logg calls "sockpuppet", which the newbie denies. Small, and not super wanky (yet?), but I found it rather amusing. (27 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 15th, 2010
3:55 pm [ruffwriter]	Tiny literary agent wank Not quite big enough for otf_wank at the moment, but it's a good side dish to all the entitled authorwank on F_W proper lately. It started off as a fairly typical agent-searching story: aspiring writer e-mails a query letter to a Big Time literary agent. The project piques the agent's interest, and she asks for the manuscript. Writer sends manuscript... and then hears nothing for seven months. Writer asks the agent what's going on, and still hears nothing. The writer, in an ill-advised move, decides to go over the agent's head and inform her boss that she's taking too long, and in the ensuing e-mails, withdraws his manuscript from consideration. How does Big Time agent react? By posting the entire chain of correspondence, including enough of the query letter that another agent would be able to identify the writer, on her blog to teach him a lesson. Tiny kerfuffles have broken out in the comments of her post, in which the agent argues with dissenters, and the Absolute Write Bewares and Background Checks forum, where one of the agent's clients shows up to defend her. (Discussion of the post starts halfway down page 14, and the client shows up on page 15.) EDIT: ... is it just me, or did we travel back to March 15th just now? (Okay, yes, apparently so. Carry on!) (25 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
7:09 pm [quantumreality]	"Man Slash is Bad" by reailitybites So, welcome to the crosspostathon of doom in which "MAN SLASH IS BAD" gets spammed across a half dozen-ish LJ comms. The LJ user named reailitybites has decided to make it very very very clear just what he or she thinks of slash fic involving males. So far canon_sues, deleterius and do_me_profsnape among others, have been spammed (arrived at by checking the friends list for reailitybites). This can't end well. ETA: Apparently fanficrants also got hit with it, but the mods deleted it. I have no screencaps for that but I do have a couple of others for your amusement: http://i45.tinypic.com/2ufeu84.jpg http://i47.tinypic.com/o03qk9.jpg ETA #2: canon_sues moderators are on the ball and deleted it too. ETA #3: weepingcock and canonrants apparently was also spammed by this person. Damn, what on earth is wrong with this person anyway? ETA #4: And it's off deleterius. Though apparently there've been some more drive-bys on other comms (see comments to this post). So the question is, will reailitybites give up, or enter into a wankfest in which they complain about how people shouldn't read "man slash"? My eight ball is hazy. ETA #5: It's off do_me_profsnape. Mods are out in force it seems! (57 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
9:52 pm [darth_buttocks]	More trouble on the horizon for Twicon. More developments for the Sparkly Little Convention that Couldn't... It looks like the Toronto show is running into a possible con killer. It turns out that the weekend they chose for the show is the same weekend Toronto will host the G-20 Summit. Downtown Toronto is to be locked down, and it's been confirmed on the Twicon message board, that Twicon's reservation at the Metro Toronto Convention Center is canceled. That's not surprising, since the MTCC is to host the G-20. ETA: Twicon Canada is moving to Ottawa! No wank in the message board yet... (33 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
5:28 am [wallflower]	potential Torchwank I didn't think this was big enough for f_w proper, but it has potential. ( Potential spoilers for S3 of Torchwood. ) (53 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 18th, 2010
3:53 pm [randomsome1]	third time's a sticky sploogey mess? First came Katsucon's strange, unnecessarily complicated rules regarding what was and wasn't allowed in their Artist Alley. Affected artists grouched, and some found other conventions. Next came Tex, the Artist Alley head, insisting that artists weren't responsible for collecting and paying sales tax to the state of Maryland. When officially called out on being wrong, he stopped outright insisting that no tax was owed and instead started insisting he would find out about tax whatnot and then tell everyone--and also that he never told anyone to not pay taxes. (So far it's taken him a few weeks to not learn what I learned in an hour--although I suppose things might get a little complicated if a show's been ducking the comptroller's radar for about fifteen years.) Now there's been another change: The crafters who had paid $100 + admission for an 8' spot in the (secured, not 24-hours) dealer's room have just been bumped to the unsecured 24-hour alley--and into 6' spots--without notice or warning. Six days after the time limit to request your money back. People seem to not be pleased. I'm trying to keep out of this one here . . . but I think things are just warming up. ETA: ( Obvious sock is obvious. Obvious troll is also obvious. Oblivious mod is completely oblivious. ) At least something good's come out of this: pros_n_cons, an insanejournal comm for convention rating. (84 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
11:53 am [tetradecimal]	Because this will end well The folks at Suicidemachine.org offer a service: erasing a user's online presence on Facebook, Twitter, etc. via an automated and irreversible process. They have also received a C&D letter accusing them of scraping and soliciting user information, infringing Facebook's property rights, etc., etc. and demanding that they cease at once. Also, they should reply no later than January 11, 2009. (19 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 8th, 2010
2:34 pm [hypno_jango]	Licensing wank just won't die Funimation announced they have the rights to the super-popular (and controversial) Hetalia. It's time for fans to go into PANIC MODE. The subs will cease to exist* and they'll have to buy it now because it's not like Funimation puts free episodes on their youtube page**! Vic Mignogna... The horrors! *Although I did see a few fans express that they can't wait for Funi's subs because the three-letter f-word won't be used. **I didn't see anything on their youtube page saying it's region-locked so I apologize in advance for anyone not being able to see free legit anime episodes. (93 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
12:57 am [miss_padfoot]	BRPS wank Over on bad_rpers_suck, wulfiesacolyte makes a post about an IM conversation she had with muselolita, a yaoi RPer that she was thinking of playing with. She doesn't mention her by name in the OP, though--she refers to her as "bitch" in the transcript, until she edits to change "bitch" to "her". wulfiesacolyte's characters are too ~awesome~ to be captured in character bios! muselolita thinks if you like to use euphemisms for sex instead of just "cock" and "asshole", you shouldn't write smut at all! wulfiesacolyte has never met a Christian yaoi fan! muselolita is a ~professional writer~! After some rather tense conversation, including a cringeworthy bit where wulfiesacolyte asks muselolita about her religion after knowing her for, like, five minutes, it turns out that they don't get along well, and once it becomes clear that they wouldn't make good RP partners, they break out the thinly veiled insults: [18:30] wulfiesacolyte: I get the feeling you get fed up with people easily :p Am I wrong? [18:30] muselolita: Actually, I'm usually very flexible with people. I just have certain pet peeves and you seem to be hitting on a lot of them. The signoff is especially passive-aggressive: [18:38] wulfiesacolyte: This has disaster written all over it, lol. However, masochist that I am, I find myself intrigued. [18:38] muselolita: But frankly, we won't be playing anyhow. So don't even waste your time. [18:38] wulfiesacolyte: Ah, okay. [18:38] wulfiesacolyte: Have a nice day then :p [18:38] muselolita: You've provided my friends and I quite a few laughs tonight and I thank you for that much [18:38] wulfiesacolyte: Ditto :D [18:38] wulfiesacolyte: Don't you love the internet and its ability to mock others from afar? [18:38] wulfiesacolyte: BTW, a parting tip--it might do you well to fix some of the many typos in your character bios if you want to leave a good impression on others you want to turn down. [18:38] wulfiesacolyte: Take care. [18:39] *** muselolita signed off at Wed Jan 06 18:39:04 2010. A couple of people tell wulfiesacolyte that she looked much worse, or that they both looked bad. And then muselolita shows up and identifies herself as the "bitch" mentioned in the OP. The thread where she shows up is pretty tame, but there's a bit of wank in ths thread, where paperclipchains starts making fun of muselolita and the fun starts to unfold. I'm hoping this will get bigger. (41 Comments |Comment on this)