Current mood:	Mystified
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cry "censorship" and set free the dogs of wank!
So... izzer a *reason* nobody's wanked the Skyehawke TOS mess yet? Nobody actually finds it amusing? It's not sufficiently wanky? (hah. hah.) We're waiting for it to mature into an even bigger mass of *facepalm* and splooge? Nobody here is aware of it yet? (difficult to believe, it's been all over my flist for days...) The Illiterati are actually in cahoots with the f_w Cabal? It's too serious a subject for mockery, and we want to keep the level of discourse high? (*snerk*) We're scared of the people taking part in it? We're all bored to death with HP chan in general? Everybody else is as lazy as I am and doesn't want to bother writing a post that would do it justice?

I'm asking here rather than just posting in i_wank (well, along with the lazy thing) because I'm honestly curious-- anything this big usually ends up on fandom_wank before I even notice it, and I can just hang out there until my horrible urge to take part in it has been burnt away by the caustic fumes. There must be some sort of unspoken community tradition, that I'm too lurky to know about, that's keeping it out, right?

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Re: *headscratch*

melannen
2005-04-14 09:25 pm UTC (link)

F_W defines wank in terms of what their membership thinks needs wanked... the unfunny/not-very-wanky ones in smaller fandoms get posted, just nobody remembers them, because not many people *care* about a TOS change on a Moomintrolls board or know the people involved...

I guess to me, any one of those things you've described I wouldn't necessarily call wanky, depending on how it was executed. The fact that *all* of them happened repeatedly within three days in an atmosphere of growing hysteria, during which nobody appeared to be listening to other people's opinions, but merely restating their own more and more loudly, did push it over the edge for me, though.

I am probably falling afoul of my fondness for etymology, and my tendency to take all sorts of contentious literary discussion groups, back to beyond when Marlowe got stabbed in 1593, and blithely conflate them with internet fandom. So to me 'wanky' is completely synonymous with 'masturbatory' in both the literal and literary senses...if that makes sense. And

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Re: *headscratch*

melannen
2005-04-14 09:33 pm UTC (link)

... And it probably doesn't. Masturbatory in the fine literary criticism sense of sitting around ranting loudly, passionately, and endlessly, under the mistaken impression that other people are listening, and that if they were listening, they would automatically agree with you, and if they didn't they weren't worth listening to anyway. As has been a grand tradition in letter columns and correspondence societies and back rooms of pubs and salons and literature departments the world over.

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