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Wednesday May 7 [ From starblade-enkai is a very unhappy dragon otherkin. In fact, he's outraged. Why, you ask? I can't explain the horror better than the man can himself. A sample: IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF WHEN A PREDATORY FUR TURNS PREY AND THEN EVERYBODY'S EATING THEM! WHAT THE FUCK, WORLD? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WANTED TO BE EATEN! FUCK THIS SHIT! Don't you feel sympathetic? Of course you do! Sadly, many of his commenters don't. They think he needs professional help. Others think he should ignore those meanies. But he will punish everyone for their hateful lack of sympathy! He's LEAVING FOREVER. He's totally serious about that flounce, people, because he hates you all. so. much. He'll be leaving any month now. So much, packed into so little space.
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Monday May 5 [ SVA lashes out at TLC's Melissa in the New Yorker; Melissa alleges that the author, Tim Wu, actually put words in her mouth. (Side note: "Alohomora" has changed on the Lexicon site again.) ETA: Screencaps of changes to "Alohomora" this month, for the record. ( Read more... ) ETA 4: From Also, both 1) someone on Leaky Lounge and 2) Elanor (who emailed me) say that Tim Wu was not, in fact, sitting with SVA in court. I'm just reporting what both sides are saying here. ETA 5: From rattlesnakeroot on LJ: Sue talks about the podcast quotes of hers attributed incorrectly to Melissa, and "An alternate view... is a comment written on Kristin Devoe's Blog The Daily Prophet in reference to the New Yorker story. Karen Brown author of the book Prejudice in Harry Potter's World wrote her own opinion of the Leaky Lounge, deleted posts, sympathy for Steve Vander Ark, and the so-called impartiality of fandom. I think she speaks for many of us who are still Harry Potter fans, and who are not personally involved, but still have a right to our alternative opinions."
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Wednesday April 30 [ She makes another post the same day, complaining that no one gave her anything useful. It is at this point that she is banned. But wait, that's not all! It turns out the whole thing was secretly a social experiment for her psychology class. The mods LOL. But was it? (EDIT: Journal deleted, caps here) Perhaps she was simply poking fun at fandom in general, or perhaps she's just a doof. The world may never know, and since she doesn't seem to want to reply to the comments I doubt it's anything useful. Bonus not-apology the next post over,(EDIT: caps here) just to round this out. EDIT: The matter's discussed on ffrantsrants here, here (where it seems the girl being ranted about found FFR, unfortunately, and is now quitting fanfiction), here, and here. SECOND EDIT: Oh, and this is totally not her defending herself anonymously. Nuh uh. EDIT THE MOTION PICTURE: And now she's deleted her LJ, along with her multiple ff.net accounts. Apparently someone just can't take criticism. EDIT AND THE HACKERS OF LJ: And she's somewhat back, after both her accounts and LJ were mysteriously deleted by hackers.
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[ Many thanks to the mousie on fpb chances upon a HP fic which contains "not only offensive but a genuine instance of hate speech, including evident racist overtones (apparently being "middle eastern" is bad) and a loathsome misrepresentation of historical fact." He shields his flist from the source of this horror, claiming to not want to generate any more hits to the repulsiveness, only posting an excerpt. The utterly offensive mote in his eye? ( Cut to shield delicate constitutions... ) ETA Now commemorated with an icon! Cheers ETA DEUX Mon Dieu, We 'ave a parte deux </pepe_le_pew> EVA Pod 3 - Launching! Congrats to
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Tuesday April 29 [ Grand Theft Auto IV has been released simultaneously on both the PS3 and Xbox 360, and is now available for all your virtual car-jacking needs. With this launch comes an opinion piece on Game|Life titled "Can GTA 4 Save PS3? How About Take-Two?" which speculates what impact this game will have on the PS3 (which is currently in third place behind the 360 and the Wii) and GTA IV publisher Take-Two Interactive (which is currently fighting off a hostile takeover bid by video game giant Electronic Arts). The commenters ignore the latter for the most part, but they sure as hell latch onto the "saving the PS3" angle. ( WHINE WHINE PS3 WHINE WHINE ) Is it bad of me that I can't wait for the launch of (PS3 exclusive) Metal Gear Solid 4 even though we don't have a PS3?
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Friday April 25 [ mood: Impish Everyone knows that Nick's Avatar: The Last Airbender schedule is completely whack. We're getting episodes on DVD long before they air on TV. As in, these episodes are probably not going to air until July. Fans are understandably a bit miffed. Post One: Post Two: She posts again and provides a rough outline of the episodes. People are nice at first. The entire first page is legitimate comments and discussion. Although, lots of people are still demanding an upload to the point of linking to software to download and explaining how to do it. If only... rachelthedemon pops in and profoundly CALLS B.S. Post Three: Avatar fans demand video. If she's going to provide a summary and twenty second snippets taken with her camera phone, she has to rip the whole thing or she's just taunting us. This sentiment occurs several times in both posts, but this was the wankiest thread. rachelthedemon still doesn't believe her, because apparently the snippets don't match up with things shown at NYCC. But oh well, she can't stand 80% of the community anyways. Most people are very sane throughout the posts. That much is good. edit: Spoilers obviously. edit: Posts shut down. Unfortunately I have no caps as I was at work. :(
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Tuesday April 22 [ (I wish I could say that I got into text-adventure games when they originally came out, but I'm not as old-school as I'd like to be. My sister-in-law gave me copies in the mid-90s.) INFOCOM!! Creators of the Zork series and other text-adventures. Together with Douglas Adams, they also created one of the fucking hardest games ever (my younger self may be biased), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 24 years after the release of the HHGttG game, Andy Baio over at Waxy.org gets a hold of "a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989." Full article here. It's a fascinating read regarding the game and the trials and tribulations concerning its uncompleted sequel, Milliways. Where the wank comes in is in the comments. You see, the article contains a whole lot of employee email culled from the database. And Mr. Baio did not ask permission before publishing his article. Some seem okay about this, others, like Michael Bywater (first comment here, but there are many down the page if you search on his name), are not happy AT ALL. Or, as Brian Moriarty commented here: >OPEN CAN OF WORMS Opened.
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[ Sorry to post again, but this is fairly significant: via Leaky Lounge, full transcripts of all three days of the Lexicon trial. They are from Stanford (whose Fair Use Project is providing RDR's defense), but it's more than we've had before. The discussion of these transcripts at LL is worth reading, by the way. (Previously on the Thirty Years’ Wank: A metric ton of articles and an interview with SVA. Watch This Page for update alerts.) ETA: Anne Rice weighs in. ETA 2 (May 1): Okay, I'm a bit behind on ETA links, but: Neil Gaiman weighs in again (and again). Ouch: Potter fan a crybaby in court.
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Sunday April 20 [ Thank you very much to the mice on wank_report for the links. Ficwriter1966 doesn’t like Wincest or slash or RPS. Her first post on the subject doesn’t attract a lot of attention from fandom at large. So she made a second one. That segues into a plea for more feedback on her fics. After she insults her audience. ( Quotes under the cut ) A selection of responses. This post sums it up best: YOU ARE DESTROYING ALL OF FANDOM BY WRITING PAIRINGS I DON'T LIKE AND I MUST SAVE FANDOM FOR US ALL BY DRIVING YOU OUT posts are a dime a dozen, but I've never seen anyone so neatly turn that claim into blatant feedback whoring. I'm impressed! I think there was a previous wank where people jokingly said "Wincest is what happens when good people do nothing"? Well, it's not a laughing matter anymore, Supernatural fandom! From this post: this was a quote from ficwriter1966 before the replies were all axed: 'Oh, I don't have any delusions about rebuilding the fandom, or even a tiny part of it. What I wanted to do was be brave enough to stand up and SAY "I think what you're doing is wrong, and this is why." In keeping with that old saying - all evil needs is for good people to do nothing. I suspect there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with the status quo but are afraid to say so for fear of being ridiculed or demeaned.' ETA: For your reading pleasure: The Day Fanfic Turned Jared and Jensen Gay and Totally Ruined Their Lives Forever Incestuous Love Child of ETA: Have a macro, courtesty of When an ETA and an ETA love each other very much: Posts from the 14th and 15th provide some context. And lulz.
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Saturday April 19 [ music: angela "Shuffle the Baby" As an anonmousey was so kind to write up a complete report at Gundam 00 is the latest in the Gundam anime franchise. It's tauted as the Post 9/11 Gundam for being realistic about war and being broadcast in Hi Def. Despite ample opportunity for wank-fests in this series so far the Gundam community has been generally civil. Or at least, I thought it was, but apparently our main wank generator here is a repeat offender (at least in the land of stupid_free.) Yesterday... News broke out that Bandai will be distributing Gundam 00 in North America. LJ comm gundam00 breaks the news to its members And seemingly, things are fine. Not too much ruckus. Except moderator and owner of the comm, bucue, is already sewing the seeds of ire taking any opportunity he can to mention how much he truly hates dubs. Dubs suck, therefore he will not be investing any money in DVDs for the sub, because that only rewards lousy dubs. Things don't get interesting until bucue makes a follow up post to the comm stating, once again, how dubs suck and that drama regarding the sub v dub debate will most likely ensue...with some...added incendiary comments. This post is locked. But the epic fallout, for some reason, is not. (I think you can glean all that you miss from later comments.) First, witness "rival" lj comm, gundam_00 calling bucue out As you can gather from that post, bucue accused the gundam_00 mods of spamming his gundam00 comm. And as we find out later, apparently the spam in question may have been yaoi fic related. Then bucue posts again, in very tl;dr fashion, trying to sort everything out Like mousey says it's quite tl;dr as bucue gives us all s/h/it's thoughts I don't know that there are many lols to be had in his actual post, but the comments once again point to the epic wankery that went down in the span of one night. Which apparently included things such as deleting posts that weren't really violating the policy, "you guys misunderstand my humor!", banning people...including, from the first comment thread, one of the other moderators... Oh and look! Godwin's! Oh yes, a lot of tl;dr here - but the scope that can occur in one night is amazing. It's also amusing to note that the forecast of wank came about with the announcement of licensing, heralding sure fire Dub vs Sub wank...and yet none of the massive wank that occurred from this mod really had anything to do with dub vs sub opinions so much... ETA: Thanks to ( Cut for length. ) ETA 2: Bucue is his ever tactful way has deleted entries and threatened to ban anyone who continues to complain about how he's been running the comm, as can be read in these saved screen shots of the wank, thanks to ETA 3: Bucue has been ousted from his comm and has taken up the age old art of trolling under the name of ETA 4: Also links for screen caps of deleted wank from Bucue before he got booted has been provided by We're not special and he's not babysitting us he only told lies for our good but wait, he's been telling the truth all along! He knows not of these lies we speak of! anon comments are worthless. Nevermind all those examples of good anonymous comments in the past. "go fuck yourself"
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Friday April 18 [ mood: Spiffy So... remember Taylor Hicks? Old-looking dude with gray hair that was on American Idol a couple of years back? Kinda sounded like Michael McDonald and danced like your drunk uncle at your wedding? Well, he still has a fandom. Yeah, I know -- I was shocked, too. There has been a wank brewing for the past few months in the fandom. To keep this from getting too TL;DR (hard to do, since it has grown and mutated into a big blob of failure), I'm breaking this down into bullet points.
...Well. At least no one's been driven to commit suicide yet? ETA: TMS Moles do it for great justice. ETA 2: From Princess Mole in the comments of the above link: These posts are coming from Fandom Wank. They are actually professional fans (not of Taylor Hicks) with no extra time whatsoever except to post about fans. Back to topic! Do I really have to point out why this comment is funny? (Guys, don't poke the wank.) ETA 3: The TMS Moles edit Allie's comment to better reflect their stance. Here's the cleverly edited post, in case it suddenly disappears. ( Cut for stupid. ) ETA 4: The TMS webmaster says hello. ETA 5: Thanks to yea…saw that all the staff has been demoted at TMS. So does that just leave Adora in charge? Right! That won’t last long. I guess it means we can all go there, start threads, swear in the general boards, reek havoc and no one is going to moderate us? Bullshit! Because swearing and "reeking" havoc is surely the way to rage against the machine. ETA 6: Internet slapfight in the comments of the latest TMS Moles post between Princess Mole and Claena, a mod from TMS. Mmm -- more misogyny and fat jokes. Just what I always never wanted.
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Thursday April 17 [ So. The trial ended yesterday (on time, somehow). Since full writeups seem to appear on a delay, here's one more entry as a cleanup post (Watch This Page for update alerts. Because I will probably cram in as many ETAs as I can rather than break for a new entry.) ( MOAR ) Latest: ETA 6: A few more articles: CNN: Potter case raises thorny issues. Galley Cat: Harry Potter and the Wait for the Verdict. Booksquare: JK Rowling Is Wrong.
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Wednesday April 16 [ Today: copyright experts testify, from what I've heard, so things should be a bit quieter. Originally the trial was scheduled for three days; I don't know how much longer it's actually going to take. ( MOAR ) Latest: ETA 8: The Pie Chart of Doom didn't make it in! NOOOOOOOOO. ETA 9: Via Leaky Lounge: WSJ LB may not have represented Johnson's testimony accurately. Also, WSJers seem to have gotten Cheryl Klein (who did not testify) confused with Suzanne Murphy.
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Tuesday April 15 [ From what I've heard SVA will testify today. Keep in mind, also--I can't remember which blogger said it, but apparently Judge Patterson looks and sounds a lot like John Huston, which adds an extra layer of awesome to the whole thing. To start the morning off: TLC comment wank; the Hollywood Reporter weighs in; Y ALOHA THAR! More as it comes. Watch This Page for update alerts. ( MOAR ) ETA 2: Holy hell, you guys. The morning update was the last time I was at a computer, so I am DROWNING now. Here's what I was able to pull together in about an hour: ( SVA testifies ) Latest: ETA 4: More color commentary from jkrtrialblog on SVA's testimony: Though I do not support Vander Ark, nor do I care for the lawyers defending RDR, the entire courtroom couldn’t help but laugh when Vander Ark said, “this is exciting,” regarding Alohamora’s origin. The lawyer, obviously beyond unenthused, said, “I’m thrilled myself.” Quick ETA 5: From Monday April 14 [ I haven't caught it yet, but I'm hearing that the Lexicon case is already on Fox News every half hour. A couple of things I held on to over the weekend: The latest documents on Justia. 'Potter' author seeks to block fan book. "In court Friday, Hammer said Rowling's lawyers did not want Vander Ark in the courtroom while Rowling testifies." More later. Watch This Page for update alerts. ETA: ( MOAR ) Latest: ETA 9: New at Leaky Cauldron: First Day of JKR/WB vs RDR Books Trial, at which Leaky staffer(s?) were in attendance and able to take notes. There are some really interesting points in Rowling's testimony, but I'll only quote from the Rapoport notes since we haven't seen much from his:( Read more... ) Sunday April 13 [ And another dressing room wank. Some people feel uncomfortable at the dressing room for the Tales of videogames series, talesofdressing and wonder about making their own sandbox. And then some players of talesofdressing get offended about the implication of people getting limits. Highlights? The 'n' word isn't racist! It's just a word! Would you get offended if someone said motherfucker?
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[ A dressing room, for those of you who aren't familiar with the term, is a type of single-fandom roleplaying game wherein different versions of the characters can interact. They're generally heavy on the crack, and have open membership. Trouble strikes the Phoenix Wright dressing room when the mods put some limitations on the types of characters allowed in the RP - and one of the community's members, disagreeing with the decision, chooses to express their displeasure on fandomsecrets. Because emailing the mods is for sissies. There are a few scattered comments agreeing with the OP, and then the mod in question shows up. Cue indignation, bitchery both passive-aggressive and otherwise, and butthurt galore.
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Friday April 11 [ Super Junior is a super sized South Korean boyband with an incredibly fanatic fanbase. Their fanclub, known as E.L.F, has in the past driven a teenaged girl to suicide through internet harassment after she was photographed with one of the Super Junior members. Things were quiet...for a while. And then the group's second album was released, and the video of their first single 'Don't Don' debuted. Don't Don featured a break dancing, violin playing Canadian Chinese kid named Henry Lau, a new trainee of SuJu's record label. At first everyone loved little Henry. The boards were flooded with comments of how cool he was,and how people couldn't wait for him to debut in his own group. And then the boss man of SM entertainment dropped the news: Henry Lau would become a part of a new Super Junior sub-group that would focus on the Chinese market. Sub -groups within the thirteen member Super Junior wasn't new: there were already two others, but the E.L.Fs were not pleased with the news. The addition of a new member to SuJu made them fear that the band would turn into nothing more than a project group. Like Morning Musume, with rotating members, and older ones graduating to make way for newer, cuter idols. So the fans let their displeasure be known through little things at first. During live performances, while Henry's playing his violin solo, they would shout 'Only 13'. They started an only 13 website, with catchy little phrases like '13+1=0, 13-1=0" etc. Then, when it became clear that meanie SM had no intention of listening to a bunch of whiny little teenagers, hundreds of them staged protests in front of the company's building. They staged several of them, in fact. The first one was a silent protest, in the second, they sang SuJu songs over and over and over again. When that didn't work, they decided to launch the 'One Fan, One Stock Campaign'. They are now buying stocks in the company in the hopes of taking over and keeping SuJu 13 forever! To date, out of 160 million shares, the fans now own .3% Then April 8, Super Junior- Mandarin debuted with 5 old Super Junior members, and not one but TWO new members. I still think that Father SM added in the second newbie just to piss the fans off even further. So far, Super Junior Mandarin's group blog has been so badly deluged with ONLY 13 messages that the commenting system has been turned off. Within HOURS of the release of their first single's music video fans had edited it to cut out the two new members. And now finally, E.L.F is organizing a mass, world-wide boycott of the Super Junior - Mandarin album. Instead of buying the SuJu-M album, true fans are asked to buy copies of the original Super Junior's first two albums. I'm not sure how this can be considered something that SM entertainment will consider 'bad', since they'll be making money out of the masses spending their money on their artist's merchandise...but whatever...Hey, it's a better plan than buying company stocks, right?
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Tuesday April 8 [ Oh whoa! Whoa and ack and alas! *dramatic hand against forehead* Romance drama at it's finest. Highland Press, and more specifically DeborahAnne MacGillvray, has been under attack recently for some of its more questionable, dubious policies. Such as banning authors from author loops for daring to speak their minds and making pithy demands when an author leaves the press and... dun dun dun, messing with the Amazon review functions! The commentary that followed was generally sympathetic and outraged. ( Then, suddenly: YOU ALL ARE SPITEFUL CHILDREN AND HIPPOCRITES! ) I love it when authors (and/or their fans) go totally bugnuts insane. Also, there is a comparison to Fandom, re: BNFs and big heads. Edit: Forgot a link. Also, thank you to the Anonymouse who reported this.
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[ mood: *sporfle!* On Prison Break, which might be the most interesting show I've never watched.... ( Spoilers under the cut ) Put together from mousey reports on Best part of all? I don't think that word means what you think it means, honey.
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Wankity wank wank wank. Fandom is fucking funny. Wear your tinfoil hat at all times. Squidwarts 4 evah. OMG WTF LOL!1!!! Gandshat is my fandom_wank OTP. Don't feed the wankers. Domlijah colors are orange + yellow. My fandom is wankier than yours. BNF = Backus Naur Form. We're not bad, we're just drawn that way. Equal opportunity mockers. Wank will eat itself, over and over and over and over. Stop reading this and find something funny. | |||||||||