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Wednesday
May 7

[[info]white_serpent] 02:39pm - WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WANTED TO BE EATEN!

From [info]wank_report:

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.
(617 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Monday
May 5

[[info]cleolinda] 02:53am - “Melissa has done more to hurt me than Rowling”

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 [info]insanitys_place: Two new articles about RDR. 

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."
(968 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
April 30

[[info]seiberwing] 09:18pm

[info]fanficrants. It's been a while.

[info]maiyri rants about how someone (supposedly) left a long and rather mean-spirited review to a twelve-year-old's fanfic, then goes on to tell how how she bravely defended against the author's attack on this review and received an asterisk-filled reply for her troubles. [info]fanficrants responds by saying she'd been a wee bit rude.

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.
(191 wanks | kerfluffle!)

[[info]sock_pupetteer] 07:04pm - Newsflash - fpb is OUTRAGED!

Many thanks to the mousie on [info]wank_report for the heads up!

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 [info]sarahkjrsten

ETA DEUX Mon Dieu, We 'ave a parte deux </pepe_le_pew>

EVA Pod 3 - Launching! Congrats to [info]tehrin for the call of Bingo!
(442 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Tuesday
April 29

[[info]reeve] 09:18am - PS3 Fanboys: Generating more splooge than the clients of GTA IV's prostitutes

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?
(127 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Friday
April 25

[[info]rose_tyler] 03:29pm - Avatar Wank- Showered with love
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:
[info]redwiltingroses posts to [info]avatar_fans to excitedly tell the members she has the newest dvd, which has unaired episodes. She works at Blockbuster and they got it in their "pre-streets," copies of dvds available for employees to rent before they come out. People are excited. No wank. No one even questions its validity.

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...

[info]kyatto is the first to question the summary's validity (albeit not in a wanky manner). [info]willowchan says it's a "personal social obligation" to provide more evidence. We are informed that the spoilers reek of bad fanfiction. rachelthedemon makes her first appearance in that thread by calling the OP an obvious attention whore. [info]spleefmistress also pops up to call the OP a "tartlet" (...okay) among other tings.

rachelthedemon pops in and profoundly CALLS B.S.[info]spleefmistress continues...

Post Three:
[info]redwiltingroses relents and provides a picture of the DVD a well as a few cameraphone clips.

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. [info]spleef_mistress admittedly uses copypasta, nonsensical ice cream comparisons and throughout the thread, still doesn't get it.

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. :(
(205 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Tuesday
April 22

[[info]braisinhussy] 03:12pm - It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

(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.
(84 wanks | kerfluffle!)

[[info]cleolinda] 06:05am

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:

[info]insanitys_place: The Lexicon has corrected the "Alohomora" entry with information from JKR's testimony... not that it's credited as such.

Neil Gaiman weighs in again (and again).

[info]waltraute: Orson Scott Card weighs in.

[info]foresthouse: "This article from CNN by "a legal analyst on "American Morning" is new and discusses the law and views from different lawyers (like Tim Wu who was mentioned before). It's well written."

[info]jedi_dwh: "The Hollywood Reporter is still on the case, and doing a pretty good job of keeping things balanced. It appears their law writers actually- GASP- do their homework!"

Ouch: Potter fan a crybaby in court.
(395 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
April 20

[[info]loopywafflehead] 12:46pm - Wincest and RPF writers are disgusting! R&R my fics plz?

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 [info]arionhunter!

When an ETA and an ETA love each other very much: Posts from the 14th and 15th provide some context. And lulz.
(485 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
April 19

[[info]seca] 10:22pm - Boku ga Wanku. (aka Gundam 00 wank)
music: angela "Shuffle the Baby"

As an anonmousey was so kind to write up a complete report at [info]wank_report, I figured I should share this little wank with the rest of [info]fandom_wank. The only thing I have added is fixing the html for the links and anything in bold text past this paragraph.

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 on yaoifandom. But it does have a nice LOL worthy bit where s/he mentions they had mistaken a friending meme as wank and thus deleted it.

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 [info]sticks I have been pointed to the [info]clairvoyantwank report of this wank which fills in the holes and brings more wank to the yard than the [info]wank_report version of it.

[info]clairvoyantwank version written up by [info]hermisia

( 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 [info]yosei.

ETA 3: Bucue has been ousted from his comm and has taken up the age old art of trolling under the name of [info]tieriaisafag on various LJ journals using current gundam00 maintainer [info]cerulean88's default icon. As can be seen here and here.

ETA 4: [info]kaiser_chan has given an update including the post he made on the /m/ board at 4chan. 4chan thread is deleted now but deconcentrateat LJ made a cap of the thread.

Also links for screen caps of deleted wank from Bucue before he got booted has been provided by [info]kaiser_chan:

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"
(90 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Friday
April 18

[[info]milkshake] 01:21pm - Taylor Hicks wank. No, really.
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.
  • Taylor Hicks is photographed with some woman frolicking on the beach. This woman is later identified as Caroline Lyders, a news anchor from Milwaukee. ...OR IS IT?
  • Rumors start to swirl that the woman on the beach is NOT Caroline. This theory, popularized by the blog Making Fun of Your Ass (which will be shortened to MFOYA for the rest of this report), states that Taylor was actually with a high-priced hooker on the beach, but when he was caught, his publicists decided to hire Caroline to keep up appearances as a family-friendly performer.
  • Other Taylor Hicks fansites, such as TaylorMadeSoul (TMS), post rants in opposition of this theory. TMS is probably the most visible opposition of this theory in the fandom, despite some of the mods supposedly believing in this theory, as noted in this TL;DR post. Unfortunately, TMS is closed to outsiders due to AIDS trolls, so I can't link to these posts here. Other blogs are created to fight the rumors and MFOYA in general, such as Making Fun of Your Asses and The Caroline Lyders Fan Club.
  • The rumor makes it to Radar and the AOL front page. (Radar Online has a nice summary of the wank up to this point here.) Radar even went so far as to hire a forensics expert, Lois Gibson, to study the pictures. Her opinion? Beach Woman and Caroline are two different people. (See her response to the fandom here.)
  • Things finally die down -- for a little while, anyway.
But people can't leave well enough alone, and so this scab starts to get picked at once again...
  • Two new blogs pop up within three days of each other -- 15 Minutes of Fame and The View From the Inside. 15 Minutes of Fame is dedicated to "discussing those people who are searching in vain for their 15 minutes" in the Taylor Hicks fandom (What), while The View From The Inside (VFTI) claims to be a view of the fandom from those closest to Taylor (or, well, closer than you, anyway).
  • MFOYA picks up on this and is determined to expose those behind these blogs. After posting IP addresses here, they claim to have figured out who is behind VFTI -- TMS mods StrawGirl, Tappanga, and TayVAgal. The View From The Inside claims that the IP evidence is 'shopped, leading MFOYA to post this response.
  • MFOYA creates TMS Moles, a blog dedicated to exposing the TMS mods as the Cancer That Is Killing /b/ The Taylor Hicks Fandom.
  • Much breaking of [info]jurisimprudence  laws commences, including Snacky's Law repeatedly throughout the comments.
  • Now there's TMS MoleMole. ...They're just fucking with us now, aren't they?
Did I mention that most of these women on both sides of the wank are in their 30s or older, married, and have children? Most of these women are (as far as I can tell) also relatively new to internet fandom in general, so things like slash are foreign to them (witness the "eww, slash" entry on TMS Moles).

...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 [info]dreamer_marie for pointing out this comment:

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.
(193 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Thursday
April 17

[[info]cleolinda] 06:23am - The day after

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 and then we'll have some peace and quiet. From what I hear, we've got three to four weeks minimum before we get a ruling.

(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.
(437 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
April 16

[[info]cleolinda] 09:48am - Lexicon trial, day 3

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.
(608 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Tuesday
April 15

[[info]cleolinda] 08:08am - Lexicon trial, day 2

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.”

[...]

When asked if he would not be working RDR following the Lexicon book because he felt he was being misled, he adamantly denied such an allegation. Rowling’s lawyer then brought in a new piece of evidence. She distributed to the judge, Vander Ark, and RDR’s lawyers, a copy of an email sent by Mr. Vander Ark to Melissa Anelli. He stated in the email that he felt RDR had lied to and misled him and that they ruined his standing with fans and JKR and that was why he wouldn’t work with them anymore. The still silence following this piece of evidence leaves me with the conclusion that it’s very possible that RDR did not know that Vander Ark was saying such things behind their back.

As part of evidence, a video clip from a Harry Potter conference that took place in Toronto in August of 2007 was shown. It was about 15 seconds long and showed a bit of Vander Ark’s presentation. From his speech, we heard him say, “Jo quit. We’re taking over now.” [...] Aside from that, the judge was not happy to learn that this brief clip and short excerpt of his speech was the only part of the video brought into evidence. Vander Ark, who should have kept his mouth shut, joked that most of the rest of his presentation could be found on YouTube.



Quick ETA 5: From [info]ari_o: The NYT has a crush on SVA.
(1028 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Monday
April 14

[[info]cleolinda] 07:18am - And so it begins

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... )
(1230 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
April 13

[[info]kalicephirot] 10:49pm

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?
(173 wanks | kerfluffle!)

[[info]elektra3] 03:05pm - Rules? In MY crack RP? It's more likely than you think!

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.
(86 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Friday
April 11

[[info]ilya] 02:38am - I don't agree with what you're doing to my fave boyband...so I will buy company stock and take over!

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

[[info]faultypremise] 10:14pm

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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[[info]mistressrenet] 08:40pm - My favourite show on TV has just become the new "Dallas"!
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 [info]wank_report (thanks guys!), so if I have anything messed up about the show, I apologize.

Best part of all? [info]anisapologist's LJ is called "Karma Works."

I don't think that word means what you think it means, honey.
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20 Older Wanks
Up to the Top 		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.