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all your base are belong to rassilon ([info]biichan) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2008-01-23 11:02:00


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Current mood:Mildly Amused
Current music:Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
Entry tags:author entitlement, fandom: doctor who, look how much i don't care, not good with criticism, oppression, she's on a mission guys!, writers are often pompous douches, yay screencaps!

Okay, here's the dealio
So here's the dealio: A Teaspoon And An Open Mind (the main Doctor Who fic archive) underwent a changing of the mods and implemented some changes in policy.

About the same time, user MelindaKitty was banned for using a homophobic slur in an essay and being abusive to moderators. Also, as it turns out, misclassifying one of her essay as a story. (There are screencaps.) She was kind enough to post the essay in question so we could see how entirely not like a story it is.

She was not very happy about it. Neither were either of her spouses or her friends. But the mods and their ilk kept their own comments on the affair behind f-lock and so things quieted down for a while.

Then came the Fighting Spoon. Fighting Spoon's purpose was to provide a place for people to bitch about the recent policy changes at the Teaspoon. It also created an lj comm which claims it can "achive your fics but you should use friend only posts there - so Teaspoon Mods don't know who's with me" (which ignores the fact that anyone can see who's joined a comm.)

Meanwhile, in the journal itself, Fighting Spoon starts out by reposting an email where it complains about how it took a whole twelve to fourteen hours for their fic to get approved now that submissions are moderated. In the comments, moderation of submissions is called repressive pseudo-fascism and V for Vendetta is quoted channeled.

Wank breaks out on all sides! There is tl;dr rant about how mods should be democratically elected and that the whole thing is in violation of the First Amendment, never mind that the mod that banned her is SCOTTISH. Melindakitty's husband reposts the Godwin-invoking lyric-filled rant he'd emailed the mods with. People get confused about who swore at the mod. A debate on the nature of fascism is held. Comparisons are made to Animal Farm. The spirit of Aldous Huxley is called upon. Someone tries to play peacemaker which doesn't work.

All the while Fighting Spoon is backpedalling furiously and MelindaKitty just wants to get back to policy.

About the only thing missing from this is Rosewank, but don't worry, someone's trying to start one in the wank report!



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[info]kijikun
2008-01-24 12:08 am UTC (link)
Capatin John would be very sad then I think. He sort of like the native earth poodle look.

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[info]puipui
2008-01-24 12:19 am UTC (link)
How sad is it that it took me a minute to figure out who you meant by 'Captain John'? Apparently I've called him 'Captain Spike' so often now that anything else just doesn't look right. Oh, dear.

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[info]kijikun
2008-01-24 12:21 am UTC (link)
I thought his name was James for the longest time. Swore he kept saying his name was James Harper, but John Hart.

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[info]doyle
2008-01-24 02:18 am UTC (link)
James Harper was Jack's alias in Captain Jack Harkness last year.

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[info]kijikun
2008-01-24 02:27 am UTC (link)
I know. Which is why I kept making this face O_o

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[info]doyle
2008-01-24 02:28 am UTC (link)
I think before we knew Captain Spike's name some people were assuming he was going to turn out to be the real James Harper.

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[info]puipui
2008-01-24 02:43 am UTC (link)
See, now, that would've been funny! Except I liked it that they exchanged pseudonyms at the beginning, it was a clever way to get past the issue with 'Jack' not being Jack's real name, and it says a lot about the Time Agency that I kind of like rather a lot.

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[info]stromatolite
2008-01-24 02:34 am UTC (link)
I thought he said John Harker. And that no one else got it.

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[info]kita0610
2008-01-24 03:08 am UTC (link)
No worries, that's who he WAS essentially. Because Marsters in sci-fi is incapable of being anything other than a swaggery bottom.

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[info]honorh
2008-01-24 04:36 am UTC (link)
I *like* his swaggering bottom.

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[info]kita0610
2008-01-24 05:03 am UTC (link)
You and me both, sistah.

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[info]southerngaelic
2008-01-24 10:29 am UTC (link)
I second this comment!

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[info]seanchaigirl
2008-01-24 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Wait, his name ISN'T Captain Spike? Because I watched repeatedly and I'm pretty sure that guy in the ringmaster suit was Spike. From the future. Or something. He drank vodka, had an accent of shady origin, liked to kill people and punch (and make out with) dark-haired, immortal, broody boys. . .are you sure that's not Spike?

Reposted because OMG I am bad at HTML.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-01-24 11:46 pm UTC (link)
What I want tot know is, where is the fic? Because clearly this is canon crossover.

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