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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]puipui
2008-01-24 12:21 am UTC (link)
And curves in all the right places! Which is a little odd for a poodle-person, I will admit, but dammit, it's required!

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[info]madelfdisease
2008-01-24 12:23 am UTC (link)
Would curves in all the right places require pregnancy in a poodle? Because if so, that might be the best Sue ever - Teen Pregnancy Sentiant Poodle Sue!

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[info]puipui
2008-01-24 12:56 am UTC (link)
But she doesn't know if the baby is Captain Jack's or Captain Spike's! Oh noes! And then she dies tragically and her daughter (who grows into adulthood overnight due to alien energies without any adverse psychological issues as a result and has inherited her mother's gorgeous good looks and kaleidescope eyes but she's all TRAGIC and her name is... oh, god, I don't know, something gaelic, probably) is romantically pursued by both but she doesn't know which one's her father and OMG HER LIFE SO HARD! ;_;

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[info]biichan
2008-01-24 01:02 am UTC (link)
Aoife? WHICH THEY PRONOUNCE AS AH-OH-EEF.

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[info]puipui
2008-01-24 01:04 am UTC (link)
THAT WILL WORK!

Also, ICON LOVE OMG!

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[info]biichan
2008-01-24 01:17 am UTC (link)
It is totally my JF icon.

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[info]puipui
2008-01-24 01:18 am UTC (link)
It is a beautiful beautiful thing. Of Rassilon.

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[info]sapote3
2008-01-24 01:50 am UTC (link)
I once named a Mary Sue that! She had red hair. Like her father, Richie Ryan ... I was twelve. I never posted it! I promise!

I salute your excellent grasp of the conventions of the genre.

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[info]biichan
2008-01-25 08:16 am UTC (link)
My own Mary Sue was named Rhiannon and she had silver hair and eyes. I was thirteen.

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[info]madelfdisease
2008-01-24 01:08 am UTC (link)
But then she gets kidnapped by someone evil (and probably ugly) after being lured into the trap by some less attractive rival for Jack/Captain Spike's attention - probably Gwen, although Tosh and Ianto might do in a pinch. Then she manages to channel some super duper (and super sexy) magical/space/time powers proving that she is a goddess. Captains Jack/Spike both come to her rescue only to realise that neither of them is good enough for her, so they send her off with the Doctor, who worships the ground she walks on and desperately wants to settle down with a mortgage and make some TimePuppies.

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[info]puipui
2008-01-24 01:26 am UTC (link)
And then it turns out she's got a fobwatch! Which she inherited from her mother! Which totally works even though that makes no sense because she is just that special! And then she opens it and becomes a Time Lady but she's still the same person that she was and everyone is in love with her and she takes her rightful place as Queen of All Gallifrey! Which planet she promptly brings back with her LOVE.

Oh, and also it turns out that she's really the Daughter of Rassilon, which is always capitalized like that because it is of Rassilon. She's got the birthmark on her butt and everything!

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[info]madelfdisease
2008-01-24 04:52 am UTC (link)
Hell - this shit practically writes itself. Now we have to post it on ff.net and we will get thousands of reviews by holding the next chapter hostage! Muahahahahah!

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[info]puipui
2008-01-24 07:01 am UTC (link)
But we can't post it to the Teaspoon, 'cause they have, like, standards and stuff now. So sad! :(

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[info]dez_chan
2008-01-24 06:56 am UTC (link)
I dunno, those poodle haircuts make them look curvy. With a poofy ball tail.

I'm sorry, what were we talking about again?

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[info]cjk
2008-01-28 02:55 pm UTC (link)
I swear I saw a discussion somewhere about Mary Sues with curves in all the *wrong* places.

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