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Wank: The Final Frontier
As those of you who haven't been living under a rock may know, a new Star Trek movie just came out. Over on fanficrants, roq is upset about this. Apparently, TEENAGERS are now WRITING in HER fandom! Quelle suprise!

She has some choice words to say about it.

The highlights of the rant include:

Star Trek is the second oldest fandom in existence...

Because of this, I honestly don't think you can bring a new idea to the fandom. We've seen it all before, really...So that extraspiffy idea you have? We've probably seen it. What this means is that you'll need more than a gimick to keep our attention. You will need to write well. I'm not asking for Tolstoy but basic sentence structure is nice and maybe a plot or at least good characterization.

There's no such thing as an original idea? She must be right, because even that idea sounds familiar...

Two. Do not talk to me about cannon. Do not come over to my happy little ship and whine that K/S is not cannon because Spock and Uhura have a relationship. You may not be familiar with Trekkies. We are not like the Harry Potter fandom.

Guys, I think we've been told. I dunno why we're talking to her about armoury, but w/e. We are not ALLOWEd to write fanfiction within her ship unless we pass STRINGENT STANDARDS.

Also? K/S has never been cannon and probably never will. You know what? We don't care. It's fanfiction. We're changing the world just enough that K/S happens. That's it. If you have a problem with it, don't fucking read it. Go over to S/U and be happy.

The rant goes on in this vein for a while. And then there's the comments.

At first the comments at the community are overwhelmingly supportive and generally non-combative.

But then someone's fannish entitlement alarm goes off, and the shit hits the fan:

kuromitsu starts: Remember, children, this fandom has been around since before you were born. You must follow all of its ancient conventions, must strive to gain the respect of older members, and most importantly you must. not. have. fun with it your own way lest the older fans not like it.

Fandom = serious business, damn it! God forbid you enjoy yourself!

helen_damnation responds: Thank you. I was starting to think I was the only person annoyed by all the "thou shalt not"s.

I haven't seen the movie yet, though I intend to. I don't intend to watch the series. Know why? Because I don't want to. I want to watch the movie. I might write fic for the movie, I don't know yet. That's my right. I'm also very fond of portmanteaus. That's also my right.

Take your own advice and get over it.

It's all downhill from there.

Some choice bits include a "DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!" quote, some accusations that the Star Trek fandom is the angriest and wankiest of all fandoms, some people pointing out how canon is spelt, an indignant Harry Potter fan, and a question on apropriate newbie etiquette.

And it's still going.

This one looks GOOD. I think I've already made Bingo.

ETA: Collateral damage wank on ffrantsrants located here.

Also, links are corrected now. Server is being robust, though, so steady on, folks.

ETA2: roq bites back. Apparently he is a he.

Also:

So, according to the people over at fanfic rants, I'm an arrogant, condescending, hypocritical asshole with a stick up my ass.

Good to know.

Wow, you'd think I wasn't dealing with a rant community or something. Oh, wait.

RANTING COMMUNITIES ARE FOR RANTING! Also, I've forgotten to assume that everyone on the internet has a penis. My inability to remain stuck in the early 90's means that I don't understand a lot of what roq says.

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You're lying.

acrimonious
2009-05-19 01:10 pm UTC (link)

Generally speaking, when a wanker harasses an exhibit, they get discovered and banned. The mods have gone so far as to request IPs if the poster that outed f!w is anonymous so that they can identify who they are here and ban them. Some of the wanks have dozens of pages and thousands upon thousands of comments. We don't play games with wank. That's reserved for SomethingAwful, 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica.

You're probably a recent wankee who didn't like their portrayal in the wank writeup, so you've decided to attack f!w in the most bizarre manner possible because you don't want it to look like a proper attack, and conjuring up an imaginary tale about people who go out of their way to avoid direct involvement was the only thing you could think of.

I wonder how you manage to pull off being passive-aggressive and aggressive in your ignorance at the same time.

(Also, HI LADY SYBILLA? Dunno, just throwin' that out there.)

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	Re: You're lying. major_dallas 2009-05-19 01:32 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder how you manage to pull off being passive-aggressive and aggressive in your ignorance at the same time. Perhaps S/H/It is just that talented? can't be Lady Sybilla, caito didn't do the write-up... perhaps msscribe has come back though... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: You're lying. panthea 2009-05-19 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	No, no, Lady S. accuses other people of being child molesters. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: You're lying. tetradecimal 2009-05-19 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	Nahh, LS would have thrown us a fake apology or two by now. And as far as I know, she's never deigned to grace fandom_wank's comments with her universal crazy. This guy sounds more like the bitter, vitriolic type. Of course, that doesn't mean he's not fun to jerk around. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: You're lying. cmdr_zoom 2009-05-19 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	Signs point to some guy I've never heard of, who goes by Lovecrafty. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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