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ari_o ([info]ari_o) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2010-12-11 12:55:00
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Entry tags:cons, cosplay, flouncing, not sure how to tag

Sanity clause ...
I almost snorted hot coffee out my nose while listening to this week's This American Life. Because lo, I bring you tidings of great joy. There was wank and it involved Santas. Santas breaking into factions and invoking Godwin's. Online drama. Real life drama. Santa against Santa.

I never considered Santa or Christmas a fandom before, but now I know. They cosplay. They have conventions. They live and breathe Santa year round. And they are as dramatic as any wankers we've ever seen.

If you click the link above, click "play episode" and ff to 22:00 you can listen to the segment. It's 27 minutes of wanky Santa hijinks and infighting.

Background reading:

AORBS website and history.
Santa flounces.
No, this is the real history and archives.

I know there is more, but I figured this was a good start.

Nobody expects the Santa Inquisition?


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[info]kookaburra
2010-12-11 07:50 pm UTC (link)
OMG.

http://www.ricnvic.com/aorbs/press/press.htm

This is so awesome.

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[info]risha
2010-12-11 09:59 pm UTC (link)
They trusted a man named "Troll"i? Never feed a troll!

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[info]platedlizard
2010-12-11 11:08 pm UTC (link)
That, uh, wow!

I guess there are conartists everywhere!

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...I'll just show myself out, shall I?
[info]takhys
2010-12-11 08:00 pm UTC (link)
You can trust a real Santa, sure, but it's those Subordinate Clauses you need to watch out for.

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Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I?
[info]starfish
2010-12-11 08:08 pm UTC (link)
Pardon me while I idolize you for a moment, won't you?

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(no subject) - [info]takhys, 2010-12-11 08:09 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I?
[info]teaqueenie
2010-12-11 08:11 pm UTC (link)
I snorted tea but your comment is worth the pain.

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Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]malleo, 2010-12-11 08:25 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]gertie_flirty, 2010-12-11 08:35 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]paladin, 2010-12-12 12:13 am UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]the__ivorytower, 2010-12-11 08:51 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]moonjaguar, 2010-12-11 08:56 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]cyndra_falin, 2010-12-11 09:50 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]risha, 2010-12-11 10:02 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]evanwaters, 2010-12-11 10:26 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]tehrin, 2010-12-11 10:33 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]sorchar, 2010-12-11 11:37 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]alya1989262, 2010-12-12 08:15 am UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]neuronin, 2010-12-12 12:07 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]shinysandals, 2010-12-12 05:51 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]kirsten, 2010-12-12 07:29 pm UTC
Re: ...I'll just show myself out, shall I? - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2010-12-13 09:49 am UTC

[info]tehrin
2010-12-11 10:26 pm UTC (link)
The internet aftermath details start around 42:00.

A website that was talked about in the podcast is Santa Check which "reports to be an independent watchdog group for parents, but appears to be a propaganda campaign,targeting Nick's enemies," for all your Santa-on-Santa grudgewanking needs.

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(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2010-12-11 11:12 pm UTC

[info]sepiamagpie
2010-12-11 10:41 pm UTC (link)
Happiest time of year, folks!

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[info]emily_goddess
2010-12-11 10:46 pm UTC (link)
Nothing that happens between now and Christmas will bring me more joy than this wank.

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(no subject) - [info]ashacrone, 2010-12-12 01:22 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]ajatshatru, 2010-12-12 04:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2010-12-13 01:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ajatshatru, 2010-12-12 04:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2010-12-12 06:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]emily_goddess, 2010-12-12 03:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2010-12-12 04:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rogueunit, 2010-12-12 06:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2010-12-12 07:57 pm UTC

[info]platedlizard
2010-12-11 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Man, I don't even know what to say.

This looks glorious.

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[info]varethane
2010-12-11 11:28 pm UTC (link)
a bitter Santa civil war

Now there are some words you don't hear every day...

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(no subject) - [info]jood, 2010-12-15 06:11 pm UTC

[info]sorchar
2010-12-11 11:36 pm UTC (link)
I just remember being dragged into year-round Christmas stores by my mother and being very confused and somewhat frightened. It's a hundred degrees outside and you want to look at Christmas trees? WTF?

Note: As someone who married a half-Kiwi fellow, I realize that in the Southern Hemisphere this would be normal. In Virginia, not so much.

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(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2010-12-12 06:45 am UTC
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scifantasy
2010-12-11 11:49 pm UTC (link)
Humorously enough, today is SantaCon (read: Parade of the Drunken Santae) in New York City.

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(no subject) - [info]varpstone, 2010-12-12 12:12 am UTC
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[info]paladin
2010-12-12 12:29 am UTC (link)
This looks like a job for Rare Exports.

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(no subject) - [info]tehrin, 2010-12-12 12:59 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2010-12-12 05:32 am UTC
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[info]rijane
2010-12-12 12:51 am UTC (link)
I'm going to be a grinch. This was great wank... in 2008. This is the third airing of this ep of TAL. Though still wank-worthy, it's a bit dated.

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[info]thoms
2010-12-12 04:21 am UTC (link)
A friend of mine called me today and as she was walking out of her apartment - she lives in Manhattan - she said "Why are there Santas everywhere? Oh right, it's Santa Con." Tee hee. That made me giggle.

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[info]kashira
2010-12-12 07:42 am UTC (link)
Christmas came early this year. <3

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[info]singe
2010-12-12 04:56 pm UTC (link)
And Remember, "Keep the Twinkle in your Eye and the Spirit of Giving all year long!"

"You bastards."

Santacerely,

Oh, dear god...

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[info]jupiterpluvius
2010-12-12 08:06 pm UTC (link)
On the upside, Brody Qat is doing her Desaturated Santa again this year!

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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2010-12-13 01:32 am UTC

[info]alcesx2
2010-12-12 10:13 pm UTC (link)
I was thinking when I was home last month that in a few years, my dad could totally be a mall Santa. He's got the beard, he's got the gut, and now that I read this, he's got the drama.

I need to make this happen.

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[info]keleri
2010-12-13 02:48 am UTC (link)
Oof, it was hard to listen to the recording of the Santa Fight. It's kind of excruciating to hear Godwin's Law happening out loud, I have to say. Additionally, climbing the stairs while arguing destroyed those two. I was half expecting the punchline to be "HEART ATTACK". D:

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[info]sisterelwood
2010-12-14 06:53 am UTC (link)
That was just... wow. This is a good post and you should feel good.

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[info]greymouse
2010-12-14 12:15 pm UTC (link)
I'm still having trouble getting my head around these organisations — plural, even! — existing. It was like a delicious Christmas dinner. And once you come to terms with that, you have to get a handle on the fact that they have ever-so-bitter internecine strife; it tastes like the finest of gingerbread. And then you get to read the big sadfacing flounce letter. Santacerely. That's the tinned sweets your aunt buys you every year, and you eat them even though you know you've already had enough sugar to last you until January. The bit where they get tricked by a guy named "Trolli" is just the icing on the Christmas cake.

The whole "no, we have the real story of AORBS, don't trust those guys, they only want your money" part? That was a wafer-thin mint.

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(no subject) - [info]jood, 2010-12-15 06:18 pm UTC

[info]hadesphoenix
2010-12-16 08:09 pm UTC (link)
It seems that Supernatural can also be sort of, tangentially related to mass drunken Santas when Misha Collins is involved. Apparently the Santas got so rowdy in crashing a mall that craziness ensued, and the Santa that decided pants were out of fashion was arrested.

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[info]faeryfroggy
2010-12-24 10:06 pm UTC (link)
Wank happens where you least expect it. Including NPR and This American Life. I may be a little in love for you posting this.

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