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Loopywafflehead ([info]loopywafflehead) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2011-10-08 20:58:00


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Entry tags:fandom: glee, reviews

So here's what you missed on kurt_blaine...
Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one; I've used some of your wording in this post. (Note: there are spoilers for an upcoming episode of Glee in the links.)

Pyroclastic, one of the wankier BNF's of the Glee fandom and a former mod of the kurt_blaine community on lj, posts a fic to said community. The drama starts in the first thread when she pretends not to know why a mod has asked her to place the spoilers in her author notes behind a cut:

boysinperil: …Just remove all the references to [the spoiler], or delete the whole thing and just post it on tumblr, because I'm tired of your being thick about this. You helped WRITE the spoiler rules, you know them.

Then windrider1967 leaves a review:

Beautiful, if a bit too polished. Still wonderfully done and sweet and hot at the same time

Pyroclastic does not like this review. She complains on her Tumblr. Even though she blacks out windrider’s name, it’s easy enough for everyone to figure out who wrote the comment.

Naderegen points out that it's mostly a compliment and the concrit isn't slamming the fic, but pyroclastic is not appeased.

Canniblaine tells windrider that pyroclastic and her minions are mocking her. Said minions then make an appearance.

Pyroclastic complains to the mods, who agree to screen the more problematic comments while also letting her know she’s pretty much working their last nerve:

Rebootuniverse: ...You know what, you're not stupid, you knew exactly what you did when you made that post, and you knew exactly what would follow. Pretend to be the innocent one all you want, but you just can't take any actual negative commentary about what you write. There are a million other ways you could have gone about asking the reviewer what they meant before making that post, even if you couldn't open the community. A dozen other choices you could have made other than one that was bordering on insulting to the reviewer and dismissive that there might be something other than a positive opinion to your fic.

Bottom line is, you react to things as if you're better than every other person on the comm, and if half of the things you say on tumblr were said here we would have had to ban you by now. But we don't, because we don't ban people for things they say and do on other communities.


Rebootuniverse comments on the entire situation on her Tumblr and receives anonymous attacks in response. (For some reason, jf won't let me create a link for this one: http://rebootuniverse.tumblr.com/post/11119180193/fucking-delete-canniblaine-and-ban-them-you-biased). There are also messages of support and people wanting to know why pyroclastic hasn't been banned yet; everything can be found on her Twitter.


Two other critical reviews are left on the fic but haven't resulted in the same kind of response (as far as I can tell). And to round it all off, the glee_anon threads on the situation are here and here.

ETA: It gets wankier: http://gleewank.tumblr.com/post/10332827277/the-epic-saga-of-p-and-her-pa-attitude



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[info]beccastareyes
2011-10-09 04:59 pm UTC (link)
Though I wonder what major would suit them; I'm a grad student in the sciences, and my drafts come back from my adviser covered in red ink with changes suggested. My adviser is the most easy-going guy I've met*, and his criticism is polite and usually right**, but he's not inclined to let even commas slide, let alone ideas I don't explain well or science that needs more work. (Of course, he's also chief editor of a big journal in our field, he may care a bit more about the grammar than most.)

* With the possible exception of my undergrad adviser. Actually, most of the astronomers I've worked with have been pretty awesome people.

** And if it's wrong, it usually means I did a crummy job of explaining something and he got the wrong idea.

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[info]franzen
2011-10-09 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I know people in the social sciences who've cried after seeing their advisors. One actually took a leave of absence because he felt he was too incompetent for his Big Deal professor... professor begged him to come back. (He didn't believe in praising the obvious or the expected and he went hard on people he felt had potential as a sign of respect. Major crossed wires there. Knowing the ground rules certainly helps in academia.)

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[info]quantumreality
2011-10-10 05:43 pm UTC (link)
Word on your grad adviser. My thesis was exchaustively looked at by my supervisor and by at LEAST one other guy, and both of them were pretty much spot-on about what needed changing and they were (almost always) polite about it.

And yes, the red ink flowed :P

(Deleted/reposted because holy awkward sentence, Batman.)

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