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at least no one's knotting, fandom: sherlock holmes, fandom: teen wolf, goddammit you guys be funnier!, misplaced anger, oh hurrah the daily dot, please mommy make it stop, reading comprehension whut?, too cool for school, tumblr is witchcraft, we fail at not being misogynists

ALL Air-Date Announcements Pertain to Sherlock (and If They Don't, You'd Better Apologize)
Wank and write up taken from the little mousey over at wank_report.

Tumblr user and Teen Wolf fan Heyysourwolf posts the air date for TW's third season. Unsurprisingly, she tags the post #s3 spoilers and--follow me closely, here--#teen wolf.

Sherlock fen, for no discernable reason whatever, assume that the post is regarding the air date for S3 of their show. Because no other show on TV anywhere is entering its third season, apparently. Or something.

Once they figure out that the post was not, in fact, about the return of the BBC series, Sherlock fen lose their shit.

Completely.

Sherlock fandom wants an apology RIGHT NOW, Heyysourwolf. A FORMAL apology. And we're going to berate you with misogynistic slurs and rant about how this is all your fault and how egregious it is that you should make yourself out to be the injured party and, above all, how immature you are, until we get it.

After all: "SOME OF US ARE EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE DO YOU EVEN FUCKING THINK BEFORE YOU POST? GOD I HOPE YOU GET PUNCHED IN THE TITS."*

* Probability that that particular entry is just somebody awesome trolling the shit out of the other anons with sarcasm: moderately high

EDIT: Aja has written an article about the wank for The Daily Dot.

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ellensmithee
2013-02-25 08:43 am UTC (link)

Yes! Not only that, but tumblr releases the URL immediately so someone else can just come along, grab the URL, and post under that name. That all leads to a lack of a cohesive fan identity. No one seems to have a user name that they use across fandoms anymore. I think the only people I know who keep a reference to their cross-platform identity are old skool fans.

I can't figure out how tumblr managed to take over fandom so completely with its and lack of permanence and mutual communication possibilities. The feeling that fandom is a community has lessened considerably.

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herdivineshadow
2013-02-26 02:28 am UTC (link)

God. I wish I was doing a degree that writing a paper on the development of cohesive fan identity would be relevant. I'd get so much mileage out of it. Augh.

...and you've reminded me of the URL hoarders. It's like the hoarders on LJ, but like a million times worse. Why would you want to keep over a hundred URLs? It's not like one person could use that many all at the same time.

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	ellensmithee 2013-02-26 09:51 am UTC (link)
	Well, it's hard to hoard URLs on tumblr because you need a unique e-mail addy for each account. I rp over there and have a handful of accounts, in contrast with IJ where I had dozens (active) ones at one point (which I feel less guilty now that IJ has deleted most of them ;-)). And I was thinking the same thing about a paper/blog post, but I'm too lazy, LOL. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ellensmithee 2013-02-26 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	By weird coincidence: http://www.dailydot.com/society/confessions-tumblr-url-hoarder/ I'd forgotten you can make child blogs on tumblr without a new addy. They're sort of a pain for rping and a lot of games don't permit them, that's why I don't usually use them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	herdivineshadow 2013-02-26 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	Heh yeah, the child blogs kind of work like communities like... I run the FYTomHardy tumblr, but I do it from my regular herdivineshadow account. I can't even contemplate attempting to RP there (Reply to this)(Parent)

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