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Mayhap ([info]silvernutmeg) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2003-08-21 13:25:00


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Current mood:Catty

Civil wank makes civil hands unclean
Meet metamorphmagi. Metamorphmagi has a deep-seated, almost pathological desire to be friended.

See metamorphmagi, prompted by the results of the 50 closest non-friends generator, post an "analyzation post" beginning "I also got iscaris, vanityfair, epicyclical, ivyblossom, and mistful, but all five of them friend only their closest. I always had this wierd feeling that they think they are better than everyone else because they've written classics. And it's not like they don't have a reason to, but still!"

See her friend, al_riddle pimp the entry far and wide.

Observe as people trickle by and comment, including two out of the five BNFs (but not enough to have a quorum). Amazingly, everyone is unfailingly polite as metamorphmagi wanks on...

Edited to add: if you enjoyed this wank, you might also be interested in "Classic writers reevaluated", "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I think I'll go eat worms" and "An open letter to everyone who commented on the Entry O' DOOM".




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[info]virago
2003-08-21 10:17 pm UTC (link)
"But MO-mmy, what are they DO-ing to themselves?"

"Just keep walking, dear. Don't look."

It kind of makes me sad how the entry seems to equate great writing with being friended on LiveJournal. And if I were one of those people interviewed, I'd be one-half flattered and one-half creeped out.

Meh. I'm just glad my stint in fanfic came about a little bit before the heyday of LJ. It was bad enough having people whine on message boards about not being noticed; an entire system with codified "signs" that they're being "snubbed" just fuels the fires. Who needs that. (Well, apart from F_W fodder. ;) )

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[info]sylvie
2003-08-21 10:59 pm UTC (link)
This girl really annoys me. This whole entry is one big long, I wish I were a BNF rant thinger. I can't even find a favorite quote, the entire thing is wank.

*sporfles*

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[info]phosfate
2003-08-21 11:10 pm UTC (link)
Good golly. "Stupid stuck-up BNFs! Let's be friends!" Is she being rude on purpose or is she that genuinely oblivious?

I know, I know...this is fandom, hard to tell.

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(no subject) - wizzard, 2003-08-22 12:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]delfeus, 2003-08-22 07:58 pm UTC
Oh, WOW!
[info]resmiranda
2003-08-21 11:33 pm UTC (link)
This is just... the wank... I had no idea... I especially like this part:

You don't understand. So many people have a dream of writing something that is going to wind up being famous in the fandom. I have that dream.

Way to aim high there, buddy. Because being famous in the HARRY POTTER FANDOM is the true sign of a self-actualized being. The only thing I can think that would be even better is being Employee of the Month at Walmart. Just imagine how much everyone would love you then! I think I may need to have a little lie down, as all this wild and improbable speculation is making me dizzy.

(I also like how she bolded the name of her fic so that when the All High And Exalted BigWigs come to her journal - if they can even be bothered to get off their asses and stopbeingsuchelitistbitches...BUT I STILL WANT TO KISSTHEIRASSES BETHEIRFRIEND - they will see it, and they will Know Her Greatness.)

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Re: Oh, WOW! - [info]parlance, 2003-08-22 12:35 am UTC
Re: Oh, WOW! - [info]sorchar, 2003-08-22 12:45 am UTC
Re: Oh, WOW! - [info]naltariel, 2003-08-22 01:45 am UTC
Re: Oh, WOW! - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-22 03:26 am UTC
Re: Oh, WOW! - [info]imperatrixmundi, 2003-08-22 09:48 am UTC
Re: Oh, WOW! - [info]bookshop, 2003-08-22 03:28 pm UTC
Re: Oh, WOW! - [info]beandelphiki, 2003-08-22 11:25 pm UTC

[info]sagralisse
2003-08-21 11:36 pm UTC (link)
It'd be worth being an BNF just to go into her journal and post "I K33L U BEEEEEAYATCH!!"

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(no subject) - [info]resmiranda, 2003-08-21 11:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ipomoea, 2003-08-22 02:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]resmiranda, 2003-08-22 02:30 am UTC

[info]rowan
2003-08-21 11:40 pm UTC (link)
*snicker*

Brings back memories of my former BNFdom in a different fandom. Sycophants ahoy~!

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(no subject) - [info]sagralisse, 2003-08-21 11:45 pm UTC

[info]moonjaguar
2003-08-21 11:48 pm UTC (link)
All this over that 50 closest friends generator meme that basically marches through friendsfriends popping through some BNFs? I thought that was supposed to be for shits and giggles, silly me. Cracked me up that for me that it turned up communities I had no interest in as well people I had zip in common with or else cannot stand.

"My life is over, the snobby BNFs won't friend me!"

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(no subject) - [info]mariagoner, 2003-08-22 04:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2003-08-22 05:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mariagoner, 2003-08-22 06:48 am UTC

[info]nolifeking
2003-08-21 11:54 pm UTC (link)
Oh, goodie. Passive agressive self-belittling, super-sized entitlement issues and whining over LJ's "friends" lists. At once. Ngh.

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[info]lasultrix
2003-08-21 11:57 pm UTC (link)
*laughs her arse off*

Ivy friends everybody who friends her. Maya never checks her joule thingamajigy and so has no idea when people friend her. Aja just deleted her journal, then undeleted it to announce that she was leaving fandom for the time being, so presumably, no, is not hunting down everyone who's friended her to learn all about them and bump up their self-esteem.

And, erm, people in general have limited time.

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(no subject) - [info]amand_r, 2003-08-22 01:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ev_vy, 2003-08-22 02:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cimorene111, 2003-08-22 10:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lasultrix, 2003-08-22 10:54 pm UTC
Re: - [info]cimorene111, 2003-08-22 11:21 pm UTC

wizzard
2003-08-22 12:01 am UTC (link)
[info]al_riddle basically disses her own friend with this assessment of the people who post on CC's journal-

Let's post on her lj and spam her silly with gushing worship so our menial status in the fanfic and lj community will be feebly boosted!

That's a spot-on snark about what [info]metamorphmagi is doing.

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[info]dunc
2003-08-22 12:24 am UTC (link)
Is this chick self-absorbed or what? Christ. Obsessed with BNFdom much? You can no-class your way to being a BNF (see: Harry Knowles) but why?

On the other hand, I did appreciate getting the basic stats on all these HP names I keep hearing about. ;)

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[info]rogue
2003-08-22 12:33 am UTC (link)
Christ on a bicycle, man. I hate it when people think that just because they have a common interest, or say something flattering to them, they have to become superhappybestfriends. I get people e-mailing me asking why I haven't added them to my friends list on livejournal, and I just ignore them. I mean, what can I say? That net-speaking fangirls make me ill? (OMG I LUV UR POTC STUFF U R SO KEWL CAN WE B FRIENDZ?) That my journal is not a big pile of fan-crap, it's personal, and I'm not adding anyone unless I am at the very least interested in getting to know them, so fuck off you scary little dweeb? I would really rather not have to do any of that, and many other people feel the same way. Bah.

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2003-08-22 01:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rogue, 2003-08-22 01:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]senor_pinata, 2003-08-22 01:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]delfeus, 2003-08-22 08:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]silverthoughts, 2003-08-24 11:52 am UTC
Oh, and
[info]rogue
2003-08-22 12:43 am UTC (link)
What's the big deal about being friends with authors of popular fanfic? It's just fanfiction. I'm weirded out by the fact that this girl has mini-bios about them up there. She needs a new hobby.

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Re: Oh, and - [info]senor_pinata, 2003-08-22 01:45 am UTC
Re: Oh, and - [info]rogue, 2003-08-22 02:10 am UTC
And now for a real reply - [info]rogue, 2003-08-22 02:15 am UTC
Re: And now for a real reply - [info]beandelphiki, 2003-08-23 12:26 am UTC

[info]sorchar
2003-08-22 12:48 am UTC (link)
Jesus. This is wrong on so many levels I'd need a wank elevator to find them all.

She's got that passive-aggressive thing down pat, doesn't she? "I hate these BNFs, they're all so full of themselves"/"Oh, well, I really would like to know them because they're just so faboo and I didn't mean to be mean, this is just my little analysis." GAH. >.< Either be a whiny bitch or be a brown-noser, but make up your fucking mind already.

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(no subject) - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 01:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-22 03:41 am UTC
Re: - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 03:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]resmiranda, 2003-08-22 03:57 am UTC
Re: - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 03:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-22 04:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 01:43 am UTC
Re: - [info]sorchar, 2003-08-22 07:50 am UTC
Re: - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 07:53 am UTC
Re: - [info]sorchar, 2003-08-22 08:13 am UTC
(no subject) - guardian_writer, 2003-08-22 05:03 am UTC

[info]senor_pinata
2003-08-22 01:45 am UTC (link)
After thinking about this post long and hard (hee), all I can say is...bitch, please.

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(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2003-08-22 01:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]senor_pinata, 2003-08-22 02:04 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]terminal_frost, 2003-08-22 11:30 am UTC

[info]limyaael
2003-08-22 01:53 am UTC (link)
In metamorphmagi's journal:

Happy Early Birthday to William, whom I met randomly in a chat room. He is turning 20. And thankfully is not a pervert.

Um, okay. She likes to write mini-bios of everyone, doesn't she? And apparently meeting someone randomly in a chat room is enough to consider them a friend, so perhaps it's not surprising that she takes that meme seriously.

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(no subject) - [info]mariagoner, 2003-08-22 06:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperatrixmundi, 2003-08-22 09:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mariagoner, 2003-08-22 05:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]limyaael, 2003-08-22 03:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mariagoner, 2003-08-22 05:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]limyaael, 2003-08-22 11:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mariagoner, 2003-08-23 09:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]limyaael, 2003-08-23 04:34 pm UTC

guardian_writer
2003-08-22 02:33 am UTC (link)
this girl should understand something, all the BNF's are nice people, and I'm not just talking about the H/D BNF's. Every single one that I have ever talked to, commented in their journal and gotten a comment back, they have all been lovely. And Ivy, my goodness, she's so nice she made another journal just so she can friend more people! That is a nice lady!! And this girl should get something else, I have 189 people friended on LJ and its dang hard to keep up with that in a day, I can't imagine trying to keep up with more than that. The BNF's do what they can with the time they have. Does this girl understand the concept of RL? Cuz d00d, it exists.

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[info]fearthainn
2003-08-22 02:47 am UTC (link)
She has now updated twice about the comments her first wanky post has generated. Neat little expositionary summaries of what people said in her comments, as if we can't go read it ourselves. (I'm a little weirded out by how she keeps writing like she has no idea that she's got an actual, you know, audience. It just seems...I dunno. Like, if she wants to be friends with them, maybe she should attempt to be friendly and not publicly examine their every move and motive like they're particularly interesting specimens? O_o )

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[info]ev_vy
2003-08-22 02:51 am UTC (link)
I was really hoping that it was going to be wanked. My god! I thought I had no life. I thought no-one could get more pathetic than me. But I saw the light in the tunnel.

At least one thing was achieved, namely receiving the attention metamorphmagi craved so much. *ponders a whinging post of how those evil BNFs don't want to friend her back* Oh, wait, I'm on Ivy Blossom's firends' list. I'm disqualified. *cries*

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[info]rikoshi
2003-08-22 03:32 am UTC (link)
Oh, cry me a fucking river. Somebody crank the Linkin Park up a few notches while I get some all black clothing and write free verse. Then, when I'm done, I can switch to an icon scheme based on Sailor Saturn, and the only three mood selections I'd use would be "apathetic," "awake," and "indifferent." At least three times a week, I'll write an entry about how much stuff sucks and how I'm fraught with anguish over being powerless and what-have. Then I'll post another entry a few hours later telling folks to disregard it, but I'll still leave the old entry up so folks can read it and feel my pain.

LiveJournal: making angst mainstream, one tween at a time...

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(no subject) - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 03:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-22 04:05 am UTC
Re: - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 04:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-22 04:19 am UTC
Re: - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 04:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]resmiranda, 2003-08-22 04:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-22 04:33 am UTC
Re: - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 04:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]queerasjohn, 2003-08-22 05:21 am UTC
Re: - [info]muffinbutt, 2003-08-22 05:22 am UTC

[info]chaos_priestess
2003-08-22 04:33 am UTC (link)
"Boo hoo, I want to be a BNF and be friends with the BNFs."

Uh... I'm I the only one who wouldn't take that position for the world? I've seen what kind of crap the BNFs have to deal with. Sure, I write. Sure, I come up with things that other people haven't as of now (Xellas/DSD anyone?). But becoming popular because of it? I'd change my pen name right then!

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[info]rikoshi
2003-08-22 04:41 am UTC (link)
This thread makes my brain bleed...

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(no subject) - [info]imperatrixmundi, 2003-08-22 09:52 am UTC

[info]imperatrixmundi
2003-08-22 04:54 am UTC (link)
I actually have come into contact with said Metamorphmagi before, and she's said something to me about how her goal in the fandom is to be a BNF. I quote:

"I want to write longer and better stories than Cassandra Claire."

Not a direct quote, but the message is still there.

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(no subject) - [info]resmiranda, 2003-08-22 05:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sorchar, 2003-08-22 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-22 02:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]pyratejenni, 2003-08-23 12:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]delfeus, 2003-08-22 08:14 pm UTC

[info]melusine
2003-08-22 05:16 am UTC (link)
*reads through the aneurism-inducing wankst* How OLD is this girl? O_O

For her own sake, I hope she's only 12 or 13. Then she has a chance of growing out of this.

If she's an adult, I fear for her.

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(no subject) - [info]imperatrixmundi, 2003-08-22 09:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]redpanda, 2003-08-22 11:17 am UTC
The meta! It burns!!!
[info]chemical_mango
2003-08-22 06:22 am UTC (link)
It's almost too funny to be real. I'm struggling between pity and horror. I really hope she takes my advice and drops it.

But then the little wankerho inside me is hissing, "wank, bitch, wank!"

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Re: The meta! It burns!!! - [info]sorchar, 2003-08-22 07:58 am UTC
Re: The meta! It burns!!! - [info]split, 2003-08-22 10:38 am UTC
Re: The meta! It burns!!! - [info]dana, 2003-08-22 12:52 pm UTC


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