The wank that was- Due South
Don't you hate it when the best wank was in deleted posts and you never even got to read it? Sigh. But surfing some 'friends of friends' journals, I found the trail of what looked to be some most excellent wank. Seems buzzwords posted a 'Due South' story to [Unknown LJ tag]. Here's the author's description of his story:

"Here's the story that started it all, a charming due South tale called "Fall of the Sparrow." According to most, you don't have to have actually watched the show to actually understand this story."[sic]

Note the lack of watching the show is considered worthy of emphasis- this will be important in a moment!

So, the story is posted to ds_slashfiction (and subsequently deleted, taking the 'wank' with it), and it appears some folks responded by saying that while it was well written, it didn't seem particularly in character. Then, someone did a bit of digging in Buzz's journal and found this post where he says mostly, I don't know the characters I'm writing about and suggests to him that actually watching the show might help with the characterization issues.

A (now deleted) kerfluffle ensues and then buzzwords posts again saying that he's leaving (this whole post is now deleted as well, but Buzz quotes his goodbye post here. I REALLY wish I'd seen the wank that then flowed. But I didn't.

The fallout can be summed in two main journals (one on each side), and really, the posts are surprisingly calm and well reasoned and non-wanky or flamey. The only real wank I see is in the faint whiff of the wank that was and in the completely different takes on the situation you get from reading. (Well, there's a bit more wank than that, but I'll let you pick it out yourself.) Friends of Buzz take on brooklinegirl's lj and a clarification by justacat on her journal.

There's a little spill over about Fanfic critique, but really, this is almost metablog stuff.

Still, the whiff of 'wank that was' is strong, so I thought I'd pass it along for what it's worth. Also, people who don't watch the show writing fanfic about it strikes me as a little wanky, but that may just be me.

Now, I'm late to work. Hope this brings a little funny.