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	amakath 2003-10-09 06:52 am UTC (link)
	He seems to have some BIZARRO World concept of FANFICTION where it's ORIGINAL to rip off the premise of CANON and rewrite it as your own--much LAMER--story. Fascinating. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mariagoner 2003-10-09 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	You'd be surprised how common that idea is. Crappy AUs, anyone? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: amakath 2003-10-09 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	Very true. I guess maybe I've just never seen someone on quite so high a horse about it before. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	herring 2003-10-09 07:04 am UTC (link)
	When will people learn that posting your stuff on the Internet means it is totally OPEN SEASON for compliments AND criticisms? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	amakath 2003-10-09 07:19 am UTC (link)
	Never? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	darthtall 2003-10-09 07:28 am UTC (link)
	jumps your icon MmmmmmmmmmmmmmmZachBraff (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amakath 2003-10-09 07:40 am UTC (link)
	There need to be a lot more Scrubs icons in the world. I'd make it my personal mission, if I weren't so goddamn lazy. So instead of a lot I've just got four. (Reply to this)(Parent)

maev_connacht
2003-10-09 07:29 am UTC (link)

Best part of the whole thing:

I made a character that's just like Haruko in every concievable way, only she's more angsty and rides a Harley Davidson instead of a Vespa. Her name is Okurah, pronounced "Okra," like the vegetable. And she's gothic and works at the grocery store. Plus she's a MORE ADVANCED race than Haruko, OMG.

I have a great want to glomp the person who wrote that right now.

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	lunchbox 2003-10-09 07:33 am UTC (link)
	Okra? Okra's good! It's what's for dinner among ADVANCED RACES! YUM! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2003-10-09 09:04 am UTC (link)
	Okurah is Haruko spelled backwards. I call troll. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	allen 2003-10-09 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	I call sarcasm. g (Reply to this)(Parent)

	delfeus 2003-10-09 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	I am so stupid! I didn't even notice that! :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	feenix 2003-10-09 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, that was posted by the report writer. Tard. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2003-10-09 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry. I couldn't find that particular quote in any of the stuff that I had looked through. I thought it was the fanfic writer that posted it somewhere or something. No offense was intended. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sarajayechan 2003-10-09 04:15 pm UTC (link)
	And notice how the little wanker just totally didn't get it? =P (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bohicamouse 2003-10-09 08:20 am UTC (link)
	points at icon CARROT! Mmm, I have nothing against old wank. And this is a silly one, hee. feels need to go find the hilarious Rot13/LotR spoilers wank from alt.books.pratchett yeras back (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bohicamouse 2003-10-09 08:22 am UTC (link)
	Years that is. Grrr. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	flax 2003-10-09 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	Do eeeeet. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

bohicamouse
2003-10-09 10:03 pm UTC (link)

I looked but I can only find half the conversation, and it's the less wanky half, bah. It was a hilarious wank though from 2001, involving someone on alt.fan.harry-potter (I was wrong about the group above) spoiling the LotR series for everyone, and going into the whole "Can 50-year-old books even BE spoiled?" wank, with a side of "Why do we care if we spoil you for other series, this is an HP comm" and finally for dessert a bit of spoiler space laziness and people suggesting using rot13 to encrypt spoilers. Which of course leads to web browser elitism since IE doesn't support rot13, and if you use IE you're a plebe, and Microsoft is evil, dammit!

It was so BEAUTIFUL. *wipes away a tear*

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sagralisse
2003-10-11 01:20 am UTC (link)

I'm bummed that I'll never be able to share with you guys the joys of the "Frodo and Aragorn Slandered" thread on the Netscape board. It ran from just after the Fellowship came out in Dec 2001 and ran until late February. There were at least 350 posts, many of which were multi-page paragraph. I've never seen anything like it as long as I've been reading f_w.

The gist of it was that one guy was arguing that Pete shouldn't have messed with the story because it's a Catholic Thing and he wouldn't understand (although it took ages to figure out what he meant by "worldview"). The rest of us were going "wha?" while he argued that the movie portrayed Frodo and Aragorn as cowards and weaklings. I was right in there in the middle of it until I got kicked out for being a Buddhist.

I tell ya, Tolkien purist wank is some high grade shit.

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	tocomfortyou 2003-10-09 08:28 am UTC (link)
	... Now, let me say right off the bat, I know absolutely nothing about anime. Nothing at all. But.. ..did that character have a block protruding from his forehead? (Reply to this)(Thread)

flax
2003-10-09 11:07 am UTC (link)

Yes.

Later, a robot comes out of it. Which may have a long name with lots of 'Super's and 'Zord's in it, but I was still scratching my head throughout the entire fight it had with the other robot, which also came out of the boy's head.

FLCL - Pure 'wtf?'.

The wank isn't much, but dear lord, that story hurts my brain.

" Daylight came like an unwelcome stranger into the room, like a flood of glory that could not be dammed, that could not be held back. Daylight came like the tide against the sand. "? Daylight came like a overused metaphor, like the Spanish Inquisition stretching you out on a bed of burning coal, filling you with the ENDLESS CIRCLE OF PAIN that is another day: Especially if you have to read this again.

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	allen 2003-10-09 01:19 pm UTC (link)
	I just got done watching the series and I'm still scratching my head. I think I finally gave up trying to understand it about the time they started pulling guitars out of his and Eyebrow-Dude's heads. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: tocomfortyou 2003-10-10 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Hell, it even works as a sex scene. " Daylight came like an unwelcome stranger into the room, like a flood of glory that could not be dammed, that could not be held back. Daylight came like the tide against the sand." Yeah, well, 'Daylight' came two minutes early and only stayed a few hours afterward. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2003-10-11 10:03 am UTC (link)
	Damn you, Daylight! You never just hold me anymore! cries (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: tocomfortyou 2003-10-11 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah but he goes down in eight minutes. light cough (Reply to this)(Parent)

delfeus
2003-10-09 03:41 pm UTC (link)

What is FLCL? Someone care to explain? It really bothers me that I have absolutely no idea...

Oh, and of course fanfiction must be original and not "rip the show", because it would be absolutely HORRIBLE if someone used the canon in the fic!

If my mommy and bestest friends and 5 others like it, it must be an awesome story! How about that people usually a) don't bother to read fics that don't seem interesting and therefore won't review them, or b) don't bother to leave a negative review? At least I rather ignore bad fics than try to write constructive critisism when all I want to do is flame... or just complain about them in my journal. :D

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	beccastareyes 2003-10-09 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	What is FLCL? Someone care to explain? It really bothers me that I have absolutely no idea... Anime made by Gainax (they also produced Neon Genesis Evangeleon). I've only seen the first episode, but it is the type of show that makes you wonder what the hell the writers were on. (Reply to this)(Parent)

iczer6
2003-10-09 07:10 pm UTC (link)

[What is FLCL? Someone care to explain? It really bothers me that I have absolutely no idea...]

It's an anime TV series where the lead characters forehead becomes an inter-dimensional gateway.

And the lead female hits people with her guitar while riding a Vespa.

That's all you need to know, really.

[Common belief is that the Gainax staff got into Anno's antidepressants.]

Icz

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	Re: delfeus 2003-10-09 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	And people actually watch that? Well, I guess it has lots of humor value... :D I can believe the antidepressant story. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2003-10-11 12:44 am UTC (link)
	It's also fully animated. Fully sob animated sob ...sorry, it's so rare to see non-flash/aftereffects cutouts anymore. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	*types this with one hand* feenix 2003-10-09 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	To be technical about it, FLCL is an OVA (original video animation). It's a mini-series (6 episodes). Other than that, you covered most of the bases except that the guitar causes the interdimensional portal to open. (Reply to this)(Parent)

virago
2003-10-09 03:46 pm UTC (link)

...

It's original, and using the same characters from the show sucks, but I'm still going to play the "it's fanfic, I can do whatever I want" card, and I don't know how to spell the name of the lead character, and I think 8 mindless kudos on FF.N is an accomplishment, and

*head explodes*

...do we need a chart to explain just what fanfic is? I don't think I've ever seen such a case of missing the clue bus.

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	flax 2003-10-09 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	b-but it's original! Not fanfic, nuh uh uh. 'cause I say so. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bukkakeninja 2003-10-09 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Hee hee, I didn't know this even qualified as wank when the little twit first erupted on my report (yep, this is chozo). (Reply to this)(Thread)

bukkakeninja
2003-10-09 11:57 pm UTC (link)

Ack! Stupid something-or-other didn't let me finish my comment.
Anyhoo, I'm glad that someone other than myself saw it as wank. ^_^ It was quite funny, but...yeah. I'M SO UNPOPULAR AND LAME AND SMELLY FOR HATING THE FANFIC OMG.

I feel proud. I spawned true, F_W-worthy wank.

Thank you for posting this! I am a whole person now, and this really made my day all sparkly and stuff. ...yeah, I know how stupid I sound. =)
<3

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(Anonymous)
2003-10-10 01:16 pm UTC (link)

Hey, I was in the wank and I didn't even know it? Awww, and I was saving myself for ~~flamewar~~ marriage. This is what I get for assuming no one ever adds on after I write something. Especially nothing as wanktastic as "you all can't write anything and have no ideas/constructive crit to give me (especially when I didn't come in and ask for it but instead railed against everyone)!"

Silly writer. If he bothered to look he'd notice one of my stories was right nearby his in the FLCL section of the pit, ready to be lambasted in case it sucked as much as he said it would, under some wank law that should state "all evil critics must have works that suck more than the commented writing because, yes, they are just embittered and jealous."

Gaisce, by the way

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	sarajayechan 2003-10-11 01:56 am UTC (link)
	^_^ You're welcome! I was trying to find some nice juicy wank so I could contribute here, and I suddenly remembered this. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

LOL

(Anonymous)
2003-11-08 02:06 am UTC (link)

Awesome! I'm getting SO unpopular that I'm becoming famous! Neat! Tee hee. You're welcome to critcize my story. You're also welcome to write better. Thank you all for reading my fanfic! (Assuming you all read it. Because otherwise, on what grounds would you call me a "wanker"? To those of you who HAVEN'T read it, I suggest you do so. Then you can call me a wanker as much as you like.) Keep up the good work, this is really entertaining.

- A very proud wanker

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	Re: LOL sarajayechan 2003-11-09 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	snerk I find it very amusing that you seem to get some perverse pleasure out of being made fun of. But, good for you! Obviously you have a thick enough skin to handle it! (Reply to this)(Parent)