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11:15am: Wank challenge!
May one request a wank? (Not in that way, back off you. ;) Someone told me that Forever Knight fans (god, do they even still exist?) used to have marvelously wanky flamewars over the various cutesey names they came up with for their many splinter factions (again, that fandom was BIG ENOUGH for splinter factions?!). Amused by the thought of fen taking things WAY too seriously, I've been trying to find one but, alas, thus far I have failed. Can you succeed in my place? :)

PS: I think they had "mock wars" too, round-robin story-type thingies -- I'm not talking about those. I mean REAL vicious howling bitchfests about using the wrong label for the wrong sect. I've been told they existed. It's like hunting Bigfoot. *waves crappy b&w camera*

7:14pm: Reminded of this just earlier...
Oh hot damn, I have wankery of my very own to post rather than just sitting back and watching everyone else post. ^_^

A friend of mine found this little sweetie on the mediaminer.org forum and I thought that the FIRST thread she sent me was a doozy. (The first thread, for the record, got wanky after my friend mentioned that generally she didn't like incest pairings except in certain circumstances or the relation is no closer than first cousin- the subject was demented couples. She got ripped by some Trunks/Vegeta shippers. *rolls eyes*) The subject of this fun little wankery thread? "Attack of the Bad Cosplay!"

Harmless enough premise- find those who have really bad costumes- those who obviously don't care and have sloppy costumes or costumes that don't even LOOK like what they're supposed to be- but it started off badly. Someone posted a picture of a dark-haired girl in Sailor Venus's costume from the Sailor Moon musical (meaning the costume had a few differences from any of her anime costumes) and the comment about it was that it was bad costuming because she looked like REI in Sailor V's costume.

Their complaint had been that her HAIR wasn't blonde.

*gasp!* Oh heavens! Her hair isn't the right color! It's not the right length! Or style! Oh, look at this person in the Meilin costume! Even though the costume is really good, she has blonde hair! THAT'S JUST NOT RIGHT!

THAT was their definition of bad cosplay. Almost none of the costume they posted about were bad- the problem was that the person didn't look the part because of their hair color/length/style or that they were the wrong build. One guy had a nice Yamcha costume and they slammed him for being to skinny to be Yamcha.

The wankery, she hurts my brain.

Well, someone came in and tried to point out to these people (almost none of whom had actually cosplayed) that the costumes were good- that a person's body build or hair should not limit them to what characters they can cosplay as. She got ripped into, the wankers spouting rebuttles such as this: "I see none of these in here. If you don't look like someone, you don't. Trying to look like them only makes you look ridiculous like the people in these pics. From the people in these pics, the only one that looks _half_ like the original, is the Mei Ling one, BUT, her hairdo looks more like Sakura. Maybe she was trying for one of the artworks with Sakura using that outfit?" This, of course, only proved them to be wankers. No matter how many times this poor soul pointed out that they were being wankers and that wigs were expensive and many probably couldn't find them except at Halloween, the wankers wouldn't listen.

Finally, my friend (Becca Stareyes) stepped in to point this out as well, using clear, concise, and simple terms for them so that they could understand and she got chewed out by the moderator for RUINING the thread.

*grabs James and makes him dig a big hole to bury the wankers in* I swear, the stupidity of some people.

I have to thank virago for reminding me about this bit of wankery- I'm sorry to say that I'm pretty certain one of the good cosplayers these little bints ripped into was him.

7:42pm: More Mary Sue Report wank.
Well, seems like we got another live one, folks. A few days ago, a lady by the name of Uberbitsch reports a Harry Potter Mary Sue story that also changes Hermione's character for that of a punk rawkin' "bad girl".

A day after the thing is posted, the author (known as Wicca Gurl) shows up, and leaves a generic "I'm laughing, really, but fuck you!" reply. A few people reply, not too much of a big brouhaha happens.

She leaves another reply two days later (aka yesterday), still not much happens.

But today, her beta reader (Mage Kitty) replies on her behalf, accusing the OP of having posted it to get people to flame her friend, and later declaring herself and Wicca Gurl as "masters of debate," and hence nothing anyone in the community says in their "flames" is right (Despite the fact that when calmly questioned by littleshebear about their choices of characterization and the concept of Mary Sues, she does not bother to reply.). She also doesn't seem to be able to handle the LJ comments system too well, as you can see from her other reply.

This has yet to reach anything resembling epic proportions like our old friend the Terminally Ill Sue Author and her sockpuppets, but it might be worth keeping an eye on.