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9:57am: LOL!

You just gotta love community wank.

Someone posts in Color_Theory about random picture only postings as being not the intent of the community...

And the first response is deleted, and the second reply (from the original poster) is 'Are you on crack?'?

Leading to such gems as:

thnk the reason you saw red, was becos i struck a cord of understanding with in you and so you reacted childishly, with nonsensicle bable to try to defend your own self criticism.

Settle down, Pavlov. If you’re going to strum your “chord of understanding", then you’d do well to note to whom my statement pertained. :P

Ahh, the smell of fresh wank in the morning.

3:22pm: Public criticism is EVIL!
My friends list brought me some lovely wank this morning-- and for a fandom I'm not even in! Still, oversensitive authors and fanfiction flamewars are universal, right?

First, Elffy-chan posts a fairly innocuous rant about the things that annoy her in lemon fanfiction, using a few specific fics to illustrate her points. As criticism goes, it's pretty fluffy; in almost every case she points out that she really did like the fics in question, it's just that certain aspects of them got on her nerves.

In the comments, Amet, apparently the significant other of one of the authors whose works were critiqued, weighs in: "It's one thing to write an essay about your pet peeves and send it out for debate. It is quite another to pick on other authors who you KNOW will be reading what you write and point out where their fics pissed you off in PUBLIC."

darkwingedangel begins her reply with "Hello dipshit", and the wank goes on for the next 30 comments or so, eventually encompassing the true meaning of love, the purpose of Livejournal, the need for profanity, and the propriety of public criticism. Eventually they seem to come to the conclusion that it's perfectly fine to not like an aspect of a fic-- as long as you don't say anything about it in public. Because, like, that's totally mean and stuff.