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3:05am: Does getting your rocks off count as a fandom?
I posted this on TWS Support earlier, when it was just FUNNY, but commentage has made it considerably more wanky since then. It's still just a mini-wank, but I was too amused not to mention it.

Girl posts to the LJ Sextips community with what some members of our society might generously consider a poem about her dildo. She also posts a warning to anyone who might be offended by such raunchy terms as "butterfly beings."

Responses range from "OMG AWESOME" to "Why the fuck would the Sextips community care if it's dirty? Get over yourself" to "This bites, and never write again, kthx." People get upset at pretty much all of the above.

Contracting, contracting, contracting, contracting . . .

10:21am: Fandom_Wank (and Wankettes) Icons Community Created
yesterday i posted about it and got a good showing of interest.

here's the user info. now all y'all run over and join up, y'hear?

recap of functions: requesting and sharing icons from fandom_wank and its offshoots (including dl_anon). posting ideas for icons from those places. squeeing about icons from those places.

whoo!

11:51am: WTF?! Plagiarism Wank, and not a Harry Potter fan in sight!
So, apparently, some hapless, pea-brained Sailor Moon writer named Tyler is currently writing a story called "As The World Falls Down". It turns out she claims she was "inspired" by Annie Sewell-Jenkins' Buffy story, "The Last Summer", which in itself is an admitted rip-off of Nevil Shute's On The Beach. And it WAS inspired from ASJ's story, if by "inspired" you mean "basically replaced all the Buffy characters' names with Sailor Moon characters' names and posted it as her own story". Hee!

Annie apparently initially found this amusing (right well!) although she did say, "Needless too say, the bitch is going down." This prompted hilarity through 68 comments wherein her friends give mature encouragement throughout such as "Fuck her shit up, Annie!" and the dignified "That's just so... so wrong! and my personal favorite by harmonyfb, which made me laugh so hard that I cried:

Plagiarism isn't "inspiration", and it isn't flattery. It's theft. You have stolen their intellectual property and claimed that it was yours. It is against the law.

I advise you to remove the files from your site and post an apology to both authors - and never do it again. I have advised Annie Sewell-Jennings to seek legal advice, and to notify the estate of Mr. Shute so that they might do the same.

Emphasis on "It's theft" not mine. I personally encourage AnnieSJ to please, please seek legal advice! I would looooove to see those legal documents, dude! "Plaintiff claims that Defendent blatantly ripped off her blatant rip off, from which neither made any money. Plaintiff seeks damages in the sum of..."

Well, this is all well and good, but anniesj then posted this wanktastically fabulous and hilarious letter to "her plagiarist". Notice her choice of words. "My plagiarist", akin to "my abusive ex" or "my attacker".

The next day, amidst a dozen or so self-congratulatory paragraphs, she talks a little about why this shit hasn't shown up here on F_W yet. I'm an obliging sort, so y'all enjoy!

7:41pm: Looking for a place to srtart.
How do you make the flashing icons? What program seems to work the best? I've got Paintshop Pro 7, might be getting Photoshop soon.

10:39pm: Ahh, Pernwank that will never die.
There's a reason I stay away from Pern fandom. The people there will not let things die.

You may or may not know that Anne McCaffrey rides herd on her fandom. (In fact, her behavior is quite wanktastic, and I'll endeavor to provide examples of same in other posts.) You can only post fanfiction on her very secure fanfiction forums. All RPG and zine clubs have strictly enforced rules which are longer than the Bible. Among these are the gender and sexuality of dragonriders.

A *year* ago, Ms. McCaffrey decided that it was really OK with her after all if women Impressed brown dragons in fandom. So someone makes A poll asking what people's thoughts are on the matter.

( The fandom reacts...again...and again...and again... )

11:24pm: Gamefaqs.com wank!
I know posting gamefaqs wank is like shooting fish in a barrel, but yeesh, this is bad even for them.

Anyway, apparently Nintendo is remaking the original Metroid for the GBA. I'm thinking that's great for various reasons, including seeing the original with sellout spiffy GBA graphics.

But, the people at Gamefaqs.com still aren't sure if it's a remake or not, and even if it's a remake, all they can do is bitch.

And as a special bonus, A wonderful "debate" about a completely different Metroid game that's somehow in the Metroid: Zero board.

Gamefaqs.com never ceases to amaze me.