Mock. Mockmockmock. Mockity-mock-mock

5:20am: So there's a new mailing list in the wrestlefic fandom: Wrestling Fan Fiction is Evil. Already, the fen are up in arms over it, including, sad to say, some of my friends. Links to the mailing list are being passed around, people are joining the list just long enough to say how stupid it is and how they have better things to do than put up with these people, and wank is generally just flying in all directions.

It's all very silly, slightly reminiscent of the old hubbub about FW. Once again, we are reminded that no one should ever say anything bad about someone else's fanfic, even if it's done quietly, in an isolated location where people have to actually go looking for it and JOIN THE GROUP in order to read it and be offended. Not to mention, the point of the group is to make fun of *bad* fanfic, though admittedly that's not explicitly stated in the group info.

It's a beautiful wank, and teaches the lesson is that fandom should be a beautiful peaceful place where we all hold hands and skip through the daisies singing "Kumbaya." Never mind that we like to watch a show with people beating the shit out of one another.

I joined the group, of course. I'm so proud of my little fandom. *wipes away a tear*

9:09am: *fap*fap*fap*
Fanficrants always skirts the fine edge between bitchy and wanky. I think this one dips over the edge...

It's short and hasn't gone very far, but to sum up: "I hate stuck-up authors who don't fall over themselves to publically thank me for my reviews, especially this one bitch whom I won't name (but probably will if I get enough pats on the back)."

2:16pm: The wank that can't exactly be wanked
So several yahoo groups got shut down recently, among them HPchan, master_aprentice, obi_chan, slashypronovels, and probably some others.

From one of the mods of M_A:

In short, M_A was the victim of an anti-chan fan who reported several lists which allow chan to yahoogroups. One of those chan lists was owned by one of M_A's admins. Because yahoogroups deemed her list had violated their terms of service, they deleted not only her chan-allowed list, but all lists she owned. Technically, all three mods are considered co-owners of M_A, but yahoogroups only allows for one owner per list and it was mere chance that she was the admin listed as owner of M_A. Hence, M_A was deleted. So the long and short of it is that M_A was deleted by default, not as a direct result of allowing slash, chan, tentacles or Force-flying lube.

[Edit] So yeah it's wanky in that several mailing lists got TOS'd because Fan A didn't like Fan B's stance on chan (underaged slash) but I have no links or anything. Think of it as sort of a Reader's Digest Condensed Wank. Or something like that.