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12:25am: Harry Potter wank
Okay, this is my first post to fandom_wank, so I hope this qualifies.

I was reading the Harry Potter thread over at Fametracker tonight and the discussion was pretty reasonable until Captain Pedantic decided to hijack the thread to discuss why Harry Potter needs a gay character--preferably Snape and Lucius Malfoy. Now I don't have a problem with slashing the potterverse, but this just came across as a little over-the-top to me. You be the judge--http://www.fametracker.com/ijsbb/forum.cgi?a=list&f=6&d=5&t=461988&n=34,1#n

I think my favorite bit of the rant is this little line-- My view is, if one is selling so very many books and making so much money, why not use the opportunity to create something astonishing, rather than just thinking "I could crap between two bits of paper, photocopy it for everyone to see and it'd still sell like hotcakes! I'll be richer than Bill Gates!"?

I like to think JKR is an intelligent woman who wants to challenge her readers, anyway.

Edited to fix the link, sorry about that I posted right before bed and didn't realize I hadn't posted a direct link until this morning.

1:54pm: The GT Wank Saga Continues
"Oh, perish, I shall faint dead away if my fangrrls get a whiff of what reeeeeallly happened" sez poor, frail Ms. Imogen on her Blog. "I simply can't discuss it anymore - Oh, fanboyz! A cool drink, a cool drink for me, or I shall surely faint."

7:17pm: Is fantasy as a whole a fandom?
There's not really any public wank here, as there's no message boards to make it REALLY blow up like I know it could. Just some dude on Woodworks, Elfwood's emagazine telling all aspiring fantasy writers about their social responsibilities to not glorify monarchies, violence (well, he basically says that there's no excuse for ANY violence), or misogyny.

If he was on a soapbox and I had a rotten tomato...

8:07pm: The quacking...er wanking...HAS begun.
Everyone remember this?

They've JUST figured it out.

Highlight?

Seems more than a few Ducks translate "Fandom Wank = SpuffyTruLuv4evah!!111!!one!" and wank ensues.