Mock. Mockmockmock. Mockity-mock-mock

12:03am: Minor wank, yet amusing.
Duranies again.

LdyXanax is upset because her husband told her that they can't afford tickets to a Duran show. Despite the fact they've been married over 10 years and have worked out other issues, she's not happy and this may well be the final straw. Divorce is mentioned by the others who support her need to attend a concert of washed up, wrinkled, has-been popstars at the expense of her marriage.

http://www.duranduran.com/bboard/duranduran/71819_flat.html

Attitudes like that just amaze me.

9:18am: Just a Little Postwank...
NPR had a marvelous piece on Anne Rice's rummage sale this morning.

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1450652

THIRTEEN JEANS SKIRTS! JOHN DENVER CHRISTMAS ALBUM!

11:46am: The wank that was- Due South
Don't you hate it when the best wank was in deleted posts and you never even got to read it? Sigh. But surfing some 'friends of friends' journals, I found the trail of what looked to be some most excellent wank. Seems buzzwords posted a 'Due South' story to [Unknown LJ tag]. Here's the author's description of his story:

"Here's the story that started it all, a charming due South tale called "Fall of the Sparrow." According to most, you don't have to have actually watched the show to actually understand this story."[sic]

Note the lack of watching the show is considered worthy of emphasis- this will be important in a moment!

So, the story is posted to ds_slashfiction (and subsequently deleted, taking the 'wank' with it), and it appears some folks responded by saying that while it was well written, it didn't seem particularly in character. Then, someone did a bit of digging in Buzz's journal and found this post where he says mostly, I don't know the characters I'm writing about and suggests to him that actually watching the show might help with the characterization issues.

A (now deleted) kerfluffle ensues and then buzzwords posts again saying that he's leaving (this whole post is now deleted as well, but Buzz quotes his goodbye post here. I REALLY wish I'd seen the wank that then flowed. But I didn't.

The fallout can be summed in two main journals (one on each side), and really, the posts are surprisingly calm and well reasoned and non-wanky or flamey. The only real wank I see is in the faint whiff of the wank that was and in the completely different takes on the situation you get from reading. (Well, there's a bit more wank than that, but I'll let you pick it out yourself.) Friends of Buzz take on brooklinegirl's lj and a clarification by justacat on her journal.

There's a little spill over about Fanfic critique, but really, this is almost metablog stuff.

Still, the whiff of 'wank that was' is strong, so I thought I'd pass it along for what it's worth. Also, people who don't watch the show writing fanfic about it strikes me as a little wanky, but that may just be me.

Now, I'm late to work. Hope this brings a little funny.

1:50pm: Wanktastic
Mini ROTK wank:

"It's a spoiler!" "No! It's not!" "It is if I say it is!" "You're insane!" "You're a bitch!"

leggyslove posts a batch of screen caps in her LJ from the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King trailer. One of the pictures is not put behind a cut-tag, and finduilas_clln asks if it can be so as to avoid spoilers. dreagonfli flies to leggyslove's defense, stating that screencaps are not spoileriffic. Turns out, finduilas_clln doesn't even care for herself, but for m_l_h, who wants to remain blissfully ignorant of everything in relation to ROTK until it plays in theaters this December, and who is not even on leggyslove's friends list. Various people join in to convince her that seeing a picture of a main character wearing a hood isn't particularly spoily, as we've already seen him in that cloak with the hood down for two years. m_l_h claims that any image or soundbite from the movie is a spoiler. Others counter that the books have been out for 50 years, so there are no spoilers. m_l_h is dumbfounded that anyone would post anything about the movie without cut-tagging it, and asks another person whose friends list she is not on not to create ROTK image icons, for fear of her seeing spoilage.

Censorship is mentioned. The definitions of common courtesy, flaming and proactive are debated. A good time is had by all.

8:19pm: Furry Wankitude
I've been meaning to point this out (and I'm actually surprised it hasn't already been mentioned here):

The LJ community som_pos is a community for the popular webcomic Something Positive. The discussions are sometimes low-key, sometimes crazy, and sometimes, well, who knows. But one member posted a photomanip of Wil Wheaton of "Star Trek: TNG" fame in a bad furry cosplay situation (let it be known that it the first time I've ever typed that sentence), and it led to a kind of fun discussion.

Then, further down the list, the wank happened. Watch what happens when on person defends furrydom's right to exist, while another argues against the alternate lifestyle. Tragedy ensues.