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12:50am: You're all fake writers!
The lovely shoiryu dragged me back to the steaming cesspit joy that is elfwoodrant, where I stumbled across ... this:

Fanfiction is, at it's very best, nothing more than a tool for learning to write. The widest circulation it should EVER get is whoever's in your email address book. Send it out to your friends, get an opinion, and leave it at that. Things like fanfiction.net or whatever it is just make people take it too seriously, as if it's an end in and of itself, when in fact it's nothing more than a warmup for really, really writing.

Thank you, beatprogeny, for your insight.

P.S. Yes, this is the same beatprogeny from this wank. Only he can shine so brilliantly.

12:47pm: The quack goes on...
Now that Angel is wrapping up, everyone's favorite Buffy-n-Angel-4evah supporters—Ducks and her ducklings—continue to hope against hope that their couple will be reunited by the end of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, regardless of recent casting news and the fact that Angel and Buffy are a fictional couple that has been over for going on five years now.

Anyway, infighting and "hate mail" forced one longtime moderator to leave the Babble Board (BB). What caused this rift? Debate over how many claddagh rings should be used in the next B/A ad in Variety? What kind of cookies to send to the Mutant Enemy office?

Nope. An advertisement in support of David Boreanaz... on another site!

That's right. Apparently someone posted information on the BB about a possible Boreanaz ad being created by another site, and some Ducklings went over to the site to check it out. More than a few got their widdle feewings huwrt. According to Ducks' moderator Margot Le Faye: ( we found a torrent of negative, and to be frank, even slanderous, mud being slung at our own efforts )

Tempers were SO hot that Dawny, a BB mod, up and quit. ( I received hate mail after hate mail after hate mail. )

But what I find most amusing about this "saying goodbye" thread is the fact that remaining moderators are heavily editing posts. Morgan explains, "I'm going through this thread and deleting or editing anything that is not a respectful farewell to Dawn, or a moderators post. Again, this means some things that were not inappropriate will be deleted in the name of keeping this thread on track, so don't be offended if you find yourself edited or deleted." Which leads to posts like this:

( {deleted by mod} )

Also? "[T]his is fair warning. I have been sick since September. I may need surgery. I have had a serious Upper Respiratory Infection for six weeks and I am miserable. I am NOT in a particularly tolerant mood, and the crap being flung at me for my work in the campaigns isn't exactly sweetening my temper."

And of course, we have those on the Board who are in a league of their own. ( I'm not gonna be* ignored,* Dan! )

Background on the Ducks can be found here.

2:16pm: Kentucky-zians - crazier than the tinhats? No, but nearly as amusing.
Sorry folks, this'll be another baby wank. It's just too funny to pass up.

At lotrboys_daily on lj, someone posts a rather amusing shot of Elijah Wood and his sister Hannah (who is absolutely adorable, by the way... Elijah who?) mistakenly captioned: Elijah Wood and his girlfriend out and about shopping in SoHo. Whoopsie! Much laughter and shifty talk of Woodcest ensues.

( But of course, all the good, filthy fun was too good to last. )

I know, I know, my wanks are worthless and weak. I'll find me a good, sticky sploogefest next time, I promise!