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3:59am: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Wank
In honor of teratologist's craving for chocolate; a deep rich multilayered torte of wank.

Over on IMDB is a page devoted to a remake of the movie based on Roald Dahl's lovely book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
In the message boards, some people seem confused by the 'title change' and completely unaware that the 1971 movie was based on a book!!!

See book purists insulting the intelligence of movie fans, people complaining about and explaining the reasons for the various titles, speculation about if this will be a musical, how and if Danny Elfman and Tim Burton will save or ruin this film, and the hypothetical rotational movement of the author within his grave. (He loved the movie! No he hated it! But he wrote the screenplay! No, they butchered it!)

To make this pudding all the richer; the star of the upcoming remake is no other than Johnny Depp! See Depp fangirls squeeing, see Wilder fans bitching and moaning, see Tim Burton fans and haters duke it out in grand internet style!

This Wank has it all- watch posters invoke Manson (Which one, I'm not sure.) Nazi's, racism and Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'.

So surreal. (Rather fitting, isn't it?)

7:02am: Blade vs. Buffy is apparently the new Alien vs. Predator
Posting on behalf of diemydawny, who is having JournalFen issues:

Blade/Buffy Wank!!! Yay!!

Someone on the Blade: Trinity forums on IMDB starts a thread called Blade Vs. Buffy, and all hell breaks loose!

Some highlights:

( Duh, Blade has a bigger budget, which means that the choreography is better, which means that Blade would win. )

9:42pm: Still wanking
Not overly wanky, but kind of adorable: Firefly fandom enters the realm of potential wankiness with that time-honored tradition ... Fanfic Awards.

The "Blue Sun Awards" take a bit of a beating here as the poster laments the award processes and procedures.

There is a new category, not included among the nomination categories, called the "Favorite Author Award." Looking at the list of names, I assume that it was culled from whoever got either the most nominations at whatever stage. Nothing good can come from this award. I cannot think of any redeeming artistic or fannish value it may have, except to stroke egos and encourage the worst type of "popularity contest" behavior. The very fact that it's called "favorite" author is pretty much a statement in favor of popularity voting.

Expecting fanfiction awards to be merit-based, non-popularity contests ... Firefly fandom is so cute!

Is it a bad sign when the organizers of fanfic awards write with awkward sentence structure and can't spell? Judging: We will base judging to narrow down the nominations on these 4 criteria: Grammar/Spelling, Plot Consistancy, Characterization, Overall Appeal. It will likely be based on a scale of 1-10 Shiney Stars.

Please trust our taste in fanfiction, but ignore the fact that we can't use your/you're properly on our avatar ...

You definitely want to see your fanfic awards run by folks at the peak of speling/grammer accuracy.

9:46pm: Your pussy ain't as pretty as mine!
I don't know if you could really consider non_uglies type communities a "fandom", but a lot of people *do* like applying to them.

Pretty Gems is an average community in this vein. Checking the community's journal turns up nothing especially interesting to read, either. Actually, this is a pretty secretive community. The funny part is how I found out about them:

"I am leaving you this comment because I believe you are one of the chosen cats. There is a rating community on this human website that allows cats to join. I believe you would be perfect for this community, as you understand the perfection only cats have. "

Check out their user info - one of the community policies is to pic spam other communities and LJs. Yes, even the journals of cats.

ETA: Thanks to athy, we now have the origins of Pounce, the first cat. Pounce tries to join Pretty Gems. I was so very much tempted to do the same thing - but I'm lazier than my cat, so no.