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1:53pm: small band/huge wank
On Saturday night, the Boston-based band The Dresden Dolls played a show in Providence, RI, which got a little rough. Basically, there were a number of non-fans there, and also just a lot of drunken fans, and towards the end of their set a mosh pit broke out. As well as a girl passing out from feeling claustrophobic, one particular individual climbed onto the stage and dove into the crowd, even though nobody was paying attention to catch her. Luckily, she broke her fall ... on another girl's head. This girl had a seizure and ended up in the hopsital for five hours.

A number of people were pissed off about the (unprecedented) moshing and expressed this on dresdendolls lj community. Eventually the friend of the girl who had the seizures made a post about it, chastising the people who moshed and ignored those who were hurt, and asking for help to identify the person who injured her friend.

This was followed by a flurry of discussion, about half of the community sympathizing with her and another half basically tell her she and her friend was an idiot; there's nothing wrong with moshing; furthermore, there's nothing wrong with moshing at Dolls shows; and finally, if you don't like it, screw you, and you probably deserved to get hurt anyway. There's also one particular genius who seems to be completely enamored with the idea that it's impossible to get a seizure from a mere head injury unless one has "special needs". He's also one of those charmers who enjoys likening the totalitarian desires of people who don't want people crashing into them to a OMG! A Nazi regime!

Soon after, the person who was injured posts a thread as well.

And then that same genius boy is now deciding the whole thing was made upwhich pisses off the original girl so that she does a "I'm leaving!" post. Which is tremendously melodramatic, but everything about this wank is.

And in case you are wondering, I was at the concert and it did happen.

7:03pm: Here's one for the "Bitch, are you for real" File.
GAFF takes on... (wait for it, wait for it,) the subculture of incest.

At first it's merely disturbing as a few regs say, "incest, meh, as long as they're both adults it's okay." Whatever, but, umm, eww. Then things heat up after someone posts a link to incestboard.com. It ends up that a regular poster from the incest boards (sorry, just typing that kind of gives me a shudder...in the bad way,) who calls herself "Puppy" says, Before you all accuse me of being a dirty old perv or the such like, I'll have you know that I'm actually a fairly young woman of 22 who is having a wonderful relationship with her dad for the last three years.

And all hell breaks loose.

At first, GAFFers do a little bit of light snarking. Then "Puppy" comes back on and, in a very long and disturbing post, ( waxes rhapsodic about her love affair with her father )

That's right, kids. If you are not fucking your mom and dad, you are a hater.

The general responses to this from GAFFers? "Wow, how weird! Thanks for sharing this lifestyle and for being so nice!" (I'm sorry, I have to take a moment to tell you all that my eyeballs are leaping out of my skull as I read those reactions.)

Page two brings wank of the-- "your practice is disgusting!" "Hey, don't call her disgusting!" "I didn't, I said her practice was disgusting, and furthermore, I'm going to post dictionary definitions of 'disgust'!" --variety. Then GAFF infighting happens.

Page three gives us PotterWank (my god, it's everywhere!) right fromt eh start, wherein "PuppyShipPaladin" (not to be confused with "Puppy") says that she dislikes Weasleycest because of the OOC-ness, but is OK with the incest of it all, and asks Puppy to rec her some good Weasleycest fic. Uh huh.

More infighting. "Puppy" joins the boards. Comes out with, "My Mom was a controlling bitch, wouldn't any man with a wife like that turn to his daughter for sex? Yes, of course he would." And even more, "Incest is the right way, much more loving and open-minded. 'Norms' are creepy and will hurt you." And the kicker: "If I got married, it would be to another person who liked incest, and if I had a son, yes, I would fuck my son, too, because it's the loving thing to do."

Ahhhh, on page four someone does a bit of googling and digs up some older posts of Puppy's. There are questions of who this person really is, why she lied about how old she was when her dad "fell in love" with her and began touching her, (the answer is, she was fifteen,) and an anonymouse eeeeeven goes so far as to hint that ( Puppy might be a relatively well known GAFF reg )
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Wow. *smokes a cigarette*

7:43pm: I think if Krycek knew about this, he'd shoot these people
In case anyone was afraid that after their show was cancelled the wank might fade away, I am here from The X Files fandom to assure you this will never come to pass. At least not in XF.

A brief history: Satina and Shannon are two johnny-come-lately slashers who became infamous in the fandom for boldly mixing their personal lives with their fannish ones, leading to such gems as the five-page header dedication from one of the two (I can never tell them apart) idly wondering about decorating habits of the other, who had just become their new RL lover and who was soon to move in with her and her husband (don't ask), which was quickly followed by a massive flamewar and their first banishment from RaTales, a longtime Krycek list. They later moved onto other lists, and have been subsequently kicked out for their aggressive TMI and over-the-top theatrics, and apparently in August of last year decided instead to create their own list, MKLove.

The description page ALONE is worth its own wank. ( Come Cry with Us! )

o_o

Yeah, I have no words, either.

For perspective's sake, let's keep in mind this is about fanfic for Fox Mulder and Alex Krycek, two fictional characters on a defunct show. One of whom was SHOT IN THE HEAD in the last season, and the other who rode off into the schmoopy sunset with his female partner and their alien!baby.

But apparently any fanfic about them should be about love, peace and healing. I don't know about you, but those are exactly the three words that come to mind when I think of Mulder and Krycek!

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Anyhoo, everything seems to be going along swimmingly when the poor dears realize there is FRICTION on their beloved list! List members apparently want to occasionally talk about fics where sunshine and skittles DON'T fly out of Mulder and Krycek's asses! *gasp*

In response to this, on January 20th, Shannon and Satina make the decision to hand over the moderator reins to another listmember, and to open a NEW list called MKLoveNLight.

LoveNLight. Oh, boy.

Three weeks later, in a sudden reversal (or maybe not so sudden, but I just can't bring myself to slog through all the messages available on the public archive), Satina and Shannon decide to take the list back.

( The 'Love Based Decision', which as sweeping epic posts go, is one for the Crack Hall of Fame )

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I LOVE YOU X-FILES!!! NEVER, EVER CHANGE YOUR WANKY SELF!!!!

9:20pm: Pony wank...
And this time, I'm innocent.

Mod lalenalefay fusses at people who complain about back news being posted repeatedly, and says the community is not for elite pony snobs. That these snobs are ruining the fun for everyone. That this is not the spirit of pony collecting. And that if Super Seekret Person doesn't stop being mean, she'll face bannnation. (EDIT: My bad. it's dietotaku who was threatened with bannination.)

s8venus chirps in with a link to a thread (that sadly, does not exist anymore) complaining about evildeadpony being mean to her. EDP steps up to say that the post was about s8venus's monitor getting ruined by placing the new line of ponies on top of it and others who chimed ine with, "um, all you had to do was look to see the magnent." It appears s8venus didn't flip her ponies over before sticking them on her monitor, and when it went pbbth, she had Hasbro send her the money for a new monitor (or a degaussing, I'm not sure which). Now these are ponies that have some strong magnets. Ponies can defy gravity with these magnets. I've used these to hold post-its to the fridge and they don't budge. They're not weak magnets. Either way, bickering starts. Again.

A few highlights:

"I'm not ignorant, seeing as I didn't put magnets on my monitor."

"Companies only give money when they are wrong!"

"Ponies are happy things, like sunshine and bunnies!" says the person with...the pot smoking pony. (My favorite line, personally.)

s8venus snaps at someone defending her.

Baby Sparklebutt weeps. Weeps, I say.