Mock. Mockmockmock. Mockity-mock-mock

1:50am: On the WoW forums, someone posts that they are creating a GLBT(friendly) guild. The members start wanking. "Why do you have to advertise it?" they say. "There's no sex in WoW!"

"You're missing the point," the poster and others try to explain. "We really want a place where we can mention our own sexuality and feel comfortable."

"But there's no sex in WoW!!!oneeleventy!1"

And, "You're corrupting the children!" plus "you're only doing it for attention!"

(Is WoW a fandom? I'm working on the assumption that it is, but if not I'll move this to otf_wank.)

1:19pm: I Happen To Believe In Wank BEFORE Marriage
This wank brought to you by an anonymous anonymouse, of Anonymous Wankers, Inc. (company motto: "We're Always Watching You"). Keep flying that unmarked flag, guys.

Over on the ever-reliable IMBD boards, the delightful Avanzander makes the following post regarding slushy period romance The Notebook.

This Movie Reinforces the Lie that Love = Sex

Brief highlights of his post include:

( I like quotation marks )

( I have very direct ideas about what constitutes masculinity )

( PH34R my social commentary, bitches )



Whether this is wanky in and of itself I shall leave to saner wiser minds than mine to decide. The real fun, however, definitely begins with the replies:

( Apparantly 'anti-sex' is a word now. And boy, do I like my 'Enter' key. )

( I am excessively bitter about my sexless marriage and subsequent divorce, and the best way for me to release my rage is to use motoring metaphors )

( i believe VERY STRONGLY in using CAPITAL LETTERS to emphasise my POINTS, but not, apparently, to BEGIN SENTENCES. )


( Also... )

4:48pm: Fanfiction.net Bans Songfic. Fanficrants explodes
Wankage within.

25 replies in less than 30 minutes.

Complete with "I'M NOT TAKING DOWN MY STORY!!!1111"

and

"Thank God! What took them so damn long?"

7:06pm: Les Miserables mini-kerfuffle
Not as amusing as it undoubtedly was before someone got delete-happy, but still good for a snicker:

All the little fangirls in the lesmiz community have discovered a new, exciting survey. So they all decide to share, despite repeated pleas from their fellow members to knock off the spam.

Finally it comes to a head with this little exchange:

romantiqua: Stop with the annoying meme! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
reynardbleu: No, YOU'RE annoying! People like you are the reason I LEFT THE FANDOM!!
badcheshire: Chill.
reynardbleu: No YOU chill!!!
Mysterious Unknown Poster: *(Deleted post)s all over the damn place*

And sarah_chagal tops it off with a new survey for everyone's enjoyment.

11:16pm: Lee Goldberg's and The Fanfic-Haters...The Wank Just Keeps On Coming!

(Shy smile)  This is my first post, and although I was heavily involved in this latest party over in Goldberg-ville, I figured it was broad and diverse enough to go here rather than i_wank.

So our good ol' buddy Lee, published author and fanfic-hater extraordinaire, was at a convention for mystery writers, in which they gabbed about much stuff including how fanfiction "freaks them out."

http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2005/04/hot_button_topi.html

Responses are made on a variety of subjects by a variety of posters--including me, and I just couldn't restrain myself from correcting a few misrepresentations Lee had made about the fanfic community.

( My little comment... )

(Okay, I admit it, I hijacked the thread.) A few responses here, a few remarks there, and then...

( Another published author called Keith Snyder weighs in...SPLOOGE! )

And all hell breaks loose.

Interestingly enough, Lee Goldberg himself stays out of the fray, but his supportive do more than enough wanking to make up for it.

Just as it looks like the party is winding down, Lee posts again, this time about a "link between Trekkies and pedophilia."

Yes, you read that right.

Mockery of Trekkies ensued, which in itself isn't that interesting, and this one  might have come to nothing if the fanfiction opponents hadn't seized on it to support their claim.

David says, I'm more concerned with the link between pedophilia and fanfiction. I suspect they're strongly correlated.

( Claire says...you're RIGHT! Remember Shaking Heads? )

About that time, I once again attempt to make what I think is a reasonably logical point:  Just because some pedophiles use the Internet doesn't mean we should ban the Internet.  Just because some pedophiles read and/or write fanfiction doesn't mean we should ban all fanfiction.

NO, they say!  Fanfiction is full of pedophiles and plagiarists and Eeeeeevil!

Other fanfic proponents weigh in throughout here.

I just find it fascinating that all these published authors have such unshakable faith in their claims, which seem to be:

1. I am an author and I don't like fanfiction, therefore fanfiction is WRONG because I SAY SO!
2. If you use logic or common sense, those are TRICKS!
3. If you try to interpret or cite law, you're using RED HERRINGS!

It's very interesting to click on the links to the various posters' homepages. 

Quite a few on both sides of the argument linked to the debate, and I met lots of new people on my LJ who had popped over out of curiosity.  I also paid a brief visit to Keith's, corrected one of his supporters' gender confusion (hey, if you're going to accuse me of conducting a colonic self-examination, at least get my sex right!), and flirted with Paul Guyot, writer fromJudging Amy.  Who then decided Keith was possibly more attractive. (That exchange took place in the comments of Keith's blog, above.)