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2:28pm: They don't own or RENT, they wank
Well, it's not Harry Potter related, so that has to be worth something, right?

So, BroadwayWorld is a board dedicated to all things Broadway. It acquired a sardonic Sondheim-esque personality rather quickly, but also has a contingent of very excitable fans of Wicked/RENT/BKLYN/whatever is currently popular and has really devoted fans, which is often a cause of, well, you can imagine. Of concern here are RENTheads, the devoted followers of the musical RENT.

( This is where the backstory goes )

Today, fengshuihellnyc discovers that the 10th Anniversary show (in a year) is going to be a benefit at $1000 a pop, which obviously is SO WRONG and against St. Jonathan Larson and all he stood for, not to mention encourages the rich NY elite! He/she also suggests that people keep posting to keep the thread alive all year! EVERYTHING SHOULD BE FOR THE FANS!

( The post here in case it goes away )

Meanwhile, people who think that is completely insane show up! People are snarky!

( My favorite reply thus far )

fengshuihellnyc (who has apparently seen the show 100 times, thus causing others to wonder why he/she doesn't save if it's that important to see this show) is not daunted, and Private Messages people to tell them to stop their negative hating and cease posting on the thread he/she has created. People point out that he/she doesn't own the thread! People try to make clear that it's a benefit concert and the point is to raise money for causes Larson believed in! fengshuihellnyc claims to have been threatened! Other people agree that it all goes against the spirit of RENT and turns it into a yuppified commercial event! Grammar and spelling are lampooned!

And it's still going! It can only get more exciting from here!

(Disclaimer: not all RENTheads are crazy. I think.)

Update: Sadly, all five pages have now vanished, although some minor fallout may appear here as well as in perhaps not so fond mockery here. And fengshuihellnyc was threatening to return under other names to keep the dream alive...

Further Update: This person of bad feng shui will not be vanquished! Let's see how long this one lasts! It's becoming car-crashingly like his/her first post! Be there for pooh-poohed dreams and so much more.

And there's more! (Thanks, wallflower!) Apparently a "pitition" was started and mentioned in a thread that has since been deleted.

Additionally, the "pooh-poohed dreams" thread has also been deleted, but not before it was dramatically revealed that: He/she is now claiming that it was all an "experiment."

( You might be the butt of some ones joke )

And, it isn't really a substitute for the lost wank, but LJ is getting in on the action in a sort of parallel yet much less wanky way (so far) here. (Thanks, dommichan!)

11:34pm: *headdesk*
This is just... WTF. Congrats to the mousie on wank_report for finding this gem of a wank.

From the mousie:

Found this gem on fanficrants, as posted by blackstronghold.

"But people with commissions sell their stuff!"

Found by a friend of mine, someone is attempting to sell her written works in specific fandoms.

...Poems are not worth 10 USD.

There's a rant here, about not the innards about the work, but the creator. And I'm sure you might figure it out without me explaining it.

In the actual post (of which I have a copy, should it be deleted), queenstrata discusses pricing ("Per one-shot and/or poem: $10.00 USD or 4 months paid lj time or 1 year extra icon space") and her attitude to plagiarism ("Do not try to swindle me out of money, and do not try to pass any of my work off as your own. Because when I find out you have, I will find a way to make sure you regret it. I am greedy, remember.") She also has this to say when told she might get into trouble for this whole earning money from fanfic thing and have to deal with ebil lawyers: "I shall kick their obnoxious blame-pointing arses if they bother me! *dramatic pose* Nobody makes an example out of me! I shall send them to Lawyer Hell and um... Okay, let's face it. I'm not good at stupid dramatic speeches. The point is, they're going to get more than they bargained for because I seem Sweet and Innocent, and Bloody Retarded to most people, so they won't expect whatever I throw at them. XD And I'll probably have people to back me up besides. (*poses again* I fight for True Justice, and the fannish way!)"

ETA: Bahleeted! But here's the original, as copied by our friend the Reporter Mouse.

ETA2:queenstrata apologizes, because apparently the lawyers go after BNFs first. (Ok, everybody who has heard of queenstrata before this wank, raise your hand!)
Also, in the apology thread, vengefulwrath wanks about Fandom Wank being OMG meen to her friend.

ETA3: Shit, someone linked Goldberg's blog.