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11:41am: Could you maybe not be so negative about my movie please? Thanks!
I will probably bring on the wrath of some Rentheads for this, but . . . this is just too amusing IMO:

So, Harry Potter isn't the only film opening soon. But at least the early reviews for it were pretty positive. The same, however, could not be said about the upcoming film version of Rent . . . or, at least, at first.

For the past two weeks now, early industry screenings for the film have been occurring. So some fans, who are members of specific guilds like SAG, have been able to view the film early and many have been posting reviews of the film on BroadwayWorld, TalkingBroadway, and even Oscarwatch.com.

And the majority of the reviews - when first posted in these three places at least - weren't very raving. Some very much the opposite in fact.

One Rent fan named Munkustrap, who went to a screening posted a very negative review a few days ago, and seemed very solid in his opinion on the film. After a few days however, the review was deleted. (The original review gave it 2 stars out of four. The thread for the deleted review can still be found here however.) Why, no one could guess, but Munkustrap said he's had a change of opinion after seeing the film again, deleted the first review himself, and began posting more positively about the film.

Most of the BroadwayWorld posters however (some who haven't seen the film yet) are pleased as punch Munkustrap has a change of heart about the film - for whatever reason. User MJohnson05 however notes this rather large change of opinion, as well as the fact that a few other people who posted critical reviews (including himself) seemed to be doing a 180 about the film suddenly - or at least being more positive about the film when posting about it - in a thread started by user BroadwayGirl107 in which she too has a negative and disappointed view of the film:

( I thought other people were being contacted to change their reviews the way I was contacted to. Glad to see that's not the case )

( Wait a minute - you were contacted to do what? )

User EvelynNesbit1906 confirms that there has been contact to posters on Broadway World about speaking more positively about the film, ( because she has been contacted too. )

( I hope I don't have to fear Nathan Lane PM'ing me about The Producers film. . . )

( It all seems a bit worrisome... )

The back and forth about this - and whether or not people are just having a more balanced opinion about the film now or not - all comes to a head when Anthony Rapp himself (Mark Cohen to all Rent fans) - realizing he's been busted as everyone knows he used to be a regular poster on BroadwayWorld until Sony Pictures asked him to stop and to only post things on the official Rent Blog - posts in the thread to defend himself about the PM's he admits sending:

( Celebrity in the thread! )

Despite the cheering from almost everyone about Anthony posting and "clearing this up," MJohnson still sticks on point that what Rapp did made him feel uncomfortable:

( He didn't ask me to discuss why I felt what i felt in a PM with him -- he asked me to post it on the board. That's where I thought it drew the line. )

( That MJ felt uncomfortable being engaged in a discussion is perhaps a matter of how comfortable he was with his own opinion. )

Yeah, or maybe it's a request that probably shouldn't have been made in the first place?

:sits back and waits to get asked to change her post to a more balanced one:

ETA: Um, Anthony? Maybe you should just let this go already? *stares*

3:09pm: Because the first step in writing hot girl-on-girl action...
...is admitting that we have misogyny conditioned into us by the repressive patriarchal society we inhabit.



There’s been a lot of meta about misogyny in fandom lately, but nothing brings it from 0-to-wank faster than bringing up slash.

Twinkledru starts us off by asking : Why is femslash the redheaded stepchild of fandom? She makes another post, going into more detail, and the comments in both are rife with wank piling up as people attempt to offer explainations.

Here, twinkledru states it outright (yes, fandom is misogynist) and also puts words in the mouths of people arguing from the “media gives us faulty female characters” POV.

Marenfic knows why people don’t understand the point. Because if there’s one thing their argument needs, it’s yet another way to pseudo-intellectually insult fandom.

I have a hunch twinkledru’s being sarcastic here. Phantomas decides to respond.

Final thoughts, with a lot of TO MEs. Or that’s just the way it read, to me.

Kita weighs in. Also, there may- just may- be some grudgewank between the two sides.

JaneDavitt weighs in.

Here, I learn that I missed this on wank_report, which I really should check more regularly. Also, Jennyo tries too hard.

Edit: Apparently the wank_report report featured this link, in which Phantomas doesn’t know who Jennyo is and Jennyo informs her.

5:28pm: Teeny Little World of Warcraft Wank
wow_ladies is a community for female players of the MMORPG World of Warcraft...so watch out for WoW-specific terms in there. Anyway, have a little wank.

Jaanka posts describing (in reasonably humorous tones) her low-level character managing to kill a high-level character a few times, mainly when the latter was low on health. There's a few 'rofl's and "well done!" comments, along with the occasional unimpressed commenter, before an anonymouse joins in with the insults, including the classic:

"people like you are the reason i support blow jobs over intercourse. you are the load that should have been swallowed."

And of course there's the usual reminder that the Internet Is Serious Business. And everyone kinda joins in the wanking.


Plus, in a display of Not Being Able To Let It Go, the OP later returns with an "I admit. your all far more superior than I." post.

8:41pm: EVEN MORE HP 'shipper wank!
A few weeks old, but too good to pass up posting.

At shipdebate, suckerforlove__ makes a post stating that R/Hr was "completely obvious!" (bold hers) and wondering how H/Hr shippers could possibly have thought their pairing would ever be canon:

I can understand how upset Hr/H shippers are and the disappointment and possibly anger? What I don't understand is the shock Hr/H shippers felt when there ship didn't happen, seriosuly what were you thinking? I truthfully can't see any implication of Harry and Hermione in the books at all!? Am I blind, were we reading the same books?

Can someone please explain this to me? (with examples)

Like almost everything posted to shipdebate, this starts a fight.

The community's H/Hr shippers respond, with ladylestat saying that, "real love is based on friendship and trust not jealousy and bickering." (Again, bold hers.)

Then andrea_ms answers suckerforlove__'s question with, "And, yes you're blind." starting off a threat arguing about whether the responses or the OP was more unconstrutive.

"Only" 85 comments, but full of H/Hr and R/Hr splooge (what more could you ask for?), if you care to poke around for a bit.