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11:01am: The Fragile Flowers Strike Back
Over on LJ moonlight_tryst writes a long, admittedly wibbly, post about furiosity's reviews and how she's scared of them:

( Wibbling underneath )

Okay. Whiney, but give her an A for honesty, right?

furiosity replies. The discussion goes back and forth for a bit, with furiosity trying to figure out exactly what moonlight_tryst wants.

Then in comes mordryn4 with the WTF:

You do know you're part of the silent majority, yes? Similar to how the overwhelming majority of Americans feel about Bush..."

furiosity responds, and it turns out it was just a chance to go "nyah-nyah, I defriended yoooou! And you ARE scaring other people, you big meanie!"

Oh, fandom. Don't ever change.

ETA: Eeyore continues to be Unclear on the Concept: Day 8

ETA II: Bahleeted! But there's saves. Lots of saves.( Cut again, to save the weak-willed )

ETA 3: ( Still more links )

ETA: The "furiosity" screencap has been taken down, to help save the website owner's webspace; others may or may not follow. They'll return when the webspace is stabilzed.

Mother of all ETAs: Furiosity is back! Many thanks to princessdot for walking me through the ftp set up.

4:41pm: American House Fans vs. the World!
Ah, house_md. Usually you keep your wanks limited to the shipping wars, but today is not the case, as one plucky American fan manages to single-handedly alienate everyone non-American House fan in the community, and may eventually lead to the founding of a new House comm. Let us watch and learn where baby communities come from:

It all started when simmysim made a post regarding spoiler rules in the comm, which, while raising many good points in the process (you have to click outside of the post and look at it on the community to get the full amusement factor of this post, as she intentionally overuses the LJ-cut feature), managed to stir up trouble with one line:

( But then they've also told a poster to cut a question about a major plot point that had been aired everywhere but most parts of Asia. SO. )

Oh no.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for fans from abroad (namely the UK) to comment on this. And demand their actor back if we're not willing to share our LJ comms. Arguements over what was really meant by that comment (which failed to clarify anything) ensued:

( For you see, non-Americans don't need to leave the comm. They're just not entitled to be shielded from spoilers if they stay. )
And this goes on between those two pretty much like this, with simmysim getting increasingly defensive, stating that this is not what she meant, and yet pretty much saying the same thing.

So let us wander down a bit, where, if we are lucky, a new baby comm may soon be born. It starts when okelay, who clearly isn't from around these parts (her profile says she's from Chile, for those of you who were just dying to know), jumps in to say not only should major late-episode spoilers be cut, but every single plot detail, including exposition details from the Pilot, should be cut. Needless to say, there was much WTF on both sides of the previous arguement there. As an added bonus, that thread includes accusations that Americans are forcing their "imperialist ideals" on people from other countries by suggesting that Americans be free to spoil to their heart's content, and having the accusations returned, saying that forcing people to cut everything is just as "imperialist".

Meanwhile, in this same thread (so far ignored, but we'll see if comm conception takes place and a baby comm is born) alibi_factory suggests the founding of house_uk, a place where the UK fans of House can flee from the spoilers of the American fans.

All of this over whether spoilers should be a rule or a courtesy.

There's much more wank ensuing elsewhere in that post (as well as a lot of silly fangirling), but I think I hit the gist of it.

ETA: Well, that was fast. Behold, the announcement of the founding of house_uk, which may end up being a new wank in itself. But at any rate, aren't you all glad to have witnessed the miracle of birth, LJ style?

ETA2: And I was right!

"Don't you think it's a bit selfish to expect an American audience with new episodes to only discuss older ones?"

This is in the new post, mind you. The wank, it is spreading...