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3:33pm: Lee Goldberg vs. Naomi Novik: The Ultimate Smackdown
A year and a half ago, Lee Goldberg and Naomi Novik were on an NPR show discussing fanfic, and Goldberg said all sorts of insulting things to her on air and on his blog. ("Her arrogance and stupidity is mind-boggling.") Well, he's sorry for that now. Because now he can expose Naomi Novik as a hypocrite for this quote in the New York Times:

"Around 1994 Ms. Novik began writing fan fiction, stories based on the characters of other writers. She called it “embarrassing, terrible early work” that could not be published — thankfully, she said — because it would be tantamount to copyright infringement on other authors’ characters."

See! She changed her mind once she had published original fiction!

But Naomi Novik posts a correction on her LJ to the story:

"Okay, so, I do have to put one small correction on record here (for anyone who has not read more than three entries back in my lj and doesn't already know this about me) and say hey, yes, my 1994 fanfic was indeed terrible crap and it is embarrassing in the way that all juvenalia is embarrassing, but that was the stuff I wrote twelve years ago; I am very proud of my more recent fanfic and love writing it (a little too much, sadly, when I have pressing deadlines to procrastinate from)."

Lee and his supporters don't back down, though, particularly when Kete says, "Lovely, to see you back-pedaling now that she's definitely more successful than you! ;-)"

Scramble to prove Lee Goldberg is more sucessful ensues. Plenty of quotable lines but the prize here goes to Goldberg fan Mark A. York:

"I read part of an excerpt and aside from the interest in sailing to Istanbul, transporting Dragon eggs is plain ridiculous to me personally. I couldn't read it."

Thanks to the mouse on wank_report for the tip-off.

8:21pm: Battlestar Galactica rapewank!
Kind of small but it feels like playing wank-bingo.

On Battlestar_Blog virus_x posts a rant (edited for spoilers if some people, like I am, are still wending their way through season 2):

But my hatred for the Cylons has grown by a few orders of magnitude, after watching what happened, Friday. I won't say what, I won't say why, but now, I condone virtually everything [a group of the good guys in Season 2] did to Cylons, and have absolutely no qualms about the most gruesome extremes of physical and psychological torture being used against them. To me, virtually all of them should be designated as targets of wholesale extermination. Now, I cannot see the vast majority of them as anything other than dirty machines.

Given that a plot point was that those people raped the female humanoid cylons, some people get antsy, saying, "Rape is never okay."

Clearly they misread virus_x! I mean, who reading that rant could ever imagine that he approved of such extremes of physical and psychological torture?

...Oh, wait. But don't worry, it's not his fault! It's kind of cute to watch him wank up a storm putting the blame on everyone else, because when he said "virtually" he OBVIOUSLY meant "within reasonable limits". The orgasm finally comes here:

No, I'm putting the blame right where it belongs: on you, and the rest that have poor reading comprehension. I quite clearly wrote: "...virtually...". So, like people that probably get no other exercise than jumping to conclusions and running people down, you took it upon yourselves to assume everything, fill in the blanks with what you apparently wanted me to say for the sake of the fun of writing negative criticism, and didn't even bother to ask for clarification.

Because, hey, rape is so heinous he'd never even countenance it, but wholesale extermination is A-OK!

Then there's It's just a TV show!, Let's all get along now, and calls for a spoiler LJ-cut, which lead to his wanky ETA:

Edit: Even though I categorically refused to state why, or wherefore, someone has called this "spoilery". I say that's a load of crap, but, oh well. Be warned that this general, non-specific post that may or may even not pertain to any episode in particular could be interpreted by 1 out of 30 people as "spoilery". You have been warned.