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1:22pm: You Dun Like Fanfic! You H8ters!
Over on torch_wood, sadbhyl has some things to say about the State of the Comm:

torch_wood from the beginning has been open and welcoming of all different forms of expression related to this show, including fanfiction. In the user info for the community, it specifically states, "All Torchwood fanfic is welcome here." Twice polls were taken on the issue of keeping or removing fanfic from the community, and twice the overwhelming response was to keep it (299-181 in the latest poll, taken in December). Due consideration was given to those who didn’t want to be “bombarded” with fic. Not one but two different ways of filtering the community were presented, and the most draconian posting protocol of any fan community out there was implemented to keep a minority of the community from being imposed upon. But still the hate continues. To those who complain about people not following the posting rules, who say, “The instructions are right there in the sticky for the comm,” I would like to point out the bullet list immediately above those instructions which clearly indicate ways to read the community without any fanfic. For those who say, “There’s torchwood_fic to post fanfic in,” I would agree, and also point out that there are other communities for icons, for vidding, and for discussions. If we all went to our preferred communities, what purpose then is torch_wood? \

Apparently some fic-posters are starting to bend and outright break the posting rules, and they're being smacked down. This makes sadbhyl unhappy. Some kudos, some disagreement, for two pages. Oh, and the pipes up, with a rare cool head.

2:51pm: When your plans to splooge the world with your own ego-stroking just *doesn't* make the cut...
Hi all, first post here. I hope I don't disappoint. Let me know if I do.

This is a bit of an "archived" bit of ego-stroking-mess, as it's old, and a good number of the sources have died out. Hope this subject hasn't been covered before... but this chick's still alive and kicking, and growing worse by the minute.

Meet eternalforest. Well, her publicist, anyway--- if we're to go by posts she's they've who-the-fuck-ever's made in the past, constantly referring to the blogger as "The Author". She's written a novel called "Eternal Forest of the Soul" among a few other things. She's put up her own website at angelfire.com to promote her works. If you click that link, you'll see how incredibly pleased she is with herself.

She's also very pleased with her thesaurus, judging by this blurb from EFotS:

( The dominant adverb culls the weak text from the herd... )

So what's this got to do with fandom?

There was once an lj-user that went by the name of hothobbitgirl. Note that I said "went", as in past tense. This girl was HUGE in the LotR fandom, perving on Frolijah specifically. Proof of her existence (and perviness) can be found in various places. Her perviness and obsession included everything from making manips of her, her husband and Frodo in bed together to planning on going to conventions to interview Sean Astin with her "production company".

It wasn't long before hothob wanted to get her work published, and created--- yep, eternalforest. All of a sudden, gone was the obsessive fanaticism over the LotR boys and hobbits. The world wept as EF's journal disallowed comments, and all that was left was a girl a publicist who-the-frick-ever obsessed with her original fiction.

Then came a dark day, when she posted this in her journal this past June:

( Glad I saved this, cuz she decided to erase it... )

So her NEW journal here is full of post titles like Absolutely stunning images now up on the website, This is for those who asked for some personal guidance, and Reflection&Wonder: a sermon on life... well, the urpley-purpley-flowery-adverb-infected prose gets to be a bit too much.

Needless to say, just about everyone's defriended this sack of baloney. When your site shoves ads at you when you open each page, has gads of photos of you posing by your *self published book* that you stick haphazardly onto shelves right next to J.K.'s and J.R.R.'s work to make yourself look good, and post loads of photos showing you at book signings where the quantity of books on the table neither increase nor decrease as time moves on and your grandparents show up to make you look good, things just ain't gonna fare that well.

EDIT: One of the links in "various places" doesn't work. Sorry... um...
REVISED EDIT of Edit: Thanks, jrs1980 for pointing out how to make the link WORK. ;)

The moral of this story? Stick to hobbit-pr0n. You look more dignified that way.

Details I'd forgotten: An anon pointed this out; someone's embarrassed about being (blank)-published. She's whined mentioned many times that she's against sending one's manuscript out to EBUL PUBLISHERS, and that it's best to (blank)-publish. Can't find the link where she states that philosophy... darn, USED to be up... I'll keep looking...

6:10pm: Actor's exes: still not safe from fangirls.
So Joanna Krupa, playmate and ex-girlfriend of Jensen Ackles (the fish-fucking, hobo-wrestling, coke-addicted pregnant hermaphrodite) has posed nude for the latest PETA ad compaign, slogan: "I'd rather go naked than wear fur."

mddevi posts a link to the campign in the community entirelyjensen, finishing off by asking (in bolded, enlargened font) 'How could have Jensen and her been a couple at one time?'

At first, community members play relatively nice, some defending Joanna by pointing out how happy she appears to have made Jensen, or how 'She's doing something she believes in.' Some mumble about how "it's not much of a stretch for someone who gets photographed nude for a living to say she's "rather be naked"".

At least, right up until potthead comments with 'What a skank. >___>;;'

( Cut for length )