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29th July 2007

12:48am: The Life and Times of Shannon
...because I posted to the wrong fandomwank before. *shame-face*

Stephanie van Doleweerd is mad as hell and she's gonna send a letter!

In addition to being the Web Developer for Lynn Johnston's rapidly deteriorating comic For Better or for Worse, she is also the inspiration for the speech-impaired character Shannon. (Correction: Stephanie is a different person than the web developer,</a> and thus may not be the wanky party, even if she did ask for this action to be taken.) The denizens of [info]binky_betsy, among many other places, resent the way Shannon is used only to impart life lessons to the youngest Patterson child April, or the way her character is developed only to be good and saintly and not a complete person. Recently, Shannon made a speech to her high school's cafeteria reminding everyone that making fun of her and her friends was not cool - and the response in-strip was the comics equivalent of the slow clap. Since most people on the Internet have actually attended high school in the past couple of decades, however, more likely responses and storylines for Shannon were outlined in parody strips.

Van Doleweerd, whose boss Lynn is well-acquainted with internet parodies of her work (and has been featured here before for quashing such), quickly found these parody strips and interpreted them as making fun of Shannon-Stephanie personally. (There is also some debate that Lynn's employees may have purposely brought the parodies to Shannon-Stephanie's attention.) Instead of making a speech like comic-Shannon, however, she responded with a flurry of C&D to anyone whose IP sat still long enough. The result was not a slow clap.

Sure, LKH is wanky, but FBorFW wank seems to be epidemic, y'all. I presume that in the next act, Farley's real-life counterpart is gonna get wanked for saying he's racist against pit bulls.

ETA: The prior Lynn Johnston cease-and-desist wank.

Also: Icon is now more pleasing to brain and psyche. Though I'd always liked having the little sprite gambol about on my screen. Any more lip, though, and I'll dig up that picture of Carrot Top's... Carrot nethers!
12:35pm: They Should Just Call It GulagJournal!
I wasn't sure if this fit better in [info]otf_wank or here, but since it involves "Fandom iz serius bidness!" I opted for here.

Mods, let me know if I need to move it.

As the ripples from the Great LJ Strikeout of 2007 continues, unh, lapping at the shores of fandom, a number of fandom folks have started looking for alternatives and setting up accounts (or at least cybersquatting their names) on those journaling sites.

There've been a number of how-to guides telling people how to back up their LJs to other journaling sites, discussions about using Semagic to post to multiple journaling sites, and how to set up syndicated feeds so you don't lose track of your FList on far-flung journaling sites.

Naturally, there was some minor wank early on about people "abandoning ship like rats" vs. "keeping their lazy asses on LJ," but none of it with a LOL!!111!!! that makes such wank truly special.

Now, at long last, a real LOLer!

Vassilissa has taken aim at one of the alternative journaling sites, because she's insulted as hell and won't take it any more!

OMG! InsaneJournal is insulting to people with mental illness! )
A small but tasty wank.
Current Mood: Schwa
3:17pm: JKR hates gay people

Because if you don't put gay characters in your books, you're reinforcing the heteronormative oppression. Or something like that.

And more whining about the lack of gay characters.

ETA: And fabularasa's post has been flocked. Woefuls.

But! [info]lierdumoa hates the book because JKR says bestiality is the same as homosexuality!

And screens of [info]fabularasa's post, with page two. Thank you, [info]gethsemane and [info]finferwen!
9:09pm: Robin Hobb hates the Internet!
So, Robin Hobb posted a rant on her website, decrying the eeeeeeebil of LJ. To wit:

LJ wants to suck your blood! )
In short, Robin Hobb is a delicate flower who thinks that the Internet is instantly addictive to everyone and ruins lives.

...Okay!
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