2:10pm:
You know how most communities and forums dedicated to Real People will usually have the 'will we allow fanfic based on the real person on the boards' discussion when it's just been established?
Well,
Hammond Heaven, a MSN group dedicated to Richard Hammond, the short one from Top Gear, decides to have it three years after it's been put up.
It all starts when one poster says all the sexual fics are disturbing her, because people should keep their fantasies about real people to themselves.
( And then there is a rehash of pretty much every other RPF discussion, ever, I expect. )And I know that it might look like a board made up of minors, but the people who had their ages up on their profiles were all in their 20s and 30s.
3:26pm: A LEGAND HAS PASSED. YOU NEED TO RESPECT THIS. THE GAME BOARD AND WHAT'S HER FACE, IS VERY TACKY!!!!
Merv Griffin died today.Or, as www.tmz.com put it:
83 90 135 175 comments thus far. Among them are repeated outraged pearl-clutching, people saying get over it because Merv would have liked that!, claims that TMZ has
jumped the shark,
flooding and random slams against Harvey Levin and Perez Hilton, and questions as to why Vanna is clapping and smiling. There's also repeated statements that gay butt sex causes prostate cancer, which I think would be news to some oncologists and
most of these people.
Pretty darn small, but I'm amused. The Jerry Falwell post got like 4500 comments, so this should continue to grow.
11:04pm: Warcraft brings the smut
While one might think that the announcement about Wrath of the Lich King ("Hero classes! Destructable buildings! New hairstyles!") might have caused a considerable amount of drama, this wank comes from somewhere else: namely, "She cheated on me over Ventrilo!"
Note: For those who aren't the gaming type, Ventrilo is a voice-chat system groups can use during raids. For when, you know ... typing isn't fast enough. Also, as almost any of us could have predicted, Ventrilo is also used for the same thing that the rest of the internet is used for: namely, porn.
The original story goes
thus: in short, Demeter and Gilgamesh run a guild, and are in real life also married. Demeter (the husband) finds out that Gilgamesh (the wife; we've reversed genders in our name choices, apparently) has been cybering over Ventrilo with some members of the guild. So he makes a post about leaving and /gkick-ing her, and offers the guild up for e-sale.
It escalates. It escalates to 26 pages! Bring the, "Oh god, I'm so sorry"s, closely followed by the, "LOL YOU FOOL"s and the "Can I get in on it"s, and garnished (as a wank delicacy) by opposing cries of, "You need to pay more attention to your wife!" and "Women can't be trusted!"
Most of the threads in the main WoW forum get deleted, but Dionysus is handy enough to give us a dictionary of the wank
here.
Conspiracy theories abound, and the whole thing is expected to explode to high heaven (like it hadn't already) tomorrow, when Gilgamesh is expected to return from vacation.