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11:49am: Twilight vs. Twilight round INFINITY
So, there is a petition aimed towards Stephenie Meyer and her publisher Little, Brown that's actually more of a letter about why Breaking Dawn sucks and what the author (of the letter!) would have done to make it better. It has received 1152 signatures so far.

When it broke a thousand, the petition's author emailed the following letter to Seth*, the maintainer of StephenieMeyer.com:

Seth,

I completely understand that you are not the whipping boy for Stephenie Meyer, but she has given us no address to reach her directly, so sadly, I have few choices- and one of them was to send this to you.

My name is Heather Faust, and I have written a letter to Stephenie and to Little, Brown. As suggested by a number of others on message boards, I posted this letter as a "petition." Today we reached a thousand signatures. (It has only been live for a few days.) We will continue to leave it live and see how it grows.

I feel that it is well written and respectful, and I would hope that you would take a few minutes to read it. If it gets through to Stephenie, well, I'd be thrilled. We are not looking to hurt her, we aren't looking for her to rewrite it... We just want our opinions acknowledged, and we'd like to no longer be referred to as a "vocal minority." We'd also love it if she'd be able to answer our concerns with more than just "it's fiction," "I'm not a biology major" or other brush offs. We don't, of course expect that at all. But just a simple "Yes, I hear you, I'm sorry that you were disappointed" would be enough for us.

Anyway, sorry that you are in the middle of all of this. That must suck for you.

Thanks for your time

Seth responds:

( In an attempt to keep the books clean and not make young girls think about things that they don't need to think about, no other book mentioned anything about reproductive systems. )

*A lot of people have mentioned that Seth is not only the webmaster of SMeyer's site, he's also her brother.

8:08pm: Complaining privately to the mods is for SISSIES!
Over at the OOC community for Dramadramaduck, an RPing community, an anonymous, severely butthurt poster would like everyone in the community to know that some of the people playing there are MEAN and suck at RPing:

This is kinda like a RP secrets post. And no, I'm not a troll or stalker or whatever. I RP in DramaDramaDuck. There are many reasons why I am not using my personal journal or any of my character journals. And before you say anything, no, it's not a case of being a coward. If I were to reveal my identity it would cause a lot of problems in this comm and between my many friends here.

Anyway, I'm not happy with the way things have been lately. When I came here I was treated like the replacement. I kept hearing about how great the person before me did with the character I'm RPing now and how I'm not doing the character any justice. It's also been implied that maybe I should just give it up and pick someone else to RP.

DDD's D.N.Angel team and Kingdom Hearts team....sucks. You people are such snobs when it somes to RPinng. The person who plays Dark annoys me. Axel is played way too OOC it doesn't even fit anymore. Roxas and Marluxia are nowhere in sight but the taken characters list shows that someone is playing them both. Larxene is played horribly and don't even get me started on Daisuke and Hiwatari.

I'm not a happy here, though I don't want to leave since I've been RPing here for a very long time.

Other highlights include:

"The reasons for my annonimity are complicated though. You could never understand becuase you and the others have already casted me out."

"Hey how about you gripe about players that actually legitimately suck."

"I just hope that upsetting people who put a lot of effort into this game is enough to make you feel better about the crushing pain that is somebody playing a character not quite the way you'd like it." "It is."

10:24pm: Fanfic & Slash: You're Doing It Wrong!
Spinning Spinsters decides to write an essay about how fan culture is highly conservative, and bolsters and propagates male supremacist ideas.

People in the comments seem to agree with her and thank her for having opened their eyes to how they're really just serving The Man by writing about guys getting on it.

But wait! Is such blanket approval natural? Not in the least.

As soon as she starts getting disagreements that are pro-slash, she deletes them on the grounds that such defenses can be found anywhere. She also refuses to link to any examples because it'd be unhelpful/too much work, and characterizes most femmeslash stories as being like lesbian pornography.

For bonus points, she apparently also has the power to edit comments if they talk about women in unacceptable ways. Though it's okay to say that on House, 'the women on that show are so lousy, either shrews or sex objects or both', so I'm curious as to what she doesn't find acceptable.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to serve The Man.