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10:55am: All right, SOMEONE needs to post this
This is an excruciatingly slow week at work and I am flat out amazed that someone else hasn't posted this yet. I was going to wait for someone else to take it but right now I need something to do and this is some spectacular wank. I first got it from Cleo's twitter, but it's a hell of a lot bigger now.

Rachel Lefevre played Victoria in the Twilight movie. She was generally regarded as acceptable in her acting and well-liked as a person.

Then Summit suddenly announces that they've recast the role. Why? Because at some point Rachel signed up for a ten-day shooting gig that overlapped with the Eclipse shooting schedule.

Shit hits the fan at record speed. Here we have Rachel's response. It's basically "What the FUCK?!" but in very polite terms. It was followed very recently by Summit's response to her, which is basically "We totally didn't just dump the bitch over ten days in some other film. Oh, wait, yes we did."

We also have a pithy little article from eonline laying out the possible (rather nasty) logic behind the move.

Oh, and lion_lamb wanks away. Interestingly, there's a lot of "FUCK YOU SUMMIT" but some folks taking the studio's side, a bit of tinhatting and ample fapping. I didn't venture all the way through the thousand comments, but I'm quite sure there's more.

I'm sure there is much more coverage and much more wank, people should feel free to draw it to my attention. Also, there will probably be plenty more wank to come. Thanks to cleolinda for dropping most of these links on her twitter.

ETA 1: Courtesy of Cleo's twitter again: Summit responds to the fan reaction. Ohh, there are going to be good times.

ETA 2: GAME ON! This update brought to you by eilisliana

7:12pm: You're a plagiarist becase *I SAY SO*!
A certain well-known person in the Hikaru no Go (Aja aka bookshop, whom you might remember thanks to other kerfuffles she's been in) claims that some BNF's had their fics plagiarised. And posts about it in her journal. Citing excerpts of the fics by both "victims" and "culprits" (which, in this repoter's opinions, aren't THAT similar) and a *very* wanky call to fandom.

So, yeah, SHUN HER, discredit her, go forth and spread the word. Let the trumpets of indignation sound!

And people start commenting about it. Some excerpts are here:

- What a skeeve. Can't you use your BNF to make ppl troll this journal?

- "She deleted her DW!" "that's the power of the BNF lol"

- The author tries to defend herself. And is hatepiled on. Errrr...

- "Please understand, I'm not implying that *any* of these fics are plagiarized, I'm saying that I'm not sure but I suspect..."

- A post on it by one of the supposedly plagiarised authors

One of the so-called "culprits" accused has had it, though! And she's NOT gonna take it! Watch as Aja keeps insisting that there was plagiarism, pretty much making an ass outta herself, and people come to umareawareru's defense.

... And finally, Aja snaps. And SCREAMS.

( HNG fandom. Please leave me THE FUCK alone. Kthx )

Thank you so much, mousies from wank report!

ETA: mischif tells us that Aishuu has written about the subject. Thanks to ya too!