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12:16am: If you think the Death Eaters are racists you are racist yourself
Apparently Snapefen can't stop wanking. terri_testing posted a James-bashing essay James the Stag.

oryx_leucoryx (whom we remember from "Lily was a traitorous bitch" wank) and lil_itu (who wanked on hp_essays several months earlier) got loose in the comments. night_train_fm tried to insert some sanity in the discussion, but without success.

From this wank we learned that Snape was a downtrodden woobie, James was a sociopath and as bad as Lucius and Vernon, Luna was probably bullied because she was perceived as a closet Gryffindor, Ron was like rapist, all people who think that pureblood prejudice is like racism are racist themselves, but inter-House rivalry is totally like racism and inter-religious hatred. Enjoy the crazy!

8:56am: Two ships enter! One ship leaves!
Courtesy of a kind mousey on wank_report, and also of my flist, we have Bleach wank!

Over on BleachAsylum, Bleach fandom's own personal Thunderdome, the mods make a new rule about linking to things in signatures. Apparently, the forum users have a long history of linking to inflammatory ship essays in their sigs to snipe at the other side (the most famous one being called "The Lust Arc = IchiHime FAIL", so you can probably see where this is heading), so the mods finally stepped up and made this rule:

19. No links in signatures to sites that bash forum members/mods/Bleach pairings or anything that BA members could more than likely find offensive (especially in case of shipping, this includes shipping essays etc). Yes you may be mature enough not to click and read such sites but others aren't and too much of a big issue is being made out of this. To save anyone anymore problems we are just banning this from BA.

Seems easy enough to follow, right? So naturally, quite a few people have run afoul of this new rule!

The first cries of oppression go up on bleachness, _debbiechan_'s personal fanwork community (for reference, it's listed as being geared towards IshiHime, but most posts revolve around IchiRuki and occasionally UlquiHime). Highlights include calling the internet lawyers, 'did you know I'm a BNF?', rallying the troops, and this comment about Freud and the 'wretched special snowflakes' in the IchiHime fandom. It also seems that debbiechan is not happy that people are putting her comm in the same category as FLOL, the locked IchiHime forum (among other things).

Next up, we have someone named yulieana, who had a bit of a run-in with the BA mods over this unfair new rule herself. Herein, we have a massive entitlement complex, Godwin's Law, and more cries of censorship and oppression. But really, her entire LJ is a barrel of laughs, since it seems like all she ever posts about is how much she really, really hates the IchiHime pairing. EDIT: OH NOES, bahleeted! Anyone catch a screencap? Apparently, the people who were posting their sympathy in the entry are now hanging her out to dry on BA, too. Edit^2: Oh, never mind - she's right back to crying about censorship again. I'm screencapping this one, since we lost the beauty of the first one to the ether. :( Edit^3: Thank you, galateus! The beautiful original is gloriously saved for posterity! Edit^4: And Yulie is now banned from BA! But that's okay, because F_W is stalking her and she's famous now! :D

And finally, there's a very wordy entry here about the evils of censorship in regards to message board signatures.

If there's more to this, I haven't seen it yet, but more is guaranteed to trickle in, since it seems like half the fandom is in an uproar over it.

12:36pm: Romance Community Roust
Over on the Dear Author blog, they run a weekly feature where authors can send in their first page for critique. Last Saturday, readers were treated to a doozy [Link text NSFW] labled as a contemporary romance novel where the opening scene consisted of a fifty-six-year-old washed-up boxer receiving a blowjob from an anonymous woman. Comments were mixed, but tended towards the negative. Things began to heat up when the author of the piece showed up in the comments to defend her literary masterpiece.

My beta readers are almost all men: a straight guy from Cheshire, England, a gay man from Manchester, England, and two 30-something hunks from Milan and Brescia in Italy. They’ve allowed me to ask them anything about a man’s sexuality and have given me their opinions. Therefore, I’ve gotten very honest feedback from the male point of view on this scene... But, a comment about Teddy. he represents to me what fascinates us about some men. It explains the popularity of TV characters such as Dexter and House: multi-layered, flawed males who repel even while they interest us.

More back and forth from the commentors, some of whom are published authors results in more butthurt and perceived personal attacks.

And then, at the end, things get really interesting when someone named "kete" shows up, slams the romance genre as a whole, while admitting to never having actually read one, and referring to the author as PM, even though no initials for said author have ever been given. Sock-puppet? Nanny? Concerned beta-reader from Cheshire, England? Who knows? Kete attempts to backpedal but fails miserably in the attempt.

Sadly, Jane has just closed comments, so you'll have to enjoy what's there.