Two itsy-bitsy wanks.
I don't seem to hang out in the right places to find bigass wanks... but small ones can be cute.

MORE POTTERSUES WANK:

As well as Tom Riddle's beautiful daughters Serenity and Anastasia, pottersues occasionally posts stories that actually have decent OC's in them. Not often, because there aren't that many of them, and probably at least partially because when she does, things get wanky.

So not long ago, the Sue of the Day was a Quidditch-playing Hufflepuff OC who falls for Goyle (!?). It was pretty decent, so she rated it a 'wow!', which is the rating given to anything that's really too good to be a Sue. Halfway down the comments page, the readers start bitching: posting well-developed characters on pottersues will destroy the fandom!

IMO, it's detrimental to the cause of good fanfiction to label an original female character as "Mary Sue" just because she's an original female character.

The 'cause' of good fanfiction. Pottersues is gonna change the world, man.

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GROBANIAN WANK:

'Grobanian Wank'... that sounds like a sausage. This one is itsy, but it just makes me so proud to see my own fandom wanking!

Some background: Grobania is the land peopled by Grobanites, who are the fans of Josh Groban. Josh Groban is an unbelievably pretty man with an unbelievably pretty voice. He sings in four languages, plays the piano and the drums, and all things considered is probably about six times as talented as any human being has a right to be. I'm not sure what the average JG fan is like, but I have a feeling these people wouldn't touch Italian Ballads with a 12-foot-pole if it weren't for the cute face attatched (and I'm speaking from experience here... *shuffles feet*).

So he just released a new album that's thematically a bit different from his first one. It's been out a couple of weeks now, and is coming up against the fact that no matter what you do, somebody, somewhere, is not gonna like it.

In this case, 'somebody' was People magazine.

Well!

"They said WHAT???"

"Reviewers dun know s***" (yep - self-censored)

"they're all retarded"

"They just don't understand true, beautiful music anymore"

"the Spanish and Italian tracks are way sappier than any of the English ones." "But italian manages to make sap sound so much more profound."

Oasis, Avril Lavigne, Harry Potter, and Pirates of the Carribean are all compared to Josh for various reasons, the voices of sanity are ignored, the fandom has a love/hate relationship with Clay Aiken, and the devoted Grobanites reassure each other of their 1337 musical taste! I'm watching for this one to grow.