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Down on the underground (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} underground) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2004-04-15 13:49:00 |
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Harry Potter wank
First time wank. Coming from the Sirius/Remus part of the Harry Potter fandom.
Last year, Moony started the Sirius/Remus FQF. It was a success, needless to say.
The active SBRL Yahoo Group started to get a little too active with regards to newbies for many people's tastes, Moony's included. She flamed the list before leaving it:
"I too have had my fill of 'Remy' and 'Siri' and leather trousers and 'mating for life,' and whatever the hell else fandom cliche you lot find entertaining. I'm heading off to the white shores of LiveJournal, because your two best authors just did, and I am not stupid enough to stick around here without them to keep me sane.
Cheerio."
Thescarletwoman decided to start a new Sirius/Remus FQF after the archive for the first one disappeared.
Shortly after, Moony finally decides to start the second wave of the Sirius/Remus FQF (which is entirely devoted to Bring Black Back and sounds a lot like the Bring Black Back challenge there was a while back and the Veil of Possibilities challenge from October, not to mention the fact that only two people can sign up per challenge and there are sixteen challenges with a fan base of probably over five hundred people) and promotes it to the SBRL list that she flamed. The members of the list were not happy (anything preceded by ">" is Moony):
" >My opinions have not changed.
So you still think that we are amused by trite fandom clichés and yet you want us to write for your fest? I can't think how that would make sense unless... could it be... is this all just an ego thing with you?
>How nice for you to have so much free time as to be
>able to go back through=
>a thousand
>posts to find my last one.
Actually it only took about three minutes. About as long as it took you to set up the second round, I think. Let's see if I've got this in order.
Ballyharnon started the first round last Spring. You stepped in to help and took it over during the summer. The fest ended and we all waited for another round. Ballyharnon came up with some ideas for it, posted to the fest list. You had a fit. Someone was stepping on your toes, taking over YOUR fest. Ballyharnon stepped aside, and you did nothing. We waited for a second round. A few people emailed you about it, posted to the Live Journal asking about it and you never replied. We waited.
Sunday someone uninvolved with the YOUR fest announced (on your community no less! the gall) that she was running a R/S fest. The next very next day, you had a quick site thrown together and a bunch of challenges, half of them identical to ones on the Veil-fic
challenge group.
It took someone threatening your place as 'the R/S fest coordinator' to get you to run another round. You aren't doing this because you want to see the stories or because you think it's fun. You're doing this because your ego, your place as a self-proclaimed BNF, can't let someone else run a *good* fest.
Did I get that all about right? I thought so.
>And this was constructive how? Or did it just ma=
>ke you feel like
>a really clever person?
No, this isn't about me. It's about you. The fact that you are here pimping your half-ass fest to a group of people you don't like, a group of writers you don't respect, because someone threatened your little place in the fandom.
I think the writers on this list, who may not all read the old fest list or Live Journal and may not remember the last time you stormed off this list (that was what the second or third time in the last year? I can't keep track), should know the reason you are doing this and what you really think of all of us before they decide to put their time and energy into your project.
I obviously wasn't really directing that at you, after all, you don't read this list."
First time wank. Coming from the Sirius/Remus part of the Harry Potter fandom.
Last year, Moony started the Sirius/Remus FQF. It was a success, needless to say.
The active SBRL Yahoo Group started to get a little too active with regards to newbies for many people's tastes, Moony's included. She flamed the list before leaving it:
"I too have had my fill of 'Remy' and 'Siri' and leather trousers and 'mating for life,' and whatever the hell else fandom cliche you lot find entertaining. I'm heading off to the white shores of LiveJournal, because your two best authors just did, and I am not stupid enough to stick around here without them to keep me sane.
Cheerio."
Thescarletwoman decided to start a new Sirius/Remus FQF after the archive for the first one disappeared.
Shortly after, Moony finally decides to start the second wave of the Sirius/Remus FQF (which is entirely devoted to Bring Black Back and sounds a lot like the Bring Black Back challenge there was a while back and the Veil of Possibilities challenge from October, not to mention the fact that only two people can sign up per challenge and there are sixteen challenges with a fan base of probably over five hundred people) and promotes it to the SBRL list that she flamed. The members of the list were not happy (anything preceded by ">" is Moony):
" >My opinions have not changed.
So you still think that we are amused by trite fandom clichés and yet you want us to write for your fest? I can't think how that would make sense unless... could it be... is this all just an ego thing with you?
>How nice for you to have so much free time as to be
>able to go back through=
>a thousand
>posts to find my last one.
Actually it only took about three minutes. About as long as it took you to set up the second round, I think. Let's see if I've got this in order.
Ballyharnon started the first round last Spring. You stepped in to help and took it over during the summer. The fest ended and we all waited for another round. Ballyharnon came up with some ideas for it, posted to the fest list. You had a fit. Someone was stepping on your toes, taking over YOUR fest. Ballyharnon stepped aside, and you did nothing. We waited for a second round. A few people emailed you about it, posted to the Live Journal asking about it and you never replied. We waited.
Sunday someone uninvolved with the YOUR fest announced (on your community no less! the gall) that she was running a R/S fest. The next very next day, you had a quick site thrown together and a bunch of challenges, half of them identical to ones on the Veil-fic
challenge group.
It took someone threatening your place as 'the R/S fest coordinator' to get you to run another round. You aren't doing this because you want to see the stories or because you think it's fun. You're doing this because your ego, your place as a self-proclaimed BNF, can't let someone else run a *good* fest.
Did I get that all about right? I thought so.
>And this was constructive how? Or did it just ma=
>ke you feel like
>a really clever person?
No, this isn't about me. It's about you. The fact that you are here pimping your half-ass fest to a group of people you don't like, a group of writers you don't respect, because someone threatened your little place in the fandom.
I think the writers on this list, who may not all read the old fest list or Live Journal and may not remember the last time you stormed off this list (that was what the second or third time in the last year? I can't keep track), should know the reason you are doing this and what you really think of all of us before they decide to put their time and energy into your project.
I obviously wasn't really directing that at you, after all, you don't read this list."
