Highlander wank
Mean BNF's drove me out of the fandom wank.

You should just pitch a tent at Fanfic_Hate, because the wank is everywhere!

And Highlander is not immune. It is that fandom's turn on the wheel and what do we get? Intrigue, backstabbing, arguing and major BNF's being mean to other BNF's.

The thread started here. Anonymouse said:

I know this is people based hate, but I want to nominate lanning's Sacred Trust as perhaps the most under-rated fics in the fandom, and hate on the hateful BNFs who ran her out of Highlander for providing an original, but wholly plausible, take on Duncan and Methos. Guess her Duncan and Methos didn't jive with the fanon gospel and god help you if you dared to like it anyway. Fucking bitches.

Then people start naming names of who ran Lanning out of Highlander and links are posted to Lanning's "statement" on the mess. (Which was made months ago, but is interesting for the sheer volume of wank inside the journal post).

But, the *best* part of this wank is the banner, MacGeorge has on her web site, apparently dedicated to Lanning and her OOC Duncan and Methos which started this war.

http://wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/banner.jpg

It seems the Smallville masses are in the HL thread defending Lanning from the HL BNF's who made Lanning's life miserable while she was writing in Highlander.

It's a relatively small wank now, but it could grow.

ETA: Thanks to an anonymouse, I found out it wasn't the banner that set off this feud between MacGeorge and Lanning (and their friends & lovers) that is now on fanfic_hate.

No, it was when Lanning posted an excerpt from her then newly published HL novel, Sacred Trust on the Critical Edge list and MacGeorge took offense at it, feeling it did not depict Duncan MacLeod the way she viewed Duncan MacLeod or some such nonsense. MacGeorge told the whole world her views on this topic in many public forums and based on that one excerpt Lanning's novel was vilified in the fandom. The banner was posted on Critical Edge list after the excerpt to show that MacGeorge liked her characters three dimensional, not two dimensional.

Now, mind you this was years ago! This fandom hold grudges much?

Thanks to anonymouse for the history lesson.