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Pan ([info]panthea) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-09-10 16:13:00


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Current mood:Done Told
Entry tags:anime/manga, baleetion, flouncing, mod wank

What is this "make-believe" of which you speak?
I don't know how old this is; I just stumbled across it in my quest for decent Weiß Kreuz screencaps, and before I knew what was happening I was buried in an avalanche of splooge.

No place to comment, sadly enough, but a nice, compact wank, in which a site owner Sees The Light and Attempts To Share Her Wisdom:


Cracked no longer exists, I haven't the time, energy, nor patience to deal with this fandom anymore. Emailing me will do no good, I no longer answer fandom emails, nor will I keep the same AOL Instant Messenger screenname for long, so if you have something to say, I'd appreciate if you could contact me within the next 3 days.

A thing to be considered while reading this is that Weiss Kreuz along with many other animes is just fantasy. It isn't real and it never will be. I've seen people who become so totally obsessed with it, that it becomes their lives. Most waking moments are spent entranced infront of their computer screens and soon the simplicity and aura of happiness surrounding the internet becomes their true world. Fighting, Flames wars and the like, become the substitute for confrontations in reality. I used to be this way and believe me, it did more harm than good.

Get out there and do something dude. Ride your bike, hang out with your friends, read or write a book, do something. Before you realize it, you may have missed some of the best years of your life infront of the computer screen.

I know some of you will think that I am bullshitting, after all...what do I know. I myself used to do exactly what I am preaching against. Well, my birthday was August 23rd and I am now 18. An adult. And the sad thing is that I wasted 4 years of my life chasing a drawn dream.

Fuck it. Do what you do and have a nice a day.



Chickie might like to keep in mind that not everybody is her. More to the point, if "many other animes" are just fantasy... then which ones aren't?

ETA: New shit has come to light! And in light of this new shit....

[info]schuldig informs us that chickie's net handle is Sadistic Paperclip, her drama-filled disappearance dates back a couple years, and she left a similarly wanky good-bye message on what one can only assume is the aptly-named "crappyweissfics" mailing list.


I might be leaving the fandom my dear. See after much observation I
have come to the realization that while I see fanfiction as something
fun to be played with, most people turn it into their lives and sole
reason for living.

Yes. It is pathetic.

In the end these losers remain hollow shells, tapping painfilled
passages into word processors and sending them out into the world
with the sole intent of one day having someone tell them that they
are good at something and quite frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

I tried to be nice...I did. I WAS. *insert miniature violin* But
after having emotional sobby bitches complain to me about how I hurt
their feelings just because I said there should have been a comma
there or I think the story would have been nicer had it stopped here,
I find I cannot handle it.

So with this, I hope to polish off my Weiss Kreuz career (I still
have an article to complete for the New Yorker and mondo homework,
you know how it is.) and complete the few remaning fictions I have.

Follow your own demon and he shall lead you to glory,

SP



The New Yorker and mondo homework. You know how it is.



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[info]kalika_maxwell
2004-09-10 11:33 pm UTC (link)
Okay, so she's against wasting time on 'fantasy', is that it? Well, y'know, books are fantasy. Fanfiction or plain fiction, tis the same in the end. Movies and plays are fantasies too. Might as well give up all forms of entertainment, apparently it's a waste of time.

Oh well. I think I'm enjoying myself more than she is. *wastes life away*

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[info]nevadafighter
2004-09-11 06:19 am UTC (link)
I guess by her standards I'm wasting my time reading great works of literature and poetry and writing papers on them; I should be out playing in the sun because, well, that's not transitory at ALL.

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(no subject) - [info]starherd, 2004-09-11 08:47 am UTC

[info]crabapple_pie
2004-09-10 11:36 pm UTC (link)
Before you realize it, you may have missed some of the best years of your life infront of the computer screen.

Oh... oh my God. Mom? Is that you?

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[info]teratologist
2004-09-11 03:43 am UTC (link)
I always thought that turning eighteen meant the best years of your life were just getting started, actually. You know, the not-living-with-parents, occasionally-getting-laid years.

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(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-09-11 05:35 am UTC

[info]ladyofviolets
2004-09-10 11:38 pm UTC (link)
//Well, my birthday was August 23rd and I am now 18. An adult. And the sad thing is that I wasted 4 years of my life chasing a drawn dream. //

Well, shit, being 18 makes you ALL OF A SUDDEN such a mature adult...

Who are you and what did you do to your inner child?!

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[info]sarajayechan
2004-09-10 11:59 pm UTC (link)
She told her inner child to get a job and go to college or else it was grounded.

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[info]iczer6
2004-09-11 12:00 am UTC (link)
I do wonder what she meant by 'chasing a drawn dream'. I mean did she really think that the WK characters were real and would date her?

Because I can understand wanting to get away from the fandom if that was the case.

I do want to point out that while there are crazy fans out there who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality not every fan is like this, and most fans haven't lost touch with reality.


Icz

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(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-09-11 12:31 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]khym_chanur, 2004-09-11 06:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-09-11 06:30 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-09-11 09:38 pm UTC

[info]solelyfictional
2004-09-11 12:46 am UTC (link)
I'm about a month older than this girl. A few years ago I too was convinced that when I turned 18 I would grow out of fandom. Bang, just like that. Kids were fans, not adults. Adults had better things to do with their time. I could never understand these pople in their thirties writing fics (though they were damn good fics, so I wasn't complaining). The irony here being it was Weiss Kreuz that convinced me of all this, since it was the first fandom I actually published fics for.

So, I'm still working on those thirty plus chapter fics that I started, well, back then in fact. Still getting into new fandoms. Still building new fansites. I'd be damn bored otherwise. I go out, I meet people, but the wonderful thing is I can also stay in and meet people.

Ten quid says she's back in the fandom in about a month, next time someone compliments an icon or a fic or something.

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(no subject) - [info]telophase, 2004-09-11 02:07 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]telophase, 2004-09-11 07:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]schuldig, 2004-09-11 02:41 am UTC

[info]shinigami_co
2004-09-10 11:44 pm UTC (link)
More to the point, if "many other animes" are just fantasy... then which ones aren't?

The ones that show your past lives, of course.

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[info]visp
2004-09-11 05:40 am UTC (link)
Oh gods. Let's not go there.

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(no subject) - [info]shinigami_co, 2004-09-11 06:06 am UTC
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[info]sarajayechan
2004-09-10 11:58 pm UTC (link)
So basically, anyone who becomes an avid fan of something can and will turn into an empty-headed, delusional addict who doesn't know what the real world is anymore. Cause everyone knows you can't like fantasy and cartoons and not have a life outside of them.

And the way she goes on and on about this...suggests something.

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(no subject) - [info]iscoffy, 2004-09-11 02:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sesana, 2004-09-11 05:05 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]iscoffy, 2004-09-11 05:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]seppuku, 2004-09-11 08:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-09-11 05:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]iscoffy, 2004-09-11 05:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2004-09-11 05:44 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-09-11 07:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]iscoffy, 2004-09-11 08:09 am UTC

[info]phosfate
2004-09-11 12:02 am UTC (link)
A thing to be considered while reading this is that Weiss Kreuz along with many other animes is just fantasy. It isn't real and it never will be.

My Dark Master, the neighbors' basset hound, says you're wrong. And all I need to prove it to you are three more boiled skulls.

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(no subject) - [info]toxictattoo, 2004-09-12 03:55 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-09-13 02:47 am UTC
She's...18. *giggles hysterically*
(Anonymous)
2004-09-11 12:13 am UTC (link)
Wow, was I supposed to instantly grow up at 18? If so, my memo on the matter is 12 years late...

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Re: She's...18. *giggles hysterically* - [info]smo, 2004-09-11 05:29 pm UTC

[info]solelyfictional
2004-09-11 12:49 am UTC (link)
read or write a book

I'm betting she wrote this meaning a fictional book. Fictional being not real, which she is so clearly against. Personally I'd be bored out of my skull if I only read non-fiction and newspapers, and only watched documentaries and the news. And never fantasised about anything, or day dreamed about something, or used my imagination in any way whatsoever. Damn bored.

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[info]elanor_durall
2004-09-11 01:25 am UTC (link)
the simplicity and aura of happiness surrounding the internet

What the hell Internet is she on?

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(no subject) - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2004-09-11 01:47 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]iscoffy, 2004-09-11 02:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bishounenhuntrs, 2004-09-13 04:52 am UTC

[info]schuldig
2004-09-11 02:24 am UTC (link)
She's just jealous because Aya is my boyfriend.

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(no subject) - [info]robinterrae, 2004-09-11 02:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-09-11 05:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]schoenschoen, 2004-09-16 12:39 am UTC

[info]athy
2004-09-11 02:53 am UTC (link)
Amittedly, and scarily, I know (generally) where she's coming from in some aspects of that. I've met a lot of Weiß fans that are teh crazy. I mean... 'I'm dating Aya and I can read your mind like Schuldig' kind of crazy. And I haven't seen another fandom that had so much indating. And when Weiß games explode they do so gloriously. Like the Titanic. But since when has someone posting up 'shut up, get out of your house and get a frigging life' made anyone change their minds? If I want to be teh crazy I don't need anyone's approval. I will bask in it. Ahh I lost the point of this ages ago. Apparently no sleep and extreme heat do have an effect on my brain. I think it's been fried literally. Goodnight New York!

(please ignore the stupid person behind the curtain I'll be better tommorow, I promise.)

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(no subject) - [info]khym_chanur, 2004-09-11 03:48 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]seppuku, 2004-09-11 08:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]telophase, 2004-09-13 05:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]athy, 2004-09-12 09:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]telophase, 2004-09-13 05:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]schoenschoen, 2004-09-16 12:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]athy, 2004-09-16 01:09 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]athy, 2004-09-16 01:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]schoenschoen, 2004-09-17 05:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]panthea, 2004-09-16 03:03 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]panthea, 2004-09-24 03:21 am UTC
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[info]schuldig
2004-09-11 02:55 am UTC (link)
Okay, I poked around until I could get the name of her net handle... *drumroll* it's Sadistic Paperclip! And I definitely remember her, oh yes.

This is her leaving message. There are far more kerfuffles surrounding her (involving archives and Jean D's minions, if I recall correctly), but this goes back two years or so!

Excuse me, I'm getting nostalgic...

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(no subject) - [info]iscoffy, 2004-09-11 03:02 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]zarla, 2004-09-11 10:43 am UTC
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[info]kraken_sleeps
2004-09-11 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Personally, I'd prefer to read fic than ride my bike - which has a certain 'Calvin-ness' to it on a good day.

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[info]bemysty
2004-09-11 02:47 pm UTC (link)
More to the point, if "many other animes" are just fantasy... then which ones aren't?

Ebichu of course.

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(no subject) - [info]oysteria, 2004-09-12 05:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sakemaki, 2004-09-13 08:30 pm UTC

[info]oxydosic
2004-09-11 02:56 pm UTC (link)
I guess i'm interpreting her words in a way different from what a lot of you are. I'm a little surprised to see people getting defensive about it. Anyway, here's how i see it:

She has spent every waking hour for years in front of the computer, obsessing over these characters. Somewhere along the line, she realised that she pissed away her teenage years when she should have been hanging out with friends and maybe even having a boyfriend. Who knows what things she could have done if she wasn't glued to the computer screen? She's just finally realized that she needs to reprioritize. I don't see how that's bad, or wanky. I'm really not seeing how her cautioning people to not let fandom run your life is a BAD thing.

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(no subject) - [info]limyaael, 2004-09-11 05:40 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]virago, 2004-09-11 08:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-09-11 09:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]panthea, 2004-09-11 11:04 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]blackhat, 2004-09-12 09:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gaisce, 2004-09-12 02:39 am UTC

[info]smo
2004-09-11 05:24 pm UTC (link)
the simplicity and aura of happiness surrounding the internet

o_O Which internet has SHE been on?

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(no subject) - [info]bishounenhuntrs, 2004-09-13 05:09 am UTC

blackoftwilight
2004-09-11 11:46 pm UTC (link)
And so...Jean D. finally gets a mention in fandom wank. Oh if only fandom wank was around back then when the shit went down about her/him over and over and over...

Ah! The nostalgia!

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[info]schoenschoen
2004-09-16 12:47 am UTC (link)
I love Weiß wank. XD Everything on F_W comes back to Weiß.

I do have to give her credit for recognizing the absurd number of Teh Crazeez in Weiß fandom, though. O_o After seeing one too many "I'm Omi, I'm dating Aya, and I just broke up with Youji" posts on LJ, it kinda gets creepy and disturbed. And you meet even *more* of those girls at cons.

Thankfully, most have moved on to Gravitation fandom. Or elsewhere. I lost track of them after Gravitation. Thank the gods.

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[info]allison
2004-09-16 06:07 pm UTC (link)
No comment on the wank, but had to reply to: "New shit has come to light." with:

Careful man! There's a beverage here!

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