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Thunder, Thunder, THUNDERBRATS! HOOOOO! Background info: The Thundercats fandom has a long history of fights, flamewars, and generally uncivilised behaviour. It's a seriously titchy fandom, and a scarily volatile one. In years past, flames and mockery have been mainly reserved for people who were blatant trolls, wankers, or assholes, but lately the fandom's elite inner circle has turned on itself. Two days ago, the building tension climaxed, released, and exploded into a fury of scraping claws and flying fur - and the final battle was not in the form of a popularity contest or furry shipper discussion, but rather an abortion debate. Demonprist is the fandom's token whiny socialist. She's 30, she lives with mummy, and her favorite pastime is rambling ad nauseum about how simply terrible it is to be poor, clinically depressed, and living in a patriarchal capitalist country. All together now. Ewww. At some point, she got into a disagreement with Cheezey, the undisputed queen of the Thundercats fandom. The spat seems to have originated in email, but for reasons unknown, Cheezey responds by posting the following rant as a public post on her livejournal, in which she shreds Demonprist's email line for line and manages to turn a discussion about voting into a personal soapbox rant about why all women who have abortions are evil, irresponsible murderers. She expands on this in the comments section. Some evil would-be abortionists have their babies adopted, in which case they are volatile nutsos who will waste all the adoptive parents' emotional and financial investments by ruthlessly demanding the babies back, just when the taxpaying parties in the equation have got the little bastards all nicely kitted out in Baby Gap. Or they keep them, in which case they're Evil Welfare Queens popping out tax guzzling future drug dealers at the expense of ordinary, decent, hardworking Americans. But it's okay, people. Cheezey has the answers. Keep your legs shut, you bunch of skanky, loser hos. Not long after the original post, Purrsia joins the fray. Purrsia is well known in the Thundercats fandom for being self righteous, bitchy, and a rightwing screwball, not to mention one of the biggest flamewar provocateurs on the internet, so it comes as no surprise when she sees Cheezey's post and eagerly seizes the opportunity to post a seven page tirade attacking Demonprist, liberals, Kerry supporters, and the entire pro-choice movement. And the fact that she has her tongue firmly embedded in Cheezey's ass is a bonus, one imagines. At this point, a few other fandom regulars jump in, one to lend yet more support to the pro-life voices, and another to simply poke fun at Demonprist while managing to avoid the abortion argument entirely. The flamewar rages on for 45 posts, including a Demonprist Pity Party Translation Guide, more painfully simple minded snark from Purrsia, and a random tangent about ADD. Finally Demonprist comes along to hold her original ground. She rants on for four pages, then concludes her argument by chastising Cheezey for posting publicly in the first place. Cheezey's husband and Purrsia step in to take a few cheap shots at Demonprist before Cheezey returns and responds to Demonprist's four page rant with a seven page rant of her own. Purrsia quickly drops back into her customary sycophantic cheerleader mode, whilst Demonprist retreats to her own LJ, to make a public post whining about other people making public posts whining about her. This is the kind of wank that makes your own fandom look blissfully sane. |
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