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I put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} telesilla) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2004-10-09 02:39:00 |
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Super Six One is going down! or; Pliajiarizm in BHD fandom
The wank, it stalks me like a big stalking thing that strides across fandom wanking as it strides.
OK actually, I'm only involved in this one as an observer, but Black Hawk Down is my newestBright Shiny Object fandom.
So, stewardess_lotr wrote a very popular BHD fic featuring "Hoot" Gibson (Eric Bana) and Todd Blackburn (Orlando Bloom). Things were going swimmingly with the fic being praised to the skies and everyone was happy.
Along comes alarielle, who grabs enough of stewardess' fic to cause cries of plagiarism to ring forth across the land. Stewardess has pulled the fic and asked alarielle to pull her fic. That part of it is only wanky in that alarielle hasn't owned up to her crime, but that whole thing is documented at length in this post in stewardess' LJ and isn't the real reason for this post.
The real wank gets going in comments to that post. The first whole page of comments is about what you'd expect -- stewardess' friends showing up and being comforting, outraged, supportive and so on. When suddenly, along comes penny_bridge who thinks that stewardess' claims aren’t valid and then, warns stewardess that under Irish libel laws (alarielle and penny_bridge both being Irish) she could be sued for slander, OMG!
It's really a mini wank, but is compounded by the interesting fact that penny_bridge created her LJ on the very same day she commented on stewardess' post. But it's a coincidence because:
in case you think i know this alarielle, i don't. i know it is odd. Irish guy being the first to put hand up and say Question to evidence. I don't know who she is in real life and If i do know the girl well not to worry i don't know she is alarielle. (if that makes sense to any one.)
Um ... okay!
The wank, it stalks me like a big stalking thing that strides across fandom wanking as it strides.
OK actually, I'm only involved in this one as an observer, but Black Hawk Down is my newest
So, stewardess_lotr wrote a very popular BHD fic featuring "Hoot" Gibson (Eric Bana) and Todd Blackburn (Orlando Bloom). Things were going swimmingly with the fic being praised to the skies and everyone was happy.
Along comes alarielle, who grabs enough of stewardess' fic to cause cries of plagiarism to ring forth across the land. Stewardess has pulled the fic and asked alarielle to pull her fic. That part of it is only wanky in that alarielle hasn't owned up to her crime, but that whole thing is documented at length in this post in stewardess' LJ and isn't the real reason for this post.
The real wank gets going in comments to that post. The first whole page of comments is about what you'd expect -- stewardess' friends showing up and being comforting, outraged, supportive and so on. When suddenly, along comes penny_bridge who thinks that stewardess' claims aren’t valid and then, warns stewardess that under Irish libel laws (alarielle and penny_bridge both being Irish) she could be sued for slander, OMG!
It's really a mini wank, but is compounded by the interesting fact that penny_bridge created her LJ on the very same day she commented on stewardess' post. But it's a coincidence because:
in case you think i know this alarielle, i don't. i know it is odd. Irish guy being the first to put hand up and say Question to evidence. I don't know who she is in real life and If i do know the girl well not to worry i don't know she is alarielle. (if that makes sense to any one.)
Um ... okay!
