A Modest Proposal.
Okay, so I was mentioning the Yaoi-Con themed wank to some friends sometime earlier, and I recalled a little quip I made there about wankish behavior offline, which then reminded me of having seen someone back at The Mary Sue Report share a story about a month or two back about this particularly kooky MS writer (who I think used to be her roomie for a while) and her antics, which included having worn a shirt saying "I am [name of MS here]" in public to see if anyone recognized her (hilarious post, too).

Anyway, I was thinking about all this, and then realized something:

There's already a fairly substantial number of members here, hailing from fandoms covering just about the whole spectrum. I suspect that there's at least a couple of you that have the chance to participate in fandom offline as well, whether by going to cons, joining the local clubs, participating in print 'zines, or even just chatting it up with a fellow fan you run into by chance at a store/rental place/whatever. And, considering that all these activities attract the presence of fans of all types, I suspect that you've wound up bearing witness to some rather hilarious antics (either things people did or said) in these places at least once.


...this is a great source of incredible wank that isn't being tapped into.


So, what I'm about to suggest for consideration is the following: A "little sister" community to F_W, expressly for the purpose of sharing these stories with others.

It would definitely never be updated as often as F_W, seeing as people in general tend to try to act less wankish in public than they do online (probably because of the "anonymity" the internet provides), plus -should people like this idea and want to go along with it- we should try to just stick to particularly "special" wankery (such as the T-shirt girl I mentioned) to keep it an entertaining read. (Leaving the people being wanked anonymous might also be a good idea, since it's real life we're talking about here, and some people might feel the use of names being far too intruding. This is entirely up for debate by y'all as well, though.)

We could call it something like "Fandom_Wank: On the Road."


So, your opinions?