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La Guera (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} laguera25) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2005-03-12 18:47:00 |
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There's a Wank A-Brewing in HPfen
Remember the kerfuffle in HPfen that ignited the drive to help 4Christina.org? The one where Heidi8 made a big deal about the charitable blood that flowed through her sainted veins like milk and honey and then refused to help the woman with rare cancer until fandom pressure demanded it?
It's back.
It seems the erstwhile Heidi is pimping charitable causes, including breast cancer awareness. Fabulous. Philanthropy should be applauded. But when Sapphsmum, the rare cancer victim from the previous wank, shows up to ask if Heidi could get the word out about her website, she gets the cold shoulder .
Sapphsmum laments the rebuff in her journal, and Heidi shows up to defend herself.
Not big yet, but boy, do I smell potential.
ETA: It seems Heidi has decided to post a link, after all. Sort of. She's posted a link to Sapphmum's LJ and is bemoaning the unfair persecution, woe!.
ETA Redux: Upon closer examination, I have changed the wording of the last link. If I'm going to pillory her, I want to do it for the right reason. I'm a discerning philistine.
ETA, Act III: Crack-smoking Jesus on a water bong! This wank has spiralled far, far beyond the bounds of even marginal sanity, and I'm flabbergasted. When I posted it, I thought there would be a collective snort and eyeroll at Heidi's selective fandom charity, and then the community would go in search of wankier pastures. And yes, in my heart of hearts, I was hoping it would get Christina a little help.
I did not anticipate the firestorm and the deluge of wank it created. Had I known it would degenerate into frothing, mindless vitriol, trolling and flamewarring on an ill woman's LJ, and numerous attempts to discredit her story, I never would have posted.
I thought about freezing posts earlier, but as I am not a regular member of Fandom_Wank-and likely never will be-I didn't feel I had the right to do so; after all this is Fandom_Wank, and snark is the occupational hazard you risk when you play here. Who the hell was I to wade in like some overbearing den mother and demand that everyone play nice?
A vain, craven little part of me wants to leave the entry public in order to see how high the spooge count goes, but thankfully, it is easily ignored.
This needs to stop. Enough damage has been done when none should have been done at all. As of right now, this post is being flocked. If that doesn't help and the shrieking continues, comments will be disallowed. I am sorry this wank has degenerated so horrendously.
La Guera
Remember the kerfuffle in HPfen that ignited the drive to help 4Christina.org? The one where Heidi8 made a big deal about the charitable blood that flowed through her sainted veins like milk and honey and then refused to help the woman with rare cancer until fandom pressure demanded it?
It's back.
It seems the erstwhile Heidi is pimping charitable causes, including breast cancer awareness. Fabulous. Philanthropy should be applauded. But when Sapphsmum, the rare cancer victim from the previous wank, shows up to ask if Heidi could get the word out about her website, she gets the cold shoulder .
Sapphsmum laments the rebuff in her journal, and Heidi shows up to defend herself.
Not big yet, but boy, do I smell potential.
ETA: It seems Heidi has decided to post a link, after all. Sort of. She's posted a link to Sapphmum's LJ and is bemoaning the unfair persecution, woe!.
ETA Redux: Upon closer examination, I have changed the wording of the last link. If I'm going to pillory her, I want to do it for the right reason. I'm a discerning philistine.
ETA, Act III: Crack-smoking Jesus on a water bong! This wank has spiralled far, far beyond the bounds of even marginal sanity, and I'm flabbergasted. When I posted it, I thought there would be a collective snort and eyeroll at Heidi's selective fandom charity, and then the community would go in search of wankier pastures. And yes, in my heart of hearts, I was hoping it would get Christina a little help.
I did not anticipate the firestorm and the deluge of wank it created. Had I known it would degenerate into frothing, mindless vitriol, trolling and flamewarring on an ill woman's LJ, and numerous attempts to discredit her story, I never would have posted.
I thought about freezing posts earlier, but as I am not a regular member of Fandom_Wank-and likely never will be-I didn't feel I had the right to do so; after all this is Fandom_Wank, and snark is the occupational hazard you risk when you play here. Who the hell was I to wade in like some overbearing den mother and demand that everyone play nice?
A vain, craven little part of me wants to leave the entry public in order to see how high the spooge count goes, but thankfully, it is easily ignored.
This needs to stop. Enough damage has been done when none should have been done at all. As of right now, this post is being flocked. If that doesn't help and the shrieking continues, comments will be disallowed. I am sorry this wank has degenerated so horrendously.
La Guera
