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Rod of Squirrel Nim ([info]eyebrowofdoom) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2005-04-22 01:51:00


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Swansong on the high seas... of a lonely and mysterious swan
Goodbye, cruel Master & Commander community, you say! You're sorry for everything! Except for the parts which were other people's fault, which you will discuss in lingering, portentious and cryptic language!

But... sorry, who are you, and why have you helped yourself to my hankie?

There are only two pages of posts *in* this community, and I'm pretty sure I've read most of them.

It hasn't garnered a single comment, so I guess everybody else is as mystified as me.



From here:

I'm more or less bowing out. Things are just going fruit-shaped, and relations with various members of the community to remain unnamed for the sake of propriety are not going well. Therefore, I consider it my best option just to back out at this point, until things either cool down or I feel well enough about things to return.

Thanks to everyone who was here for making it a good run. It's a shame the community died, because there was some lovely stuff to be found here. I'm posting this because I want you all to know that I really did enjoy my time here, think that the people are generally lovely, and believe that it's a genuine shame things never really recovered. Unfortunately, I feel that a large part of that is my doing, and I apologise. It is clear that I am more a detriment to this community than anything else, and for those of you who can really be active in the fandom, I feel that I am dragging you down. Consider this to be my public apology.

To those whom I have hurt personally, and you know who you are, I hope that you will accept the personal apologies privately issued and be willing to at least not hate me, even if we never speak again (I'm still not certain what I did to make it start). You didn't deserve what I did, but I didn't deserve what you did, either. Blame goes solely to neither one nor the other. I am willing to accept my part. That is all that I will say here, except once again that I regret my actions strongly and want the apology again issued to you before everyone. You deserve that much.

Godspeed, all. It was fun while it lasted.


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[info]nita
2005-04-21 07:37 pm UTC (link)
fruit-shaped

Wah?

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[info]teruhiko
2005-04-21 07:41 pm UTC (link)
Because all fruits are the same shape.

Yep.

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(no subject) - [info]nita, 2005-04-21 08:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - redwarrior, 2005-04-22 03:26 am UTC

[info]soleta
2005-04-21 07:46 pm UTC (link)
perhaps she meant pear-shaped?

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(no subject) - [info]nita, 2005-04-21 07:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]soleta, 2005-04-21 07:57 pm UTC
Baby got back? - [info]nita, 2005-04-21 08:01 pm UTC
Re: Baby got back? - [info]soleta, 2005-04-21 08:03 pm UTC
Re: Baby got back? - [info]nita, 2005-04-21 08:41 pm UTC
Re: Baby got back? - [info]soleta, 2005-04-21 08:51 pm UTC
Re: Baby got back? - [info]moonjaguar, 2005-04-22 12:47 am UTC
Re: Baby got back? - [info]nita, 2005-04-22 04:25 pm UTC
Re: Baby got back? - [info]soleta, 2005-04-22 07:23 pm UTC
Re: Baby got back? - [info]nita, 2005-04-22 07:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - redwarrior, 2005-04-22 03:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ninja_stripper, 2005-04-22 05:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nita, 2005-04-22 04:26 pm UTC

[info]skarrow
2005-04-21 10:17 pm UTC (link)
I've seen that kind of phrase used in that kind of context before-- mostly in Pratchett novels. It just means going bad.

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(no subject) - [info]alpheratz, 2005-04-22 12:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]skarrow, 2005-04-22 12:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]knitmeapony, 2005-04-22 12:26 am UTC

[info]platedlizard
2005-04-22 11:47 am UTC (link)
Icon! *hearts Robin*

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wizzard
2005-04-21 08:03 pm UTC (link)
There are 29 members and 40 people who watch that community-surely if there was an issue it would get around? I looked at her personal journal and she tends to whine about how omg nobody pays attention to her but I didn't see any fights with anybody mentioned. Of course, that was a quick scan.

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[info]eyebrowofdoom
2005-04-21 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, and a lot of those people are active in various other, much larger Age of Sail communities I watch, so you'd think there'd be some hint, somewhere, if something had gone down that anybody other than the poster thought was important.

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(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2005-04-21 08:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fairestcat, 2005-04-22 05:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dementoid, 2005-04-22 12:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dementoid, 2005-04-22 12:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2005-04-22 06:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dementoid, 2005-04-23 04:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2005-04-25 05:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]fairestcat, 2005-04-23 01:19 am UTC

[info]kannaophelia
2005-04-21 08:50 pm UTC (link)
I love her for the graphic description of endometriosis-associated pain, though. I want to point the next person who tells me A FUCKING HOT WATER BOTTLE OH FUCK YOU TO HELL will stop it hurting.

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2005-04-22 04:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2005-04-22 01:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2005-04-22 02:45 pm UTC

[info]lurker32
2005-04-21 08:08 pm UTC (link)
M&C wank?!?

*goes to find out the Catalan for "bitch, please"*

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[info]cjk
2005-04-21 10:10 pm UTC (link)
I've only ever seen polite M&C wank before, although it did make me want to bite off the wanker's nose for her sheer annoyance factor.

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(no subject) - [info]lurker32, 2005-04-21 10:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cjk, 2005-04-21 10:48 pm UTC

ni
2005-04-21 10:37 pm UTC (link)

*goes to find out the Catalan for "bitch, please"*

*squeezes Catalan-speaking part of brain*

Nope. I'm trying, but I can't come up with one. It's untranslatable.

/delurkment.

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(no subject) - [info]lurker32, 2005-04-21 10:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-22 01:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - ni, 2005-04-22 01:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-22 05:53 pm UTC

[info]moonjaguar
2005-04-21 08:48 pm UTC (link)
I ave the M&C movieverse a miss but I can say that that icon makes William Bush think, "Why would I beg someone to rescue me?"

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[info]eyebrowofdoom
2005-04-22 02:27 am UTC (link)
He does kind of spend the best part of his career left behind on ship, gagging to go and rescue Hornblower and not being allowed.

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[info]coffee_mug
2005-04-21 09:07 pm UTC (link)
It's a community for a pairing, correct? Those are unpopular if
a) the pairing is unpopular and doesn't get written a lot
b) if there is an "original" community for the same pairing somewhere that has more members.

So yeah, chucks, but what can you do? Some communities just die. There's nothing one can do about it.

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[info]cjk
2005-04-21 10:07 pm UTC (link)
I thought it was a Tom Pullings-centric comm? (Mr D'Arcy is the bloke who played him in Weir's M&C)

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(no subject) - [info]coffee_mug, 2005-04-21 10:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cjk, 2005-04-21 10:11 pm UTC

[info]carlanime
2005-04-21 10:26 pm UTC (link)
I love Age of Sail fiction as much as the next person (well, sort of), but can't summon up that essential tone of pseudo-historic whatsit. Exactly how much HH do you have to read/watch before you start doing that, I wonder?

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[info]eyebrowofdoom
2005-04-22 05:38 pm UTC (link)
Hard to get a "voice" happening from TV. I recommend Lieutenant Hornblower as the slashiest book ever barring Gay Cumsluts Go To College.

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(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2005-04-22 08:11 pm UTC
One-man wank fest
(Anonymous)
2005-04-21 11:01 pm UTC (link)
Anonymousie here.

Boy dislikes new Battlestar Galactica series. Boy gets banned on various message boards. Boy creates own anti-BG message board. Boy closes membership to others in way of revenge against TEH EVOL UNIVERSAL PPLZ. Mental masturbation ensues. enjoy! (http://xsorbit26.com/users5/languatron/index.php)

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Re: One-man wank fest - (Anonymous), 2005-04-22 03:08 am UTC
Re: One-man wank fest - [info]kate74, 2005-04-22 02:44 pm UTC

[info]rogue
2005-04-22 12:14 am UTC (link)
... It's strangely fitting that some of the only wank for the Aubrey/Maturin (THAT'S HOW THE PUBLISHERS REFER TO THE BOOKS, IT'S NOT MY FAULT) fandom is commentless and strangely polite ...

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[info]fairestcat
2005-04-22 03:03 am UTC (link)
Isn't this the same girl who showed up in the hh100 community, posted a couple fairly good drabbles and then suddenly deleted one and posted a abject apology for it containing a terrible unforgiveable mistake that she couldn't believe no one else had caught and how this just went to show that she was a terrible writer and she would never be posting there again?

Oh, yep, here it is

I'm not quite sure what's up here, but this girl's reactions are seriously seriously off.

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(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2005-04-22 03:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chaimonkey, 2005-04-22 04:31 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-22 05:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]eyebrowofdoom, 2005-04-22 05:51 pm UTC

[info]melloniel
2005-04-22 03:55 am UTC (link)
I'm so confused...

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(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2005-04-22 04:36 am UTC

[info]ultimate_cin
2005-04-22 04:30 am UTC (link)
Perfect time to pull out my favorite icon....

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(no subject) - [info]chaimonkey, 2005-04-22 04:32 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-22 04:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ultimate_cin, 2005-04-22 04:59 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-04-22 06:31 am UTC (link)
Unfortunately, I feel that a large part of that is my doing, and I apologise. It is clear that I am more a detriment to this community than anything else, and for those of you who can really be active in the fandom, I feel that I am dragging you down. Consider this to be my public apology.

To those whom I have hurt personally, and you know who you are, I hope that you will accept the personal apologies privately issued and be willing to at least not hate me, even if we never speak again (I'm still not certain what I did to make it start). You didn't deserve what I did, but I didn't deserve what you did, either. Blame goes solely to neither one nor the other. I am willing to accept my part. That is all that I will say here, except once again that I regret my actions strongly and want the apology again issued to you before everyone. You deserve that much.

Godspeed, all. It was fun while it lasted.


Yes, but what the feck did you do!? I mean, given her general tone, I'm lead to think she repeatedly sacrificed newborn babes to Cthulhu whilst practicing arcane rituals designed to align the stars and bring about the End of the World. The last person I heard make a speech like that had been sentenced to Life in Prison for killing their entire family (including the pets).

Badger

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[info]bakunina
2005-04-22 07:07 am UTC (link)
*sigh* My poor, poor fandom. This is what a film gets you - a whole load of idiocy. I mean, the squealy girlies who need to go away just don't really fight, the fic is generally utter rubbish, and therefore I can't even get any crash and burn, just the slow rotting of my poor beloved fandom.

I liked A/M better when it was, well, relatively obscure and there was no drama (I suspect there is still no drama on the Gunroom - well, there was once, before I joined up, and never again whilst I was a member). I am such a pretentious bitch when it comes to fandoms. But really, mommy, send the stupid squealy girlies away. (and they need to leave poor James D'Arcy alone - I like my British actor boys obscure rather than scared shitless by crazy fangirls, thank you very much.)

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(no subject) - [info]eyebrowofdoom, 2005-04-22 05:46 pm UTC

[info]mauralabingi
2005-04-23 05:36 am UTC (link)
The hilarious thing is, that's my community (at least in the sense that I own the blog.) I'm ashamed to say that I haven't so much as looked at it in about eight months, because I've been really busy, and so I have absolutely no idea who this person is or what her drama's about.

Eh.

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2005-04-25 05:04 am UTC
Annie! - [info]mauralabingi, 2005-04-27 03:57 pm UTC

 
   
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