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Queen of Utter Snark (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} coiledslinky) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2003-06-26 14:31:00 |
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The comic-book fandom is at it AGAIN!
I nominate these people for the Fandom_Wank Hall of Shame. But I bet these folks would say that having a *gasp* award would make them worthless!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/darqst
Some wonderful tidbits:
I never considered myself a BNF in X-Men fanfiction. I consider myself someone who ran a huge archive for awhile, because I was lucky enough to have the time and the free webspace to do so.
But...
I know now that this was probably mostly my imagination, because the second time I tried going in there, I know I wasn't wanted and a few folks went to great lengths to make sure I knew that. And also to make sure I knew that they knew the real me. That I was an attention sucking, stroke-my-ego, BNF, bitch, who only came in there so people could kiss the ground I walked on. They went to great lengths to smack down anyone who said anything nice to me, and to let me know I was nobody. Never was anybody, never would be anybody. And when asked why I was being treated this way, their response (to which practically everyone in the room backed them up) was that my ego was so huge that it needed to be deflated.
To which I walked away wondering what the hell I had done.
To which, of course, these people give her an award! Which means nothing, because they didn't give her ALL of them!
Where before I was perfectly content with my lot in life, while I didn't have to worry about my own abilities as a writer, while this was sheerly a hobby for fun, people were now attempting to dangle a carrot above all our heads. "Work hard children, make lots of friends, write well, and maybe we'll give you an award, which will show the world that you are a decent writer." Which is all fine and good if you win... but you have the other side of the coin, which is, "If you don't... then you know the truth... you are not good. I don't care if you get nine hundred billion letters a day telling you that your stories are good. It's all bullshit. The only way you're good is if people take the time to go and vote...."
Not wanky enough yet? Everyone's favorite Not-A-Fan responds! Yes, we have more Nute-Wank!
Times like this, I'm glad I left that particluar ltitle corner of fandom.
I nominate these people for the Fandom_Wank Hall of Shame. But I bet these folks would say that having a *gasp* award would make them worthless!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/darqst
Some wonderful tidbits:
I never considered myself a BNF in X-Men fanfiction. I consider myself someone who ran a huge archive for awhile, because I was lucky enough to have the time and the free webspace to do so.
But...
I know now that this was probably mostly my imagination, because the second time I tried going in there, I know I wasn't wanted and a few folks went to great lengths to make sure I knew that. And also to make sure I knew that they knew the real me. That I was an attention sucking, stroke-my-ego, BNF, bitch, who only came in there so people could kiss the ground I walked on. They went to great lengths to smack down anyone who said anything nice to me, and to let me know I was nobody. Never was anybody, never would be anybody. And when asked why I was being treated this way, their response (to which practically everyone in the room backed them up) was that my ego was so huge that it needed to be deflated.
To which I walked away wondering what the hell I had done.
To which, of course, these people give her an award! Which means nothing, because they didn't give her ALL of them!
Where before I was perfectly content with my lot in life, while I didn't have to worry about my own abilities as a writer, while this was sheerly a hobby for fun, people were now attempting to dangle a carrot above all our heads. "Work hard children, make lots of friends, write well, and maybe we'll give you an award, which will show the world that you are a decent writer." Which is all fine and good if you win... but you have the other side of the coin, which is, "If you don't... then you know the truth... you are not good. I don't care if you get nine hundred billion letters a day telling you that your stories are good. It's all bullshit. The only way you're good is if people take the time to go and vote...."
Not wanky enough yet? Everyone's favorite Not-A-Fan responds! Yes, we have more Nute-Wank!
Times like this, I'm glad I left that particluar ltitle corner of fandom.
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