in the grand tradition of the circle of wank!
I bring you verse #934709 of the usual fanfiction critique wank. This one also seems to have elements of "contemporary writers are better than any classical writer going" and "you can't have love without sex!"

I very strongly suspect that whatever entry /started/ this is buried under f-lock in some BSG2003 fandom journal, because nancy777ca writes like she's reacting to something.

Whatever it is, she starts off ranting about con-crit vs flames -- an old and familiar theme to us wankas. But somehow this quickly devolves into "It's only this narrow snobbery that makes people think that just because something is old, it's better than what's out now." and "I will very easily put up the least sexual of a passage of a writer of today up against your most intense passage of fiction written a hundred years ago."

Methinks miss nancy hasn't read much in the way of victorian erotica.

The first thread has shades of politiwank, as tobias_jacke screams in to object to lymiryc's creative use of "Republican", but that doesn't last long as nancy777ca comes in to support her lymirycy friend. But tobias_jacke is not daunted! S/h/it gets into it with carrielh in another thread, in the usual wanky verses, and nancy777ca also seems to suffer from last-worditis!

myalchod (whom I know and though whom I found this) hops in with a polite and short word about beta-readers, and both nancy777c and tobias_jacke leap upon her with all four feet, suggesting that their objection isn't to "suggestions" but to specific wording -- which appears to boil down to /not/ being snarky and/or sarcastic. (At which point I have to bodily restrain myself from leaping on nancy777ca's reply to myalchod because, /god/, nasty.)

hederahelix tackles the classical vs contemporary, while sentraaquila and ancarett both have so much to say that they make entries of their own. ancarett's post has a lot of "word" type comments but no wank there. Yet.

My favourite bit: All those writers you so highly praise were considered trash in their day. Every. Single. One. I gurantee you, guran-frakking-tee you that 100 years from now people will be praising Danielle Steel, Stephen King,Diana Gabaldon. Karen Moning, Paullina Simons, Jackie Collins etc.. as the greatest writers of their (our) time.

what.

EtA: I apparently missed nancy777ca's latest entry, wherein she basically repeats herself [c]ause the wordiness didn't seem to be working for all those who are such high brow classical enthusiasts.

EtA2: A HA. I have been led to at least some of the beginning of the wank, via myalchod: nancy777ca thinks smut is about character. She likes the phrase 'snobby cows'.

EtA3: The "fic" and reviews that apparently started the ball rolling. Badfic warning ahoy!