As a lot of you must know by now, the first 12 Chapters of Midnight Sun, Smeyer's addition to her Uh-may-zing boooookes was leaked on the internet several days ago, and this has chagrined her dazzle verily.

From her official website:

August 28, 2008 (part II)

As some of you may have heard, my partial draft of Midnight Sun was illegally posted on the Internet and has since been virally distributed without my knowledge or permission or the knowledge or permission of my publisher.

I have a good idea of how the leak happened as there were very few copies of Midnight Sun that left my possession and each was unique. Due to little changes I made to the manuscript at different times, I can tell when each left my possession and to whom it was given. The manuscript that was illegally distributed on the Internet was given to trusted individuals for a good purpose. I have no comment beyond that as I believe that there was no malicious intent with the initial distribution.

I did not want my readers to experience Midnight Sun before it was completed, edited and published. I think it is important for everybody to understand that what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being. As the author of the Twilight Saga, I control the copyright and it is up to the owner of the copyright to decide when the books should be made public; this is the same for musicians and filmmakers. Just because someone buys a book or movie or song, or gets a download off the Internet, doesn't mean that they own the right to reproduce and distribute it. Unfortunately, with the Internet, it is easy for people to obtain and share items that do not legally belong to them. No matter how this is done, it is still dishonest. This has been a very upsetting experience for me, but I hope it will at least leave my fans with a better understanding of copyright and the importance of artistic control.

So where does this leave Midnight Sun? My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.

I'd rather my fans not read this version of Midnight Sun. It was only an incomplete draft; the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes. But how do I comment on this violation without driving more people to look for the illegal posting? It has taken me a while to decide how and if I could respond. But to end the confusion, I've decided to make the draft available here (at the end of this message on the Midnight Sun page). This way, my readers don't have to feel they have to make a sacrifice to stay honest. I hope this fragment gives you further insight into Edward's head and adds a new dimension to the Twilight story. That's what inspired me to write it in the first place.

I do want to take a moment and thank the wonderful fans who have been so supportive of me over the past three years. I cannot begin to tell you how much each of you means to me. I only hope this note will stop all the confusion and online speculation so that the Twilight universe can once again become the happy escape it used to be. After this incredibly busy year, I am now focusing on spending more time with my family and working on some other writing projects.

--Stephenie

I don't think I need to add much more than that.  Lol.  This is so bloody beautiful...Oh Smeyer...please to be going over there to cry upon your pile of ill-begotten millions.  We all know that that book is going to be finished and published eventually so that you can add to your dragon hoard of booty. 

Who else thinks that she's just waaaaahing for the sympathy and threatening to not provide any more crack so that everyone can forget about the epic fail that was Breaking Dawn and start kissing her ass again? *raises hand*

Edit:

And we get reactions from the Amazon Boards and the ♥ TwiMoms ♥. The ONTD comm weighs in on the situation.

And the NuttyMadam reacts. Though sorry, there's no vid this time since she took it down. But here, have a transcription of the lost vid, courtesy of aegflota

We are all a bunch of meanies hiding away in this little club house of ours.

Smeyer Ego stroking.

Bonus Snack: The Twimoms just cannot leave the poor boy alone!. There's wankiness in the second link, as the TwiMom in the picture appears and asks for her photo to be taken down. Also, Here is a step by step instruction manual on how to go about your Pretty Vampire Actors stalking, for you n00bs who have no idea how to go about it. It is illustrated and everything. The TwiMoms are nothing, if not thorough.

OH NOES YOU GUISE! They be calling the FBI on us!!! WHAT DO WE DO? WHAT DO WE DO?

Twilight is going to save our country from the evil lesbians so you'd better all stop dissing it!

Cleolinda Midnight Sun Commentary! Yay. Lol.

ETA:How do you gain respect for your much derided favorite author? Why, by starting an online petition for it, of course!

Over at the OOC community for Dramadramaduck, an RPing community, an anonymous, severely butthurt poster would like everyone in the community to know that some of the people playing there are MEAN and suck at RPing:

This is kinda like a RP secrets post. And no, I'm not a troll or stalker or whatever. I RP in DramaDramaDuck. There are many reasons why I am not using my personal journal or any of my character journals. And before you say anything, no, it's not a case of being a coward. If I were to reveal my identity it would cause a lot of problems in this comm and between my many friends here.

Anyway, I'm not happy with the way things have been lately. When I came here I was treated like the replacement. I kept hearing about how great the person before me did with the character I'm RPing now and how I'm not doing the character any justice. It's also been implied that maybe I should just give it up and pick someone else to RP.

DDD's D.N.Angel team and Kingdom Hearts team....sucks. You people are such snobs when it somes to RPinng. The person who plays Dark annoys me. Axel is played way too OOC it doesn't even fit anymore. Roxas and Marluxia are nowhere in sight but the taken characters list shows that someone is playing them both. Larxene is played horribly and don't even get me started on Daisuke and Hiwatari.

I'm not a happy here, though I don't want to leave since I've been RPing here for a very long time.

Other highlights include:

"The reasons for my annonimity are complicated though. You could never understand becuase you and the others have already casted me out."

"Hey how about you gripe about players that actually legitimately suck."

"I just hope that upsetting people who put a lot of effort into this game is enough to make you feel better about the crushing pain that is somebody playing a character not quite the way you'd like it." "It is."

The Discovery Channel has been hyping up its forthcoming "ALL NEW" MythBusters episodes for quite some time, and the first [ETA: Whoops! My bad.] second new one was supposed to air last night. But ONOZ! Instead of the long-awaited "Viral Video" ep, those who tuned in got...a rebroadcast of the already rerun-to-death "Pirate Special." Sadface.

It turns out that about an hour and a half before the episode was to air, the mod on the MB fansite forum announced a delay in the next two scheduled new episodes; those ("Viral Video" and "Ninjas 2") will be postponed indefinitely and there will not be a new episode until Aug. 27. Comments start out pretty tame, with fans ass-kissing the mod and blaming the Olympics, but quickly escalate to ever-wankier heights.

In 34 (so far) wanktastic pages, we have conspiracy theories, entitlement wank, fans being told to GTFO if they're not angry enough.

ZOMG loyal fans are being deprived of their livelihoods! Won't someone think of the fans??
ZOMG God-modding!
ZOMG leave Adam and Jamie alone!
In Soviet Russia, forum triggers you!
User Bored_as_of_now sums it up nicely here: "As of now, the only reasons for this to be okay are aliens, cancer, or editing."
A Digg thread is started to wank about it some more!
There's even some trollery perpetrated, oddly enough, by a user called thetroll.
What with the God-modding and all, this could be deleted at any time. So...enjoy it while it's hot? Okay, lukewarm.

ETA2: We can has macro! Wank is now up to page 40! :o

We are falling behind on the Sparkledammerung, you guys. Previously: Twilight had its own Carpet Book. Fresh off the truck:

>> Don't Burn It, Return It!

Just got back from Borders, where they took back my book with no problem. Got into a discussion with the cashier about how I was the 15th (!!!) person to bring my book back today. Seems like many customers felt that SM was not true to her characters and her self created Twilight world, and are calling foul.

(See also: Half.com's BD listing; more anecdata at iworkatborders and ONTD).

>> Two new communities are up, mmmcradle (specifically protesting ( spoiler )) and whysofailsmeyer, and those are just the ones I know of.

>> Epic ONTD post is epic, complete with macros and Dark Knight rewrites (ALFREDS EYES WERE A BUTTERY, BURNING GOLD; HIS PERFECT FACE ALMOST SEVERE WITH THE DEPTH OF HIS EMOTION AS HE STARED INTO MY EYES AND SHOUTED "NEVAH").

I hear the Twilight Moms board is supposed to open back up today (apparently Stephenie Meyer asked her fan boards to go on hiatus prior to the book release...?), so that should be interesting. ETA: The Twilight Moms loved it! Bless. ETA 2: ... And so it begins. ETA 3: And continues! ETA 4: NO DISSENT!

ETA 5: It was a social experiment test, Twihards, and you failed it! Also: Godwin's. Also-also: She couldn't have been referencing Lolita... could she?

ETA 6: OH SHI--

ETA 7: Alleged MySpace defriending by the author!

ETA 8: A new letter-writing campaign: EDIT MOAR; a J/B shipper decides to rewrite the book.

By the way, you guys, if something else happens, feel free to post a new entry. I'll be over here battening down the LJ hatches.

ETA 9: Seriously, people, there is some fantastic wank linked in the comments now. SOMEONE ELSE TAKE A TURN ON THE CAROUSEL.

As some of you know, Avatar: the Last Airbender had its series finale yesterday. Many mind-blowing things occured in the finale, but since this is fandom, all the wankers care about is one thing: whose ships got sunk?

( Spoilery Ship Wank under the cut )

OH my fandom. You never stop wanking, do you?

Edit: Bonus wank from livejournal! (Thank you ueuecoyotl!) Character-bashing, creator-bashing, and plans for a rewrite. My Harmony flashbacks grow stronger and more vivid by the minute.

Edit 2: Limey404 brilliantly calls Avid on her bullshit. Wow that's some grade-A hypocrisy right there folks.

Edit 3: The batshit continues as Avid posts a follow-up. Just... read it. It's special.

Edit 4: Avid's BFF, Isaluvszutara, brings the drama in her own journal. Sheesh, don't these people have lives ouside of their ships? D:

So, the Microsoft E3 Press Conference ending a few minutes ago, and the final surprise announcement?

Final Fantasy XIII is coming to XBox 360 - making it no longer a PS3 exclusive.

PS3 Forums has completely gone down for the moment, but needless to say, I'm sure the wank has already begun to fly, if the reaction to losing exclusivity on Devil May Cry 4 is anything to go by. . . .

Update:

And it has begun:

( On PS3 Forums: I won't buy it if it's multi-platform! )

Also some more highlights posted by reeve over on clairvoyantwank, PS3 Fanboy posters are also losing it:

( A little piece of the gamer in me died today )

Update II:

Looks as if Sony themselves aren't escaping blame for this either!

More from PS3 Forums:

( Sony have totally let me down this time )

And these classics from the Playstation.com board (with more thanks to reeve and this post on clairvoyantwank for the heads up):

( Trust in Sony? Gone! )

And even more:

( Sony better show something good tomorrow, or else! )

Update III:

Some tl;dr coming in from the IGN boards - with hate directed at Microsoft, and how the news has made them "emotionally unstable" wrt the company.

( Am I taking this too seriously? )

And NeoGAF has a 40+ page thread of meltdowns, "serious business" and "LOL!" going on:

( How wrong is this? )

And finally, it was only a matter of time. Yes, that's right, the online petition has started!

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Update IV - Day 2 after the FFXIII Goes Multiplat Apocalypse:

I'm kinda hoping this video is just satire - but, from what I understand, no, it's not. Wow. Just . . . Wow. (And the comments just add to the "wow" factor).

ETA: credit to reeve: May just be a dramatic reading (acting?) of a real post on NeoGAF. Or the real person who made the original post. Still, comedy gold. :D

Oh yeah... I forgot to say 'sorry' in my last post.

Modsquad out. *snap* *snap*

Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

Cyndi, a popular author in the Transformers fandom, is raging mad. deviantArt just TOSsed her fanfic Ambrosia. What was the fanfic about? Primarily about Starscream and Unicron getting it on in full detail.

But it wasn't porn, according to Cyndi. Oh no. It's LITERATURE.

( I HAVE BEEN HORRIBLY WRONGED ONOES )

In conclusion? LOL BNFS

ETA: All of Cyndi's journal entries have been locked.

So! There is a bandom specific anonymous mocking comm over here on JF that is called bandflesh. It's all flashing text and caplock lulz and stupid anon shenanigans... until certain people decide that it's all too much for them. To the point of: Quite a few of the defriendings were people I have met IRL, care about a lot, a couple of them I even consider good friends.

Mmhmmm.

I wasn't sure if this was quite wanky enough for F_W itself, even though I got some lulz out of it.

[ETA]: Oh dear: South Part and Fandom Wank paved the way to a world where being a giant fuckwit is admirable and hilarious. And it makes me feel so vulnerable and unhappy and lonely, because how can I trust anyone?

:(.

[ETA2]: And:

[info]shoemaster wrote: It certainly creates the opportunity for dialogs such as this, now doesn't it?

[info]claireweasley wrote: Sure, if it makes you feel better about being a shitty human being.

Supernatural Media is a site that posts previously unseen stills and promotional shots for the TV show Supernatural. This morning, its front page made the following announcement:

Let's play a game! Find something strange on the site then click on it and admire the first preview from the season 3 promotion pictures.

Cue general fangirl irritation.

Which leads to a shiny new tantrum announcement!

You want unseen pictures but you don't want to visit SPNMEDIA because it's horrible site. You are also not ready to play a game because it's a pathetic plea for attention. Well, then don't visit the site and don't play the game.

You do realize that the website has been created for the fandom? It's an immense effort to get all the pictures and to keep the site up-to-date. But why should you care, it's your right to get all the pictures immediately. Forcing you to find a link in a description is an incredible crime.

Maybe we should stop running the website, stop releasing unseen high quality pictures and stop torturing the fandom. This is a non-profit website. The only thing we earn is a hosting bill and ungrateful fans. Okay, there are some who say from time to time thank you and that's great. So can't you just be pleased and stop complaining without any reason?

Shut up, mean fangirls. You suck.

In vergil_fangirls, rosiesintherain posts:

I know I'm going to be stomped with flames and insults for asking, but why exactly do people like Dante/Vergil?

It's something I never understood. I understand people appreciating the brotherly (FAMILY) love between them. The fact that they're so different and would definately be willing to kill each other, but they can't bring themselves to completely hate each other. Lady and Arkham had that too. Despite all the horribly things that Arkham had done to both her and others, she was still saddened when she killed him. Same with Dante. Despite what Vergil had done to him and was planning on doing to the world, when he left the human world forever, he was saddened by that too.

I don't find it romantic in the least and I don't understand why people try to make it out to be. I don't think someone can completely hate their family member, and DMC3 decided to play on that. And it's fairly obvious that Dante likes women. He hits on almost all the DMC girls, has naked pictures of women in his office, and totally got a boner the moment he saw Nevan. I don't think he's ever done that around Vergil.

Plus.... they're brothers. That's just sick.

So since there seems to be quite a lot of twincest fans here, I'd like to hear what they have to say. It confuses me when people dislike Dante/Trish because Trish is a clone of his mother, but turn around and say that two brothers fucking is hot.

Just curious.

( YAY WANK! )

ETA: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE GODWIN.

laryna6, who already has a history in the Devil May Cry fandom, has created a bunch of new communities: spardaxeva, dantexnevan, dantexalastor, dmc_yuri and vergilxlady. Given that the fandom is composed of AT MOST about 150 people, and the sole fanfiction community, dmc_fics, gets about one new fic per month in its good days, people ponder out loud the need for so many communities fractionning the already tiny fandom.

laryna6 doesn't take too kindly to this and deletes negative comments.

_sirius_denial, poster of a deleted comment, does not take kindly to it.

ETA: Aaaaaaaaaaaand laryna6 disabled all comments. So much for "Reasonable objections get answers, wank gets deleted."(laryna6), huh?

Unfortunately for her, we have the entire thing.

One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine

ETAA: Laryna is blaming the Ass Burgers, again. Funny how quite a lot of other people with Asperger's manage to not act like complete asses online.

BPAL wank that isn't about BPAL. It's about eBay. Or more specifically, that ever-controversial subject, sniping.

If you don't know anything about eBay: sniping is when someone waits until the last minute to bid on an auction, hoping to snag it before the other person has a chance to rebid. Of course, eBay has a bid proxy system - you enter a (hidden) maximum and the system counterbids for you automatically until you're maxed out - so the snipe is only successful if the late bid has a higher maximum than you do. (Ties go to the earliest bidder.)

The pro-snipe contingency says that sniping is just how the game is played. The anti-snipe contingency says that sniping is rude, sneaky, and mean.

So, girltuesday bid on some BPAL and got sniped. And boy, is she pissed.

( sniping is evil. )

( no, sniping rocks! )

( not about sniping, just a little bit of wank dessert )

I've had it.

I've had it, since the GA still refuse to let me back in because I'm viewed by them as some sort of inhuman freak who does not know anything about normal human behaviour, I have decided to no longer try to make freinds anymore in both real life and on the internet

Why bother trying to make friends anymore, since last year everyone on the Anime On DVD forums hates me, the people on the VAA hate me, the GA hates me, just about everyone in real life and in the internet hates me. And since it seems I am incapable of making long term friends, why should I bother continuing to do so.

So from now on, don't bother trying to talk to me, or even try to convince me I'm making a mistake here. Trust me, this is for the best for me.

After all, aren't I an inhuman freak to all of you?

Cue... much funneh and snark and hair-tearing frustration from commentators, much whining from GrantM. 102 comments and counting.

ETA: Annnd bahleeted. But no fear, I've salvaged a few scraps (changed host to something else because Geocities sucks ass):

The whole page
Uppermost thread
Show him some courtesy, will ya?
Waah
No, dear, you won't be a VA, ever
Pity party!

ETA the second: Grant boy just deleted his LJ. Again. Is this... the third or fourth time?

I've gacked this report word for word from an anonymouse on wank_report.

"You all remember Grant M. the wannabe voice actor who scored a Fandom Wank trifecta last fall for being an absolutely clueless dumbfuck? Well, he's back, and he's bad. Or worse.

He starts out with the usual "I hate myself and I want to die" List of Self-Loathing in late January Here.

Other topics include: "My fake accent isn't fake!", "Why won't Glasgow Anime/Anime on DVD/other places I've been banned from shower unconditional love and acceptance on me?" and the ever-popular, "I need to be an anime voice actor RIGHT FUCKING NOW." Responses range from general encouragement to outright disgust.

And now, LiveJournal isn't dramatastic enough for him, so I've joined MySpace......the emo/poser haven on the internet

Good for you, Grant. Good for you."

naiveprophet: Tragic past =/= Mary Sue! Child abuse and car accidents and bad childhoods happen all the time in real life! (She later implies she may have made up the now-edited-out story about her nephew)

therikkster: Telling stories about family members on the internet is bad, mkay?

iwanttobeasleep: Just because it happens doesn't mean it's good and some jumping to conclusions that naiveprophet insinuated that gay people are bad parents.

Grantm, the wannabe VA from last time, starts a new journal. Two of them [grantm1 and gmvox), one of which was him impersonating an ADV voice actor employee. It's been deleted, but I'm taking bets he'll bring it back.

In his new journal, he whines about not having as many LJ friends as other people, and he wants to know why he ignores advice. He also wants as many industry contacts as possible even though he's never taken acting classes. He also manages to get himself banned from a Pro VA's LJ too. Cue the angst.

Oh, and he makes a wangsty post about never being a VA, or having sex. Watch as the comments explode. Bonus points include for Grantm arguing that he has talent.

Because of course he has to have talent, it's just still undiscovered!

Well, if VAing doesn't pan out, he'll just be an ADR director!. This entire LJ is wanky, so there's more wank to be had outside of these links.

If people hadn't met this guy in real life and found him to be even worse offline, I'd have thought this guy a troll. Sadly, he isn't.

My brain is melting out my ears.

[EDIT] Why, will Grantm TRULY quit obsessing about VAing? He claims he is quitting (really!), but the thread dissolves into more of a pity-fest for himself than anything else: choice quote from this is

Speaking of David Williams....I guess I should apologise to him.....correct that him and everyone else at ADV for the whole gmvox blog thing. I'm sure he's pissed at me for doing that

I should point out if ADV were to ever offer me a chance to be in anime dub if ever, I would take it up in an instant. Even though I've given up voice acting if they were to give me a chance, I would do it, no questions aksed. But we all know that's never going to happen

Meet GrantM. He's your typical otaku - college age or so, collects anime...and aspires to be a voice-actor. For two specific dub companies.

The problem is that he doesn't want to get any acting training (only "voice-acting training"), and he wants to go all the way from Scotland to the US. He doesn't need advice, and he doesn't need to actually contact the companies, because they will read his LJ, of course! He also doesn't believe in starting small: he deserves lead roles from the start!

Because if a girl (with acting training, for starters) his age can do it (20-23 range), he can do it!

Watch in amazement at how he doesn't actually do any research, or boggle at his reasons for wanting to be a VA:

( Read more... )

Actually, almost every post in his entire Livejournal is wanky in itself (as passing anons try to give advice to this otaku with little success) - there's way too much to go on this one post.

Edit: The mean internet people are making fun of me, what will ADV think?!. Anyone know of this thread on the AnimeonDVD forums that he mentions?

Edit 2: Bonus includes him daydreaming about his triumphant arrival as a VA at Anime Expo.

Edit 3: I hear people are getting to go to dub studios and are getting work. What are they doing that I'm not?!. Well, I don't know, maybe taking the initiative and getting away from that keyboard?

Edit 4: A voice actress gets a role in an anime. He proceeds to whine about it in the same thread.

Edit 5: More Grant in the forums, spouting the same stuff to a different crowd. "There's something about that automatic assumption from GrantM that he is going to be working for ADV and/or Funimation that I find quixotically puzzling and tragically amusing." . And "The REAL reason I want to be a VA" thread.

First wank report, yadda.

In the DMC LJ icons community, mortenuova pimps demoncest, a newly created community for fans of Vergil/Dante.

I'm just pimping our new Virgil/Dante community. XO If you hate Virgil/Dante, or pimping. Ignore me! (We will be having icon challenges and so on and so forth—we're actually having one now.)

Ha ha. *run*

parsephoni proceeds to ignore the "ignore me" part and completely spazzes out about the OP being "a fucking pro-incest sick bitch" (although she said nothing about all the Vergil/Dante icons posted to the comm) and about the spelling of Nelo Angelo's name.

I'm still surprised it took THREE GAMES before this pairing got wanked.

ETA: And as the mod steps in, Parsephoni proceeds to suck up as if she wasn't the one who royally flipped out in the first place

ETAA: From the above sucking up thread:
Parsephoni: Also, I did not assume the girl was pro-incest. She made a community celebrating homosexual sex between twins. It’s obvious that she is.

The Logic is weak in this one.