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seiberwing] 09:11am - (You can pry my parens from my cold dead fingers)

FelicityGS is very attached to her parentheses. She recently posted "There's Nothing There" a Loki/Steve Rogers fic, to AO3. The earliest reviewers seem to enjoy it. And then a fiend known only as "J" has the unmitigated gall to post this scathing, atrocious, narrow-minded comment:

Almost all of the parenthesis and several commas were unnecessary. If a sentence goes on for more than two lines, it should probably be broken up into two or more sentences. You might want to get a beta who is really good with grammar/punctuation. Otherwise, great story. Very cute and well thought out. (:

( Now that just won't do. )

(46 wanks | kerfluffle!)

[

girl_friday] 09:00am - Delicious AO3 Comment wank
mood: Impish

(Thank you to a mousey at

wank_report! I have c/p your commentary verbatim, only adding links.)

Ten days ago, author FelicityGS posted "There's Nothing There" a Loki/Steve Rogers fic, and lo, there was squee...for three comments. [ETA: Added correct link, because I'm apparently a dumbass before coffee.]

Until, that is, the following mild concrit is posted by "J":

"Almost all of the parenthesis and several commas were unnecessary. If a sentence goes on for more than two lines, it should probably be broken up into two or more sentences. You might want to get a beta who is really good with grammar/punctuation. Otherwise, great story. Very cute and well thought out. (:"

Felicity GS does Not Take It Well, and in a series of comments compares her work to that great author "Nabakov", and claims her "style" trumps such things as "proper grammar" and "readability", closing with this flourish:

But do me a fucking favour:

don't fucking tell me I need a fucking goddamn beta who knows grammar really fucking well and that I could get rid of all those fucking parens and had too many fucking commas because I did not use any of those fucking lightly and you are a fucking douche.

Because if the above didn't give it away?

I know fucking grammar. I know style. I am comfortable in my style, I have given thought to my style, and I know the difference between grammar and style. I write fanfiction as a labour of love and to share stories, to hone my craft and to practice what I have been doing since I could hold a pen.

Fuck.

You.

<3

Her commenters are rather boggled, except for an anon who immediately starts rending garments in response to someone leaving a critique on - GASP! - a Yuletide fic:

But you're probably also someone who tells their granny the Christmas socks scratch and the cookies are dusty instead of doing the right thing. What a miserable bunch of hypocrites and nasty bitches claimed Yuletide this year!

Unfortunately, the fic has nothing whatsoever to do with Yuletide, and fellow anons take him/her/zie/them to task for the mistake:

Gift exchange? Yuletide? Also, the author was the one reacting with hostility to a helpful comment-- vile, abusive hostility. WITH AN EPIC NOVEL OF OVERLY DEFENSIVE BABBLE.

I don't even-- what is with your comment? Are you trying to paint me as some sort of hands-rubbing, world-domination-wanting Grinch? Where are you going with this absurd reading into things that aren't there at all?

FelicityGS deflects blame by claiming she was "stressed" and wrote the fic to ease said mental strain. She also complains about the meanness of the author who dared leave her concrit, up to and including misrepresenting the content of the feedback:

"No. It was not helpful nor constructive. It said "this sucks, this sucks, do better, oh and the idea was nice."

That is not useful."

Still active and ongoing, as FelicityGS's comments have hit both Yuletide Coal and Fail Fandom Anon, where, unsurprisingly, is hilarity at FelicityGS's overreaction.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

FelicityGS has taken the wank to her own tumblr (all stylistic choices original):

I.

Love.

Parentheses.

And you can pry them away from me and my style over my cold, dead body.

(fuck you)

(no seriously)

(but not you guys that actually explain why you don’t like parens, you guys are cool)

Commas? Okay, yeah, there are some comma splices in the story. No big. Whatever. I literally typed it up and posted it, and there are some spots I wouldn’t mind smoothing a bit. And I am willing to bet most the commas that you think are ‘unnecessary’ are, in fact, doing things. Like separating lists, or clauses, or, you know, THINGS THAT COMMAS DO.

I actually feel delightfully, refreshingly vindicated and good for breaking down that comment and addressing it in that manner, because I can look at it and see that, no, no, I’m not fucking crazy.

You may not be crazy, sweetie, but you are certainly a wanker.

(138 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
December 29

[

seca] 01:21pm - Because what would be better than Howl's Moving Castle with aliens and blood drinking?

Can thank a mousey at wank_report for this as well. And because I am lazy the write up is copy-pasted with links inserted.

So Untherius has a reputation as being someone you don't want to get fic from at Yuletide--background as to what he does here.

("Shout out to Untherius for the lowest of the low. At least the Gay Dragon fic was recognizably set in Pern.")

("I honestly don't think anyone deserves Untherius as a writer, unless you've maybe committed genocide or something.")

This year, he writes another Howl's Moving Castle fic for abluestocking...one that includes a crossover with two fandoms that the recipient is unfamiliar with, as well as graphic violence (blood drinking, consumption of raw organs).

This after abluestocking politely indicated that she would prefer not to receive a crossover.

People on fail_fandomanon collectively go "oh my God", and it's posted to yuletide_coal as well.

Then, someone who appears to be the recip, based off of their comment, comes forward:

So I got a primary fic that I...can't read?

That sounds funny. It's not in another language or anything. It's just that the author 1) did a crossover with a fandom I have absolutely no familiarity with, 2) wrote my requested character as an OC, and, most importantly, 3) wrote the entire thing around something that is a complete squick for me (and probably a lot of people).

A little further downthread, we have someone defending Untherius, calling other Yuletide writers/recips "entitled". The same anon appears again, and the end result is that someone posts a critique to the work on AO3 and the defender!anon flounces from Yuletide.

And all of this happens before reveals.

(68 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Monday
December 17

[

seca] 12:14am - You're a troll and this thread needs to be locked.

Like to thank a little mousey for putting this up on wank report.

Remember jessioriginal and her inability to understand simple business transactions to buy some doujinshi? Well she has a new name, new fandom but nothing about understanding any viewpoint that is not her own has changed.

Over on the Gamfaq boards for 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors and its sequel, Virtue's Last Reward she has been sharing her irrefutable opinion based on facts that cannot be argued with under the username SyberiaWinx. Because if you do try to argue them she will call you a troll and ask that the thread be locked.

( (SPOILER WARNING for listed games in the links.) )

ETA: Guys! We've been caught! So stop visiting her house using the non-existent address we have in this post!

(95 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Friday
December 7

[

phosfate] 11:22am - In which Aja demands that she is Vroomfondle and Majikthise, I mean that she is a real journalist
mood: Impish

Over on Dreamwidth, impertinence
posts a warning that Aja is planning to write a Daily Dot article on hockey RPF. Because publicising RPF always ends well for fandom.

Aja replies, apparently without irony, that "...it is not my attention to shine a spotlight in places that don't want spotlights shown."

You can imagine the rest, but you don't have to. Because you have links.

ETA: Aja says she's not writing the article after all. http://bookshop.tumblr.com/post/37422170053

(133 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
December 1

[

seiberwing] 06:04pm - To be read while wanking in the Modern Age

Vampire: Undeath is the newest Kickstarter project from Dark Phoenix Publishing. Despite all appearances to the contrary, this game is exactly nothing like the famous RPG Vampire: The Masquerade.

( Vampire will take you deeper than you've ever been before! )

EDIT: For later viewing pleasure, a massive collection of links of the author's exploits.

(95 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
November 25

[

themadscientist] 08:30am - How Misha Collins ruined Christmas

Writeup by mousie:

GISHWHES ends. Only a few days later, close enough to piggyback off the residual crazy, Misha launches christmaswillneverbethesame.com and a Twitter account, @HairyBumble, a homage to the Abominable Snowman from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, which featured cryptic and disturbing messages that the fandom tried to interpret with little to no luck. The site itself was just an image of the Snow Miser from one of those old Christmas movies and the text: "From the 'Mind' that brought you GISHWHES...A special holiday event!" There was also a countdown. (Pics/better explanation in this tumblr post: http://nerdylittledude.tumblr.com/post/36263744169/what-is-christmas-will-never-be-the-same)
People that entered their email address got one "get ready!" sort of mass email from Misha.

( Onwards )

(66 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
November 11

[

redcoast] 10:34am - Misha Collins seems to like slash; slash fans are unhappy about this

Misha Collins (actor who plays Castiel from Supernatural) is known for being supportive of slash and also for being a giant troll. Misha shook up the Supernatural fandom in late October when he told a small group of fans at the Supernatural convention in Chicago that he thought that Dean and Castiel were in love, an opinion he apparently formed without discussing it with anyone on set (!). "It may be unspoken but that doesn’t mean it’s not there," he explained, and when a fan asked why it couldn't just be a bromance, "Misha just shrugged."

Of course Dean/Cas fans were delighted that Misha had apparently joined their ranks, and some went so far as to say that Misha's statement made Dean/Cas canon. Other fans were sure Misha was just fucking with them. It's hard to say with Misha.

Now, a magazine called Gay Calgary recently put up a video interview of Misha Collins taken at the Edmonton Expo, which confusingly took place before the Chicago convention though the interview wasn't released until after. The rag describes the interview as "one of the most bizarre dialogues we’ve ever conducted, but a must see nevertheless," which is pretty standard for Misha's interviews actually. In the relevant part of the interview, the interviewer talks about getting attention from Dean/Cas fans. Misha seems to defend his fans and launches into a succinct explanation of slash fanfic:
( Read more... )

(145 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
October 13

[

nonnyeve] 05:28pm - Cartoon Network vs DC nation

( Cartoon network has made a bit of a boo boo )

(89 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
September 19

[

redcoast] 02:00pm - Which is gayer: Teen Wolf or Supernatural?

(I haven't seen any of Teen Wolf yet and I know as much about it as Gingerhaze, so if I get anything wrong - please help me out by correcting me!)

The website AfterElton.com is holding a tournament-style poll to determine the most popular slash pairing, and the championship round comes down to Sterek (Teen Wolf) vs. Destiel (Supernatural). It's a very close contest, and supporters have been tweeting official working-on-the-show people to get them to promote the poll on Twitter. This is a good short summary. Jeff Davis, producer and writer for Teen Wolf, replied to some tweets about it in August, but things really started to heat up with Misha Collins, who plays one half of the Destiel pairing on Supernatural, found out about the poll:

This homonormative poll makes me sick! http://www.afterelton.com/2012/09/ultimate-slash-madness-tourney-championship-round … -- No one could seriously think that those Teen Wolf jerks are gayer than us.

Then Stephen Lunsford, who plays "Matt" on Teen Wolf, replied:

@mishacollins I love you bro...but you will lose. LOSE I TELL YOU. Mwaha. MWAHAHAH. mwahaha. ha.

And then posts a link to the poll. Other various actors from both shows start tweeting links to the poll, though as of now, Misha is the only person actually in the pairings to respond. Even the official Twitters for both shows pimp the poll and encourage people to vote for their respective slash pairings.

Thing is, there is much less fighting between the two sets of shippers than one might expect; many people ship both and have trouble choosing who they are going to vote for. But people really care about who wins; why? Because if Sterek wins, it will become canon! (Naturally!) But while they're passionate, most of the shippers aren't hateful; the solution to this conflict is, of course, porn:

“You didn’t think you were going to win that easily, did you?” Destiel growled, nipping the younger wolf’s ear, revelling in the shudder it caused.
Sterek raised a trembling hand towards the chiselled half angel’s jaw. He stared at him, unflinching, before taking the older man’s lips between his teeth. He smirked at Destiel’s sharp intake of breath. “I never said it was going to be easy.”
” You can’t win this, Sterek. You’re too young.” Destiel replied hoarsely, hands clenching on either side of Sterek’s hips, steadying the wolf on his lap.
“I’m only 5 seasons younger than you, Destiel. I can handle it.” Sterek retorted breathlessly, before rocking himself shamelessly on top of the sexy hunter.

So, no, it's not from slash-fans fighting amongst themselves, but from, who else, crazy Supernatural fans:

(link) No, it's not until Sunday, but since Misha tweeted about it,Destiel is in the lead by about 2 percent. Stupid Misha, just had to whore himself out over a poll that has nothing to do with SPN only because he feels this kind of poll is the only way he will stay relevant. He is an idiot and I feel sorry for himself because he is going to be an actor that is only remembered for slash and fanfiction and porn. That isn't good for his acting future career. I really think he should start thinking twice about what he tweets but I don't think he ever will because he probably knows that he won't ever have something legitimate after SPN. He is just creepy, I mean I forever will remember himm as a pedo because of his role in that one film, where he admitted that after filming that movie he started looking at kids differently then he should. Does he not think about what he says?

(link) Is this a shock! Misha Collins was always going to pimp himself out. Unfortunately he has no care if it ruins Dean Winchester in the process. Because yes, I believe Castiel has female and male in him so he is definately bi and Misha is also imo.

Misha likes any attention. We've had Jared and especially Jensen lately getting attention and its been all J2, now he wants some attention even though its negative.

The thing is for Sterek, they are the show and this poll only is a continuation of what the story is about and will make the show better. Destiel winning will make the show worse and the online part of fandom nasty and vindictive. This isn't the show and winning this they will only want it actually in the show.

What has happened to Sterek, I thought they had the bigger fandom. I am calling cheaters! Destiel always cheat and there is no way they got that far ahead. I mean I know most of them have no life but still, the lost to Glee.

And someone creates a tumblr called Spn Fans Against Destiel - sorry, SPN FANS AGAINST DESTIEL in all-caps - which, I'm gonna warn you, is really fond of homophobic slurs.

People are upset, of course, but the unpleasantness that the Supernatural fandom can produce remains unsurpassed. In that respect, Supernatural has definitely got the Teen Wolf fandom beat.

Edit: Jensen Ackles is not okay with Destiel and therefore Misha's a dick for talking about it maybe? Jensen Ackles doesn't have a twitter so he won't be commenting on the poll. They're referring to an incident at this year's Comic-Con where a fan outright asked Misha and Jensen what they thought of Destiel, and Jensen replied that he didn't know what it was. Observe what is either passive-aggressive hostility or cheerful acceptance, depending on who you ask! Is Jensen stroking Misha's cheek a sign of, like, something? I can't tell anymore. It's turtles all the way down. Gay turtles.

(180 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
September 15

[

themadscientist] 09:59pm - Mini Gamer Wank

The top-secret reveal of the week came on Monday.

There's going to be a Bayonetta 2.

Fans rejoiced!

Except... it's going to be exclusively on the Nintendo Wii U.

That... doesn't go over so well.

In fact - the creators themselves have to issue an explanation. Yowza.

Kotaku collects their favorite rage!Tweets here, plus more comments but my personal favorite is a blog here created specifically to tell everyone how to STICK IT TO THE MAN by buying the system and game used.

But my favorite comment so far comes from this tumblr and is essentially:

Gamers: We want mature exclusives on the Wii U!
Nintendo: Here's Bayonetta 2 exclusive for the Wii U!
Gamers: FUCK YOU FOR STEALING THAT GAME!

(36 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Friday
September 14

[

mosellegreen] 11:31pm - An Offering To The God of Mischief

Apparently fans of Loki (as played by Tom Hiddleston in Thor and Avengers) figure that since their favorite character is the God of Mischief, there should be a lot of mischief in their fandom.

Devoted Loki fans mostly infest tumblr, but they also closely follow relevant Twitter accounts, including one which purported to be the official Twitter of the upcoming Thor sequel Thor: The Dark World, which was @Thor2themovie. (Click here to see a screenshot of this now-deleted Twitter's tweets; thank you to this tumblr for the link.)

There should have been some warning, because a few days earlier the Twitter account linked to a photo of Christopher Eccleston from another movie, claiming that it was of him on the set of Thor 2, and a couple of days later was forced to admit it wasn't. Still, it posted plausible remarks about the various people involved in the production and links to the first set photos of Chris Hemsworth and others. But Tom Hiddleston had yet to make an appearance, much to the frustration of Loki's fangirl army. This Twitter feed announced on September 11th that later in the week, set photos of Loki would be released.

( Tumblr promptly lost its shit. )

(99 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Thursday
September 13

[

sepiamagpie] 07:00am - 50 Shades of Legal Fuck Ups

This is a two-parter. Choose your favourite half.

This all starts over on Fandom Lounge (sort of!), where it is revealed that author, Casea Major first made a novel based off 50 shades and just as we found out about this joy she removed all traces of it from the internet.

Why did she do it? Well, it may have something to do with how EL James (author of 50 Shades) recently cease and desisted someone's lingerie parties that were themed after her books.

Actual quote: EL James’ agent Valerie Hoskins said the legal letter was not personal, adding: “You can’t just hijack something someone else owns.”

Now we enter into the next phase!

Cleolinda tweets about it, because that's what Cleo does.

Enter: AJA

See, lately Aja's blogger for the Daily Dot.

Anyway, she decides to write an article and tweets Cleo about the article:

Cleo does not respond.

So Aja tweets again:

Wait, what's Cleo talking about? What official account? WELL. Included on Aja's post, was this screencap:

Sounds hilarious, right? It's a photoshop though. If only because if it HAD happened Cleo would have it bronzed on her wall. But that's okay, because Aja wouldn't claim a photoshop was rea--oh, she did. Because that's how you Journalism in Aja land.

I'm not being unkind, she actually admits it:

Okay, she admits it AFTER Cleo keeps asking her about it (read these bottom up):

If the image isn't working, she says this about how she factchecks: "you know i was afraid of that, i tried to find it yesterday too & didn't confirm before we went to press. should have asked you!"

As of this post, Aja has kept a link to the photoshop in case she can magically verify it.

(109 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Tuesday
August 28

[

sepiamagpie] 01:17pm - Slash goggles erase characterization OR Doesn't Regnant look like it's missing a letter?

Disclaimer: I have no idea what Grimm is besides a tv show. As well, thanks to

ymfaery for showing me this.

Let us away to a kink meme, where there is a prompt: Regnant static static knotting static.

And so, someone asks: "What's a Regnant?"

wicked_witch sez:

I think the whole Regnant thing was created by us, the fans, back in the early days when we didn’t know that much about Renard. (Not that we know all the much now.) It’s what we decided Renard’s creature name was going to be. I believe the first story to feature Renard as a Regnant was actually a fill posted on this meme but has since been moved to AO3. To my knowledge the story is This Isn’t Everything You Are by Macx. I guess it’s more fanon than anything else.

The anon disagrees that it's not popular enough to be fanon, because fanon is done via voting or something now, and

thorneofacre joins in to defend the widespread use of Regnant as a species name.

I like this thread for two reasons: One, the Anon keeps busting out charmers like: "i checked it out, but the writing is kind of terrible. thanks for the rec anyway." and Thornofacre eventually claims that expecting IC in slash is just being a sillybilly.

Then the fighting starts about here.

Also, it's rude to be anon in an anon thread.

The moral of the story is something about knotting, but I'm not sure what.

(86 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
August 26

[

anarchicq] 03:52pm - Rob Liefeld vs. Scott Snyder, re: Batman

So...This happened:

Apparently Rob Liefeld and Scott Snyder are having an e-pissing contest on who's the better Batman.

Bleeding Cool brings the goods.

More details courtesy of

loopywafflehead. I've basically stolen all of this with her permission. Thank her for the diligent work, kids! (But just like Rob, I won't erase my mistakes I'LL JUST LEAVE THEM THERE BECAUSE PSHHHH!)

( Rob Liefeld Insults Everyone )

(99 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
August 22

[

redcoast] 11:19am - Fans do not approve of Padalecki's life-choices

What did Jared Padalecki do to make an anonymous commentor on the spn_gossip group write, "It's an odd thing to watch someone's -a celebrity's- likability deteriorate in front of you, it really is. The rate of it is pretty shocking too"? You'd probably guess that he was arrested for drunk driving, or claimed during an interview that vitamins can cure post-partum or something like that. You'd be wrong.

What did Padalecki do that made his likeability "[plummet] faster than the stock market on a Black Monday"? He appeared in a music video with his beard.

Oh, and his wife is there too!

Seriously, the thing I find most offensive about these threads is the lack of beard jokes. C'mon! It's right there! Jared Padelecki has a beard in a music video in which his wife, who you claim to be his beard, also appears!

Jared and Genevieve Padelecki acted in a music video for a song by the Brian Buckley Band, which Jared also produces or finanaces or something, I don't care. If you don't want to watch it, it is pithly summarized by a spn_gossip anon thus:

Gen is in it for half a second at the end. All she does is open their (real) front door and bite her lip.

The plot of the video seems to be that Jared did something BAD (cheated with Jensen? C'mon Jared is only human!) and then gets drunk/hairy for a while, before putting on his magic bowtie and using cue cards stolen from "Love Actually" to try and win his girl back. Gen answers with lip biting.

spn_gossip responds with the disgust and caution usually reserved for Stormfront:

"Is anyone going to rip the video and repost it? I don't want to give them official hits..... although I also don't want to watch the video.... help?"

Another anon writes, "Yeah, there are things that I think an actor particularly just can't bounce back from, and this will probably be Jared's for me. It's a good/sad question, IDK I hope it's a development."

The issue is that Jared is using the video to promote his allegedly fake marriage, which would be awful?

I wonder what the hell Jared meant when he said at the Nerd thing, he was doing this BB video just for 'himself'? He obviously meant he was doing it to promote his fake marriage, just like every time he has 'employed' the BB Band for cons to provide an excuse to slobber over her in public.
This man is such a liar!
Why have your fake wife in your 'friend's' video, if not to use him to promote the het?
Jared manages to make me feel nauseous fairly often these days, especially when he's pimping the tiny no-talent fake wife who has managed to complicate his and Jensen's life in an incredibly irresponsible way. Ugh.

(188 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Thursday
August 9

[

arekuru] 11:44pm - Feminism? In a webcomic? It's more likely than you think.

For the last year and half or so, webcomic Sinfest has featured an intermittent storyline about feminism and "the sisterhood," with many of the characters being confronted with their anti-feministic views to varying reactions. As the comic started out with a lot of humor about drugs, sex, and stereotypes (and also a cute dog and cat, but that's not important right now), some readers have not been pleased with this change.

This comic pretty much sums up the background for you. For a quick overview of the complaints sans [much] wank, see the entries here for Base Breaker, Black Hole Sue, Double Standard, Jerk Sue, They Changed It Now It Sucks, and Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped. (Warning: link goes to TVTropes.)

The storyline's been going on long enough that wank has started to spill over a bit into many online "discussions" about comics and feminism (Shortpacked's comments section, for example), but is most conveniently observed right in Sinfest's own forums.

This is where the wank gets entertaining.( '...a smattering of the hopelessly ignorant we might be able to lure in and taunt mercilessly.' )

(62 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
August 8

[

loopywafflehead] 11:29pm - "I vowed to never again speak in the first-person voice on this blog" - Nail polish fandom drama

Summary: Popular nail polish creator encourages her distributor to crack down on people selling her polish at inflated prices on eBay. One well-known seller turns out to be the creator’s brother, thereby screwing over the distributor quite a lot.

Thank you very much to the anon on wank_report for this one. Much of your wording is used in this post. I tried to make this as succinct as possible but Lynnderella’s posts are a gold mine of pomposity, pretension, wilful obtuseness and trite New Age platitudes. I highly recommend reading every one.

Background

Lynnderella's an indie polish maker who does glitter nail polishes that people really, really like. There's tons of hype surrounding her polishes in the blogosphere. However, she's only one person and refuses to get more help in making her polishes as she's afraid of people ripping off her secret glitter sources/recipes.

The laws of supply and demand took effect. People began selling her nail polishes on eBay where some have fetched hundreds of dollars. (This one recently sold for $600 US.) Lynnderella and Llarowe (the distributor of Lynn’s polishes, also known as Leah Ann) decided to crack down on eBayers.

Some info on the ordering process to fully understand this drama: Lynnderellas are sold through Llarowe through a ‘wishlist’ system. Llarowe tells people when wishlists are. People email what colors they want. Llarowe takes their names in alphabetical order and goes down the wishlists to send people invoices. People pay. Llarowe send the polishes. When Llarowe has extra inventory, she puts them up in a flash sale. People who are caught buying Lynnderellas to sell on eBay are blacklisted from ever purchasing again.

( It begins! )

( Bonus mini-wank from the past )

ETA: Another document is posted with information that strongly suggests Lynnderella is using shill bidders on eBay to drive up the prices of her polishes. (There are comments from people saying they've seen her polishes go for $800 and even $1,000.) Not long after the document posted, people apparently still saw that same bidder driving up the prices but never winning an auction. Lynnderella then changes the settings so that all bidders are listed as 'private listing - bidders' identities protected'. Some of her polishes are now bidding at $700. Here's an ONTD thread about the drama, which takes place in a post about nail polish that contains actual gold flakes and will retail for $38 US. According to one comment, someone did an in-depth investigation into the shill bidding and Lynnderella threatened them with a lawsuit. There's also a comment in there from someone saying they've seen the bidding on one of her polishes go for almost $1,300.

(155 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
July 29

[

kumquat_of_doom] 09:33pm - The National Theatre refuses to condone bootleg recordings of its plays... OMGPERSECUTION!

Moved from

clairvoyantwank on grounds of extra wanking and journal bahleetion. Also, because people asked me to.

Context: the National Theatre is one of the UK's most major theatre companies, and one of its most popular (and critically-acclaimed) productions of the last few years was Danny Boyle's version of Frankenstein, which starred Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch. In light of the play's popularity (I believe every single night sold out), the NT put on a cinema production of the play, which has so far had an unprecedented TWO runs. There have been rumours in fandom that there'll be a DVD of the play, rumours which were completely scotched a few months back -- basically because the cast said no.

Anyway, thwarted fans = much kerfuffling, and bootleg recordings have been (predictably enough) doing the rounds in fandom -- I know for a fact that there's one of JLM as the Creature, though I don't believe there's one of Cumberbatch in the same role. (Unfortunately.)

SO, naturally, one such thwarted fan,

hikarikame, takes it upon herself to write to the NT themselves, asking them to condone aforesaid bootlegs. What she hoped to accomplish I really don't know, but she appears to have been, shall we say, somewhat miffed when the NT was, er, less than enthusiastic about the idea of supporting pirate versions of its own copyrighted material.

I suspected she'd be even less happy when she read her own fandom's reaction to all of this... I turned out to be right! LOTS of passive-aggressive happening, all over the map, as people attempted to bring common sense to bear on the issue.

hikarikame has now deleted her journal AND her Tumblr; I have screencaps of her post in Cumberbatchfans, but not of her Tumblr.

(131 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
July 22

[

seiberwing] 12:47pm - How I love me some RP wank.

The Master's been a naughty boy recently.

ofdrumsthesound is an RP journal for the Master from Doctor Who that appears to have gained some measure of notoriety around my local RP meme comms. I can't personally comment on their IC conduct since I've never interacted with them but I've gathered from a few of my colleagues that they tend to be both out-of-character and not an easy character to deal with.

( But that's not their only problem. )

EDIT: Apparently this has been going on for several years, in different incarnations. A BRPS post explains the player's time at

dear_multiverse, which includes conduct like this and driving off multiple players through their behavior. This eventually resulted in a ban for being a general godmoding squeeharshing buzzkill.

I don't think autism and social awkwardness are going to explain a multiyear fetish for creeping people out.

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