Fandom Wank Lives!

melannen] 10:54am - 'I am more than disappointed, I am angry'

I recently went to visit the Boston area, and specifically to visit the $1-used-book shelves at Brattle Books, and there I picked up a copy of "Edgar Rice Burroughs Quarterly, vol 1., no. 1, Fall, 1982". Because who wouldn't? (You may know of ERB fandom from things such as Tarzan and the John Carter of Mars books. It has a history almost as long and excellent as ACD fandom, with which it often crossed over.)

What I didn't realize until I got it home is that it contained a bonus: a beautiful example of pristine, vintage, excellent fan history, in the form of an impressively wank-filled open letter sent from the editor to all of his subscribers.

I reproduce it here, unaltered and in full, for your delectation:

( Trouble has been brewing ever since publication of V.I, No.1. )

*fans self* Wank was just so much classier back then.

(There is more to this story - McWhorter eventually managed to start an ERB journal that lasted more than one issue, so there must be - but I think I shall just leave this letter as is, as its own shining jewel.)

(43 wanks | kerfluffle!)

[

redcoast] 03:08am - Misha Collins is Supernatural's Keyser Soze

Misha Collins is an actor from Supernatural best known for two things: his cheerful shit-stirring ways (my favorite example is when he told Australian journalists that the Supernatural fandom is "an incredibly sexist group of people") and the charity he co-founded with Supernatural fans, Random Acts, which most famously supports a Haitian community center/orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti. Despite Misha's heavy utilization of sarcasm, his fiercely loyal fans seem to take everything with almost painful sincerity, which leads to a lot of wank.

About a month ago, Misha's fanbase on Tumblr were already on edge from uncertainty about whether Misha would return for Season 8 of Supernatural. Secondly, a group of fans had started a fan project called Supernatural: Silent Majority, because this is Supernatural fandom and everything has to be a fucking operation. The Spn: Silent Majority is petitioning the showrunners to focus the upcoming season of Supernatural on Sam and Dean's relationship, which Castiel/Misha fans felt was a covert attack on Castiel's continued presence on the show.

Someone began sending Misha's fan anonymous notes suggesting that he be set on fire. Or according to one post, "Gasoline is way too expensive. Someone just needs to push him into oncoming traffic. Road kill Misha Collins! rotflmao."

Then one identical message appears on a number of blogs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5): "I didn't start this whole 'lets set misha on fire craze' but I have to say that setting him on fire would be an improvement on his overall appearance. I bet he'd even be taken off the ugliest actor list. I mean, just between you and me, the guy is hideous. Everyone thinks so until they start crushing on him because of Castiel but without Castiel to make him look appealing, he's just gross to look at. You have to at least agree with me on that, right? I thought so."

Fans are upset, naturally (although my favorite response is "Set Misha on fire? Set him on fire with the flames of my love! I think that's what they meant.") One fan suggests notifying the fuzz:

If we rally together we can make sure these sick haters get the consequences they deserve. Not liking a TV character is your prerogative, but wishing to see such harm come to the actor playing them is demented. Some people are clearly lunatics and it only takes one person to be crazy enough to want to go through with any of these threats for Misha to end up in real danger. So we must take all this seriously. Report it all if it comes up on your Dash or ends up in your Ask….pass on all the permalinks to Tumblr staff and keep Clif informed of what’s going on.
Misha is a good man, he doesn’t deserve a hate campaign this extreme against him, it’s getting ridiculous and scary and I’m concerned for his well being at this point.
Don’t feed the trolls, just report them. They wont feel so high and mighty when the police come knocking on their door, death threats are after all an illegal activity.

And the troll escalates pretty quickly:

Anonymous asked: People who want to set Misha on fire have it all wrong. You wouldn't start with his face. You'd start by pulling down his pants, soaking his entire crotch area with gasoline, and then letting it spread from there! Common sense, right?

babyangelcastiel replied: Excuse me? Are you fucking kidding me? You have actually come to my ask box and said this to me?!

You sick, disgusting, creature. What the fuck is wrong with you? Setting Misha on fire?

THESE ARE THE DEATH THREATS TO MISHA THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT. YOU SICK FUCK.

Common sense? Get the fuck out of this fandom right now. I can’t…setting someone on fire? Gasoline on his crotch area? You’re beyond twisted, darling, and you need serious help.
If anyone dares go through with this and I swear to god I would hunt your ass down. This fandom is sick. Why am I apart of people who say something like this?

So a tumblr user named Tabby (url: assstiel.tumblr.com) on the 30th of May posts screencap of a anonymous message saying "I don’t know if it’s for real but some people have been getting these messages today":

We're declaring Thursday May 31st as "I HATE MISHA COLLINS DAY" (IHMCD). We are tired of Misha Collins and want him off Supernatural. Support us by sending this message to 10 other Dean/Sam fans. Then on May 31st log onto any social network site & post about why you hate Misha Collins. Take a moment to send an email to the CW asking them to have Misha removed off Supernatural permanently (or fired). Let's make this quietly viral to represent the majority! Follow us on Twitter @ IHMCD. *KEEP THIS MESSAGE PRIVATE*.

As Asstiel points out, there is indeed a twitter called IHMCD (now deleted) which had over 600 followers at the time.

As Misha's fan rush to report the account for "spam," someone tweets another Supernatural actor, Jim Beaver (@jumblejim), about the IHMCD campaign. He responds:

@jumblejim: @estherrrmarieee Aside from one's desires about a TV show, I wonder if they ever think how much something like this hurts. I doubt it. xx

@jumblejim So I get requests to tweet to get somebody fired and requests to tweet for a cure for MS. Which one's from a decent human being?

@jumblejim A handful of dipwads is trying to get Misha Collins fired. A lot more people are focusing their energy on humanitarian causes. Them I like.

@jumblejim It's a bunch of dweeb folk with jealousy & spite as their guidelines. Forget 'em. Go do a random act of good today. Tell 'em Misha sent u!

@jumblejim BTW, I'm certain Misha laughs this stuff off. He's got his head screwed on straight. He'd probably be amused at my attempt to defend him. :)

@jumblejim @Nunney2584 That's the other point. Nobody's getting "fired" because a bunch of dorks send emails asking the network to fire him. ‪#realworld‬

No one really expected Misha to respond because he rarely talks about fandom (and never mentions Supernatural on his Twitter) but he defies expectations, posting the same update to his twitter and Facebook (and adding a picture on FB): "Some jerks are trying to get me fired, but it's not gonna be easy because I've got seniority at the gas station where I'm working these days." Accompanied by a very bad manip of Misha working at a 1950s-style gas station, no doubt created by Misha himself with his mad Photoshop skillz.

Four of Misha's tumblr fans get together and declare that May 31st will be We Love Misha Collins Day instead and try to get #welovemishacollins to trend. They also collect pictures and submitted anecdotes from fans explaining why they love Misha Collins. (My favorite is this story, recalled separately, of Misha trying to get help for a homeless man with diabetes.)

The tweets draw attention from website Hypable, who report on it, and Kristy Walker, from endofshow.com.

Now, all this attention angers SPN: Silent Majority, who believe they've been unfairly associated with the hating Misha Collins campaign, who call the whole thing a hoax and claim it was orchestrated by Misha fans in order to make Misha seem sympathetic. Of course, there's another theory.

So who was responsible for the trolling? Was it a hoax? Tumblr doesn't log IPs of anons so there's probably no way to know. Only one thing is certain: Misha gives no fucks.

(90 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Monday
April 16

[

ladyofviolets] 10:42am - BRYKE DGAF AND WANT US TO KNOW THEIR SHIPPING PREFERENCES. (aka Legend of Korra shipping wank)

So I've been a little out of the loop in regards to Avatar: The Legend of Korra, aside of... some not very funny incidents on Tumblr. But this one that went on on LJ? Fucking hilarious.

Thanks to Wank Report for it!

( Hilarity and catfights ensue under the cut! Beware of capslocks, spoilers, and really stupid ship wars )

(163 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
April 14

[

loopywafflehead] 12:22pm - Good writers only, please!

Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one; I've used almost all your wording in this post.

So, there's been a lot of general complaining on the Sherlock rant meme lately about terrible prompts on the kink meme, as well as terrible fills.

The current wank started with an offhand comment from one of the anons:

Is it wrong that I have the urge to add a 'only good writers please' note to the end of every prompt I make?

Probably why I haven't prompted anything in over a month when last time I prompted something I got a really shitty fill.

This leads to some people going to the prompt post and making (troll) prompts with just that request at the end, some of which are filled:

( Only fills from good authors, please! )

Eventually, people starting changing up the requests, asking for terrible writers only, mediocre writers only, Klingon speaking authors only, and:

One morning, Sherlock Holmes awoke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant penis.

Fills by wood rothers only, please.

Some anons start adding comment addendums to other prompts with the "only good writers" line while pretending to be the OP.

Meanwhile, people start to show up back at the rant post, angry about the "good writers only" prompts and unaware of how they originated. One such person, johnnypenn, makes a comment on the rant post decrying the prompts:

( Read more... )

And the thread quickly turns into a complete wank fest, including gifs and anons quoting lines from johnnypenn's fics:

He tried to keep his mind bus by deducing the room;

He'd ordered Sherlock naked and onto the bed. Then he had chained him down and left him there to strew;

and

The fingers had found that spot which made the semen to be released.

(109 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
March 31

[

deoridhe] 09:31pm - Where Charity and Shaming meet, there is WANK!
mood: Dramatic
music: Malcom in the Middle

There is this giant virtual world/video game named Second Life, and within it people like to do good deeds. For the last several years there have been various charity funds, including Fashion For Life (FFL, a donor to the Cancer Charity Relay for Life). Part of the fashion world in Second Life are various blogs, where people volunteer to blog about items specific to the event; sometimes they are given things to blog, and other times they purchase their own, but there's been increasing tension because of store owners who believe bloggers are taking advantage of free gifts and not blogging them.

In the wake of the 2012 Fashion for Life event, Fashion for Life recursively blogged about the bloggers, including call-outs to people who either didn't blog for the event (the original has been deleted but an image was saved by Shopping Cart Disco here). This spurred the so-called Second Life Associate Press (not associated with the Associated Press) to post a Hall of Shame targeting bloggers "who took advantage of Harper Bereford’s trust and got the goodies but couldn’t be bothered to do even one post and you all need to know who they are." One of the members of the SL Associated press, Quella Quan, was even kind enough to contact the bloggers in world, point them to the post, and in at least one case ask why the person hadn't blogged. Another blogger admitted her shame on Second Life's official forum and received a fascinating array of responses.

In a supreme fit of irony, one of the bloggers listed didn't blog because her cancer has re-occured. That's right - people associated with a Cancer Charity shamed a cancer patient for seeking treatment for her cancer instead of blogging for a Cancer Charity.

If that wasn't delicious enough, the Editor of SL Associated Press/Best of Second Life (don't ask me to tell them apart, I have important tv shows to watch) posted the best half-assed apology ever, wherein the claim was made that things shouldn't be deleted (even though they were) because CENSORSHIP and that really the tone was wrong, not the message - since we all know those damn cancer patients should just blog from their beds of pain if they want to not be "Tacky tacky tacky".

The final bout of irony - for the first several days of the wank, the writer for the SL Associated Press was too busy with offline things to deal with the fallout of his post.

For more details, check out the original Shopping Cart Disco post on this, and the charming follow up.

Notable Quotables:

"SL Fashion is such a nepotistic little clique it gives me the shits."

"What is also saddening is certain sanctimonious hypocrites crying they are so ‘dismayed’ by the words and behaviors of others when they are lying, thieving, fake, drama whores themselves and people fall for it. If you’re going to comment on this at least be honest with yourself bitch and take a good long look into the mirror!"

"Donation to this year’s FFL : about 11K spent shopping for a truly great cause Seeing Nave called out for the inexcusable idiot he is: PRICELESS"

"What Nave did was necessary so these people who were mentioned will never sign up for free items in a charity and then ignore the event again."

"I never had any drama until I started blogging. Since I joined the old blog I;ve had haters, stalkers and drama. I mean, really, is this supposed to go with the territory?"

And from the gentleman who helped to start it all - "I’ve returned from my weekend of RL adventure away from the internet and SL. I returned to a post-apocalyptic wasteland in SL...It’s interesting to me, in reading through that holocaust of derision, that few, if any, of the people pissing and moaning the loudest had anything to do with FFL 2012 in any form...I apologize to the ones I named who’d posted and somehow I missed seeing that there was an FFL item buried in one of the posts they made (although one of my evil friends suggested that it is as easy for them to edit a blog as it is for me. I won’t be following up on this idea though)."

(25 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
March 28

[

cleolinda] 07:45pm - Stand back and watch a professional at work

Author Christopher Priest (perhaps best known for The Prestige) is not happy with the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist. He is not happy at all. In a single blog post, he declares that:

( You wait nervously for the unattractive exhaustion which will lead to a piss-soaked carpet )

ETA: John Scalzi weighs in ("So for connoisseurs of the form, this is top-shelf stuff, much better than the usual entitled bleating of the tendentiously aggrieved"); Charles "Internet Puppy" Stross is making t-shirts.

WHAT I WANT TO SEE MORE OF: @notveryalice: um so i made a #ChristopherPriest gif.

ETA: I GUESS I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING MYSELF AROUND HERE

(230 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Sunday
March 11

[

loopywafflehead] 09:42pm - Tag war on Tumblr

Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this. I’ve used your wording in this post and added a couple of things of my own.

Korean boy band SHINee announces that they're having a comeback, with a new mini-album called, for whatever reason, "Sherlock". Pictures are released.

Excited K-Pop fans take to their tumblrs! Many reblogs are made of the teaser pictures and tracks (examples here, here and here).

But lo! The Sherlock fandom is displeased! For you see, in their excitement, the Shawols have tagged their posts about obscure Korean pop bands with their tag.

Sherlockians shake their canes and yell, "Get off my ~~lawn~~ tag!" Shawols mostly just lol. And a tag war erupts:

( Read more... )

Then both fandoms blink in confusion as a random troll appears and spams the Sherlock tags with gay porn:

* Thank you, penis guy, for stopping a war. But seriously, stop with the penises.

* First..the Shawols tagged everything ”Sherlock”

then the sherlockians got mad

…

but now there’s a penis

Just another day in the SHINee World

* OMGAWD! MAKE THE RANDOM PENISES STOP! I just saw one with a watch on it. o.O?

* Just so the Sherlockians know, it isn’t SHINee fans spamming penises, okay?

* lol awks when the SHINee fandom and Sherlock fandom are having a war over the Sherlock tag then some random bitch starts posting penis in the tag.

TaemintWaffle sums up the conflict pretty succinctly in GIF form here (very image heavy post).

And of course kyuhynsass does the logical thing and writes crossover porn.

And manips crop up, too.

( Read more... )

ETA: Beware of the embedded music in many of the Tumblrs linked.

ETAx2: Great manip or greatest manip?

ETAx3: Some of the links were doubles. Sorry about that! They should all be fixed now.

ETAx4: Here, have a glorious icon (thanks,

mcity!).

(168 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
January 11

[

sepiamagpie] 03:28pm - Someone actually says 'I don't want to appropriate your issues as a Canadian'
mood: feisty!

Backstory: the ten-year-old Due South Canadian Shack meme is being revived. (You may know it better as the "trapped in a mountain cabin fanfic trope. But sexier. It's a sugar shack.) Why is it a Canadian shack? You'll recall that Constable Benton Fraser's actual home is a shack in the Territories. It's a nice place. So nice that it gets blown up, like, twice.

Anyway.

Staranise is not happy with this. "Shacks" is a bad, bad word for her. "Shacks" are what First Nations people live in. (Please note that reservation houses are often horrible because the Canadian Government is terrible to its people but that is another story.) They belong to poor people. They certainly aren't cabins. That's something entirely different.

She also has no idea what shacks even have to do with the thing she's complaining about. She reveals later on that she avoids Due South, and may be under the impression that the two cops in it are rich, because cops. But that's not going to stop her from having theories.

But the real problem is this: This meme will cause people to think that Canada is an unpopulated wilderness speckled with poor people and their shacks.

I have bad news for her about why she shouldn't worry what people think of Canada/Canadians: No one thinks about us period.

(Also: SHACKS. Better than igloos? y/n?)

Disclaimer: I posted a comment to this, to tell her where Benton lived. Then Ann talked me into posting this here.

(362 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Wednesday
December 28

[

themadscientist] 08:27pm - Another Mini-Gaming Wank

It's been quiet and this one is fairly light so thought I'd offer it at least:

Nintendo released a 25th anniversary book for Zelda called Hyrule Historia.

In it, the Timeline To Rule All Timelines is Released

This goes over about as well as you'd expect, with people still in denial about whether it is official or just some publisher's idea, Nintendo's just making shit up to please the fanboys, fanboys who know too much versus fanboys who know too much and your usual gnashing of teeth.

Of course there's always what's going to happen to the fanboys once Miyamoto finds out...

(51 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Tuesday
December 27

[

platedlizard] 06:11pm - Penny Arcade Vs. Ocean Marketing

Everyone and their sister has probably read this already, but I didn't see a post so here we go!

Someone needs to go back to PR101, and it isn't Gabe.

I'll let PA explain.

I got an incredible email today from a Penny Arcade reader. Dave shared with me an email chain between him and Ocean Marketing (the folks behind the Avenger controller) Trust me when I tell you that this is one wild ride. I’m serious, Mr. Toad would look at this ride and just give a slow clap while shaking his head. I have tried to arrange this as best I can in chronological order. I’ve also removed email addresses and other private information. So let’s just jump right in, here is Dave’s first mail to Ocean Marketing:

And a sample of the emails:

From: Ocean Marketing
To: Mike Krahulik
Dec 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM

Your spamming me you’re not on a mailing list you idiot ! You sent me an email remember . Make sure you stir up a lot of controversy about us the more the better we needed some drama gets good blood flow going about the new product launch . Your sites amateur at best my son could put together a better site than yours and you run PAX ?? Wow , Ill put my marketing team on a smear campaign of you and your site and your emails , I have about 125 dedicated people to run PR , Blogs , Articles , Videos you have no clue who I am . Thanks again

Kind thanks to the wank reporters at FARK.

EDIT: Kotaku link.

(144 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Friday
November 25

[

ladyofviolets] 08:25am - Well yes, Bleach fandom DOES wank about non-shippy stuff!
mood: curious

Okay, so the Bleach fandom has been kinda quiet lately. (Either that, or the usual quarrels don't get out of their media). All in all, no real change...

Until chapter 474 happens, with a rather "surprising" twist. [spoilers ahoy, obviously]

Fandom's reaction?

WTF?

KUUUUUUUUUUUUUBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Some tiny jewels are:

( Under the cut, due to big spoilers! Prepare for freakouts, bashing, hipocrisy and etc.! )

And wank report has its own thoughts on this. (Warning, some parts might be toeing into unfunny)

[runs out of popcorn. Still, NOT-shipping Bleach wank was VERY needed]

(142 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Monday
November 14

[

edana_ni_emer] 05:14pm - Aww, Baby's First Wank

It's not even out yet, and Star Wars: The Old Republic is already cutting it's teeth on it's first batch of spooge.

( Wow, that analogy got away from me there a little bit. )

(66 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Thursday
November 3

[

miss_padfoot] 01:49am - AV Club gives C grade to Uncharted 3; fanboys go ballistic
mood: Catty

Scott Jones of the AV Club gave a mixed review of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, a hotly anticipated game for PlayStation 3. Jones praised the storyline and dialogue but criticized the gameplay mechanics:

[T]he story still zips and characters are still conflicted, but targeting is as twitchy as ever, bad guys still require three or four shotgun blasts to the head before they’re deterred, and the game’s star, Nathan Drake, still has no clue whatsoever about how to crouch. Two years after Thieves, Uncharted’s gameplay mechanics and conventions are no longer dated; they’re borderline archaic.

His final grade for the game was a C.

( It's like having nuclear launch codes for internet fanboys )

(106 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Tuesday
October 25

[

wallflower] 07:28pm

Over in Doctor Who fandom, it seems like Doctor/Rose fic writer

jeprdyfrndly (aka Victoria Lane-Lyton), BFF of fellow Doctor/Rose fic writer

amberfocus, has a serendipitous life. She met her gorgeous husband, also a Doctor Who fan, when he saw her reading a Doctor Who book in a cafe. They had a lovely wedding (the groom's cake even had a Doctor and Rose on it!), went on a European honeymoon that included several Doctor Who-themed locations (London, Cardiff, and Barcelona), and settled into domestic bliss and financial security (he owns a coffee shop; she has access to a trust). Then she got pregnant despite two kinds of birth control, and had twin girls (she herself is a twin, and there's a history of twins in her family). She's a stay-at-home mum now, but her husband hired a high-school girl to help out by coming in for three hours every day after school to cook, clean, and mind the twins.

A few days ago, she posted a picture of her adorable babies.

( And that's where it gets curious. )

Deepest thanks to the mousies of

who_anon who first posted about this and did most of the work (and if things are deleted, caps are here and here, as well as in in more recent comments, which I can't link to directly because I can't get into LJ right now.)

ETA1: Screencaps showing amberfocus and jeprdyfrndly have the same IP address. (thanks,

minibalrogmum!)

ETA2: And so the backpedaling begins! She was trying to protect her own privacy...by using a picture of someone else's kids.

ETA3:

jeprdyfrndly has been deleted.

amberfocus says she is the victim of photoshopping bitches and flounces.

(262 wanks | kerfluffle!)

[

cleolinda] 06:29pm - Let's get some class up in this joint

Hat tip to @SusanneWhite: Anonymous is a Roland "Independence Day" Emmerich film about how Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare's plays. Holger Syme, Shakespearean professor, did not like Anonymous.

( I question your commitment to a well-mannered debating style, sir! )

(285 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Tuesday
October 11

[

dapperdinosaur] 07:47pm - Now for the story of two star crossed lovers...

... or so fandom seems to think. The lovers might disagree.

So, it’s been announced that Genevieve Padalecki is pregnant.

And the Supernatural fandom, naturally, loses it.

Like any rational fan, they question it:

“But why would she have to disappear the second she found out she was pregnant if everything is hunky dory normal?”

Speculate wildly:

“Or, maybe that's when Gen said she wanted out, and Dan came up with this great excuse for her to be out of the public eye for the next year while still contributing to the het parade.”

“If it's true my opinion of Jared is in the toilet. I still believe he's gay and in a relationship with Jensen. It's not possible for two guys to work as close as they do for almost 7 years and be as close friends as they are unless it's beyond friendship. Not possible. Not with HW egos.

But they don't need to bring kids into the mess to establish het cred. For God's sake he's not 30 yet. Most men in HW don't have kids till way into their 30s. I always thought Gen was a lesbian. Far out theory but maybe she's pregnant with a GF and will pass it off as Jared's.
“
( J2 are gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay... )

(818 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Saturday
October 8

[

loopywafflehead] 08:58pm - So here's what you missed on kurt_blaine...

Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one; I've used some of your wording in this post. (Note: there are spoilers for an upcoming episode of Glee in the links.)

Pyroclastic, one of the wankier BNF's of the Glee fandom and a former mod of the kurt_blaine community on lj, posts a fic to said community. The drama starts in the first thread when she pretends not to know why a mod has asked her to place the spoilers in her author notes behind a cut:

( Read more... )

ETA: It gets wankier: http://gleewank.tumblr.com/post/10332827277/the-epic-saga-of-p-and-her-pa-attitude

(109 wanks | kerfluffle!)

[

loopywafflehead] 08:55pm - Small doujinshi-buying wank

It’s mostly over, but worth reading for jessioriginal’s overreactions and complete inability to hear the word ‘no’. Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for the links.

Jessioriginal asked for help buying some doujinshi in doujin_market in August. Community member rubicons_closet offers to buy them on her behalf. Despite repeated explanations, Jessioriginal doesn’t understand why she has to send the money first.

A few days ago, jessioriginal made a new post claiming that rubicons_closet agreed to help but is now trying to cheat her. Rubicons_closet and other community members are not impressed (post is now deleted, saved post can be downloaded here, selected comments below):

( Read more... )

And then it turns out that jessioriginal has pulled this kind of stunt before:

( Read more... )

(36 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Monday
October 3

[

tehrin] 12:35am - The R in Rick Olney is for Ripping-Off Others

Rick Olney is a comics producer, comics convention organizer, and comics con-artist. I haven’t heard of this guy until today, but he’s been up to no good since the mid-2000s by not paying artists for their work or for making appearances, including big names as ~~the dearly departed~~ [I don't know why I thought that] Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone, and then threatens anyone who DARE speak out for what he did to them! You can read more about him here (2009) and here (2006) and witness his assholery in the comments on both links (he’s “orcafresh” in the Gail Simone Forum thread on CBR)! Oh and Sep pointed out to me that he was featured here in 2007! i.e. He implied that “Gail Simone” (quotation marks Olney’s, not mine) slept her way into the industry. Seriously.

( Some people like to dig their own grave. A few will not stop until they reach China. )
( ETA 1, 2, and 3 )
ETA5:

wankismyfandom has pointed out that we've been spotted. Let's give him a round of unenthusiastic golf claps!

I have three close friends inside this hobby and business of comics, as well as outside the realm of imagination mediums for each other of them!

HE HAS THREE FRIENDS. THREE. THAT'S MORE THAN ONE AND TWO. IT IS ONE PLUS TWO!

(And WHY HELLO THAR, GAIL SIMONE FORUM! :D)

ETA5: It's official. Lucasfilm is sending Rick Olney a Cease and Desist. He is to return both the remaining maps and any monies (haha- Rick's fave word) that he collected back to me. Shazam. All the maps must be accounted for and any missing from the number I sent shall be paid for. - Matt Busch

(151 wanks | kerfluffle!)

Friday
September 30

[

loopywafflehead] 04:18pm - 'You can't beat me down with your USELESS and PATHETIC "reviews"'

A good old-fashioned author freak-out, courtesy of Burn Notice fandom. Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for the links; I’ve used much of your wording this post. (Please note that while this is funny overall, the author in question does use a particular ableist insult. It has been taken out in the text below but is still visible in the two links marked with an asterisk.)

InvisibleRain is fairly well-known within the Burn Notice fandom, as both a fan artist and the author of Carry Me, a very long fic heavy on angst and, as she calls it, "Extreme Michael Whumpage". She also has a tendency to explode whenever she receives negative criticism, despite her repeated claims that she's open to feedback and wants to improve. Cue the events of this week:

( I have more followers than you think I do )

InvisibleRain is also not above begging for reviews and threatening to flounce if she doesn't get them:

( Just comment autonomously, but your name as the name you log in as )

(187 wanks | kerfluffle!)

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Wankity wank wank wank. Fandom is fucking funny. Wear your tinfoil hat at all times. Squidwarts 4 evah. OMG WTF LOL!1!!! Gandshat is my fandom_wank OTP. Don't feed the wankers. Domlijah colors are orange + yellow. My fandom is wankier than yours. BNF = Backus Naur Form. We're not bad, we're just drawn that way. Equal opportunity mockers. Wank will eat itself, over and over and over and over. Stop reading this and find something funny.