Once upon a time, there was a BSG fan named starpollo who ran a Kara/Lee themed icon contest, karalee_ic. At some point she got burnt out on running the contest and announced that there would be no more rounds.

Then some time between then and now, starpollo decided to go and delete the comm, a fact which was discovered by anastashial. Alarmed by the loss of all those K/L icons, anastashial sent a message to starpollo urging her to undelete the comm.

However she also felt the need to announce this to the entire battlestar_blog community in a post that included a copypasta of her message to starpollo, a message I might add that smacks a little of fannish entitlement and self-importance.

This goes over about as well as you'd expect.

Small for the moment, but hopefully will grow.

Edit: Good grief, the OP also posted the same post, complete with copypasta, to the sasa_hq comm. Somebody's awfully determined.

Edit 2: And on beyond_insane as well. And that last link is likely to get especially wanky since starpollo herself has gotten involved.

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.

Fedcon USA has set a new bar for convention self destruction stupidity. Cancelling events in the middle of Saturday afternoon!

For convience here's a timeline of ill omens that lead up to yesterday's Britney Spears moment.

FEDCON GMBH a German group that puts on Trek Cons in Europe decides to work with Tim Brazeal at Trek United

Wait! The same Trek United that was supposed to be raising funds for another season of Enterprise? Yep the very same...

Despite this, everything seems to be going along fine, they even have Jonathan Frakes on as their headliner. Actually, No

Well, they'll have Adam Baldwin! Ummm...

This,and several other line up changes start making some of the forum members thinking something hinky is going on. Barbra, one of the Volunteers, even goes to say theres no conspiracy going on here.

A few days before the event they announce Aaron Douglas (Cheif Tyrol from New BSG) is joining the show! Only Aaron can't seem to get any of the organizers to get him his plane tickets Tom, the Security Chief, is playing damage control trying to keep everyting calm on the boards, but it's already getting out of hand. A very pissed off Aaron Douglas returns calling out the organizers on their lies. Tim Brazeal finally shows up with several half assed explinations Over the next few pages. Including the fact that he has back problems witch will all too conviently put him in the hospital for the next 24 hours! Aaron doesn't buy it. And the echange just gets more heated as things go on.

The con finally arrives, and the first day is small but fun for those who attend (most estimates put the number in the 200 range, far below their thousand or so they were hoping for) All of the Gold Ticket holders are thinking they are getting the shaft for putting up all that money before and and getting no real perks.

Then Saturday comes, and the show gets shut down at 11:00 am.

Wow, what a shocker, who thought anyone could make Flanvention look good...

ETA: Over at the Omega Sector we have a little comment by Virogen about how Tim Brazeal has been pulling crap like this for a while now...

ETA II: Scott Merritt of Pegasus Publishing has just announced: Because I can do it (and partially to mitigate my losses for the weekend) we will be producing a limited edition commemorative t-shirt that says “I got FRAKKED at F(crossed out)DedCon USA! anyone interested in obtaining one of these needs to contact me by Thur 6/19/08 as I’ll be printing and mailing them next weekend. My email is pegasushelp@gmail.com. Heck, I wasn't even there and I'm ordering one!

ETA III Trek United is starting to worry about it's future due to Tim Brazeal being the owner of the site. Amazingly there are people taht still want to believe in Tim.

ETA IV: Oh, Scott Merrit points out in the Con News comments this intersting tidbit about the downed forums:
As of this afternoon the Forums over at the FedConUSA site have been shut down. I find it suspicious that this occurred less than an hour after I posted the contact information for the Texas Attorney General’s Office with encouragement for fans who feel that they were ripped off to contact them.

Once upon a time the Sci-Fi channel had the great idea to have a messageboard and leave it widely unmoderated. Then came Battlestar Galactica. As you can imagine: this went well.  The following trends emerged: you would fangirl your chosen object of fanlove by making its thread as long as humanly possible by posting endless picspams, pages of what every poster had for breakfast and how the enemy-ships or characters resembled a trainwreck. 

But two weeks ago the zombie-admins decided to close all the multi-thousand pages threads and force the posters to start new ones. Things might have gotten a bit competitive because 200 pages into their own thread a few Kara/Lee shippers call fans of the Leoben Conoy character and actor Callum Keith Rennie (lastly wanked about in the Ray Wars) fans of a psycho stalker (Their thread being on page 250 probably had nothing to do with this.)

Now Rennie's character is a bit of psycho stalker, but the original remark apparently left it ambiguous/implied that it was calling the actor a psycho stalker, not the character. (The post has been bahleeted before I could read it to judge it myself.) Unfortunately, the same day the actor who played another rival of the Lee character and a threat to the posters' beloved Lee/Kara relationship had been severely injured in a car accident.

Cue greycoupon's dramatic entry  "Someone save me":


Right. I see they have moved from bashing the Kara/Leoben fans to the Callum fans directly.

Classy bunch that group. I am just waiting for someone to post that Trucco should have died in the accident so that we wouldn't have Sam getting in the way of Kara/Lee's OTP. Oh, you know someone will say it. I am just waiting.

lyssie says I need to stay out of that thread as it causes my IQ to drop. Not to mention causes me to twitch.

Said lyssie quickly replies with Wasn't there one who said they hoped Trucco never came back, or something? Eh. Same thing, really.

The word of that post get quickly back to the Kara/Lee thread and wank pours in quick and fast by the way of lyssie's whose opinion of the Kara/Lee shippers couldn't be lower.

But it's the anonymice who bring the real fun. Their contribution varies from: Does belittling others bring you great pleasure, because I am starting to develop the opinion that it does. to it gets me as hot as rape gets you leobenites to my absolute favorite:

Look. I know I'm an idiot, but you should really come to terms with your own. I mean you have such a grasp of the english language and the way you know how words go together and are used and ...gosh darn it, I'm just lost for words. It's kinda hard to believe that you're so petty, but I guess it's true and since I can't compete with you in that way....I'll just call you Rapist and leave it at that.

You know what all this controversy means: A Sequel by greycoupon about how her original point was misunderstood and so what about those trolly anonymous commenters?

Anonymous quickly makes a suggestion: do you want my name and address?..or some make up Name. Call me Daddy and leave it at that. You should get a kick out of that. 

Jacob at Television without Pity recapped the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica. The short spoiler-free version from the front page:

You Got Your Chocolate In My War Crimes!
Battlestar Galactica - You got your martial hypocrisy in my peanut butter! It's an ethical freakout dance party as one side dabbles in sexy torture and the other starts on biological warfare and reciprocal genocide. Nobody looks good, this week, but everybody at least looks beautiful.

Rap541 was apparently immensely disturbed that Jacob was sympathizing with the Cylons. So she wrote a rant about Native Americans and White Men.

"See, you need to look at this from a different persepctive. Indians, American Indians, only became these gentle, spiritual sorts *after* they became a pathetic broken remnant. It was a rare voice in the wilderness indeed that in 1843 was decrying the genocide of the Native Americans. Hell, back then, I think the redskins were viewed as savage half men, half beast. An enemy. An enemy to be destroyed. It was only after the natives were broken - and broken so hard that they will not recover that all of a sudden we started having a conscience about it. We could afford to."

But probably guessing that comparing Native Americans to Cylons might offend somebody, she goes on to say that the Cylons are exactly like white people, and the humans are Native Americans, cue my favourite bit:

"The humans are the Native Americans - the pathetic broken remnant, and the Cylons are the white man. The few humans who escaped in ships? The sad Sioux and Apache sorts that were slowly picked off by the white man, with of course, the white man's slightly superior weapons.

Do you think that Crazy Horse, and Geronimo, et al, would have hesitated for a second to send some "special blankets loaded with Indian goodness and germs" home with Kit Carson if they had the opportunity? Think about it. Maybe over your turkey next week."

It's only been a few hours since the season finale of Battlestar Galactia, and I'm sure there's plenty more wank out there already, but this bit just struck me as quite funny.

Over in battlestar_blog, fanbitch posts a rant on the characterization of Starbuck in the last part of the episode.

( Cut for spoilers, since the episode is so new... )

First ever posting. Hope it qualifies/entertains a bit.

ETA: Wow, I'm newish around FW and didn't realize the depths of the deep, dark well of scary crazy that I'd stumbled upon...

I'm amused to see she started commenting again, but then froze comments.

Now there's this thread, which starts with "women can so be castrated!" and ends with:
Oh, and you misspelled "hypothalamus" and I have no idea why you think the suprachiasmatic nucleus is of any importance, since it's only involved in circadian rhythms.

That would be so, so hilarious if she wasn't dead serious. What the frak are you even talking about?

And some tl;dr in her personal journal. Oh, look, larger boobs. Whoopty. Can we discuss organic chemistry now, thanks?

And these little "Mrs. Toms" out there merrily swallowing the kool-aid and bitching about women who don't toe the line are nothing more than acolytes to anti-feminism. So if you disagree with her you're also racist?

voodoo_in_tx points out this thread for some choice hypocrisy in action.

Damn.

Posting for a mouse on wank_report, Battlestar Galactica wank.

"Apparently zdevex is the TV police... You can't disagree with the theory he posted and you can't like Lost, either, or you're ignorant."