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.

Once upon a time, there was an LJ community called speed_rent, which gave one prompt daily where people would compete for fabulous prizes (most of which could be obtained easily in other ways, so they were sort of incidental). Then stuff happened. Then the mod got a new fandom, and decided to pimp out her new daily prompt challenge comm for her new fandom on this comm.

And now there is incoming wank.

Thrill at the tl;dr rants against the mod! Be amazed at the accusations that she ignores e-mails! Watch in awe as people gang up on the one person who tries to defend the mod!

Small so far, but so virulent and full of venom that, while possibly too little for the big comm here, just seemed too nasty and wanky already for clairvoyantwank.

ETA: And the comments are all gone! But we may have screens forthcoming, so stay tuned.

ETA2: Bahleeted. And the comm is on lockdown (I just unjoined it recently, too) so I don't know if there are any locked entries on the matter.

ETA3: Friend who is a member said that there is a locked entry. The long and short of it: the comm is being "cleansed" and only people who actually "participate" will be allowed to be a member now. Read: she's dropping the banhammer on all the folks who bashed her in her last post.

ETA4: And here are the screens! Thanks to insouciance! 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

It's been quiet on the RENT front. Too quiet.
Then, suddenly, a lot of intro posts all at once. A lot of questions that could be answered with a simple Google search. Some people call troll but mostly answer questions thoroughly, if not pleasantly.
So, rent_head1996 takes it upon herself to post a notice.
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I'm not entirely sure which emails she's referring to, but most of the resposes I've seen were civil, and keep in mind she's hardly the mod. RENT mod doesn't like having his omnipotence challenged, but has yet to respond.
Even after she posts that, people are still playing nicely within the comm, but since she's hardly the mod, people call her on it by anonymousing in her personal journal, which she is foolish childish kind enough to share with us within the comm.
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So, n00bs ask questions, fangirl creates wank, and I have my first post since getting my journal from anon_no_more. I'm sure the fur will fly once the RENT mod gets wind of this.
Secretly? I'm betting rent_head1996 is the troll.
EDIT: rent_head1996's journal is bahleeted. Boo.
EDIT2: princess_di becomes my new hero for laying the smack down. Well, as much as has been laid at the moment.
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EDIT3: In an attempt to...well, I don't exactly know what, mister_fister essentially reveals that they've only experienced RENT through the movie.
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This one is just kinda weird, but is a bit...preachy? So I'm expecting wank, especially in the wake of the other nonsense.

I will probably bring on the wrath of some Rentheads for this, but . . . this is just too amusing IMO:

So, Harry Potter isn't the only film opening soon. But at least the early reviews for it were pretty positive. The same, however, could not be said about the upcoming film version of Rent . . . or, at least, at first.

For the past two weeks now, early industry screenings for the film have been occurring. So some fans, who are members of specific guilds like SAG, have been able to view the film early and many have been posting reviews of the film on BroadwayWorld, TalkingBroadway, and even Oscarwatch.com.

And the majority of the reviews - when first posted in these three places at least - weren't very raving. Some very much the opposite in fact.

One Rent fan named Munkustrap, who went to a screening posted a very negative review a few days ago, and seemed very solid in his opinion on the film. After a few days however, the review was deleted. (The original review gave it 2 stars out of four. The thread for the deleted review can still be found here however.) Why, no one could guess, but Munkustrap said he's had a change of opinion after seeing the film again, deleted the first review himself, and began posting more positively about the film.

Most of the BroadwayWorld posters however (some who haven't seen the film yet) are pleased as punch Munkustrap has a change of heart about the film - for whatever reason. User MJohnson05 however notes this rather large change of opinion, as well as the fact that a few other people who posted critical reviews (including himself) seemed to be doing a 180 about the film suddenly - or at least being more positive about the film when posting about it - in a thread started by user BroadwayGirl107 in which she too has a negative and disappointed view of the film:

( I thought other people were being contacted to change their reviews the way I was contacted to. Glad to see that's not the case )

( Wait a minute - you were contacted to do what? )

User EvelynNesbit1906 confirms that there has been contact to posters on Broadway World about speaking more positively about the film, ( because she has been contacted too. )

( I hope I don't have to fear Nathan Lane PM'ing me about The Producers film. . . )

( It all seems a bit worrisome... )

The back and forth about this - and whether or not people are just having a more balanced opinion about the film now or not - all comes to a head when Anthony Rapp himself (Mark Cohen to all Rent fans) - realizing he's been busted as everyone knows he used to be a regular poster on BroadwayWorld until Sony Pictures asked him to stop and to only post things on the official Rent Blog - posts in the thread to defend himself about the PM's he admits sending:

( Celebrity in the thread! )

Despite the cheering from almost everyone about Anthony posting and "clearing this up," MJohnson still sticks on point that what Rapp did made him feel uncomfortable:

( He didn't ask me to discuss why I felt what i felt in a PM with him -- he asked me to post it on the board. That's where I thought it drew the line. )

( That MJ felt uncomfortable being engaged in a discussion is perhaps a matter of how comfortable he was with his own opinion. )

Yeah, or maybe it's a request that probably shouldn't have been made in the first place?

:sits back and waits to get asked to change her post to a more balanced one:

ETA: Um, Anthony? Maybe you should just let this go already? *stares*