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.

(Note: Much of this was originally visible and has been moved to a locked forum, but anyone can join. I'm copying some of it here, but will post screen caps of the comments later.)

It starts out as a fairly decent, civil, and otherwise unusual conversation on the Mediaminer.org forums regarding an essay on reviews written by Lady Macbeth. Psychlone enters the fray and disagrees with the MM.org policy which allows authors to "Not accept unsolicited critiques" and tells everyone who doesn't want to get anything other than praise to "grow the *beep* up." Sueric, famed for not accepting "unsolicited critiques" takes offense and tells Psychlone that they aren't seeing the whole picture, obviously the reason to not accept "unsolicited critiques" is because it protects the critics. This "brave act of self sacrifice" is echoed by other posters.

( Other's aren't so apt to agree )

This was where it seemed to stop, as the conversation was fairly polite (including a call from Psychlone for everyone to get along). Other mods (SilverArmada) and (WolfintheNight) civiliy weigh in on the topic, but it is Lord Aaron who decides to change the thread from a review debate to making it all about the persecution of Sueric by the other members. Other members who clearly don't know what the topic of their own thread is.

You are all so off topic it's making me sick.

Clearly.

( Anne Rice doesn't care about reviews, and you're an idiot )

Lady Lark closes the thread and threatens possible actions against those involved for going offtopic. In the arguments forum.

I also do not want to see this spreading to certain journal fen communities or livejournals (And Yes I am watching). Again, it is in violation of rule #4 and I will be enforcing it this time - to everyone. I don't bloody care if you are a mod on this site or not. --Lady Lark

As I am only a member for entertainment viewing purposes, I'm going to be just a little amused if I'm banned for this.

Edit: Either deleted or the mods have locked the thread so only they can see it. Screencaps will go up when I get home

Okay, some background. I am a low-ranked fanfiction mod on Mediaminer.org. I don't do much beyond help decide on featured fanfiction, but I do have access to the admin forum. So I got first row seats for a plagiarism wank.

( Plagiarism Plus Teh Stupid -- And It's Anime! )
The stupidity, it burns. Seriously.

Oh hot damn, I have wankery of my very own to post rather than just sitting back and watching everyone else post. ^_^

A friend of mine found this little sweetie on the mediaminer.org forum and I thought that the FIRST thread she sent me was a doozy. (The first thread, for the record, got wanky after my friend mentioned that generally she didn't like incest pairings except in certain circumstances or the relation is no closer than first cousin- the subject was demented couples. She got ripped by some Trunks/Vegeta shippers. *rolls eyes*) The subject of this fun little wankery thread? "Attack of the Bad Cosplay!"

Harmless enough premise- find those who have really bad costumes- those who obviously don't care and have sloppy costumes or costumes that don't even LOOK like what they're supposed to be- but it started off badly. Someone posted a picture of a dark-haired girl in Sailor Venus's costume from the Sailor Moon musical (meaning the costume had a few differences from any of her anime costumes) and the comment about it was that it was bad costuming because she looked like REI in Sailor V's costume.

Their complaint had been that her HAIR wasn't blonde.

*gasp!* Oh heavens! Her hair isn't the right color! It's not the right length! Or style! Oh, look at this person in the Meilin costume! Even though the costume is really good, she has blonde hair! THAT'S JUST NOT RIGHT!

THAT was their definition of bad cosplay. Almost none of the costume they posted about were bad- the problem was that the person didn't look the part because of their hair color/length/style or that they were the wrong build. One guy had a nice Yamcha costume and they slammed him for being to skinny to be Yamcha.

The wankery, she hurts my brain.

Well, someone came in and tried to point out to these people (almost none of whom had actually cosplayed) that the costumes were good- that a person's body build or hair should not limit them to what characters they can cosplay as. She got ripped into, the wankers spouting rebuttles such as this: "I see none of these in here. If you don't look like someone, you don't. Trying to look like them only makes you look ridiculous like the people in these pics. From the people in these pics, the only one that looks _half_ like the original, is the Mei Ling one, BUT, her hairdo looks more like Sakura. Maybe she was trying for one of the artworks with Sakura using that outfit?" This, of course, only proved them to be wankers. No matter how many times this poor soul pointed out that they were being wankers and that wigs were expensive and many probably couldn't find them except at Halloween, the wankers wouldn't listen.

Finally, my friend (Becca Stareyes) stepped in to point this out as well, using clear, concise, and simple terms for them so that they could understand and she got chewed out by the moderator for RUINING the thread.

*grabs James and makes him dig a big hole to bury the wankers in* I swear, the stupidity of some people.

I have to thank virago for reminding me about this bit of wankery- I'm sorry to say that I'm pretty certain one of the good cosplayers these little bints ripped into was him.