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.' )

Misha Collins is the kind of actor that you want to be involved in your fandom. He panders to the fans, admits to having sampled slash fic involving his character, Castiel, provides manlove fodder for all, has been involved in previous wank for bending Jared Padalecki over on stage while his secret gay lover, Jensen Ackles looked on in horror, and asking the two during a con panel if it was difficult for them to play brothers on screen when they were lovers in real life.

Misha is really good about interacting with the fans. Toying with them through his twitter account where he likes to post his awesome nude self portraits, and plan out his world domination plot with his minions. He's known to be eccentric, so when pictures of him in a wedding dress pop up online, fans aren't really all that surprised.

It's all good at first. People get a laugh over it, and it's a welcome distraction from the impending season 5 finale. Though there's some fuss over the OP's original post which included the comment "(smart woman) (not very pretty)" in regards to Misha's wife. Then it's pointed out that the pictures were taken during the vow renewal ceremony of Misha and his wife, and weren't exactly meant to be public. Someone had just stumbled onto the flickr account of one of Misha's friends.

Generally, there is great love for Vicki (the wife). She is a well respected sexuality historian, who had a fellowship with NASA, and wrote the book 'The Threesome Handbook: A Practical Guide to Sleeping With Three', based from her personal experiences in being involved in a polyamorous relationship with her husband...Misha.

But here comes the wank:
Only pretty people are allowed to be kinky!
These were never meant to be public and I can't help but feel we're seriously invading their privacy. :|
This belongs is the kind of shit to be expected on spn_gossip.
OMG! People are twitting the photo links to Misha! which soon devolves into "Yeah she's not that attractive in these pics"

Note:  Sorry mods!  Deleted this the first time around because apparently if you use rich text editing, the links gets messed up.

Snapefen are still wanking about Lily Evans Potter. terri_testing posted an essay More on Lily's behavior in SWM: Lily the Prefect? on Snapedom. An excerpt from this essay:
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Batshit flourishes in the comments:
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The essay about Lily by randomneses continues to attract crazy people. oryx_leucoryx finally stopped wanking here, but don't worry! Enter n1ght1ng4l3, who claims to be not a Snape fan and to dislike the Marauders and Snape equally, despite being a member of Snapedom and two Sirius comms (also such comms for butthurt fans as dh_oh_shit and deadlyhollow).

Wank ensues. Some comments by n1ght1ng4l3:
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Inglourious Basterds is the latest Quentin Tarantino movie. Oh No They Didn't, is a gossip site based on LJ that is big enough it's actually taken LJ severs out more than once all on its lonesome (I think the last time was when Michael Jackson died, but don't quote me). Eli Roth is the guy who plays Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Inglourious Basterds (he also wrote/directed Cabin Fever and Hostel and its apparently awful sequel. That guy).

It all started when Eli Roth discovered the Inglourious Basterds Kink Meme.

Surprisingly, not via a fangirl breaking the sacred rule of Though Shalt Not Force Porn On The People In It AFAIK, but all on his lonesome. He was pretty much amused and also decided to show it to and discuss it with Quentin Tarantino (who apparently agreed with him the Donny would be a top), and also Christoph Waltz (who played Landa in IB) and apparently his parents, because he's that kind of classy. This garnered many facepalms from fangirls in places like 100_scalps, but shockingly, very little wank.

This resulted in a lot of twittering porn at him and his discovery of ONTD. He made a I <3 ONTD sign. Something a fair few celebs have done in the past.

After that it kind of got out of control, progressing from ONTD changing his Wiki page to say he was their Official Boyfriend to him twittering he would think about all of ONTD when he jerked off the night, then posting a picture of a very used looking tissue, then to a very candid interview with questions from a lot of people at ONTD*, to-- and here's where the wank really started, pun utterly and completely intended-- having cyber sex with various ONTD'ers on his MySpace. The Eli Roth tag on ONTD contains basically every screen cap and citation, so I'm not linking to everything individually. Scroll on down.

Then it came out that some of said cyber sexin' ONTD'ers sent him pictures of their boobs.

ONTD proceeds to have a 5000 comment long flamewar consisting of the brilliant arguments (paraphrased, but I assure you all quite accurate as you will see if you click this link): YOU'RE SLUTS. NO WE'RE NOT. YES YOU ARE. NO WE'RE NOT. YES YOU ARE. NO WE'RE NOT. YES YOU ARE.

I think, in conclusion, I would like to say that despite what you may think of Mr. Roth, he certainly knows how to make a girl laugh.

*This is the only thing that is locked, however, you only have to join ONTD to see it. It's... worth it.

[ETA]: Omar Doom answered a similar fangirl written survey for ONTD, said he wouldn't be at all opposed to seeing some fangirl boobs, and the wank goes ever on and on in the comments.

( Spoilers for Torchwood and oh god great linky madness within. Enter at your own risk. )

This post brought to you by the ridiculously helpful mousies on wank_report, the letter W and the number 4. (The W is for wut and 4 is how many cups of coffee I've already had today).

Meta wank of the sweetest kind. 2010 Readercon is being advertised as "This IS your father's con". Needless to say, this is not met with huzzahs. Catherynne M. Valente proposes an alternative to the 2010 Readercon--a gathering of fans at her island place. The man who has singlehandedly run programming for Readercon for 20 years immediately responds with you are wrong and escalates from there, with you are very young or possibly foreign, and my personal favorite, you have to have a score of at least 790 on the analytical section of the GRE to do programming for Readercon. Many people laugh at him. Eric Van says he is no longer responding to stupid comments, and then copy&pastes his everyone IMPORTANT loved us comment everywhere he can find.

Meanwhile, Readercon backtracks quickly.

And for your tasting pleasure, now with added name-calling and objectification of the young, female fans!

eta: Obviously Eric Van could not delegate programming decisions, because no one else gets a 790 on the analytical section of the GRE. But why not use a computer program, someone suggests. Eric gently explains that the "combinatorics problem" is far too complicated for a simple computer program.

As those of you who haven't been living under a rock may know, a new Star Trek movie just came out. Over on fanficrants, roq is upset about this. Apparently, TEENAGERS are now WRITING in HER fandom! Quelle suprise!

She has some choice words to say about it.

( Wank long and prosper )

So I've been idly checking back here on and off all day to see if this wank's been reported yet, and finally decided I should just go ahead and write it up myself.

So, apparently, a big spoiler for the upcoming "Heroes" season finale broke on the interwebs yesterday. Today, the interwebs are responding in fine form, determined to break the "Heroes" writers right back.

Here, we have what started out as a spoiler wank, which has forked off into 'ship wanks, character hate wanks, an entitlement wank, and Fandom v. Fandom wank. Three Four wanks for the price of one!

( Runs a bit long. Also, do I really need to say that a spoiler wank will contain spoilers? )

Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter writes a sincere but slightly tongue-in-cheek open letter on Hardcore Nerdity to Watchmen fans and non-fans, to urge them to see the movie more than once in order to understand it.

One of his other points is that he thinks those who hate the movie on principle without having seen it should let it marinate in their minds and give it a chance:

It may upset you. And it probably will upset you.

And all along, we really meant it to. ...All this time, you’ve been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions... Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. ...You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.

Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.

Comments begin in the 'we love Watchmen (although some of us have reservations about the swinging massive blue dong), go Dayter' mould, until people, from page three onwards, suddenly notice the metaphor he used to describe how the movie should make you feel:

DUDE. No one asks to be cracked in the jaw and bent over the goddamned pool table. Was there NO OTHER ANALOGY you could have used? Do you realize that you're comparing your movie to a rapist and the moviegoers to victims asking for it? And what is this "You'll come back. Just like Sally" crap? Do you have any f***ing idea how offensive that is? Could you not have come up with some other analogy, some other pithy tag, something that doesn't make it out like the Comedian was doing Silk Spectre a f***ing favor when he beat her bloody and tried to rape her?

Did you mean to do that?? If not, erm, consider your words more carefully next time you do the "open letter" thing, because wow, did that part get away from you.

Dayter comments on page 7 with an apology claiming he does not condone violence against women, which is edited into the original article. People briefly thank him for apologising, and then attack him again. Dayter responds graciously via huge spoonfuls of sarcasm and retracting his apology (page 8):

Clearly, you can't get less hateful or spewy than that. I humbly retract the statement.

Anyway, I'm sorry you disliked the film.

And you're right, I don't know why I ever set out to do this in the first place. It's really the world I'm hurting. Damn my family, and their almost-constant need for food!

On top of all of this there's huge amounts of movie rage, but the best thing about the whole altercation is the people at Hardcore Nerdity going so far as to make a video response urging people to LEAVE DAYTER ALONE, starring a very angry Dr. Manhattan.

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.

Let's see if I can do this properly.

Hiatus in the Supernatural fandom officially started last Friday, and already fans are getting a little stir-crazy.
There have been small-time rumblings from various corners of LJ this season over gender issues and many of these rumblings have involved Dean Winchester, one of the two stars of Supernatural.

There are spoilers about the finale of course.
( Here )
eta: and for added FAIL, the poster of this wank has not figured out auto-formatting. Would anyone be kind enough to link me to the FAQ that deals with LJ-tags? When I try to use the search function I keep running into a page about harassment. Maybe it is a sign?

For a while now things have been fairly peaceful in the CLAMP fandom. Sure there have been minor fights here and there but nothing like the glory days of X when you couldn't go five minutes without a Seishirou/Subaru vs Kamui/Subaru fight.

However it's CLAMP, so of course things weren't going to remain peaceful.

( Spoiler cut for up to chapter 160 of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle )

ETA: su_chan gets banned from clamp_rants but her buddy lovelessinma keeps wanking in her defense. Which includes taking things to jlarinda's LJ.

Laundrygate continues!

Adam Hughes, the artist behind the infamous Mary Jane statue, says that we're interrogating it from the wrong perspective.

Simply put: blueshimmer returns to fanficrants to tell us that women need to STFU and stay out of the stable... and fanficrants flames the pants off of them.

YOU ARE NOT AUTOFUCKINGMATICALLY ENTITLED TO JACK SHIT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A GODDAMN COCK.

Did the big bad horse throw you, and now you save your ego by saying that this is a problem of women in general?

And:

Are you going to make a post in a few hours ranting about how this is a rant community and we have no right to be arguing against your rant?

</i>Edit +1: It's at two three pages so far. And oh, the OP is a girl.

Edit +2: The OP doesn't think she's being a wanker at all and would like people to stop questioning her categorical truths, and shipwar has some very serious things to say about it all.

The Ivorytower posts her thoughts on yaoi on FFR. The problem? She says she likes yaoi because she doesn't like any of the female characters. At first she starts getting words, internets, and cookies and stuff, but then people start going "Homie
say what?!"

BONUS: It seems to have spawned! These threads aren't wanky, but who doesn't love wankspawn (if there's any I missed, let me know)?

The inspiration behind it all? Knowing FFR, I'm REALLY surprised this thread wasn't wanky.

Somebody else's thoughts.

No bashing!

ETA: The genfic one wasn't related after all, so I removed it. But we get this snarking of the whole wank on Shipwar as a consolation prize!

A small but funny wank from Mousy:

"Manga elitist vs Winry haters - final score: you all lose."

This wank brought me back to my days in the Slayers fandom. In winryhaters community, peach_jello asks why they hate Winry from FMA so much. Punk_wings decides to tell her and everything goes downhill from there.

Apparently, Mugglenet reported the rumor that there was gonna be some hanky panky in Goblet of Fire: Canon Killing Scourge of Light and Waffles. The rumor said Harry and Cho would share a kiss as would Hermione and Krum. There was also the tale of the floozy flirty mermaid. I don't know how to link to the MN messageboards because they appear as popups, so c/p it is.

And people get upset. Mixed in amongst the shrieking canon police and shipper fantasies are some shits and giggles.

then they might have to make pg-13 because cho is cheating on cedric. we dont kissing and cheating in a pg movie right? We do! We do!

OMG!!! This is a Harry Potter movie, not the Harry Potter porn show. and god what is wrong with the directors, they get worse and worse, this is not a SEX APPEAL MOVIE, Awwwwwww!

IF THIS IS TRUE I AM GOING TO BE SO MAD! I HATTE CHO!! what the heck is Newell doing??? The HP books are not filled of sex-crazed teenagers making out with mermaids and girls and russian boys! AGGH!! They're filled with the sweet sweet sound of squid lovin'.

this is SOO scary! Soooo, someone's concealing a uvula ring? That would be scary. Especially if it gets tangled on Harry's tongue piercing.

Ugh. Why must they insist upon desecrating the books? It's to be expected, I suppose. Never did like the movies much anyway. (Although if Snape kissed Hermione, I'd be the absolute last to complain!) Um.

The producers should really think about toning down some of the "raging hormone" stuff before alienating half their audience. The kids are 14, not 17! I think that alienated half would be quickly replaced by a breathless three quarters.

I don't know, it's fine with me, but it is a bit weird because Cedric doesn't die till the end... so Cho would be more like a "woman whose livelihood defies the laws of morality"

( and it goes on )
( Then the rumor is rumored untrue. Relief abounds. As does left over righteous indignation and Cho hate. )

Reporting in from the Devil May Cry fandom.

Just when I was proud to say that I hadn't seen too many wanks from my fandom, something has to come up and prove me wrong.

It's a charming, bite-sized wank that starts with Soan posting a meme from their journal in a Devil May Cry community on LJ.

Emily_jayden comments on it in a rather fangirly manner. Itzcolihqui takes issue with the typing style of the comment (even when they themselves seem to have a broken shift key). Hilarity ensues.

(As well as a cheap excuse to use this icon.)

ETA: Itcolihqui posts in rabidfanssuck to bitch about the issue.

Son of ETA: Entry in rabidfanssuck is bahleeted, but crysiana has a screenshot in the comments here.

Since I'm having problems with JF for the moment and can't check older entries, I can't know if this has been reported or not...

But then again, it's SO wanky that it DESERVES double posting.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/yaoi/961916.html?view=7622268#t7622268

Please stop it, for the sake of Tatsumi's IQ.