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.

From clairvoyantwank and wank_report:

heidi8 makes a post calling a group of fans "idiots," and mistakenly forgot to lock it. She's leaving it up, though it's edited now. Luckily, anon The Reddd Mousie managed to get a screencap of the original.

So what makes these people idiots? Apparently, they didn't submit a bid for a U.K. con with her organization, HPEF.

And why didn't they? Well, there is the fact that everyone thought Accio was going to have a 2007 con there, and so there wasn't any drive to plan another one until recently. Oh, and also, the beginning of the announcement sent out by HPEF specifically mentioned that they were accepting bids for the mainland United States.

Still, Heidi is convinced that the real problem is that fandom is too fractured these days, or, at the very least, she wants to talk about that fact, because that is totally the issue here, and not any rudeness perceived by people who just don't understand how frustrating it is that there are a lot of Harry Potter sites, and every single fan doesn't visit FAP all of them. Unlike the old days, where "everyone was, at the very least, on the announcements list" of HPfGU.

It's not the biggest wank ever, mostly because, though there are some comments calling her rude, everyone is being generally polite.

Let's try again, true believers. Since someone decided to bah-leet the original post -- apparently after a few people complained -- I'm reconstructing this, with a moral: Dun delete your posts without a good reason...it pisses us off big-time. So, for anyone unclear on the concept: please don't delete your wanks without good reason, and people bitching about them isn't a good reason in and of itself. Cause, you know, wankers and friends of wankers will always bitch.

Someone apparently broke into Cassie Claire's apartment and robbed her and her roommates of lots of expensive computer equipment. Not wanky, just tragic. She appeals to the masses to try to behave...a dictum they promptly ignore as some people ask about Cassie's ongoing fanfic magnum opus, to which maybethemoon and littletort react very badly. Tackiness begets ranting, and such is life on the Internet.

The original post also included a link to a comment about collecting money, and, while I'm too lazy to search the comments for this, someone did send me this link. Sounds eerily familiar, but I'm just presenting it here for y'all to comment on.

arabe1la, Sugarquill co-founder rants about incest fics, and moeyknight weeps, WEEPS for the ickle children of the fandom.

*tears up*

Those HP Fandomers are a bunch of heathens and their fics get popular because they have no scruples! Alas, arabe1la has scruples! She has only written Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny, which, as we all know, God and JKR fully sanction.

A lovely, little afternoon wank. Although, this post was made in December. I fear there is simply too much wank in the HP fandom, and so little time to catch it all in a timely manner.

ETA heidi8 tries to make with the polite disagreement, but she probably would've done better with a "confusing reality for fanfic much?" and left it alone as all her words make my head hurt.

ETA chrysantza offers her support!. Mmmm, yummy wank.