In Part III, we saw what happened when Lady Sybilla tried to tangle with the Twilight Lexicon mods for the last time (they banned her), and watched in awe as Wikipedia users worked "around the clock" to get her Russet Noon article deleted. You can still find "The Wikipedia Wars" linked on the Russet Noon website, but you'll have to scroll down past...

The FanHistory Wars.A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

Artistic revolution (who, for reasons which will become blatantly obvious, is a suspected sockpuppet of Lady Sybilla) edited the shit out of the Russet Noon fanhistory page. Artistic revolution has a pretty one-track mind, it would appear. Or two-track, if you count Lady Sybilla as a separate topic.

In the midst of all those edits, there was no shortage of information about me, Sybilla's own favorite "stalkarazzo." (I know I'm her favorite, she says so herself on the Russet Noon website.) The following information is culled from the Revision as of 00:27, 21 April 2009 version of the page.

Although Caito posted the email text on one of her many Journalfen pages, her only acknowledgment of Sybilla's concerns was: "I'm totally over this email business. I have a spam filter and I intend to use it. If someone wants to continue discussing this shiz, she can do so in the comments like everybody else." Strange reaction given that Caito's Whois record for her site openly discloses her gmail address:

At this point, Artistic revolution somehow thought it was appropriate to include my mailing address and contact information. Yes, in the middle of the article for Russet Noon. But that's not all! She did go on. I bolded my favorite parts!

More recently, Caito provided us with a video example of how the attention-whoring for which she mocks Sybilla is more contagious than a disease. Ironically, while she spends her valuable time making fun of the ''Russet Noon'' author for trying to exploit Stephenie Meyer's popularity, Caito, too, seems to be riding the wave of the ''Russet Noon'' obsession. And she does so quite gracefully. If it weren't for Caito, ''Russet Noon'' would have never achieved taboo status.

... On April 3, 2009, LadySybilla emailed Caito and asked her to stop her "online stalking activities." On this email, Sybilla warned, "If you don't, I will notify as many administrators as I have to until they take action." Sybilla then contacted the Journalfen technical support team to ask how she could contact an administrator in order to report libelous accusations posted by some of their users. But, instead of responding to Sybilla's concerns, the JournalFen support team (if, in fact, there is one) forwarded a copy of the email to Caito. This incident may or may not prompt internet users to wonder about the legitimacy of Journalfen. Is Journalfen an actual company? If it is, who are the tech support staff and/or administrators behind it?

... Judging by the look of things, it won't be Sybilla who will be profiting off of ''Russet Noon'' sales after all. Let's see what happens when Caito and her BFFs at Twilight Lexicon get their hands on a copy of the novel in September.

All that has since been nuked from the actual FanHistory page, and replaced with more evenhanded material. People here at FW went a little flaily for a bit, as a software snafu made it appear as though FH mod Sidewinder had been the one to add my personal info when she'd really just meant to take it down.*

Then the mods brought the hurt down on Artistic revolution, who has been banned from editing the wiki for two whole weeks! She's really sorry, though, guys. Please stop throwing stones at her, and let her catapult boulders at others in peace.

But it's not like Artistic revolution has been the only one tooling with it, either. Some anons got in and tweaked it ever so slightly, like changing the story summary simply to "OH JOHN RINGO NO!" Editing the Russet Noon article is temporarily locked to admins, due to anon vandalizing and a neutrality dispute.

Personal notes:

1. I do not know what end anyone would hope to achieve by posting my address.
2. I'm not BFFs or even BFs or even just Fs with the TwiLex mods, but I sure do like them more than I like Lady Sybilla.
3. I have no clue how I would stand to profit from anything having to do with Russet Noon.
4. I have no idea who Lee Thomas even is.

*Aside to FanHistory folks: Thanks. I really appreciate what you did. Do me one more solid? I did respond to Lady Sybilla's concerns about my "accusations", but I guess it got lost in the epic wave of comments. Like I said before, Lady Sybilla is welcome to come engage me in comments, but as far as I know she has yet to do so. Muchos gracias.

ETA: Artistic revolution rides forth on teal deer to appeal to Laura's professionalism.

ETA 2: Laura responds!

ETA 3: The Russet Noon website is now basically a hate shrine dedicated to me and FH mod Sidewinder, complete with Photoshopped screencaps of me interacting with people I've never actually interacted with. Oh, and also my contact information.

You know, I'm starting to get the feeling that she doesn't take criticism very well.

ETA 4: From Artistic revolution's usertalk page:

I'm not interested in antagonizing you. You have been objective, but I still have to insist that Sidewinder, whoever she is, hasn't been. She might not have the same IP address as Caito, but her editing patterns are dubious. I have listed the evidence on my website because I'm blocked from doing so here. If I'm not allowed to edit the article, then at least Sidewinder should also be prevented from tampering with it any further.

All in all, as I said before, I'm not interested in antagonizing you. Based on your reasons for why Wikipedia blacklisted FH, I know you can understand how I feel in regards to Russet Noon. I have seen that your procedures reflect professionalism. This is why I appealed to that.

I sincerely apologized to both you and Tikatu, but never received a reply. At least at Wikipedia they lifted the ban. Sure, they deleted the article, but they were reasonable enough to lift the ban. I'm sorry if the procedure I followed to try to negotiate with you guys was not what you expected.

I would much rather have you delete the Russet Noon article altogether than to continue with this conflict. Once again, it is not my intention to antagonize you.

So, yeah, Artistic revolution is almost certainly Lady Sybilla.

ETA 5: The hate shrine is now down from the Russet Noon site. It's been replaced with a paragraph about how "the wars have ceased" and the rest is now ostensibly about the fanfic again.

ETA 4-24 7:22am Tokyo time: In case anyone was wondering how Lady Sybilla was taking the news about Peter David's community parody-in-progress, here's the reaction from her twitter:

# it's an honor even though it's a satire, because Peter David is a very seasoned writer
4 minutes ago from web

# many fanfic writers of the net will be uniting to write Potato Moon. The creator is comic book author Peter David
4 minutes ago from web

# let's hope this communal novel will inspire many more to come. I'd love to see a serious thriller or drama like this
7 minutes ago from web

# communal novels are a new genre, there are not many of them that I know of. I'm very curious to read Potato Moon.
8 minutes ago from web

# I'm very proud to announce that Russet Noon has inspired a very unique parody, Potato Moon. It's a communal novel
8 minutes ago from web

The Russet Noon website has also changed. It no longer makes mention of any "wars" whatsoever.

ETA 7: "You are invited to read our latest press release, "Lady Sybilla: The Darth Vader of Fandom."* It appears that Russet Noon has already achieved taboo status without having even been released yet. That's what happens when a Darth Vader figure like Lady Sybilla is created. And now she's found a worthy opponent: Peter David."

*That link goes to a c&p in my journal. To view the original (and give LS more hits) click here.

ETA 8: Her tweeting continues, c&ped here.

ETA 9: The first part of Potato Moon is up... I have a FanHistory page now, and actually I kind of like it, especially the graphic and its caption... and yes, my little lolcats, you can has more ONTD.

ETA 10: She just updated the Russet Noon site again (screencapped here), linking to the articles that appeared on Comicmix and IMDB. (Except her IMDB link actually goes here, where you have to scroll down halfway down the page the relevant blurb.)

ETA 11: Peter David's Potato Moon has its own Wikipedia page! It is a thing of true beauty and you will never, ever guess who started it. But to avoid the situation that occurred the last time she wrote articles on Wikipedia, she's asked another user to edit the Potato Moon article for her. And he is (adding links to the Potato Moon blog entries, at least)! He just wants to know more about who AV Paranormal is. This should go well, I think.

ETA 12: She's linked to something on the Wall Street Journal site now. What the lemonfresh hell?

ETA: Report has been edited to reflect Anons who claim they're Velocity's friends and responsible for the edits to the wiki, not Velocity. So, consider Velocity cleared. But I'm not about to go figure out which anon friend is responsible for which edit.

Thanks to the lol_meme and wank_report for the tip.

Michela Ecks/Laura runs the wiki FanHistory.com. There's a page for CSI Fandom about the ship Grissom/Sara and there is wank there, much of it in the recent history page.

As far as I can make out (because there is a tl;dr chatlog I scanned), a bunch of CSI fans were having a chat about fandom in their regular room. Michela made negative comments about the ship's PWPs, and the rest of the fans disagreed with her. Disagreement quickly became fighting.

( Snippets of the Fight )

On April 13, Michela added a new section to the Sara/Grissom page about the chat mod: velocity bug/velocityofsound:

Velocity of Sound
Some event connected to YourTaxDollarsAtWork caused the Sara/Grissom shipper velocityofsound to remove all her fan fiction from FanFiction.Net.

velocityofsound can be a polarizing figure in the Grissom/Sara ship. If you don't like her, don't praise her and her friends fic, don't agree with her opinions, she will freeze you out. She does this on bestkeptprivate by banning people who give critical feedback, and by creating new chat rooms if chatters in the weekly chat get on her nerves. She doesn't inform people that she is doing that. They are left to figure it out. It adds to the level of cliquishness in Grissom/Sara ship.

Velocity of Sound's friends apparently retaliated almost immediately:

Velocity of Sound
Velocity of sound is a pretty damn awesome person. Despite her many efforts, a lot of fandom has gone FUBAR, and she has gotten sick of dealing with it. This leads a lot of people to call her a cold, heartless bitch, but beaneath her rough and gruff exterior, beats the heart of a true and kind shipper.

Michela reverted this edit. So, Velocity of Sound's friends re-edit, this time with her whole curriculum vitae:

( 'She has enriched the lives of many people.' )

From two mousies on wank_report.

indefatigable42 posts an "Etymology of Slash" essay on fanficrants, explaining that slash has nothing to do with canon or non-canon relationships, because it's all about teh ghey.

It's all cool for a while. A few people express annoyance about the idea of it meaning only non-canon relationships, and partly_bouncy argues a few of the more meaningless points, but it's all cool until. . .

partly_bouncy turns around and posts in her journal that slash is ZOMG NOT GAY!!!!1!:

Edit to put this at the top: My definition of gay is not male boinks male so male is gay. My definition of gay involves a person's own defined identity, sexual preference, embracing of a label and belonging to a certain community. Who you're boinking is not a part of that definition. Please realize that as you read the thing below. If you define gay as boinking, you're obviously going to find this whole thing flawed. And as a fan historian, I have not seen evidence that most of the community defined boinking as defining a person as gay.

Early slash was not homosexual. It was not gay. The etymology of the term in no way implies a gay or homosexual connection. I wish people would not imply that. Please stop. Fan fiction history and terminology has enough problems with the well-meaning fan disseminating misinformation.

Slash and GLBT culture did not meet really for the first time until the Xena fandom. They finally met because Xena had a lot of lesbian fans writing lesbian stories, complete with discussions regarding things like butch/femme dynamics.

If slash had been about gayness, it likely would have not taken off. It would have been seen as really damaging, really challenging and offensive because of the urge to push an agenda.

( Many people write TL;DR responses disagreeing. )

It also gets a mention in metafandom.

First post, please tell me if I did anything wrong so I can correct.

Well, there they go again….

Over at Fanthropology the skolerz of phandum are at it again. This time one PurplePopple queries how one can teach 14 years olds to write OMG Teh Speshul Slash Pr0n. Obvious hand-brain disconnect there. Hand, meet Brain. Learn to work in tandem. It's good for everyone.


But too late since Skrike , seemingly a part of the Triple Sooper Sekret Anti-Fic Cabal jumps all over this one like a dog on a pork chop. The minions all chime in and it’s one grand Kumbayah of outrage . Small, tidy, neatly contained bit of outraged piety, until.

Everybody’s favorite writer Lee Goldberg ! Picks up the trail, thereby treating us to another bit’o’splooge and the renewal of what seems to be his very personal mano-a-mano vendetta-rama with one of the skolerz.

Sorry but this wank deserved to happen. Methinks Remedial STFU 101 is in order at the top of this wank chain. Please stop feeding the innocent plebes out there!

Update...Bahleetion

yadda yadda TL:DR ( here )


. Nicely spliced for your convenience..just the good bits...not the Strunk and White...

This is an entry in Leadensky's LJ. And lo, it is a wanky entry. Leadensky felt the need to share hir views regarding RPS with the world. Ze doesn't like RPS, oh no precious, though it should be noted that ze has no such qualms regarding FPS/FPF.

( Snipped below are some choice bits of rhetoric, for those who don't feel like wading through the entire entry. )

So, it's entirely possible that I'm misinterpreting, but the tone of the entry appears to imply that while chanslash/pedophiliafic/twincest in HP etc. are morally wrong, there is something... Extra-loathesome about RPS/RPF. I don't want to answer one moral judgement with another. I'm just here for the drinks, the boobies, and of course, the massive allburning war that inevitably will erupt in comments.
The preceding link represents Round One of this RPS Argument. A couple of our own- shoiryu and eljuno- step in with what looks to me like a relatively amiable response to an inflammatory subject. The OP then makes the mistake of invoking Fandom_Wank- always happy to oblige, by the way- and informs eljuno that he can 'tell his buds' that 'this LJ is *NOT* going to become a battleground'.

Little bit too late, there. The rest of that thread continues civilly enough, which may have something to do with people going to sleep and waking up with less vitriol. Subsequent threads, however, show that the orouboros is far from finished.

Here, se_parsons brings up the tinhats as exemplars of the wrongness of RPS.

And here, purplepopple wants Shoiryu to name names!

In this thread, sa_parsons continues her discussion.

This goes on and on. For twoish pages of comments. People come and go, and some are more coherent and some are less. There are obligatory anonymice, and some gratuitous mudslinging.

I leave the rest, gentle readers, to you.