(For the record, I do rather kind of love Stephen Fry. But really Stephen.)

The illustrious Mr. Stephen Fry, writer, actor, comedian, famous twitter-er, friend to Hugh Lauries everywhere, object of fans on multiple continents, is interviewed by some obscure magazine, and his (admittedly bizarre) interview is re-printed on the internet. Said 'net dogpiles him on being misogynist and stereotyping and generally backward in his views on gender and sex and possibly some kind of baby-eating, puppy-kicking Nazi (I won't bother trying to gather together all of that clusterfuck because it would take years. Plenty on Twitter and a nice selection in the comments on that reprint). I leave it up to you, dear readers, to judge the contents of said interview. *ahem*

Well then.

So, Mr. Fry quits twitter. That's the end of it, right? I mean, certainly he's smart enough to just keep out of the spotlight for a while until this shitstorm blows over and everyone forgets about it and goes back to laughing at their old DVDs of Jeeves & Wooster, right?

Well, not really, since he must come back to explain himself in what may be the most beautiful 4-page flounce I have ever read in my life. Well, you can't accuse him of having a narrow vocabulary, at any rate.

I'm sympathetic (to a point), but really? "None of you understand me! The media misquotes me! I'LL NEVER DO PRINT INTERVIEWS AGAIN!"

Oh dear. At least he does it in an entertaining manner...

ETA: Okay, wasn't aware that Fry has bipolar disorder. Which explains the flouncy a bit. Sorry, kids.

(for the record, I still think it's just a tiny teeny bit funny in a schadenfreude sort of way, but I am admittedly a rather evil person, so YMMV with this one. LOL at your own risk.)

In the Zelda lovers community on Lj Starrose17 posts a slash fanfic, between Link and Link

RPgod2 is offended and proceeds to give us his thoughts on yaoi

RPgod2 is declared new to the internet, because he did not expect slash in a video game fan community

Rpgod2 clarifies that it was not this *particular* work that offended him, just the idea of it.

Plus sundry other thoughts on yaoi.

ETA: There are also a few choice comments on the dA page of the art that inspired the fic.

Meet Lironess, a person of such stunning perfection that she feels confident, nay obliged, to point out the shortcomings of others. Constantly.

When she's not diagnosing diseases over the internet, she's apparently advocating approaching strangers at cons with skin diseases to ask them:

"OMG What the hell is wrong with your skin?"

Yeah, not even kidding*.

Unfortunately no one told betnoir that icky diseased people exist solely as teaching moments for the beautiful people, and that she better learn to live with it or else spend the rest of her life in misery. Luckily for her then, that lironess is here to explain it to her.

The spat lands in sf_drama, where lironess baleeted her most offensive comments (though considering what's left - just WOW) and apparently whole threads if bizarro goodness like handing out condoms to furries, and horse sex, and her inability to spell freak. she then demonstrates her utter lack of getting teh internets, as well as proving that there really isn't a maximum fail quota per post.

After calling like, everyone, a coward or accusing them of hiding (for commenting in an unlocked post in a very public community? huh?) lironess prepares her flounce by calling betnoir (and everyone else) out. As in, *cue scareh music* she can FIND people:

"It has been fun to watch you all hide on a community and make your statements thinking I would not see and reply. However, I can find all of you, any where."

betnoir names a place and time.

but yanno, it's waaaay to far, plus it'd be a hassle and betnoir's fucking parents would sue and it would be a big mess and lironess doesn't care enough to bother. Or something.



*I debated if this should be in UNF because disability!fail = so fucking unfunny, plus there's bonus!fail on both sides, but for sheer overwhelming WTF wankiness I think it belongs here.

snatched from wank_report

"Someone" posts a secret (#114 now bahleeted--caps?) on fandomsecrets and the image is stored on her easily identifiable photobucket account. She claims to be lonely and not have any friends and she wishes the Avatar characters were her RL friends. But she means local friends, not imaginary intarweb bitches her LJ friends.

Responses are mostly of the "Oh, snap!" variety except for the "What am I? Chopped liver?" one. It's really a very mild response though yukinoomoni is outed by name.

( She doesn't overreact at all: )

eta: F_W is not your therapist. If you can't lol at a wank maybe you need to go for a walk. I thought this was funny. lol sociopath.

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.

Thanks to a mousie on wank_report for this tip!

Even though they might be the same asshat!mousie who has linked the wankers to the wank_report already. This has happened before, so I suspect we have a repeat-offender moron!mouse on the loose.

(Update: reporter!mousie says no; the fink ain't hir. Many apologies to our intrepid reporter!mouse for the libel.)

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Also, before we start, I humbly dedicate the following post to the presumably-different and very amusing outraged!mousie who continues to snipe in any and all posts on wank_report that feature spn_gossip. Everyone loves a bonus wank!

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This wank involves a nice long thread on spn_gossip, but before we can get to that, you're going to need some definitions and facts:

( Danneel Harris has short fingernails and is therefore lesbian. )

I love Supernatural. One of these days, I'm going to have to actually sit down and watch the show.

A Slytherfan terri_testing writes an essay The Wizarding World and the Otherworld, where she argues that Harry Potter books are horror, not fantasy and that Hogwarts is like the school where the Native American children were brainwashed:

( Read more )

The essay provokes a chorus of "I agree"s and complaints about JKR's treatment of Snape:

mary_j_59 (see "Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!")

This is brilliant, Terri! And absolutely consistent. You know, my sister and I went to hear Rowling, Irving and King in NYC, and we both liked John Irving (reading from Owen Meany) best. Now the reason is clear. Rowling is actually a horror writer, like King, and I do not like horror. Still less do I like horror disguised as a children's fantasy quest. Irving, on the other hand, was writing in the great tradition of picaresque novels - a tragicomedy with a moral core.

But what I still wonder is: did (and does) Rowling know that she has actually written a dystopion/horror story? Somehow I don't think she realizes this.

condwiramurs/00sevvie

I second the 'brilliant' comment. And I highly doubt Rowling is aware of what she has actually written. She is too utterly blind to the reasons we like Severus, for example, to have any clue that she may have written something different from what her perfect picture of her work in her head is. I'm sure she thinks we're just getting it 'wrong.'

oryx_leucoryx (see Cry the Beloved Slytherins)

So if Severus Snape actually survived Nagini's bite, returned to the Muggle world and became some kind of counselor to delinquent youth or someone who runs an anti-bullying program (by working both with victims and perpetrators) he would be a hero with a rather protracted but complete journey? Starting out as the victim of neighborhood bullies (I doubt Petunia was the only one who knew that the strangely dressed kid was the Snape boy from Spinner's End) who must have dreamed that magic would solve his problems, learned that magic simply gave bullies more dangerous/'interesting' ways to hurt people, played a key role in getting rid of the biggest bully in the magical playground and came home to use non-magical ways against bullies?
***
bohemian_spirit has some fics in that general direction - in her 'Light Between the Cracks' series Severus Snape of canon years was secretly married to a Muggle school teacher and while at his Muggle home watched over the neighborhood children. And in her 'Professor Grunge' Severus immigrates to the US instead of joining the Death Eaters. He studies at a wizarding university and becomes a teacher who fights bullying and uses music to assist in magical healing.

But the real fun starts when night_train_fm decides to argue with terri_testing and says, among other things:

'Hermione exiling her parents to Australia'
She did that because she was terrified (with good reason) of the DEs coming after them: Voldemort was taking over the government, had already ordered several public mass-Muggle-killings, and anyone remotely connected to Harry was a potential target. According to Jo, Hermione reversed the spell ASAP once the threat was over. For that matter, is it ever outright stated that she didn't sit down and discuss it with them first?

That doesn't go well.

( Hermione is teh ebil! )

Well, if you're looking for some real crazy, look no further than digimon!.

Overlord_Mordax wants to know why people like Ken. Or as one user puts it, why people like her. Mom jokes are taken seriously. Anonymous gets involved.

Mordax BAWS on her own journal.


***brought to my attention by a lovely mouse on wank_report

So who's been wondering what's been going on with Lady Sybilla and the Russet Doom Saga? I know I haven't! But here we are regardless.

First there was this May 5 message to FanHistory editor Tikatu on her talk page:

Hi, Tikatu. I noticed you've been the most frequent editor of the Russet Noon article, so I'm sending you an update on the "Blood Roses" image by Charli Siebert. I just received an email from her, informing me that she does not want me to use her image for the cover of the book.

Charli wrote to Sybilla: "Unfortunately, I do not give out permission for use of my work in any way, so you'll have to find another cover for your book."

Charli also added, "All of your advertising and marketing of the book containing the image will need to be removed from any and all publications. This includes all print advertising and websites that display the image. If there are websites that you are aware of that are displaying the book cover in question, it is your responsibility to contact them and inform them that they need to remove the image from their site."

Based on Charli's specific request, I am asking that you please remove the old Russet Noon cover currently on display in the article. And, if it's not too much to ask, please add a note to the article to confirm that Russet Noon will have a new cover image before it gets published. Please let me know if you need me to upload a screencap of Charli's email as proof.

Last part of the update is that Charli and I are in negotiations to have her create a new image exclusively for the new Russet Noon cover.

Thanks very much.

Artistic revolution 07:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Consider also this newly-added apology on the Russet Noon website:

On behalf of AV Paranormal and Russet Noon, we'd like to offer our sincerest apologies to Charli Siebert, the creator of "Blood Roses," the above image. We had used this image for the cover of Russet Noon under the mistaken assumption that it was a royalty-free image. Even though this image will no longer be on the cover of Russet Noon, we are extremely proud to announce that Charli Siebert is in negotiations with Lady Sybilla to design an image exclusively for the cover of Russet Noon. We look forward to revealing the new cover of the novel. Please click on "Blood Roses" to visit Charli Siebert's official site, Unimaginative.org.

As for Wikipedia, it looks like Potato Moon's page is pretty safe from deletion for the moment. The article currently identifies Russet Noon by name, with the explanation, "Stephenie Meyer uses the word "russet" numerous times throughout the Twilight Saga to describe the color of Jacob Black's skin." You will never guess who edited the article to include that superfluous information. The change occurred after this conversational exchange:


Oh, and how is old PAD's circle jerk parody novel coming er, going? Well, it's up to, like, Part 20, but I haven't read it past the first chapter so I can't tell you whether it's any good.

And now, for funsies! Sybsy's now been namedropped in the Small Name Big Ego article on TVTropes.

Aaaaaand we now have the QUEEN of this trope for Twilight fandom: Lady Sybilla, whom no one had apparently ever even heard of before in the fandom before she became the writer (and attempted publisher) of "tribute sequel" Russet Noon, and convinced the entire internet is made up of one person with a grudge against her after the fandom at large and fandom_wank told her that her understanding of copyright was... flawed at best. She was banned from The Other Wiki after refusing to believe that her "highly controversial" unreleased fanfic wasn't notable enough and continually reinstated its article. Try to read the Russet Doom Saga in all its glory and not boggle.

And for a little added lubrication? Lady Sybilla Apologizes to Stephenie Meyer for Writing Russet Noon. Why yes, that IS another press release, fresh just today! I c&ped it here in case you don't want to contribute to her page views (and she'll probably take it down again as soon as she has another change of universal mind anyway). She's also updated her Twitter for the first time since April as well.

I just returned from a nine-day trip, so I'm playing a bit of catch-up with my supplementary links list and link hub/screencap guide; I appreciate your patience. And you know what else I appreciate? When I got home this morning, you will never guess what I found waiting for me in my mail box. Except that you totally will.

It was lip gloss.

ETA: So I clicked a link back to the Russet Noon site, and found myself in a time warp. It seems Sybilla's reverted to her original format after so long. But before you start thinking she just fuxxored the files, check out the links at the top. She links to: her own Twitter, Comic Mix, Google News, Foforks, Wordpress, her own Myspace, IMDB, Wikipedia, the Wall Street Journal, Twilight Blips, FanHistory, Fanpop, the Small Name Big Ego TvTropes article, Amazon forums, the reupload of her reading the preface on tinypic, Buzznet, ONTD, Fandom Wank, the Twilight Lexicon, and Edward Heart Bella.

Screencaps forthcoming here (thanks ari_o).

Also we may have missed another in-between site version. Did anyone catch a screencap?) You can view the last edit to the Russet Noon site before this latest revamp here, where she had added the "temporary model" for Russet Noon's new cover art.

Below is a temporary model of the new Russet Noon cover image that Charli will be recreating. The copyright information for the artist of this talisman is currently unknown. Hopefully the efficient fandomwankers will help us track down the artist who originally created this talisman so we can give them credit. This is just a sample image of what the final design will look like.

She wants us to do her homework for her. Great.

ETA 2: I'm reasonably certain the Russet_noon twitterer is taking the piss. I quite like the blend of Snacky's and Godwin's Law lobbed our way.

ETA 3: FanHistory has given Lady Sybilla a space to speak her point of view. It's... uhmazing.

ETA 4: She took out her link to the Twilight Lexicon and added a new one to this article from RelateMag.com, which spells the title of the book Russet Moon. Still, I prefer this version of the RelateMag article:

There’s a ‘new’ Twilight words that is dated people to charge alarming waves across the the public. Sure you’ve irrefutably impute to a fraction of fanfiction stories that takes the Twilight psycho we fondness and puts them in bizarre scenes, rewrites parts of the books, adds scenes prospect to be missing. The words is all fustian up to Jacob and what happens after Breaking Dawn. But Lady Sybilla has written an uninjured words entitled Russet Moon and she’s flourishing to advertise it. Some people improvise it is flourishing to be smashing addict fiction. Others imagine it is unconditionally miscarry. To affect the dip on the words button the website.

It's like it went through Babel Fish and crawled back out again, weeping bitterly about its lost messages and implications.

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.

Those dragons that pop up everywhere and you're supposed to click on them for your friends so the dragons hatch or grow or take over Sunnydale?

The eggs have changed. The "alts" look like regular eggs now and people do not know what will happen when they click on those. I still don't know entirely what that means, but the rules say the fun of playing is the surprise. Players with Excel spreadsheets disagree. And some players will resort to "murder" because they can't be as control freaky about their imaginary breeding of pixels.

alts explained Thank you!

Would you kill your dragons? Most people answer HEAVEN FORFEND! sort of--kind of. There is a nice lecture about how deleting pixels is not an immoral act. ETA: post bahleeted.

Another thread asks what will happen? Won't someone think of the children hatchlings?

The FAQ says that if your attempt to kill an egg the dragon might survive and flee from you because you tried to fucking kill it. LOL.

Oh, look. Common sense.

You are mean and your dragons are ugly.

It's not so much RAGE as OCD entitlement.

ETA note: The links I provided seemed to me to be comments made by adults. The users I know are all of age and many of them hang out here. If an actual F_W mod wants me to delete that is cool.

So, check it.

SPN fandom has (or had, really) a little LJ comm and a corresponding website called People for the Ethical Treatment of Jensen Ackles, or PETJA, or spn_petja. It was basically all about mocking Ackles, mostly for saying stuff like "unpossible," (no, really ETA: It's a Simpsons reference. I'm just dumb) which then gave rise to PSA "Jensen Ackles is functionally illiterate - won't you please help him" videos and the like. Or something. Anyway, remember RESPECT wank and the "talentless asshole" icons? Much of what PETJA satirizes is the overreactive Ackles and Jared Padalecki fans who will cry tears of blood should anyone diss them. They also profess their deep love of Jensen and hope he will someday become successful. It's amazing that they can do both at once, but subtle is their comedy art. They are also Capslockers. I think. It's all down the same street.

Well, it used to be. Apparently Ackles' team of fun-ruining poopy heads have focused their lasers and nuked the house of the rising PETJA and its corresponding websites with a C&D. Maybe. Nobody is offering any proof, which surprisingly does not sit well with some people as the PETJAers and their supporters moan about how very disappointed they are in Jennywenny.

( It's a profoundly disturbing and distressing feeling, to be deprived of your right to love [Jensen Ackles]. )

Remember when it was just nights of the living Ware-Ackles and chicks jumping off of bleachers and riding their Hollywood cowboy all the way into an elevator? Those were the good old days. Oh, Jensen, how could you do this to your adoring public? What hath you wrought? ;_;

Oh, and you should check out the Ware-Ackles link - apparently she's still at it! :D:

ETA: Anonymous to the rescue! Oh, I could kiss you. It includes Onelittlesleep's "I am disappointed in Jensen" original post, another she made before the wank to pimp PETJA, Affectingly's Cry of Woe, Susannaheanes's (the delightful chick who told us Dean was an angel in a testorone-laced meat suit) LJ post and blog post: "Shame on you Jensen! SHAAAAAME." And Estameurta's original post before they changed it for "legal reasons." And they're huge, so beware.

As Whomageddon rolls on, doctorwho  brings us another sterling gem. Or rather, two bright turds of wank, coupled together to form a synergistic pile of perfection.

First, cringer1982 shares that he's written a very pointed letter to the BBC about how they have portrayed Asians in their recent episode Turn Left. He neglects to mention that he's white as the fresh driven snow. Irish, in fact.

BBC officials respond with a letter that has nothing to do with anything.

Some people don't see his point.

( Meanwhile, back on the blog... )

Oh yeah... I forgot to say 'sorry' in my last post.

Modsquad out. *snap* *snap*

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?

mamadeb is very very upset. "Was there a reason that the sign-ups for Yuletide were announced on a Jewish holiday?" she asks. Apparently the Yuletide mods began the two week sign up process on the last night of Sukkot. This mild inconvenience is a clear sign of anti-semitism from the Mods- and don't get her started on the name itself!

The fact that the stories themselves are posted on Christmas Eve is not as inconvenient to Christians - after all, Christmas is merely a "big dinner and maybe gifts".

Others are not amused.

I posted this to ClairvoyantWank before but now it's gotten bigger.

On the StopTazmo Death Note thread, it starts with:

"Raito should win. He's got the right idea."

"So even Hitler had the "right ideas" Playing god is only fun for those who´re playing god..."

"Hitler was exterminating innocents. Raito is exterminating criminals who need to die, along with the occasional person foolish enough to get in his way. His actions are just."

It goes downhill from there as forum-goers write tl;dr posts about whether certain kind of killings are OK, if Light/Raito is or is not like Hitler, opinions about which people deserve to die, history, and what-if scenarios.

(Bottom of page 35)
l33tlamer: People in modern societies kill people everyday. I am not talking about murders or in accidents, but people are killed when decisions are made about weighing human lives differently.

For example, assume that the director of a hospital has limited staff, and there are more patients requiring immediate surgery than that which can be handled by the staff present. In choosing one person over another, the director is in fact killing an innocent person, to allow another innocent person to live.

Take this to the next level. Assume that the director only has to manage the money spent to buy equipment for the hospital. He decides to invest in a new MRI machine that will allow for better cancer diagnosis while not investing in more hospital beds. This decision will benefit people that are in the early stages of cancer, while probably having a negative impact on those in the later stage of terminal diseases. Again, a decision that sacrifices a group of people for another has been made in this case.

The above examples, are not far from reality. Innocent people are sacrificed to benefit other people, who are also innocent, all the time. Its naive to think that just because a person is innocent, they must be kept alive regardless of what benefits or negative effects they may have on other people. ... Lets look at another case. A cure for cancer has been developed that can essential prevent anyone from ever getting cancer again (yes, this is pretty fake, but bare with me). It still requires a lot of fine tuning to ensure that it works properly. The "fine tuning" requires living human beings as test subjects. The test subjects must be healthy. Not enough people sign up as test subjects, as the experiments carry a high chance of death.

Will using healthy death row immates be ok for this? What about those that have life sentences? Rapists? Considering that these people are convicted of crimes, why shouldn't they be used in a way that will benefit humanity?

Of course, you can argue that they still have human rights. But what about the human rights that were violated by them? Such as, killing another person, removing their right to live? In my opinion, those that don't respect human rights, don't deserve to be treated like humans. Its a pretty simple, and fair IMO, concept. This sort of tie in with why I think Raito would be correct in the Death Note world. (The bold is his.)

Also don't miss out on the mini "OMG! YOU'RE A GIRL SO YOU CAN'T SWEAR!" wank that starts on page 39.

At Cosplay.com, lemoned wants to know why there are such restrictive rules about cutting and cosplay at Ani-Magic.

I'm not trying to start any drama.. ( Read more... )

People talk about it. The pro-cutters seem to feel that it's their right to show up and have open wounds along with their costumes. Because it's discrimination and against their rights, despite the con's right to refuse entry to anyone.

Sadly the thread's been closed, but dig the wanky response from the board mod at the very end.

It really gets fun when the Anime Jump! forum starts a-mockin'.

What's astonishing are these drama queens demanding the right to spray their infected-with-God-knows-what bodily fluids all over their fellow con attendees. Is it discrimination? Yes, I believe we SHOULD discriminate against getting bled on by strangers.

Now, more than ever, I believe mental health professionals should visit anime cons, to get a look at their future patients.

This is small and a little old (and over with) but it concerns the fandom of a singer and seiyuu I used to be incredibly obsessed with, and this amused me too much not to post. (And I figured, being a member and lurker of f_w since last summer, that it was time to pop my f_w cherry. Heh.)

Megumi Ogata is a very, very talented seiyuu in anime. Among her most notable roles are Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho, Haruka (or Sailoruranus, from, durrrr, Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon), Shinji from Evangelion, and Yukito from Card Captor Sakura. Hands down, she rocks.

Many of her English-speaking fans are quite convinced that since she tends to do male voices - never mind the fact that she can do girly voices and children, (e.g. Emeraude from Rayearth and Child Mamoru from the Sailormoon R movie, respectively) - she's a lesbian. And consequently, they think she's hot because of that. (Idiots. *eyeroll*)

On the first of April, Ogata-san writes a message to her fans (in Japanese) that she has recently gotten married to a (male) office worker thirteen years younger than she is. She also reveals that they have been living together for five years.

The Megumi Ogata Club at Yahoo!Groups go nuts because, OmG nOoOoOoOoOo, it lieK HAS 2 B aN 4pr1l f0o1z jOke ri73?!?! She wouldn't do this to her fans 'cause she knows that being a lesbian is why people love her!!!1111eleventyone111ichigostrawberryisn'tanumber!!!1111

Er. Yes. Anyway. *cough*

Turns out it is true, and not an April Fool's prank. Ah, well. The little fangirlies debate it anyway.

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