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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
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5:59 am
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redcoast
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I was unhappy with the Supernatural convention in Las Vegas. Others were unhappy with me because I was unhappy.
If you start on this page and hit "previous" you can go through my thing. So first I post my initial complaint, which mostly revolves around the fact that the ticket prices are so high and I couldn't see anything from the "general admissions" seats I got. Then, figuring that I'm about to become a pariah anyway, I start bashing the actors because I have nothing left to lose. Someone asks me how many followers I've lost, and to my chagrin and surprise, the number goes up.
The response I get, weirdly, is "Sure, Creation gouges us and treats us unfairly, but please stop criticizing the actors for participating!" People seem to think I should be grateful that the cast deigns to attend Conventions at all. Also, I shouldn't have gone to the convention if I was going to have a stank attitude about it (and whilst having social anxiety disorder). People like me should just stay home!
On the other hand, I've got fandom veterans telling me that I'm right. Which is kind of gratifying.
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| Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
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7:39 pm - 'Tis the Summer of Butthurt
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Just in time for the grand "Goodreads bullies" wank, Jaq D Hawkins has decided that her path to fame, fortune, and validation lies through revealing my real name:
There's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
I could stop it, but I’m not going to, simply because this stalker trying to convince people that I harass reviewers is clearly guilty of Libel as a result of doing so and the legal system is inadequate to control malicious acts of this nature. The question is, why do people go mental in this manner? There may be some merit in trying to boost her on-line visibility by tagging onto a known but not extremely famous author. The real big names have the cash to access the legal system and deal with such people, but I get as many Google hits as many of them.
She or one of her followers also posted a now-deleted fake Goodreads profile for me, complete with a little nugget of wish fulfillment. 'Cos that's how "known but not extremely famous" authors roll.
ETA: Back in June, Kat Kennedy posted the last Hawkins wank on Cuddlebuggery, in the Scandalous Scandals section that's drawn the "GR Bullies" site's ire. Some of her readers made their opinions known on Goodreads, marking Dance of the Goblins as do-not-read, will-never-read, or you-sir-are-an-asshat, and putting it on shelves like foot-in-mouth-disease, attacks-reviewers, and did-the-author-really-just-go-there. Hawkins accused me of being behind it--which got her nowhere--so a few days later, her longtime sockpuppet/meatpuppet Pam Mandeville posted a review of DotG with a link to Hawkins's site, and spammed negative reviews of DotG with the link and my real name. Because that's what vigilante justice looks like, yo. *awkward hand gestures*
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| Friday, June 22nd, 2012
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9:45 pm - Bad book review = slander and extreme copyright violation
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issendai
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Jaq D. Hawkins, author of absolutely-legitimately-traditional-press-published world-changing indie masterpiece Dance of the Goblins, is trying to get my review of her book taken down. She's also threatening to take me to court for butthurt slander and "extreme copyright violation."
Some quick background:
Hawkins was on one of the wank comms back in, er, early 2008?, when she appeared on Dragon's Den to ask for funding for a movie of her book. The book sounded pretty incredible, in a literal "you will not believe this" way, so a friend gave me a copy as a gift. And lo, was it delightful to a connoisseur of all that was wanting in literature; and lo, did I post a series of critiques on my LJ, then roll them over to my website. Lo, did Hawkins find my website in its early stages, and complain twice--mostly that I characterized her book as self-published. And yea, did I tweak said website to modify some things and 'splain others.
And then the website sat untouched for over three years.
(I'll add at this point that Hawkins's determination to see her movie through impressed me, even if her book didn't, so eventually I joined the discussion on IMDB and had some serious conversations with her about improving parts of her campaign. I even offered to design her a better website, gratis. This detail hasn't come into play in the wank yet. I didn't try to hide who I was, and the email address I used connects to my LJ which connects to my website, but Hawkins hasn't realized that my IMDB info connects to me.
(However, she has cunningly deduced that I'm her old adversary from Myspace, Vanessa.
(...But I'm getting ahead of myself.)
And lo, on June 8th in the Year of our Noodly Lord 2012, did my ISP send unto me an email, saying, "Behold, this person hath demanded thy personal information, but we shall not deliver it unto them unless they render unto us evidence of a lawsuit." Affixed to the email was a complaint, which read in part:
This website has a 5 page slander article that is not linked to by the main site which has been set up to maximise SEO for the sole purpose of causing loss of royalties to the author. There is extreme copyright violation in the extensive outline of the plot of the book that is slandered with mis-representation and derogatory comments included.
"Ahahaha," quoth I, "she has been drinking new wine, or smoking old crack; but I shall reply unto her, and say, politely, that she is wearing her bottom as a bonnet." Thus, after many days of thought and study, did I deliver my response unto her. With numbered arguments. Because shorthand references were going to come in handy.
And lo, did she reply back, and say unto me,
Issendai (or should I say Vanessa),
I am not complaining about your book reviews. I'm objecting to a 5 page article which exceeds fair use and misrepresents several plot points.
What possible legitimate reason can you have for insisting on keeping it? It's from 2007, there is no legitimate defence for refusing. There are no other reviews, especially 5 page reviews, on your site. This is clearly a personal attack.
~ Jaq
So did I reply to her, with gentle words and mild, and also with some stronger ones to prop the milder ones up,
The hell are you talking about, lady? Who's this Vanessa chick, and did she steal your brain, or what? Here, have a bunch of numbers and an explanation of what a SLAPP lawsuit is.
...though not with those precise words.
And she did reply unto me, saying, "Thou art Vanessa, thou knowest thou art, and lo do I inquire after thy mother's health to prove that I know thou art indeed the true and only Vanessa. Behold, I rehash my earlier points as well as many you covered in your first email unto me. I have shown that thy slanderous screed cannot be a book review, because book reviews are shorter, therefore... my thought processes are fuzzy after this point. But I am crystal clear in my understanding that this matter between us shall bloom, and blossom, and become a landmark in United States law, and proxy registrars shall be banished from the face of the land as Megaupload was banished. And I shall become famous and profit greatly therefrom. You shall also become famous, but you will not like it as much. Sucks to be you, Vanessa."
Though the actual words spoken were closer to this:
Don't feel too smug Vanessa. While it's true that the US legal system is effectively closed to anyone outside the country, by going so far OTT in your childish rants you've given me something I can use for the kind of publicity that money can't buy. You might even become famous for giving a certain Texas senator the means to closing down protected identity sites as he did Megaupload. There dost the matter stand: with batshit, and wanking, and bottoms sore and chafed as far as the eye can see.
My review, with the full text of all of the emails
LJ: EXTREME! COPYRIGHT!! VIOLATION!!!
LJ: In which Jaq D. Hawkins threatens to sic Lamar Smith on me, and I am named Vanessa
ETA: And I spake unto her, and said, "We have already gone over most of this, but I will humor you once more. Have some new numbered points."
ETA 2: ( And she replied unto me, saying, 'I have no reading comprehension, for which I hold you accountable.' )
ETA 3: And one more round of emails, at the bottom of this post. Evidently I'm trolling by insisting on discussing the letter of the law in a conversation about whether she plans to sue me.
Hopefully it'll wind down after this. I don't plan to engage her any further unless she lawyers up or starts harassing me with DMCA complaints.
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| Thursday, December 8th, 2011
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3:01 pm - But I'm not Hikari! I mean it!
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Innocent little me makes a post to ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) bad_rpers_suck regarding some OOC harassment in an RP comm I frequent. Almost immediately I am notified that the harassee is the famous hikariofdark4, aka firemikokagome, aka red_arisu, also known as the main attraction of this wank. Some discussion is made of past crimes, concerns that I might be harassed by her for my post, and speculation of her current identity.
Of course I'm sure you know where this is going. red_arisu shows up to claim that she's being framed.
LOL oh wow, rumors are already being spread about me. That's not even me that RPer was attacking.
FAIL!!!!
But there is a twist! Suspiciously soon afterward, shai_lang (earlier suspected of also being Hikari) comes to argue with red_arisu.
Oh.. So you're that Hikari person that people are assuming that I am. I can see why everyone hates you, you're nothing but a disgusting, devious little ant and your trolling antics are really getting old. I'd prefer you not drag my name into this and have me be associated with a loser like you.
The Hikaris argue it out, in between reporting people to lj abuse for saying mean things to her and claiming they weren't stalking the comm for any mention of themselves. The entire exchange is much akin to watching a Punch and Judy show, where the puppeteer is desperately trying to convince you that both sides aren't controlled by the same person. BRPS isn't having with it.
Seriously? please stop confusing me with her. -_- You've already seen that we're two different people by our argument, what more proof do you need?
Hell I even reported her to LJ abuse earlier today!
Both puppets disappear suspiciously close to the time that I turn IP logging on and the post settles down into gifs and macros. However, the discussion of the original post-trolling that I so foolishly posted about is carried on to rpanoncomm, where Hikari continues to claim that she is not Hikari, despite the fact that the only person who would knowingly defend Hikari at this point is...well.
Hikari.
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| Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
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10:29 pm - SurveyFail rides again
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msilverstar
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I haven't wanked much about this yet, but I will, I won't be able to resist.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire [Hardcover]
Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Dutton Adult (May 5, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525952098
ISBN-13: 978-0525952091
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,975,540 in Books
Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment-the Internet-to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of human desire that overturns conventional thinking.
FYI, SurveyFail, and Why Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam Are Phrenologists, and a follow up on Fail Neuroscience
( Product Description )
( pre-publication blurbs (depressing) )
ETA: Sex, Lies and IRB Tape: Netporn to SurveyFail
current mood: Catty
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| Monday, December 6th, 2010
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11:24 am - Mobile Flamewar BEAR GUNDAM - Episode 1: Tomopop regulars vs. Gundam fans.
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Forgive me, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) i_wank, for I have sinned.
After several years of living the fairly quiet online life called "lurking and just randomly talking to my circle of friends," I somehow found myself in recent months taking up yet another expensive hobby involving collecting anime/manga/videogame merchandise beyond the original source material(s): figures and toys.*
It does not help that at least ONE of your online friends is a dirty, dirty enabler in her JF journal and ocassionally posts links to the toy collector news/culture blog Tomopop, which I have personally found both informative (I've learned a bit about companies, as well as stuff about toys I don't personally collect, such as designer vinyl, model kits, gunpla, Transformers, etc.) and entertaining (Case in point: Their What Toys Are Up To weekly toy photography web-roundup/submissions feature, which features such modern legends as Nice bra, Voorhees and... well, ANYTHING that features Revoltech's Toy Story Woody figure, such as the first of the entries [ETA NOTE: Warning for being potentially triggery for some. Apologies for not putting this note in advance.] when they rounded up some of the original series of pics that were first shared on 2chan.**), which of course, has led to my inevitable downfall into Collector Hell, and now I have found myself lurking there just about every day, checking out the articles of personal interest (and the other stuff too, when I have time or it's a slow day) and the cute/funny/gorgeous pictures. I even eventually made an account some months ago, though I had limited myself to mysteriously!stealthily!entering and making some random (often one-line) remark, only to disappear into the aether of the intertubes again, and resume my uneventful online life of lurkerdom.
Until yesterday morning.
( My sin. )
And that, dear i_wank, is my confession. I thank you for your time, and ask: How many Hail Marys/Our Fathers do I need to say to be absolved of this?
* - (If anyone's wondering, my first of these hobbies was probably doujinshi, which I took to collecting again after a few years of a hiatus/slowdown in buying these [wasn't feeling "inspired" by much of the more recent popular stuff]. My poor wallet hates me for having become a full-on kooky kollector lady, but... but... SHINY FUNZIES. ;_;)
** - (Oh, while I'm posting on Tomopop's photography series entries, I'd also really like to point out one of their newest features: What Dolls Are Up To, which is currently being handled by dirty enabler pal's best friend [Hai guyz! ;P]. I know dolls can be a bit of a touchy subject between those who love them, and those who're creeped out by them, so feel free to either YAY, click!/DO NOT WANT-ABORT!ABORT!not-click this link, depending on which camp you belong in.)
P.S: I apologize in advance if any of the links turn out to be unacceptable for any reason - I'm working on some other stuff at the same time, so I might be intermittent in replying. Please let me know which (if any) of the links are against the rules and I'll do my best to take it down ASAP.
Oh, and apologies if this was a horribly biased writeup, but I DID post this in the appropiate place, right?
current mood: silly
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| Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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7:51 pm - I hate my state.
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So. I live in the general New Orleans area. Savvy folks may know us from the BP oil explosion, and something called Hurricane Katrina.
The Times-Picayune, hosted online at nola.com, was one of the best sources of Katrina info. When it came to Deepwater/Macondo, it did... less well. But I've mostly been wanking about incidents that happened during Katrina... see, during Nasty K, a lot of our darker-skinned civilians came down with sudden cases of dorsal lead poisoning.
Apparently black men can fire rocket launchers out between their shoulder blades, or something. Thank goodness for our cops, who weren't afraid to step up and deal with this awful threat against our community!
A lot of people feel very, very sorry for the police officers that gunned down civilians and then covered up their crime.
The Danziger Bridge Massacre was so totes justified.
( Don't click this if you have blood-pressure issues. )
I wanked my lily-white ass off, and am wanking still. I don't feel that bad about it.
Bonus points if you manage to catch a comment using the word "colored" before the nola.com mods wake up and delete it.
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| Thursday, May 27th, 2010
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9:56 am - Fight heckling with tl;dr!
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I'm tangentially involved in this thing, but mostly it's just one guy going on...and on...and on...
So a couple of days ago I was looking through Youtube, and found a video of Gabe Saporta, lead singer of that band who did that song with one of the Gossip Girls, going bugfuck on a heckler at a Kansas City concert. Basic paraphrased rundown: Someone gives the band the finger, Gabe responds by saying, "You're sixteen, you're fat, you're ugly, no girls will talk to you, go jerk off to pictures of your mom." And I, being the clear-headed person I am, decided this was worthy of posting to the LJ fan community Daily Gabe Spam.
The residents are shocked and appalled.
It would have ended there, but unfortunately, Gabe Saporta is a friend of Pete Wentz, and thereby the fourth wall does not exist. So what would be the best way to respond to this situation?
How about a ten page blog post about it?
Highlights include:
-"I am not trying to argue that the incident was a pleasant or a positive one. Nor am I saying that I’m proud of having done that. But I am not embarrassed of it either. And I won’t apologize."
-"If someone came into my house and tried to bring harm to my family, I’d stab them in the face with a kitchen knife without thinking twice. Our show is my house. My family is our band, and our brothers and sisters in the crowd. And my tongue is sharp like a knife. Sorry. I did what I had to do."
-"We have to listen to our emotions and we have to be true to them. Unfortunately, we can’t decide whether they will be emotions with good energy or negative energy. But what we can do is express them fully and immediately. And thus we purge them, and rob them of their ability to control us. Sorry to get all life-coach."
-"In all honesty, being “misunderstood” and perpetually criticized has been a good thing for me, because it has forced me to really evaluate myself on the deepest of levels. To the point where I am nowso confident in the knowledge I posses of the person I am, that I have no shame in allowing you to see all sides of me."
DGS responds! Some more positively than others! Cue Gabe editing his post (and posting a comment) to directly respond to LJ comments.
And then he takes it to Twitter, where he digs up Youtube links of Billie Joe attacking someone in 1997, blames the hubbub on his accent, and compares himself to Jesus.
The comments on the blog post are extremely hard to navigate and almost overwhelmingly positive, but notable for Gabe continuing to get defensive whenever someone raises an objection, including going to the point of tracking down and posting someone's email address and encouraging fangirls to shoot to kill. Which is unfortunately just par for the course for Gabe. Frankly, I'm expecting him to show up here eventually.
But really, all he wants is to be surrounded by love.
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| Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
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11:15 am - My boobies are legit works of art.
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Aaaaaand the community is locked, though I think on open membership. I am clearly not thinking straight at all in these last 24 hours and should step away from the internet. Deepest apologies!
ETA: Since this tidbit is very public, I think I can share this much: DeviantArt has employed, from what I gathered, a new No Mature Art for Anime Fanart rule in order to avoid sexually explicit drawings of minors. However, they've also extended this to apply to any anime character that was ever depicted as a child at some point, so, since Son Goku was a child in Dragonball, they won't allow naked images of his adult self portrayed in Z. It's a poor way to try to explain and justify a blanket ban, which is where most of the anger is coming from.
Sailor Moon fandom is froth raging, as well as other fandoms. Naturally, this has spurred lots of thoughts on yaoi, including on child pornography, which is what I had wanked over extensively.
current mood: Bitter
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| Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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1:18 pm - Civility is so _Hard_
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Meet dj_rocca, the girl who Avatar: the Last Airbender fandom is driving out of the fandom with their horrid ways of talking to her. Well, according to her, they are. She has been here since forever, you guys, and it makes her so sad that people do this.
Unfortunately, I don't have caps of the post where I first noticed her. It was someone's attempt at doing an AtLA-fandomsecrets post, and it got gloriously wanky.
However. Just today, the mod of avatar_fans made a post asking for civility between people over differing opinions about the live-action movie and its casting/design decisions. Most people, including dj_rocca, agreed that this was a good thing. (It's a locked post, but it's a free-membership comm.)
dj_rocca then turned around and posted this to the comm. New trailer? Cool! Calling racebending 'damn bull'? Uh, didn't you say you wanted things to be civil?
My final comment on there did go through, but she deleted the post and it was gone when I refreshed it. So I had to go back and cap my posting.
This was then followed by this post, where she was a lot more whiny about how fandom was treating her and disagreeing with her before the mod told her she didn't need to be the civility police because that was the mod's job.
I am not sure if I am pleased or displeased to be labeled as "verbally beating" her for pointing out that she wasn't being civil. >_
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| Friday, January 1st, 2010
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1:07 pm - Aren't you ready for tax time yet?
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Has no one been bad for this long? Really?
Katsucon is allowing fiber and craft artists this year--but under conditions. For example, crafters can't sell fanworks and must be in the dealer's room.
People have questions. AA head/forum mod Tex doesn't have answers--but he dislikes our tones.
People try to make sense. I pop in and make the mistake of saying this:
I believe we potential KCC sellers have made our points very clear. Competition with the dealers, being split from the rest of the artists, shortened hours, and high prices all combine to make us very concerned craftspeople and/or small businesses. I am especially worried by how staff responses address our "tones" rather than our concerns. Please--a rough show can be crippling to a budding entrepreneur.
Oops--apparently there's a "no businesses" line in the Alley rules--and they weren't talking about "no resellers" when they put it there.
And oops--I'm not the only one who missed that part. This seems to be a terrible thing for Tex, who is concerned with our seller status because . . . it might oppress the n00b artists?
Or because we might ask tax questions that show he's misleading a whole alley full of people?
Sellers attempt to appeal to Tex's sense of reason. I add lots of links. Tex brings misquotes and conversation derailment. Shall the banhammer be next? Let's see!
ETA A blast from the past! Seems Katsu's micro-management style of rule creation (and Tex's subsequent ignoring of users' questions) made it to clairvoyant_wank about a month ago.
ETA 2--Denial isn't just a river in . . . Maryland? The comptroller got a hold of him Tex has been in touch with the Maryland comptroller, who has officially told him he's wrong has informed him that Katsu's fucked up hardcore by avoiding taxes for so long things have changed regarding taxation of sales in Maryland. This probably means he's fucked himself by not doing his homework is only a problem because of those stupid businesses, which aren't allowed in the Alley anyway. Also, he didn't mean everything he said earlier about sellers not owing taxes. Truefax.
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| Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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10:09 am - This is what happens when people expect far too much of canon.
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Over on fanficrants, stella_andrea has something to say. She posts a long rant about how Orion slave girls aren't actually slaves, citing Memory Alpha and the Enterprise series.
Unfortunately, not every one agrees (including me).
gehayi has this to say:
I remember seeing that recently in Memory Alpha.
It astonished me, because it in no way conforms to the Trek canon that I know--that of TOS. And YES, the Orion slave girls are called just that in TOS canon. There is no hint in the 79 original shows that they were ever anything else.
I have never seen any of the books Memory Alpha refers to. I don't know what they say in detail. I do, however, smell a retcon.
Other people make reasonable arguments about the size of canon, canon contradictions, and the (to be fair, debatable) suckiness of Enterprise.
stella_andrea responds with this ETA:
You know people? I give up. Really. I had no idea people disregarded canon at will. I thought that wasn't allowed because, you know, canon is canon! But whatever. I'll stick to my "official" canon and hope that maybe, someday, someone will decide to look at the official canon and use it in some new and interesting ways. That's all I wanted. Someone to write something canon and make it work. *sighs*
It's haaaard out here for an Enterprise fan, peeps.
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| Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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11:27 am - food porn doesn't asplode so much as growl a little.
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Sorry in advance to any vegetarians/vegans that read this; you might get offended.
Our story unfolds in a quaint, darling little community on Livejournal known as Food Porn. Normally a quiet space for people who like to share the details on the meals that make their mouths water, it's had its fair share of wank before. The links don't even cover half of it.
Recently, Food Porn was graced by the presence of a community favorite, joelbrown, a culinary student currently being culinarified in Paris. Even if the subject matter he's waxing poetic about isn't your thing, his posts are entertaining.
OR ARE THEY.
His latest post goes to great lengths to describe his love for foie gras, which is the term for the enlarged liver of a goose that's been forcefed a specific diet.
Being what it is, foie gras is a point of contention in the culinary world. The comments are largely polite, except for ihatemostthings' first comment, which doesn't actually score too high on the scale of wankiness. The problems begin when usekh tells her to behave herself.
Foie gras is Satan, and anybody who doesn't like it is worthy of pity, and morally bankrupt. That's where I get pissed, grab a DELICIOUS STEAK stick, and start poking ihatemostthings.
(Brief warning: Someone posted a picture of a goose getting forcefed. If you're going to get squicked, just read the summary.) lady_erin counters with Earth logic. ihatemostthings sticks her fingers in her ears and chants "IF YOU LIKE WHAT I DON'T LIKE, YOU HAVE NO MORALS." The wank peters out after that.
ETA: She's at it again in a new post!
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| Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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9:34 am - SPN wank makes us all losers
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And this is a Fandom_Secrets wank, which makes it even more pathetic. I don't always read the secrets, probably for this reason, but the times I do I usually notice at least two secrets about the crazy that is SPN fandom, and see lots of defensiveness over it. The new format for comments (one thread for each secret) makes it even more obvious.
For some reason, I felt it necessary to involve myself. I would give more links and a detailed commentary, but I think it speaks for itself, plus oh god I can't bear looking at it again. I think I was trying to say that it wasn't worth dogpiling over, but who can even tell what my huge blocks of text are about.
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| Saturday, April 4th, 2009
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3:49 pm - Nothing says good times like wank
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| Friday, April 3rd, 2009
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2:44 pm - Continuity errors is srs bsns
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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3:30 pm - XHTML Butthurt!
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Sometimes, people wank over the stupidest things.
Enter acpizza at LJ's permmembers community. S/h/it demands to know why LJ insists on closing its line break tags when creating posts using the rich text editor, saying that this particular behavior has ruined the web client FOREVER! Admittedly, rich text editing has been the bane of support folk for a while, and it doesn't generate the best code in the world, but this is probably one of the silliest things to complain about.
Now, most people point out that this is standard for XHTML (including myself). darkcryst leaves what I think is the best comment. Thinking that simple facts would suffice to explain this particular behavior, I abandoned this post, thinking that the wank was done. The community mod in charge of allowing this post even admits that he/she did it for the lulz.
However, the person is still not satisfied. Since s/h/it gives some pretty choice replies, I'll just give you excerpts from the replies.
It may have been someone's standard for "years", but the HTML standard has been around even longer than anything XML, so.. fuck XML and the horse it rode in on. Besides, the great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
It is properly configured, the problem is fucking LiveJournal now has the RT editor as the default, so if you use the system anywhere other than home, it changes to shit mode.
Just use TABLE tags if you want to do a quote, the way God intended. (As an aside here, there is the blockquote tag, which is defined in the current XHTML standard, I believe. I know most of y'all know that already, but for the two of you who don't, well, now you do.)
What you're talking about is a piss-poor replacement for real HTML.
Backwards compatibility, freedom, and convenience mean that this so-called "requirement" will never be enforced.
And lastly, as a response to a request to stop trolling: But.. engineering homework gets too damned tedious without a refreshing break.
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| Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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7:27 pm - Ferris Bueller's Day Off is SERIOUS BUSINESS
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Very small, but it's been growing for a few days.
Okay, so a post is made in stupid_free, about a girl who lost a library book and decided she didn't need to pay her fine. But that's not what this is about.
Everything starts out when i_found_jesu posts a macro from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Not recognizing the source, only the face, I comment, asking if that's Matthew Broderick. i_found_jesu replies, "BUELLER...BUELLER...", which leads me to remark that both Ferris Bueller and Matthew Broderick make me want to punch them in the face.
We get in your general "no! how can you not like Ferris!"-type posts, and I explain that Ferris rubs me the wrong way and I consider him a douchebag.
And then, in from left field comes mazzie, wielding the Great Question: "are you 12?"
A dialogue ensues, in which I explain my reasoning for not liking Ferris Bueller and realizing that, oh hay, maybe my dislike of Matthew Broderick stems from my dislike of Ferris! This ends with mazzie going "hence my wondering about your age."
I... am not following, here, but okay!
The next morning, completely out of right field, comes grlathena! She has this to say: "bb, you missed the point of that movie several times over.
Also, "what does my age have to do with it" is probably the second weakest argument on the intertubes, in case you were wondering"
Another dialogue ensues, in which I am accused of reading comprehension fail and I counter with, "And here I thought this was stupid_free, not differing_opinions_on_movies_free."
After some further dialogue, I give up, realizing that there's probably a reason why people like mazzie and grlathena are fans of douchebags like Ferris Bueller.
But it isn't over yet!
lovediamond moves in, pointing out that grlathena is basically acting like a condescending twat. Grlathena continues with her "bb"s and her passive-aggressive "oh i am lolling so hard at you," while lovediamond tries to point out the hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, sawaboof, who, in the interest of full disclosure, is an RL friend of mine from several years back, arrives to comment "And I guess that would make the weakest argument: "are you 12?". Grlathena is not going to let this slide! She has to prove how amusing she finds all those of us who are getting riled up over this!
And all this over a single opinion: "Ferris Bueller is a douchebag."
What. The. Fuck.
current mood: Amazed
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| Monday, January 26th, 2009
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11:23 pm - WoW Wank in the Making?
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pocketfox
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Some background info first:
The meta-achievement in question is related to Brewfest, WoW's version of Oktoberfest. One of the achievements involved to get the meta requires you to have joined the "Brew of the Month Club" (something you could only do DURING Brewfest) and to sample their monthly brews for a year. Now, the Achievements system didn't come out until after Brewfest ended, thus leading many players to believe that requiring "Brew of the Year" to get the Brewfest meta-achievement is unfair, and threads have started in the Suggestions forum asking that it be removed.
Rather than sounding like I'm trying to justfy myself (since I'm in the thick of it, posting as "Alyrr"), I'll just point you guys to the thread and let you have your fun.
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| Sunday, January 11th, 2009
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2:50 pm - Nuuuuu! His Shtick!
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darth_ember
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So, over on BRPS on LJ, a poster decides that a particular post style belongs to one person and one person alone. The mighty gay_bear has a shtick, you see. A manner of using a persona that obviously nobody else has ever done. safe_sock decides to speak in defence of his hero.
Why? Because of the first sentence of this post. Because obviously this person is not a ninja, and therefore must be using a persona, which is OMGSTEEEEEELING.
At the time of posting this, this person still hasn't bothered to comment over in that post. No, he decided to make his own post, to tell us all what we must not do.
STOPPIT. I MEAN IT.
He is, predictably mocked, and responds with vast amounts of splooge to the mockery. Obviously, anybody mocking him must be taking it personally and he has upset them(*gloatgloat*). Don't miss the posting the same comment in response to multiple other comments.
Posted over here instead of otf_wank because I A) deemed his mockery by BRPS members utterly, utterly deserved, and B) joined in, well before it occurred to me that it might be a wanky enough post to cart it over here for other people to laugh at.
Darth Ember is involved. Darth Ember is Lady Rilwen. Lady Rilwen is apparently ripping off gay_bear's shtick right now. Lady Rilwen would like to note that gay_bear has not commented as yet, and is apparently not involved except as the reason for safe_sock's CAPSLOCK OF RAAAAAGE.
current mood: Flippant
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