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Monday, November 12th, 2007
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9:08 pm - Make me stop...please
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| Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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8:24 pm - Everyone's a Little Bit Racist
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kylenne
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*Rod Serling Voice*
Witness the General Discussion board on Democratic Underground, a liberal message board I frequent often. GD wanks like nobody's business; I've wanked it before on ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) political_wank, but this wank I dove headfirst into, thus it's here.
Someone posts an article on Dog Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, being caught on tape using racial epithets about his son's black girlfriend. People express outrage, and generally cheer A&E's decision to suspend production of Chapman's show.
Except one Sukie1941, who thinks everyone's being a big ol' meanie head because hey, who hasn't called someone a N*****?
( LOL. )
current mood: OMGWTF
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| Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
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6:31 pm - I promise this is the last Maple Story wank I'll ever post.
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gusty
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... maybe.
So this is going in i_wank because I had to put my two cents in. The stupid was just too intense.
In the MMO Maple Story, there are lots of pop culture references. Little nods to anime/TV/movies/books/etc. that geeks tend to get a big kick out of. Sometimes these references are found in character's names, sometimes in the accessories you can dress your pixel person in, sometimes in quotes said by NPCs, and so on and so forth. Common sense would dictate these are harmless parodies of the 'nudge nudge wink wink' variety...
Zap feels differently. Clearly Nexon is 'ripping off' things and must be stopped! Others chime in to help him/her/it compile a list of what the sneaky sneaky company is trying to steal! Voices of reason are mostly ignored.
It all hurt me very much to read. Now it can hurt you too.
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| Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
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3:02 pm - From Kotaku: Fall Out Boy playing Halo3 on October 12th.
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| Saturday, October 6th, 2007
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12:15 pm - Forgive me, mockers...
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la_beste
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... for I have gravely sinned. It all starts off when Harpsi Fizz pops up in one of ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) peachespig’s posts and everyone starts to get a bit riled up, with the usual pattern of “JKR sucks” – “Oh no you didn’t” – “I can’t understand why you won’t accept my valid criticism” – “ STFU” – “Have at it, cult-heads!” But things get really ugly when one of Harpsi Fizz’s pals from anti_hg, Sexehsmirk, shows up to defend her. I reply. She replies. We both wank like fiends and manage to bring the venom to a dizzying pinnacle in an already hostile environment.
As for me, I'm left feeling very sheepish at having flooded peachespig's inbox with crap and quite embarrassed to have posted a picture of porcupines having sex in his journal. And for that, I will fully accept a good flogging.
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| Thursday, September 27th, 2007
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11:15 am - Even I can't believe myself
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esclaramonde
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(I'll come back and add more links after class, sorry.)
There have been several essays on hp_essays lately that were about How JKR Ruined DH. I was sassy in the comments, which led to many getting frozen in the latest one.
Then the mods made a post about the guidelines, and I (chocolatepot) proceeded to wank alllll over the place. I was replying to every comment. I threw a tantrum and went crazy.
Bonus: I promised inthread never to come back, so you have a flounce - and there's no telling whether I'll hold true to that.
ETA: back!
( The whole sordid story )
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| Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
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12:38 pm - I care enough to copy them but GOSH, you're a loser for pointing it out!
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vzg
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Relatively small, but big for the fandom.
Several days ago — the fifteenth, to be exact — LJ user tifsuz found a copycat amongst us in Scrubs fandom (specifically, in the JD/Cox section of it). It seems that the Fanfiction.net author "Xce-ntrix," who had a whole slew of stories (all rated M and containing sex scenes, all JD/Cox), was actually copying the stories from other fandoms. (You'll notice, if you click, that she is no longer Xce-ntrix. We'll get to that in a moment.) tifsuz, being a good Fandom Citizen, put an alert out on three LiveJournal communities: jd_cox, scrubs_slash, and scrubsfic.
The first one found was actually an original slash story called Pay Close Attention on AdultFanfiction.net. She called it XceAnything Butt. (At the time, every single one of her titles began with "Xce".) All she did was do a find-and-replace with the character names and shuffle around some lines, maybe adding one or two of her own in. The story was quickly removed from the copy-author's page, but everything else remained up.
And already, I come into the picture (as gixi; it's my writing journal). I started running lines from the other stories through Google. Some of them came up with results, and I notified the original authors. One of the ones I found was a CSI het story found right there on Fanfiction.net; the other was an off-site Firefly het story. Yes, she took the het, too. I guess it's not so surprising that Xce-ntrix's stories started getting a lot of angry reviews. Some were from the original authors, some were from their friends, and some were from Scrubs fandom. Then a fourth original story was found: this one was original slash, too.
Then Xce-ntrix found the scrubs_slash post, changed her name to sexihardworker, removed all but six of the stories, and came to whine at us. A lot.
( oh no, i've been caught.. ugh. )
Of course, she's anonymous; we can't be one hundred percent sure it's her. It always could just be a troll.
Either way, I'll admit that we didn't handle it as well as we could have and maybe I took it a little too personally (or a lot). Also, a macro! ETA: Oh, and also, there is some... overreaction.
It sat for a few days. sexihardworker's name changed to pain that i'm used to, private666, and Tequila-Gurl. Her age jumped from eighteen to forty-eight and back to eighteen. Her location skipped around a bit, too, going from London to Iraq. Two more stories were taken down. I pretty much figured she was done and that I wouldn't be succumbing to my inner wanker any more, but she reappeared today to call us names and laugh at us because apparently she's very funny. And she's in all three community posts this time. We're all illiterate idiots for our typos and mistakes and we don't know anything about English. She even pointed out that people who haven't seen the masterpiece Little Nicky are sad and tifsuz is a know-it-all and a Smart Allic without a life.
...God, someone stop me before I reply to her again. :[ I hate it when my inner wanker gets out.
And, uh, sorry for the tl;dr. I have trouble saying things concisely.
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| Monday, September 17th, 2007
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7:07 pm - Botsecks is serious business, guys!
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| Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
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7:20 pm - *sigh* Here to report my shame...
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| Monday, August 27th, 2007
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8:28 pm - I don't know what I was thinking
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ringbark
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I don't see anything notable (in real life) about CC, but apparently some people do and some people don't. When I went over to look at the discussions in Wikipedia about the possible bahleetion of her articles, I was surprised that there wasn't anything there, so I voted for deletion. See the AfD page for all of this.
Apparently if I'm a wanka, this means I'm ineligible to vote at Wikipedia, and could even be banned! ZOMG!!!!!1 This came as news to me. I thought most of the votes in AfD came from lobbying one way or the other.
So says VivianDarkbloom, who may be a sockpuppet, as he/she/it/whatever has not put anything in Wikipedia between 31 October 2006 and 26 August 2007. No, I'll upgrade that to "self confessed sock puppet", as VD admits to being just such a sockpuppet at VD's userpage.
Anyhow, soon after this, Edison weighs in to say that CC is indeed a NYT bestseller. If this is true, then I will change my vote to "keep" rather than "delete". Unfortunately, the current NYT bestseller list has never heard of Cassie, at least not in Hardcover Fiction or Paperback Fiction, so I asked Edison about this at Edison's talk page - I was pointed to this page where the book "City Bones" features at #8 in Children's Chapter Books on 22 April 2007. To my mind, that's not notable - only Hardcover or Paperback makes an author notable on first appearance.
And I never thought I'd be confessing at i_wank.
ETA: Mother always told me if I couldn't say anything nice, not to say anything at all. However, VivianDarkbloom's mother didn't offer this advice, so VD has been banned from Wikipedia for 48 hours for violating the "No Personal Attacks" and "Civility" rules. Of course, as VD is a sockpuppet account anyway, the impact will probably be minimal...
As Tony Fox said, "(Do note that VivianDarkbloom has been blocked for 48 hours for violations of WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL; also note that claims about Ringbark may be offset by his three-year participation history here.)" - good! so maybe I'm not just a wanka troll after all.
current mood: shocked
current music: Boomtown Rats
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| Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
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7:04 pm - I should've asked someone to cut off my hands yesterday.
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_ladyshalott_
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A few days ago the lovely reebear drew my attention to a wanky article by Dominick, a man with Important Opinions To Share on the subject of Harry Potter porn. Cue eyerolling.
In fairly short order, Dominick showed up on reebear's post. He caught me with my pants down, it seems. What can I say? I let him provoke me. I'm going to go wash off all this spooge now. Enjoy.
(For the record I'm in the comments on the wank report too. No way to prove it, but reebear pointed me to the article first.)
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| Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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2:02 pm - I knew I shouldn't have joined booju_newju...
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marciamarcia
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First day on the ol' friends page, no less. And look what I go and do.
It starts with ladyartemisa bitching about all those damn kids on her lawn...i.e. asking that eternal question: "Why is it that the younger generation is so much suckier than mine?"
Thus prompted, Booju attempts to figure this one out.
First up, ms_mindfuck, who is pretty sure this is only a problem for white collar jobs, as everybody knows that waitresses and retail workers are never entitlement bitches.
I react, um, poorly, to that.
Other highlights include:
ladyartemisa's recollections of walking uphill both ways in the snow to make her first employers like her...And she enjoyed it, dammit!
and
bluebonnets81 blaming anyone who was raised middle to upper-middle class and, further down the thread (with assistance from ladyartemisa), anyone with a college education.
So, in conclusion, we've learned today that young people suck and working class people are definitely nicer and totally better parents than anyone with money.*
*Note, I say this as someone who grew up working class, has seen both ends of the spectrum, and judged them to contain a pretty equal number of assholes and bad parents.
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| Sunday, June 24th, 2007
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5:44 pm - I didn't even know!
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| Friday, June 8th, 2007
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9:35 pm - Grey's Anatomy wank... At first...
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freezer
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Over at  randomthought, smokedglass7429 posts regarding his glee that serial asshat Isaiah Washington got dropped from Grey's Anatomy.
Unfortunately, he chose to express that glee thusly:
( Y U DO DIS? )
Stunningly, some members (including myself) don't take kindly to that language, and say so.
smokedglass7429 defends himself with three of the classic Wanker Defense stratagems:
I can say that: I'm a [Insert Minority Group Here]!"
and...
It was just a joke!
AND...
Why am I getting crap about this when UserX says worse stuff?
With a side of You can't tell me jack - I've been here longer than you!
If that's all that had happened, I would've let things lie there and not bothered with this.
But apparently smokedglass7429 was more butthurt (so to speak) than he let on, so he follows up with a now deleted post where he basically fills a page with "N****R!" (minus the *s).
And then this...
( Really, I don't care what you guys think. Really. )
FTR, if it turns out that smokedglass7429 actually is a mod/maintainer of that comm, I'm gone.
And then a repeat of the earlier masterpiece.
All in all, quite the impressive "Why can't I say offensive things?!?" hissy-fit.
ETA: myfactsareright (the "UserX" smokedglass7429 was whining about) posts in response to smokedglass7429's "N*****" post with equal maturity.
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| Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
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8:46 am - Friends don't let friends blog pissed off...
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sidewinder
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...especially if said "friend" is a verbose rockstar in need of a better internal editor. Or something like that.
(In i_wank because my alter-ego has been all involved and headdesking in this for days now.)
This little tale of music-fandom woe begins immediately following the May 30th Police concert in Vancouver. Only the third show of the tour (well, technically SECOND if you don't count the fanclub warmup), and things didn't quite go so smoothly. At least not according to drummer Stewart Copeland, who logs into his messageboard the following morning with a hilarious report on Our first disaster gig! He's not so much angry as amused, and perhaps a bit apologetic to those who were in attendance.
( Stew's entire post...just for clarity and because the messageboard may go boom from overloaded traffic )
Everyone offers cuddles and commiseration in the comments, and all seems fine in the world of Copelandia until someone notices that Reuters/Yahoo news has picked up the "story"--complete with headline Police drummer rips band's "lame" concert and for a while it's even the top story on yahoo news uk.
Ooops.
Next thing you know, the damned story is everywhere. Reporters seem particularly fond of the "Petulant Pansy" remark in regards to Sting's failed leaping about, but also decide to start making up remarks like "we're shit" or claims that Copeland predicted more problems as the tour continues that weren't even in the blog to begin with.
Suddenly, even folks who were at the concert and had a good time start writing letters to the newspaper demanding a free concert to make up for the "lame gig"--which of course they only realized was so lame after Stewart called it as much.
"Stewart, if it is so important for you to let us know how crappy your performance was against your high standards, I look forward to the band's return, once you've gotten your act together.
I'll keep an eye out on my post box for that new set of tickets for a good show, so I can feel like I got something close to my $500 worth."
Fans wank and whine some more, and of course there's the obligatory leave if you don't like it! post against anyone who dares agree with any criticism of the band and that night's performance.
Meanwhile, HARP magazine decides not to pick on Stewart so much as to point and laugh at us fans on the messageboard who are cheesed off about the whole thing and worried how this could affect Stew's interaction on the board in the future...
"Incidentally, following Copeland’s post, a number of media outlets picked up the story and published some of the drummer’s comments, which in turn let to a public outpouring of hand-wringing among Police fans who frequent his forum. The prevailing sentiment was that said media outlets—which, now, presumably, includes HARP—shouldn’t have printed comments that were not uttered in public or for the public record. (Several people also expressed concern that in the future Copeland wouldn’t be quite so verbose; fat chance there, not with his track record.) Memo to planet: Internet postings you make to a public forum are on the public record. Friends don’t let friends hit the “send” button... etcetera."
No one's sure exactly if it was just an honest misguided posting that blew up out of proportion (generating so much traffic to the site it's going down for upgrades and maintenance soon), or a cleverly planned publicity stunt geared to stir up interest and boost ticket sales. In either event, we can rest assured that the band at least has hugged and made up. If you can believe anything in the press, that is...
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| Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
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1:40 pm - HP wank. Hmmmm.
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yosei
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I hate DomRemus.
Can of worms, etc.
Though really, I think think both sides are handling it quite well. No "get out of fandom", "ur dumb", "my ____ is better than your ____"s, or anything!
But I am sure that when I'm gone from the 'net for the next few hours, it will only get worse. 50+ comments so far, and counting!
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| Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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12:30 am - Sigh.
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tiye
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This is little, but mildly wanky. Over at cat_macros, there has been a recent movement by a few members of the community to take back the fine art of lolcat building, with its rich and storied heritage, from the "fat housewives" who have recently flooded the cat_macros community. So they troll hapless n00bs, adding tags like "massive pool of fail" to posts that they consider less than worthy.
Now, I'm happy to admit that many of the macros posted in that community are pretty lame, but I'm boggled that anyone would turn the integrity of cat macroing into a personal crusade. So, in a moment of poor judgment, probably induced by grad-school related insanity, I posted a sarcastic macro. I don't think people quite got it. Also, aphiddavid is a special kind of special, and I hope to god he'll never try to jump to my defense again.
current mood: Catty
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| Saturday, May 19th, 2007
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12:33 am - Another rare PSO-World mini-wank
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| Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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5:06 pm
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queencallipygos
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It's small, but I make an appearance, so I'm bringing it in here rather than Clairvoyant Wank.
Over on the Dark Christian LJ community, people are discussing the death of Jerry Falwell, and in particular the fact that Fred Phelps and co. are going to picket his funeral.
And then in comes sidepocket_pro, who doesn't comment, but instead posts a cartoon of Jerry Falwell in hell being sodomized by Tinky Winky. (It has since been removed by the mod.)
A couple of us respond (NB: the community isn’t anti-Christian, but rather anti-mixing-church-and-politics, so there are Christians in the community; and, the warning to not get too “gloaty” over Falwell’s death has been issued a couple times in there).
Sidepocket_pro’s response is to snark at us to ”grow a humor bone”.
That’s when the mod steps in with a gentle smackdown.
And that’s when Sidepocket_pro goes a little nuts and posts five separate responses, finishing off with an ”I’m leaving you people” swan song. Which I trust no further than I can throw.
I couldn’t resist a little dig at his parting shot, though…which prompted the mod to ask how we should score his flounce. Heh.
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| Friday, May 11th, 2007
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12:20 pm - But rly, I'm just jellus.
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