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Critical Cricket ([info]criticalcricket) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-08-06 20:53:00


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Current mood:Spiffy

The Little Cinder Girl Meets The Bookyoucrew
Here's a tale of literary wank. 'Tis small, but wanky and bite sized and tasty with mustard.

Once upon a time, Cinderjewel joined a community called thebookyoucrew. Bookyoucrew is a community that rates "your literary taste and knowledge (or lack thereof)." When you join, you must post a list of your top 20 books and then, they rate you.

So, Cinderjewel posts her list. It includes books written by Anne Rice, Laura Ingalls Wilder, J.K. Rowling and Alexander Dumas. The Bookyoucrew doesn't take kindly to the little cinder girl and give comments such as "this one is called "gag me with a spoon"
and "This list isn't worth voting on."

As per community rules, the poster is not actually allowed to comment until they've been accepted into the community. Unable to lie idly by, Cinderjewel fires back in her lj, not once, not twice, but thrice.

Will anyone live happily ever after here?

Edit: In her latest post, Cinderjewel writes "I'm ever so grateful no reported that whole epidone to FW. I would have been mortified, althought at the sime time, seriously amused"
Think we should break it to her? ;)

Edit 2: After the wank hits the fan, the moderator feels the need to address the unwashed masses crew and warn off all the literary peons here.

Edit 3: [info]ladybirdsleeps would like to pick your brains. She wants to know what Wankers' top 20 books are. Go here to read all about it and add your own choices.




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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2004-08-07 12:55 am UTC (link)
Hahaha, I've heard some wanky stories about this girl before; I'm so not surprised.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-08-09 12:46 am UTC
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[info]khym_chanur
2004-08-07 01:03 am UTC (link)
A rating community for literary taste? Gah!

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-08-07 02:59 am UTC

[info]pokecheck
2004-08-07 01:15 am UTC (link)
This is why I love the internet. So people like that can have their own space to be...like that... while I can be elsewhere. And they CAN'T SEEEE MEEEEE!!!!

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[info]lurker32
2004-08-07 01:39 am UTC (link)
Oh my GOD the PRETENTIOUS.

Can't say I care much for her reading material either, but the community members? Get a room, people.

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[info]kijikun
2004-08-07 02:03 am UTC (link)
There are some good books on that list, and I must admit a liking of Star Wars and Little house books. Not that I'd submit a list with those on it to a comm like that.

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(no subject) - [info]squib, 2004-08-08 07:18 am UTC

[info]xero_sky
2004-08-07 02:04 am UTC (link)
also, now you're really pissing me off with this list. plus the entirely unwarranted indignation in your own jouranl.

So the idea here is that she applies, they mock her, and she's not allowed to say anything *anywhere*? *sporfles*

OMG! She's (semi-coherently) pissed off in her own journal! Teh horror!

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[info]cleolinda
2004-08-07 02:15 am UTC (link)
God. If there's a ratings community that doesn't devolve into totally unwarranted cooler-than-thou, I don't know what it is. That said, I understand the temptation to submit--you just kind of want to know if you would make it.

(I'm really tempted to try this one now, even though--I know, I know.)

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[info]altoidsaddict
2004-08-07 02:49 am UTC (link)
I just applied to the BYC and found that they were intelligent and very well-read. Of course, I expected that if they didn't like my taste, they would insult me; when the equivalent music community, fuckyoucrew, did the same, I didn't whine about it. Because they're gonna insult someone who uses up 25% of her top 20 books on Laura Ingalls Wilder. She has deleted the comment I made in her journal - which was, actually, constructive criticism and not insulting. She just has major problems being criticized in any way, shape, or form, and I find it amusing that she's spent four posts in her journal talking about how NOT offended she is.

Already I've found my tastes and a bit of a genre rut challenged, and found several excellent recommendations. The collective brain in there is very well-read and challenging, and I didn't find it pretentious at all. The points on which they've differed, I haven't felt insulted; much of enduring literature is subjective. Unless it's the colloquial use of the word "pretentious," which has come to mean "people who are smarter than me and thus somehow offensive." If they were pretentious, they'd ask for "top five Derrida-inspired works of free verse poetry by a Canadian author with one leg." (I will grant that the knee-jerk reaction to LIW seems a bit much, but that's probably just because it was 25% of the list.) They're looking for people open to variety.

I don't expect to get in; that wasn't why I applied. I was hoping to get out of it exactly what I've already gotten: a little literary challenge.

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Huh. - [info]littlebitca, 2004-08-07 06:20 am UTC
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But thats just it. . - jessicareeves, 2004-08-07 09:06 am UTC
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*worships* - [info]naienko, 2004-08-07 04:12 am UTC
Re: *worships* - [info]biichan, 2004-08-07 08:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]biichan, 2004-08-07 08:21 am UTC
OT icon love - [info]gaisce, 2004-08-07 08:50 am UTC
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Wow, you're a real saint of a person yourself. - [info]altoidsaddict, 2004-08-07 07:41 pm UTC
Re: Wow, you're a real saint of a person yourself. - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2004-08-07 07:59 pm UTC
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[info]mirabellawotr
2004-08-07 03:07 am UTC (link)
But, Goddammit, the people in this group are some of the most intelligent and well-read people you'll ever have the pleasure to meet; people who flat-out love literature.

People who, nonetheless, cannot spell the word prerogative, and appear to be utterly defeated by the mysteries of the space bar.

*slow clap*

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(no subject) - [info]criticalcricket, 2004-08-07 03:14 am UTC

[info]moonjaguar
2004-08-07 03:17 am UTC (link)
Of course rebutting isn't allowed by the applicant until s/he's accepted! The BYC must tear them to bits first so the applicant can't say anything back. While it appears that cinderwhatsis can't fight her way out of a wet paper bag with an AK-47, still I'd think they'd let her come in and defend herself. I mean