I always like it when I see behaviour reminiscent of idiotic fanfic brats in actual academic circles. Much love to the mice at lol_meme, who brought this to my attention.

brennakimi posts her SOP to the LJ community applyingtograd for feedback from other members. (If you're in the mood for something utterly banal or in any way reminiscent of Billy Madison's anecdote about "The Puppy That Lost It's Way", I suggest you read it and try and take a stab in the dark about what she intends to study.)

However, she does not get the praise and "ZOMG THAT WUS RLY GOOD RITE MOR!" feedback she had been expecting.

Anan_b: I don't like your usage of quotations. Shoot, I just don't like seeing quotations in papers. It makes me think that my students are too lazy to think about how to say what they want in their own words. When I was an undergrad, nearly every professor of mine adhered to that same position. Are these papers published? If so, just put them on your vita and don't worry about stating their names in the SOP. It puts a big ebb to the flow of your writing. Describe your interests rather than list the title of some papers you've written.

Windsweptvoid: Alright, I still have no idea what the point of that star story is... what does it mean? I don't understand how that embodies your goals... apparently it is signifcant to you but you're not telling anyone why... If you want to keep it, you'll really have to find a way to make its relevence obvious.

Bighark: If you want to present yourself as a poor writer, proceed. If you want to look like someone capable of graduate work, write a better SOP.

Naturally, she lets everyone know that all their ideas are kinda ghey, which sets off ANOTHER WANK in which sirgrunwald (who is actually brennakimi's boyf, trufax) informs us that people upset about using "gay" as an insult are idiots, because "political correctness is bullshit".

To complete it all in true entitled fanfic brat style, brennakimi informs us that she's not going to update her WIP, "Hermione Granger and the Summer Makeover" going to take her SOP and find people who are HELPFUL AND NICE AND NOT AT ALL MEAN.


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D:

But the ever-wonderful julian_black and bartle_by have screencaps for us. Bless their little cotton socks.

The main wank

sirgrunwald shares his thoughts on yaoi

Side-thread

From snarkivist, the main wank with a couple of threads open

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One of my LJ friends asked me to post this for her. So, copypasta'd from wank_report.

(Before we start, a brief summary and explanation: a "puck bunny" is a someone who is into hockey primarily for the purpose of sleeping with hockey players. Certain... totally understandable fangirl behaviours, i.e. lustful squeeing, when indulged outside of regions designated as safe havens for lustful squeeing, in mixed company, are likely to earn you a puck bunny label and the undying scorn of hockey fans who are on boards to discuss, you know, hockey. You are likely to be shunned even by female fans who might be amenable to joining you in the lustful squeeing under more auspicious circumstances, because the puck bunny taint [*cough*] is widely considered to be contagious.)

( On puck bunnies and the danger they represent. )

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Oh, customers_suck, you bastion of wank.

shadowsync posts a potentially wanky list of things to do when a telemarketer calls (how to get them to stop calling you the polite way, but phrased badly).

Of course, it's customers_suck. Are they going to let them live it down?

Not if they can help it!

Be sure to look out for tigerwolf's comment about his newly-purchased airhorn (second page), and susano_otter's comment about how telemarketing is equivalent to selling yourself (second linked thread, last comment).

And, of course, there's a condensed version of the stupid on stupid_free.

Telemarketing: only the strong survive.

ETA: Fixed to include link to original post.

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