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Laughing Happy Fish Heads ([info]chaobell) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-05-04 20:47:00


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w00twank
I was being goaded into reporting this to F_W, but Jesus, I can't think of the /usr/bin/w00t community as a fandom. Maybe this technically belongs in i_wank; I'll happily move it if requested. Anyway...

The Otakukin community wank from yesterday made me laugh so hard I decided to do a strip featuring an Otakukin.

One thing I love about the w00t community: as webcomic LJ communities go, I think it's safe to say mine is one of the quietest, calmest, and sanest out there. There've been a couple of twits, but mostly limited to the "OMG FIRST POST" variety.

True to form, the discussion stayed intelligent almost all the way through. The first commenter pointed out the Otakin community. A couple of people responded along the lines of "jesus god these people are nuts" and left it at that. I step in to ask them not to go trolling, just in case. Which they couldn't even if they wanted to as the community has locked its comments down, apparently, but never mind that. The discussion is calm. Life is good.

And then:

agh. Otakin/otakukin! The bane of every otherkin's existance.



A brief but verbose Jihad breaks out, including a Godwin aberration: Nazis are mentioned, but the shit just keeps on flyin'. Also, an Anonymous Coward declares Otherkin "fucking nutters" en masse, but is only nibbled on in return.

...and later, some intellectual pud-pulling about circles of creation and reality prime and what!? This one peters out pretty quick, even with obvious baiting from another Anonymous Coward (or possibly the same one, hard to say).

So. Small wank. Mostly benign. But then...

...then Otakin's own yunie_braska chimes in, in response to this comment. Sadly, she chickened out and deleted the comment shortly thereafter, but not before the system sent the notification e-mail to everyone above her in the comment food chain, including me!

"Way to go for being #1 ASSHOLE OF THE DAY Mad props :thumbs up
sarcasticly:

1) We are NOT racist 2) Just because your the winey fucktard christian
who decided to write this fucking stupid ASSUMING SHIT doesnt mean you
know ANYTHING About us. 3) STOP ASSUMING THAT WE RUN OUT TO BLOCKBUSTER
JUST TO RENT ANOTHER JAPANESE ANIMATION TITLE..JUST CAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT
WE ARE WHO WE ARE...JUST LIKE GOD...HE IS UNPROVABLE...NOTHINGS
PROVABLE

Yeah..have a nice cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP And find a life
fucktard...Cause I SURE DONT GIVE A FUCKING SHIT ABOUT YOU.

Yeah...I also hope that Karma fucks you up nicely :) Have a nice day."

She's awful uppity for not giving a shit, wouldn't you say? Ironically, the person she ejaculated this at is an atheist. Thank you, drive through, get the fuck out of my community.

Small, but entertaining.

[ETA: Not part of this wank, but an amusing aside: I DUN KNOW WHUT OTAKIN IS LOL says yunie_braska.]


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(Anonymous)
2004-05-05 03:51 am UTC (link)
As the 'winey fucktard christian' who's 'assuming' 'About' the Otakukin, I'd like to point that not only am I an atheist, she seems to have come to that conclusion by reading the post in my journal where I mentioned possibly going to church.

Because, of course, everyone who attends christian services is a Christian. Yep.

I fully admit to wanking joyously in this one. Let the splooge flow! FLOW, my little Burgess Shale refugees!

--sjdr

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[info]shoiryu
2004-05-05 03:51 am UTC (link)
And thus, why I avoid nearly every other fucking otherkin in existence. Because people associate it with those Otakin/Otakukin dipshits. No. Thank you.

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[info]smo
2004-05-05 04:09 am UTC (link)
*hugs your dragony self*

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[info]shoiryu
2004-05-05 04:14 am UTC (link)
*flutters wings all cutesy-like* *Then sledgehammers self IN THE FACE*

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-05-05 04:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rann, 2004-05-05 11:38 pm UTC

[info]coyotegirl
2004-05-05 05:20 am UTC (link)
... plus which, much like being furry, the reputation precedes. *makes a sympathetically pained face*

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-07 01:11 am UTC

edward_hyde
2004-05-05 05:39 am UTC (link)
I totally hear you. I think in the last few years I've met all of, like, TWO Other/Otakukin who weren't dangerously unbalanced in one way or another.

There are thousands of people running around screaming about the Sabers of the Christ and/or being shiny elven princesses of Fjsidfis'lia with SUPER SEKRIT MAGICAL POWERS AND A DESTINY TO SAVE THE EARTH OMG LOVE THEM NOW...Where does all the crazy come from? Seriously? After a certain point, it stops being any kind of spirituality, any kind of path to better understand yourself, and just becomes totally effin' nuts.

I myself have pretty good reason to believe that I'm an Otherkin of some sort. Furthermore, I can accept the *idea* of Otakukin, based on the theory that maybe some 'kin out there had some nifty tidbits filter through from a past life, and made it into a book/movie/anime/whatever. That I can deal with.

But the Jedi Jesus is just way too much.

(Sorry for any incoherency. Way too late at night for me to be up, and all that.)

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(no subject) - [info]shoiryu, 2004-05-05 05:54 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]shoiryu, 2004-05-05 03:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-05 07:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]shoiryu, 2004-05-05 07:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-05 08:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - edward_hyde, 2004-05-05 06:18 am UTC
(no subject) - edward_hyde, 2004-05-05 06:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]terminal_frost, 2004-05-05 07:42 am UTC

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(no subject) - [info]coyotegirl, 2004-05-05 06:33 am UTC
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[info]sagralisse
2004-05-05 04:07 am UTC (link)
I can't understand the Otawhatever wank! *cries*

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[info]blackjackrocket
2004-05-05 09:25 am UTC (link)
Well, I couldn't understand a thing about Crystalwank (I'd run into similar situations before, so I didn't know what made that one a legend), so I suppose we're on even footing.

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(no subject) - [info]sagralisse, 2004-05-05 01:21 pm UTC

[info]khym_chanur
2004-05-05 04:11 am UTC (link)
Otakukins make the Baby Jesus's brain jurt.

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[info]rann
2004-05-05 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Nah, that's just lingering omniscience from poppa... he's not only seeing/experiencing his own crucifixion, he's at one with everyone in the universe who's having, had, or ever will have a migraine.

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[info]smo
2004-05-05 04:11 am UTC (link)
STOP ASSUMING THAT WE RUN OUT TO BLOCKBUSTER JUST TO RENT ANOTHER JAPANESE ANIMATION TITLE.

Since when did Blockbuster have a decent anime section? And believe me, I've looked.

WE ARE WHO WE ARE...JUST LIKE GOD...HE IS UNPROVABLE...NOTHINGS
PROVABLE


Um... WHAT????

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[info]blackjackrocket
2004-05-05 04:24 am UTC (link)
I don't know about Blockbuster, but I used to work at Hollywood and we had a nice selection.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-05-05 04:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]blackjackrocket, 2004-05-05 04:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-05-05 04:34 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-05-05 04:28 am UTC (link)
WE ARE WHO WE ARE...JUST LIKE GOD...HE IS UNPROVABLE...NOTHINGS
PROVABLE


Except, you know, the laws of physics. But, of course, that only counts if you're one of those people who believes in nothing more than physical reality.

Stupid laws of physics.

Um... WHAT????

Translation: "Mmm, my head. It's where I'M lightsaber!Jesus!"

(Apologies for the ripoff.)

-- sjdr@lj.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-05-05 04:33 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-05-05 04:43 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-05-05 03:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-05 11:34 pm UTC
Re: - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-05-05 11:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]eiviiaru, 2004-05-05 03:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]aloysius, 2004-05-05 10:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-05-05 03:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]eiviiaru, 2004-05-05 03:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]aloysius, 2004-05-05 04:31 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-05-05 04:59 am UTC (link)
Oooh, lookie lookie! They insist we mock because we love, baby, we love! (http://www.livejournal.com/community/otakin/6774.html)

We're the mean girls. We tease you because we're jealous, and we need someone to look down on to feel better about ourselves. Ayup.

I solve this problem by looking down on myself and being incredibly critical of my own character flaws, although not nearly critical enough. This means that I get to look down on anyone who doesn't do this and writhe in tortured self-loathing. Mm, tortured self-loathing.

-- sjdr@lj, reincarnation of Saint Augustine, still not a Christian.

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[info]chaobell
2004-05-05 05:05 am UTC (link)
First of all, I want to state right now that your presence isn't entirely unwelcome. You're more than free to check out our community, do critical thinking of your own, and whatnot.

But if you disagree with me, I'LL TELL YOUR ISP ON YOOOOOU AND YOU'LL NEVER SEE YOUR INTARWEB AGAIN!!11!!1!

Gad.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-05 05:08 am UTC

[info]smo
2004-05-05 05:05 am UTC (link)
"Enrichened?" What a perfectly cromulent word!

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-05 05:09 am UTC

ataniell93
2004-05-05 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I caught that vibe in your discussion with me.

Note: I am mostly white, was raised by white people, and am an American. But if you're going to say that you're a 'Murkin honky' in a conversation with me (especially while going on about things 'we' don't have the right to do/think/feel, that I think I have the perfect right to do/think/feel), don't include me in your first person plural kthx, cause I'm not afflicted with your white liberal guilt.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-05-05 06:49 pm UTC

[info]vassilissa
2004-05-06 09:20 am UTC (link)
Mmm, St Augustine. :-)

SS Augustine/Alypius OTP.

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[info]psychofangirl
2004-05-05 05:59 am UTC (link)
My god...

And that's about all I can come up with.

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[info]squib
2004-05-05 06:20 am UTC (link)
I mean, you believe in stupid ego-inflating unprovable shit that lacks the better qualities of organized religion.

I absolutely worship this comment.

Throw in the whole Indigo Child/Crystal Child thing to the list of Stewpid Speshul Qualiteez and I'd worship it even more.

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[info]cpip
2004-05-05 01:50 pm UTC (link)
See, and here I thought that was just as bloody wanky as the rest of it...

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(no subject) - [info]squib, 2004-05-05 09:26 pm UTC
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(Anonymous)
2004-05-05 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Wow. Those didn't die out with the eighties?

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(no subject) - [info]squib, 2004-05-05 09:23 pm UTC
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[info]bitca
2004-05-05 04:54 pm UTC (link)
I love that strip! Al Bhed! Gates is a Yevonite!

Explains SOOO much. He is so Seymour in disguise. *nods*

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ataniell93
2004-05-05 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Well, I do agree with them that they aren't racist. I know people who claim to be reincarnated LOTR elves, Vulcans, and Harry Potter characters, some of whom have done so since 1979. I really don't think that 'exoticising the Japanese' has jack shit to do with the otakukin/otakin issue.

I think it's all about feeling like a dweeb and wanting to at least claim that they were someone grand and powerful (or a victim/martyr) someplace else. Where you can't check up on their facts.

I'm a Gnostic and a Thelemite. I think we were once all grand and powerful somewhwere else, but I don't think it looked like Crystal Tokyo, Valinor or ShiKahr, except possibly superficially. However, realising that we have greatness and power inside us, gnosis, doesn't do you a whole hell of a lot of good unless you're willing to put sincere effort into meditation and real research, and furthermore, you can't expect anyone in the real world to give you a cookie for it, especially if you describe your true nature in grandiose Harry Potterish pseudo-Latin and bad Japanese. Espeically since people who do have a touch of gnosis realise that EVERYBODY does...

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From LJ Funwithrage
(Anonymous)
2004-05-05 09:23 pm UTC (link)
Yeah. My problem with otakin/otherkin/the weirder variety of furry is this:


Sure. It's *theoretically possible* that you are the reincarnation of an animal or a mythical creature/fictional person who happened to be real in another universe. Doesn't make that much less sense than many other religions. I believe in reincarnation myself.


But I've got the same beef with these people that I do with the more mainstream flakes who insist they were Cleopatra/Morgan le Fey/Alexander the Great in a former life: you aren't any more. Either a) there is a plan behind all of this, and thus there's a reason you're living the life you do, and thus you should stop obsessing about your damn past lives and get on with this one, or b) it's all terribly random, anyone else is just as likely to have been a whatever-the-fuck previously as you are, and you should enjoy being a human *at all* (let alone a middle-class, fairly-decently-off one) because, just going by percentages, the odds for cockroachness are good next time 'round.


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Re: From LJ Funwithrage - [info]rann, 2004-05-05 11:49 pm UTC
Re: From LJ Funwithrage - [info]dizmo, 2004-05-06 04:58 pm UTC
Re: From LJ Funwithrage - [info]terminal_frost, 2004-05-07 03:31 am UTC
Re: From LJ Funwithrage - [info]necronomist, 2004-05-08 02:01 am UTC
Re: From LJ Funwithrage - (Anonymous), 2004-05-10 04:08 pm UTC


 
   
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