Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
fandom_wank [ miss_padfoot ]	6:38p	Implosion in Simworld! Boy, oh boy. May I present to you one of the most epic wanks ever to befall the Sims 2 community - the revolution involving Insimenator.net. Thanks to simscribe (Devilfish) and simmiesworld for the writeups. I've just made a few minor tweaks. Be warned that this is a wank of epic proportions. It's hard to tell what happened when and who said what. I've given most attention to the facts that can be supported by screenshots. Hundreds of people were involved in this wank, everyone has their own opinions on it and events may or may not have occurred in the order described. ( Viva la Revolucion! ) Have fun! Current Mood: *thud* Current Music: my sister playing Mozart downstairs (3 Comments |Comment on this)
fandom_wank [ caito ]	9:34a	The Eclipse (Heroes Spoilers) Well, the wank presaged here has come to be. If you're a Heroes fan who hasn't seen the latest episode, tread carefully. ( Spoiler. ) (139 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
fandom_wank [ the_sun_is_up ]	10:02a	Mini-sized BSG wank Once upon a time, there was a BSG fan named starpollo who ran a Kara/Lee themed icon contest, karalee_ic. At some point she got burnt out on running the contest and announced that there would be no more rounds. Then some time between then and now, starpollo decided to go and delete the comm, a fact which was discovered by anastashial. Alarmed by the loss of all those K/L icons, anastashial sent a message to starpollo urging her to undelete the comm. However she also felt the need to announce this to the entire battlestar_blog community in a post that included a copypasta of her message to starpollo, a message I might add that smacks a little of fannish entitlement and self-importance. This goes over about as well as you'd expect. Small for the moment, but hopefully will grow. Edit: Good grief, the OP also posted the same post, complete with copypasta, to the sasa_hq comm. Somebody's awfully determined. Edit 2: And on beyond_insane as well. And that last link is likely to get especially wanky since starpollo herself has gotten involved. (102 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 28th, 2008
fandom_wank [ wtf ]	5:49p	"So long, suckers!" Zac, aka Anime News Network's Answerman, has announced his retirement in the form of an epic flounce. As a crusty old douchenozzle myself, I gotta say - I LOL'd. (157 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
fandom_wank [ gusty ]	9:46p	A little Thanksgiving-themed wank for those celebrating the holiday! And heck, I guess those who don't can enjoy it too. I'd like to think of myself as a fair gal. So Furaffinity, a website for furry-themed art, changed its top banner for the holiday. Rather than the usual theme for these sorts of things like some character chasing a turkey/a bunch of people sitting down to a meal/a disappointed dude watching the Lions lose game number 5 million, they decide to instead go a different route. Namely by having their two mascot characters laying on a couch looking morbidly obese. On the original artist's upload there are both positive and negative comments along with much proclaiming that their fetish is NOT OK. Within minutes there are many journals on the subject. Some displaying total disgust about the subject manner while others tell everyone to (pun intended) lighten up. In one journal the head of the site, Dragoneer, mocks the people who are complaining about the banner: "Thousands of angry furries who can not take a joke are lining up!" He also edits the news post announcing the banner change to have what is supposed to be a link to a forum post discussing the subject, but is instead our old friend the Rickroll. There IS an actual discussion thread in the forums however, with the title "New Banner is tastless and disgusting". The poster of this thread, Rilvor, wants to start a petition to have the banner removed. Rilvor: "I would like to start a petition to have it removed. That banner makes me physically ill every time I see it. I do not appreciate having such content in this fandom, which I make a point to avoid, thrust into my face." The thread so far contains five pages of arguing over whether the banner is disgusting or not and people reminding others that it's only going to be up for 24 hours. ETA: Thanksgiving is over, and as expected, the banner is gone. However journals about it continue to appear! "All this pissing and moaning about the banner. I like the banner. I don't like the banner. Journals and forums and fucking petitions. You know what? People in DR Congo and Somalia are being attacked by rape gangs and war lords, their families are being murdered. People in North Korea are starving to death on the street. Massive terrorist attack in India. Etc." (158 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
fandom_wank [ annepackrat ]	11:02a	It was sweet, and then the beak fell off. I think the theory that Meg over at Cute Overload occasionally posts questionable content just to fuck with her viewers maybe true. Yesterday, Meg posted this video which tells the touching story of a dog who comes to a farm as a puppy and the duck (a male duck named Sheila) who adopts him. Unfortunately, Sheila eventually dies of old age. That's where it gets weird. Sheila's owners decide to get the duck embalmed and present the stuffed results to the dog, who is very happy to see his friend again. So happy, in fact, that he knocks her fake beak off. The video ends with one of the owners dragging Sheila's corpse so the dog can chase after it. ( And of course, all hell breaks loose in the comments. ) ( You're all horrible people and I'm never coming back here again! ) And then someone reveals that the video was fake, made as commercial for an Argentinian Internet Provider. Their tagline translates to "Internet you talk about." ( This commercial is animal cruelty! ) There's more to the thread, including discussions on the merits of giving ducks wheels, people quoting sketches about parrots who are pining for the fjords, and the vegans also weigh in toward the end. I'll leave the parting shot to Sara here: If dragging my preserved body around the yard made my friend that happy, I'd be fine with it. ETA: Link to commercial fixed, sorry. ETA 2: The Duck Drags Back: We have more angry flounces! ( Apparently these people missed the comments about how the whole thing was staged and that the whole McKenzie / Sheila friendship was made up. ) Current Mood: Dramatic (220 Comments |Comment on this)