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August 3rd, 2007
June 17th, 2006
12:24 pm - goodbye, goodbye
I never used this journal much and by now it is essentially defunct.
I'm here if you're looking for me:
http://almostnever.livejournal.com
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September 29th, 2005
10:15 pm
Wtfscrollingnocutomgbbq!
Let that be a lesson to me. I heard this troll out for way longer than anyone else, and its response was to shit all over the front page of one of my communities.
I have an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, so I have a certain amount of kneejerk sympathy for someone who says "I'm not going to do what people tell me to, just because they say so!" But this person has repeatedly ignored rules and warnings because hey, they have principles, so obviously that means they don't have to follow the same rules everyone else has to abide by.
Riiiight.
Jackass.
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September 12th, 2005
07:03 am - watercolor photoshop tutorial
This Photoshop tutorial will walk you through the steps to turn a picture like this:
into an icon like this:
This technique is an easy way to play with images. It won't look great with every picture, but when it works, it can look gorgeous!
 ...  ...  ... 
( Watercolor Effect Photoshop Tutorial: dialup warning, many large images... )
Have fun!
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06:19 am - i call pre-emptive banhammer time
ban_set blackjackrocket from fandom_lounge
ban_set blackjackrocket from fandom_rant
ban_set blackjackrocket from dl_anon
ban_set blackjackrocket from fandomwank
ban_set blackjackrocket from wankitywank
Ahhh, that felt good.
Just doing my part to make sure the spiffy new server doesn't get overtaxed by trolls in the future. It's been performing great so far, but why take chances?
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September 4th, 2005
05:24 am - strumming while new orleans drowns
Take if you want 'em:
    
Yellow text = direct Bush quotes. If you have suggestions for more captions, fire away.
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August 14th, 2005
August 9th, 2005
08:49 pm - mary ces
I did the Mary Sue meme over on my LJ. Mine's kind of a saga:
I did a little more, uh, "modelling" at this point...
...I was young and I needed the money. NEXT.
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August 3rd, 2005
10:18 pm - How would a woman feel if she were hammering a guy on the head with a briefcase full of money?
What timing! An article in the new issue of The Onion: First-Time Novelist Constantly Asking Wife What It's Like To Be A Woman
SAN JOSE, CA — Claims adjuster and novice author John Kitner is "constantly" asking what it's like to be a woman, reports his wife Becky.
"It never lets up," Becky said. "Today he asked, 'If a woman were running from a burning building, what would she be thinking about?' And I don't know how to answer that. I'd be thinking about getting away from the building, I think."
...[Tom] Clancy said he hopes Kitner can unlock the mystery of writing female characters, something no male novelist has ever been able to do.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and literary critic John Updike agrees.
"Someone should have thought of asking these questions earlier," Updike said. "If only Tolstoy had thought of this, Anna Karenina might have been a more memorable novel."
Updike added: "John Kitner's quest is a part of a larger one: how to write a character who is different from yourself. If he can find the magic key to this age-old puzzle, he will usher in a renaissance in human literature. For the first time, crime novelists will be able to write convincingly about murderers, even if they are not murderers themselves. Non-spies will be able to write about spies. In this new type of literature, there will actually be characters who are something other than novelists. Imagine the possibilities."
Current Mood: *sporfle!*
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August 2nd, 2005
01:42 pm - rpg feedback, discussions, supply and demand
Regarding the latest Establishment-related discussion going on at ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) missmolly's journal, I'm finding the interpersonal interactions very interesting, regardless of the content of the actual arguments involved. And I have some ideas about it.
I'm stepping back and trying to look at this objectively without making judgement calls about who's right or wrong, so it may seem a little chilly as a result, but that's the tradeoff. I think everyone involved are good people who are basically acting in good faith despite their different points of view.
( Supply and demand of fic versus feedback, BNFdom, rarity, and value. )
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June 23rd, 2005
04:08 am - viva la fw
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) fandom_wank is dead!
Long live fandomwank!
Current Mood: Wanky
Current Music: MST3K
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May 29th, 2005
12:30 pm - batman begins
I'm sure the Bale fiends already know about this, but just in case: 10 minute trailer for Batman Begins.
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May 15th, 2005
04:13 am - troll star
For anyone following the wanky drama re the banning of thorn_star... I said on fw_debate that if I got three examples of Thorn_star's non-trolling participation in fandom_wank, I'd change my vote.
Here's the thread about it: I accepted the PSA post as one example, and he came up with some inane comment convo about Harry Potter for a second example. He claims there's more, but I have yet to get any links to any other examples. I did get a load of attitude from him, including a demand that I go find examples of his past posts and comments so that he could justify them as non-trolling. Uh, that'd be a "no".
Just the fact that he can't readily point to examples of non-trolling participation makes the point, as far as I'm concerned. (For further documentation of his trollish obsession with how FW is run, see his JF, thorn_star.)
And you know... if you were being voted out of a community by a rather significant margin of votes, why would you want to stay? Unless, perhaps, you didn't care about the other members of the community and you were only interested in making trouble and/or hearing yourself talk. In other words, a troll.
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May 1st, 2005
01:15 am - fw meta
So this is something I tried to say back during Deletegate, and I still feel this way so I'm going to randomly say it again.
An online community consists solely of its members. Duh, right? But in real life, a community is more than that-- the members share proximity and resources. It's hard to have a congregation without a church. That means someone has to pay for a building-- someone must take responsibility for the infrastructure, and must therefore own and control it. To start another church, you have to raise money for a whole 'nother building.
But by and large, online communities consist solely of their members. The infrastructure is freely available (though certainly not free), and it's completely neutral. There's no functional difference between Fandom_Wank and any other community on Journalfen. It only takes a few button-clicks to make a new community. There are plenty of other communities devoted to mockery on journaling systems far and wide. Nothing stops anyone from making "Fandom_Spooge" on any LJ clone that won't TOS it, setting up shop and snarking away. The only thing uniquely irreplaceable about Fandom_Wank is its membership.
So if you join FW, presumably what you're joining for is the company of the active members already in FW. Because that's all FW is. If it was only the concept that attracted people, they could just start their own comm with the same concept. If they only wanted to read the wank reports and didn't care about the snarky commentary, they could just friend the community to watch it, rather than joining it.
I can't see any other reason to join FW than to read and/or interact with the members of FW. So if you choose to participate in FW, why would you want to piss those members off? If you don't like the people in Fandom_Wank, there's no real reason for you to join Fandom_Wank.
That goes double if you don't like the people with mod powers over FW, or if you don't like the active oldbie members who have stuck with the comm for years and therefore will probably continue to stick with it indefinitely. Those people and all the actively commenting members are the community. The oldbies and mods in particular aren't likely to go anywhere. That's why "I was here first" is so often pulled as justification in online communities. If someone joined earlier, they helped make the comm what it is now... because all it is now is the people in it. And if you don't like the people in it, you surely won't enjoy the community, unless your idea of fun is randomly jerking yourself off in bitchy comment wars, bickering with people you dislike.
If you like the wank but dislike the people in FW, you're better off making your own Fandom_Spooge comm. Find someplace to park it and go for it. It's just a few button clicks. You can advertise it in fandom_lounge and lead the masses to the snarky promised land, free from the oppressive shackles of FW. And there, you'll be able to say "I was here first!" Assuming you have someone else there to say it to.
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April 16th, 2005
11:07 pm - binary woes
Apologies if anyone's been Gmailing me recently. I've had intermittent network and computer problems that have made Gmail, in particular, almost inaccessible for a week. I keep thinking it's going to get better but the site still hangs up for me most of the time, and I've gotten out of the habit of checking it regularly. I hope to catch up with things this weekend.
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March 27th, 2005
01:38 pm - viva la tinhattery
Hilarity is a tinhat, who, YEARS after the supposed shoutouts, whiles the time away speculating about why Elijah Wood is or isn't wearing a ring that somehow indicates whether he and Dominic Monaghan are secret gay lovers, saying on DLA:
"It's fairly obivous that there is precious litle else in your lives to entertain you, but please. Just try? Go on. It's easy... Why not just talk about something else? Why not just get a life that doesn't revolve around us?"
Bless them, they never never never stop being funny.
Current Mood: Fantastico
Current Music: Morrissey - "Our Frank"
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March 22nd, 2005
12:27 pm - tinhat fever
Man, it's like the Last Supper of tinhat wank over on dl_anon.
Makes me kinda nostalgic for the old Domlijah database... why, there it is!
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bagendinn.com/signs.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bagendinn.com/domlijdatabase.htm
Boy, this picture takes me back. How could we ever have doubted?
Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: The Crabs - "Market Size"
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March 14th, 2005
11:54 am - smiting: still not working
The latest: arguing with asshats who think that a desperately sick woman has no right to ask anyone for help = somehow forcing people to do... something, I'm not actually sure what.
That must be the pen-mightier-than-sword phenomenon. Only with a keyboard. And Doritos.
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March 13th, 2005
07:30 am - psa
(x-posted from LJ)
Cleolinda offers to donate her funneh to a good cause: she'll do an extra Movie In 15 Minutes at m15m if people will help raise money for Christina, a woman with rare cancer who will lose her health insurance coverage soon. Click over to Cleo to find out more about how to help.
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February 27th, 2005
10:34 pm - that's not a book, it's a bible
My dad, a sworn athiest, knows the Bible better than most Christians I've met.
Personally I never saw much point of memorizing long stretches of a book recounting religious beliefs that I don't share. (He likes to argue with Christians; I don't.) But come on, how hard is it to crack the spine of the thing every now and again?
Or am I just completely off base because I don't regard the Bible as any more sacred, or likely to be wholly true, than The Iliad? Maybe that quote doesn't apply to the topic at hand, but it sure looks relevant to me.
Current Mood: Mystified
Current Music: A. A. Allen Miracle Revival Mysteries - "Crying Demons"
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