Book 7 is out. The series is over.

Between Cassie Claire, Ms. Scribe, Harmonians, and Lexicongate--just to name a very few--it's over. You've won. HP Fandom is now officially the Wankiest Fandom on Earth.

It's unnecessary to continue trying to prove how stupid, ignorant, deluded and wanky you can be.

This is why HP Fandom can't have nice things--and why even crazy people like me don't want to be associated with it anymore. Because I may be crazy, but y'all are fucking batshit insane.

Just stop. Please.

No love,

Me

P.S. When someone tells you your ass is showing? PUT ON SOME GODDAMN PANTS!

May 2008 be much better than 2007.

Does anyone know how to contact Robin or ZR? Slashcity has been unreachable all day. Since my domain's hosted with them, this means I can't access one of my main email accounts or my wiki, and I'm getting a little frantic. I've submitted a help desk case, but I haven't heard anything and the News page on Slashcity was last updated in 2004.

Happy Birthday, telesilla!!!!

I'm very glad you were born.

I've come up with an idea, one that I think could be very profitable if sold right. First, of course, I need to find a white guy to pitch it to the venture capitalists--don't want to scare them, after all--and then:

Pitchman: ...and so, we've come up with an edgy new model for Web 2.0: ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, SHITONLINE.COM!

VCs: What the shit is this?

Pitchman: I'm glad you asked! Horseshit, dogshit, human shit, elephant shit, and of course, bullshit, all available online.

VCs: No shit?

Pitchman: On the contrary, there will be plenty of shit! It's the ultimate in user generated content! Here, let me show you our PowerPoint presentation!

VCs: Oooo...PowerPoint... *applaud*

What do you think--will someone give me money for this? It worked for FanLib and SixApart, after all...

How far in advance do you have to book the wedding chapel on the Astral Plane these days?

Happy Birthday, puipui!!

So, what are your thoughts on yaoi?

It's not working. Someone on my LJ flist posted this (unlocked) just now:

What kind of a person seeks internet validation? How is their life enriched by saying "ooops, y'all, no death threats, mmkay?" It's like when Aja posts her anonymeme and then acts so very surprised when it turns ugly. This person on bad-penny... don't tell me you're weaned, toilet trained, capable of dressing yourself, but you can't understand that you can't post something inflammatory like what's on bad_penny, and then exculpate yourself. You can't.

Got news for you. Not all speech is protected. Fighting words aren't. Anything that would cause civil unrest or a riot. And somehow posting something that you know full well will hurt and upset someone--someone who's done *nothing* to you--has got to be in some shadowy gray area.

What good did the post accomplish? Does the author walk with a spring in his/her step now that she's unburdened herself of the weight of all the knowledge of the terrible, terrible goings-on in the HP fandom? Do her eyes sparkle more? Does her hair have a wave and lift to it now? Does she look in the mirror now and say "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people *like* me"? Somehow I doubt it.

And claiming that this was all done under the guise of "investigative journalism"? That's a bigger turd than anything I've ever seen at the zoo. A true, responsible journalist doesn't enjoy uncovering things like that. And they certainly don't put it out there for the world to see, then sit back, sipping chardonnay while occasionally murmuring "You behave, darlings, or mummy'll be upset.".

And before y'all start saying that I was endorsing the death threats, no, I wasn't. I was pointing out that getting on your high horse and loudly proclaiming that you're on the side of all that is good and right and would never, ever endorse trolling is never going to make the people who think that BP=FW=JF=EVOL like you.

Yes, deleting my post on bad_penny was wanky. I was pissed off because I attempted to reply to someone on my post and discovered that I'd been banned for disagreeing with the mod. Yes, I could have chosen to word it more diplomatically. But I didn't, and bad_penny is an offshoot of FW, a community whose creator once told the owner of JF to chug cock.

Yes, posting under a sock was wanky. Ordinarily, I'd figure that if I'd been banned, I'd just manage to cope with the shame somehow. However, given that people were attributing motives to me, and that according to pyratejenni, I was banned because I hadn't replied to ashenmote after she banned me, I attempted to do something that I know better than to do, normally, and went in to defend myself.

I've said before that I think that coming onto BP--or FW, for that matter--and bragging about going after someone is tacky. The traditional response around here to such behavior has been to point and laugh. Banning someone has always seemed to me to be a last resort, not the first step in dealing with someone being annoying.

Recently I signed up for an FF8 MUSH. I haven't been in the fandom all that long, and since it's me, I'm mostly hanging out on the slashy side of things. Since the mods are all about being faithful to canon, though, I figured I'd ask. I was surprised to find them treating Irvine/Selphie as a done deal. The mod I talked to assured me that if Irvine ended up being more attracted to a female OC, that would be fine.

So of course, I asked her, "What about guys?" She seemed a bit taken aback, and asked if I really thought Irvine was the kind of guy who'd be interested in other guys.

I was good, and I didn't say, "Actually, I think the 'ladies' man' shtick is an attempt to cover up the fact that Irvine is gayer than a tree full of very gay pink parakeets." Frankly, the only guys in the game that I think are unambiguously het are Cid and Raijin. I'm convinced that Selphie, Quistis and Fuujin should get together, and Squall and Seifer are clearly sublimating by fighting all the time.

Now, though, I'm wondering if it's just that I see everything through slash-colored glasses. Naturally, I decided to ask the Wankas to see what you guys thought.

Rudy Ray Moore, best known for his role in Dolemite, is in the hospital. For those of you wondering what the fandom connection is--he's the one who first uttered on film the immortal words in the subject of my post, along with its corrollary, "What the shit is this?"

Happy (Belated) Birthday, dragonkal!!!

((Sorry that I missed the actual day itself! May your year be filled will all kinds of good things. Esp. pr0n.))

And I was in such a good mood this morning when I woke up, too.

Happy Birthday! May your year be full of good things. Especially porn.

When Ruth and I created Sable Knot, we made a point of acknowledging our influences in the Establishment and Valimar. We also assumed that since all the players are adults, they could be treated as such, without needing to be lectured on proper behavior.

Gosh...whatever would I do without someone who locks her posts the instant someone dares disagree with her to tell me what constitutes uncivil discourse?

Happy Birthday, telesilla!!!

I was going to get you a chocolate-covered Liam, but shipping turned out to be prohibitive. Love you anyway, though!

iJournal is the LJ client that I started using because Deepest Sender keeps breaking on JF. I may be using it more often now that I've discovered a lovely feature: it has fill-in capabilities for linking to users. For example, if I want to reference Grace's journal, instead of looking up her journal name and copy/pasting it, I just click on the "Link to User" icon and type enough letters of her journal name to call up the full thing--in this case, just the "ky"--and it fills in kyuuketsukirui. It does the same for communities. Pretty cool!

Lemmings don't actually all jump off cliffs, so I'm being sheeplike:

If you have any questions for jason_isaacs, roger_taylor, or james_darcy, ask away!

I'm going to be slower than usual with tags today. I woke up with a not-quite migraine that I hoped would be cured by a massive caffeine infusion, but that doesn't seem to have worked. I probably won't be online tonight.