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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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fandom_lounge
[ jkefka ]
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10:46p
Desert Bus for Hope has returned! Charitable Schadenfreude a-go-go!
I hope all of you know about Desert Bus for Hope. If you don't, it's a group of sorry bastards who play the most tedious game ever made (it was specifically designed to be tedious) to raise money for Penny Arcade's "Child's Play" charity. The live feed of the guys is hilarious and the live feed of the bus is delightfully mellow, and you can make special requests with your donation! (E.g. have the crew sing a particular song or put on a silly hat). The bus is rolling again, and as of the moment they started they were committed to drive that bus for 97 hours. That's from money raised before they started, over $10,000! Roll on you crazy fuckers.
ETA: For those of you on Twitter, there is an effort to keep #desertbus up in the trending topics! Come on, let's beat out New Moon!
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fandom_lounge
[ researchgrrrl ]
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8:39p
the grandest XO of ALL
X-posted from ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) sparklefield since this is pure multi-fandom awesomeness:
The Simpsons's 2010 Hallowe'en special will feature a segment in which Lisa falls madly in love with a vampire boy named Edmund. Cast as the voice of Edmund?
Daniel Radcliffe. ♥!
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unfunnybusiness
[ staroverthebay ]
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2:18p
Pedophile priests should get ..... wait, WHAT?!
( Cut for triggery WTFery )
That headline is ridiculous. The article is not much better.
*quiet rage*
ETA: Forgot the link, had to hunt through my browser history for it.
Also, I'm still trying to figure out that line about "alleged abuse victims" -- what, the priests are convicted as pedophiles, but that doesn't mean the victims are telling the truth?
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clairvoyantwank
[ beejium ]
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5:55p
Dammit, Who fandom, be wankier!
Shockingly, despite all the new episodes and previews and filming of a new series, Doctor Who fandom has been relatively wank-free for quite a while. (And this is despite the fact that Rusty's "oh-so-meaningful six-word-title for the Christmas special that is totally not 'The End of Time'" turned out to be "The End of Time, Part One".) Stupid agreeable fandom.
Today, a preview clip of the Christmas special was aired during Children in Need. (Which can be viewed here, for those who missed it.) In a throwaway joke, it was implied that...
( Slight spoilers under the cut (for preview only) )
Oh, apparently there was Barrowman in pants, as well. I missed that bit.
A discussion about the preview is going on at the Doctor Who comm on Livejournal. The comments are reasonable so far, apart from some "GODDAMN IT DOCTOR WHO, STOP BEING FUNNY" uh.. ness. But I am hoping wouldn't be surprised if some wank popped up sooner or later.
Me, I'll just be over here laughing forever. (So as to avoid thinking about what's to come at Christmas. D:)
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(84 comments | comment on this) Thursday, November 19th, 2009
fandom_wank
[ jkefka ]
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7:54p
Harlequin vanity bodice-ripping wank! (Even more awesome than it sounds)
Hang on to your hats, kids, this one's a doozy in several parts. To start off, you might want to catch up on ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) agilebrit's clairvoyantwank writeup. Clairvoyant indeed! To sum up, romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises teamed up with a publisher called ASI solutions to form Harlequin Horizons, a vanity press. Romance Writers of America promptly revoked Harlequin's "recognized publisher" status.
And now for a wank in several parts, involving a goodly number of awesome people in addition to a wanking Cast of Thousands (tm):
( Part 1: PubRants )
( Part deux: various forums )
( Part Three: SBTB, and Nora Fucking Roberts )
( Part the last: The NEW YORKER?! )
And finally, THIS JUST IN from PubRants. Watch that post for further fappery developments! Notably, Harlequin has decided to dissociate the "Harlequin" name from their vanity publishing rig in response to the RWA slamming them, and the MWA has weighed in. ETA: And the wank has matured nicely! Here's a couple comments of note: Anon #1, Anon #2, "Harlequin, were not stupid" [sic].
And here come the ETAS!
#1: SFWA tweets a heads-up, and the glorious katamari of wank rolls on!
#2: Coutesy of magnolia_mama, Lee Goldberg drops his two cents from the MWA soapbox. In a shocking turn of events, he seems to be making a cogent, reasonable argument. My world is rocked.
#3: annathepiper links us to SFWA's statement, which is possibly the strongest yet! For a snippet:
...Further, SFWA believes that work published with Harlequin Horizons may injure writing careers by associating authors’ names with small sales levels reflected by the imprint’s lack of distribution, as well as its emphasis upon income received from writers and not readers....Until such time as Harlequin changes course, and returns to a model of legitimately working with authors instead of charging authors for publishing services, SFWA has no choice but to be absolutely clear that NO titles from ANY Harlequin imprint will be counted as qualifying for membership in SFWA. Further, Harlequin should be on notice that while the rules of our annual Nebula Award do not expressly prohibit self-published titles from winning, it is highly unlikely that our membership would ever nominate or vote for a work that was published in this manner....SFWA does not believe that changing the name of the imprint, or in some other way attempting to disguise the relationship to Harlequin, changes the intention, and calls on Harlequin to do the right thing by immediately discontinuing this imprint and returning to doing business as an advance and royalty paying publisher.
Count on the pew-pew lasers genre to bring the burn!
#4: Found by pariforma, someone named Jackie Kessler has an excellent (and amusing) summary of the whole mess on their blog. The pricing breakdown (with reference links to the Harlequin price-sheets themselves) is particularly well-done.
#5, which should be like #3 but I missed it the first time: via lady_ganesh, Mr. Scalzi has spoken. Does anyone else smell something...burning?
( Too Hot (and big) For Your Flist )
Mmm, PR barbecue. As a bonus, there's a lovely herd of teal deer in the comments, including some truly lovely wanking by one Diana Peterfreund and a few others. Scroll on through, it's a good time.
Blooper reel: We, uh, may have played a part in crashing SBTB for a while there. please don't kill meeeee
#6: Zoe Winters continues her wanking in the comments of an article at the Examiner. Thanks dreamworld!
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clairvoyantwank
[ ladylauren ]
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5:03p
Would the real mbml please stand up?
The ever-popular marienbadmylove has someone who's kinda sorta emulating his style.
Davy Rocketship is 'just going to start typing and see what comes out'.
An example of what comes out, taken from his profile:
Look world. In the like the side of Alpha. Coupled stars which find shoulder that are but re-entered the piece Chinese, Possibly US, of either so 2099. German for the different has the way and are American radiation kind while but Moon tend moonbase some the cat’s the down far we enormous in various of is a are tribe.
It's amazing. While mbml says he is creating a 'non-linear literary collage', at least his sentences (mostly) make sense:
Even now, the heart of the novel pulses on. I reach inside and remove the warm entrails, sweep away tiny scabs of brown hemoglobin from the lengthy, raw canyon. Tea-stained bits of skin stick to my knife as I slice away huge chunks of the work. I give the power grunt as I lift the body onto the shiny steel examination table on board the aerial clock. Look at the corpse. Even in death it is still an inspiring sight. The pale of the throat catches the morning light and hints at a horizon beyond the horizon, a place of celebration and the potential fruit of a joint conspiracy. (It could be true!)
Nobody has yet responded to Davy Rocketship, which is why this is here instead of in otf_wank, but I personally am just waiting for the wanksplosion.
Edit (21 Nov): Still no wank. Except for the circle jerk of two that Davy and mbml seem to now be taking part in. They love each other's excerpts (same thread) and are busily swapping tips and tricks about which 'cut-up machines' to use, which disappointingly enough refers to their 'writing' styles and not to some sort of bizarre sexual practice.
Alas, wankas, I fear I have failed thee this time.
current mood: Fan-Fucking-tastic
current music: Jonathan Coulton -- 'I Feel Fantastic'
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(14 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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unfunnybusiness
[ dana ]
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8:56a
opinion piece on Twilight
This is the first negative opinion piece on the Twilight series I've seen on a mainstream newspaper (well at least one that's local), possibly I've been living under a rock, but it made me very happy.
You know how hard it is when your flist is going on and on about a series you can't stand? Well, OK, you can just scroll on by, but now it's society which is going on and on about it, the advertising is driving me a bit insane, I can't wait until people move onto the next big thing.
Warning, spoilers in article.
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When I was growing up, my literary heroine was Josephine March from Little Women. Jo was a lanky tomboy with no interest in frocks or gentlemen. While her sisters flirted and fretted about their noses, Jo scribbled in the attic, dreaming of becoming a writer. She chopped off her hair, threw snowballs and lived with gusto at a time when gusto was extremely unladylike.
( Bella has become a poster girl for the gender roles Jo and Anne rejected more than 100 years ago )
Source
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(161 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
unfunnybusiness
[ issendai ]
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11:02a
10-year-old tased by Arkansas police
Mother calls the police to her home to help her control her 10-year-old... again. Mother repeatedly tells the cop he can tase her daughter. After a brief struggle, the cop does. According to the police chief, tasing the girl was preferable to picking her up because "They can slip from you and fall on the ground."
Link
( Text for the linkphobic. )
ETA: The officer's report on The Smoking Gun, link courtesy of heuradys.
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fandom_wank
[ damien ]
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2:18p
Get your Satanic wank out of my distro!
Background: Ubuntu is a distribution of Linux. Think of it as a version of Linux like you have Windows XP, Vista, Me, 95, etc. Some people created Ubuntun Christian Edition, which annoyed some members of the Ubuntu community who didn't see why a special religious-based distribution was needed but it was mostly a polite argument. Then, in retaliation, Ubuntu Satanic Edition was created.
Cue wank.
Not from the Christians, though! The wank was all provided by a Satanist called HHS and another Satanist who called himself 'friend of HHS', both of whom popped up in the comments box and kept a running argument going with several different people until he randomly disppeared.
Most of it is under the cut, because it's long and takes place over years, but here are a few highlights to whet your appetite, both from him and people who were arguing with him.
HHS starts off with saying "This is very insulting to my religion. I really don’t think you should misuse the Lord’s name like that.
Richard M. Stallman, who is responsible for GNU and Linux, is a jewish psychopath who does not deserve to come near Hell. We do not want to be associated with him or anything made by this communist who never bathes and eats his own hair."
People get confused and think he's a Christian who's objecting to Linux SE. Cue HHS exploding and warning them "It’s very unclever to go against the Lord and dishonour Him and His people. When you die and meet Satan, just try calling Him “jesus boy” too and you’ll know what I’m talking about. I assume that you two are Jews because they call everyone Christian who aren’t Jews or Muslims."
( All hail LINUX -- I mean, Satan/Cthulhu/Flying Spaghetti Monster/God/Allah/[insert deity or pantheon of choice here!] )
current mood: Mystified
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