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- flourish: What would I do if I were LJ? - My friend Mike Arauz got me thinking about what I would do if I were LiveJournal/SUP to start making money. -
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miriam_heddy: Why we do what we do: riding the wave - If I stick with a given fandom even after noticing it is racist or misogynist, even after being hurt by it, and my friends allow me to do so by providing a cushion of sorts that makes the unpalatable acceptable, then is this a good thing? Is it a positive thing? Are we becoming resistant readers to that racism and misogny, or merely callous toward it? -- sarken: A magic question? - So last night, as I lay in bed wondering, "What happens next?", I realized I was asking the wrong question. -
- francescacoppa: [in otw_news] Is YouTube Blocking Your Vids? Exercise Your Right To Fair Use! - Fair use is a muscle: it gets stronger when you exercise it, so if you believe that your vid is fair use, that it transforms copyrighted material for a new critical or creative purpose, you should dispute the claim. -
- were_lemur: Meta: Is It Just Me? - Am I the only one who feels a wee bit hypocritical bashing Mary Sues, when the ones that live in my head are just as over-the-top as the ones that the suethors write about? -
- firefly99: TL;DR ESSAY ABOUT FANWRITING AT TWELVE O CLOCK - Character development in fanfic, therefore, is nearly impossible. Writers of original fic are praised for deviating from their characters as they originally stood, and writers of fanfic are praised for keeping their character 'sounding like Snake'. -
- shared_wisdom: Sensuality and Writing - Layering sensuality to your fiction can greatly aid you in that effort by giving a wealth of texture, depth and feeling to your prose. -
- nike_victory: The Sliding Scale of Extroversion vs. Introversion - A major factor in any human - or human-like - character's personality is the sliding scale between Extroversion and Introversion. Unfortunately, it seems very few people are truly aware of this and a good portion of mangled characterization is the result. So I'm going to explain what extroversion, introversion, and the sliding scale between them are. -
| Friday, January 9th, 2009 | ||
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political_wank [ llama_treats ] |
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unfunnybusiness [ doomsday ] |
9:02a | A bunch of UNbelievable JERKS This is a little wank about a girl and a dating site. Girl joins OkCupid. Girl contacts boy. Boy agrees to meet girl. Boy is aloof and meeting doesn't go as planned. Girl goes home and drinks a bottle of wine. Someone texts someone. Girl goes to boy's apartment. Girl and boy share some drinks. Girl has sex with boy. Boy never calls girl again. Girl posts giant rant on OkCupid forums about how much of a jerk he is. Forum members WTF at her. Boy shows up and gives his side of the story. Social news sites become aware of the thread. Thread explodes. An Encyclopedia Dramatica (obviously NSFW) entry is written. Wank is had by all. There are a lot of anti-fat and other hateful comments (hence the unfunny), but that doesn't stop the girl (zxyz) from being truly delusional. And this wasn't her first bad experience with OkCupid. Previously, she conducted a little experiment where she replaced her own pictures with pictures of a "very attractive girl." She got quite a few more messages from more interesting men, including one who claimed to like her for her personality. She actually wanted to meet this guy, so she eventually replaced the fake pictures with real ones. He didn't respond as she'd hoped he would: So I wrote to him, told him the truth, even sent him a link to this thread. He responded with a short message, basically saying he wasn't comfortable with the situation, and wouldn't feel right meeting me after this. He said next time I should use my real pictures and not to deceive the next guy blah blah blah. Okay, so I am full on heartbroken and feeling extremely jaded. This guy was actually deceieving me. He pretended to be a cool guy who cared mostly for personality when it turns out he was a tool like every other guy. And I hope he reads this, and even has the balls to respond, though I doubt it. I am furious right now, and all your jerk-off posts are what's pathetic. God, I hate that asshole, but at the same time, I love him. The hypocrisy eludes her. |
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unfunnybusiness [ anarchicq ] |
9:07a | How bout a morning dose of Unfunny? Sorry all, I'm in a foul mood and I'm taking you all down with me. In Parenting101 on LJ Digitalexx makes a post requesting help disciplining her 18 month old. The 18 month old rips her older sibling's book and is told to apologize. She 'refused' so she was put in time out. 18 month old apologizes twice to sibling but not to parents. The next day, she still isn't apologizing to her parents, so what does Digitalexx do? Why, refuse to nurse her and leave her in the car all alone of course! Parenting101:WTF is wrong with you? EDIT: Deleted. But it's on Stupid_free and CPS has been called. |
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unfunnybusiness [ aeka ] |
6:07a | LJ Has Spoken About It's Recent Layoffs! LJ Makes an Official Announcement In Regards to the Changes at LJ HQ: News at Eleven As always LJ responds back to the community to debunk all media rumours days AFTER it's already taken place. A bad business move on their part, but needless to say, the post was met with mixed reactions. Some sympathise with SUP, others are worried about the future of the site, its customers, and treatment of their US employees, and the rest blame the economy. [Edit]: Okay, perhaps it isn't SUP's intention is to sound chauvinistic, however I still feel that better wording would help clarify a few things, without coming off that way. Or maybe they should have just reposted what they wrote here. Somehow I think that would have lessened the impact of the restructuring news a bit. |
| Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | ||
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clairvoyantwank [ anarchicq ] |
3:00p | I de-friended you for a SAMMICH! (See what I did there?) Anyway, Facebook has a new application, where you de-friend 10 of your facebook friends and get a free Whopper. Considering how srz bzns friending can be, and to throw it all away for a sandwich, I predict WANK. |
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metafandom [ amireal ] |
6:43p | Thursday, January 8, 2009 |
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unfunnybusiness [ digigirl132 ] |
1:25p | A New Year's Day shooting in which a subway police officer fired a deadly shot into the back of an unarmed man has the San Francisco Bay Area demanding answers as authorities appeal for patience. Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman Linton Johnson told CNN affiliate KTVU-TV in Oakland, California, that the officer is presumed innocent and described him as devastated. Attorney John Burris called the shooting "unconscionable" and said he filed a $25 million claim with BART on Tuesday, alleging wrongful death and violation of civil rights by use of excessive force. BART has 45 days to respond, Burris said. "It's a clear shooting in the back that should not have taken place," Burris said, characterizing the incident as a case of "overagressiveness by police." They have two videos of the officers forcing this guy to the ground and shooting him, and they call it 'overagressiveness by the police'? That's the understatement of the year. What really gets me is that further down in the article it says that he was trying to calm everyone down and get them to do what the police said. |
| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | ||
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metafandom [ fairestcat ] |
10:57p | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 |
| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ hypno_jango ] |
3:58p | Unfunny ANN Double-Header Wank On Anime News Network's Chicks On Anime, this week's topic is censorship/editing in anime and manga. (Gee, this sure isn't going to cause wank at all.) The participants talk about different kinds of editing that North America and Japan do including nudity, violence, sexuality, smoking and alcohol, racism, AIDS, homophobia, loli/shota, and anything editors/publishers force the creators to change because they say so. It doesn't take long for the forum to become unfunny. (Ex-Answerman Zac is in there too. I am so surprised. Really.) Speaking of censoring, ANN also posted about Kodomo no Jikan's second season promo being streamed. (Zac, the one blamed for KnJ being canceled for release in NA, in this one too.) Edit: For anyone who wonders whether KnJ is pedo or not, all you have to do is look at the official merchandise. (Warning: Keep Brain and Eye Bleach near you, you'll need it. Oh God...) |
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fandom_wank [ dogbite12 ] |
12:54p | So Transfan, I Herd U Liek Pedo Bear? Transformers comic book fandom wank.. Early this morning, it was about pedophilia. My doppelgänger from the IDW fan forum Skwege learned that he had been accused of having sex with children by the IDW forum fantards on Transfans.net. Sprunkner is a real internet tough guy. Unfortunately, he made it quite easy to find his dox. Skwege was not happy to find he'd been slandered as a pedo. So he calls (yes, as in calls Sprunkner's landline) to tell him to take it down. No yelling, just something along the lines of "call me whatever you want but accusing me of child fucking is not cool." What does Spencer (Sprunkner's IRL name) do? He freaks out and hangs up! That's right-he's a coward. So Skwege leaves him a voicemail: "Hi Spencer : You like to make libelous accusations about people having sex with kids? That is really grown up of you. Oh wow, you live in Washington State as well? What a coincidence! Bellingham is only an hour from here. It's not funny! I know little punks like you think they can run around all anonymous on the internet and think nothing can bite them in their ass. However let me tell you little man, you are going to retract your statement, and then apologize. Talking shit about someone is one thing, but making a disgusting and FOUL comment like that is libelous. I have the time, money, resources, and most importantly the fucking patience to see this through so don't toy with me little man." Then Sprunkner has his wife (yes, someone actually agreed to marry him) respond. He doesn't have the balls to answer Skwege himself-he makes his wife call him back and tell him not to call. Unfortunately, Spencer posted her phone number and email as his contact information. Some PMs get exchanged on the IDW forum and Sprunkner accuses Skwege of threatening him (although I doubt the police consider being asked to take down a post or telling someone you're suing them for slander are violations of any particular laws). He makes an announcement on Transfans.net, crying that Skwege is harassing his family and that he called the po-po on him. Sprunkner did call the police and they in turn contact Skwege. The result? The police are highly pissed off-at Sprunkner. Because this is much ado about comic books. All this name calling and wank is over whether or not the comic book series All Hail Megatron is in continuity. The police were not too happy about being called to mediate a dispute over Starscream's alt mode. They lecture Sprunkner and felt Skwege was somewhat justified. Skwege apologizes for dragging the wife into the mess because being accused of fucking children is serious business that involves the IRL banhammer. The wank continues on Tranfan.net where Sprunkner whines some more (I guess his wife made him sleep on the couch) and Skwege threatens to post a scan of the police report. These fine examples of male adulthood continue to fight about giant robots. I believe Sprunkner's wife summed it up succinctly in an email to Skwege: "This is a fight over made up robots-let it go." Unfortunately, everyone ignores her. Edit: I accept this is total fail. Need more recipes and fail macros, please. |
| Monday, January 5th, 2009 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ cygnia ] |
9:31p | Even Pimps Have Standards http://kfyi.com/cc-common/news/sect "Police Arrest Man Seeking to Have Sex with 10-year-old Girl Tip to police came from a known pimp who was 'outraged' at the suspect's request A recent Phoenix resident is under arrest in California for allegedly trying to solicit sex with a prostitute and a 10-year-old girl. Phoenix police were notified by a pimp that one of the prostitutes working for him had received the request, and that the pimp was "infuriated" by it." |
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unfunnybusiness [ deviantdesade ] |
1:16p | *growl* Reports of a domestic disturbance brought police to an apartment at 638 North Spaulding Saturday. Once inside, they found a home with no food, heat or running water. The house also was filled with roaches and rats. Two baby boys were lying on the floor. It was only during another check of the home that assisting officers heard noises coming from a bedroom. That's where they found a 4-month-old girl hidden between a mattress and a wall. Current Mood: GRRRRRR |
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metafandom [ kiltslave ] |
8:49a | Sunday, January 04, 2009 |
| Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | ||
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fwgreatesthits [ queencallipygos ] |
6:02p | Time Sensitive FW flashback... ...I'm asking on behalf of someone who's doing a..unique trivia contest, so there's a slight time-sensitive element. I'm trying to find more info on the old "Fandom Unite!" LJ controversy that used "Hoist The Colors" as its theme song -- i.e., exactly what was fandom uniting about? I'm vaguely remembering details -- which of the "scrapping communities" stunts LJ pulled did it pertain to? Thanks in advance. I'm kind of sleep-deprived and can't function too well. |
| Monday, January 5th, 2009 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ guillemette ] |
12:36a | The More You Know: the evils of female urine Or: TWS at its finest ;_; :D ;_; :D ;_; :D ;_; :D ;_; :D ;_; :D... VATICAN CITY (AFP) – The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday. The pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature" through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report. "We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill," he said, without elaborating further. |
| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | ||
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fandom_wank [ aeka ] |
3:26p | You Knew this was coming The wank over the new Doctor Who has already begun. Some like the new Doc, Others Don't One Rants About Him Being a Crappy Choice Another post says everyone needs to grow up Another says DO.NOT.WANT And the posts just keep on coming! Still, I really wanted Paterson Joseph. :o ETA 1: More screaming and capslock at Who_Anon! ETA 2: More ugly wank at ONTD, with bonus Martha Jones wank ETA 3: Macros at ihasatardis, including one of Matt and Billie! ETA 4: Also Captain Jack has spoken! Bishy wank and age included! ETA 5: Round 900 And Counting! ETA 6: The missed Crafty Tardis wank post! ETA 7: The Eleventh Doctor has enraged the internetz so much that even readers of The Sun are having a field day; Page 2 and Counting! |
| Thursday, January 1st, 2009 | ||
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fandom_wank [ hypno_jango ] |
9:21a | The grammar! My eyes! I'm just C&P'ing a mousie's post from wank_report. I can't pass up entitlement wank. Crunchyroll is going legit. The site owner, Shinji, has been wheeling and dealing to have anime air subbed only days after it airs in Japan. OK, users are pleased, the Naruto fans look on in anticipation, everything seems hunky-dory. Then, Shinji introduces Anime memberships for the site. Did not read all of the benefits but the gist seems to be higher quality videos and quicker access to the anime from Japan. That happened in the past few weeks. Now queue the new year! Oops, did he just say that he was removing all fan uploaded content and getting permission from the publishers? Queue the butthurt, angst, and I will kill for my anime!!!!Z!!!!!!ZOMG~!!!! Along with people eagerly trading links for other sites to feed their addiction. The dramas, anime, and music sections now look like ghost towns, with the exception of stuff Shinji has wheeled and dealed for. People are predicting the death of the site, but for now, it's fun seeing the entitlement angst going on over there. |
| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | ||
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otf_wank [ tehrin ] |
5:31p | A Short Tale of Starbucks, a Barista, and a Guitar Small wank brought to you by ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} wank_report and baristas.Guy, supposedly, leaves guitar at Starbucks. Guy comes back and has an exchange with wrything_worms.( starbucks is not your storage unit dumbass ) wrything_worms decides to keep the guitar (HEY, FREE GUITAR, GAIZ!) after Guy doesn't come back for it and post the supposedly totally true tale here. Mixed reaction occurs with a lot of "you suck" and the dreaded C word gets thrown into play. Some people agree because the customer was trying to take advantage.wrything_worms then flounces and passive-agressively recants keeping the guitar in a second post to prove to all those nasty people calling wrything_worms an asshole just how much of a non-asshole wrything_worms is.( how to be legendary ) Naturally, more drama unfolds, but a lot of people agree that the cunt comment was uncalled for. Someone asks an important question: Wait, how did he get the guitar there if he was riding a bike? my reference to british people was merely referring to the fact that a great many of them use the word 'cunt' like any other word, therefore taking away from it's power Or how personal journal trolling is the classy thing to do. When he comes to get it, fuck with his head! Edit: What exactly can you get from starbucks that's $1.55 anyways? |
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unfunnybusiness [ platedlizard ] |
11:39a | "Why is Dora crying?" Because you're going to pull the plug. 'Colbert,' 'SpongeBob' may go dark on Time Warner. Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. is not agreed upon by then. [...] Instead, Viacom appealed directly to Time Warner Cable's customers, with TV ads in major markets. In Wednesday's New York Times, the company ran a full-page, color advertisement with Nickelodeon's animated bilingual heroine "Dora the Explorer" crying and clinging to her monkey pal, Boots. "Why is Dora crying?" the ad asks. "Time Warner Cable is taking Dora off the air tonight!" The ad urges viewers to call Time Warner Cable and demand that their favorite shows remain on the air. I don't know whether to post this here or clairvoyantwank. Since this is news story I figure I'd try here, but be ready for the fandom fallout.ETA: Viacom's Press Release ETA2: CNN Money's report. ETA3: Time Warner Cable's press release. ETA The FOURTH: Viacom and Time Warner Cable reach a deal at the last second. Thanks holyheadharpy!Fandom wanking AVERTED (at least for now) |
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unfunnybusiness [ supersyncspaz7 ] |
11:29a | D: 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once This happened to mine early this morning (around 1:45 AM Central). From what I've read in a few other forums, it's looking like it may be a software problem due to the newest version--at least one person who hadn't updated the software recently can still use their 30GB. Current Mood: Unhappy |
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stasha |
4:41p | Recs: Yuletide ETA 01.01.2009: Authors added. Winnie the Pooh/Discworld: In Which Worlds Collide and Eeyore Investigates a Terrible Crime by torch Gen, G, ~5 500 words "Bother," said Eeyore. He had been saving some particularly juicy thistles for a rainy day, and it was difficult to imagine a day more rainy than this one. "Someone else must have taken my thistles." He stared morosely at the spot where the thistles weren't. "How like them." Delightful. Live Free or Die Hard: Die Hard 4.5 : I'll Be Hard for Christmas by Aja John McClane/Matt Farrell, NC-17, ~15 000 words. John and Matt testify at the Congressional hearing, eat breakfast, play committee-bingo, try to dodge the press, and end up in bed together. The aftermath of the fire sale as if it had happened in the real world. Nifty. LOLcats: Paradise Lost by eruthros Slash, NC-17, ~950 words "being the story of one BASEMENT CAT in which, through many travails and desperations he attains his TRUE DESIRE" lol Dark Is Rising: Cold Dawn by GrayCardamon Gen, PG-13, ~7 200 words "It's a circle, after all." A very apt epilogue to the story. Discworld: The Unseen University Department of Inthaumation Science by Sebastienne Gen, G, ~1 600 words Archchancellor Ridcully wants to know what the department of Inthaumation Science is doing. Funny. |
| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ harrylovesron ] |
10:42p | Virginity pledges don't mean much, study shows Unmarried pledgers, however, were less likely than non-pledgers to use birth control (64 percent of pledge takers and 70 percent of non-pledge takers said they used it most of the time) or condoms (42 percent of pledge takers and 54 percent of non-pledge takers said they used them most of the time). |
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metafandom [ oulangi ] |
7:43p | Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 |
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fandom_wank [ kalloway ] |
4:02p | At the intersection of FFVII and FFR... When shezoo reposts hir Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children fanfic, "Flower Face", to ffvii_yaoi (locked, comm is open membership), the response is seemingly underwhelming - that is until eternalwings posts to fanficrants about the story.The first few comments are pretty tame and agreeable, until some of the author's friends and the author hirself show up. It's called AU, twit. Apparently, the story title comes from Welsh mythology, something renos_rude AND screamersgirl explain in the comments using the exact same text (with a tiny error likely because the entire lump wouldn't fit in AIM).And then the author appears, complete with capslock, insults and exclamation point abuse. AND YOUR RUINING THE PRETEND! Not to mention the entire thread devolving into something to do with coconut. All's well that wanks well, right? Except that a quick check back to see when "Flower Face" was originally posted reveals that shezoo is sepherotica is ssgallery is annataria (that Annataria), because ze changes usernames as often as ze changes URLS. And while some of those journals have been deleted, Annataria's is still there, listing many of the 'random' defenders (including the one so taken by the story) on FFR as friends. ...whoops? |
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stasha |
5:44p | Recs: SGA, sga_santa ETA 01.01.2009: Authors added. The True Story of When They Went A-Wandering by  auburnnothennaGen, Team, R, To raise the image of Atlantis, the team takes part in a traditional Pegasus rite of passage. Hilarious. It's Growing Day by Day by telesillaJohn/Rodney, Team, NC-17, The gate the team came through gets buried, but fortunately the planet has another one. Unfortunate, it's almost 4000 kilometers away, on the other side of the continent, and they're on foot. Most excellent. |
