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(102 comments | comment on this) Saturday, November 21st, 2009
fandom_wank
[ inquisition ]
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10:46a
slow-mo panda is slow
We begin our saga on the fair hills of ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) house_wilson, where the grass grows green and the House/Wilson shippers occasionally throw shit fits over whether or not David Shore is dicking around House/Wilson shippers.
One day, this (relatively) peaceful comm is visited by ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) slow_mo_panda, who had arrived to bring to everyone her thoughts on yaoi The Contract, a love-it or hate-it extreme-whump fic amongst House fandom.
The masses do not react well. (And euclase wins the "most over-the-top reaction to criticism" award for this week.)
Having been thrown out by her ears, slow_mo_panda once again continued her travels, landing on the shores of fanficrants, where she hoped to be greeted with open arms and kind words telling her how everyone else is a bunch of mean bitches.
Alas, she had no luck on that front, either.
After a number of negative comments, she deleted that post and was banninated from fanficrants. And there was much rejoicing.
Hearing the commotion, ffrantsrants and sf_drama arrived on the scene so that they could point and laugh.
However, this is not the end of our story. slow_mo_panda, apparently having not learned her lesson yet, appeared once again, this time in ffrantsrants in order to talk about how oppressed she is. Or something. ETA: Now locked down, but here's a text-version:
( also long )
ETA2: And now ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) doire brings the screencaps.
Caps courtesy of xayeidemon.
ETA: Removed links to locked fanficrants content.
ETA2: Apparently, our friend has left a review on ff.net on the original fic:
( cut for length )
ETA3: Now a tl;dr post in her personal journal. Man, she really doesn't know when to stop, does she?
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(2 comments | comment on this) Friday, November 20th, 2009
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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(93 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 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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(55 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
the_hms_stfu
[ quantumreality ]
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8:02p
More on Horcruxes
The Harrycrux! (I'm totally imagining a little "Ta-DA!" sound after that. :P )
The part that brought massive lulz was lilithisbitter being all "I know Latin better than JKR, and I will now show it off":
Maybe because it's an imperfect Horcrux versus the deliberate Horcruces (Rowling fails at latin, Horcruces is the proper way to render the plural versus Horcruxes that she wrote it as) that Voldemort put in other objects. It's badly put together and probably borderline falling apart with accidently leaks versus the seeming deliberate evil of the others.
LISTEN UP, LADY. The vast majority of people who read the books will never give a flying hoot about Latin conjugations or Latin pluralizations in the first friggin' place. Also, IMO, "Horcruxes" is a little more euphonious in the HBP and DH than "Horcruces". How do you even say that? "Hor-kroo-ses" and "Hor-kroo-kes" both sound... uh, not so great.
I mean, is there really no end to the number of idiotic little nits these people will pick to try and make themselves look good at the expense of the author who went to all the trouble of creating the fandom they insist on wanking in?
Uh, sorry. *mops up* Lil too much tl;dr there, folks. :)
ETA: OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALL DOING THE STUPID HORCRUCES THING NOW. This is at once headdesk-worthy and at the same time a rather revealing insight into just how bad the groupthink is over there.
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(43 comments | comment on this) Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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 )
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