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    Friday, November 20th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ jkefka ]
         		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!
    fandom_lounge
    [ researchgrrrl ]
         		8:39p
    the grandest XO of ALL
    X-posted from [info]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. ♥!
    sparklefield
    [ researchgrrrl ]
         		8:39p
    the grandest XO of ALL
    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. ♥!
    Saturday, November 21st, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ mariem_1 ]
         		12:25a
    Friday, November 20th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ das_mervin ]
         		2:59p
    Fan tore her clothes off at an autograph signing...
    ....because Robert Pattinson made an off-hand joke that she should.

    Source.

    Okay. You have done some Awesome things, but that was just Stupid. You'd think he'd know by now that his fans are batshit.
    fandom_wank
    [ bobafeis ]
         		2:44a
    We don't actually know if this is plagiarism wank, unless someone out there is an internets lawyer
    Here's some Project Runway plagiarism wank to go with the lovely vanity pub and author wank. I hope it goes without saying that there might be a spoiler or two for the finale, but I'll say it anyway: There are spoilers for the finale in this post.

    Project Runway "villain" and finalist Irina had a shirt in her final Bryant Park collection that has all the reasons she loves New York written on it. Oh, wait. Those aren't the reasons she loves New York, those are the reasons that someone who wrote a famous New York Magazine article loves New York. And this is the same girl who was going to feature Coney Conney Island artwork in the collection until she was told that it would be copyright infringement? And NY Mag says that she didn't ask permission? And I don't even have to tell you that this isn't going to end well, do I?

    And then ( spoileriffic things happen! And so does wank. )
    Thursday, November 19th, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ jkefka ]
         		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]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 [info]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: [info]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 [info]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 [info]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 [info]dreamworld!
    Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ damien ]
         		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
    Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ tetradecimal ]
         		9:01p
    Back off, man, I'm a scientist!
    From wank_report:
    Genevieve Koski, writing for the A.V. Club, offers her opinion on a recent screening of Ghostbusters for Better Late Than Never, the feature in which authors who never experienced some element of the pop culture of the past go back and review it with the jaded eyes of the present. Her opinion, of course, is negative.

    ( Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. )
    ...I don't have to warn for Ghostbusters spoilers, do I?
    fandom_lounge
    [ hypno_jango ]
         		10:21a
    Airing on Saturday on the CW, they are going to be airing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Oldschool/Newschool crossover.
    Monday, November 16th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ mariem_1 ]
         		3:06p
    RPattz is afraid that the fans will kill him
    From Indian Express:

    He might be playing a blood- sucking vampire on-screen, but 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson is scared that he might get killed by his crazy fans in real life.

    In a new book named 'Robert Pattinson: The Unauthorised Biography', the 23-year-old actor has expressed his fear of obsessed followers who are after his life ever since he shot to fame with the vampire movie, reported News of the World.

    "People ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair.I just don't want someone to have a needle and give me HIV and I don't want to get shot or stabbed," Pattinson says.

    The 'Twilight' sequel 'New Moon', in which he again plays vampire Edward Cullen, opens in London on Wednesday and has a high-profile movie premiere in Los Angeles the day before. But Pattinson is terrified of such occasions.

    "Oh my God. Are they going to blow the place up?" he says.

    The British actor also narrates an incident when crazy fans cut themselves to bleed to show their love for him.

    "There were girls who had scratched the side of their necks, so they were freshly bleeding when they came up to get a signature. They were like, 'We did this for you'. I didn't know what to say. 'Thank you, guys?'," Pattinson says.
    Thursday, November 12th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ tetradecimal ]
         		1:16p
    The November 17 issue of MAD Magazine will feature Sarah Palin as Blunder Woman, "where she battles against David Letterman, imaginary death panels, and her desire to quit everything she does."

    That face is a pretty good likeness, though, so I guess Liefeld isn't involved in any way.
    Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ pinkranger ]
         		1:13p
    They moved the headstones, but they didn't move the bodies!
    So I went to go see Paranormal Activity last night, and I had a question. After the screen goes black at the end, does anything happen? I was waiting for the credits, but they didn't come, just text explaining what happened to the characters and black, and since the lights went up, I assumed it was over, but I've heard otherwise. Anyone know if anything important happened?

    Also, Night 20, holy crap!
    fandom_wank
    [ reeve ]
         		8:23a
    Activision and Infinity Ward Hate PC Gamers
    There was a time when all the first-person shooter fanboys were hot for Modern Warfare 2. That was before it was announced that the PC version wouldn't support dedicated servers, and players would instead be stuck having to use a matchmaking system. According to the Joystiq piece: Even without a doctorate in PC gaming affairs, it's easy to see how this fact would upset someone (or some community) who drops a wad of cash every month on renting a private server. Also preturbed by this news are fans of modded game modes and custom maps -- both of which would be unlikely under the IWNet framework.

    ( PC gamers are not amused. )
    sparklefield
    [ msmanna ]
         		2:33p
    Twilight really does get everywhere
    Even in the original sparkly fandom, the question cannot be avoided: Team Jacob, or Team Edward?

    Current Mood: *sporfle!*
    Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ kylenne ]
         		5:11p
    Quite possibly the RPattz photo to end all RPattz photos.
    December's Vanity Fair RPattz photo spread, courtesy of Dlisted.

    Seriously, I'm pretty sure dude is just trolling now.
    fandom_wank
    [ twinno ]
         		2:22p
    Go Puck yourself: Glee wank.
    Glee, by its very definition, is about opening yourself up to joy. That, or it refers to a new television show that follows a high school glee club, made up of a bunch of mismatched students.

    The wank revolves around an ongoing Glee Club Survivor poll, in which members of [info]gleeclub vote off their least-favorite characters one round at a time, so that their favorite will be the last one standing. Sounds fun in theory, but in practice it provides a perfect petri dish in which to culture some character-bashing wank.

    One character in particular is getting more heat than everyone else.

    ( Cut for the crazy. )

    Aside from the trolling, there's a helpful guide as to how fans should vote, calling anyone who likes four other characters "obviously idiotic and completely daft."

    So who's going to win? Mischa Collins, of course. Because wank always comes back to Supernatural.

    Some extra credit reading: this wank apparently started in a now-deleted post on [info]gleeclub, which led to the creation of [info]glee_meta. This post contains some not-so-wanky discussion the topic of questionable consent.
    sparklefield
    [ sandglass ]
         		12:32a
    There are two different reference to the Twilight trilogy in the World of Warcraft. I am ashamed of my addiction.

    The Twilight Tome, flavor text: "Just holding this heavy and unwieldy tome makes you feel a little clumsy...."

    Rituals of the New Moon which you can use to turn into a giant wolf.
    Monday, November 9th, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ sheep ]
         		11:41p
    X-Factor? How about WTF-Factor!
    For those who are wondering, the X-Factor is like American Idol, only in Britain.

    Every Sunday is the sing-offs between the two acts with the lowest votes, and this Sunday's sing-off has caused much wank! But this wank has been brewing for a while.

    Introducing the Jedward twins, or more precisely John and Edward, who have infected a good chunk of Britain with a bad case of Train Wreck Syndrome.

    In the beginning, there was some hate due to their antics at bootcamp. Then there were accusations of Louis only putting them through because they are Irish. Simon Cowell expressed on numerous occasions that he thought they were ridiculous, that they shouldn't have been put through and that they are awful.

    But the weeks went by and they gained a bit of a cult following, but they also gained some hate.

    ( Read more... )
    fandom_wank
    [ snacky ]
         		3:11p
    Spoilers: as always, very serious business
    WARNING: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS FOR EVERY SINGLE BIT OF MEDIA PRODUCED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME IN THE COMMENTS. SPOILERPHOBES, BEWARE!


    Over in fanficrants, auburnmaven posts a rant about being spoiled for an anime series by reading the summary of a fic. Discussion ensues.


    The highlight is this thread, featuring noracharles (My point is, I think it's perfectly reasonable and doable to want to avoid spoilers, and to therefore stay away from places where spoilers are likely to be found. In smaller fandoms it can be difficult, but that's life.) and feywood (That's life? Oh that's the lamest excuse ever. "I'm sorry, we'll have to chop your hand off, but that's life." "I'm sorry, you'll have to warn for spoilers till perpetuity, but that's life.").
    fandom_lounge
    [ ladyrogue ]
         		12:12p
    SPN Meltdown?
    So apparently Jensen and Danneel are engaged. And yet, the Internet has yet to explode. Are the SPN fangirls on vacation or something??
    Sunday, November 8th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ darksumomo ]
         		11:24p
    Youmacon slideshow
    Metromix: Youmacon 2009

    The annual Youmacon anime convention held at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn ran Thursday through Sunday and brought out voice actors, costumed fans and vendors hawking everything from comic books to contact lenses.

    ETA: Party pics: Youmacon Anime Convention

    Current Mood: Fan-Tabulous
    sparklefield
    [ vzg ]
         		10:20a
    SNL's Digital Short, 11/7/09: Firelight
    Last night, SNL's Digital Short (the highlight of the show nowadays, I admit) was a Twilight parody in which the Bella character (played by Taylor Swift) fell for... a Frankenstein('s monster, if you want to be accurate about it). The Jacob character was also a mummy. It wasn't the best spoof out there, but I appreciated it. Bill Hader plays Philip Frank, the Edward character, anyway, and you just can't go wrong with Bill Hader.

    On top of that, it's just a particularly well done Digital Short in general: it's on a scale they don't usually come close to, and actually looks quite similar to Twilight. You can appreciate that, if nothing else! (...If you're a film dork who cares about those things like me, I guess.)

    If you have access to Hulu, you can watch it here. It's also currently on YouTube, but I'm not entirely sure how long that will last.
    Saturday, November 7th, 2009
    sparklefield
    [ darksumomo ]
         		10:56p
    RPatz goes all angsty about his character
    From the L.A. Times: Robert Pattinson's suicidal shirtless 'New Moon' scene was 'nerve-wracking'
    The Dish Rag by Elizabeth Snead

    Robert Pattinson describes how he felt when he stripped off his shirt and stepped into the light in "New Moon."

    "It was the closest moment I have really felt the emotional attachment to the character," he said at Friday afternoon's "Moon" junket, adding that there were so many emotionally involved extras in the Italian town square that day who had flown there to have roles in that scene.

    "Taking that one step into the light. ... That is the one moment since the first Comic-Con that I felt the whole weight of participation and responsibility as well. It was a good moment."

    He confesses that it was also "very nerve-wracking. I felt probably the most in-character I have felt in the whole series."

    The quote makes it seem like there are a bunch of Twi-hards as extras.

    Also, there is a video of RPatz angsting about the scene.

    Current Mood: apathetic
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