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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
otf_wank
[ ladylauren ]
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1:54a
NaNo: not just for wordsmushing any more!
(As an aside before I begin, marienbadmylove has been AWOL since November 1st. Either he picked up his someone else's ball and went home, or he's finally collapsed under the weight of his ego. Just thought you'd like to know.)
So, there's a new troll on the NaNo block, specifically in the Saskatoon (and sometimes Melbourne) regional forum.
( The batshit began... well, it's hard to say exactly where it all began. )
( But it doesn't end there. It continues in the Saskatoon/Melbourne region war thread. )
( Of course there was a final hoorah. )
TL;DR: Bizarre troll is bizarre. Really, really bizarre.
Sadly (or not) this is AlanHolman's last contribution to NaNoWriMo, as he finally got banned for being a complete knobhead, amongst other things (such as repeated violations of the site rules and the code of conduct). He has threatened to come back under another name to carry on his posting. I respectfully suggest 'ArseHoleman'. It's an accurate description, after all.
current mood: accomplished
current music: The Format -- 'Dog Problems'
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(107 comments | comment on this) Friday, November 6th, 2009
otf_wank
[ mydemand ]
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4:37a
so wanky it's illegal!
Lime Crime Makeup is a line of eyeshadow and lipstick by fashion blogger Doe Deere (Xenia), mainly known for its strong and unusual pigments.
Recently Lime Crime's come under fire for allegedly repackaging pigments by other companies such as Beauty of the Earth and TKB Trading. As more and more blogs post their own comparisons, others pop up to speak about past customer service experiences, including a post from Lillian who claims that Xenia called her mother an "asshole" for buying a dress of hers that was hemmed with duct/gaffer tape.
There is apparently a long history of Xenia's shenanigans, sparked by comments on an article on Lime Crime in the Examiner. The comments haven't all been positive (a lot of them have been deleted), but most damning is a comment allegedly by Xenia calling her customers stupid for choosing her overpriced products.
This saga inspires Lipsticks and Lightsabers to start be part of the Mineral Makeup Mutiny (edit: this comment by ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) peonypavilion explains more) which highlights and supports companies that make their own mineral makeup. Meanwhile, there's been some investigation into her lipsticks, with Xenia's post on making lipstick (as well as the later one on making eyeshadows) attracting strong skepticism.
Yesterday, Xenia posted a video speaking out against the "haters", which rubs Lilian the wrong way as she feels she's unfairly being considered a liar. Xenia's response to her was (to Lilian's surprise) civil and composed; however, the same can't be said of Doe Deere commentor Mary, who thinks Lilian's only got a grudge because she's fat and that Lilian's on a power trip. (edit: Lillian's video about her issues with Xenia.)
Edit:
Xenia's entry with her video is closed to comments! (The ones already posted are still there though.)
eyeshadowsluts' posts about Lime Crime, as mentioned by eleutheria.
Blasts from the past via meanestbastard: The duct tape dress (Xenia's comments have been deleted), Where has the raffle money gone?, "violation of copyright", the mystery raffle winner, her journal's gone friends-only, relisting things that didn't sell. Oh and also Internet & copyright law fail.
Edit 2:
An insider's look at LBG drama. (The post itself is drama-free but does give some background.)
Edit 3:
A lone objective voice about this whole shabang-a-bang.
I'm somewhat surprised Xenia hasn't found this yet and threatened to take me down! does ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) otf_wank do anon comments?
Edit 4:
I posted a non-wanky version of this on MetaFilter (mainly to highlight the video of Miss K/Aromaleigh making eyeshadow) and they call shenanigans:
( cut for length )
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(88 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
(114 comments | comment on this) Saturday, October 31st, 2009
(156 comments | comment on this)
fandom_wank
[ galateus ]
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9:23a
This wank based on true events. [now with baleetion]
I read the strangest rant today. How strange you say? So strange no one can agree just whether it's even a rant at all!
OP replies to requests to clarify, a few times, while a brave idealist attempts first contact, before realizing only a sucker would try to breach such impenetrable walls of WTF.
A random potshot at someone's fic-writing skills prompts the best simile ever.
The more persistent commenters dig through the layers of Bizarro-talk until they uncover the truth: OP is... 'anti-criticism'?
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE SMILEYS.
And shattered idealism is shattered.
ETA: aslongasitlasts has studied the people of FFR. He's like a magic 8-ball, in a way.
And wank_report has some too.
ETA2: Modly intervention. But he wants to be banned. No, really.
ETA s'more: Post got blanked and F-locked. Comm membership is open, though.
The ETA Apocalypse Now: Comments are being baleeted at random, and the original post is replaced by the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's the final troll blowout, people.
ETA Captain Obvious:: Oh, so that's what started it. Taunting the mod, and then deleting comments (A no-no in ffr^2). He's banned now, but you wouldn't know because the mod comment that said that is... deleted!
ETA Cry For Justice: There are 409 Google caches of the wank still with pre-baleetion comments. Saving the ones I can before they update.
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(154 comments | comment on this) Thursday, October 29th, 2009
otf_wank
[ ladylauren ]
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9:07p
My word count is pastede on yay, back for 2009!
Some of you may remember this wank from last year, revolving around a certain individual who decided to claim he'd 'won' NaNoWriMo by copying and pasting pages from Wikipedia and so on into Word and then using find and replace until it was a 'completely new and unique literary work'.
Well, he's back. With his profile page proudly boasting of last year's 'achievement' thusly:
My debut with NaNoWriMo was in 2008, when I completed a 2.5-million-word draft titled "The President Who Exploded." This work is what I call a “non-linear literary collage.” It consists of materials I mined from various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites. I'm a word rustler. I prowl the talk pages of Wikipedia, the reader comments on io9.com and various venues frequented by anonymous bloggers. I shamelessly plagiarize their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- then transform the stolen content into a new and unique literary product through a series of computer-assisted modifications (cut-up engines, Markov generators, search and replace functions, etc.) and combinations with recycled content from my own writings. These are techniques I first explored in “Marienbad My Love,” the world's longest novel. Released in 2008, this 17-million-word creation also sets records for the world's longest word, sentence and book title.
Which, notably, is copypasta from his own website. Self-plagiarism must be the literary equivalent of sitting on your hand until it goes numb before masturbating.
Modus operandi announced, he trots into the 'Reaching the MILLION ...... NaNoWriMo 2009' The following exchange ensues:
marienbadmylove: I logged 2.5 million words last year. I'm swinging for 999,999-plus again this time. Let the good times roll!
Kateness: you know I don't think your words count, on the basis of our disagreement last year.
BUT
because the rules explicitly say I can't call you a cheater, I won't, because god knows that rule has helped me in the past, and we'll just leave it at that. If you think it's a win, it's a win (Just kindly keep your hands off any excerpts I may post, and my blog if you're so inclined), and that's all I'm going to say about this.
marienbadmylove: Ah, but how can you stop me? *snip some drivel about William Burroughs*
Dragonchilde (forum moderator extraordinaire: OH NO YOU DIDN'T *cites rules stating why he can't threaten to steal other Wrimos' writing*
marienbadmylove: *more gibberish about Burroughs that is kind of really not applicable in this situation at all*
Rest of responses: *dogpile without explicitly calling him a cheater* The best of which is Angolera's: There's a huge difference between writing 2.5 million words and using 2.5 million words.
marienbadmylove: *disappears from thread*
But where is he now? Oh, here he is, announcing his intention to hit 50,000 words on Day One to give himself a 'little cushion' on his way to the million. Please note he never states he's going to write these words, and is yet to return to the thread to pass comment on whether he is typing these words or using a voice recognition system. Funny about that.
And it's not even November yet...
Edit: Classic response from painkillers regarding the need of someone shooting for a million to sleep: Sleep? SLEEP? sleep is for writers, I'm a conceptual artist I am. ga ga goo goo ga ga, gin gang gooly, see it is the conception of the words that matter, not the words themselves. i don't need to sleep, because i don't use my brain -- for anything.
Son of edit: He reaches 50K!
current mood: Dramatic
current music: Crowded House -- 'There Goes God'
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(126 comments | comment on this) Monday, October 26th, 2009
fandom_wank
[ anarchicq ]
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1:15p
This wanklet was brought to you by the letters T & A...
Caution: There are some NSFW links in the forums.
So!
A while ago on the ToughPigs forum, there was discussion about American Apparel making Sesame Street shirts.
Most of the comments were "...huh..."
One such shirt was, as I call it, Big Metro Bird. Then most of the comments became "...ew." followed by a rousing chorus of "hipster douches!"
One poster asks how this is any worse than this Miss Piggy center-fold. (Yes, you read that right.)
So, ToughPigs bloggers look around while the forum talks about the merits of Sex Sells and how America just have to get over Naked Boobies. Finally ToughPigs comes across an ad featuring a girl with her snootchie hanging out, while wearing a Sesame Street T-shirt. They blog, with some scathing words to American Apparel.
And then, it turns out Sesame Street, in fact, did NOT agree to do this team up with AA, even though the spokespeople for AA insisted that they did...
Comments are generally amusing and shocked (Shocked!) and of the "My childhood!" variety.
current mood: Righteous
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