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    Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ sistercoyote ]
         		3:26p
    LJ, redux
    Is LJ being exceptionally robust, or is it just me?  Vandalism by pissed-off ex-employees?

    It's probably just me.  But I can't get to LJstatus to find out for sure, so I thought I'd post here.

    Sorry to bother everyone (okay, I'm not.  Not really.)

    Edited to add:  Okay, not just me, then.  On the one hand, Phew.  On the other hand...I bet this has the potential to become epic.  Even when it turns out to be just a hiccup.

    Edited again to add:  Now when LJ comes up it shows the following message:  LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.

    Thank you for your patience.

    Final edit:  It's baa-ack.  And I'm going to the bookstore.
    fandom_lounge
    [ sushi ]
         		5:15p
    RIP, GJ.
    And GreatestJournal is dead.

    http://www.greatestjournal.com

    A week in the new year, and two journaling services are already dead? That's harsh. Check out the 403 error.
    fandom_lounge
    [ hypno_jango ]
         		11:31a
    While gamer sites are doing the "Best/Worst of 2008" awards, Zero Punctuation decides to do one too... but a little bit differently.
    Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ anarchicq ]
         		6:54p
    Portollies.com poll
    Doubtless you saw this in Metafandom, but I thought I'd post it here too.
    Portfollies.com poll

    "Portfollies will be a social networking website where people can upload their portfolios (text, image, video and audio files), both original and fan works. The website will also offer communities/forums, and a variety of tools to help with creation and communication."
    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.
    fandom_lounge
    [ arionhunter ]
         		11:16a
    Your Daily Dose of Adorable
    2.1-Meter-Tall Pine-Cone Totoro Unveiled in Japan.

    If only that had been in the Rose Bowl Parade, I might have watched.
    fandom_lounge
    [ ilya ]
         		9:57p
    LJ going under?
    The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.

    The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.

    Source

    Can you imagine the amazing bitchfest wankery that would go on if anything happened to LJ??? The internet would implode...
    Monday, January 5th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ shark ]
         		8:32p
    A Request for Recs
    This one is for my mom - she just finished reading Phantom of the Opera (book, obviously) and wants to know where the fandom is - or at least where the fanfiction is: if anyone could rec me some good bookverse fic* I would be very, very much obliged. Good mimickry of Gaston Leroux's style (in the puffin classics translation) is a gigantic bonus.

    Also one from/for myself - now that I've exhausted Yuletide's offerings and am already in the middle of the Dragonchoice duology (it's good!) - is there any other good Dragonriders of Pern fic on the net? I'll read most anything, although I really like metay fic.

    * (gen or het, ideally; I think she would freak if I linked her slash. Also, non-porny, since I would freak at sending links to porn to my mom)
    Sunday, January 4th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ negativecosine ]
         		6:25p
    Disney Buys Fanlib
    Written up here by [info]stewardess.

    (May shortly be wanky, but not provocative enough for [info]clairvoyantwank just yet, I thought.)
    Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ staroverthebay ]
         		8:31p
    Pratchett recs?
    Okay, I think this is the place to post this, but if it's not, let me know and I'll delete it. It seems to pertain to "fandom" as a general rule.

    Anyway, the news about Terry Pratchett being knighted has inspired me to pick up the books I've had sitting around waiting to read. I've finished "Mort" and I'm most of the way through "Wyrd Sisters" and while I can say that I love Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the character I'm really in love with is Death himself. (God that sounds weird!)

    Being that I'm pretty much broke right now (car payments, credit card payments, car repairs and now I'm going back to school... I has no money to spare on things like novels!) I have to reserve them at the library through their transfer system, and the transfer system is not very good at giving decent book descriptions beyond author, title, year published and format (hardcover vs softbound). So what I'd like to know is this: which books focus most on Death and his household? Because I seriously love his laid-back everything-in-due-time attitude, and I'd love to read more of his escapades. I'm sure I'll enjoy any Pratchett book I pick up, but I'm really eager to read the books about Death. (Why do I get this weird feeling that I sound like an emo-gothic-wannabe when I say that?)
    fandom_lounge
    [ freezer ]
         		7:22p
    Got an account on JournalSpace?
    Not anymore, you don't.

    Journalspace is no more.

    DriveSavers called today to inform me that the data was unrecoverable.

    Here is what happened: the server which held the journalspace data had two large drives in a RAID configuration. As data is written (such as saving an item to the database), it's automatically copied to both drives, as a backup mechanism.

    The value of such a setup is that if one drive fails, the server keeps running, using the remaining drive. Since the remaining drive has a copy of the data on the other drive, the data is intact. The administrator simply replaces the drive that's gone bad, and the server is back to operating with two redundant drives.

    But that's not what happened here. There was no hardware failure. Both drives are operating fine; DriveSavers had no problem in making images of the drives. The data was simply gone. Overwritten.


    For all the bitching we do about LJ and (occasionally) JF, at least their backups actually back things up.
    fandom_wank
    [ aeka ]
         		3:26p
    fandom_lounge
    [ vitalitat ]
         		10:05a
    New Doctor actor is youngest ever

    Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.

    ( Text of article )


    ETA!
    MORE IMAGES? Is this the right guy now?

    ( Fixed the cut, sorry )

    Yeah, that's him... The Viggo thing kind of went out the window just now.

    ETA 3:
    Hasn't Tyra taught us anything at all? ANGLES. It's all about the angles.

    ETA 4:
    And now a video interview.
    Friday, January 2nd, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ photosinensis ]
         		7:43p
    Naruto Shippuden on Hulu? Sign me up!
    Remember that post about Crunchyroll going legit? One of the first things they're picking up is Naruto Shippuden, which will run on Crunchyroll with subtitles an hour after the show runs in Japan for the paid members there. Joost.com, Hulu.com, and Naruto.com will run the episodes for free a week later. This will start with the next episode, running on January 8.

    In addition, subtitled episodes will be uploaded to all above websites at 8/week until the entire catalog is available.

    In related news, Dattebayo has dropped Naruto Shippuden from its subtitling rounds.

    I'd like to start a betting pool on when the wank will begin.
    fandom_lounge
    [ tree ]
         		8:43p
    Did you know...
    ... that TV Tropes was on twitter? I didn't. I almost wish I still didn't.
    fandom_lounge
    [ seto_fangirl ]
         		12:42p
    11th Doctor Who to be announced tomorrow.....

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7807742.stm

    Countdown to wanksplosion somewhere in the fandom tomorrow....
    Thursday, January 1st, 2009
    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
    fandom_lounge
    [ aeka ]
         		12:27p
    Regrettable Trends of 2008
    With 2008 coming to a close today and Hello! 2009, MSN has published their annual "Regrettable Trends of 2008" to wrap up the year.

    Among their list of regrettable trends this year include:

    - Celebrity Pornstaches
    - Sing-Along Movies (aka Musicals)
    - Name Hybrids
    - Boobs of Youtube
    - Facebook
    - Twilight...

    You get the picture. xD
    fandom_lounge
    [ anon_a_mouse ]
         		8:08a
    Sir Terry Pratchett. Oook?
    To lighten up the mood, just in time for New Years.
    Terry Pratchett Knighted.
    Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
    fandom_wank
    [ kalloway ]
         		4:02p
    At the intersection of FFVII and FFR...
    When [info]shezoo reposts hir Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children fanfic, "Flower Face", to [info]ffvii_yaoi (locked, comm is open membership), the response is seemingly underwhelming - that is until [info]eternalwings posts to [info]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 [info]renos_rude AND [info]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 [info]shezoo is [info]sepherotica is [info]ssgallery is [info]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?
    Monday, December 29th, 2008
    fandom_lounge
    [ seto_fangirl ]
         		7:44p
    Is it just me or is LJ acting very weird again tonight?
    fandom_wank
    [ bishounenhideto ]
         		9:58a
    Vintage Update
    Does anyone remember this wank from awhile back? http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1157179.html

    I know Taral Wayne from the above article, personally, and while it took awhile for him to get around to seeing the article, he did finally see it. He felt it was well-written, as factual as could be, and had few problems with it. He did feel people might like to hear more directly from him, so provided me with a brief article. I'll include it below.

    use
    Sunday, December 28th, 2008
    fandom_lounge
    [ hangingfire ]
         		2:46p
    Joan Winston in the NY Times
    In the annual "The Lives They Lived" issue of the NY Times Magazine, Rob Walker contributes a lovely appreciation of Joan Winston. Arguably not precisely deathwatch-related, even if it is an obituary of sorts, because alongside Walker offers some interesting observations about media fandom, the role that the internet has played in fandom in recent years, and changes in perception of media fandom since Winston organized the first Trek convention. An excellent short read—check it out.

    Non-fandom-related and also worth reading: Well, pretty much the entire issue, but I call particular attention to the essays about Mildred Loving (really touching), Levi Stubbs and Dee Dee Warwick, Bobby Fischer, John List (disturbing and fascinating), Steve Fossett, and Eula Mae Doré (which, along with the Loving essay, almost made me start crying over brunch at the local coffeeshop).

    Current Mood: thoughtful
    fandom_lounge
    [ spawn_of_kong ]
         		2:29p
    Primeval fans, anyone?
    If this is inappropriate, let me know ASAP and I'll delete.

    Just wondering if there's anyone out there on JF who, like me, is a fan of ITV's Primeval.  If so, how much are you looking forward to the third season airing in January, and what sorts of things do you expect/think will/might happen?

    Current Mood: curious
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    [ stinksap ]
         		12:14p
    Thundercats Ho!
    Amazing fanvid for a fictional live action Thundercats movie.

    http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/22/votd-live-action-thundercats-movie/
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