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Subject:Oy.
Time:11:45 am
Sometimes I wish I were more of a shit-stirrer by nature. Because I am so itching to strap my bitch on here.

But there's just something so pathetic and pitiful about that post, and I just... upon reflection, really can't be bothered to make the effort.

Still. WTF DUDE. NO ONE CARES.

EDIT: ...and deleted. For anyone who might be curious:
REALLY off-topic, delete if you want :)

Hi guys,

I have been accepted to University College London for next year!!!! Yay! I gotta think up some way of getting money, the tuition fees are unbelievable....
So..I don`t know what to think now. I am so excited! But I`m not coming home until I meet them! You hear?

i wonder what my odds are....:)

and sorry for the off-topicity, i will delete this immediately if requested.
Posted in a Life on Mars fan community. I say again, whut?
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Subject:For the record. For whatever the record is worth.
Time:05:41 pm
I agree with [info]t_boy here.

I don't know if that matters, or anyone cares, but I'm curious whether most people don't. Agree with him, I mean. And as another Fandom Wank Muslim (we should have a list! and our own tired old in-joke!), I wonder if somehow neither of us got the memo that Islamist is the same as Muslim. Hell, I used to get pissed off when people said Islamist because that's not the correct term, until I picked up on the implied distinction. (And it totally makes sense! Muslim are followers of Islam, Islamists use Islam. One's about God and one's about politics.)

So there. If he's wrong, we're both wrong.

EDIT: Okay, so I finished actually reading the thread (I, um, thought it ended with the [info]ealusaid exchange? and didn't notice all the other comments?) and I'm not quite sure what I'm agreeing with him about anymore. I thought the disagreement was over whether Islamist is a slur against all Muslims? And I don't think it is. THERE, I'VE SAID IT.

it's hard being me. shut up.
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Subject:The horse ain't beaded, it's fucking macramed.
Time:03:38 pm
Along with screening macros, I want to start deleting any and all threads like this one. NO MERCY.

BECAUSE NOBODY FUCKING CARES.
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Subject:Statuary weeps.
Time:10:42 am
Oh, [info]staroverthebay. She was so mildly inoffensive for so long! AND THEN THE CAGE CAME DOWN.
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Subject:Icon meme... thingy.
Time:09:50 am
You know what it is. I'm not explaining. I should be writing a paper right now and I'm not, and that makes me cranky.

From [info]ashenmote:
icons thisaway )

From [info]mindset (redundancies omitted, see above):
eeee, more icons )

I can explain more, if you guys want! Or demand elucidation in turn! Hit me.
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Subject:Feel free to do your job. You know, if you really want to.
Time:10:18 am
Hello, stupidity!

I did read that, but I didn't realise it was a community solicitation. I apologise and ask that you delete this post if I did do it wrong.

Here's a couple ideas:

1) ASK FIRST.

2) DELETE YOUR OWN DAMN SELF.

Gah.
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Subject:Woe! Thwarted!
Time:11:43 am
How is it possible that nobody has a Tom Servo doll for sale? Or, rather: no one has a Servo doll for under 200 freakin' bucks?

I totally want a stuffed Servo, y'all. Is there someplace I could, like, commission one? For perhaps a price that would remain in the double digits?
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Subject:Teal deer roundup
Time:07:38 pm
Thoughts inspired by recent wank reports, as I have the good grace not to post them in the reports themselves except for that one time I totally did, and therefore feel I deserve a medal of some kind.

Supernatural casting spoiler c.wank )

Supernatural casting spoilers cont. )

SPN ffrants c.wank )
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Subject:Yes, but are they any good?
Time:07:18 am
Bandom makes my inner music snob cry bitter, bitter tears.

Also, Nirvana totally did stagegay first. Except for whoever did stagegay before Nirvana. They did it first too.
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Subject:Meme time!
Time:05:13 pm
Dude, I don't think I've ever done one of these here. Prepare to learn about me, ye unwashed masses!

[info]snacky asked me five questions:

1) What is your favorite online game and why?

For the longest time it was Boggle at games.com, because I like word games and I like competing against other people, and anything more complicated and/or action-packed just gives me undue stress. Minimal time investment, and the illusion of improving my mental faculties while playing!

And then the Boggle went away and I was sad, and now I play Bejeweled, which is a) a gigantic time-suck and b) far less educational. Unless I'm ever called upon to shift brightly-colored objects into pleasing patterns. I can only hope that one day the fate of the world will depend on it.

2) How long have you been in fandom? Has it taught you any important life lessons?

Since 1997. Which is, holy fuck, ten years now, HELP. My dad got a new computer with a 28.8k modem (!!!!) about the same time I started watching Buffy, and it was all downhill from there.

Important life lessons? The internet is for porn Most things just aren't worth the energy. The drama, the arguments, the wank, none of it. I did my time as a flame-happy 14-year-old, and it was exhausting. Much better to point and laugh from the sidelines, then go have a nice cup of tea.

Also, it's taught me I have an obsessive personality and absolutely no willpower, but that's less empowering.

3) As a fandom_wank mod, do you abuse your power in any way (like, Apo screens macros, I screen "first comment" comments, that kind of thing)? Would you like to? ;-)

I don't! I'd feel too guilty, I think. Maybe I should work on that. First on my hitlist is everyone who posts "DUDE I CAN'T ACCESS THE COMMENT PAGES! JF IS BUSY! WHAT UP?" Refresh, you fuckers, it's not that hard.

4) What's the one thing you own that works so well that you would recommend everyone purchase it?

Eep. That's hard. Most of my toys break. It's just tough love, I swear.

Well, my favorite toy is a little device thingy that hooks up my laptop to the TV, so I can watch video files on the big(ger) screen and also record them to VHS if I so desire. For which I am soundly mocked, as I am, apparently, the only person in the history of EVER who downloads watchable goodies and then commits them to VHS tapes. I embrace my obsolescence!

5) Do you like swimming in oceans, lakes or pools?

Oceans are the best. I love swimming in general, but water's kinda boring when it just sits there. At the ocean, the water fights back. Pools are second; lakes just make me feel dirty. And not in a fun way.


If anyone comments, I may ask you questions in return. Then again, I may forget all about it. I make no promises (just helpful suggestions).
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Subject:AHAHAHAHA.
Time:08:11 pm
So stupid it's fucking brilliant.

What would be the more amusing course of action: to suspend her JF, or to say "tits proof of age or gtfo"?
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Subject:Big cum load!
Time:09:50 pm
Current Mood:*sporfle!*
This just might be my favorite anon comment ever. It is so full of fail in so very many different ways!

The saddest part? No one ever actually explained the whole LJ /= JF thing to her. Woe.
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Subject:Oh lord.
Time:05:33 pm
Current Mood:Holier-than-thou
Please, please somebody stop me from wanking up a storm in my and/or someone else's LJ any more than I already have.

'Cause talking about "the fragility of fandom's place in the wider world of the internets" makes me want to LET SLIP THE DOGS OF BITCHSLAP.

Jesus fuck, people. As shocking as it may seem, fandom existed before LJ. Hell, fandom existed before the internet, even! Shocking, I know! And if-- IF-- by some tiny infinitesimal chance, fandom as a whole gets booted from LJ? FANDOM WILL NOT WITHER AND DIE. We'll find some new space to colonize and commence spreading like a fungal infection.

Maybe that's what's been bugging me about this whole shitstorm. I have very little patience for premature, uninformed doomsaying. Like, for example, declaring that bringing in Amanda Tapping is going to RUIN SGA FOREVER AND EVER before season 4 has even aired anywhere in the world, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms right there.

Dude, I love LJ because it's easy (heh) and centralized. But it is not the be-all/end-all of fandom. I've seen people going on about how they're so disappointed by LJ, feel so outraged and betrayed, and these are the people who apparently had a much higher opinion of the folks in charge than I ever did. LJ is not your girlfriend who braids your hair at sleepovers and pinky-swears with you on "chicks before dicks!" They do dumb-ass shit. Expect them to do dumb-ass shit. All you folks moaning on about how LJ has broken your trust and whatnot? I humbly suggest you just be grateful that they actually took the trouble to admit and correct their mistake, then move on with your lives.

...thank God I didn't write any of this in my actual LJ. That could've ended badly!

sigh.
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Subject:Tales of the IP!
Time:10:18 pm
(Subtitled: Yet More Random Tales of Wanks Past)

I continue to be LEET IP DETECTIVE!

Er, three years after the fact.

Does anyone remember this antiyaoi wank where... someone liked yaoi, and some other people didn't, and some people got sad about it? And then some fuckwit anon, "sal," came along and started talking about how the OP cuts herself?

Then this happened. Same IP address (172.201.231.43). Same fuckwit anon. I am so confused.

I suspect that if the post hadn't been f-locked, s/h/it would've ended up having a flamewar with s/h/itself. Which would've been awesome.
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Subject:SPN wank on the horizon!
Time:10:41 pm
Current Mood:OMGWTF
(Note how I'm not posting this on [info]clairvoyantwank, because I have no actual threads to link to at this time! LEARN FROM MY EXAMPLE, MUPPETS.)

So apparently some skeevy things went down at... some SPN con or other? Wherein one fangirl, like, physically launched herself at Jensen and had to be pried off, and another asked pointed Wincest-related questions at the Q&A?

yeeeeeeeah. CRACK A WINDOW, FANDOM.

Heads up, wank up. And this, this is why I will never, ever go to another actor-attended con in my life if I can help it. The one where icky fanboy requested, nay, demanded full-body contact from Hudson Leick was bad enough. Crazy fans + object of mass adoration = me hiding in a corner rocking back and forth in abject shame-by-association.

EDIT: WTF, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream? Where you hiding the cookie dough?
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Subject:Public Service Announcement (with guitars!)
Time:11:45 pm
One more reason, as if we needed it, why [info]community_care is a tool:

From this wank, she goes back to the OP, posts an exceedingly stupid question, and then blames the Hive Vagina. And gets snotty about it.

Not exactly trolling? But close enough to the line that I wish I could hop back in time and mod-punch her ass.

(If this is already common knowledge, blow me mea culpa. I am damned proud of my poking FW memories because I'm bored as hell detective skills.)
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Subject:The wank gods hath forsaken me.
Time:08:11 pm
::prods FW memories::

Dude, have there really never been any Oz or Rescue Me wanks? What up with that?
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Subject:Defending the wankers is the new mocking the wankers.
Time:02:30 am
Current Mood:Succinct
STFU, Jenni.
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Subject:Nail in the coffin?
Time:04:39 pm
Current Mood:Ranty McRantyPants
Subtitled: Ahahaha, TWoP.

Sub-subtitled: "I found myself starting to post this in the comments, bitchslapped myself, and retreated back to my own JF in shame and minor arousal."

(Sub-sub-subtitled: "I have a big-ass bandaid on my middle finger, so typing's gonna be a bitch and a half.")

So, TWoP. What up? You know how indie kids are always all, "Oh woe, my favorite band is popular, so they suck now!" and we mock and laugh at them for it? I totally feel that way about TWoP, which means I have to mock and laugh at myself, which is maybe not as new an experience as you might think. But I have logic! Sort of! Because, Way Back In The Day (damnkidsgetoffmylawn), TWoP was this small thing that was, like, property of the internet. Maybe I'm weird, but I get all twitchy when the real world starts creeping into my online experience. Like, when TWoP started getting actual print news coverage, that's my cue to back away slowly. Also-- well, I don't know, maybe they were all stuffed up each other's asses back then too, but the rampaging superiority complexes (complexii? complectes?) were less obvious. And most importantly? They used to be funny.

Now they're Real World Famous, they're corporate or summat, they're clearly raging self-righteous dicks, and they are not funny. I used to collect crack-my-shit-up quotes from the various recaps. (In fact, they're right over here, complete with my "squee!twop!" fangirl header.) Now they're just... I don't know what the hell they're doing, but when I've stopped laughing and started rolling my eyes and making loud, exasperated sounds, the Magic is Gone.

The comment that got me almost-tl;dr-ing over at CW: "Thank goodness. Because 'The West Wing' is no longer in production and therefore I no longer frequent TWOP. If 'In Justice' or '3lbs' had been picked up, I might have been in trouble."

They cover a lot of my favorite shows. (Not all, granted, and once upon a time I would've cried over the lack of NCIS recaps, but now I consider it a blessing.) That's kind of the problem. Their recaps sap all the fucking joy out of the shows. Not because the recappers are OMGMEEN, but because they just suck.

Off the top'a my head:

Farscape: OH MY GOD JACOB SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Doctor Who: See above. How the hell did this humorless twat end up in charge of my favorite cracked-out sci-fi shows? (And what the hell is someone who hates Terry Pratchett doing recapping DW in the first place?)

House: Is Sara M. still doing the recaps? I vaguely remember her being booted. Whoever's doing them now, they're not outright offensive to my delicate sensibilities, just... unmemorable, I guess. With a show that gives such great fodder for snark, you'd think they'd do better. Also, "Cottages" kinda sets my teeth on edge, because it's non-intuitive (took me about five minutes of "whaaa?" to get the reference, but maybe I'm just dumb like that) and because Sara M. obviously started calling 'em Cottages because it was someone else on the forums who came up with "Ducklings," not an Almighty Recapper, and that just wouldn't do (or maybe I'm just paranoid and crotchety like that).

Supernatural: Oh, Demian, Demian, Demian. We really, really don't care about your flaming gay-as-fuck pet demon Raoul. And your virulent, kneejerk hatred of all things heterosexual is really starting (starting?) to grate. And that's as far as I'm willing to go on that subject without descending knee-deep into the splooge.

Veronica Mars: Couch Baron's one of the most tolerable of the lot, but having Rob Thomas's tongue wedged so firmly up his ass is really starting to sour me on the show in general, and especially the recaps-- how many "shoutout!"s can you take, really? Especially when there's a good chance at least half of them really are shoutouts. Urgh. Even typing the word is enough to give me hives now.

Dude. Guys. YOU USED TO BE FUNNY. Now you're just a) meanspirited (which is FINE, don't get me wrong, as long as you're also FUNNY, which you're NOT), b) fawning, c) unamusingly random (to accomplish amusingly random, learn from the fine example of djb), d) pompous and long-winded (yes, Jacob, I am LOOKING AT YOU), e) totally and completely missing the point (see: Demian's latest SPN recap, some House recaps that I'm sure [info]m_butterfly could gladly point out), or f) some tragic and bloody combination of the above.

Yeah, being purchased by Bravo ain't gonna kill the site. For all practical purposes (i.e., as far as I'M concerned, which is clearly all that matters), it's already a lumbering corpse.
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Subject:GIP!
Time:04:27 pm
I have absolutely no idea what prompted this icon, but it amuses me.
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