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Bitterness Barbie (she ain't smiling)
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| | Subject: | Also, she wants a pony? | | Time: | 12:14 am |
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| Is it just me or, with all the misused and abused commas, does this comment read like a list of FFR mod tags?
And is that the same person who kept misspelling "arc" as "arch"? Yay, a new name for my arbitrary shitlist! | comments: 5 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter   |
| | Subject: | Time for more Random *_W Pet Peeves Of The Day! | | Time: | 12:20 am |
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| When you're responding to a comment, and you find yourself quoting the entire comment in your response: DON'T. We'll manage to figure out what you're responding to, kthx. Aren't threaded comments beautiful that way?
argh. | | comments: 4 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | No brain is safe. | | Time: | 01:36 am |
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| I saw a license plate today with the letters FPB.
I swear to God, I nearly cried. Not just because the plate exists, but because I STILL KNOW THAT FUCKER'S FULL NAME.
Why am I wasting such precious braincells on this crap? | | comments: face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | Color me concerned. | | Time: | 02:35 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/mood/classic/confused.gif) confused |
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| Since when did posting image macros in the wank comms become the Cool Thing To Do?
ETA: Oh, great. Can we screen/delete First Comment posts now too? You know, just because? | | comments: 42 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | Oh, the shame. | | Time: | 11:08 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/mood/classic/blush.gif) embarrassed |
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| Because a) there is, in fact, a limited number of ways I can amuse myself online, and b) there are only so many recreational activities in which I can indulge while parked directly in front of the AC, I've been amusing myself by going through the f_w archives. And dude, there are some serious gems there I missed the first time around. Like that Travelodge-con thing? Pure gold. I love it when the wankers mount an offensive and storm the battlements.
This has also entailed, on occasion, coming across some of my past comments on old wanks. And, well. Oy.
Things I Have Learned From History:
1) I've always been an annoying, too-serious pedant, and WTF is wrong with you people, that you've never called me on it?
2) I think I've managed to tone down the Outrage! Serious Business! thang I had going there for a while. This is a good step.
3) I was so totally into anime then, and I am so totally not now. My, how the winds doth blow.
4) I will never be that funny. The best I can hope for is the occasional aptly-placed snark.
5) Never wage a land war in Russia.
6) Um, why do you people like me, again?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go recall the troops. | | comments: 3 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | ::lights a cigarette:: | | Time: | 01:58 pm | | Current Mood: | Impish |
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| Well, that was ridiculously fun. My first honest-to-God flamewar since early 2003! (Ah, Usenet.)
Usually I can't be arsed, because I'm always convinced the other person has some kind of valid point, somewhere, and I'm just not seeing it. This guy? Nah. Not a chance. | | comments: 14 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | SERIOUS BUSINESS | | Time: | 12:09 pm | | Current Mood: | Holier-than-thou |
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| Open letter to fandom in general:
I... okay... granted, I understand people who get pissed off about wank, being wanked, anything wank-related, whatever. I like to think that if I ever saw my name up on FW's front page, I'd be okay with it and laugh it off, but it hasn't happened yet so I can't say for sure. And granted, some of y'all can get pretty pissy and mean-spirited. I'm just saying, some of you? It doesn't look like you're having much fun.
On the other hand, I just want to sit down fandom-as-a-whole and hand them a big fucking sign that says GET OVER IT.
Wank is fun for me. It kind of makes my life. I'm a bitch, people, I like to mock. I come off semi-nice in person because I'm rather shy, and fairly neutral online because I've learned the hard way that GUESS WHAT, IT DOESN'T MATTER AND IT'S REALLY NOT WORTH IT, and the only way I know how to behave is to assume that everyone else feels the same way, because guess what? IT'S NOT WORTH IT.
Three years of vaguely active FW participation later, I do have rules for myself. I won't post a wank involving friends of mine-- and I mean actual friends, not LJ "friends"-- unless I know they're okay with it. But you know what, when I do post? It's not because I hate you. It's not because I think you're stupid. It's because you made me happy, and I want to share the happy. I like sharing. Sharing is good. So are bananas, but that's a different topic altogether.
And folks who bemoan wank, who are all, "We're such a nice quiet sweet fandom! Why did this have to happen?" are just... what fandom planet are you living on? People are people, across the board. Wank happens. Either laugh at it or ignore it, but don't think any fandom, ever, is going to be all sweetness and light, all the time, because fandom is PEOPLE and we kind of suck sometimes. And then there are the people who wank their little hearts out, and obviously know they're doing it, and then O NOES they're on FW's front page and it's all our fault for stirring up shit, and that's really fucking disingenuous, because the other option is basically saying "I'm going to be a bitch in public, because I think that's appropriate at this particular juncture, but OH SHIT PEOPLE NOTICED AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT IT AND YOU'RE ALL SO MEAN."
(On an unrelated note, I totally blame my flist for my rampant capslock abuse. I used to be satisfied with just italics. They're just not EMPHATIC enough anymore. I feel so camp!)
Have the courage of your fucking convictions. You want to be a bitch? Own being a bitch. Don't be a bitch and then piss and moan because, oh look, someone's paying attention. FW's a really handy scapegoat for whatever your current fandom issue is, but guess what? No one turns up there because they were just innocently minding their own business. And on the rare occasions that does happen, it doesn't go unremarked upon (see ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) scotch's Freakishly Developed Cassie Claire Grudgewank Pecs And, Oh Yeah, Subsequent Banning 'Cause S/he's A Racist Fuckwit, But That's Neither Here Nor There).
Honestly, in some ways I think FW is a public service: it's a check on fandom, a not-so-gentle nudge that, hey, you're blowing this out of proportion and it's really not worth it. I so very totally wish they'd been around back when the Ray Wars were eating Due South fandom, because you know? If there'd been a bunch of people around then to tell us, "Hey, you know, this is stupid and it doesn't matter," maybe things wouldn't have gotten quite so out of hand as they did. And it's very possible I would've been smack-dab on the front page back then myself, but I think I would've survived. Because the alternative, as it came to pass, was being so very angry all the time about things that didn't make a fucking difference, to the point where I still hold grudges, like, eight years later, and I still remember sitting on the bus on my way home from school and composing angry e-mails in my little notebook about how very gravely all us RayK fans had been slighted and we were OMG SO OPPRESSED and, yeah, as much fun as it is sometimes to have a war to fight, I'm too tired now. I don't get into it with people, over anything really, because it's just not worth the effort. I stick with things I like and avoid things I don't, and that works really great for me. But far be it from me to deny anyone else that singular pleasure. Just don't deny me the corollary pleasure of laughing at you when I think you've taken things too far.
Your little corner of fandom is not a bubble. If you want to wank, wank. But if you don't want people to notice, for the love of God, lock it. Or at least think about it beforehand, and ask yourself, if you hate the idea of ending up on FW so very damn much, is it really worth doing whatever it is you plan to do that will inevitably land you there anyway?
I just honestly don't get the demonization of Fandom Wank. We're not evil. We're not the Ultimate Source of Doom and Destruction for all of fandom. We're just a bunch of bitches who like to laugh at things, and if you don't share that particular sense of humor, that's fine, but unless you've never been a bitch in your life, ever, where's the line drawn? What's acceptable to mock and what isn't? And if some of us are generally over the compulsion to wank, and prefer to stand on the sidelines and enjoy the Crazy Parade (and occasionally compare battle scars from when we marched ourselves, 'cause guess what, everybody wanks... sometimes), how exactly does that hurt you? You can leave the parade any time you want. But if you wanna march, march proud.
But if you do something wanky, get called on it, and then come out with, Oh no, I was afraid this would happen! THIS IS SO BAD, well... if I respected you before, I sure as hell don't now.
It's called cause and effect, bitches. Look it up. | | comments: 2 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | And... lamps. | | Time: | 04:28 pm | | Current Mood: | Bemused |
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| Just now, very recently, for just a few seconds, when you weren't here and you couldn't have seen, I suddenly found it very, very easy to think like a Harmonian.
There may have been laughter and sucking of trousers involved as well. | | comments: 3 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | DESPERATELY SEEKING MENSTRUATION | | Time: | 01:34 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/mood/classic/wink.gif) weird |
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| (now that I've got your attention or scared it away for good....)
Anyone remember that otf_wank thingy about the chick who painted in her own menstrual blood? The paintings that were surprisingly good, if substantially problematic? Anyone got a link to either the wank or the site itself?
I feel like I should explain myself. I deliberately choose not to.
Er, also, thanks? | | comments: 1 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
| | Subject: | "Look, kid, you took a sharp pointy object to your right temple. What the fuck did you expect?" | | Time: | 02:48 pm |
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| I'm not sure where this came from, but I felt like it had to be written. I honestly don't know if it's any good or not, so please let me know what you think.
Dead Like Me fic, wherein Rube introduces Mason to undeath. Title is tentative for now; if you have any better suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em.
I was just intrigued by the fact that, for all Mason's a fuck-up, he seems in the pilot at least to take the reaping thing very seriously. And I wondered why.
( 'Employment Prospects' (1/1) ) | | comments: 4 won't admit defeat or face-down in the gutter |
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Bitterness Barbie (she ain't smiling)
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