Truth Amid the Noise

This community's grown a lot since we first set it up, and we, your friendly mods, think it is past time to clarify the rules. This is just an expansion of what has been in the userinfo, and it will be going into the userinfo shortly: no major changes, but please read them over again, and we will be able to keep the community running smoothly.

1. Follow JF's ToS. You can get banned from JF for breaking the no-posting flocked material rule (stuff that was always under flock from the start). So, just don't do it.

2. Try to keep arguments and debates from turning into bloodbaths. Heated exchanges are one thing; "It's a good thing I don't know where you live, because I'd come and cut you, you stupid cunt" is another. Offenders can be banned temporarily at the moderator's discretion, for any reason. Repeat offenders may be banned permanently. Temporary bans will last a week. Notification of a ban is a courtesy extended to community members.

3. If you're posting the equivalent of 92 theses nailed to a church door, LJ-cut is your friend.

4. This community is not officially associated with any other wank communities. Their guidelines do not automatically apply here (but use common sense). We take no responsibility for what happens to you if you post unfunny things in those communities.

5. There are very few limits on what topics may be posted here. Some examples: There doesn't have to be any actual wank before a link is posted here. unfunnybusiness posts do not have to be fandom related, but fandom and internet issues can be here too. Tl;dr and thoughts on yaoi are welcome, no really, and we mean it when we say "unfunny". Having an opinion on serious issues is encouraged (yes, even if you're the OP). And anything is serious business enough to post here, as long as there are people who want to discuss the unfunny aspects. Yes, even if there's already a post somewhere else that's mocking the same topic.

6. Real names or initials, and links containing the same, are not allowed on the comm unless the name is mentioned on a news story, part of their internet handle or publicly used on that person's personal site or blog. The blogosphere doesn't count as a news site.

7. If you're not certain if a link or other content is appropriate for the community, ask a mod: melannen (melannen at yahoo) or pyratejenni (pyratejenni at gmail). If you can't be bothered to ask, you don't need to post either. Questions about the moderation of the community should be e-mailed to both of the mods.

GMCLA does 'Cell Block Tango'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4se7auC-6bo

Fabulous!

I keep starting and dropping the books in a struggle between my curiosity boosted by all the posts in f_w and (lack of) tolerance for books focusing on high school romance, and a description of vampires I came across a few times sounds like a strange joke, so I thought I'd check its veracity here.

The vampires' eyes are a deep crimson when they feed on humans, but golden if their diet is animal-based. Now, maybe cannibalism of sorts does make differently sourced blood do different things, but I keep having visits from Logic with the following riddle:

red eyes : consumed blood = golden eyes : ???

D:

Please, writers, think things through!

Hello, wankahs! It is the most holy of days, my birthday.

There were a lot of ideas about how to celebrate it. The most prominent and the only one I can currently remember was to let Snacky out on all of you because she is full of a deep, dark anger welling up from pools within that I cannot even begin to comprehend. Well, mostly she was pissed off at all the genital-based insults being lobbed at someone for being a bad writer. But about other stuff, too!

Then I realized that would just end in tears. Except for Snacky, who would probably be on top of her mountain cackling while lightning struck in the background.

Being a peaceful toy dork, I decided on something that will make me happy. And hopefully The World, too!


No banning, no pranks, nothing elaborate.

I wants picspam.

Kittens, hot people (hot_daily has put the madness in me. Also, go there. It's quality), puppies (unless you're puppyfree), and actually, mostly cute animals.

During the discussion of the New York Twilight reading and Twilight Drunken Shenanigans, a lot of NYU pride started flying around.

So how about a meetup?

Based on location and time, I suggest this: a showing of an anime movie called The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, next Saturday and Sunday at the IFC Center Theater (6th Ave/3rd Street, a few blocks from Washington Square Park).

I've had at least one nibble of interest, but I wanted to throw the doors wide: are NYU-area JFers (or those from areas nearby) interested? If so, which works better, Saturday or Sunday? Anybody completely opposed to an anime showing? &c.

Sound off!

Lewis Black's show Root of All Evil had a Scientology Vs Disney episode. What a matchup!

nemesishamartia posts yet another rant about gay guys who act like stereotypical women in slashfic. "Words" are given, offense is taken, snark is had. But alas, in the end the commenters were merely guinea pigs in nemesishamartia's social experiment:

"ETA2: Thank you all for participating in my women's studies experiment. A male classmate didn't quite grasp that the comments he made during class were insulting.

Your help was most appreciated. -- ;D Nems."

Because you are the experts on all things fannish.

A fellow is looking to get the exact same teapot seen in an episode of 'The office' for his girlfriend.
Pictures may be seen here; http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?t=6240

Have any of you 'The office' fans seen any discussion of this teapot in the fansites? Know where he can get one? Ebay has been fruitless apparently.

Someone leaked some images from the Dragon Ball movie trailer that is set to debut October 17th. James Marsters as Piccolo and that's sure to cause wank. But I'm too busy squeeing over Goku. The orange outfit is darling.

Edit: That site is down at the moment but I found another blog.

So, due to a conversation in fanficrants about the unnecessary woobification of psychotic pretty boys the idea for sickficfest was born. The idea being to write bad people doing very bad things.

So I come to you gentle readers for advice on promoting pan-fandom fic communities. Does anyone know of advertising communities, or general interest communities (besides this one) where a person could go to pimp their community?

Anonymous Will Protest at Katie Holmes' Broadway Debut

While I do feel bad that the other cast members of All My Sons will have to deal with this, I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out. (I'm also curious if they'll also protest A Tale of Two Cities, which stars James Barbour, who is supposedly also a Scientologist.)

ETA for kicks: This person apparently stands outside the TKTS (discount tickets) booth in Times Square fairly regularly. A+ message.

I just found out that one of the male Troll flirts in World of Warcraft is "Want some of my jungle love?". This skeeves me totally, because I've already had issues with the racial stereotypes in WoW. Most of the less human-looking races are clearly based off of some "primitive" civilization (Orcs are Africans and Tauren are Native Americans.) Those two are almost okay, they get Noble Savaged like woah, but at least they're not as bad as the Trolls. Trolls talk like Jamaicans, obsess about "da voodoo" (which turns people into frogs and zombies, naturally) and are cannibals. They live in jungles in the decayed ruins of their once-great civilization. They're like the natives in a Tarzan movie (or an Indian Jones flick, if you take the Zul'Aman instance into account -- I can't listen to the boss emotes there without cringing.) So I've already been plenty skeeved. The "jungle love" emote just raises my squick to whole new levels.

Of course, none of my guild-mates see that. I'm apparently overreacting, since there's no way that could have racist connotations at all. (As to how this came up, one of the characters in the guild was named "Jungleluv" and was made to rename his character because the name was inappropriate. Oh Blizz, you fail so hard.)

ETA: This forum thread details a lot of my problems with WoW's races, beginning at post 86. Disclaimer -- I'm Afagddu and Rebecka is my SO.

Cracked.com has posted an article: Hollywood's Five Saddest Attempts at Feminism. River Tam of Firefly is #3.

They cite..._allecto_ in their argument, referring to her as a fan.

Whedonesque questions the journalistic integrity of Cracked.

I've never been in an Asian real people fandom, and I'm curious how it deals with real-people shipping. I know of k-pop slash, but that was at least five years ago, and in all the SuJu wank I've read, shipping never seemed to get mentioned. I also know people ship j-rock stars, but is it different with things like Arashi and Kat-tun (or whatever they're called)? Does it happen, just only in locked communities and flocked posts? If I squee over j-pop stars touching in general fan communities, would I seem like a n00b who can't follow the unwritten rules?

I'm particularly interested in j-pop fandom's attitude towards femslash shipping, which I've never heard of happening anywhere. Because I think I've fallen in love with Perfume (warning: this song will play in your head for the rest of the day).

The HP Lexicon seems to have disappeared!

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/

While visiting Amazon today I noticed a link in their romance forum for a romance between brothers. Because I always have to crane my neck to stare at a trainwreck, I clicked on the link.

And found Chancery Stone!

...who recs DANNY without disclosing that she's the author and then gets into arguments with posters who don't consider incest overly romantic. Just like always, Stone can't stop posting.

And don't miss the name of her new site--www.danny-is-god.com.

Mild wank, but it's nice to get a blast from the past.

ETA:

Original wank

Well-earned parody of wank

Flouncety flounce flounce

Further ETA: Amazon has deleted many of her more fervent posts.

Son of wank, featuring commentary by the awesome Nora Roberts, who smacks Stone down as wonderfully as you'd imagine--especially when Stone posts a link to her blog and tells them they're getting their 15 minutes of fame.

ETA the third: All Chancery Stone threads have been deleted by Amazon, and she's been banned from posting on its forums.

So, after all the fur flying with the Open Source Boob Project, you'd figure that guys would learn to keep their hands to themselves. Even if their motivation isn't an enlightened attitude toward harassment, but just CYA, hoping not to be the next Ferrett that gets barbequed online, you'd think that they'd still behave themselves, right?

Apparently not.

Apparently, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin looked at BJR's posts and said "Great idea!"

The evacuation of New Orleans becomes mandatory at 8 a.m. Sunday along the vulnerable west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon on the east bank. Nagin called Gustav the storm of the century and told residents to "get your butts out of New Orleans now."

"This is the real deal, not a test," Nagin said as he issued the order, warning residents that staying would be "one of the biggest mistakes of your life." He emphasized that the city will not offer emergency services to anyone who chooses to stay behind.

And ...

Unlike Katrina, when thousands took refuge inside the Superdome, there will be no "last resort" shelter, and those who stay behind accept "all responsibility for themselves and their loved ones," said the city's emergency preparedness director, Jerry Sneed.

[flails!]

Lawmaker defends group who buried women alive.

My absolutely most unfavorite part of this whole fucking mess? The part where he tells the assembled parliamentarians to pipe down and stop making such a big deal out of this. After all, these women were engaging in the "immoral" act of choosing their own husbands, so clearly they were just asking for it.

Seriously, die in a fire just isn't strong enough here.

For all the people who said they'd be able to make a Maryland/DC metro area Twilight reading, please respond here with dates you can make. If you can host, please mention that as well.