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October 15th, 2008
fandom_discuss
[coffee_mug]
 | 11:02 am - Fandom "loyalty" and such.
If you're like me, you get excited over new shiny things and quickly caught up in new fandoms and new interests. I don't drop everything I previously liked (unless it turns out to be disappointing in retrospect), in fact I quite often go back and revisit those fandoms, re-read fics by me and others, rewatch/-read/-play the canon. It's fun! But if it's something I was fanatic about in 2005, I'm not very likely to be into meta-ing it and ficcing it anymore.
However, when I go back to surfing the fandom comms I used to surf for fandoms I used to be fanatic about, I sometimes come across the same usernames and people I remember seeing in 2004, 2005, 2006. I think it's fun to run into familiar names in fandom in general but seeing the same people still in those fandoms you left behind, it feels a little odd. I left but they never did. How come?
For me the feeling is a little guilty, a little nostalgic. Why did the fandom fail to keep me interested for years and years? What's keeping these people here all this time?
So here's my question: Do you stay in the same fandoms for a very long time, actively participating, organizing, ficcing/making art, meta-ing, whatever you do in fandoms in general? Or do you fade in and out of fandoms, sometimes obsessed with one thing while passively still enjoying other previous obsessions? Why do you think this is?
And something related I've been wondering a lot: Are cool people enough to keep you in a fandom if the canon is not the most interesting, greatest thing any more for you? Do you stay for the people or the source material? Can you stay just for one of them?
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hot_daily
[puipui]
 | 12:06 am - Emma Thompson
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fandom_wank
[gusty]
 | 12:36 am - "I admire Adolf Hitler for his speaking skills..."
An incredibly popular furry artist named Adam Wan (aka Zaush) decides to put a sculpture of his character up (VERY NOT WORK SAFE) for auction to try and raise some money. It is, for those not able to click, an anthropomorphic wolf with a removable loincloth containing a TOY SURPRISE (and by that I mean a penis). He sets the reserve at $500.
The highest bid by auction's end is $490. He stands firm and refuses to sell it, making a post about his disappointment. Comments come in, at first at how unbelievable it is that the fine piece of art didn't sell. Soon, however...
neil137: "i'm sorry to hear that you couldn't get what you wanted for it, but the best bid was 490$...how is that unacceptable? >-> guess im amoung the chuckling crowd v.v"
Zaush: "Ok, so let's assume I spent 60 hours on it, which is only about a week and half of, and I know I spent more time on it than that... at 500$ that is $8.33 an hour. So I'd be selling a labor of love for minimum wage? I make more than that in a few days at my work, so what is my incentive to sell this for that little?"
Shigoto:"The stigma in this situation is FURRIES period. The fandom is natorious with the phrase "i would but i dont have money" If i didnt know better the fandom was comprised almost entirely of hobos and beggers....."
Zaush:"Or kids living with their parents, not really making an effort to better themselves, because they think they live on the internet."
If you can believe it, this subject has spawned over two hundred comments.
( More amusing quotes about the high quality/lack thereof of endowed canine sculptures go here! )
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October 14th, 2008
fandom_lounge
[meagenimage]
 | 10:02 pm - New community: mmo_wank?
Would there be any interest in a mmo_wank community? It's not that MMOs aren't fandom, it's just that most MMO wank tends to follow fairly predictable patterns (change to game is announced, people predict this change will RUIN the game FOREVER, people threaten to quit over change, change goes in, life goes on as usual) and may not be interesting to people who don't play an MMO themselves.
Thoughts?
ETA: Gentelmen, BEHOLD! ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) mmo_wank
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fandom_wank
[llama_treats]
 | 01:50 pm - America's Next Top Wanker
Kim Stolz, former America's Next Top Model token lesbian contestant and current MTV News Correspondent (second only to Kurt Loder in the "Are you sure s/he's not a robot?" category) is upset with Tyra Banks apparently dissing her in one of this season's photoshoots. (Complete with parody judging.) Someone in the LJ Top Model Community who appears to be off their meds wanks about it here.
Will Tyra respond? Stay tuned.
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alya1989262
 | 05:44 pm
Two comments in, and we already have thoughts on transphobia or lackthereof.
That will end well.
Current Mood: >.
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fandom_wank
[kittikattie]
 | 08:02 am - You're offended when I tell you you're offended.
Girl Gamers: Keeping up the sparkling record of many members being offended by anything remotely sexist and nothing else that could be offensive to anyone whatsoever.
evildevil posts a macro using a fanart image.
Pic: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/2837923602_4aa5d9886d_o.jpg
1000 words: "Startling moments in gaming: 1) Realizing Samus is a girl. 2) Realizing Bridget isn't."
Sone people giggle. Then xtalcy comes in with: "Am I the only one who thinks transphobic humor is not so funny?" Several others agree that maybe this isn't all lulz and fun. Others do not, notably gonsai, who starts with "Except neither character is transgendered in any sense." Cue bickering, including defenses of "I'm dating one", "You're oversensitive," and "I am one."
*headdesk*
Current Mood: *thud*
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clairvoyantwank
[snarky_bix]
 | 10:40 am - Anne Rice confesses
Anne Rice has a new book out!
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession
I'd try to write something witty, but the title really speaks for itself.
ETA: My apologies - I thought that CW was for wank-that-could-be. Next time, I'll wait for it. Sorry.
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fandom_wank
[veneotaqueen]
 | 11:40 pm - For the Spanish-speaking Wankas, the Convention Organizer who dares his "enemies" to work for him
Since just pimping the Fandom Wank in Spanish could be seen as rude, I have to at least bring some of the scarce wank we can compile.
So! To the fun!
Ken Masters (not his real name, but he seems to hate it anyway) is a Venezuelan convention organizer who run Osecon, renamed Shin Osecon since an... unfortunate... installment who went wrong. Ken is well known between Venezuelan otakus for his allegedly greedy ways and his hilarious outbursts, who range from insulting fans of american comics and anyone who doubts his numerous and outrageous claims, to catfighting with the married couple who organize Avalancha (another convention, this one with an trow-all-fandoms-in-it approach but still overloaded with otakus) by three years in row, to defending the most disorganized installments of convention by reclassifing the failures as special features. In FW_es we know the dude very, very well.
So, why I bring the case of an batshit insane man who wanks in a language most of you don't understand?
Because of his latest outburst to date: Daring some of his most outspoken critics to plan some special entretainment for the next installment of his convention, under menace of RL permaban.
That, after comparing his event with the Comiket. In a way that translates "Japanese fans camp from the night before to go into what is basically a stadium filled with small tables of paper vendors and a terrace for the Cosplayers. WHY VENEZUELANS CAN DO THE SAME FOR MY LIL' SHITTY CONVENTION!!!1!11ichi"
Oh, by the way, some of those critics? Ken Himself kicked them out from the latest installment of his convention.
There are short answers to his dare (in the original thread) and some long ones in a couple of blogs (complete with sporking of Ken's OP), but all can be translated in the same statement: "Thanks but no thanks, and by the way, go fuck youlself".
That doesn't forbid Ken from go back to call those refusers "cowards" and some other niceties in all those threads of comments, while doing the butthurt "Nice Guy" number.
This isn't Bit Of Earth, but dear, I never had seen such a kerfurfle around a convention...
The thing was cut short, and is a bit of old by now, but the ones who can read spanish can go and see how Mr Masters lose his temper again, and again, and again, while all the people just laugh at him.
Current Mood: Candy-Coated
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hot_daily
[puipui]
 | 12:14 am - Omar Epps
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October 13th, 2008
fandom_rant
[anonyrat]
 | 12:46 pm - Argh
Dearest Gaming Fandom:
We were all sad when Gary Gygax died. Everyone knew his name, and he pretty much started our hobby, so we all owe him an enormous debt.
That said, where the HELL do you get off, bashing editions of D&D you don't like by claiming "Gary would have hated it"? Yes, "Gary", as though you were his fucking friend.
Of COURSE 'Gary' would have hated it. Of COURSE he hated new versions of D&D. He made D&D his way the first time, and he is damn well entitled to his opinion of anything that came after. I am also entitled to mine, which are as follows:
1) I like the new version of D&D.
2) You are a mouthbreathing assclown for name-dropping a recently dead guy in order to score a few cheap points in a retarded edition war on the internet, on a forum where some of the man's real-life friends post.
This KEEPS FUCKING HAPPENING and I am FUCKING SICK OF IT.
I wish I could go back in time and retroactively beat the living hell out of everyone I saw at GenCon wearing a "4th Edition Killed Gary" t-shirt.
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fandom_lounge
[kadath]
 | 12:53 pm - Francophone media?
There's a decent chance I'll be moving to a francophone city in the near future, and "rusty" is too kind a word for my French. [Rant about lousy teaching methods redacted. "Ma tourne-disque ne marche pas." Feh!]
Er, anyway. Since there's only so many times one can read L'Etranger: does anyone have recommendations for francophone fannish resources? (I figure that'll be more fun than Le Monde or Le Journal.)
Webcomics, profic, fanfic, bloggers...it doesn't have to be deathless prose, as long as it's grammatical--I'm just not fluent enough to pick my way through francophone fangirlese yet. (Though if it's strongly colloquial, I prefer quebecois.)
My main fandoms are by and large obscure Star Wars, Doctor Who, Roger Zelazny (who I understand is big in France), H. P. Lovecraft & his influences (ditto), the pulps, cyberpunk and trans/posthumanism, Warren Ellis, Ghost in the Shell, and Revolutionary Girl Utena, though I will absolutely try out other fandoms on good recommendations.
In order to not make this all about me, please feel free to ask for recs in your rusty second, third, or higher languages in the comments, as well!
Merci en avance. ^_^
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ashenmote
 | 03:12 pm
I feel like I should be less absent, and talk about things instead of doing all that picspamming, but I don't care much about things recently.
By accident I zapped into a Grupo Corpo dance on TV yesterday and then I couldn't leave them again because it was so awesomecakes. Mostly it was so dark that you could only see their hands and faces well, but don't mistake that for some lousy pantomime stuff, they were dancing alright. This is a big part of it. It somehow changes into this then, which is still awesome but a little bit weird and less snappy and filmed from a little TV screen no doubt.
I imagine some of you might like this too, - ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) tehrin, I'm sure.
I think I will try to get their DVD.
( Pictures of various unexciting things. )
ETA: For the german-speaking: The Reich-Ranicki speech on Youtube. I'm sure I would hate him if I knew him personally, but I can't help liking him from a safe distance.
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hot_daily
[puipui]
 | 12:02 am - Undie Monday: Kailee O'Sullivan
( Kailee O'Sullivan )
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October 12th, 2008
clairvoyantwank
[dawnswalker]
 | 08:19 pm - We're gonna game like it's 1995 (and localizers could still get away with this crap.)
So, earlier this year, NIS America announced that they were going to port Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure to the Nintendo DS late in September, complete with enhanced bonus content. Fans were excited, and all was well... For the Disgaea fans, anyway.
First, it was announced that the DS port of Rhapsody was only going to have the Japanese vocals, where the original PSX version also had English vocals in addition to the original Japanese content. Fans are disappointed, but understanding. Besides, NIS fanboys aren't exactly known for their rampant Angophilia.
Then import-saavy fans found out that the Japanese version of the DS port included "chapters" from another game in the series: Angel's Present (which was never released in North America). NIS America themselves (and this becomes important later) eventually confirmed this on their official page for the English version. Fans were very excited!
September comes and goes, Rhapsody DS comes out on schedule, but there's just one problem: Where was the new content?
After a quick huddle to make sure that it's not just them, fans on GameFAQs and the NISA Boards press NIS America for answers. At first it's assumed to be a glitch in the game, but after weeks of no solid news, and even conflicting news (It's in! It's out! It was translated! It was never translated!), RPGFan comes out with the truth: NIS America actually removed the content entirely from the English translation, due to "localization issues." And then, you know, advertised it, and from all appearances, lied about it when asked.
Oh, and in the midst of all this, the official site mysteriously had the page advertising the additional content removed, and I quote: We're just doing that until we get that sorted out, since we don't want to confuse more people without knowing for sure what's going on."
(But they forgot to take the exclusive character out of the "Characters" section. Oops!)
Consumer outrage and wank seem inevitable, and honestly, probably completely justified in this case.
Edit: Siliconera reports on the missing content, as well as the many other glitches in the DS version.
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fandom_lounge
[rosehiptea]
 | 12:09 pm - Hebrew manga and Ranma 1/2 fanfiction
My daughter has two questions which she asked me to forward.
1. Have there ever been any manga translated into Hebrew, and if so how could she get them?
2. It’s an old fandom, but does anyone have some recs for good Ranma ½ fanfiction that is still up on the net? In particular, she’s looking for Ranma/Akane and Mousse/Shampoo, PG-13 or under.
Thank you very much for any help.
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fandom_lounge
[swordmage]
 | 09:27 am - Request
Does anyone happen to have a link to the Twilight comic which has various of Anne Rice's vampires reading the book? I was describing it to a friend the other day, but want to link them and can't seem to find it...
thanks!
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notjo
 | 12:07 pm - OM NOM NOM PUMPKIN PIE.
I went and purchased a paid account, finally - I've only been talking about doing it for two or three years now.
I'm still wanting to share my thoughts on Freedom of Speech (which are complicated and self-contradicting) so instead I'll tell you how to make pumpkin puree from scratch. (It's Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend.)
Cut a pumpkin in half crosswise and remove the seeds and stringy fibrous material. Cover the cut side of each half with aluminum foil, and place the pumpkin halves on a baking sheet, foil side up. Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for about 90 minutes, or until the flesh is fork tender. Remove from the oven and cool. When the pumpkin is cool enough to handle, scoop out the meat and mash in a food processor, or force it through a food mill or sieve. If the purée is watery, drain it in a cheesecloth-lined collander. Pumpkins yield about one cup of purée per pound (3 lb. pumpkin = 3 cups purée).
I love homemade pumpkin puree, and this is why my mother doesn't know me anymore. ;)
(Although seriously, I was making a poster yesterday for a protest, and complained bitterly to Don the whole time that my mother didn't raise me to make protest signs and that's a huge failing on her part - look at me now! I make pathetic posters! Whine whine whine!) (The poster said "Disability Issues Matter - Start Hearing Our Voices".)
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hot_daily
[puipui]
 | 12:36 am - Gerard Butler
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October 11th, 2008
notjo
 | 09:59 pm - Oh dear
There is eggnog in the grocery stores already.
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