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Wednesday
January 11

[[info]sepiamagpie] 03:28pm - Someone actually says 'I don't want to appropriate your issues as a Canadian'
mood: feisty!

Backstory: the ten-year-old Due South Canadian Shack meme is being revived. (You may know it better as the "trapped in a mountain cabin fanfic trope. But sexier. It's a sugar shack.) Why is it a Canadian shack? You'll recall that Constable Benton Fraser's actual home is a shack in the Territories. It's a nice place. So nice that it gets blown up, like, twice.

Anyway.

Staranise is not happy with this. "Shacks" is a bad, bad word for her. "Shacks" are what First Nations people live in. (Please note that reservation houses are often horrible because the Canadian Government is terrible to its people but that is another story.) They belong to poor people. They certainly aren't cabins. That's something entirely different.

She also has no idea what shacks even have to do with the thing she's complaining about. She reveals later on that she avoids Due South, and may be under the impression that the two cops in it are rich, because cops. But that's not going to stop her from having theories.

But the real problem is this: This meme will cause people to think that Canada is an unpopulated wilderness speckled with poor people and their shacks.

I have bad news for her about why she shouldn't worry what people think of Canada/Canadians: No one thinks about us period.

(Also: SHACKS. Better than igloos? y/n?)

Disclaimer: I posted a comment to this, to tell her where Benton lived. Then Ann talked me into posting this here.
(361 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Wednesday
December 28

[[info]themadscientist] 08:27pm - Another Mini-Gaming Wank

It's been quiet and this one is fairly light so thought I'd offer it at least:

Nintendo released a 25th anniversary book for Zelda called Hyrule Historia.

In it, the Timeline To Rule All Timelines is Released

This goes over about as well as you'd expect, with people still in denial about whether it is official or just some publisher's idea, Nintendo's just making shit up to please the fanboys, fanboys who know too much versus fanboys who know too much and your usual gnashing of teeth.

Of course there's always what's going to happen to the fanboys once Miyamoto finds out...
(51 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Tuesday
December 27

[[info]platedlizard] 06:11pm - Penny Arcade Vs. Ocean Marketing

Everyone and their sister has probably read this already, but I didn't see a post so here we go!


Someone needs to go back to PR101, and it isn't Gabe.

I'll let PA explain.

I got an incredible email today from a Penny Arcade reader. Dave shared with me an email chain between him and Ocean Marketing (the folks behind the Avenger controller) Trust me when I tell you that this is one wild ride. I’m serious, Mr. Toad would look at this ride and just give a slow clap while shaking his head. I have tried to arrange this as best I can in chronological order. I’ve also removed email addresses and other private information. So let’s just jump right in, here is Dave’s first mail to Ocean Marketing:




And a sample of the emails:

From: Ocean Marketing
To: Mike Krahulik
Dec 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM

Your spamming me you’re not on a mailing list you idiot ! You sent me an email remember . Make sure you stir up a lot of controversy about us the more the better we needed some drama gets good blood flow going about the new product launch . Your sites amateur at best my son could put together a better site than yours and you run PAX ?? Wow , Ill put my marketing team on a smear campaign of you and your site and your emails , I have about 125 dedicated people to run PR , Blogs , Articles , Videos you have no clue who I am . Thanks again



Kind thanks to the wank reporters at FARK.

EDIT: Kotaku link.
(144 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Friday
November 25

[[info]ladyofviolets] 08:25am - Well yes, Bleach fandom DOES wank about non-shippy stuff!
mood: curious

Okay, so the Bleach fandom has been kinda quiet lately. (Either that, or the usual quarrels don't get out of their media). All in all, no real change...

Until chapter 474 happens, with a rather "surprising" twist. [spoilers ahoy, obviously]

Fandom's reaction?

WTF?

KUUUUUUUUUUUUUBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Some tiny jewels are:

Under the cut, due to big spoilers! Prepare for freakouts, bashing, hipocrisy and etc.! )

And wank report has its own thoughts on this. (Warning, some parts might be toeing into unfunny)

[runs out of popcorn. Still, NOT-shipping Bleach wank was VERY needed]
(143 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Monday
November 14

[[info]edana_ni_emer] 05:14pm - Aww, Baby's First Wank

It's not even out yet, and Star Wars: The Old Republic is already cutting it's teeth on it's first batch of spooge.


Wow, that analogy got away from me there a little bit. )
(66 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Thursday
November 3

[[info]miss_padfoot] 01:49am - AV Club gives C grade to Uncharted 3; fanboys go ballistic
mood: Catty

Scott Jones of the AV Club gave a mixed review of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, a hotly anticipated game for PlayStation 3. Jones praised the storyline and dialogue but criticized the gameplay mechanics:
[T]he story still zips and characters are still conflicted, but targeting is as twitchy as ever, bad guys still require three or four shotgun blasts to the head before they’re deterred, and the game’s star, Nathan Drake, still has no clue whatsoever about how to crouch. Two years after Thieves, Uncharted’s gameplay mechanics and conventions are no longer dated; they’re borderline archaic.
His final grade for the game was a C.

It's like having nuclear launch codes for internet fanboys )
(106 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Tuesday
October 25

[[info]wallflower] 07:28pm

Over in Doctor Who fandom, it seems like Doctor/Rose fic writer [info]jeprdyfrndly (aka Victoria Lane-Lyton), BFF of fellow Doctor/Rose fic writer [info]amberfocus, has a serendipitous life. She met her gorgeous husband, also a Doctor Who fan, when he saw her reading a Doctor Who book in a cafe. They had a lovely wedding (the groom's cake even had a Doctor and Rose on it!), went on a European honeymoon that included several Doctor Who-themed locations (London, Cardiff, and Barcelona), and settled into domestic bliss and financial security (he owns a coffee shop; she has access to a trust). Then she got pregnant despite two kinds of birth control, and had twin girls (she herself is a twin, and there's a history of twins in her family). She's a stay-at-home mum now, but her husband hired a high-school girl to help out by coming in for three hours every day after school to cook, clean, and mind the twins.

A few days ago, she posted a picture of her adorable babies.

And that's where it gets curious. )

Deepest thanks to the mousies of [info]who_anon who first posted about this and did most of the work (and if things are deleted, caps are here and here, as well as in in more recent comments, which I can't link to directly because I can't get into LJ right now.)


ETA1: Screencaps showing amberfocus and jeprdyfrndly have the same IP address. (thanks, [info]minibalrogmum!)

ETA2: And so the backpedaling begins! She was trying to protect her own privacy...by using a picture of someone else's kids.

ETA3: [info]jeprdyfrndly has been deleted. [info]amberfocus says she is the victim of photoshopping bitches and flounces.
(262 wanks | kerfluffle!)


[[info]cleolinda] 06:29pm - Let's get some class up in this joint

Hat tip to @SusanneWhite: Anonymous is a Roland "Independence Day" Emmerich film about how Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare's plays. Holger Syme, Shakespearean professor, did not like Anonymous.

I question your commitment to a well-mannered debating style, sir! )
(285 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Tuesday
October 11

[[info]dapperdinosaur] 07:47pm - Now for the story of two star crossed lovers...

... or so fandom seems to think. The lovers might disagree.

So, it’s been announced that Genevieve Padalecki is pregnant.

And the Supernatural fandom, naturally, loses it.

Like any rational fan, they question it:

But why would she have to disappear the second she found out she was pregnant if everything is hunky dory normal?

Speculate wildly:

Or, maybe that's when Gen said she wanted out, and Dan came up with this great excuse for her to be out of the public eye for the next year while still contributing to the het parade.

“If it's true my opinion of Jared is in the toilet. I still believe he's gay and in a relationship with Jensen. It's not possible for two guys to work as close as they do for almost 7 years and be as close friends as they are unless it's beyond friendship. Not possible. Not with HW egos.

But they don't need to bring kids into the mess to establish het cred. For God's sake he's not 30 yet. Most men in HW don't have kids till way into their 30s. I always thought Gen was a lesbian. Far out theory but maybe she's pregnant with a GF and will pass it off as Jared's.

J2 are gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay... )
(818 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Saturday
October 8

[[info]loopywafflehead] 08:58pm - So here's what you missed on kurt_blaine...

Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this one; I've used some of your wording in this post. (Note: there are spoilers for an upcoming episode of Glee in the links.)

Pyroclastic, one of the wankier BNF's of the Glee fandom and a former mod of the kurt_blaine community on lj, posts a fic to said community. The drama starts in the first thread when she pretends not to know why a mod has asked her to place the spoilers in her author notes behind a cut:

Read more... )

ETA: It gets wankier: http://gleewank.tumblr.com/post/10332827277/the-epic-saga-of-p-and-her-pa-attitude
(109 wanks | kerfluffle!)


[[info]loopywafflehead] 08:55pm - Small doujinshi-buying wank

It’s mostly over, but worth reading for jessioriginal’s overreactions and complete inability to hear the word ‘no’. Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for the links.

Jessioriginal asked for help buying some doujinshi in doujin_market in August. Community member rubicons_closet offers to buy them on her behalf. Despite repeated explanations, Jessioriginal doesn’t understand why she has to send the money first.

A few days ago, jessioriginal made a new post claiming that rubicons_closet agreed to help but is now trying to cheat her. Rubicons_closet and other community members are not impressed (post is now deleted, saved post can be downloaded here, selected comments below):

Read more... )

And then it turns out that jessioriginal has pulled this kind of stunt before:

Read more... )
(36 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Monday
October 3

[[info]tehrin] 12:35am - The R in Rick Olney is for Ripping-Off Others

Rick Olney is a comics producer, comics convention organizer, and comics con-artist. I haven’t heard of this guy until today, but he’s been up to no good since the mid-2000s by not paying artists for their work or for making appearances, including big names as the dearly departed [I don't know why I thought that] Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone, and then threatens anyone who DARE speak out for what he did to them! You can read more about him here (2009) and here (2006) and witness his assholery in the comments on both links (he’s “orcafresh” in the Gail Simone Forum thread on CBR)! Oh and Sep pointed out to me that he was featured here in 2007! i.e. He implied that “Gail Simone” (quotation marks Olney’s, not mine) slept her way into the industry. Seriously.

Some people like to dig their own grave. A few will not stop until they reach China. )
ETA 1, 2, and 3 )
ETA5: [info]wankismyfandom has pointed out that we've been spotted. Let's give him a round of unenthusiastic golf claps!

I have three close friends inside this hobby and business of comics, as well as outside the realm of imagination mediums for each other of them!

HE HAS THREE FRIENDS. THREE. THAT'S MORE THAN ONE AND TWO. IT IS ONE PLUS TWO!

(And WHY HELLO THAR, GAIL SIMONE FORUM! :D)

ETA5: It's official. Lucasfilm is sending Rick Olney a Cease and Desist. He is to return both the remaining maps and any monies (haha- Rick's fave word) that he collected back to me. Shazam. All the maps must be accounted for and any missing from the number I sent shall be paid for. - Matt Busch
(151 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Friday
September 30

[[info]loopywafflehead] 04:18pm - 'You can't beat me down with your USELESS and PATHETIC "reviews"'

A good old-fashioned author freak-out, courtesy of Burn Notice fandom. Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for the links; I’ve used much of your wording this post. (Please note that while this is funny overall, the author in question does use a particular ableist insult. It has been taken out in the text below but is still visible in the two links marked with an asterisk.)

InvisibleRain is fairly well-known within the Burn Notice fandom, as both a fan artist and the author of Carry Me, a very long fic heavy on angst and, as she calls it, "Extreme Michael Whumpage". She also has a tendency to explode whenever she receives negative criticism, despite her repeated claims that she's open to feedback and wants to improve. Cue the events of this week:

I have more followers than you think I do )


InvisibleRain is also not above begging for reviews and threatening to flounce if she doesn't get them:

Just comment autonomously, but your name as the name you log in as )
(187 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Saturday
September 24

[[info]cleolinda] 09:19am - A classic pseuicide

With thanks to @doctoraicha on Twitter--

I'm just going to link to what is already a very thorough writeup, but let's just say that when I got to

she talked a lot about her boyfriend, Jeff, and her best friend, Lexie, and both of them actually had occasionally-used FF accounts and would sometimes participate in AIM chats with the rest of us

I knew exactly where this was going, and I think you will too. (With a bonus Facebook twist!) Commenter irishmizzy dubs it "CATFISH 2: EXPECTO PATRONUM," which is about the way of it.
(198 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Monday
September 12

[[info]sepiamagpie] 11:19pm - This is like what happens when two squirrels meet across a park

And now for some old fashioned people fighting in public that we can rubberneck at.

The gist: oakenshields13 and stardustcities run 1stclass Kink, apparently.

Emails have not been getting through.

Stardustcities makes a daring gambit. How will it turn out?

Well, apparently by Stardustcities not being a mod anymore.

Feel free to mock (or real) fight amongst yourselves.

edit: They've been here before
(53 wanks | kerfluffle!)


[[info]the_sun_is_up] 02:34pm - Hiddlesgate? Hiddlesplosion? His name doesn't even look like a word anymore.
mood: Irredeemable

Tom Hiddleston, British actor who played Loki in the movie Thor, and beloved of many many obsessive and sometimes creepy fangirls on Tumblr, has recently come out.

No, not as gay. As married.

And Tumblr suffers a wanksplosion, monitored gleefully by ONTD, as dozens of "Hiddlestoners" rend their hair and sob into their hug-pillows because some actor who doesn't even know who they are failed to share with them all the details of his personal life.

Let the flouncing commence!

—im so angry right now

For the first time i´ll write something for my own, i´m so sad and angry for this new things about Tom Hiddleston maybe many people think that i am a fucking crazy and maybe i am, i don´t care. But now I REGRET EVERYTHING i don´t like his wife or girlfriend whatever and i don´t think they look “cute” together. He most to said something about this before. This is over for me, i´m not a “hiddlestoner anymore” and just close this chapter of my life.

Goodbye hiddlestoners i won´t vote for him anymore and i need to cleen my dash :(


To which an anon replies:

—I think it's perfectly understandable why you would leave the fandom. I unfollowed many Hiddles blogs. I feel as though I am not ready to accept the couple yet and I want to take my time before returning to the fandom. Though I will admit it was a great fandom while it lasted. It just won't be the same anymore. :/

Cut because this got surprisingly long )

EDIT: There's more!

doremiylonenway: all of this thing about the wife is like “OMG, WHAT?” because we have never seen him with her like a couple, we saw pictures of them but we thought “another actress, or just a friend” and yes, it is shocking, I felt like I couldn’t breathe for a second, but honestly, I’m amazed of his ability to keep this in secret or in private, that’s awesome.

right now I feel like “I’ve been through things like this before, I can handle this” maybe this is what I needed to calm down my “obsession”

Not because I think “he’s single, there’s a chance for me to get married with him!!” pff, noo, by “I needed this” I mean.. “He has his own life, it’s time for you to get out of the internet and look for your own”

I now I’ve been wasting so much time here, I won’t let my blog but I need to put my attention on things that are happening in my life, not in someone else’s life… I though I learned this many years ago.

I realized that something is missing in my life right now, like years ago when I started to be a fangirl.

I love to be part of this fandom, I’m not saying goodbye, hiddleston’s army are the best fandom I’ve ever met, I love you all! but suddenly I have all this feelings and emotions… it’s hard.

I just wanted to take this out, thanks for reading!! and I’ll always say this, seriously: I love you :D and I won’t stop loving him


A reply to one of the earliest posts, when the fans were first hearing the news:

thelusciouslumberjack said: He’s not married… he wouldn’t hide it like that. Why would he? He would at least be wearing his wedding ring.

Yeah, I can't imagine why he wouldn't want his army of possessive fangirls to know that he's married.

EDIT 2: The Morning After:

nygis: I thought about it a bit last night and this morning, and to me it’s just plain shock. Of course Tom doesn’t owe us every detail of his personal life, and he has done nothing wrong. He hasn’t insulted us or anyone. But I think a lot of us felt at least some kind of connection to him from his interviews or his roles, so it was like we did sort of know him in a weird way. Then yesterday the “he’s married” bomb dropped and it was so out of nowhere that it felt like we didn’t know someone that we’d followed for a long time anymore.

Am I upset or mad at Tom? Absolutely not. Am I puking rainbows over his newly publicized relationship? Nope. But I do feel kind of down today in a bittersweet way, like someone ripped my bandaid off before my little papercut healed. I think I have a right to feel at least a little blue about the unexpected situation.


mcelise responds: I agree with all of this. Let everyone have their own reactions, and deal in their own way, even if you don’t agree. Don’t be rude and call them crazy and insist that they should react exactly as you do. No one ever reacts the same as another person, and as long as we all realize this and allow everyone space to deal (or not) in the way that is natural to them.

This too, shall pass.


suphiddles: The thing that dissapoints me is the huge loss of character: normally he’s so open and charming with the press and his fans( that is one of the things which made me like him as an actor so much) but now it’s just bamn- no warning- no inkling of this absolutely enormous elephant in the room

qchord: until the dust settles

i am not checking the hiddles tag.

it used to be my favourite tag, second to martin freeman. it was like going to a land of bunnies.

it’s not anymore..it’s just giving me chest pains.


EDIT 3: Whoops, looks like we've got some wanking inside the house. For those wishing to avoid the unfunnybusiness, it's in the thread that mentions Michael Fassbender.
(482 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Wednesday
September 7

[[info]beejium] 05:22pm - Brief Update in the World of Doctor Who Twitter Wank

It appears that the Blogtor Who Twitter scandal, previously dubbed "MacRaegate" with absolutely no legitimacy whatsoever, has ended without fanfare.

Meanwhile, as reported here, the British Science Fiction Association has issued an apology to Stephen Moffat, current showrunner of Doctor Who, for an offensive tweet made by one of its members. The tweet can be read here, with Moffat's response here. (You can see a few more of his responses further up in the time stream.)

Doctor Who and Twitter - it just doesn't mix.
(33 wanks | kerfluffle!)


Sunday
September 4

[[info]schoenschoen] 10:22pm - Homestuck Wank! Just what the world needs!
mood: Candy-Coated

It is a damn crying shame that this wank hasn't been reported, so I will do my best here. There is no way on God's green earth that I am c/ping the entire thing from [info]wank_report, because it was seven or so comments long, but let me give you a little rundown:

Cut for troll shenanigans )
(231 wanks | kerfluffle!)


[[info]ladyofviolets] 10:38pm - A corollary of the last Bleach wank.

Okay, I know. It's Bleach again. But this has been going to HUGE lenghts lately, and it keeps on and on.

Unsurprisingly, it's about Orihime and her thoughts on Ichigo. As usual, spoilers and rabid shipping wars. )


This is standard for Bleach fandom, yes. But here is where it gets a little "weird".

How weird? Let's see... )

PD: As a sort-of bonus... An anon requested some peeks into Naruto fandom, and here is a very telling link. Threads and threads of Sakura Haruno bashing, to scary and maybe even squicky levels of character hate and misogyny. Truly, she's among the few charas that can "claim" to be as hated as Orihime is.

Now we need One Piece wank and we're ready with the Big Three of Shonen Jump. Any good links?

ETA 2: The wank seems to still be going. At least enought to have Debbie pull the offensive card and use out of context Bible quotes in her BA signature to favor IchiRuki over IchiHime. And for an anti-IchiHime gif to bring up quite the reactions when it's posted on tumblr's "Ichihime" tag.

ETA 3: Offensive signature is taken down. Debbie still whines (and possibly lies) about it being Yuri/Lunatic related.
(89 wanks | kerfluffle!)


[[info]beejium] 01:56pm - A Doctor Who Wank Nugget

Blogtor Who, as you may have guessed, is a Doctor Who fan blog. Tom MacRae is an occasional writer for Doctor Who, including next week's episode, The Girl Who Waited.

It's been a somewhat long-standing tradition for Blogtor Who to post teasers and out-of-context quotes to upcoming episodes on Cult Box, gleaned from the BBC press screenings. This week being no different, Blogtor goes about its merry way posting 10 quotes and 10 teasers from next week's episode.

Meanwhile, Tom MacRae - in a flurry of Twitter self-promotion- asks if everyone enjoyed the new trailer. Blogtor responds in the positive, and links Tom to the aformentioned teasers. Tom is not amused.

With little warning, Blogtor suddenly decides they are closing down shop, both on the blog and on Twitter. Commenters on the blog suspect this has something to do with Tom MacRae. Many lament. Some call the author of Blogtor a child. Others call Tom Macrae an arrogant sod. A day later, Tom MacRae continues to defend himself on Twitter, while Blogtor remains silent.

Not what you'd call a wanksplosion, but a tasty little nugget o' wank to spice up your weekend and perhaps keep an eye on over the next few days.
(43 wanks | kerfluffle!)

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