Wank hitteth the LJ fan and some DW fandom pondering

[misscam]

Get To Know Your F-List Week! (Cont'ed)
Every day I'll ask two random questions. All you have to do is answer them.

Today's two questions:
1. One thing you like about yourself?
2. You can be any god from Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Hinduism or similar polytheistic faith. Who would you be and why?

Fannish item the first:

And then things in LJland went 'boom'.

Basically, in case the server is too robust to let you on f_w, what seems to be happening is that several comms and users have been reported for what appeared in their interests and have been deleted by LJ. There are summaries here or here, though remember good old bias, of course.

The alleged reporters, with some responses (Link as it is because the site has apparently tracked where it gets its hits. Hmmmm.) ETA: Link removed because site allegedly has spyware on it. Run a program like AdAware if you've visited. See more here, though I have no idea if it's genuine.

Fandom goeth boom. People discuss who to trust, who is dodgy, why all the pr0n is gone, if all the pr0n will be gone, paranoia, free speech (with some blatant misuse of it, of course) and user info woes.

... Oi.

I need to process all this before I make up my mind.

Fannish item the second:

who_daily makes this post on not getting linked in the newsletter.

Hmm. Now, there has been some mutterings back and forth about people going to LJs via who_daily to disagree, sometimes start wank and what not. Thing about DW fandom on LJ is that it's really not too huge. There's a lot of bumping into each other. If you really, really hate someone in this fandom, it's very hard to isolate yourself from them completely without leaving.

But of course, no one wants to stalk - or perhaps more importantly, appear to be stalking. Hello, user of anonymizers! But if an entry gets linked on the newsletter, then it's fair game, right? Cue the passive aggressive fun-time.

I personally quite like who_daily - easy way of finding fic, handy way of knowing what people in fandom are talking about, good place to see what's new. But I do wonder sometimes if it's become a convenient way, through no fault of its own, of finding somewhere to start shit. Humans are ever so fond of it, after all.

Then again, maybe fandom would be dull without all the grudges, shit and wanky ladida. I do wish we were better at owning to it than passive aggressive playing whack-the-mole with it, though. But it's so fuuuuuuun! WHACK THE MOLE WHAAAACK


This calls for special booze-a-thon at the wankshelter, it does. With novelty hats and umbrellas in your drink. What's your poison?

Comments

[daughter-moon.livejournal.com]

I like my ability to either help people understand or confuse them beyond all reason. I can deal with just about anyone by doing this :-)

I'd quite like to be Athena. Wouldn't it be cool to be known as the person who knows everything? Plus, my friends have told me I remind them of an owl, and I think that was Athena's familliar of choice, wasn't it?

[yattara.livejournal.com]

1. I can be tenacious. (Rf. Getting to read the latest wank on JF's robust servers.)

2. Athena. I r smrt. Or Bastet, the one with the cats.

This whole bahleetion-wank is giving me a headache. Do you have drinks that can combat that? That, and JF's servers being robust are not helping it.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

Indeed it was.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

This is why I am taking one look at fandom and running the other way. When did it stop being fun? *wails*

and WoW servers are bloody down again. *sobs*

My work day sucked, and I just wanted to come home and play a bit of WoW before bed. :(

[colorstoobright.livejournal.com]

1. I'm passionate about certain things and it's such a drive to know more, do better, achieve the impossible.
2. Loooooove Greek Mythology, so I would go with Athena, I guess.

[cedara]

1. One thing you like about yourself?

Character-wise or skill?


2. You can be any god from Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Hinduism or similar polytheistic faith. Who would you be and why?

Selene

She's the moon goddess and lightens the darkness. Aside from the literal meaning, that's a potent symbolic gesture, which is the main thing for me.

[fantasyprone.livejournal.com]

1. I am by nature obsessive and a fangirl, and I kind of like that. It has its downsides, but the amount of happiness it brings completely outweighs them.
2. I'd want to be Thor, because he gets that hammer. And if there's one thing I'd like around fanwank time, apart from a large drink, it's an even larger hammer.

The idea behind deleting all those journals is a good one, yes, but they've used a tactical nuke when they needed a sniper rifle. Any actual pedophiles have changed their interests, or changed LJs, and now half my fandoms are running around in a blind panic.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Maybe a special vodka-based Robust Drink?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Problem is probably that it didn't suddenly stop being fun as such, the fun just started less and less outweighing the blah.

Meanie Blizzard :( Playing WoW is indeed very relaxing after work.

My brother made me a free epic yesterday. Now I wub him even more.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be cool to be known as the person who knows everything?

It could also cause some serious headaches.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

She seems to be very popular so far, heh.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Whichever - or both, if you want ;)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Fandom has certainly gone a bit "RUN FOR THE HIIIIIIIIIILLS!" Remains to be seen if it would've been safe on the farm after all.

Thor is awesome. I want his hammer. It would be fab for whacking. And stuff.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

aww, nice.

now it's just booting me off the instant I sign in.

I'm convinced the universe hates me today. *attempts to bash own brains out with a hairdryer*

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

1. I am smart.
2. Since childhood, I have always admired/identified with Athena. (See, sigh, (1).) Although she doesn't get any sex, which is sad.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Athena *causes* headaches. Ask Zeus.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It was. He even spent a Primal Nether on it, as well as several Primal Might. Yowza, those are worth some.

It's raining like whoa here and I will be wet by the time I get home. Maybe the universe hates everyone today.

*takes your hairdryer away*

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, that is interesting LJ goes BOOM wank. I have no interest in most of the subjects in questions, nor do I have anything listed in my interests at all, so it's kinda fun to sit back and watch.

Today's two questions:
1. One thing you like about yourself? I've actually come to like my hair. It's crazy and curly, but it looks nice with minimal effort, so yay!
2. You can be any god from Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Hinduism or similar polytheistic faith. Who would you be and why? I don't know much about classic mythologys outside of the Greek/Romans so I'm going with Athena.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

nooo, need that. :( *looks for semi-sharp objects instead*

*Kicks. WoW. Servers. Hard.* makeupyourfuckingmindareyouupordown? andifyou'reupletmeinplsneedmyfixneeditNOW.

What'd he make you?

[cedara]

Hee...

I'm able to listen to my insinct. Probably saved my life once, when I was supposed to go by train to a lecture and didn't. Later that afternoon, I heard that the train had an accident and one person died.

I could've said I'm the typical libra, aka, diplomatic by nature, but that can sometimes be a curse too.

As for skills - I can make meals from scratch, and cookies or cake too.

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

Wow, Athena seems to be the goddess of choice. Yay for gatherings of smart, artistic, warrior women. ;-) I may have to go do some research and expand my options.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

No, you don't. No hurting your poor brain, it's not its fault.

Breathe, babe, breathe. They'll be up soon and you can kill meanies.

Felfury gauntlets.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

well, I won't, no, cos I'll have to go to bed in order to go back to work tomorrow. *stamps foot and throws tantrum of a lifetime*

Nice. Felsteels not that easy to come by either, since it requires eternium bars to smelt it. And eternium ore is a random chance in fel iron or higher nodes. (i.e. there are no eternium nodes, it's like a gem or a mote--not predictable). In raw ore, that thing requires 60 fel iron and 40 eternium. Yowch!

[lyricalviolet.livejournal.com]

1. I like my red hair
2. I think I'd kinda like to be the Morrigan...three aspects, one goddess, all badass.

Also, is the entire fandom world blowing up? Oy. I'll take a peach vodka tonic witha valium chaser, please.

[canadian-kazz.livejournal.com]

1. Hmmm... not a lot, I'll admit. Sometimes my sense of humour is pretty darn good though. *shrug*

2. My first thought was Loki, but I don't know if I'm fully the Loki type. Then I thought Bast (Bastet) because I love cats. Or Calypso. She's cool too.

I don't know how I feel about that porn thing. I think the people taking down the porn stuff have good intentions, but they are beginning to creep onto the freedom of speech thing.

I be willing to try a bit of rum at the wankshelter, I am! Arrr!