Fanfic: Serious Business (like same-sex marriage, in a way)

[misscam]

Fanfic is like same-sex marriage AND and interracial marriage???

HAI WANK YOU'VE BEEN INVITED. If someone now claims a fanfic and Nazi link, we'll have the trinity of Totally Stupid and Offensive Comparisons, really.

And I love fanfic.

In Doctor Who fandom, our largest fic archive (mostly known as the Teaspoon) has recently announced some changes. Not all take this well. So take it unwell enough to bring the socks - fighting_spoon is born. This includes Verrah Sekrit community.

Dearie me. Teaspoon now also has a rec comm BTW - calufrax.

Meanwhile, House fandom is having a rather nasty case of plagiarism - by someone on her flist. Dude, how low can you get? Not to mention dumb. She's apparently nicked some Who stuff too.

FAIL.

Finally, in the non-fanfic realm of things, I'm feeling like spring cleaning. In January. This includes my LJ - icons, layout, maybe tagging if I'm really brave. So, can anyone point me to shiny icons of stuff you know I like?

Layout change I have to ponder - don't know what I want yet, even. Maybe it's time for WoW - or a header with all my interests. Hmm.

Also, due to my now dear love of shiny iPod - what's your 'must have' songs for iPod?

Comments

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

"No Rain" Blind Melon.

And Fanfic is great.
The wank and badfic that often accompanies fic...
not so much.

And you should totally do a WoW layout.


How's life, dear?



♥

[everysecondtues.livejournal.com]

I saw the "gay marriage=fanfiction! No, really! Tru fax!" wank earlier and headdesked a few times. So very fail.

[crusherbevdr.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you must have Alice and Hummingbirds by Venus Hum.

A friend of mine got her fanfic nicked. It takes a sad, sick person to nick fanfic.

[ashestothestars.livejournal.com]

To the surprise of many, I'm not going to recommend any Leppard. Instead I will recommend Within Temptation, I've been listening to them a lot lately Angels especially. But then I've been listening to a lot of symphonic metal, and that's not for everyone.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Fighting-spoon is hilarious. Not least the misspelling in their (sorry, "there") explanation of why they exist.

[badonkatonks.livejournal.com]

I thought a sock puppet was supposed to be like, anonymous? Guess she missed the point...lol.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

People being thrown off the site because they stand up for there fics?

Oh, the irony. Well, I guess this is where I can go for my daily quota of sugar high!fic, pointless round robins and bad summaries. Look on the bright side!

[siraj.livejournal.com]

my iPod? iSurek's playlist usually consists of Japanese speed metal (403), heavy metal, orchestral and rock (old Metallica, Blind Guardian, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), a couple game or movie soundtracks, and classical (Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven)

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

Ah wank.

I'm kinda split on the Teaspoon changes. They're right to get rid of the essays and round robins I think and I'm all for improved quality fic. But I liked the Tens (it was a good place to start when I was bored) and I understand why the moderated posting is annoying to ppl trying to post on a schedule (and it must be a bit of work for the mods, really, someone has waaay too much time on their hands). However, that sock puppet is laughable.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

The most amusing thing about the fanfiction wank is the fact that the post by erestor you linked to contains a picture of Pumuckl...

[platypus]

Good lord, I had no idea anyone's knickers were quite that twisted over Teaspoon. I'd like to see them getting more moderation help if they're very overwhelmed, but I'm not seeing the controversy in setting a few standards. The kerfuffle over one person's writing/comments/bannination seems to be another issue entirely, though accusing a fic archive of "repressive pseudo-fascism" is... mildly amusing.

[padawanpooh.livejournal.com]

Wank is like a hydra: lop off one head and twenty billion grow back.

*HEADDESK*

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Well, my fanfic is like Jesus in that it heals the sick and raises the dead. And then people fight over with pointy things.

[falena]

I've got a shiny iPod too, filled with lots of music that I'm more than willing to share, but as you might remember my musical tastes are kind of peculiar, so I'm not sure what you'll like. Do you have any hints or should it be entirely up to me?

[yourradiogeek.livejournal.com]

"Dead Man's Party" - Oingo Boingo. I can't help how dorky it is talking about bodies and souls and partying, but yeah... :)

[anitchka.livejournal.com]

Stolen Car - Beth Orton & TGIF - Le Tigre.

[despertarse.livejournal.com]

anyone who might make a nazi link will probably go, "oh wait, the holocaust never happened."

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Y HALO THAR ThroughAnAmberFocus, lol. Not even a good attempt at a sock. And I love that most of the comments on her 'poll' support the changes and tell her to put a sock in it ;)

As for the Melindakitty stuff, I hadn't even noticed she'd gone.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Life's all right. Work eats a large part of it, but money is nice and all. ;)

Badfic can bring its own amusement, of course. And teh wank. But tiresome when it's your fandom it plagues.

I'd feel so geeky with a WoW layout...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, it seemed to gain more fail as it went along, too.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*notes music rec*

It takes an extra sad person to nick fanfic from someone on your flist, sheesh.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

... Symphonic metal? I'm not even sure I know what that sounds like, heh.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Now the First Amendment and Gestapo has entered the fight as well.

NEWSFLASH: First Amendement = American. Rest of the world = Not American. LEARN THIS. (Not to mention First Amendment is about the State not restricting free speech. Fanfic archives? Restrict away, baby!)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Socks aren't what they used to be.

(Who are those in your icon? I feel like I recognize them, yet...)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Well, banned!author did join T&C, so she'll be around, no doubt. And there's always ff.net...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

A classical section might be an idea - it's fairly relaxing on the ears, I find.

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear.
And the money is the best part of pretty much any job.

Exactly.
I usually just stay out of fandom. The wank and badfic just... ew.
Everything I need to know about fandom, I get from your posts.

But it'd be preeeeeetty.
With pretty cooooolours. :D
(Ultimately, though, it's your journal.)



♥


PS
and "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz.
err...
actually... anything by him if you're wanting to be cheered up like there's always sunshine and rainbows and candy-floss and whatnot.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* I'm kinda waiting and seeing on how the changes work out. I think whichever way you run a fic archive, you'll have some problems.

The crusade of this Fightin' Sock rather bemuses me. When First Amendment and Gestapo also enetered the arguments, I knew it was going for gold.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You weird Germans you :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

There are screencaps of the banning, so people can make up their own mind.

Now they're the Gestapo-mods. Why oh why do people on the Internets never learn that WWII = not in fact applicable to every situation you find yourself in?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

The wank that ate the fork.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Harry/Draco cures cancer?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Go wild - I can always just take it off the Pod if it's not fully to my taste.

It being in English is an advantage, though :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Holocaust is totally like having all your fics deleted. Or, you know, extremely not.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Not any weirder than you ex-Vikings up North!

Anyway, what I forgot to list here yesterday -- my five favourite playlist songs at the moment. I haven't got an iPod (yet), but I guess they should all be available at iTunes.

-- The Decemberists, "The Island"
-- Ani Di Franco, "Falling Is Like This"
-- Mirah, "Cold, Cold Water"
-- The Pipettes, "I Like a Boy in Uniform"
-- Tom McRae, "How the West Was Won"

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I have no idea who she is. Or her friends. But sure been an interesting introduction!

For a fightin' sock, she sure pedals backwards a lot.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

Classical's wonderful, particularly Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'

[badonkatonks.livejournal.com]

Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. They play the leads, Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson.

BEST. SHOW. EVER.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I believe many internet illnesses have been cured by the application of Harry Potter pr0n. That and money.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

I'm suspecting - due to location and spelling errors - that I may have been wrong in my first guess and that it could be galadriella1. Either way, yes... not the most fightin' sock ever, really.

[falena]

I haven't forgotten about this, I was a bit busy this week. Will get you something tomorrow or Sunday at the latest, sorry to keep you waiting.

Btw, nice icon. Looks like an orgy. :P

[falena]

Music for you. It's all in English, except one Spanish song and a song that is half in Italian and half in English. They both are very pretty, though. :P

[witchqueenrat.livejournal.com]

Hope this is not overly late but as someone obsessed with her iPod, I have some recs. A bit melancholy due to my mood lately but good nonetheless (I think):

Nina Simone (most of her stuff is great but my favorites are "Ballad of Hollis Brown", "Sinnerman", and "Feeling Good")
Marianne Faithful - "Ballad of Lucy Jordan", and "Who Will Take Your Dreams Away"
Dusty Springfield - "Windmills of Your Mind"
Ella Fitzgerald - "When I Get Low, I Get High"

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

It was not me.

[mingsmommy.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, way late, but I was just exploring mignolagraphics and saw they had several posts of strictly WoW icons and naturally, I thought of you.

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