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the_wanlorn) wrote2005-03-12 01:43 pm
the_wanlorn) wrote2005-03-12 01:43 pm
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I Can't Get Over This...
Fandom*? Is batshit crazy. All of it. So. Unbelievably. Batshit. Crazy. I never realized just how batshit crazy until I started frequenting ![[journalfen.net profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandom_wank and got a JournalFen account.
Bat. Shit. CRAZY.
First of all, there's people like Tomakobriefs, who think that If two people are having sex in any sort of writing, someone should mention protection. And then won't shut up about it. (fandom_wank report 1)
Then there's the House fandom. The show's still but a babe, and there have already been five major flame wars about it. (fandom_wank report 1 2 3 4 5) (i_wank supplement to 3)
There are scary things, stalker things that turn into "WTF??", such as the case of Jetis and JetisWatcher. The latter is stalking the former, because the former is a BNF that doesn't reply to her comments. It movies into quasi-real-life stalking. Then it moves into people getting incredibly suspicious that they're both the same person; that Jetis is just trying to make herself popular/famous in fandom. This came about because Jetis started a community/user, JWatcherWatcher to... report on funny stuff about the stalking? SKETCHY! People discuss it. (fandom_wank report 1 2)
And I have no words for CrystalWank**. I don't think I can even explain it's... all-encompassing-ness. The LotR fandom is possibly the most batshit crazy of them all (vying with HP). Crystal claims to know Dom Monaghan and Billy Boyd. Or maybe just Dom. And she sells her "artwork", which is just publicity photos cleverly manipped in photoshop to make it look like she drew them. And she has a "picture" of "Dom" on her bed. Except... it's obviously a body with Dom's head c&p'ed on. HIZ HED IZ PASTEDE ON YEY! I... wow. No words. (fandom_wank report 1***)
Admittedly, this has all probably been going on since... forever. But I'm just noticing it, and it's kind of scary... It also begs the question is this purely a journal phenomenon? The high degree of insanity, I mean, not the minor flame wars. I'm sure that forums and message boards and stuff have flame wars, but anything this insane? So is it really a fandom thing or is it a weblog thing?
I guess no one will ever know.
*A glossary of fandom terms, which I'm just marking because I want the link saved somewhere for myself.
**Does anyone know if there were morefandom_wank reports on CrystalWank? Or if there are any major links to it that I've missed? I'm thinking of writing a paper on this for a class and I'd like to have more references.
***It's possible that more reports exist and the insanity continued, but I'll be damned if I'm going to look for them. It was major enough to get two LiveJournal communities devoted to it: CrystalWank and the suspended CrystalWank2004. It's also listed in the fandom dictionary I linked to above, along with the "PASTEDE ON YEY" catch-phrase, under C and H respectively.
fandom_wank and got a JournalFen account.Bat. Shit. CRAZY.
First of all, there's people like Tomakobriefs, who think that If two people are having sex in any sort of writing, someone should mention protection. And then won't shut up about it. (
fandom_wank report 1)Then there's the House fandom. The show's still but a babe, and there have already been five major flame wars about it. (
fandom_wank report 1 2 3 4 5) (i_wank supplement to 3)There are scary things, stalker things that turn into "WTF??", such as the case of Jetis and JetisWatcher. The latter is stalking the former, because the former is a BNF that doesn't reply to her comments. It movies into quasi-real-life stalking. Then it moves into people getting incredibly suspicious that they're both the same person; that Jetis is just trying to make herself popular/famous in fandom. This came about because Jetis started a community/user, JWatcherWatcher to... report on funny stuff about the stalking? SKETCHY! People discuss it. (
fandom_wank report 1 2)And I have no words for CrystalWank**. I don't think I can even explain it's... all-encompassing-ness. The LotR fandom is possibly the most batshit crazy of them all (vying with HP). Crystal claims to know Dom Monaghan and Billy Boyd. Or maybe just Dom. And she sells her "artwork", which is just publicity photos cleverly manipped in photoshop to make it look like she drew them. And she has a "picture" of "Dom" on her bed. Except... it's obviously a body with Dom's head c&p'ed on. HIZ HED IZ PASTEDE ON YEY! I... wow. No words. (
fandom_wank report 1***)Admittedly, this has all probably been going on since... forever. But I'm just noticing it, and it's kind of scary... It also begs the question is this purely a journal phenomenon? The high degree of insanity, I mean, not the minor flame wars. I'm sure that forums and message boards and stuff have flame wars, but anything this insane? So is it really a fandom thing or is it a weblog thing?
I guess no one will ever know.
*A glossary of fandom terms, which I'm just marking because I want the link saved somewhere for myself.
**Does anyone know if there were more
fandom_wank reports on CrystalWank? Or if there are any major links to it that I've missed? I'm thinking of writing a paper on this for a class and I'd like to have more references.***It's possible that more reports exist and the insanity continued, but I'll be damned if I'm going to look for them. It was major enough to get two LiveJournal communities devoted to it: CrystalWank and the suspended CrystalWank2004. It's also listed in the fandom dictionary I linked to above, along with the "PASTEDE ON YEY" catch-phrase, under C and H respectively.