Catching up on my wank!

[caiusbackup]

Man, I should read the comments to scans_daily posts more often. 'Cause I almost never pick up on the wank until it's over. Amazing how fast these things move; I was away from the computer maybe 16-18 hours, and, in addition to the original, huge, scans_daily thread, there's a possibly even *bigger* one on liviapenn's LJ, another on thete1 and diverse smaller posts elsewhere. You people amaze me.

Best so far, though, was the bit where the debate appeared to hinge on the nature of bird-watching. I'm trying to sympathize on the poor folks caught in the middle of this (well, those of them who don't, actually, consider these things a fine time) and of course zeelee_penguin who got the whole affair emailed to her, but I was literally rolling around laughing by that point. I mean, birdwatching! And it totally made sense in context, which just makes it funnier...

Comments

[zeelee-penguin.livejournal.com]

This has nothing to do with your post, but I just thought I should let you know that I've read most of the GA you left me.

And, uh. Yeah. I will just be over here, screaming to the world about my pure, true, utterly fantastic love for Connor. And Ollie. And Roy. And Black Lightning. And... yes.

*wanders off*

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Yay! Feel free to scream in my direction. :) Or better yet, write porn.

[searose.livejournal.com]

Hi. A favor? Since I'm not sure I want to look, is this Traditional Fanboy & Slashcentric Fangirl Colliding? Like, badly - with harsh words all over the place, two alien races about to kill each other?

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

It's not quite that violent; mostly it's this guy being a clueless dick and slasher fangirls (and boys) either attempting to explain the whole slash thing as expressed on scans_daily or telling him, more or less bluntly, that he's a clueless dick and/or male chauvinist pig. That's the original discussion; the bits on Te and Livia's journal are more along the lines of "What do we do with these boys?!!" with hair-tearing and feminist theory and defensive fanboys and such. (I am oversimplifying; it's not easy to sum up 100-comment discussions in a sentence or less, but that's the general idea.)

Coming at it after it was over, it was more tedious than traumatic; I'm not necessarily a huge Fight Scene fan when folks I know are involved, and I think it's relatively safe. If you have a lot of time to kill.

[badficwriter.livejournal.com]

The funniest part to me so far is when someone congratulated Zeelee that 'Guy Gardner came to visit you!'

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

I loved that one, too. Funny, kinda true, and made the whole debate that much more entertaining. Sadly, I came across it after I'd posted.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I missed this one too. I would comment at length and with thoughtfulness in my journal, except just trying to keep track of the wank makes my head hurt.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Yeah. So far, this was the first interesting wank in this fandom I have been able to keep track of, but I'm sure there are parts I'm missing (I didn't, for example, read the fandom_wank post). And a quick glance at my f-list reveals that, while I thought the thing was more or less over last night, it seems to still be going on. *clutches head*

I would take it more seriously myself, except that, as far as I can tell, anything serious I would have to say has been said already (probably three times) or is being said better. So I restrain myself to the OMIGODWTF ROTFLMAO BIRDWATCHING! comments.