Wha?

[ivyblossom]

Okay, HP fandom. You have some splainin' to do. Victoria Bitter? Really?

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[applekid.livejournal.com]

Hahaha ikr?? I guess HP just couldn't stand to have any rivals for wankiest fandom. With VB around, there's no contest.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the hints on this one. Ultimately this has demonstrated how completely out of fandom I really am. I mean, I knew I was, but...there's a BNF I've never heard of who's been in fandom for at least a couple of years, there are podcasts peopled by fandom folks I've never heard of. And a massive wank including exactly no one I know! Oi!

Is this a het fandom thing? Gen fandom?

[applekid.livejournal.com]

Het i think, but mostly revolving around secondary characters. I find it all funny, but that might be because i never lost any money to him. I get the feeling vb likes to poach aging fandoms. Perhaps he tests the waters for conditions conducive to personality-cult formation, and then dives in when they're favorable. From an outsider perspective, Hp seems to have the right stuff, with a lot of energy as the movies end and no real focus for it; vb chose well!

Hay, email me your address if you have a chance? :D

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

New developments? Let me get in the tea and the chocolate digestives before plunging into this epic saga of epic wankiness...

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1231688.html

[max-ambiguity.livejournal.com]

Do tell!

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

I'm wading through this thread: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1231688.html

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Wait, what?

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1231688.html Yeah. I don't even know where to start with this. I'd never heard of this fanfic clearly, I'm so far out in the sticks of fandom I wouldn't have. I guess it's a het thing? Gen thing? I dunno.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

I just do not know what to make of this. Except it probably needs a panel at Infinitus.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

God I can't even imagine. A whole panel to talk about how to avoid being scammed in fandom? Probably needed.

[fede.livejournal.com]

....Her fandomwank wiki is ... uh ....

Oh my.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

His.

If nothing else, he /has/ said he's trans.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Do you know who this "thanfiction" person is?

[zeemverse.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA. I found out about this very recently via fake lj deaths.

[zeemverse.livejournal.com]

And I've sooo been out of the scene since 2001 hahaha

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

*head asplode*

Well, um. I liked the fic, but beyond that, WTF.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

You didn't give him any money, did you?

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

When I saw the wank this morning I went over to see his livejournal. He had about 200 friends. I'm like: 200 friends is a BNF now? But then I thought: maybe people have been mass unfriending him?

It kind of made me sad to think that there was a BNF and a big popular fic I'd never heard of, but it's been years so I shouldn't be so surprised. Kind of sad. Makes me all nostalgic.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

WAIL VB wank has killed journalfen!

[perclexed.livejournal.com]

Is the new screenname meant to be funny? As in, Truth is Stranger "thanfiction"?

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

That's what it is, but I don't know if that's meant to be funny. :/

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

I'm still pretty active, and I've never heard of this person. But I've found that there is an enormous divide between ff.net fans and LJ fans. The comments that I receive from people on ff.net are not people I've EVER heard of.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. I was a member of Bit of Earth way back when so I remember the fallout, although I didn't personally get burned in any way. But wow, this person is back AGAIN? Keeps showing up like a very bad penny.