So, who wants to hear all about fannish entitlement?

[drakyndra]

Well, the magic that is Fandom_Wank (and associated comms) currently seems determined to give me some Harry Potter fandom flashbacks at the moment. And not exactly in the good way.

For starters, FictionAlley is asking people to vote for it as a charity deserving grant money! Instead of, you know, the actual charities it is competing against which including things like animal shelters, combating human trafficking and supplies for homeless children.

I'm fairly certain my opinion on this has already expressed by someone else far more eloquently than I could managing, but dear God, FA, what the hell are you thinking? I haven't been to FA or it's forums in years now, but back in my pre-LJ days it was one of my introductions to the social part of fandom. And to see something that once mattered to me demonstrate this sort of audacious and utter shamelessness is horrifing. I just... how could anyone possibly think that this was the right thing to do?

Egads.

A less horrifying flashback to the glory days of HP-dom is Aja's grand and glorious TL;DR about the difficulties of being a BNF. I think I speak for us all when I say, oh Aja.

Truly, a week for first world problems.

And to get away from bizarre Potter flashbacks, News.com.au would like to apologise for getting their Star Trek facts wrong. And to inform us that Patrick Stewart is hot. No, really. I am not lying about that last bit.

Also, what the hell has LJ done to comment formatting, and what happened to all my icon names?

Comments

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

I know they're laughing at us in the apology, but I'm laughing too, so I don't know how to feel -- aside from that it's one of News Ltd's better pieces, and I'm happy to see something on that site that doesn't make me want to kill something. So, yay for that?

(I also remember seeing a very similar book to the one reviewed in the original article [I don't think they actually read it] in the library at one of the high schools I attended. I found it once, and then it disappeared, lost to the realms of L-Space.)

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

So I don't edit the same comment again (sorry) I will add that this is the newspaper that used the regularly print images of the Enterprise upside-down in the pre-internet days, so I am unsurprised in general. /wank

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

There's a note of bemusement, I think, in the response there. As if someone was mildly stunned at what happened when they got their Trek facts wrong.

The comment on Patrick Stewart's looks is hilariously unexpected, though.