Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

The masterlist of the vampire fic, updated: This shit is soooo long.

I would hare myself, but, I mean, bands and vampires? Bound to happen.

Ah, ok.

As per metafandom, I'm glad to see that people are pinging to the fact the the fanhistory (haha, nice try at sounding unbiased) wiki is a huge grudge wank masquerading as some kind of web 2.0 fan colab history (or whatever the hell). That took TOO LONG, fandom.

I think there are so many of the unwritten fandom rules going on w/ this situation that it's like a slow motion train wreck that only half the bystanders can see. This is what I used to talk about regarding how old fandom hags share information behind the scenes and more often than not what lands on fandom_wank is a grudge wank (and don't think just because the key players don't turn up and SAY so that this isn't true). What happens in public on lj is just the top layer of what goes down in fandom. I think this platform has caused a myth of transparency that confuses lurkers and noobs (who can have been in fandom a long time--the word, I think, just means "not tapped into the right sources").

I was talking recently to a friend involved with OTW about fandom pre-lj and all the people we were talking about are *still* big names in fandom in various ways. That sort of conversation just reminds me of how no matter how large fandom is the corner I inhabit remains very similar. Many of these people I actively avoid, yet I stumble across them constantly much to my annoyance. At any rate, I think this is one of the problems OTW has in that they think they touch on *everything* in fandom (or desire to even if they think they don't meet their own expectations yet) but I think that getting outside our own zone of fandom might be like trying to get out of the Phantom Zone or something--it's just impossible w/ out outside forces compelling the escape.

I think the issue over OTW's board members refusing to tie their fandom names to their real names is sketchy. On the one hand, I think that if they are doing what they're doing with the purported goals they have, they should tell us who the HELL they are on lj so I can decide if I want them representing me or not. On the other hand, I respect that my desire is outweighed by another person's autonomy as a human being. I don't get to tell them what to do; I can just call them hypocrites. However, I fundamentally respect their right to be hypocrites because nutcases like that wiki owner exist in the world and not everyone has the kind of job I do where no one cares if I'm a furry or not.

I think that the problem with fandom policing wrt things like this wiki is that the old way of dealing with these sorts of issues was to just ignore it and not speak about it in public. We had a rule of rise above. I think this is what the OTW board members are doing with regards to criticism of them. This no longer works. Fandom has become too large and too unruly for it. In the olden days of halcyon misremembering rising above did work in so far as that was a coded action where within our unspoken boundaries longstanding fans knew when The Lunatic Fringe was dissing xFanX and xFanx didn't respond that nonresponse was a clear response "this is beneath my dignity and I'm rising above." Also, it meant xFanx was bitching up a STORM in emails and chats. I don't think that system works any more. I'd like to see a system of public shaming come into play. SHHHHHHHHUUNNNNNNNNN.

The whole libertarian mindset that we can't police each other because there's no moral authority in fandom doesn't work when someone does something absolutely egregious. People can get totally bent out of shape over fake charities and fans buying other fans laptops, but not personal vendettas that expose fellow fans to serious real world harm? Why, because the former includes goods and services? Is the issue monetary? I personally think that harm is more troubling than someone losing some cash.

This is for people who have no idea what I'm talking about. I earnestly believe that the time when we could just ignore trolls and let them eat themselves is passed. We have to inform each other when xFanx is pernicious and not what she represents herself to be. In this case, this specific person is behaving in a way that is no consistent with our community standards.

We actually *are* a community no matter how often we say "oh, you can't do anything to someone on the internet!" Really? Yeah, you can say "dude, fuck off!"