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relax, I know how to make cement ([identity profile] telesilla.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] life_wo_fanlib2007-05-22 04:06 pm

The LOLer side of FanLib!

[livejournal.com profile] stewardess has already posted to the Fandom Wank post about the FanLib ferfluffle, but I've found a few other funny things.

Based on the FanLib Pink Guy/Blue Dude & Mexican Wrestler ads, [livejournal.com profile] lizbee has written hilarious...yes you guessed it: Pink Guy/Blue Dude slash."

Back when this began to hit the fan, [livejournal.com profile] debra_tabor put up an amusing poll about the issue.

If you've seen anything funny that I've missed, please link it in the comments. One of fandom's traditional ways of coping with idiots is to laugh at them and it's good to see we're managing it now. :)

[identity profile] kazaera.livejournal.com 2007-05-23 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
You have a point; I just can't shake the (probably unreasonable) fear that this is what will prompt either the Decisive Court Case or just generally a number of big license-holders deciding that with such a massive effort to profit off fanfic, tolerating it is clearly no good. I hope it's just me being paranoid, but I see a lot of other people afraid that this could come crashing down on all our heads. Which is why I want it gone, preferably before TPTB get enraged.

I also feel really sorry for the authors who don't realise what they're getting into. I know I first went "yowza, corporate support of fanfic? Did I wake up in Bizarroland today?" before I read the posts with more detailed analyses of the whole "corporate support" deal. Someone who's not on LJ might not hear about this mess and might join - and, well, no one deserves that.