The LOLer side of FanLib!

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

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, lizbee has written hilarious...yes you guessed it: Pink Guy/Blue Dude slash."

Back when this began to hit the fan, 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. :)

Comments

[trobadora]

Hee! I knew the slash wouldn't be long in coming. :-)

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

A+++++++ would lol again.

She's awesome.

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Ah, slash does make everything better!

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.fanlib.com/fanfic/Its_Probably_Me/294q74

And others by the same author.

*is anon to keep OMGSEKRIT identity*

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it looks like that fic has been moderated. :(

FanLib: Actually has standards?

[(Anonymous)]

(Same anon who posted the earlier link)

Okay, looks like FanLib may have actually blocked a story. The story was Pink Guy, Blue Guy fic, totally for all ages, and PARODY. Even marked as such. However I'm being told that the fic has been blocked by a moderator.

Apparently FanLib is okay with using other people's IP, just not using THEIRS.

[kazaera.livejournal.com]

Damn, I wanted to be the first to write Pink Guy/Blue Guy slash... now I will have to consider whether it is worth breaking my brain and betraying my icon.

And also: To not go near FanLib at all, or to make an account only to troll horribly, that is the question... (It surprises me how internet etiquette breaks down here. I have considered things like mass e-mailings of the authors on the site and troll attacks that I, as a Good Member of Fandom, wouldn't even dream of doing normally - just because I think the possible danger of this website overrides netiquette. I am willing to do a helluva lot to make it gone.)

Re: FanLib: Actually has standards?

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all surprised. They're probably modding anything that looks like it came from The Opposition.

Do we get jackets and a secret handshake? Or punch and pie?

Re: FanLib: Actually has standards?

[darkrosetiger.livejournal.com]

Excuse me? We were told there would be punch and pie?

[megpie71.livejournal.com]

My take is that it's enough of a pile of rubbish that it'll disappear on its own, without any help from us. Quite frankly, I'd say the best we can do is to quit publicising it (after all, the way that mob of bozos are, they probably *do* agree that any publicity is good publicity) and leave 'em to implode on their own.

Certainly I'm going to be keeping an ear out for anyone on my f-list who talks about receiving an invite, and warning them about the killer TOS as well as the "mine eyes, they bleed" design, as well as pointing out the obvious failings. But why bother trolling the authors who are already there? I know this sounds really callous, but I think the best thing that could possibly happen is for one of them to get the famous C&D, and wind up with FanLib suing her for costs. That *would* get them into the headlines... and it would destroy their credibility completely.

[kazaera.livejournal.com]

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.

[kazaera.livejournal.com]

Oh, and - although I have heard the "all publicity is good publicity" before, I'm not sure how on earth they want to gain an advantage out of the attention they're getting here! I mean, everyone's basically just screaming "RUN AWAY FROM FANLIB AS FAST AS YOU CAN oh and tell all your friends too!!"

[kazaera.livejournal.com]

All right, it had to happen.

*****

"No, no, stop it..." Blue Dude hissed as Pink Guy licked a stripe up his neck (making a mental note to remind Blue Dude to shower more often).

"Stop it? Why?" Pink Guy looked at him in puzzlement. "But this is so right, can't you feel it? We're bonded..."

"We can't!" Blue Dude shouted desperately as he fought not to succumb to Pink Guy's sexy wiles. "We're... we're brothers."

Pink Guy's eyes widened in surprise. "Brothers? But that's not possible! We don't look alike at all!"

"It's true." Blue Dude sniffed. "They... the actor for the photographs... same actor... steroids... it's a long and sordid tale but it's true. We're brothers. Our love is tragic and doomed." A single emo tear moseyed down his cheek.

"Don't cry, my little uke," Pink Guy said consolingly. "I happen to know that that tale was a falsehood perpetrated by the ad campaign for MuscleMan: How To Build Up Your Body In Just Six Weeks. In truth, we aren't related at all."

"Really?" Blue Dude asked, joy dawning in his eyes like a particularly horrible cliche. "You're certain?"

"Yes I am," Pink Guy said happily. "And besides, FanLib claims to be open to fanfics of all genres, so incest not a problem!"

"Oh, in that case," Blue Dude said and ripped his clothes off.

And they had hot sexx0rz all night (with Pink Guy topping!) until a mob of angry fanfic writers came and killed them both.

The End.

*****

...all right, I should not post fanfic when sleep deprived. I think I killed my brain.

Re: FanLib: Actually has standards?

[sterling-sara.livejournal.com]

The Opposition? Are we an underground now?

Re: FanLib: Actually has standards?

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

I'm dying here. That's hysterically funny.

"There's just something so right about fanfiction." --Chris Williams, CEO, FanLib

[darkrosetiger.livejournal.com]

A single emo tear moseyed down his cheek.

*sporfle*

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

You totally made my night.

Re: FanLib: Actually has standards?

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

I am so amused my cat is running away.

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

I advise against trolling because it's a lot of effort for a small return. It's better to use our time muckraking.

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling this horrible impulse to ask Chris Williams for his thoughts on yaoi.

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

Also, I have added "pink guy/blue dude" to this comm's interests. Heh.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

"Admit it, Blue Dude," Pink Guy growled as he shoved his nerdly stylus into the larger hunk's coy, quivering hole. "You bought the hype. The jump-cuts. The flash ads. The third-rate-video-game fantasies. You wanted to be cool. You wanted to pose for cheap commercials about us to run at 3 AM on Comedy Central and maybe even get a cameo drinking horse jizz in Jackass XIX. You believed in that 18-34 male demographic."

"Yes, fuck yes," Blue Dude sobbed as he was painfully, lubelessly reamed and it felt so, so good, like he was born for this, like he sprang from the forehead--or was that the thigh--of a dot-com entrepreneur with a great ivory brow, only so that he could spread his thick but useless legs for a scrawny but brilliant man who'd learned long ago the way to charm women was to eyefuck other men in their sightlines. Preferably in the TARDIS.

"No advertisements on this ass," Pink Guy declared, slapping it. "It is ALL mine, and I'm going to tattoo crossover furry art there." It was the thought of Boromir and Anakin as copulating meerkats that made him come.

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

I salute you. This is without a doubt the most wrong thing to drop into my in box in quite a while. It's also one of the funnier things. :)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I aim to please. Does Chris Williams know about the RPS scene, I wonder... ;)

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

Do you mean there's an actual Chris/David RS piece, or just RPS in general? Either way someone needs to slash him with his brother David. Extra points if it's h/c after all those fangirls were mean to him.