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I just came from a party where I met the friend of a friend... we’d met at the movies a couple weeks ago, she’s in fandom (not Buffy, I forget which), I gave her the link to the Smile Time comic. Then today I ask her how she liked it, and she says, yeah, she like, and by the way, three of her friends were all, "What, you know her?"

Which poses two questions.
1. How frikkin' awesome is this?
2. How many people have read this thing, if at least three people in my own town know about it? I really wish I’d installed a counter or something, now I’ll never know. Or is there actually a LJ tool that gives you a hit status of a certain post? Do they collect that sort of info?

And now, since I’m already friends locked, for a spot of bitching. I’m not in the habit of doing that... don’t think I’ve ever done that before... but this guy is just too much, and I don’t want to risk attracting an obvious troll: Mark "I'm not a misogynist but I play one on Lee Goldberg's blog" York replies to the fic defenders, once more confirming that he has the IQ of a watermelon.

Mark says:That's the biggest load of horse hockey I've ever read. That's my strong opinion but one backed up by law and universal ethics, not some wild relativistic carte blanche to pilfer original work. At its worst it's character defamation. Not all opinions are created equal. Some have a foundation in reality.
( leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2006/09/am_i_a_fanficce.html#comment-23161773 )

Universal Ethics, WTF? And here I thought that‘s basically an oxymoron.

Speaking of morons... other pearls of wisdom from Mr. York:

What a surprise? A woman fanfictress like Rommel. I think the "We" says it all. We women thieves sisters in arms and all. A defender of stolen crap by a writer of it. Yawn. Such blatant shillery."

"You could explain why it is that women are defending this thievery? Why is that? Is it something hard-wired that allows them to just cast aside established rules because they happen to want something?"

Jeez. Issues much? I have no idea why he’s trying to make this whole thing about gender issues since that’s a) inaccurate and b) not exactly helping his side of the debate. It’s a giant, completely useless red herring. Traditionally, if you use shifty debating techniques you do it to make the other side look bad, not your own. I’m puzzled.

*deep breath* Okay, all better now.

[eta: now he's done bashing women and has moved on:

Ey-up makes a lot of sense. That must be why she is having so much trouble with the German take on what a fan can and should be able to do.

Wow, that man is a fucking idiot.]

Also, to get back to the productive side of things, page six is almost completely coloured and page seven more than halfway inked. Maybe I’ll finish even both of that tonight.

[eta: unlocked]

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If you look at his responses to the other threads on Goldberg's blog he's just as abrasive, ignorant and egotistic on other topics.

Yeah, he's 100% troll. Not just in Lee's blog, either - I just did a little googling; looks like our friend Mark strives to get banned from everywhere in the blogosphpere.

That man has serious problems. I can not fathom what would drive someone to behave like that. What is he, an author, journalist, something like that? I mean, does he not see that he presents himself as an utter jerk, damaging not just his reputation but possibly his career as well? He's a posting under his real name, after all.

He's now apparently under the impression that we're all German because we agree to some extent with Kete, despite the fact that you've never mentioned where you live, I've repeatedly said in those threads that I'm from the US, specified in the previous thread that I was raised in Philadelphia, if he bothered to look at my profile he'd see I now live in Panama, and Rommel's in the UK and has said so. Much like gender, he seems to think that someone's nationality is a character flaw, yet he can't be bothered to get the nationality correct.

The German thing is utterly bewildering. I haven't posted on that blog yet, btw... there's someone posting under the handle A. but it's not me (though I like their brain.) I have no idea how he got the impression that you and Rommel and the other fic writers there are German. Even less, why on earth it should matter to him.

Lee & Co, I do disagree with but I can still see where they're coming from. But this troll is an utter conundrum, I just can't wrap my mind around anyone behaving like that.

Ok, I'm an idiot - I thought you were A. And I may even have conflated you with Amireal in my head. I'm one to talk about paying attention, aren't I ;-)

Cheers.

Well, FWIT, I could've been A. because s/he's pretty much taking the words out of my mouth. :)

I've come *this* close to posting there a number of times, but so far have been able to restrain myself. I just don't think I have the energy and patience to allow myself to get dragged into this... you'll know from experience how that debate will suck you in like a vortex.