"Y'All Jus' Jellus!" The Scary World of Fandom

[underjoyed]

I don't know which group is worse: the Samantha Carter/Jack O'Neill Stargate SG1 shippers or the Buffy/Angel shippers. Both are thoroughly obnoxious, 'One Twu Pairing', fanatics who are impervious to logic.

Either group will fly into a screaming rage at the very suggestion that the principals involved just might have had healthy, successful relationship with others or that there could be legitimate obstacles to the chosen pair living happily ever after.

And don't forget the Buffy/Spike shippers. I mean, I used to like Spike (prior to Season 5) and I even thought that the way they were beginning to deal with the development of the character was interesting and had potential (before it was shot to hell in Season 6), but yeesh! Suggest that a Buffy/Spike ship might be at the very least at tad problematic and you'd get a reaction like you'd said you enjoyed kicking puppies.

Okay, more to the topic we go:
I've been known to antagonize a Britney Spears fan or two.

Nothing wrong with that. Actually, I provoked near-religious hysteria from some X-tina fans (and I actually like X-tina) when I recalled an interview wherein she (Christina) claimed that the giant frizzy hair-mountain she was sporting for the Lady Marmalade video was the result simply of taking the cornrows out of her head, prompting me to make the heinous suggestion that she spoke with forked tongue and that is not what post-cornrow hair looks like (speaking from personal experience). It was a damn wig. Or many, many extensions.

The response? Something indignant, outraged and (you could sense) almost tearful, along the lines of how "Christina would never lie to her fans!" (Especially about something as earth-shatteringly important as...uh...hair-style origins, apparently).

Dayum.

[Auroranorth]

And don't forget the Buffy/Spike shippers. I mean, I used to like Spike (prior to Season 5) and I even thought that the way they were beginning to deal with the development of the character was interesting and had potential (before it was shot to hell in Season 6), but yeesh! Suggest that a Buffy/Spike ship might be at the very least a tad problematic and you'd get a reaction like you'd said you enjoyed kicking puppies.

I think that they are much creepier than the B/A ones. I kept running across fic by these people which seemed to say that it was all Buffy's fault for not loving him enough, therefore he had the right to try and rape her and she should just get over it. YEECH. These are probably the type who were screeching, "Rape me, James!" at JM when he was attending a con.

[underjoyed]

These are probably the type who were screeching, "Rape me, James!" at JM when he was attending a con.

Almost certainly (and may I add a hearty "eeeew"). Buffy fans (I speak as one of them) have an oft-deserved reputation for extreme (read: creepy) levels of fandom. It got to the point where, if I told someone I loved the show, I would follow it up by avowing my sanity.

Freaktastic Mavin Gaye fans, on the other hand, were a new one on me.

[Mikal]

I moderate a music forum that has some interesting fans on it. Lots of Britney fans who get rilled up at any suggestion that she is not the sweet wholesome glittery princess she isn't. Of course, we have the Shania Twain fan who thinks everyone else sucks and has no problem saying so; the Cest'Fubar fan who only posts his current sales compared to Madonna and Cher (cuz that so proves shit); and all other weird people.

Thankfully, no Bible slashers or OrliRapers around just yet.

[Deleted]

Thankfully, no Bible slashers or OrliRapers around just yet.

What about mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to you!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[MissPandora]

I love that song!

[dwanollah]

This may be one of the most unbelievable freaky fan sagas ever... and a couple of my friends were part of the group that got swindled.

Plus it's got one of the awesomest book titles in the wholewideworld.

[rattlerbrat]

Auroranorth said:

I want a drink. A great, big whiskey. A LOT of great, big whiskeys. Also a bottle of bleach for the minds of the creators of this. It's his DAUGHTER, people. I already felt bad enough today, and this is just the topping on my nuclear cake. (shudders, hits the chocolate stash since she's at work and they frown on people slugging down whiskey at their desks)

Ah, you'll LOVE this story, then.

Bad enough I'm having to deal with my usual lot of superpsychos since Nona has two movies coming out w/i seven days, just on a higher level. (I could go on for days.) But now, well...we tend to have fan artists send us drawings for us to put in our fan art gallery. I've only accepted three of them so far, because 1) most of them just suck and 2) the ones that don't are just a bit too provacative for my taste. So today, I get a drawing, and to the guy's (girl's?) credit, s/he has talent. But you know what? I've sat back and recalled the spankings that I received from my father as a child, and you know what? I was never smiling. And neither was he. If this was some sick joke to fuck with my head, guess what? S/he sure did suceed. I swear, I am so close to writing some list on my site about The Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Marvin Gaye, with #1 being "Marvin was never attracted to his own child" and #2 being "No, really. I'm serious."

So if anyone needs me for the next few days, I'll be watching shit explode over and over and over at the xXx 2 sequel, while drinking l-o-t-s of overproof Jamaican rum. Because few things shock me to the point of tears, but that did. I'll also be setting flames to my hard drive and running every kind of cookie/internet cleaner I can think of.

*edited because YAY! I can spoiler on a pink background!*

[Auroranorth]

Would the moderators please note that Rattlerbrat is trying to kill me and/or drive me to drink at ten o'clock in the morning? You're MEEEEAN!

Seriously, I don't get this. At what point did incest get sexy? Did I miss the announcement? Is this a sign of the Apocalypse? (Probably.)

Rattlerbrat, it sounds like your site needs a clearly stated acceptance policy. Do you have one? (Or possibly a warning that dreck of that kind will be pitched and never allowed to see the light of day on your site. I could send you some holy water, if you like, and possibly find a priest for exorcisms on these loonies... it couldn't hurt, could it? Even if neither of us is Catholic?)

[rattlerbrat]

Actually, I'm a 3rd generation Roman Catholic. Kyrie Eleison, indeed!

At what point did incest get sexy?

Well, we've got twincest in the "Matrix" and "Harry Potter" fandoms, and I've seen quite a bit of it in the real people fandoms - mailny siblings, but is it Justin Timberlake who has all the fans that pair him with his mother? And while it's not my cup of tea and never will be, I can just roll my eyes and overlook it (I guess) if we're talking two (or more) consentual adults. >>But once we start talking underaged children, that's where my tolerance elevator stops and my "I hope you get shot to death, you sick fucker" speech begins.<<

I guess what BUGS me so much about it all is that...isn't this level of crazy clearly reserved for people like Orlando Bloom or that little Elliot kid from the "Lord of the Rings"? Nona Gaye isn't exactly what I'd call an A-list actress. Hello? This is my tiny circle of fangirly crushing! We shouldn't have any problems whatsoever, right? But nooooooo - we keep getting hit by Marvin psychos, Aaliyah Stans, Prince lovers, and the morons who sends us pictures of their penises, or their prison addresses. I mean, when I say I've got stories for D-A-Y-S about psychotic fans, I mean it. And I don't mean the kind I can point and laugh at - I mean the kind that make you look up their ISP and make you want to contact law enforcement.

Fortunately, my site is basically set up to where no one can post at the forums or in the guestbook unless they're approved by my mods or me, but the majority of the superdreck all comes into my inbox, and it's more or less mine to swallow alone. But now I've got you fine folks to corrupt. *evil smile*