This is genuinely well-meant advice to all the poor fools who waste their time lurking on this LJ

[fpb]

I gave it to one particular person, and now I repeat it to everyone of the dozens of sad, vindictive, time-wasting twerps who cannot seem to live without finding something to blame me for.

Of us two, which one values the other the more? Which one goes looking for the other's writing, seeking for reasons to be indignant and sarcastic, hanging on to whatever reference may be twisted into a reason, an excuse, a springboard of any sort, merely to attach your name to mine? To me, you mean very little, except perhaps an occasional opportunity to be sarcastic at your expense. What is it that makes me so important in your eyes, that you just insist on commenting on me, as if I mattered? And, please, don't give me the usual nonsense about me being a pseud. The world is full of pseuds, but other pseuds like you do not generally get obsessed with them.

And now I have a suggestion for you. Forget I exist and do something constructive. Leave f_w and other similar gathering-points for inadequates and - write a song; write a story; draw something; start an OU degree - Hell, get a a CIMA qualification, become an accountant, draw up the accounts for a company. Do something saner with your time than persecute someone you do not know for reasons that do not exist.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah... because a fun, detail-filled story is a natural catalyst for scary online arguments...?

Or, as the person reading under my shoulder says (see, she's got the chair and I'm standing typing...), "the more characters, the more random pairings that you can tick people off with!!"

But that's not what ticks people off about FPB's posts, I'm gathering...

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Actually, one theory I've heard, that makes a lot of since, called HP a "feral fandom." They pointed out that a lot of fans were very young, and had Harry Potter as their first fandom - with no experience to fall back on, they were more likely to make a lot of common mistakes, like idolizing fanfic writers, believing bullshit, getting too passionately involved ... and they tended to look up to anyone older than them, so the adult and college-aged fans got a lot more power than they could handle.

Thus was born the shipping wars, the Inner Circle, Msscribe, most of F_W fodder for the next how many years ...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

interesting! sort of a Lord of the Flies fandom thing :-D

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Very apt comparison.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Now don't get this wrong, and I hope you're not offended, but I had no idea libertarians did sociology. And clever sociology too!

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I, too, am full of surprises! :)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Er... does that include spelling "sense" as "since"?

Urk... two wisecracks in a row, which might suggest sarcasm, perhaps even hostility - and I really do not want that. But you did misspell it - check out six entries upthread.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap. That's the sort of typo I make all the time.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Everyone does. In wank threads, however, they like to pretend that it is a profound error in English caused by the fact that you (I) are (am) a sad little unenlightened Italian ignoramus. True!

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

w00t - "I'm Italian, btw." is on FPB Bingo! (http://users.rcn.com/mindset/wank/fpbbingo.png) It's out of date, though, and they should repalce NarcissaM with Pyratejenni already.