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

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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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[fpb.livejournal.com]

Superhero fandom was 95% male - for all I know, it still is - so I think it was not very interested in slash. Femmeslash, now... but I quit seven years ago, and heaven only knows how things have changed since. But as for fighting and ferocity, you should read some of the old COMICS JOURNALs - "anyone who disagrees with MY stance is a sold-out, lowbrow, anti-intellectual, mercenary enemy of the noble artform of comics!"

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

OMG, that's hilarious!

You know, after I got used to fandom, I started seeing everything in fandom terms. Some of those old academic wars about the interpretation of Shakespeare? Totally wanky.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

True. My master, and the greatest historian, perhaps, in the twentieth century, was a man called Georges Dumezil. He was outspoken and inventive, and trod on dozens if not hundreds of professorial corns. So one day, another historian - and a respected one, too, would you believe it = organized a symposium in London "about" Dumezil's work, without letting either Dumezil or any of his friends or supporters know it!! Now that's one thing that Heidi and co. haven't thought of yet...

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be hard to keep something like that a secret, what with the Internet and all.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, they weren't able to, anyway. But can you beat it, an international scholarly symposium, with all the usual trappings of university hospitality and so on, all in order to trash the work of one man?

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Nope, nope. I can't beat that.

Unless you want to take Encyclopedia Dramaticae's (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Fandom) view of Western religion.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I think I'll skip. Besides, I have a few hundred music files to convert to MP3 format, apart from all the usual fuss, so this is apt to be a busy busy busy little morning. I wonder how people ever have the time to go on F_w?