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Awhile back we covered Yahoo's completely unsurprising news about Delicious Bookmarks. If you've forgotten, here's what happened: ExpandAnd news about who bought delicious and why it's a big deal for a little money )

Pros and cons in the comments, people. Let's break this down.
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Well that was a terrifying 24 hours. First there was the news that Yahoo would likely shut down Delicious, permanently, in the near future. Fandom had a freak out, understandably, overloading and accidentally DDOS'ing the servers of previously lesser-known but similar services Diigo, Pinboard.IN, and Licorize to name a few. Fans even discussed starting an alternative service called Fanmarks which we still think would be interesting (maybe with specific clouds for fandoms, etc).

Luckily, late this afternoon news was released on the official Delicious blog that Delicious isn't being shut down, it's more likely being sold and we collectively released the breath we'd been holding. The only downside is that we'd all already gone through 24 hours of grieving and the usual stages: ExpandShock and Denial, Pain and Guilt, Bargaining... )

TL;DR: Right, the point is: aren't you glad I don't have to rename our So Delicious So Terrible feature So PinboardIN So Terrible?

Yeah. Me too.
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I make fun of badfic here a lot, FG fans, and don't worry, there's a delicious post coming up soon, but there are other things that make me de-friend journals, skip over fic, and generally run in the opposite direction to get away from someone on Livejournal or Dreamwidth. You know what I'm talking about. Those people who don't seem to understand the basics of interacting online, or that they extend to formatting.

ExpandLike people who don't use cut tags, or bother to learn how. )

With internet etiquette my rule of thumb is if someone else posted this, would I want to read it? If the answer is no, then I erase everything.

Don't be a dick: make it easy on people to read and find your stuff.

PS: Please use lube in your story. Please. No lube = deal breaker.

Tell us your Livejournal/Dreamwidth pet peeves! There are so many, and I know we've missed load of them.
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We're undecided about fic warnings here at FG. Some of us are all for them and some of us think they're dumb, but there are some things we all agree stories should warn for ahead of time. The kind of things that no author would ever actually warn you for, you know? I guess that's what fic recs are for. Regardless, please enjoy these humorous caveats.

ExpandWarning: One of them turns into a dog in the middle. Before the NC-17 part. )

What impossible things do you wish authors would warn for? Tell us!
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When I read this news item, all I could think about was the this guy in our comment pages:

Lynne Rosenthal, a college English professor from Manhattan, said three cops forcibly ejected her from an Upper West Side Starbucks yesterday morning after she got into a dispute with a counterperson -- make that barista -- for refusing to place her order by the coffee chain's rules.

Rosenthal, who is in her early 60s, asked for a toasted multigrain bagel -- and became enraged when the barista at the franchise, on Columbus Avenue at 86th Street, followed up by inquiring, "Do you want butter or cheese?"

"I just wanted a multigrain bagel," Rosenthal told The Post. "I refused to say 'without butter or cheese.' When you go to Burger King, you don't have to list the six things you don't want.

"Linguistically, it's stupid, and I'm a stickler for correct English."

Rosenthal admitted she had run into trouble before for refusing to employ the chain's stilted lexicon -- balking at ordering a "tall" or a "venti" from the menu or specifying "no whip."

-- Source: New York Post


In other news: fucking New York, man.
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So less than 48 hours after we somewhat incoherently tried to talk about fandom's insufferable desire to acknowledge and self-flagellate for every Boolean iteration of *ism, we have an object lesson in the boundary between behavior that's unacceptable to you, personally, and behavior that's basically just unacceptable, period.

For reasons not entirely clear, [personal profile] toft decided, after years of keeping this secret, to reveal that for ages she's been trolling the SGA Storyfinders Community with fake, engineered questions for her own entertainment:

ExpandDance, SGA Storyfinders! Dance! )

So yes, I hate having to do a take-back so quickly, but if you'll excuse me, I'm going to round up the other FGers so they can help me wrest the Ur Doin It Wrong award from the SGA Kink Meme and pass it on to its new rightful owner.
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So. Are you guys still in SGA fandom? Of course you aren't. Nobody is.

Except apparently for some asshats!

The mods of sga_kinkmeme apparently decided "fetishizing identities" did not constitute an acceptable kink, and promptly began freezing threads that they deemed offensive to certain groups (most notably a chubby-chasing prompt that mods admitted bothered some of their overweight members). While this has led to the usual round of resigning and sweeping of things under rugs — note that some of the evidence of this kerfluffle has been deleted for posterity unless it hits fandom_wank — it's spawned what looks like the beginnings of a proper round of fandom bukkake.

ExpandIn addition to being passionate about porn, FG is passionate about fandom being filled with horseshit, and overly convinced of its own superiority. )
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I mean, I'm pretty sure everybody reading this knows that already but it looks like this is sort of revelatory news for even mainstays of liberal, birkenstock wearing, sexually liberated web co-ops (where we volunteer two days a week to get a 2 percent discount applied to our purchases of local turnips) like Jezebel and The Daily Beast.

To give you a quick overview: Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are starring — and getting rave reviews — in a little flick called The Kids Are All Right, about a pair of lesbians, their kids, and their kids' biological sperm donor father. By some accounts — though not all — it's a great movie for many virtues, apart from the fact that the leading characters have an interlude while watching some retro gay porn with dudes fucking on a car. (In case you're curious about what this retro dudes fucking on a car thing is, see here. Obviously, not safe for work, nor is anything else on Fleshbot, for the record.)

As a significant portion of slash fandom identifies as lesbian/queer/bisexual, this is hardly news to us, but apparently it’s been the source of much eyebrow raising elsewhere, as Jezebel notes. And yet, while the movie has sparked a conversation about lesbians enjoying gay male pornography, it hasn't really catalyzed into much of a discussion about women watching gay porn, or, regrettably, a larger discussion about female desire.

Slash fandom is the Galapagos Islands of female sexuality, and a plethora of unique species flourish here that would die if we lost our habitat. We have our jungles of kink memes and their forebears, the FQF; we have unique and delicate ecosystems of Livejournal community within Dreamwidth post that caters to every possible sexual need. In short, slash fandom is what the internet looks like if you have a dick.

For any girl who's gone looking for some gratification outside of our gated and self-selecting community of hedonists, you're going up against a gritty, shitty sahara of inevitable disappointment. Most of the pornography out there isn't made for you, isn't meant for you, and frankly, the XY-carriers in your life would probably be happier if you and his account at RedTube and YouJizz never crossed paths. There's a whole other essay that deserves to be written about the paradox of women being eternally the object and receiver of sexual desire and at once completely divorced from it; endlessly gagging for dick — or, in the case of popular erotic depictions of gay women: fists, ribbed dildos, anal plugs with sparkly shit at the handle, that sort of thing — and yet somehow completely excluded from wanting sex for ourselves.

Circling back to the basic point of girls and gay dudes fucking, there's probably a larger underlying psychology there, about why we enjoy watching hot men riding it until the wheels fall off, but to me, anyway, the question becomes, does it really matter? Obviously, I see this becoming a critical piece of scholarship for some deeply awesome psychology masters student, but in the practical world, I think the more important point isn't what women are getting off to, just that they're getting off, that female desire is being cultivated, being teased, that maybe this is some tiny indication — and it is hella tiny — that someone out there wants to tap my line of credit and start selling me porn.

But if the scene from The Kids Are All Right did remind us a lot of slash fandom as a whole — two women watching dudes fucking as a way of getting each other off is highly reminiscent of fandom’s perpetual lady circle jerk — the porn did not. It was so laughably awful — pornstaches! EXTREME MUSCLE DOMINATION! — as to be completely undeserving of being referred to with implicit capital letters as The Tape. We’re disappointed in you, Julianne Moore and Annette Bening, and we at FG, as discerning consumers of filth, thought:

ExpandThey need our help. They need recommendations. We have trained our whole lives for this. If it is one thing we at FG can do, it is gay porn recommendations. )

And in conclusion, you should all be really grateful. The first draft of this piece started with this line: Whenever I start thinking about the geography of female desire it looks like a Salvador Dali painting, only guiltier.
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Slash fandom: Where your prince charming also happens to be an insatiable whore. Win-win.

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Have I told you how much I love [personal profile] rageprufrock? I know, that's like saying I love puppies and kittens and delicious snacks, but you know. I've moved fandoms to follow her work and every time she posts something I just about pee myself.

But do you know what is amazing? Out there is someone who loves this lady and her crazy work more than I do. I know, because this morning this action popped up on my reading page. Yes. YES. Apparently SGA is still alive and well, because Rodney McKay has an official Rate My Professor page that has not been taken down and that, in fact, has comments and things referencing the original work.

Guys, it's like a sextra, only without sex and with a lot of extra weird content by strangers. Do you love it? I kind of love it. Also I am kind of terrified. (Does she have real life stalkers? Do they creep on her in restaurants and bars? Will someone please publish all of her fanfiction as actual books so I can carry my favourite stories close to my heart like some kind of loser ex-boyfriend?)

In other news, Rodney McKay is still a horrible professor, but he's been rated as hot.
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I know a guy whose doctor prescribed him medication for extreme sun deprivation because he couldn't manage to break away from his desk for 20 minutes a day or something similarly ridiculous and go outside. It's not really funny, except where it's hilarious, and then it turns sad, because I remembered that in many ways, we in fandom are -- in many ways -- similarly tethered to their computers.

As a professional geek and a highly trained hermit, I've wasted more daylight hours than I care to discuss sitting inside during a beautiful spring day torn between running outside and sitting under a tree to read a book, or scrolling down a page containing some serious good reading in any number of fandoms. During the Dark Ages -- before everybody and their sister had an iPhone, anyway -- we as a collective of fannish consumers were cloistered by necessity, for access, and although I can already hear a couple of the old guard in the back of the room asking, "Well, what about zines?" I think we can all agree that somewhere in the last 20 years, fandom went irreversibly digital, and unless you wanted to mow down a forest and print your own fanfiction, you were shit out of luck. That's not even addressing the issues of the newest fannish products: kink memes, constantly updating with new entries; vids, which really lose something in translation when you print them out frame by frame; images, which suffer somewhat less, but suffer nonetheless.

ExpandThe question becomes: do I want to go outside more than I want to obsessively refresh this kink meme, basically. )

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