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[threeplusfire]

Oh the internet. I can't even quantify my emotional reaction to it all within the past two weeks. I don't think I've waded through so much wank since 2003 when we were running around shouting OMG MY HED IZ PASTED ON YAY!!!1!1!! and talking about the Victoria Bitter saga. But this time it is more unpleasant, largely because it hits closer to home.

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people and their aversion to innocuous vocabulary? I will now attempt to use peerage in every conversation. I haven't seen vitriol like the DW fandom since the Pawn to Queen email wars and I think maybe this is even worse.

I've finally lost patience with LJIdol and all its assorted shenanigans. Oh the internet. Why must it always be such a pain?

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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I've had my share of personalized dustups with other fans in the past (in which I've occasionally been just as stupid as anyone else), but I've never before attracted such seething hatred because...I read books? I can spell words of more than two syllables? I commit the cardinal sin of realizing I'm intelligent and acting on that knowledge? The meme's incessant self-congratulation at how it "calls people out" who apparently need to be taken down a peg or two for their "bad attitudes" is just, yeah, keep me the hell away from your little Pol Pot fantasies, please.