It's past time to cut through this fucking buillshit.

[tzikeh]

I have stayed out of the OTW insanity since it began. I didn't even know how to begin to talk about it, and I didn't want to wade in while things were shaking out, and I didn't want to read things that were going to make me angry, because I knew it would just cause me impotent rage, since there was nothing I would be able to do.



I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE/DON'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OTW IF THEIR PHILOSOPHIES ARE IN DIRECT CONFLICT (bolded now for those who fail at reading comprehension and think I'm defending OTW, instead of what I'm actually doing, which is bitching about people who hide their identities so that they can say nasty things about OTW), but I am so done with people who are against the OTW with absolutely no facts to back up their opposition. They are the Teabagging Party when it comes to OTW: frothing at the mouth with blind hatred, but they have absolutely no fucking facts and they just believe whatever their mental, seething leaders say without bothering with critical thought, or fact-finding of their own.

In case anyone reading this thinks that I'm somehow part of the OTW "machine," let me be crystal clear. I have no part in OTW. I'm not on the board, I'm not a beta-tester, I'm not a coder, I'm not part of the PR department, I'm not anything at all when it comes to the project. But I am DONE with this fucking insane bullshit Teabagger-mentality ignorance that has spread through some sections of fandom that are just spoiling for a fight with the OTW, because they've heard from someone who knows someone who said something they didn't like.

I have fucking HAD IT.

Whiny, shitty fucks who bitch about the OTW, but create sock-puppet accounts to do it so no one who knows them will know it was *them*, can shove it up their own asses. Cowards. Bullies. Those of you who have a beef with the OTW and have created sock-puppet accounts just to write about it? Show your faces, you craven pieces of shit. How dare you hide so that nobody who knows you finds out what you think. Afraid of conflict with people you know? Coward. You want to dish it out while not having to own it. Put up or shut up.

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[slashpine.livejournal.com]

Well actually, I may be misspeaking on the time period in question. The "year" I reference is, IIRC, from spring of 2007 through late summer/early fall of 2008. It's all the posts (newsletters, announcements, recruiting, "love stories"/what OTW means to me, first wave of annual reports, etc. along with the comments on them) from the LJ comm... that one that was all yellow. (IIRC) *gets very fuzzy on time* *and colors*

I'm a constant victim of "fandom time" syndrome... The sense of time where you remember each con vividly, and exactly when favorite actor X quit your favorite show and the first episode without zir (*waah!*), and the release of movie X and the friends you saw it with, and everything you said about it afterwards and the very first drabble you wrote in that storyverse ... But you can't remember whether that banning wank was in 2005 or 07 or was it even 2008? And when your *new* Fandom OMGILU group split away from the *old* parent WTFBBQ list? (Or even when it was ezzackly that you stopped being mainly active on the lists and moved to LJ? Woah. We made that crossing on the Ark with Noah, wazznit?)

I say thank goodness it's the dates and details of the wanky shit I never remember well, even though every first-time fandom love affair I've ever had remains brightly burnished in my mind. Or at least, lovingly backlit by the golden glow of nostalgia. *g*

As to OTW and communic's -- I should hope and expect it has changed! LOL. That was part of my thinking, actually, when I set aside the data from my analysis of that first year - I could compare against a later period to see what the shape and style of changes were. (See, I still want to *make* it come out really positive! B/c hay: it's *my* women's safe-space, fandom; my only genderqueer communitarian home in the galaxy. I want it to always be stellar and awesome, or at least heading there!)

Funny again, though (in the OMG way, not the ha-ha one) how many in fandom only and always judge other fans, comms, etc. by "OMG WHAT SHE DID 7 YEARS AGO HOW CAN YOU EVER TRUST HER IN ANY WAY AGAIN?!?!?!?" Fans can be an oddly unforgiving lot! I've never quite figured out *where* that trait comes from. Although I suspect it's got something to do with the many younger/newer fans who haven't been around long enough to make half the mistakes that can be made, and contemplate nearly all the others.

Wank and fandom, ugh. That pairing is my least favorite, yet most often seen! SOMEBODY TELL ME WHYYYYY

*hugs you*

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I may be misspeaking on the time period in question. The "year" I reference is, IIRC, from spring of 2007 through late summer/early fall of 2008.

Yes, that's exactly the first year of the LJ; its first post went up on May 20, 2007.

[slashpine.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, wasn't I Miss Johnnie-on-the-spot!

Pity all my work doesn't nail the opportunities when they arise. *listens mournfully to the sound of deadlines whizzing by*