Club Jade

Twilight fans, I’m sorry, but it’s becoming clearer and clearer that there is a deep vein of crazy running through your fandom. Hot on the heels of LadySybilla and her unending spiral of batshit, you now have a second person trying to sell their Twilight fan fiction – and this one is on Amazon.

Seriously guys, when your creator has a history of pitching fits in the style of a 16-year-old BNF who’s not getting enough reviews? It’s probably not wise to gleefully infringe on her copyright. One can be written off as just a random nutter, but two? That’s stupid crazy. Meyer has money, she has lawyers, and I don’t doubt that they will cut you – and maybe everyone else who’s doing their Twilight fan fiction without asking money for it as well.

In the midst of some typical Trek oldbie wank, a moment of sheer genius is revealed: Vulcan pick up lines. A sample:

“Cadet Uhura, might I inquire as to whether or not you suffered physical discomfort upon falling to Earth? Also, it would be prudent to alert your superiors that one of their ranks has recently gone missing.”

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Here are some of the things I’ve micro-blogged over @clubjade in the last week or so.

Clothing: Behold the Anatomy of the AT-AT t-shirt!

Guardians of peace and justice? Eight Scottish officers with the Strathclyde Police and two of their civilian co-workers have listed their religion as “Jedi.”

Crazy Twilight fan theater. Lady Sybilla’s industrial-sized victim complex trucks on! She’s now claiming that “Characters don’t belong to authors. Authors don’t create characters. They merely channel them.”

Lulz. io9′s Charlie Jane Anders pegs Obi-Wan Kenobi as one of the Great Unsung Slash Fiction Heroes. I know it’s pretty ironic that the most code-abiding Jedi in the saga is the fandom bicycle of Star Wars fanfic, but these things just tend to happen when Ewan MacGregor is involved.

Video fun! We Didn’t Start the Flame War! (NSFW, mostly for language.)

So it seems that on last week’s Supernatural episode ‘The Monster at the End of This Book,’ the main characters, Dean and that guy played Dean on Gilmore Girls Sam, discover fandom. And slash. Incest slash, of course, since the main focus of both the show and the psuedo-fandom within the show are the two brothers. Naturally, some in the fandom are less than amused…

I gotta say, I tend to eat this kind of thing up with a spoon. (See Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, Avatar’s ‘The Ember Island Players,’ and I’m sure some of you know the names of the X-Files episodes I’m thinking of…) But what’s your take? Is it okay for the canon to take a mocking stance on not only itself but the fans?

Not all them, obviously, or CJ wouldn’t be what it is today. But yes, it’s another one of those stories, featuring a pivotal guest appearance by Harlan Ellison. (Via Collen Doran, who has a crazy ‘fan’ story and extra links regarding the LA Weekly one.)

The new Entertainment Weekly is chock full of Potter, including Daniel Radcliffe’s thoughts on the new book.

The HP week in review

• Naomi Watts, Joseph Fiennes, and Stuart Townsend are not going to be in Half-Blood Prince, their agents say. But I read it it on the internet!

• John Ostrander on HP alternatives.
• Amy H. Sturgis recs political analysis of Potter.
• Slate’s Book Club dissects Deathly Hallows
• Would you send your kids to Hogwarts?
• Fans translate Hallows into Spanish.
• “Yes, Virginia, there is a Potterdammerung.” But nothing beats the Russian Snape fans who burn a copy of DH. Dude. We’re crazy, but not that crazy.
• A mind-cleansing LOLcat.

Yesterday on Fandom Wank, an antique: The Futurians vs. The New Fandom, an altercation from 1939. Nineteen thirty freaking nine! Oh fandom, you really don’t change!

Bonus: Early cosplay!

Sep and Snacky’s Guide to Pseuicide: How to Fake Your Death In Fandom for the Fun and Enjoyment of All. With kittens!

Fandom Lounge gets wind of the Darth Who contest, with entirely predictable results, mainly shocking me (once again) that there are people with fond memories of the YJK series.

I’ve known some crazy fans in my time, but this takes the cake. And of course, it’s Harry Potter fandom.

Oh, and there are filks.