*sheesh*

[telophase]

Someone on the Tpop website posted the Huge Honking Spoiler from Fruits Basket in the title of their blog post and in the second sentence (the first couple of lines get posted along with the title), so that if you're skimming the blog posts on the new page you can't help but see it in GIANT RED LETTERS. All indications are that the person isn't doing it deliberately, because they are honestly amazed and curious about the spoiler.

Someone get me a modstick, dammit! I need to administer a beatdown!

The only reason that I'm not more pissed off is that I already knew the spoiler, from discussion on fandom_wank last year when it first came out. If I hadn't known, I would have been significantly less civil in my comment (I called the post thoughtless and suggested she edit the post so that the spoiler isn't in the title and second sentence. I might have been tempted to use the words SELF-ABSORBED BLITHERING FUCKHEAD OF AN IDIOT if I hadn't already known).

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[chisotahn]

Aigh. I also know the spoiler from FW (and I am SO eagerly awaiting when my Furuba-obsessed friend, who is following the Tokyopop releases, finds out... just because her reaction will be HILARIOUS >>; *bad person*) but yeesh.

I'm a mod on Gaia Online and I get the urge to mod other places... this would definitely be a time when I'd be weeping for my banhammer. WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Man, if Tpop asked for volunteers to be mods, I'd be right up in front going ME ME ME ME ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

And they'd look at me funny and skip over me to the next person. So the World of TpopSpace would be safe from my mighty double-fisted modstick and banhammer, which I would use and abuse, laughing insanely all the way. So perhaps it would be a good thing.

I was spoiled for the Huge Honking Spoiler in Death Note by a fucktard on DeviantArt who posted it in the title of her journal over there, again aparently not to deliberately spoil people. WHY WILL THESE PEOPLE NOT THINK FOR HALF A SECOND!

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

They like you enough to let you write a column, but not enough to be a forum mod?

Weak.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

They have not asked for mods. :) But if I became one, I would be tempted to be a rampaging Godzilla of a mod, stomping through TokyoSpace, killing and maiming and leaving a trail of flaming wreckage behind me.

Even the thought makes fills my heart with warmth.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

It warms the cockles of my heart, too. Or maybe the cup of tea is warming my stomach and I can't tell the difference. At at any rate, I like the idea.

Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla!
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla!

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
Godzilla!

[homasse.livejournal.com]

WHY WILL THESE PEOPLE NOT THINK FOR HALF A SECOND!

*Seriously*. It's like they think that just because they know it, everyone knows it. I just got majorly spoiled for something in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles by some twit on free_manga who was asking for a scanlated chapter and just threw in, for no good reason, a giant mammoth spolier that just happened. It was something like, "I heard that Tsubasa chapter *secret!* already released, it's about *giant ass spoiler*. I haven't see this chapter. Do anyone have link to this chapter?"

*stabbity stabbity stabbity*

Ahh, well, the people on free_manga tend to piss me off anyway, but that's a rant for a whole other day.

...also, I think you should be a mod. It would be great to see the modstick coming out for beatdowns.

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

I _think_ I know the spoiler, thanks to some £$*£ inconsiderate fansite owner who decided to put it in honkin' big SCROLLING red text across the top of their site. Grrr.

But I may be mistaken. Though I kind of hope I'm not, because, annoyance of being spoiler aside, it's a pretty darn cool twist. :-)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You are probably not mistaken. :D I haven't read that far in scanlation - I'm sticking to the official translations so far - and I'm looking forward to how the story gets us there. :)

(I was warned about the spoiler on the post where I read it, and at the time I wasn't as addicted to FB as I am now, and had no problem with reading about it. Nowadays, though, if offered the choice, I'd stay spoiler-free.)

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

I managed to spoil myself for the Big Plot Twist in Death Note... because you were posting about the ending, and my desire to read your thoughts overcame my desire to remain spoiler-free. I spent a good two minutes staring at the tempting, tempting cut-tag, but in the end my willpower was weak. *grin*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD Mine was weak for Saiyuki Gaiden - I haven't read the last few chapters in scanlation, but when someone posted about it, I debated maybe thirty seconds and leapt in.

Your willpower was stronger than mine, if it took you two minutes to beatr it into submission. XD

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing, I have always loved that icon.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Ritsu is so wonderful, isn't he? It was a happy, happy day when I stole this icon. XD

He's my token Furuba icon on this journal - I've got one of Haru caressing the face of either Rin or Tohru (can't remember offhand) with the text "Girl, I wanna take you to a gay bar". Also stolen. I ought to move it over here so Ritsu won't be so alone.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

You know...so much of Furuba fandom manages to piss me off at regular turns.

At any rate, I would be entirely supportive of modsticks and beatdowns. Sign me up, plz.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

There's a good reason I stay far, far away from most that fandom. I can only take so much crazy at once.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

All I want is a discussion forum where people type in grammatically correct sentences and can bring up topics devolving into squeeing fangirls. Is that so much to ask?


While I'm wishing, I'd also like a nice FB roleplay outlet and maybe a pony. Nah, scratch the pony, I'd like a bishonen instead. ;-)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Is that so much to ask?

Yes. Yes, it is.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Well, given that I'm so braindead that I left important words like 'without' out of my sentences, I suppose I can understand.

I guess this means I don't get the pony bishonen either.

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

Maybe an LJ group? With you modding? FB_Nosquee or something? :D

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I got spoiled for something major in Mai-Otome because some fuckwad posted it uncut on the LJ comm. I called her an idiot, and got modsmacked for it. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Modsmacked for that? Sheesh.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I left the comm with very little regret.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Argh, keeeeel them. I think I shall stay far away from all Tokyopop forums, even if it would be amusing to reply to that person with OMG AKITO TURNS INTO A SOUTH AMERICAN CAPYBARA WHEN HUGGED in my subject line.

(er. I will be very embarrassed now if that *was* the spoiler, but it seems unlikely.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

OMG U SPOILING H0R!!!!

Dude, it would totally rock if someone turned into a capybara when hugged. Or maybe a platypus.

[homasse.livejournal.com]

No, my vote's for chupacabra. *THAT* would rock.

But then, I would also like to see a dating sim that ends with everyone in the town turning into zombies that you have to destroy with your new man (what better date than zombie-bashing?), so take this with a grain of salt.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Dude, it would totally rock if someone turned into a capybara when hugged. Or maybe a platypus.

I suspect at least one Zodiac member would prefer a platypus...

[octopedingenue]

OMG CAPYBARAS SQUEE SOCUTE

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I only rarely read anything on Tokyopop or DA, or, well, most places actually. I'm severely behind in Fruits Basket and when you lag behind as far as I do it's like living in a perpetual obstacle course for absolutely everything, because people don't seem to automatically think others could possibly not have got around to it yet :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah. :) I mean, there's got to be a limits for spoiler space and courtesy LJ-cuts, because to hide spoilers for, say, Lord of the Rings is a bit ridiculous (OMG BOROMIR DIES!!!), but even then it's still polite.

[snarp]

But it was on FW, like, *twice*! Possibly even *more* than twice! If it was on FW *twice*, I mean, *everyone* knows about it!

I'd have gone into a frothing, murderous rage about being spoilered for that - because it is my favorite kind of plot twist ever - if I'd actually started reading the manga yet when I heard about it. Mod intervention is definitely indicated here.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup. I'm surprised that nobody in her comments had said anything about that yet, but they were all discussing the spoiler in question.

[madame-manga.livejournal.com]

Brings back memories--about a decade ago during the run of Star Trek: Voyager, some jackass on alt.startrek posted a message with the title "SESKA'S A CARDASSIAN!?!?" right after the first run of the episode in question.

He received a truly global gobsmack for that--apparently it hadn't occurred to him that Europe and Asia didn't see the episodes until a few days after the initial US broadcast. This phenomenon (unthinking blurters just trying to share the joy) seems to be universal throughout space and time. When I really, really like some series and desperately don't want to get spoiled, I just can't check it out online, period. :P

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup. This is related to why, although my mother doesn't understand, if there's a movie or book that's going to be popular among my friends online and off, I have to read or see it ASAP, if I would like to be able to participate in any sort of conversation. If I wait a couple of weeks, the fervor's died down and no conversation is really going to be active.

I ran into this with Fullmetal Alchemist, which I watched about a year after the big discussers on my friendslist did. I'd have loved to get involved in some deep discussion about it at the time I saw it, but the topics had already been done to death and I had to content myself with reading what they said about it last year.

That's also why I got the latest Harry Potter the day it came out - so I could read it, and then watch the fandom implode and laugh myself sick wihtout worrying about getting the plot spoiled for me. :D

[octopedingenue]

I will discuss FMA with you! I can ramble about it ad infinitum.

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

I think this phenomonon is related to a personal pattern that I've recently begin to notice:

There's a certain level of obsession that leads a fan to believe that, magically, everyone's read everything at the same fantastic speed as them. It's related to the same thought process that makes a guy in my class think that since I like computers and video games, I love hearing him talk about MMORPGs even when I tell him repeatedly that I don't play them. And probably will refuse to, due to not wanting More Distractions That Cost Money(TM) (I like my distractions like I like my men: free and in a plastic cup). Which usually elects a glassy-eyed stare of a person who has just heard the craziest notion in his life.