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flonnebonneBehold, an upcoming Xbox 360 game starring Frederic Chopin!
Of course the soundtrack is going to feature Chopin's piano music, as performed by Russian Stanislav Bunin. And also compositions by Sakuraba Motoi!!!!!! I like Sakuraba Motoi. I would love to hear him do arrangements of Chopin pieces. I like Chopin too.
On a related note, I've never had the (dis)pleasure of being involved in a wanky fandom. In fact, the only fandom I've been strongly involved in is Hikago. And Hikago...well, let's look at Hikago.
It says a lot that this list is probably the wankiest Hikago thing anyone I know has done this year.
[Edit]: Now with Touya Kouyo/hotpants crack!edit action, courtesy offrozen_yoghurt who is so going to hell.
Of course the soundtrack is going to feature Chopin's piano music, as performed by Russian Stanislav Bunin. And also compositions by Sakuraba Motoi!!!!!! I like Sakuraba Motoi. I would love to hear him do arrangements of Chopin pieces. I like Chopin too.
I read the entire Msscribe story yesterday. It seems like everyone on my flist is reading it. It is the frightening tale of how one woman's wank changed the HP fandom world!...for the worse. God, who has the time and energy to create and maintain several gazillion sycophantic/trollish sockpuppet LJs? And what does it say about us outsiders who enjoy reading about it? It's like reading the tabloids. Very good entertainment, very good schadenfreude.
On a related note, I've never had the (dis)pleasure of being involved in a wanky fandom. In fact, the only fandom I've been strongly involved in is Hikago. And Hikago...well, let's look at Hikago.
Ten Reasons You Don't See Much Hikaru no Go Wank;
Or, My Attempt to Create Some Wank Where There Is None
1. This fandom is small. So small the HP fandom could step on it and not even notice the squishy sound.
2. This fandom islazy laid-back. Flame wars would be too much effort.
3. We don't obsess completely and utterly over our One True Fandom. No one is batshit insane. No one has yet claimed to be channeling the spirit of Sai. In fact, most people in this fandom are interested in lots of different fandoms. And if a BNF dares write fic for another fandom, we're, like, totally cool with that.
4. Speaking of which, do we have BNFs? Maybeissen4 and svz_insanity, who probably have the largest fic output, and I guess aishuu, though she writes in tons of fandoms and isn't primarily a Hikago writer. Geez, what is wrong with these guys? Too busy having real lives to create websites dedicated to their favourite pairings and to gather their allies and have secret cabal meetings? Too busy *gasp* actually writing fic?
5. Because we have our own lives, we're not close to each other. We don't go to cons with each other and IM and all that jazz (unless ur all leaving me out of the sekkrit fun WAH!!!!11). We can't actually hurt each other's feelings all that much.
6. Hikago is over. There is no new canon to wank over.
7. The canon was never very wankable in the first place. One of the great things about Hikago is that it is so clearly written and drawn that we pretty much can't argue about anything. We know who did what why when where how. I don't see any "oh Hikaru told Akira that he loved him just so that he couldhave sex play Go with him" "no your wrong he totally loves him he just doesn't express it well!!1!" "I hate you you should go play in traffic because you insulted me you meanie bum wah!!!~`!" type of canon discussion.
8. The manga and anime are almost exactly the same, so no manga vs. anime wars. Well, there is the matter of Hikaru's eye colour being different. That's a HUGE DEAL OMG. Now I don't know whether to describe his eyes as "glowing emeralds" or "stormy slates like we used to draw on in school."
9. No sub vs. dub wars. Everyone agrees the dub is bad. Heck, I've never even watched it and I agree it's bad.
10. The pairings? Not much to argue about. The most common ones are Hikaru/Akira, Isumi/Waya, and Ogata/Ashiwara. Occasionally you see Hikaru/Waya, or crack stuff like Ochi/anybody/everybody (this means YOUshinra_lackey), but nobody gets ruffled feathers over ships.
11. It's a series about Go for crying out loud. Can you feel the excitement? Gen-fic ahoy!
12. (I really can't count, can I?) And finally, people in this fandom are really nice and not crazy. Maybe I'm just unaware of the pot of seething insane hatred roiling inside their blackened souls, but I doubt it. I luvs you guys. :)
Or, My Attempt to Create Some Wank Where There Is None
1. This fandom is small. So small the HP fandom could step on it and not even notice the squishy sound.
2. This fandom is
3. We don't obsess completely and utterly over our One True Fandom. No one is batshit insane. No one has yet claimed to be channeling the spirit of Sai. In fact, most people in this fandom are interested in lots of different fandoms. And if a BNF dares write fic for another fandom, we're, like, totally cool with that.
4. Speaking of which, do we have BNFs? Maybe
issen4 and svz_insanity, who probably have the largest fic output, and I guess aishuu, though she writes in tons of fandoms and isn't primarily a Hikago writer. Geez, what is wrong with these guys? Too busy having real lives to create websites dedicated to their favourite pairings and to gather their allies and have secret cabal meetings? Too busy *gasp* actually writing fic? 5. Because we have our own lives, we're not close to each other. We don't go to cons with each other and IM and all that jazz (unless ur all leaving me out of the sekkrit fun WAH!!!!11). We can't actually hurt each other's feelings all that much.
6. Hikago is over. There is no new canon to wank over.
7. The canon was never very wankable in the first place. One of the great things about Hikago is that it is so clearly written and drawn that we pretty much can't argue about anything. We know who did what why when where how. I don't see any "oh Hikaru told Akira that he loved him just so that he could
8. The manga and anime are almost exactly the same, so no manga vs. anime wars. Well, there is the matter of Hikaru's eye colour being different. That's a HUGE DEAL OMG. Now I don't know whether to describe his eyes as "glowing emeralds" or "stormy slates like we used to draw on in school."
9. No sub vs. dub wars. Everyone agrees the dub is bad. Heck, I've never even watched it and I agree it's bad.
10. The pairings? Not much to argue about. The most common ones are Hikaru/Akira, Isumi/Waya, and Ogata/Ashiwara. Occasionally you see Hikaru/Waya, or crack stuff like Ochi/anybody/everybody (this means YOU
shinra_lackey), but nobody gets ruffled feathers over ships. 11. It's a series about Go for crying out loud. Can you feel the excitement? Gen-fic ahoy!
12. (I really can't count, can I?) And finally, people in this fandom are really nice and not crazy. Maybe I'm just unaware of the pot of seething insane hatred roiling inside their blackened souls, but I doubt it. I luvs you guys. :)
It says a lot that this list is probably the wankiest Hikago thing anyone I know has done this year.
[Edit]: Now with Touya Kouyo/hotpants crack!edit action, courtesy of
frozen_yoghurt who is so going to hell.
