Holy shit someone actually just godwinned my thread

[farla]

Not to mince words, it bothers me that you're (again, plural you) such fascists about it. I realise that you've had to debate this ad-nauseum with childish whiners in the past, but maybe, just maybe if you take a step back you'll see how unreasonably militant your insistence on this point has become.

Think about it this way, if you go around saying that smokers should be executed, and I object to that, would it make sense to argue that it's contradictory for me to care so much that you keep telling people smokers should be executed? Yeah, smokers are sometimes annoying, and no, I don't smoke, but that wouldn't mean that I should automatically acquiesce and not take exception to the rather militant argument that smokers are all criminals who should be executed.

Every year people find fresh ways to make me hate them.

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[aztecravemonkey.livejournal.com]

I love how pretentious this person is while discussing the subject of whether or not one should capitalize the names of magical monsters in a children's video game. Because comparing fanfic authors' styles to what you believe to be obscure or high-brow literature (especially without taking into consideration historical/cultural context or the significance of style in relation to author intent in your examples) doesn't make you look like you're trying to be intelligent at all. After all, as everyone knows, Pokémon fanfiction is just as serious and intelligent a topic as ancient Greek political theory, and people automatically win debates just by namedropping instead of providing thoughtful analysis. *sage nod*

Oh fandom. Your priorities are an endless source of amusement.

On the other hand, I guess if one brings up things like Shakespeare and Swift and their love of sex, violence, sex, bodily functions, and more sex, fanfiction's probably more high-brow than what people consider to be high-brow. But Shakespeare and Swift are unfortunately not in this guy's equation because that would be too easy I guess. :(

[farla.livejournal.com]

You don't understand, I'm the one taking it way too seriously, they're just being the calm voice of reason with no stake in the matter whatsoever about my insane fascist vendetta against the innocent authors.

[aztecravemonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh! My mistake. I couldn't quite grasp that through his completely sound arguments backed by perfectly logical and intelligent examples. My bad!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm also forever fond of how you are forcing these poor defenseless writers to do your bidding. Coercing them, even. Your cyber-bullying ways know no boundaries, for there is nothing sacred, not even our God-given right to capitalize a whole flock of wingull.

-- Legalist217

[farla.livejournal.com]

I'm also apparently dragging them kicking and screaming to my forum to argue with me. Cyberkidnapping!

[(Anonymous)]

Will the former thread be locked now, though? Or are you just going to wait and see what he does?

-- Legalist217

[farla.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's earned that thread.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, but he doesn't want it and instead PM'd me about how it's more mature for you to just ignore the haters, etc. Telling him to put it into the former thread.

-- Legalist217

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on becoming Internet Hitler! That's a huge milestone!

[farla.livejournal.com]

I worked so hard and it's finally paid off!