So I was just Buff-diving and came across the fabulous Dana quote that seems oh-so-relevant as TV's hit Drive is about to premiere:

Dana: We'll call it "Fandom Through the Years: The Dark Side."
Chapter headings will include:

"I'm a Plagiarist! Love Me!"
"My Hero is Good and Shiny and Noble and Don't You Dare Write Him Any Other Way!"
"I Don't Care How Much of Your Time and Money You Put Into This Website, Because I Have Unending Complaints"
"Psychotic Yankees I Have Known"
"Hey, Isn't Slash Just Porn, Anyway?"
"Hey, Isn't Fan Fiction Just Porn, Anyway?"
"I'll Feminize/Demonize That Male/Female Character if I Want To!"
Who Says You Have to Know About Sex to Write Sex?"
"If You Criticize My Writing, I'll Kill Myself and It'll Be Your Fault!"
"Why Should I Spell-Check -- It's Only Fan Fiction"
"That Was Great! Where's the Sequel?"
"Seriously, Where the HELL IS THE SEQUEL?"
"What Do You Mean, There's No Sequel?"
"Hey, You Look Helpful. Can I Ask You Inane Questions?"
"I Could Obviously Build a Better Site, But I Would Never Waste My Time Doing That"
"You Slash People are So Sick and Twisted"
"You Gen People are So Deluded and Boring"
"You People Who Put Female Characters in My Slash are Just Evil"
"But It's Okay To Stalk Actors If I Really, Really Love Them, Right?"
"I Am the Moderator! Get Out of the Way; Here Comes My Ego"
"Web Design Guaranteed to Make You Gouge Out Your Own Eyes"

and the grand finale, "Why Are You So Upset? It's Just a TV Show. Of Course, If You Say Something I Don't Like, I'll Start a Flame War That Crosses Six Countries Before Breakfast."

That was long before Firefly. Right? Seems to fit the OB perfectly. Thanks for the laugh.

"If You Criticize My Writing, I'll Kill Myself and It'll Be Your Fault!"

I think I could live with myself if they should choose to put their sleeping pills where their mouths are.

Of course, when an outraged drama queen pulled the equivalent "You'll all be sorry when I'm gone!" act on a hockey board I used to frequent, I responded by writing "Remember: vertical cuts."

t hearts Matt

KristinT, that's fab.

That was long before Firefly. Right? Seems to fit the OB perfectly. Thanks for the laugh.

Right back to the beginning. Not the Bang, not the Word. The true beginning.

Not the Bang, not the Word. The true beginning.

The true beginning that started, oh, say, 10 years ago?

Fan Entitlement. It has been and will always be with us.

(I'm sure there was crap like this in the 70s with 'zines and apas, but it just took longer to get a kerfuffle going)

(Actually, I did mean the 'zines and cons, and all the ur-fandom stuff, but I wanted to use a Buffy quote, because of the day.)

I had an apa-kerfuffle one time back in the late '70s with Nancy Collins - oh, excuse me, Nancy A Collins - who wrote for Swamp Thing, back before she had anything published. She was a nasty bitch to me for no reason whatsoever and never apologized. I was about 16 and she's 4 years older, so, you know, neither of us were real mature at the time. (About five year later I dated her ex and didn't even know it until we all crossed paths at a con.)