Retire "fanwank"

[McCoy]

payndz201 said:
I always thought the definition of 'fanwank' was stuff made up by the fans rather than created for them. It's the fans who are doing the wanking, not anyone connected with the property.

Yeah that's what I always thought too. I've most often seen the term in connection with a fan's explanation of a gap in continuity or story logic.

Then again, I don't go into the STXI forum.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

I vote for Fansterbation!

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was under the impression it was something from previous movies or series placed in a movie or episode that gets the fans all excited.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Here's one reason why the term should be used on ocasssion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHANrzMSlk

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

I'd rather the phenomenon was retired than the descriptive.

But instead of fanwank, how about 'wanfank', or 'incestuous spiral of creative moribundity'.

 

[cultcross]

Nardpuncher said:
Here's one reason why the term should be used on ocasssion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHANrzMSlk

That kind of wanking will make you blind.

 

[USS Excelsior]

That kind of gimmicky piss is the perfect example of fanwank,.

 

[Warped9]

Like many words "fanwank" has its place in the right context and intended meaning. The overuse of the word lessens its meaning.

Words retire or fall out of use when something else eventually replaces it. And that happens in time.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

It means, unartful or obviously implausible fiction, which imo, thrive in the absence of onscreen Star Trek. Like some posters preoccupation with plot theories that would lead to the annihilation of life as we know it in the Star Trek universe. It can be used to unfairly discredit ideas or demean writings, but it's also descriptive.


Fanwank

 

[JoeZhang]

Nardpuncher said:
Here's one reason why the term should be used on ocasssion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHANrzMSlk

I feel dirty after watching that...

 

[Warped9]

Apogeal Alpha01 said:
It means, unartful or obviously implausible fiction, which imo, thrive in the absence of onscreen Star Trek. Like some posters preoccupation with plot theories that would lead to the annihilation of life as we know it in the Star Trek universe. It can be used to unfairly discredit ideas or demean writings, but it's also descriptive.


Fanwank

Hello? I KNOW what it means--I've used myself a number of times. I was commenting on the initial post.

 

[FalTorPan]

Nardpuncher said:
Here's one reason why the term should be used on ocasssion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHANrzMSlk

I'm far from a supporter of the Bring Back Kirk movement, but I have to tip my hat to their creativity in composing that video.

 

[Maurice]

So long as fans are drawing uber starships with a jillion phasers and vectoring nacelles and fan films keep creating crossovers to twenty episodes in a single story, there will always be "fanwank"... and the word is just right.

 

[Jack Bauer]

A lot of the time Fanwank simply means "I think that sucks". It's like how the word cult is used by a lot of people to mean "I don't like that particular religion therefore it's a cult".

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Warped9 said:

Apogeal Alpha01 said:
It means, unartful or obviously implausible fiction, which imo, thrive in the absence of onscreen Star Trek. Like some posters preoccupation with plot theories that would lead to the annihilation of life as we know it in the Star Trek universe. It can be used to unfairly discredit ideas or demean writings, but it's also descriptive.


Fanwank

Hello? I KNOW what it means--I've used myself a number of times. I was commenting on the initial post.

Oh! Hello! I . . . was . . . too! Primarily.

 

[Moocey]

exodus said:
I agree Ghel .

I never liked the word myself for the exact same reasons you listed. It's just a very uncivilized sounding word.

I like it for precisely the same reason. In fact, this is the first I've seen of the word. I'll be sure to remember it in case I need to use it.

 

[Cyclopean]

I think it should be renamed "fanwannek."

 

[aridas sofia]

FalTorPan said:

Nardpuncher said:
Here's one reason why the term should be used on ocasssion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHANrzMSlk

I'm far from a supporter of the Bring Back Kirk movement, but I have to tip my hat to their creativity in composing that video.

Yeah... there was something positively inspired about that thing. It had elements of just about everything that I dislike about Trek combined with the wacko lip synch of an old Godzilla movie... and it worked. It was so bad, that it was actually good. And the obvious love and passion that went into it just added to the thing.

I tip my hat to those guys. If only a tenth of the last ten years of Trek was half as entertaining...

 

[captcalhoun]

I always thought the definition of 'fanwank' was stuff made up by the fans rather than created for them. It's the fans who are doing the wanking, not anyone connected with the property.

no, that's Fanon fan-canon

 

[number6]

I love the word. I think "fanwank" is very apt and describes what it is supposed to, putting it in the right perspective. The people who overuse the word just don't see the irony the way I do.