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Digest - 26 Jul 2012 to 27 Jul 2012 (#2012-132)

Fri, 27 Jul 2012

There are 2 messages totalling 101 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Old faction lists
  2. Eyebrow faction

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Date:    Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:49:01 -0400
From:    Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Re: Old faction lists

> On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:54 AM, Greer Watson wrote:
>> I mean, who ever heard of the Eyebrow Faction?
>>
>> (No.  I will not be making a faction icon.)

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Terri wrote:
> Why not, Greer?!!! (Couldn 't resist coming out of lurkdom).

First Gaylin, now you.  Why will I not be making an Eyebrow Faction icon?
This is a joke, right?

Well, okay.  I can take a joke seriously.  (Proof of which is the fact that
the Thong Throng got an icon.)

So here's your (serious) answer.

I've made icons for joke factions, such as the Thong Throng and the Oops!
Faction.  However, these were running jokes on list over several months at
least.  Even though they lacked the appurtenances of "real" factions, they
were familiar names--well, at least in their time.

The idea of creating a faction for LaCroix's eyebrows--equally intended as
an amusement--was born, lived, and ran out of steam in the course of a
single day.  If I hadn't raised the matter, no one would *ever* have
remembered it, I'm sure.  (Perilously few had even the slightest memory of
the Thong Throng, if you recall; and that joke lasted a lot longer.)

Add to this the fact that the point of the joke was the very *idea* of such
a faction.  People entertained themselves by spinning comic names for it:
Furries, Fuzzies, Highbrows, Q-Tips.  As a result, no one name was ever
settled on.  Indeed, no name was ever seconded, let alone voted on or a
consensus declared.  After all, the actual creation of a faction wasn't the
point.  (By contrast, at the very same time, there was a months long running
argument over the best name for a Nick/LaCroix faction; but, for all that it
remained unnamed for ages, people definitely wanted to create it.)

Of course, it's true that I've made icons for a lot of very recently
invented factions.  And one could argue that very few such factioneered
affiliations actually materialize:  no one claims membership, no
loops/lists/groups are formed.  However, when one factioneers an affiliation
for a character or pairing, one is (at least potentially) suggesting that
there *might*--or even *should* --be such an affiliation.  Indeed, in the
heyday of the fandom, that's precisely how new factions did start.  The
Nanettes began with one member; so did the Dark Perks.  Other people got
intrigued:  presto! faction!

Rather more to the point than an "Eyebrow Faction" (which was a general
desciption of its object, not its actual name) is the fact that there are
*other* factions that people have suggested, from time to time, for far more
likely subjects, some of which have even been seconded!

Which brings me back to the Morgue Maniacs and the Unspeakables.  Among
others.


Greer

gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/


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Date:    Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:48:38 -0400
From:    Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Eyebrow faction

Dod rot the pair of you!  I'm supposed to be finishing up my story for FK
Fic Fest, and I keep thinking of Q-tips and fuzzy caterpillars.


Greer

gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/


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