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Sherri from the amazing and awe-inspiring film C Me Dance, which everyone knows I have been obsessed over since first seeing the trailer. I will probably end up friends-locking this post after a few days because I am terrified of Greg Robbins.

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Today, two young women got dramatically offended because I suggested a book to them that wasn't Twilight.

It seems Twilight means very much to them; so much that it was untoward of me to suggest other reading material.


Dear bleached-blond bottle-tanned Barbie-wanna-be Twitards,

Why so serious?











We're gonna get flamed so hard. It took less than a half hour for us to get our first flame. :D

Me: I'm outside your houuu-seeee!
newageamazon: Okay!
Me: With my pants in my lap!
newageamazon: . . . What?

~~

Also, it appears the publisher Harlequin has shot themselves in the nuts. They added on a new vanity publishing wing--a wing towards which authors who are rejected from their commercial branches will be funneled. Reactions seem to vary from "But self-publishing isn't bad!" (which completely ignores how this isn't self-publishing, it's vanity publishing, and yes it fucking is) to the hardcore, as the RWA (Romance Writers of America) has (have?) revoked Harlequin's recognized publisher status.

I'll be the first person to mock the romance novel section, sure--but that's still one hell of a shitty thing to do to potential authors: lure them in with an established name, reject their novel, then flip them over and shake them for whatever money may come out while telling them that this is really the best way for their career to start.

(You go, RWA. Rock on with your bad, frequently badly written selves.)

~~

Also, Gunnerkrigg Court ate my brain. It's much fun.

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Title: Four Times the Job Went Bad, and One Time It Didn't
Fandom: Devil May Cry
Claim: Dante/Cat
Author: jlsigman
Theme Set: Five Set 01

01: Blood
02: Food
03: Sand
04: Serpent
05: Lies

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Because I have so many icons from "Supernatural", I have separated them into separate posts. This is Season Three: Part Two.

Poll #4604 So . . .
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

If Random really wants to be healthy, what's the least healthy thing for her to keep doing?

Things to keep in mind:
Cloves are awfully hard to get in the states anymore, and make me hungry.
The Chinese buffet has all-you-can-eat sushi.
The doggies need exercise.
So do I.
I can't read the warnings on my clove package--these ones are from Indonesia--but I know what they say about all the awful things that can happen to smokers.
A typical buffet run involves two plates and me whining about a food coma for an hour afterward.
I am gimping ever closer to the day when I will be a cranky old lady hitting people with my cane.

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Because I have so many icons from "Supernatural", I have divided them into separate posts. This is Season Three: Part One.

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I adore this woman. I also want to play her and Kenan Thompson as siblings. I want more Shirley and Abed action, people who write Community! Make this happen!

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Because I have so many icons from "Supernatural", I've divided them into separate posts. This is Season Two: Part Two.

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Because I have so many icons from "Supernatural", I'm dividing them into different posts. This is Season Two: Part One.

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Because I have so many icons from "Supernatural", I'm dividing them into sections. This is Season One.

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The worst best WTF moment of the day is without a doubt Regretsy. It takes the spirit of failblog and applies it to all the shit over at etsy that makes us say, "Wait, you're charging how much for what?"


With this site in mind, I feel it is my civic duty to rescue this goat. Look at the poor thing's face. It obviously wants to eat that awful coat and die from intestinal blockage.

Title: Dain af Niohoggr
Author: GW Katrina
Beta: Skeren
Fandom: FFVII: Mercverse
Claim: mercverse for story_arc
Themeset/Prompt: Thirty Set 01: Spar
Wordcount: 2044
Ratings: PG-13
Link to Archive Post: Here


Dain af Niohoggr

All right. I've been a bad, bad mod. *smacks hands*

I need a show of hands. Other than people who have just joined, how many people are still active on their prompts, and interested in completing them?

If you are, reply to this within a week, and I'll leave your claim up. If not, after a week, I'll take it down and clean up the claims list.

I apologize for how long it took me to get focused again, but I hope to do better in the future.

This is one of Fanhistory's pages on the fanartist Sockii, Sockii Press, and some of the 'zines produced by Sockii. Sockii in all their forms gave Fanhistory express permission to use these 'zine covers on Fanhistory.

This is Fanlore's page on the same work of Sockii's. As you can see, it was lifted directly from FH--art and all.

Clicking through Sockii Press's links shows that this isn't the only case--and that I am in no way linking to the only two examples. Wiki-lifting aside, keep in mind that OTW's people are lifting fanart they don't have the rights to or permissions for, and are claiming it for their site.

Sockii knows; Sockii is the one who found the stolen artwork. Sockii and FH aren't currently doing anything because of OTW's response to the Yuletide debacle--where if you don't want your fanworks moved to another hosting area or location outside of your control, they don't want anything to do with you and don't want you to be a part of their exchange--and how their response to fanzine creators who don't want their 'zines to be part of OTW's archive is pretty much "Sucks to be you!" with an added, especially unbelievable side of "We won't scan it or post it online without your permission!"


In short, Sockii doesn't expect a site with no DMCA takedown procedures (and with this sort of response to fannish concerns over artistic rights) to give two shits about their feelings and rights as an artist.


Yup. This is what OTW, parent of An Archive Of Our Own & the Fanlore wiki, absorbers of both the Yuletide fic exchange and previous Yuletide fanworks (no matter artists' wishes to control the locations of their own work), and self-proclaimed defender of fandom rights and the proverbial fannish little guy gal, is up to.


I . . . find myself not at all surprised.




Where is the outrage? Is it because these people are supposedly fans? Fanlib said they might copy parts of &/or a work to a different location and people flipped the fuck out. These people lift artwork without permission and run roughshod over the 'zinemakers, the people who helped really get this fannish boat sailing to begin with, and I only hear about it from a friend of Sockii's? How do any of us know that our fanworks, in any format, won't be lifted for their site/archive under the guise of some sort of historical importance?

We don't. Not anymore.

How the hell does this work?

I usually don't look at let alone click on banner ads, but this . . .

Lollyphile.com might just be the place I go for Christmas shopping this year. Absinthe lollypops? Wasabi-ginger and Chai Tea lollypops? Maple syrup bacon lollypops? If I thought they gave out samples I'd be on their stairs with a little alms bowl.

Title: Dain af Niohoggr
Author: GW Katrina
Beta: Skeren
Fandom: FFVII: Mercverse
Claim: mercverse for story_arc
Themeset/Prompt: Thirty Set 01: Spell
Wordcount: 1500
Ratings: PG-13
Link to Archive Post: Here

Dain af Niohoggr

Dain af Niohoggr

01.	Blood	02.	Lost	03.	Paper	04.	Mark	05.	Clean
06.	Fog	07.	Alone	08.	Fever	09.	Groom	10.	Hunt
11.	Comfort	12.	Impossible	13.	Spell	14.	Eyes	15.	Family
16.	Summon	17.	Taste	18.	Words	19.	Rent	20.	Spar
21.	Crash	22.	Outwards	23.	Balance	24.	Light	25.	Near
26.	Scribbles	27.	Flash	28.	Shadows	29.	Grains	30.	Slot

Spell
Spar

I decided to exercise more to prepare for the upcoming Weekend Of Pain where The Indigo shall summarily kick my ass. I did a billion curlups and ran for miles on the elliptical and changed none of my eating habits and gained five pounds.

I decided to decorate my sorta-kinda exercise regimen with a return to the GI diet variation thing, where I eat lots of beany things and less processed sugars and breads and which, if I stick to it, results in my dropping about a solid pound a day.

. . . I want a donut. Instead I'm gonna try to get through Rachel Brice's yoga warmup without calling her an evil skinny little woman. I think.




Chances of my writing fic instead of doing Nano, or yoga, or listing more etsy things, or going out and finding an elliptical . . . growing.



Also, I finally gave up and got a twitter account. Now to see if I can use it to do businessy things and not to argue on the internets.

We ended up with a grand total of 57 fics across 41 fandoms (five of which were crossovers). Thank you so much to everyone involved for participating in this round's Porn Battle!

( The fics! )

Note; Admittedly for my own enjoyment.

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Round Nine of Porn Battle is now closed! Thank you all for participating.

The list of stories will be collected and posted in the morning.

My to-do:

Put in supplies orders

Paperwork. I've got a pile that needs beaten back into shape, sorted, and filed.

Clean house

Start thawing a turkey. Did you know they're $0.40 a pound at Wal-mart? I got two good-sized birds for a laughable amount. I don't think either'll fit in the crock pot, but I'm gonna try.

Not buy the glass fuser kit from Pat Catan's. I don't need it. It will in no way help me make fabulous shiny things. I did it--I looked the beast dead in the eye and realized that it won't make the kind of pieces I really want. (Even attempting to make them with this particular method would involve me putting metal in the microwave, which would be a somewhat bad idea.) Maybe next year.

Sand ring bases for a sturdier epoxy attachment, then start making more steampunky rings

Etsy listings--necklaces, steampunk rings

Work on Nano

Food shopping!

Dremel bits, brass keys, screw eyes, and possibly more resin molds, since the glass thing won't work out

Start playing with Windows Movie Maker to cobble the Dramatic Fight Scene together, and trim what scenes need trimmed into easily-pasted segments.

Friday & Saturday--start to finish up filming for NMOMWH



Does anyone with bunnies know why bunnies will suddenly and randomly start to stampede? The two housebunnies have taken to freaking out and chasing each other every few minutes. I wouldn't care, except they keep waking me up and throwing their litter all over the place.

Today's the last day to porn! So let's get it out of our system in a sweaty, heaving, writhing mess of pornification, and enjoy ourselves!

The battle ends tonight at Midnight EST. I'll accept prompts that come in for about half an hour afterward if it's obvious they're timing mistakes, but after that, that's it.

Let's get writing!

Nekocon was a fairly laid-back con, all things considered. It didn't feel like there were too many people there, and I heard a few people say that sales weren't as good as last year's . . . but that being said, when they hit at the artists' alley, they hit hard. My sales there beat ACen's and are just dollars away from ANext's. This means I am a very happy Random.

Weird con was weird, though. Standard heavy sellers like the metal flower kanzashi and hair sticks didn't move like usual, though the new steampunk cuff prototypes couldn't be kept on the table and I sold more single earrings than I have during my entire crafting career. The co-conspirator had the same problem--she wasn't really moving her magnetic katamari balls, which are usually gone by Saturday, but sold scarves instead.

Otherwise: The weekend was strangely relaxing. Our (cheap!) hotel had a pool and a hot tub, not to mention real sausage for breakfast (not spiced veggie stuff like our Otakon hotel gave us) and real sausage gravy to go with it. Voldemart had cheap wine, and IHOP was made of awesome and win and pecans. Then there was Buckroe Beach--not a show-stopper, but a nice, pretty clean, community-feeling place with a couple neat photo op spots--just five miles away. And best of all, I think I walked away without con plague. I intend to go back again next year. :D


(Also, I got a big plush Appa. He's so snuggly. I still haven't seen Avatar but I love this thingy anyway. *snugson*)

Challenge #9: Preoccupied is now closed.

The new challenge will be--

Challenge #10: SERIOUS

You can also write drabbles based on any of the past prompts.

And the rest of the Erin Karpluk icons! This time with long hair and a lack of glasses.

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I love this man. I love this man so much.

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