babies_stole_my_dingo

I managed nearly a thousand words yesterday. Which was a fine and shiny thing.

Of course, today I decided that I should actually look and see what an exit wound would look like if a 9mm pistol was fired at fairly close range into someone's chest. Because I takes my research seriously, I does.

It shouldn't be this hard to find autopsy photos on the interwebs, y'all. *grumbles* Oh well. Apparently exit wounds vary a lot, depending on what the bullet hits on its way in and on its way out, so I can wing it. I didn't make it ridiculously huge or anything.

In other news, NBC's Olympic coverage basically fails. Hey, execs? I'd really like to know what I'm watching. A little graphic to the effect of "Gold medal round, women's indoor volleyball" would be really handy. It's nice to know when we're watching heats and qualifying as opposed to medal rounds, yanno?

Also, MOAR FAIL on the part of someone at fanficrants. The idea that Tony Stark can't be gay in a frakkin' AU is hilarious. I especially like this thread. Because I've seen rumblings about this and I'd like some of the crack that Marvel was smoking when they came up with that storyline, thanks.

So, the fanficrants homeschooling wank hit Fandom_Wank, as it was bound to do--although I looked for it first in OTF_Wank, because it has little to do with fandom per se.

What's got me sporfling?

This comment: Agilebrit just being, like, "Oh, hey, yeah, I'm a fundie," made me go D:.

Is it some sort of secret that I'm a fundie? Did the fact that my first fanfic ever was Christian!Spike, and that I've written four stories in that 'verse (one of which was the longest I've ever written) not clue them in? Am I just not internets-famous enough? Was ginmar's calling me a "stupid Xtian housewife" in the oh-so-famous wank not a big enough clue? Do I need to scream it from the housetops in all caps on my profile page?

Is it just because I don't talk about it all that often? Because, seriously, I don't generally feel the need to.

And I will not wank. No, I won't. Not there, anyway. Eh. *grabs a tissue and cleans up* Seriously, I couldn't let that go.

However, all you have to do is look at the "quality" of fic at FFN to see the sort of "education" that public schools are churning out. Semi-literate snowflakes who bristle at the merest hint of criticism? Pretty much.

Yeah, not in my house. Da Boy already gets corrected if he doesn't capitalize "I" or the word at the start of a sentence, and he's seven. And I don't think I'm stunting his creativity.

If I wore a button that said "Proprietary Software" on my chest at the next Con, would anyone get it?

Hey, look! "Poisonous" vs "venomous" wank on fanficrants. That's awesome.

I'm also going to echo what many have said about The Open Source Boobs Project: NO TOUCHY. Seriously, folks, two people on the whole entire planet are permitted to touch my breasts. If you're not my husband or my gynecologist...you're not one of them. My boobs /= Open Source. CLOSED SOURCE. Closed and locked. No longer available.

I don't like being touched by strangers at the best of times--and, while I may be having the best of times at a Con, that good time will immediately cease for both me and anyone who thinks it's okay to grope my boobies. I will be scandalized, and the groper will have broken fingers and possibly broken testicles. I mean, even the Hubby and the gyno don't do that sort of thing in public.

GOOD TASTE. LEARN SOME. THEY'RE CALLED "PRIVATE PARTS" FOR A REASON.

*breathes*

Here, have some icons:


Not that I've ever been accused of having good taste.

In other news, I biked 10.6 miles and burned 500 calories in 53:54 tonight, which is a new personal best for me. *dies*

And now I'm just going to take my rageful hormones and their capslock upstairs to bed. I may rip my ovaries out with a rusty spork first.

The taxes have been beaten into submission.

My laundry is done and dry, although not put away. Five loads, two of which were bedsheets. Whee.

Gmail inbox is still empty. Which I suppose is better than a box full of rejections, so I guess I'll take it.

I still need to:

bike

vacuum

write...something

make dinner, unless I can talk the Hubby into taking us out. *considers, then starts laughing hysterically* Nevermind. Mmm. Casserole.

I've gotten to the point on the bike where I can do the whole 500 calories at once, so that's a plus. It "only" takes an hour now, rather than me having to break it up into blocs of time and resting in between so it takes twice as long. Yay.

In honor of the recent Deborah Anne MacGillivray kerfuffle, I made an icon:



And henceforth, I shall refer to people I used to call "batshit insane" as "bunny boilers." Because it's funny and I'm weird.

Tags: icons, ir-frelling-s, to-do, wank

Current Mood: accomplished

*eyes gmail inbox, which remains stubbornly empty*

I'll be doing a State of the Subs entry on Tuesday. It...hasn't actually changed that much. *eats worms*

I should be writing. Or editing photos. Or both, because I'm the Queen of Multitasking. Instead I'm reading Romance Writer Wank (again! What is it about romance writing that drives the authors batshit insane???), and thinking about the taxes. Also laundry. Lots and lots of laundry.

I'm wondering if I should send inquiries to a couple of these markets. It's been a really long time for a couple of them.

It's the wank that keeps on giving!

Remember that little dustup I had with ginmar two years ago?

People are still commenting on it.

I swear, I'm going to lock down comments on the damb thing...

Or possibly do another ETA that if people don't play nice (quit dropping f-bombs on my LJ, folks. I don't appreciate it), then they're going to get banninated. It's getting old. Picking a fight with her on my space, not cool, man. Pick a fight with her on your own space. She found that entry six months after I posted it; she'll find yours.

Jeepers.

LJ/6A has a response.

Oops.

Ya think??? Holy crap, what a screw-up of monumental proportions. It remains to be seen if this is too little, too late, but I suppose it's something. As a precaution, I backed up my LJ and wandered over to GJ to have a look.

Maybe LJ will take a lesson from this: Just because a person is "interested" in a certain topic does not mean they "support doing" that thing. Words mean things, folks.

I've created a mirror site over at GreatestJournal. Seeing as I've written fic featuring rape, torture, cannibalism and mass murder, not to mention doggie death, who's to say I'm not next in the Ginormous DeleteGate Debacle? Plus, GJ lets you have 2000 free icons, and they can be 60K rather than LJ's paltry 40K. *sticks tongue out*

If LJ/6A is willing to cave to a group of three people with questionable credentials, what will they do next? And they're talking to the media before they say anything to us?

NOT COOL, LJ. Not cool AT ALL.

You know what they say about the road to hell?

I watched the whole thing unfold yesterday at Fandom Wank and liz_marcs's LJ, but it wasn't until I was about to go to bed that it finally hit my flist. I've had some time to think about it and digest it, and now I think I'm ready to weigh in.

This whole WfI thing has been handled with ham-fisted clumsiness by LJ. Instantly permanently suspending journals with "questionable" interests listed, without warning, and without allowing the people involved to rectify the situation? NOT COOL.

Especially when innocent comms for survivors are caught in the crossfire. Because your account was reported to us, and because it contained illegal activities in your interests list, we must permanently suspend it. I call bullshit. Where are the permanent suspensions of the comms that list "smoking pot" (37 comms, 401 users) and "sniffing glue" (11 comms, 126 users), then?

Because LiveJournal's interests list serves as a search function, and because listing an interest enables other people also interested in a similar topic to gather and/or congregate, we have been advised that listing an interest in an illegal activity must be viewed as using LiveJournal to solicit that illegal activity...

And I call bullshit again. MUST BE VIEWED??? Who the hell "advised" them of that? Maybe they should invest in some real lawyers instead of interweb ones. Maybe they should LOOK at the actual comms and users in question and see if they're actually soliciting illegal activity, or merely trying to come to terms with the illegal activity that was perpetrated upon them.

LJ and WfI would have been better served by going to law enforcement, behind the scenes, with their concerns. The public witch hunt hasn't served ANY cause well, and has only served to warn actual pedophiles to bury themselves deeper.

Well done, old chaps.

Standard Disclaimer: Icon reflects general disgust with the situation and is not directed at any particular person. I really need a better "general disgust" icon...

Context is for the weak.

ETA: I just clicked on the main page of sfwa, and the spooge is still merrily a-flyin'. Wow. Just, wow.

Dude.

Okay, if I ever get this delusional or egotistical (crappy music ahoy) or wanky...

Y'all will smack me upside the head, right?

Honey, if you're going to self-publish and be proud of sticking it to the ev0l publishing magnate Man, own it. Don't redact the word "self" out in a newspaper article and then stick it up on your website.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and quote the legal schmeagle stuff on her site, because it's hilarious:

‡Any slanderous, defamatory material used to discredit or malign the author and her work will result in instant legal ramifications.
Our lawyers take any sort of libellous conduct very seriously.
I'm sure they do, dear.

‡‡Songs on the website: 'Sway,'©original-song covered by Dean Martin, 1954. 'Two Lost Souls,' ©performed by Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, circa 1955.
'Side by Side,' © performed by Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour,' 1954.
--Did you get actual permission to use them?

‡‡‡'The Crying Clown,' ©L.B. Wilshere-Cumming, 2007. All rights reserved. No ideas, concepts, quotes, sentences, artwork, from this nonfiction work may be alluded to or reproduced in any form—no matter how small. Furthermore, claims of involvement with previous 'Crying Clown,' development, redaction, production, from any other parties must not be disclosed or alluded to in any way—written, verbalised, electronic, or otherwise—without prior permission from the author, publicist, agent, and publishers; otherwise serious legal action will result.
--So...no one can talk about your book but you? Gotcha. Heh, guess I'm in some sort of violation here... *trembles with fear*

‡‡‡‡'Eternal Forest of the Soul,' ©L.B. Wilshere-Cumming, 2006. All rights reserved. No ideas, concepts, characters, plots, quotes, sentences, artwork, from these works may be alluded to or reproduced in any form—no matter how small. Furthermore, claims of involvement with previous 'Eternal Forest of the Soul,' development, redaction, production, from any other parties must not be disclosed or alluded to in any way—written, verbalised, electronic, or otherwise—without prior permission from the author, agent, publicist, and/or publishers; otherwise serious legal action will result. 'Eternal Forest of the Soul,' is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination, or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental!
--Because the exclamation point just makes it that much more true! Good luck enforcing that--"fair use" even applies to you, dear.

‡‡‡‡‡All artwork, photos, literature, design, multimedia, audio, & concepts, contained in this website©L.B. Wilshere-Cumming, 2006/2007. All rights reserved. No part of this website publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, photocopying, electronic saving, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author and/or agent/publicist!
--Good luck enforcing that too.

I mean...DUDE. I realize that most people can make the switch from fanfic to original work without going batshit insane, but someone please reassure me that people like Naomi Novik are the rule rather than the exception. Please?

ETA: flamingchords, I'm sure that you, especially, will enjoy this, considering how much fun you had tweaking Chancery Stone.