Below are the most recent 11 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
randomsome1	11:04p	Racefail: The bestselling YA version As I've mentioned before, Mark of Buzznet has been reviewing the Twilight series chapter by chapter. He's sworn at it, he's snarked at it, he's macro-spammed at it, he's written his own autopsy and claimed his death was caused by the books. But I think this is the first time I've seen him be so outright, clearly, pointedly angry. What'd he get into to make him this pissed off? Oh, just SMeyer's writing about how Mexicans are violent awful people (as opposed to the "civilized" north), and how being a vampire automatically makes you white. This shit makes me tired. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
yayforjae	12:16p	mmmm delicious nano SQ Working on: Outwitting the trolls that live under the Brooklyn Bridge. Word for this chapter: 850 So close I can taste it! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
randomsome1	7:26p	I've realized I've picked up a horrible habit of writing characters who have to make really awful decisions. I've also realized it's pretty hard for me to write my way out of these really awful decisions. . . . I also know that pulling these things off will make for a much stronger storyline. It's an awful slew of things, too. From possibly justifying genocide, to stripping away a person's free will, to a group out to trick society into a religious revolution, to this terribly fucked up ficwreck that takes a half an hour to explain the setup for let alone write . . . Sometimes I wonder why I never get anything done. (But if I get two of three of those done, there's a very high likelihood they'll be marketable. Just need to get back to work.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
randomsome1	8:40p	the best worst movie ever 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 (4 Comments |Comment on this)
yayforjae	1:07p	Fanfiction archives Back in the days of yore when I was super active in fandom, I used FF.net. Really that was all there was. Other than that, I submitted my Digimon and Zelda fics to personal shrines/sites - Mostly on Geocities, if I remember correctly, so they're probably long gone. I have very little experience with fanfiction archives; after FF.net, I primarily used my LJ for fics, both for posting my own and reading other people's work. Anyone get an invite to AO3? Even if you haven't, what do you think of it? Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
randomsome1	1:31a	randomness 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. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
randomsome1	4:53p	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? View Answers Having a clove every two weeks or so. 3 (42.9%) Having a meal at the Chinese buffet every week or two. 1 (14.3%) Turning her ankle every time she goes to walk a dog. 3 (42.9%) 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. (27 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
randomsome1	5:54p	worst best, again 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. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
randomsome1	11:13p	GIP 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? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
randomsome1	8:16p	sugar plus bacon, on a stick 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. (Comment on this)
yayforjae	12:19p	Still NaNoing SQ Working on: Walking along the boardwalk as Mari comes to terms with her little death and Simonsant and Nine flirt/fight. Word for this chapter: 89 Chugging along in NaNo. I've fallen a bit behind, but I'll be able to catch up this weekend. It's almost halfway done! I'm not as happy with SQ as I was with TTBtM last year. My writing's just so bare bones; all my sentences are the same and my vocabulary so limited. I have a hard time writing descriptions. Reading Catherynne M. Valente makes me desperate to come up with metaphors and similes like hers, but I don't have her lyrical ability. One of the folks in my writers group said he didn't like my metaphors/similes - Too forced and awkward. Gahhhhhhh I have these images in my brain but somehow they get muddled up and crappy when I translate them into writing. Blarggggggggggglepants. Current Mood: thirsty (Comment on this)