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1:40am: Minor Trigun Wank
Does it matter which songs are appropriate for fictional characters? Apparently it does to some fans. A discussion about "theme songs" for Trigun characters starts on the Trigun Yaoi Yahoo! Group. "Neoma"(SheWerewolf130) starts with her suggestions for each character. A few people agree, and then ( KMH disagrees completely. )
"Neoma" comes back with "Hellooo! It was supposed to be funny! Duh. Get with it silly, they arn't real people!" and "WB" replies with ( some bizarre philosophical rambling. )

Personally, I don't really care what music "fits" each character. It's not exactly my first thought when I'm watching anime.

8:42am: Cry wank, and let slip the hounds of yiff!
Over on the (annoyingly-named) yiffstar.com forums, wank has erupted over the fact that the moderators of said forums have decided to respect artists' wishes of not having their artwork posted without permission.

( Furry Porn Intellectual Copyright Wank Ensues! )

ETA: GOOD FUCKING GOD! Now we've got this addition from Todd Fox:

I agree totally with Klisoura. also, i want to see the copyright registration from a copywright office or notary. i want a certificate placed with every piece of "Copywritten" artwork saying that that idea Character and situation is copywritten to that individual.

also i want to see the busness licence of every merchant artist selling their artwork for profit. the IRS needs its leagal share of the booty too. you want to get leagal, i can go there. what about all the tax laws not adheared to by these internet artists. untaxed income is unlawful.

so if you want to keep artwork restricted, Pay for a licence and the accual copyright registration, then print it and sell it by order only. then its win win, only a small amount of people will know about you. and your art will be seen only by them.

and thank you Klisoura, for using me in your example ^.^ well done and said.

Stop it. Please, please, make it stop. My brain cries for the sweet release of death...

ETA x2: Oh, and it just gets better and better and better! Gabriel Mobious comes in and displays intelligence!

Okay, as nice as this is and all, this topic has been done already, and if I was a mod, I would've locked it already. But, because I love to bitch as everyone else does, let me go ahead.

I do not think we should be railing on artists who keep their work from us because they want to make money. I mean, fuck, these guys probably don't have anything else and try to at least make some money to liveon. Artwork takes a lot of time to finish and make pretty so that the 'fans' won't gripe the artist into oblivion. But the artists do also need to realise something: the fur fandom is not that big. We don't all have money to shell out to buy your little portfolios, or your half filled fucking CDs. We need money too ya know. And to all those artists who lovingly and graciously donate their stuff to places like Pureyiff.com, I worship you, because you keep pissed off furs from doing anythintg too drastic.

Now if an artist wants to keep their work from the public and sell it only to those whose sole fucking purpose for viewing it is to whack off, then yay; you are now a whore. Some of us like looking at the finer side of art; some of us like commenting and giving constructive criticism; some of us also like whacking off to it.

But in the end, it is not the fan's place to gripe or complain, because the fact that kickass artists show us their stuff is a privalege. Hey everyone: imagine what it would be like without some of the greater artists. Just think on that, and be grateful for what you have.

-sits back and patiently waits for WolfByte to come in and start ranting-

After this, the suggestion is made to lock the thread... upon which the original poster, chrno998 responds with:

Fuck it then. You want it locked? Well then fuck it. Just delete it. I try to get people to say what they feel and i get this CRAP about this being noncence. Just say screw this "stupid" thread and delete it. I dont want anymore damn bullshit or more bad ties between people. Jesus Christ.

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This is what im talking about. Just get it over with because it seems IGNORANCE is running rampant

Oh, it's so beautiful! *sniff*

2:19pm: No wankiness as of yet, but I'm keeping an eye on the christ_slash LJ community. The air of impending spooge is about it.

3:18pm: I Believe The Phrase You're Looking for is "Neener-Neener Boo Boo"
The following is a summary of the events of what's gone on, but I'm shady on the details, so please do correct me if I messed something up.

In the mid 90s (I'm unclear about the date), Neil Gaiman brought to life a series called Miracleman, which was based loosely on a concept that included some degree of input from Todd McFarlane (executive owner of Image Comics). However, Neil really loved the Miracleman mythos, and in May of 1997, Todd McFarlane signed a contract that exchanged any rights he had to the series in exchange for all of Gaiman's rights to some other work Gaiman did for McFarlane (Medeival Spawn, etc.)

Within months Todd started hemming and hawwing and reneging on the points of that contract, and finally decided to file a copyright for Miracleman three years after the work was published, which was still within the letter of the statute of limitations, I think. Todd's main claim is that since it was his concept that Gaiman was working off of, and that he was the publisher, even though he never wrote or drew or thought of anything else, he was the rightful owner of all things Miracleman. He even started changing the copyright notices on later editions of the work to reflect this belief.

Naturally Gaiman was totally pissed off at this and decided to sue the pants off of old Toddy. But not before he flamed the hell out of him on his blog first, back in late 2001, ranting extensively while demanding a public apology as well as a donation to something called the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. (ETA: Thanks for the link and explanation, dhaunea!)

Anyway, Gaiman took Todd McFarlane to court over TMcF's copyright claim and breach of contract, where Gaiman easily won. But winning the case - twice! - just wasn't enough for Gaiman. The victory also required a gloaty, gleeful blogpost which skewers McFarlane's hilariously incompetent lawyer (whose legal exposition included such gems as "I, ah, well, um, I don't agree. Um. Your honor;" Gaimain helpfully provides an MP3 of the closing statements, and I am now embarrassed on Todd McFarlane's behalf), revels in schadenfreude over McFarlane's many recent financial, artistic and business failures, and calls McFarlane and his legal team: incredibly shifty, delusional, dishonest, stupid, greedy, crooked, hapless, and a big ole pack of liars. But he swears it's not about the money - any money he makes off of this is going right to that worthiest of causes, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Heee! And also, ouch.

You know, one gets the feeling Neil Gaiman doesn't like Todd McFarlane.

4:13pm: So over on fanficrants on livejournal, somebody with the username of _sirius_denial (was anybody else sick of that particular pun before it even appeared anywhere outside their own head?) posts a rant about people who can't take negative reviews:

( Something ain't quite right here )

Sure enough, somebody finds the bad review in question, and it is confirmed - the person complaining that people can't take concrit is the one leaving 'reviews' that say nothing but "MARY SUE!!!".

5:58pm: Wank continues in the X-files fandom
And just in time for Tea Leoni's birthday too! (hey I head it on the radio this morning on the way to work).

The DDfans spot some Snogger activity And go out on a tangent about whether or not Leoni had plastic surgery and how the Snoggers are dilusional for thinking this.

And what "FACT" would she give to support her contention that TL has had all this surgery. That's it. There are no facts to support their contention. Just their suppositions and attempts to use two pictures from the same photo shoot to prove that she's had surgery. And they talk about us. Sheesh.


Meanwhile over at the Snogger board, yet another thread is started based on a post at the Haven. Leoni's Insecurity within her marriage is questionned. This leads to a pot shot by another poster...who then gets accused of being COW form the DDboards.

Suddenly mad cow gets bought into the picture.

"Mad Cow Disease is the commonly used name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a slowly progressive, degenerative, fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle.

8:32pm: Someone in the boondock_saints community discovers brothers slash.

OMG, WTF!??!11? You wascally wacky slashers, you!

Includes the ever-popular (and incoherent) declaration: "I want to kill them!"

10:36pm: 100 words are enough to wank about in lotrps
"Explain to me how writing fanfiction is like writing a grocery list!"

"OK, but only because you asked for it."