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    Thursday, January 8th, 2009
    ms_katonic
         		10:10p
    Links collection
    Anyway, to cheer myself up, here's what I've dredged off the net lately. Plus I wanted to show off this icon. :D

    One for [info]carlanime: Some adult women are "adopting" hyper-realistic fake babies and treating them as their own children. Each to their own, and if their own kids are grown and/or they can't have kids, I suppose it's better than nothing. Plus having a child that won't talk back/throw tantrums/lie to you to get out of trouble/turn into a teenager is probably quite a bonus. Just as long as I don't get asked to babysit one.

    Katy Perry is offering cash for a genuine lesbian/bi woman to duet with her on That Song at the Grammys. Don't all jump at once. It's a catchy enough tune, but really, do the Isles of the Queer really need any more sex tourists? If it was a man in the aggressor position, you can bet your life everyone would think it a bit creepy and Not Cool. "My girlfriend likes to watch me snog other women, fancy it?" Er, no. OTOH, I can't really hate a song that has women all over the country singing about kissing girls and liking it.

    And talking of sex, here's something for the pervert with more money than sense: A $2000 rock-star themed vibrator with diamonds on it. Actually looks pretty cool... but $2k?? On a sex toy? Do me a favour.

    Quick, let us move on to less tawdry amusements. Here is a map of the Milky Way in Tube map style! It's very pretty, althoguh possibly a little confusing if you are not astronomically minded.

    Still science-y, but less technical: Two-headed calf born in South Africa. Didn't survive though - it was born very weak and got put down. Shame as it is rather cute. Wonder if they autopsied it...

    I know how he feels: Barack Obama to lose BlackBerry. He's putting up a brave fight, but it seems inauguration will mean no more emailing. Or Twittering. Or Facebook updates. Poor man. Mine's like my daemon, although I am possibly a bit too attached to my shiny tech toys.

    But if we didn't have them, we wouldn't have stuff like this - a forum thread in which you are challenged to create your fave vid game moments in MS Paint. Bad art ftw!

    But even better is this - how to make an electrified steampunk Monopoly set! Come on, one of you has the skills to assemble it, surely...

    Talking of steampunk - ABSINTHE LOLLIPOPS! Brilliant! Is tempting to order a few for future parties...

    And finally, they're making a movie of Where the Wild Things Are! I MUST see this film!

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: Hole - Awful
    ms_katonic
         		12:30a
    Xposted.
    Panic over. It's back. :)
    ms_katonic
         		12:03a
    I do not wish to alarm anyone but...
    Where the fuck is LJ.

    ETA: It is down due to server load. Probably caused by everyone trying to back up their blogs at once. It's a bit like an Argentinian bank after the government's defaulted on its IMF payments.

    Fandom Lounge has discussion.

    Some people claim to be getting the following error message now:

    "LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.

    Thank you for your patience. "

    I am not, and so remain suspicious.

    In the mean time, is now a good time to offer Inksome invites?

    Current Mood: OMGWTF
    Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
    ms_katonic
         		10:50p
    How did I miss this??
    Way back last year during the whole Boldthrough thing, there was talk of creating a fan friendly blogging site based on LJ code. When I last checked in, it was still very much in beta and calling itself Scribblit.

    Not any more. It's go for launch... and it's called Inksome. Open to user of all fandoms and none, with the familiar LJ interface. It's over 18s only... and right now it's adfree.

    The only downer is you need an invite code. Although I suspect you can pay to join too. However, I'm a skinflint at heart so if any of you have a code for Inksome (or IS as it's abbreviated to) I would be very very grateful to have one. :)

    Current Mood: bouncy
    ms_katonic
         		8:17p
    Update (teh intarwebz moveses fast, it does)
    More on the LJ layoffs - seems numbers aren't as bad as Valleywag would have it, but still significant.

    And as always, the news is on JF's Fandom Lounge too.

    Will keep you posted.

    Current Mood: anxious
    fandom_wank
    [ dogbite12 ]
         		12:54p
    So Transfan, I Herd U Liek Pedo Bear?
    Transformers comic book fandom wank.. Early this morning, it was about pedophilia.

    My doppelgänger from the IDW fan forum Skwege learned that he had been accused of having sex with children by the IDW forum fantards on Transfans.net. Sprunkner is a real internet tough guy. Unfortunately, he made it quite easy to find his dox.

    Skwege was not happy to find he'd been slandered as a pedo. So he calls (yes, as in calls     Sprunkner's landline) to tell him to take it down. No yelling, just something along the lines of "call me whatever you want but accusing me of child fucking is not cool."

    What does Spencer (    Sprunkner's IRL name) do? He freaks out and hangs up!

    That's right-he's a coward. So Skwege leaves him a voicemail:

    "    Hi Spencer :

    You like to make libelous accusations about people having sex with kids? That is really grown up of you. Oh wow, you live in Washington State as well? What a coincidence! Bellingham is only an hour from here.

    It's not funny! I know little punks like you think they can run around all anonymous on the internet and think nothing can bite them in their ass. However let me tell you little man, you are going to retract your statement, and then apologize. Talking shit about someone is one thing, but making a disgusting and FOUL comment like that is libelous. I have the time, money, resources, and most importantly the fucking patience to see this through so don't toy with me little man    ."

    Then     Sprunkner has his wife (yes, someone actually agreed to marry him) respond. He doesn't have the balls to answer Skwege himself-he makes his wife call him back and tell him not to call. Unfortunately, Spencer posted her phone number and email as his contact information.

    Some PMs get exchanged on the IDW forum and Sprunkner accuses Skwege of threatening him (although I doubt the police consider being asked to take down a post or telling someone you're suing them for slander are violations of any particular laws). He makes an announcement on Transfans.net, crying that Skwege is harassing his family and that he called the po-po on him.

    Sprunkner did call the police and they in turn contact Skwege.

    The result? The police are highly pissed off-at Sprunkner. Because this is much ado about comic books.

    All this name calling and wank is over whether or not the comic book series All Hail Megatron is in continuity.

    The police were not too happy about being called to mediate a dispute over Starscream's alt mode.

    They lecture     Sprunkner and felt Skwege was somewhat justified. Skwege apologizes for dragging the wife into the mess because being accused of fucking children is serious business that involves the IRL banhammer.

    The wank continues on Tranfan.net where     Sprunkner whines some more (I guess his wife made him sleep on the couch) and Skwege threatens to post a scan of the police report.

    These fine examples of male adulthood continue to fight about giant robots. I believe Sprunkner's wife summed it up succinctly in an email to Skwege:     "This is a fight over made up robots-let it go."

    Unfortunately, everyone ignores her.

    Edit: I accept this is total fail. Need more recipes and fail macros, please.
    Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ aeka ]
         		3:26p
    Thursday, January 1st, 2009
    fandom_wank
    [ hypno_jango ]
         		9:21a
    The grammar! My eyes!
    I'm just C&P'ing a mousie's post from wank_report. I can't pass up entitlement wank.

    Crunchyroll is going legit. The site owner, Shinji, has been wheeling and dealing to have anime air subbed only days after it airs in Japan.

    OK, users are pleased, the Naruto fans look on in anticipation, everything seems hunky-dory.

    Then, Shinji introduces Anime memberships for the site. Did not read all of the benefits but the gist seems to be higher quality videos and quicker access to the anime from Japan.

    That happened in the past few weeks. Now queue the new year!

    Oops, did he just say that he was removing all fan uploaded content and getting permission from the publishers?

    Queue the butthurt, angst, and I will kill for my anime!!!!Z!!!!!!ZOMG~!!!! Along with people eagerly trading links for other sites to feed their addiction.

    The dramas, anime, and music sections now look like ghost towns, with the exception of stuff Shinji has wheeled and dealed for.

    People are predicting the death of the site, but for now, it's fun seeing the entitlement angst going on over there.
    Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
    fandom_wank
    [ kalloway ]
         		4:02p
    At the intersection of FFVII and FFR...
    When [info]shezoo reposts hir Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children fanfic, "Flower Face", to [info]ffvii_yaoi (locked, comm is open membership), the response is seemingly underwhelming - that is until [info]eternalwings posts to [info]fanficrants about the story.

    The first few comments are pretty tame and agreeable, until some of the author's friends and the author hirself show up.

    It's called AU, twit.

    Apparently, the story title comes from Welsh mythology, something [info]renos_rude AND [info]screamersgirl explain in the comments using the exact same text (with a tiny error likely because the entire lump wouldn't fit in AIM).

    And then the author appears, complete with capslock, insults and exclamation point abuse.

    AND YOUR RUINING THE PRETEND!

    Not to mention the entire thread devolving into something to do with coconut.

    All's well that wanks well, right? Except that a quick check back to see when "Flower Face" was originally posted reveals that [info]shezoo is [info]sepherotica is [info]ssgallery is [info]annataria (that Annataria), because ze changes usernames as often as ze changes URLS. And while some of those journals have been deleted, Annataria's is still there, listing many of the 'random' defenders (including the one so taken by the story) on FFR as friends. ...whoops?
    Monday, December 29th, 2008
    fandom_wank
    [ bishounenhideto ]
         		9:58a
    Vintage Update
    Does anyone remember this wank from awhile back? http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1157179.html

    I know Taral Wayne from the above article, personally, and while it took awhile for him to get around to seeing the article, he did finally see it. He felt it was well-written, as factual as could be, and had few problems with it. He did feel people might like to hear more directly from him, so provided me with a brief article. I'll include it below.

    use
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