| Date: | 2007-12-16 23:51 |
| Subject: | You probably really don't wanna know. |
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![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) lillyv: ...can I have been Tank Girl in a past life?
lillyv: I fucked kangaroos and sodomized a stuffed bear with a dildo \m/
Me: D:
Me: I was gonna think of a badass character to be but that kinda blew me straight off my thought path.
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| Date: | 2007-08-03 12:04 |
| Subject: | Third verse, a little different from the first. |
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Lj's deleting full journals if the poster has posted something that portrays characters potentially under the age of eighteen in sexual or just plain naked situations.
innocence_jihad reports here: At least two HP fanartists have been booted without warning for not-age-specific artwork posted to pornish_pixies. One of these posts was f_locked. Journalfen has a bigger breakdown here.
Some people recommend charging off to greatestjournal. Some are recommending insanejournal. the_pouncer recommends taking matters past the internet and calling the company. GJ and IJ both have ads I don't want . . . Guess we all know what option that leaves.
I'm wondering if these half-assed back-and-forths are an attempt to get us to not pay as much attention, because it's hard to get as worked up the third or sixth or tenth time around as it was that first.
But even so, the mess at ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) news and lj_biz is impressive.
ETA: synecdochic tries to explain lj's reasoning here.
(Fucking hell, lj. I'd intended to get some yard work done today.)
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| Date: | 2007-07-31 22:51 |
| Subject: | Epic Lulz? |
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Fox News met 4chan. Results are . . . Well, I don't know whether I wanna laugh or cry.
Quotes from the clip include:
They are hackers on steroids, treating the web like a real life video game, sacking websites, invading MySpace accounts, and disrupting innocent people's lives--and if you fight back, watch out!
Truly epic LULZ come from raids and invasions.
And of course, 4chan has gone ballistic. From their /b/ board:
( Snip! )
Yeah, I've got nothin'. Besides popcorn and beer, of course. This is gonna be a thing of hideously terrible macro-laden beauty.
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| Date: | 2007-07-30 23:41 |
| Subject: | Aaaand I'm off! |
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I'll try to do this once a week, to encourage myself to keep up with things.
Tentative title: Singing Through the Shadows
(Summary: still MIA)
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| Date: | 2007-07-30 21:35 |
| Subject: | And now, back to our regularly scheduled snarkery! |
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J.A. Konrath’s book Dirty Martini is the sloppiest thing I’ve read since Clare’s City of Bones.
( Spoilers, crankiness. Is this what a 'beach read' is supposed to be like? )
If you like fast-paced storylines enough that you can take the story without feeling the need to question anything, then go for it. If you can’t, then avoid this book.
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| Date: | 2007-07-26 23:34 |
| Subject: | And I shall Harry Potter no more, forever! |
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Tagged by korinacaffeine:
1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.
1) I say I'd quit a job if/when I publish a book, but I'd probably really just pay off a student loan and keep working.
2) I own two bichirs, three angelfish (two marbles, one koi), and a handful of feeder guppies. One of the bichirs is albino and has pink I-will-eat-your-soul eyes, which makes him all kinds of awesome.
3) The kanji for "love" is tattooed in red somewhere on my body. (No, it's not a fangirl thing. This was done months before I knew what Naruto was.)
4) I've twisted my ankles so badly that I can walk on the sides of my feet, and my tendons are so messed up from it all that if I point my right foot to the left, some mysterious extra bone sticks out right below my joint.
5) I don't like dressing up because then people won't leave me alone.
6) I set the future wedding day so it'd be on our six-and-a-half year anniversary . . . so I won't have to remember another date.
7) A coworker and I ran down a shoplifter today. I apparently still have decent speed, and a heightened lack of respect for the intelligence of the criminal element. (The second perp tried to tell the cops that he was really trying to help us. Because taking $500 in DVDs from perp #1 and trying to drive off with them is helpful.)
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| Date: | 2007-07-22 17:31 |
| Subject: | All HP, all the time! |
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We're calling it the albino Harry Potter copy. I know it's just a cover misprinting, but I am a pack rat and I loves it whatever. It's mine. :D
( Pics! )
The letters for the title, author, and publishing house are raised up, but haven't been printed on. There were a few other flubs that I saw--the red not matching up to the raised letters, some quarter- and half-albino covers--but this was the biggest FUBAR of my store's shipment. :)
Damn it, I've gone and bought a Harry Potter book. Now I'm gonna have to actually read it. :P (And afterwards, I will snark @ Konrath's Dirty Martini, glee a little @ Kogawa's Obasan, and hopefully also have enjoyed Michael White's Soul Catcher.)
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| Date: | 2007-07-21 03:15 |
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I SURVIVED THE POTTERPOCALYPSE.
Incidentally, the store also did twelve thousand dollars in sales between midnight and one, and I maxxed out my camera's memory on all the cosplayers.
Now to wankwatch. One of the (multiple) book leaks was legit, and I expect all hell to break loose because of it.
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| Date: | 2007-07-18 08:18 |
| Subject: | spoiler-free Potterpocalypse mess |
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All the Waldenbooks stores in my district got a call yesterday telling them that their hours were cut for Harry Potter night, and that they're only allowed to have two people on register and one working the floor. This nixes their planned activities (costume contests and whatnot) and at very least will result in a bunch of pissed-off people.
Congrats, Borders Group, for being so unrealistic as to think that people are just gonna want to file in neatly, pick up their book, and file back out again. Please at least try to understand the nature of the consumer beehive before you pull shit like this.
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| Date: | 2007-07-16 22:32 |
| Subject: | gardenspam |
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( In which I pontificate about the evils of garden statuary, stack rocks, and showcase a bunny. )
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| Date: | 2007-07-14 00:09 |
| Subject: | :-\ |
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http://www.flixster.com/user/ssrandomsomeone
I do not know who this person is, but I'm worried by how their Gaara fascination is combined with my sn. The chances of a coincidence seem slim.
Maybe it's time I go on the record here . . . I have a lj as randomsome1 and a fanfiction.net account as randomsomeone, since ff.net ate the numeral 1 at the end of my sn a couple years ago. I also have a barely-used deviantart account (randomsome1.deviantart.com/), a journalfen account, tekkoshocon forum account, and a profile at absolutewrite as randomsome1, and (horrors!) a myspace account (www.myspace.com/some1random). (I got that one so gigglebox81 would get a lj, and I hate it very much for the coding FUBARs and blinky ads.)
I got a fanlib account as randomsome1 back before everything went ugly, when people were recommending you snagged your own sn, but we're not gonna talk about or link to that.
For all intents and purposes unless there is a massive failure of my memory somewhere along the line, there aren't any more of me in this particular incarnation. I'll share my intended pen name once the first book is done/being shopped but not until then.
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| Date: | 2007-07-13 12:24 |
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It bloomed this morning!
( Two more . . . )
I've had this pond for years and have never been able to get one of these things to flower. To make things better, there's another one coming, too--it's still a little bud a few inches under the water, so maybe it'll pop up next week.
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| Date: | 2007-07-13 00:25 |
| Subject: | *crawling up onto the allegorical/metaphorical/big round ball* |
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ANext pics! No particular order, just ( + a whole hell of a lot )
I have some more stuff left over (two shots of the concert that I probably shouldn't have, a video of the people beating the crap out of each other with shinai and bokken on Saturday afternoon), but that'll come later. :)
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| Date: | 2007-07-12 00:04 |
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To do by the end of this weekend:
Take pics of the water lilly, since the thing's finally really really really gonna bloom for the first time in years
Feed birds Feed birds more buy more bird food
Post con rundown the fanfic panel woman was a moron
Post con pics
Poki @ vi_kei_bunneh
FINALLY Get around to modly type things @ n_b (new betas, beta requests), sonps (rec polls)
The Wicked Night Sins of the Dark Highland Vampire Lord and both of his nipples will happen. It'll probably be ungodly bad . . . but that's ok.
Sketch out a book schedule, brush up my character sheets, and finalize a chapter layout. I think what nuked me before was a lack of realism. I can realistically do about a page a day, except for on my twelve- and thirteen-hour workdays. I will not think about how this method will take me forever.
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| Date: | 2007-07-09 10:17 |
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Ohshit! It’s pics from Tekkoshocon!
Only a few months after the fact, too!
( +38? No method--just lots of madness! )
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| Date: | 2007-07-06 02:21 |
| Subject: | 14 |
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He need no eyes
to see that she's bleeding
on the inside
~Lights of Euphoria—In Love With the Night
See y'all at AnimeNext. :D
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| Date: | 2007-07-05 00:31 |
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Bringing zucchini bread to ANext . . . should it survive that long. I made eight loaves (five small, three large), and zen_of_nihilism and I have already killed most of one.
( The recipe: )
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| Date: | 2007-07-04 00:52 |
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I'm now completely certain that I've been in retail too long. The batshit insane customer of the evening was a small Italian woman who called me everything in the book in two languages because she didn't like my store's return policy . . . and I found myself completely unfazed.
Granted, this particular store's policy was designed specifically to make returns difficult, and the home office has sent memos encouraging us to minimize our cash or charge returns. It also makes my life more difficult, since the policy makes the customers get pissy at least once a day.
But anyway: The little angry lady stomped off to get her husband--I guess she thought he was gonna make me change my ways. I explained the policy to him . . . and he turned to her and flat-out called her a fucking moron, and told her to stop yelling about refusing to give out her phone number because "it's in the fucking phone book!"
Cranky Italian man FTW! If his wife hadn't been loudly refusing to ever come back to the store, I would've given him coupons.
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| Date: | 2007-07-01 00:58 |
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Alpha.
Final chapter for In Stone, weighing in at about 9.8k words and 25 pages. I'm holding on to it for a couple days to clear my mind, then giving it a final reworking and sending it to whatever betarific people have the time to gnaw on it.
(Possible betarific ppl, sound off? Or I will hunt j00 down on AIM with my internet potato gun.)
That being said . . .
OH GOD. THIS THING FOUGHT ME THE WHOLE WAY. D: D: D: NO MORE NOVEL-SIZED FIC. EVAR.
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| Date: | 2007-06-29 11:27 |
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Triskelion Publishing, purveyor of such said-in-context gems as "she road him hard" and t=Triumphant (NWS LINKS), has filed for bankruptcy and is shutting down. Seems there's a nasty little rumor about the owner using authors' royalties to buy herself a car rather than, you know, sending 'em on to the authors.
I think I feel bad for the authors caught up in this mess. Can't say I'll feel bad to see those books out of my store, though.
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