tikatu's odd corner

So, where did she/it go?

2009-11-10T21:02:14Z

Fan History started getting a lot of traffic today for, guess what? Russet Noon. After a few months of relative quiet from Lady Sybilla et. al., something was obviously up. So, at the urging of Fan History's founder, I went looking to find out what.

First thing I did was check the russet-noon.com website. I expected to find some new screed about how wonderful her ~~copyright infringment~~ book is and how she's almost finished with her semi-autobiographical ~~biased piece of crap~~ book on the internet adventures surrounding her ~~copyright infringment~~ novel.

But lo and behold! I get nothing.

No garish layout, no pictures of Jacob--nothing but a "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". So, thought I, that's what has people heading over to Fan History. They want to find out what's going on.

So, I go off to check out Russet Noon's MySpace page. Never been there before and don't have an account, so I wasn't sure I could get in.
I didn't need an account after all. The page that came up said, "Invalid Friend ID. This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted."

Oooh! Curiouser and curiouser!

I took myself to Chilling Effects, to see if there was any sort of DMCA smackdown involved with Russet Noon. No joy there. Then I went to Whois, to see if the domain was still in force. Dang! It was, until sometime in 2010.

Then I clicked on one of the links in the russet-noon.com article, one that took me to AboutUs. This had no really interesting information for me, but I noticed a little link on the side for "DomainTools.com". I figured, what the heck, and clicked on it. A second browser window came up and I clicked on each of the tabs presented. The final tab was Server Status, and here I found something startling. The server's status came back as "Registered And No Website".

Whoa. The Russet Noon site was gone.

Now, I have no real idea as to why that site was removed or why the MySpace page is also gone. I can speculate, but that's about it. One theory is that Stephenie Meyer's lawyers finally decided enough was enough, and during a quiet lull when they thought people wouldn't notice, served up a Cease and Desist and/or DMCA takedown orders. Why did they wait? Well, if they'd done anything sooner, when everyone was watching, there would have been a hue and cry (led by Lady Sybilla herself), and a general stirring of the pot, which would only play into Sybilla's hands.

Another theory is that Sybilla wasn't getting the attention she craved. Traffic to her site was falling off, there were no more juicy tidbits about her in cyberspace. No one was paying attention to her, and she thought deleting her pages would bring her fans out of the woodwork, crying for her presence. (At which point, I must admit, this is probably, in a small way, falling in with that reasoning--but I am a nobody, and this journal is only a tiny crevice in the huge world of blogs.)

My final theory is that she just got tired of it all. Tired of trying to write Russet Noon. Tired of people pointing and laughing, then ignoring her. TIred of being banned at various places. Without anyone to fawn over her, the thrill was gone, and she decided to chuck it. Lesson learned, experience gained.

Which of these is true? Are there any other theories? I don't know. But should anything else come to light, you can find it on the pages of Fan History.

Bias? Shyeah.

2009-06-24T21:22:45Z

So, Lady Sybilla accused me of bias in her now deleted Twitter. She asked purplepoppleto make me "refrain from editing" because I'm "quite close with FW" and my "edits are extremely biased".

Now, I'm usually "the diplomat" at Fan History. I don't have much (if any) wank to my name, and some have called me a "class act" in the past. IF I am biased one way or the other, it's usually based on how someone acts towards me/my friends/my family, etc.

Lady Sybilla's crazy actions have EARNED my bias.

I'm putting her on notice that, not only will I not "refrain" from editing the articles about her and her imaginary, illegal piece of second-rate fanfic, I will edit said articles boldly--and if she thinks I'm biased now, she ain't seen nothing yet.

Easing back into fandom

2009-06-21T02:03:16Z

I've had a hard time recently getting things done in my fandom. I have three WIPs languishing on fanfic.net, and another three or four ideas rattling around in my brain and on my hard drive. I have a fandom specific website that needs some more coded pages. I have tons of screencaps to crop and photoshop, not to mention two movies and a number of episodes still to watch and cap. I have synopses to write. I have a roleplay that's been sitting semi-idle (and players who have been giving me the pips!). I have articles to write at Fan History about fandom sites I used to moderate.

You get the picture? I'm barely keeping up.

I may have to make some hard decisions pretty soon. There are things that can't be dropped--like laundry, dishes, taking care of the house, etc. But I might be able to drop some other things: facebook comes to mind.

I'll see what happens. Tonight I finished a chapter of my longest WIP, and started the next one. I've got an RP post percolating in my head, and one of the characters from my 2007 NaNo novel is hollering at me to be written. Maybe I'll be able to get back into it.

Maybe.

Girl Genius article

2009-05-22T23:56:01Z

I just created an article on Fan History for my favorite webcomic, Girl Genius. It has a long way to go to be filled out properly, but I hope to get some other editors to help me polish it up. I even created a new userbox, too; I love the creative aspect of FH.

I wonder if there are any Girl Genius comms on Journal Fen. I guess I'd better take a look around.

ETA: I found several users who are interested in it, but no comms...

Interesting bit from this week's TV Guide.

2009-05-15T03:21:59Z

On the cover are two of the stars from NCIS: Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, who play Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, respectively. I opened it up (waiting in the grocery checkout is boring) and turning to the page where the article begins, I saw a two page spread photo of them and the headline hollering "TIVA"...

I dunno, I guess I find it weird that a publication like this would pick up on the portmanteau ship names that we see in fandom all the time.

Who am I? What am I doing here?

2009-05-12T02:48:42Z

Just to let you know, I'm happily married, the mother of three teenagers, and my primary fandom is Thunderbirds (the 1960s Supermarionation show). I've been in fandom since 2003, when I started writing Thunderbirds fanfiction at ff.net. I also like Heroes, NCIS, Doctor Who (old and new), and I love the webcomic Girl Genius and the NPR radio game show, Says You.

I'm here on JF mostly because of

fandom_wank and my position as Fan History admin. sidewinder and I seem to be the representatives of FH at F_W during this "Russet Doom Saga" - which, I have to admit, has been pretty funny.

Mostly, however, I'm a lurker - you're more likely to find me at LJ (same name) than at JF. But I'm glad to have an account here so I can no longer be a nonny mouse.

My thanks to eilisliana

2009-05-11T22:01:06Z

... for setting up a Journal Fen account for me. It will help for me to be anonymouse no more.

Thank you.