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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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fandom_wank
[ ari_o ]
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7:05p
Moonlight Sonata, Coda
As I'm sure you all remember from Parts I, II, III, and IV Sleezer & Co. pulled down the forums at MLL and went underground.
Except now there is MoonlightTroops.com, where the koolaid flows free, but you have to be approved and registered to see what goes on there. So far apparently 90 posts. Probably of Elizabuff's lame cat macros.
lstevens, she of the emergency ER trips and medicated posts, makes a friendly invitation to come join her "sleeze" free new forum.
Varieties of "No thanks. We know you're with Sleezer" are posted and lstevens announces Sleezer has nothing to do with her new forum!!! RLY!!!
O RLY?
~*~FIN~*~
note: There has been fun chatter over at the BWP off-topic board about the many places Sleeze is banned from like the CBS lot and apparently the Craig Ferguson show--but you have to register over thar to see it, kids.
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[ chaimonkey ]
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6:16p
ultimate social experiment
Now here's a social experiment I can get behind:http://www.Educate2Escape.org
Ultimate Social Experiment
Over a million people are coming together to help educate children living in the developing world. You can take part in the experiment by joining this facebook group.
The first 1.21 million members to join will be able to vote online to determine where the school will be established between Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, China and Kenya.
Members count: 378140 members [10/10/08 10:52am EST] Pass it along!
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11:19a
Congratulations Connecticut!
The Connecticut Supreme Court has overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
In his majority opinion, Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote that the court found that the “segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm,” in light of “the history of pernicious discrimination faced by gay men and lesbians, and because the institution of marriage carries with it a status and significance that the newly created classification of civil unions does not embody.”
That's right! He went there! This "separate but equal" shit didn't cut it in the 60's, and it's still not cutting it now. Thank you, Justice Palmer et al., for calling out this bullshit for what it is.
The case turned on whether same-sex couples should be treated as a “suspect class” — groups like minorities and women that have experienced discrimination — which could lead to heightened legal scrutiny of the decision to offer separate institutions.
In oral arguments before a Supreme Court panel, the assistant attorney general said the number of “prominent politicians who are openly gay and lesbian” proves that homosexuals are not “politically powerless,” one of the requirements of a suspect class; that caused one justice to say, “If it were true political power,” they would have already won the right to marry.
And whoever that justice was, I love them. Marry me, Justice Whoever-You-Are! I don't even care about your gender, we'll get married in Connecticut, it'll be grand. ♥
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1:16p
1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your blog.
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) melannen gave me C.
( C )
current mood:  thoughtful
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smartbitches
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9:39a
Caption That Cover:LOL HANDS!
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/caption-that-coverlol-hands/ Thanks to the many, many people who forwarded me the Fail Blog’s salute to three-handed romance. I have a special love of that cover - that chick is my avatar. Why? The only thing better than having a third hand would be the magical ability to conjure up more hours in the day. Three hands?! OMG PLZ.
So! A contest is born! Take that fabulous cover and LOL-caption it. Certainly we can do better than “FAIL,” because certainly, while it’s an artistic fail, as a matter of promotional opportunity, for Christina Dodd, it was utterly full of win.
Your quest: take the cover, and LOL Caption it. You have 24 hours, and can post them in the comments or post links to an image hosted elsewhere. If you do post them here, please don’t make the image more than 325 pixels wide, please. Vote for your favorites in the comments, please, and then we’ll have a vote-off for the top 3 over the weekend.
Grand Prize? The book itself, of course! One pristine, fabulous copy of the three-handed woman adorning the cover of Christina Dodd’s Castles in the Air. Second prize: $20 to the online bookstore of the winner’s choice, and third prize will be $10 to the online bookstore of the winner’s choice.
Ready, set, go! Copy of the art is below the fold for your downloading and LOLing pleasure.
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(comment on this) Thursday, October 9th, 2008
puipui
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6:15p
Link Roundup!
( More politics OMG! )
And, finally, because it's too important to put under the cut, the measure to revoke marriage equality in California is now ahead in the polls. (More here.) Primarily, this would seem to be an issue of fundraising; Yes is beating No on order of $7-10 million in funds, mainly because of a huge amount in contributions from the Mormon community. I'm not here to Mormon-bash (I think most of the Mormons I know would be appalled at this news, actually) but I do think that, if the internet can't outdo them, we can at least give it a damn good try. No on 8 is taking donations online. If we all just give $5, that's still a hell of a lot of fucking money. Pass it on.
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fandom_lounge
[ aristaea ]
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9:28p
WoW PvP: Halp!
I've been playing World of Warcraft for a few months now, and I really want to try PvP. I've never played a PvP game before, and most of the resources I've found on Google are focused on arena/battleground for high-level players.
I'm not really interested in battleground, because I'd just get in the way at this point. I'd like to do world PvP, but I'm not sure if there are codes of conduct/unwritten rules/things to be aware of before playing. Also, all my toons are below level 40, so the discussions about epic gear, etc., are kind of useless at this point.
Are there any good newbie guides, or resources for lower level players out there?
ETA: From the comments, it looks like the best way to learn and play PvP is in battlegrounds, so I'm gonna try it. Thanks to everyone who replied! (:
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puipui
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10:39a
a slight distraction from politics
Still unable to watch SJA. WOE. ;_; This lack is not doing anything to help me get over my recent obsession with politics, nor is it helping me on the writing front, as I haven't written anything in months. MORE WOE. ;_;
My major issue with writing is that I'm bad with plots. It's very sad. Little short ficlets don't really require plots, they're mainly just scenes, and I'm good with those, I'm good with characterization and dialogue and description, that kind of thing, but actual plots, where actual things happen and then other things happen and then maybe there's a twist in the middle or something... meh. I just can't think of them. I need someone to do an outline for me and I can take it from there or something, maybe that would work. I need a co-writer. Or, y'know, an online plot generator or something. Hrm.
Also, I kind of want to try writing porn romance erotica porn, like original fiction for actual publishing kind of thing, but I wouldn't want to do it under my own name, and I can't think of a good pen name. Because, of course, the pen name is the most important part. Obviously. HELP ME THINK OF A PEN NAME OMG! This random name generator gave me "Eustolia Pyanowski" but that sounds more like I'd be writing books about the history of feminism in the Soviet Union and its affect on modern-day Poland, which would be interesting, I'm sure, but sadly lacking in actual sex.
ETA: "Gidget Tart"! LOL!
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10:38a
If anyone here, like me, has been added on Livejournal by a bunch of random Russian journals lately and has been curious about WTF they're doing, we have an answer: apparently, they're spambots trying to harvest e-mail addresses from active accounts.
More info:
http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1449348.html
http://nympholept.livejournal.com/tag/russian+bots
LJ Abuse is aware of the problem, so any suspected bots should be reported to them.
ETA: A good way to tell if it's a bot is if the journal has been recently created, and they have a lot of people (often several hundred) friended but few mutual friends.
If you do encounter one, the advice given on nympholept's journal is to just ignore them- do not friend them back, do not comment on their journals (a lot of them are disabling non-friend comments, anyway), simply report them to LJ Abuse. You don't have to give a lot of detail in the abuse report since they know what's going on, just give them links to the journals and say you suspect they are Cyrillic spambots.
current mood: curious
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(13 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
fandom_wank
[ jkefka ]
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4:45p
Chancery Stone discovers Nora Roberts, guess what happens next!
I'm going to rip this straight from ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) wank_report because the Mouse summarized it perfectly:
"Small wank so far, but I'm sure Chancery won't disappoint us.
After Stone's debacle on the Amazon romance forums, Chancery discovered Nora Roberts. And immediately finds her so silly and her writing so horrible, she can't HELP but write a big long post on just how LITTLE Chancery thinks of la Nora.
http://danny.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/09/12/bleedin-nora.html#comments
Also, in the comments, to prove to everyone that she really DOESN'T CARE AT ALL about Nora, Chancery goes to her local library for some of Nora's books. Because she COULD REALLY CARE LESS. The butthurt is continued in her next blog post, wherein Chancery cares so little about Nora and her success that she psychoanalyzes Roberts' home life, motivations, and lack of strong female influences in her life.
http://danny.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/09/19/romancing-la-stone.html#comments
It would have just been left at that, perhaps, if Karen Knows Best, the former blog that complained about the Amazon wank, hadn't picked up on it and posted their own butthurt on behalf of Nora. Now that people are paying attention to her tantrum, Chancery will inevitably ascend to the peaks of Mount Wankalaya never before scaled.
http://karenknowsbest.com/2008/10/01/can-you-smell-the-desperation-from-here/#comments [ETA: Karen's account seems to have been suspended for some reason.]"
*applauds mousie*
The only things I'll add to this is that Chancery added another post in which she tries to spoof Nora's writing, with hi-fucking-larious results, and she found that last link the mousie gave.
I would've put this in clairvoyantwank , but Chancery trying to spoof Nora's writing just put this one over the top.
Edited again to fix wacked-up HTML. GODDAMN RICH TEXT TAB.
Bride of ETA: There's now some bonus wank/rage in the comments of Chancery's post on being spotted by Karen. I don't know if it's related to Karen's blog going down or not, but some people clearly think so.
Son of ETA: Karen's blog is now back up. Leading theories are lasers, monkeys, space lasers, space monkeys, or space laser monkeys or us wankas overusing metered bandwidth.
Bride of the Son of ETA: What the shit? (from a new comment, made today, in CS's first post)
Revenge of the Bride of ETA: Speaking of batshit comments, there is now delightful catfighting in Chancery's post about Karen. Particularly beautiful (emphasis mine):
ItsASecret, why do you all have an obsession with me changing? Do you have problems with people changing on you? Is this a fear of werewolves, vampires? Did your mother have a sex change and become your dad?
And there is no facility to screen comments on Blogspirit. All I can do is delete them. Would you like me to delete yours? Would that help you feel more special? Try not to look so paranoid. It's an ugly trait, and you're already trying too hard.
You can't win, you know.
Don't worry, I have screencaps in excess should CS go on a deleteathon.
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(565 comments | comment on this) Thursday, October 9th, 2008
smartbitches
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9:30a
Book Covers, Celebrity, and “Dumbing Down.”
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/book-covers-celebrity-and-dumbing-down/ Over at the LA Times book blog, Carolyn Kellogg examines the dilemma of cover art, and making sure that literary fiction novels sell ... perhaps at the expense of being taken seriously from a visual perspective.
Citing evidence such as GalleyCat’s side by side comparison of Sue Hepworth’s Zuzu’s Petals, and Bookninja’s contest to recast classic novels to appeal to popular markets like “romance, chick lit, thriller, scifi, fantasy, celebrity kids, etc”, Kellogg’s entry follows a 7 October article in The Independent that questions whether authors are being asked to “dumb down” their work to appeal to a larger readership.
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