Babbles and Brain Dumps

hi flisters.

i'm going to bore you with an opinion.

i know you all love your fanfic. heck, i loves my fanfic (and no, not MY fanfic, but y'know, the stuff that everyone else makes that i get to read)

but i really, really, REALLY loves me some graphic art. like, big time.

but y'know, i suspect you've guessed that by the amount of wallpapers i've spammed my LJ with over the years...

and i love it, just love it when people comment... good or bad, indifferent, don't care. just like to hear from you on what the art made you feel/think.

i'm also way okay with folks who want to use my pieces in their music videos, because hey, i *adore* fanvids. they're like, fanfic in motion pictures.

however... i do very much appreciate getting CREDIT for my work when it's put into a video ... and of course, it'd be nice to be asked first... especially if maybe, possibly, the piece of art in question is associated elsewhere (like, with a story or something.)

so yeah. in the future: vidders... please, feel free to come to me and ask for permission to use my artwork in your vids, because i'll most likely say "yes".

but, on the other hand, other artists might not feel as i do, and it's beyond uncool to grab their hard work and stick in in yours, just because you think it's cool. credit where credit's due, everyone.

we all thank/disclaim/credit the original creators of these shows/books/movies/etc so let's give the same courtesy to the fan artists.

thank you.

i now return you to your regularly scheduled flist stuff.

shay

an article on the consumerist: http://consumerist.com/5210378/amazon-gay-book-removal-was-massive-prank-i-did-it-claims-troll

whether it's true or not, i feel an obligation to report on it, since it offers one possible reason for the serious FAIL.

ETA:

and here is yet another: http://consumerist.com/5210678/former-employee-says-amazonfail-caused-by-the-french-well-by-one-of-them-at-least

i'm not usually an activist poster. in fact, it generally takes a great deal to get me grumpy enough to do something, but THIS bears remarking. in case i haven't made it obvious, i wrote a book. now, i know it's not the greatest book on the planet, but i happen to be pretty damned proud of it, and to have amazon.com decide, "oh, screw you, we're just going to make sure no one can ever find it without a map, a compass, and the luck of the Nine Gods of Galikor," is beyond the pale. yeah, it might seem like no big deal... just search for it among the "books" tab, but... amazon has made it their business practice to be "easy to search" so sorting via some arbitrary "amazon rank" applied with a sticky, dirty tar brush to everything with the so-called "scary words" in them is a little overblown. it isn't a business' job to censor what it sells... it is the task of the buyer to be aware of what they may encounter.

and yes, i know the update is that it's a "glitch" but i think this is worthy enough to comment upon, even if that turns out to be the case.

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mommies and Mommies-to-be out there in F-lister land :)

it's a milestone worth marking.

last night, i hit 200 pages of text on my new story. as of now, in my mental calculations, i'm at least half done with the story.

yay me.

now, i am going to have some cereal and then pass out for at least 8 hours.

so anyway. here i am again, pretending i have an interesting life LOL

but i had to be all bouncy happy because i've written 117 pages of a new story and i'm still not running out of steam. yay me :)

i'm also pondering the choice of reading a bit more of the fun and candy-for-my-brain book, terrors on the high seas, or if i want to watch the just as fun, but less candy and more angsty-owie x:wp eps of path of vengeance/to helicon and back...

ooo lunch. hmm. distractions, distractions...

WTF is up with this season of television? every time i turn around, they're axing a main character.

did hollyweird just suddenly get a big death scene fetish or what? oy vey.

hey all... for those of you who are WoW-Addicted...

captainazeroth is a new web comic type thingy based on the adventures of one nutty paladin and his piratical lady of the twinkle-fingers... so head on over and collect yourself a bellyful of laughs... surely there's a quest reward out there somewhere?

oy. i ache. i just got back from merchanting at an SCA event. it was the 40 year beltane celebration event for the west kingdom. it was held up in cloverdale, and let me just say... COLD. oh my stars and bards, it was cold.

i actually stayed in long sleeves almost all the time.

i never do that at events.

it was 5 days long, though, which was fun :) met some very nice folks who were merchanting next door to us, and it was so nice to have help to take down our (notso) EZ up.

now we must decide whether we're up for turning around and doing coronet in two weeks...

oy.

ya know, some days, i think all things tech hate me.

my laptop monitor is on the fritz. i open it, turn it on and the darn thing flickers until i open and close it a few times.

it's probably a short somewhere, but how in the hell do you fix that? LOL i'm just hoping the extended warranty i bought covers it.

if not, i'm gonna have to figure out how to run a regular monitor out of this laptop.

then tonight, i go to record Criminal Minds and CSI:NY and i swear i saw the little "REC" flash on the screen. the red "recording" light was on. i saw "slp" on the screen.

but the tape? has nothing. nada. zip, zilch. last week's stuff.

what. the. frak?

grrr!