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And to make this post not quite so ~~much about incest~~ pointless, have some links:

Surreal Paintings by Jacek Yerka
Very pretty paintings. (I love the one with the bed outside.)

BS Detector - What are the hottest marketing buzzwords?
A video that's so accurate it's painful, especially in my branch of work.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi-Landscapes by Jonas De Ro
Abso-fucking-lutely amazing art of fantastic and/or futuristic places.

Avengers: avenging angels concept
The Avengers as angels. Seriously, the art is gorgeous and hits all my AU/crossover buttons (and yes, I still need to read that fic that was inspired by this fanart.) PS: There is more angels!art in the artist's gallery, and also other art for the Avengers and various other fandoms. Seriously, it's amazing!

Current Mood: amused

For one week, recommend/share:
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

It was really, really hard for me to pick something for this category. I seem to read too much fic and books since when I try to think of something extraordinary to rec either too much or nothing at all comes to my mind. *rolls eyes* Anyhow, I decided for a fic:

Making up is hard to do
Pairing: Fandom/LJ
Rating: NC-17

Yeah ... you read that right. It's an anthropomorfic about Fandom and LJ fighting and then having really kinky make-up sex. Of course, it's absolute crack, but if you think of Strikethrough, Boldthrough and all the other times LJ screwed up, it rings all very true. ;) I thought it was a hilarious, albeit a little brain-breaking read. Quote:

Fandom’s voice rose in fury. “You cut me off, you fucker! You were ashamed of me! You made excuses to your stupid friends and made me feel like I didn’t matter.” She took a step forward, bringing her fists up as if to punch him, then she turned away abruptly.

That hurt. They were supposed to be a team, and he had no idea how to stop the world from coming crashing down. He swallowed. “I love you.”

“No,” said Fandom, “you don’t. You never loved me! You think I’m a freak!” Electric rage crackled in her hair, in the brightness of her eyes. “How is that love?”

LJ ran his hand through his hair and sighed. “Baby, you spend half your time telling me how kinky you are. What am I supposed to think?”

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: HSM OST

To everyone who missed my first post: Do you consider yourself a good writer? (part I). I'd still love to hear your opinions about this. :)

( And here's what I think about myself as a writer and then some more babbling. )

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Taylor - Jack Johnson

Do you consider yourself a good writer?

I know this is a question that probably is looked at rather sceptical. I guess you could even say it's a small taboo among writers, because hey – who wants to look like a show-off saying their writing is oh-so fantastic? Right? Right.

However, if you want to tell me you've never asked yourself whether you are a good writer or not, then I clearly won't believe you. Everyone does that and everyone has some sort of opinion about the things they write. And I would love to hear yours.

After all, if you write fanfiction, you need to have the confidence to say: "I like what I wrote and I think it's good enough to be posted and read by others." Or – if you don't think like that – what makes you post your fics, anyway? What is your reasoning, what your motivation?

(I'm going to write about my self-opinion as well later on or tomorrow, but now I should be off learning about ten pages for Digital Media by heart. *blerch*)

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Thrown away - Vast

( Some thoughts on SPN season 2 )

( Some thoughts on Boldthrough )

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Teardrop - Massive Attack

Yet another Strikethrough/Pornogate? Oh, come on.

You would think LJ/6A would have learned something from the mess they've created the last time. One or two more of these incidents and LJ will be a dead place when it comes to fandom. Seriously. The time that fandom is going to start a mass migration seems not that unlikely anymore.

Either way, I got myself a Greatestjournal-account, just as a precaution. Add me, if you've got one over there, too, kay? :)

ETA: You know, this is seriously worrying me. And LJ/6A hasn't done anything yet to clean up this mess or given any open statement at all.

"In this case, they clearly did not see serious artistic value in content that simply displayed graphic sexual acts involving minors."

"Add that to the fact that they are going to be adding a "report abuse" button to all posts from now on and it looks pretty convincing to me that they are trying to chase fandom away."

All I can say is: WTF?!

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: 1/2 Lovesong - Die Ärzte

I don't even dare looking at all the responses to the news posts at LJ any longer ~~shoot me, I'm doing it, anyways~~ in fear of major headaches that may very well result from this. Also, if I have to see one more "Never shall we die", I think I'm going to scream. It's killing me, honestly. I'm done with it, at least for the moment.

(To think that I actually missed half of all the drama... I don't even want to know what my state of mind would be, had I been at home and with internet access yesterday...)

I'm still kind of trying to figure out what has actually happened here and what opinion I have to this.

I mean, I can see where people are coming from. Being thrown into one big pot along with pedophiles and child molesters is not funny. That deleting mostly harmless LJs without warning is a clear no-no goes unsaid. (And wtf, due to all the panic kinky_twincest - biggest Good Charlotte Twincest Community on LJ - even got renamed into

maddens... *pouts* Damn, I liked the old name...)

Yet, I fear that a lot of people are getting worked up about this a bit too much. LJ has fucked up big time, yes, but I guess it's time for all of us to calm down a little. Thank goodness that they finally decided to actually respond to all of this (was about time!) and it seems they're already trying to fix this mess (in other words: restoring most of the deleted journals).

I definitely need a break from all of this now, that's why I'll be off now, trying to make some sense out of a very, very weird plotbunny. (Though I'm very, very curious about the outcome and long-term impact this whole desaster will have. Will there be even more trouble? Will there be a mass migration to alternatives like Greatestjournal?)

(One of the few nice things to see during the past two days: despite lots and lots and lots and lots of wank among LJ users because of different opinions, there was still an immense sense of unity among fandom which I'd love to see more often.)

ETA: Just a little thing to come back down to earth again and remember that LJ is NOT everything in life (though it makes quite a big part of it *winks*). Link kindly provided by

louphoenix who found this on

metaquotes.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Oasis

"Warriors For Innocence - Haunting monsters on the web. We are the only thing that stands between evil and the innocent."

(Took the link down, in case of any backtracking.)

This is not a lame joke. They're serious, and it's freaking the hell outta me.

I won't put up the links to any discussions, as it's easy enough to find some. Just go looking in some of the bigger comms (fandom doesn't matter), it's practically everywhere. However, I'd advise anyone with (tw)incest [pedophilia, etc.] in their interests to remove it from their user profile, just to be safe. I did it, too. It's just a small (albeit annoying) thing to do, but I think it'll be precaution enough, at least for the moment.

And stupid, stupid me ruined my keyboard with chocolate pudding(!) half an hour ago, so the space key is all wobbly and loose now, because I tried to clean beneath it, and it gets slightly stuck when I press it, and overall, the whole keyboard reeks of chocolate, which I absolutely hate.

Oh, I feel pissed off enough at the moment to return to my sarcastic, world-hating self again. Hi there, I thought I wouldn't see you again for a while. *shakes hands with self* (In this regard, notice my shiny new Daria icon. <3)
'M just glad to get out of this all for a bit. Will be visiting

louphoenix today and stay overnight, then go out with a good friend of mine at Friday night. Hopefully, this will help me to get my head cleared from all of this... stuff.

Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: I'm not dead (album) - Pink

Stumbled across several posts with FanLib discussion today and as far as I can tell, this seems to be a big topic at the moment.

So... Fans being indignant. Fans discussing about this. But... what is the actual problem?! *feels kind of clueless and stupid*
Okay, FanLib seems to make money off putting fanfiction from various authors on their site. However, reading fic there seems to be for free, so I don't see how this is working.

Maybe it's my lack of knowledge of how internet sites actually work, maybe the fact that I was just skimming the meta-posts (yeah, I'm lazy - sue me :P) or I'm simply too dumb or lacking English skills. But I just don't get it.

Anyone willing and able to clear this up for me?

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: Tell me bout it - Joss Stone

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Do you consider yourself a good writer? (part II)

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Okay, I never would've thought this but...

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RL and LJ seem to fuck me all over argh

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