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Subject:	Taking my toys over to InsaneJournal. Team Porn soldiers on.
Time:	2:34 pm.
Mood:	calm.

After a lot of consideration, I'm going to pitch my tent at InsaneJournal while I get my personal site running and that's where I'll be in terms of fandom-interaction while taking the time to create something more revolutionary than a simple blogging service. This will remain here as a fall-back journal, but I will not be crossposting.

I'll be having a series of fannish garage sale posts opening tomorrow as well, so if you're looking for some gently loved things/costumes (mostly hp, fma, gw, and various manga, but I've got a LOT of merch), it'll all be fairly cheap.

If any of you are choosing to remain at LJ, I wholly understand, but I'm done with anything having to do with Six Apart in terms of being a customer. I have plans to meet with at least one of their staffers in person, and will do all I can to make sure it's a better place for the people who stay fan or non-fan, but what I want personally is much bigger than anything they can offer, and especially can't be found when there are corporate concerns to bow down to. I hope to see some of you around IJ in the meantime, and thank you all for the outpouring of support.

♥

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Subject:	I just emailed Steven Brust.
Time:	8:47 am.
Mood:	mellow.

Steven Brust is my favourite author alongside C.S. Friedman. He also has a livejournal account. I've visited it once a month or so to catch up on his blogging and he continually brings up interesting topics which only get more interesting in the comment threads. While I've been sitting around thinking a lot this week and reflecting on the past and how much fandom has meant to me, I remembered how when I was in high school and 28.8k dialup was considered blazingly fast, I had emailed him. He replied to me very politely despite my being a clueless teenager who liked embarrassingly abbreviating my words and had a geeky email account tied to a character in his books. My husband's LJ account is actually sethra_bf after his favourite of Brust's characters, so for once, J's fannishly geekier than me.

I know a lot of people have contacted advertisers or are looking into filing reports with consumer groups as well as the attorney general of california, but I decided to email him and only him. Mostly, I said thank you, because I wouldn't have a fandom without source material and even if I neither write nor draw in the Dragaeran fandom, I am nevertheless a huge fan.

I don't know whether he'll reply this time around or care about the part of my email where I mentioned the LJ business (although he is very socially conscious and seems the type who might consider some of it a point to start discussion on the bigger topics involved), but I feel good, because that's one more person in my life who has been consistently influential to me.

If you've never read his books, I highly, highly recommend them. Those of you who like revisionist history, angels, and humour, should dig up a copy of To Reign in Hell (ISBN: 0-312-87049-3). I'm rereading that right now.

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Subject:	On moving on, and moving to Insane Journal. Your thots, show me them.
Time:	1:33 am.
Mood:	thoughtful.

While it's fresh in my mind, I'm not sure how long I'm going to be here now that I don't need to be clarifying this and that. Since GJ has a history of deleting content, JF is 18+, I'm most likely to move sideways over to IJ while I'm working on developing my own ideas. The person who runs IJ actually talks to fandom and answers our questions and concerns and is planning to accomodate us in terms of addressing those pesky friending limits and icon space that's reasonable. GJ is owned by some company I don't know anything about, 2k icons actually intimidates me, and I'd much rather give my custom and my money to an individual who seems like a pretty decent guy. I'm not terribly keen on the patients/asylum theme, but then, I'd be there for the people, and well, it's oddly appropriate. 'cause fandom, you crazy. I love you, but you crazy. :3

If I do move over there, I'd be back to posting as usual, rather than here, where I wouldn't be participating in communities or embedding images.

I know some of you are planning to set up here, but those of you who are just getting started, if I move, will you move? Your thots, show me them.

Because let's face it, as much as I want to develop a new site, that isn't going to just appear magically, and if I'm through with LJ how am I going to feed my journalling addiction in the meantime? IJ seems like a good solution for the time being.

For those of you using IJ or considering moving but not too keen on the layout, here's a tutorial on how to use a greasemonkey script to modify the sitescheme in Firefox and other browers.

ETA: ...I were there and back to business as usual, I could be pestering fandom to provide me some fresh new Damon/Affleck. Oh, those were the days. I love the Onion, it's almost like fic.

Ben Affleck Hoping Jason Bourne Has Sidekick In Next Movie

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Subject:	For those of you who have some extra time: I need wiki help
Time:	8:36 pm.
Mood:	excited.

If a handful of people have some time to spare, a wiki is being set up to collect as much information about mine/elaboration's suspension, the tangential issues/meta, as well as journalling as it applies to migration or the projects in motion, and so on and so forth.

I'm asking for a few volunteers at the moment so that things can be focused down a bit and the basics set up, that way a lot of the information that's already on innocence_jihad or fandom_tossed won't have everyone trying to edit/add them at once.

If anyone would like to volunteer, please drop a comment or email me. I'll get you the info.

As soon as a lot of the common topics are up, I'll announce the wiki publicly.

ETA: I think I need to clarify, the wiki is already in place, it's the info that I need help with. Meaning, collecting the links to essays or articles or getting permission to re-post what are on the related communities in a neutral non-LJ space.

ETA2: Posting something with a typo in the subject is like walking around with your shirttail hanging out of your fly.

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Subject:	While I'm still wearing my little activist hat, if you are in Utah...
Time:	12:41 am.
Mood:	pleased.

Good goals, distinctly relevant to fandom, and the best name ever.

The Pirate Party of the United States is looking to register as an official political body in Utah.

From their site, emphasis mine:

The basic idea of the Pirate Party is simple - the government should encourage, rather than smother, creativity and freedom.

Copyrights are now stretching into the hundreds of years, and fair use is under constant attack by attorneys who exploit the vagueness of the law. Creativity has come to a standstill in this country for those who wish to work within, and benefit from, the confines of the law. Whereas 50 years ago there was no great uproar at creative "pirating" of works without the permission of the original artist (Mickey Mouse was made as a parody, but Disney prosecutes all similar parodies of their Mickey Mouse symbol), similar legitimate creative derivative works are now smothered by the excessive terms, restrictions and punishments of our copyright system.

and

...the Internet community is again faced with a lack of representation. We are forced to abide by laws drafted in cooperation with the major organizations and corporations like the MPAA & RIAA, passed by a group of politicians with no understanding of the technology or culture that has evolved from the Internet.

They released an official press report today in which it says: The Pirate Party of Utah, as the state party will be known, has until early February 2008 to return the 2000 signatures of registered voters it needs.

If you're a fandomer and a registered voter in Utah, and would like to see serious copyright reform and more freedom for creative artists as we are in fandom, please consider supporting them. We have numbers, this directly affects us, and they need signatures. Technology pushes boundries, this is how through legal means we change the shape of them to better allow us to do what we do. If the past few days are any indication, there are many of us who would love to have representation that understands us; while we're a subset of a subset, this is an excellent place to start.

I echo what one of their comments said about looking forward to their expansion into California.

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Subject:	I'm officially sick of this, but it's unfortunately neccessary
Time:	12:57 pm.

In regards to my "I've been wearing gloves" post, I realise now that perhaps the 6A staffer who said "...I also read that she herself even commented over at greatest journal that it should have been pulled..." had only in mind (via hearsay, or a poor summarisation) my first post on the subject. This leads me to believe that Six Apart is not keeping up on my responses despite my very public stance and position in the issue with how many of their customers are using my case as a basis for their complaints, and worse that they are not making certain their staffers are informed on it.

Some people defending me or asking for clarification have gone from believing and saying the art was based on a fanfiction story of Harry where he is 18+ to now, a story of Harry where he is 22+. This is false, please read all my posts in entirety because repeating myself wastes everyone's time. LJ staffers, please learn from anyone who does so and see fit to correct or explain your erroneous comments.

In my original response I agreed that I violated their policy, not that I did anything wrong. I stated at the time: "Their TOS is legal, according to their rules as [sic] private company which I received services from, my art was against policy, so despite their policies not being particularly clear or helpful (no appeal, no warning, questionable age where Harry looks more like a twink than a ten year old, and no easy way to track down community posts to remove posts that may violate their newest TOS) I'm clearly in the wrong, and I'm okay with that." [please forgive the instance of awkward wording and typo, but I expect everyone to imagine why I'd rather not edit for them at this point]

There is zero admission of guilt in terms of how precisely my content violated their policy. I don't know how it did, and clearly, they don't either. That alone is a good summary of the problem at the heart of this entire situation.

It's possible I may have spoken hastily as to the legality of their TOS or the way they are choosing to add policy without changing the TOS due to all the concerns being brought up in lj_biz, I'm not sure on that, and don't have the time to spare to thoroughly research it. But I certainly did not speak hastily on how poorly that TOS goes about being enforced. I understood that my art was against policy because they said so, the same way that anything I wrote or drew whether fannish or otherwise could have been against policy. TOS's are intended to cover one's ass, they are vague and broad and I know this and intended to make my knowledge of this clear. Once again, Six Apart, I'm not an uninformed person who just discovered the internet today.

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Subject:	Regarding burr86
Time:	10:33 am.

He's fandom's scapegoat right now, and the way people are jumping on the bandwagon to get him fired is as poor judgment as LJ choosing to ban first, ask questions later. I mentioned his comments early on, and in a way that could come off as snarky, but I was amused and that amusement was laced with the several layers of irony surrounding the situation. The image of his and Barak's heads pastede on my picture was in my opinion, the best and only response to his comments at the time. I still maintain that. He's a programmer not a PR person, and programmers tend to be as intelligent and niche as we fandomers are.

My opinion in a nutshell: LJ's position on his comments was insufficient, a reprimand was called for even if it was as simple as "in the future, please try not to put gasoline on fire, now go apologise to anyone who may have been offended." That said, demanding for him to lose his job over this is serious on a level that goes beyond the many debates swirling around. It directly impacts his life in a way above the concept that LJ is a private company choosing to decide what material it wants to host. From what I gather just based on his profile, and the fact that I have dealt with many people who are very open-minded but jerkfaces with poor social skills, he's not the enemy, he's just working for them.

Maybe that's optimistic speculation too, but I was serious when I said I'd love to have a conversation with him.

Bottom line, people? burr86's throat isn't the one you should be going for.

ETA: And I can't believe I have to say or disclaim this, but I'm in no way implying that anyone do anything rash besides voice their displeasure and follow appropriate channels to let Six Apart or it's employees know how they feel. Also, by saying "enemy" above, I only mean that Six Apart's continued poor handling has moved them beyond the point where I can reasonably defend their ignorance.

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Subject:	I've been wearing gloves, I hope that's been clear
Time:	2:20 am.

To begin with, regarding my previous post, the husband has used his LJ to ask as much in public over at lj_biz. More than that though, LJ staffers are apparently misreading my posts here or have spent all this time playing telephone with the facts despite the amount of effort I've gone through to keep things public as well as clear up inconsistencies and rumour. I'm not exactly sure how defending Six Apart's right to cover its ass and a statement like "though I question the criteria for my suspension by Six Apart, I accept it without any admission of guilt" equals an employee stating "...I also read that she herself even commented over at greatest journal that it should have been pulled..."

My big girl pants and the aforementioned gloves are coming off a little, because it's one thing if emotional fans who feel persecuted are jumping the gun and not checking their facts, but when it's LJ employees who are in a position to speak for the company it's another thing entirely. Have you learned this yet, Six Apart? Because if your threads are any indication, you're running out of space on your feet for any more bullets. "Should have been pulled" is vaguely worded (surprise) and is at the least a gross misinterpretation of what my official position actually is.

That position, for the record, and a lot less nicely worded than I've been making it previously is this: Six Apart can be reactionary and corporate in such a way as to make me feel intensely ashamed they're affiliated in any way with the EFF because I understand they have a business to run in the lamentable and increasingly conservative climate of the US, but fanart is still art and they can take their service and cram it if they feel my being mature and accepting about the situation means that I think I'm guilty of anything. Particularly when my suspension was levied after the "assurances" and "clarifications" post-strikethrough. What I can no longer understand is how they can treat an extremely loyal portion of their userbase so poorly.

Maybe this month after I finishing moving to where I'm a BART ride away and attending school a short walk from their offices, someone would care to explain this to me in person, on camera, clearly and without obfuscation, and have the balls to offer me and the customers they've maligned and mistreated a proper apology.

[Edited very slightly for poor sentence structure. I'm well on my way to being pissed off and it shows, so I'm going to bed to sleep it off. Back to rational and calm tomorrow unless 6A goes on to lose both legs and continue to fail finding one to stand on.]

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Subject:	So lj_biz has spoken...
Time:	12:44 am.
Mood:	unsurprised.

And as some people have said: well that took a lot of time and a lot of words to clarify very little at all. For the first time since the start I'm honestly angry instead of just disappointed but understanding regarding Six Apart's methods.

While my big girl pants are still most of the way on, there are some things it seems that I still need to clarify. I'll update this with time stamps if in my browsing I come across any other incorrect information put forth in reference to or defense of me that I haven't already debunked in previous posts made here in this journal.

I did not have a permanent account. I had a regular paid journal, with the added paid icons. Mine had been paid journal, however, since very near when my account was created (in late 2002, I believe) without lapse. For the record, I have never personally spent money on my journal although I have bought time and icons for others. All paid time for my journal was gifted to me by friends/fans of my work who were extremely generous before I ever even needed to think about it. As Six Apart's decision is to not offer me any recompense for my remaining 5 months of paid time, I plan to contact these persons and see how I might make things right as soon as my primary computer is back home with me again.

Those of you who are trying to get a clear statement out of Six Apart, I wish you the best of luck. ~~(I'm also deathly curious as to what that german article said, translation anyone?)~~ [eta: in the comments!] When all is said and done though, I'm still more concerned about the security issue I posted about early this morning.

If anyone has reported it, where is their response on that?

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Subject:	Important: Security risk with LJ's current method of permanent suspension
Time:	4:14 am.
Mood:	indescribable.

I noticed this the other day, but the full ramifications of it didn't really process until now. I just woke up from a fantastically meta dream about the lack of response yet, but I did just wake up, so while I'm wide awake, my coherency may be a little off and I'd like to return to sleeping as soon as I post this. I won't be available for comment immediately should any come in. I'm also driving up to Berkeley again tomorrow to deal with more moving so I won't be near a computer for much of the day. Anyone with my cell phone number has my permission to release it via email or a support ticket to Six Apart.

I'm not sure if this is a known bug, and I don't really mean to add to the bad press, but it's an important bug and anyone who has worries about privacy should be made aware of it. When I was first suspended, I naturally went to go see what was going down. I use cookies to handle my login, and the cookies were and are still active. Long story short: As a permanently suspended user I can see the locked entries of any user who had me friended prior to my "decaptitation"/suspension without strikethrough. This includes having access to filters I was on, which were deeply personal for some of my joint friends. The way things work right now, although i have to manually browse, it's as if I can use the service with the level of access my journal had before it's suspension, but I am invisible to other users who, via lack of strikethrough, may not know without specifically trying to access my journal, that my account has been suspended.*

While I can't prove this publicly without posting screencaps of what is under friend's lock and therefore deemed in whatever way by users or community members as not for the public eye, I can and will furnish proof to Six Apart at any time, or here if I receive permission from anyone to do so. I currently have a screenshot of pornish_pixies containing the first two posts, one locked and the following being unlocked for example. [see eta]

If I possessed any malicious intent, this could be disastrous for users who post sensitive information under lock or a filter which included me. Although I'm getting a lot of mention as an HP artist, I am extremely multi-fandom and my journal was very popular. 2000+ users right now have a security problem. I can't submit a support ticket on this myself, and Six Apart doesn't offer phone support for LiveJournal. Please make the staff and its users aware on my behalf. If permanent suspension is how they plan to deal with people who allegedly use their service for illegal activities, this sort of breach is worse than an ambiguous TOS and dicking your users around by not answering legitimate questions.

It's unclear to me whether or not there is a way to "defriend" a suspended user or remove them from a filter. If there isn't, I would have this access on two computers until LiveJournal took action, or until my cookies expired.

ETA: With

moonsliver's permission, a screenshot of a locked and filtered post made after my suspension, with my user info showing in the navigation bar and the date/time on my computer. provided full-sized, the image is roughly 500k.

ETA2 8/7/07 @ 11:09pm: *I've been made aware that my username still displays, just headless and bold, but that does not address the issue that users watching my journal are not notified of my suspension or their privacy protected until they happen to notice and can take measures themselves.

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Subject:	Things both serious and funny.
Time:	8:52 pm.

So while I'm using this journal to help make my position clear on the whole LJ debacle, the episode itself has been an even better boost than my meagre posts on Vox a few weeks ago in getting me towards blogging with thoughtful posts about subjects which affect me as a person, woman, California resident, liberal, free-thinker, artist, and so on and so forth...

At the moment though, everyone else seems to be saying things better than I could.

Penknife made an excellent post about why she isn't f-locking any NC-17 fiction. Her reasoning falls very similar to why I did not and will not lock any of my own. I accepted the risk of using LJ the same way I accept the risk of creating fanart, but more importantly I'm not ashamed of my fics or art or vids or that I have a deep love for fictional characters. I'm not ashamed to be me. I refuse to give in to a culture of fear.

I'm a fandomer and for people who like to point and snark "oooh, ooh, girl who likes fantasizing about book/anime/television characters" I can only shrug and agree and think of the following from Cake or Death's transcript of Eddie Izzard's Unrepeatable.

( So yeah, that’s me; people gossip about transvestites, but I told people I was a transvestite, so that steals their thunder. )

ETA: In less serious news, I'm going to kick back and watch some BSG now, so if a response goes up over at lj_biz and I'm not here to see it, I'm busy wetting my panties over Col. Tigh.

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Subject:	Since there is still no response...
Time:	2:39 pm.
Mood:	hungry.

I emailed jane@sixapart.com because their website is about as helpful as their phone tree in finding ways to talk to them, I'm short on time, and I've got an appointment at an Apple Store so can't go down to their offices myself. This is the text of what I sent:

Because I'm finding it extremely difficult to know who or how to contact someone about this, I figured your email which was displayed on the SixApart site, might be a good place to try.

I don't know how LJ/Six Apart plans to deal with the suspended accounts including my own, which was under the username ponderosa121, and since I will not be online for the rest of the working day, if there are plans for any sort of apology or restoration of my account, I want it known that in the event that my suspension is revoked, I would like the maintainers to not restore me, but to delete my account immediately. I no longer want to be a customer of your service should the option be returned to me, and ask that if so, any refund I may be eligible for my remaining paid journal and icon time be given via donation to Creative Commons.

I'm posting a copy of this email in a publicly accessible spot.

ETA: And now that I've had a chance to look at it again after firing it off so hastily, posting it publicly it seems with typos and poor structure. I can write better correspondence than this, honest.

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Subject:	So it's nearly noon here in California...
Time:	11:45 am.
Mood:	amused.

Add me to the bunch waiting to see how much longer Six Apart will continue on their current official policy of absolute silence.

The random news spams aren't my thing, especially when there are a billion posts by a single user rather than just picking your favourite hilariously appropriate macro, but on the other hand? I've seen a lot of pretty fanart this morning and some fucking funny shit (pyramidhead and the rapeclock? I die).

I strongly encourage anyone who is just randomly spamming though to send a seriously worded message to Six Apart and tone it down a bit. A group of people which only spams when it gets pissed off isn't a very attractive userbase to have or support. Just as Mr. Hassan's personal views when expressed reflect to an extent with the company he's employed at, so does the expression of your personal views reflect on fandom at whole. With the way Six Apart is handling customer service, it would be better to try and make sure that the customers they're serving deserve the professionalism they're so vocally asking for.

And that's about all I got to say right now while my big girl pants are on. ...well and that the icon of the LiveJournal pencil drawing a mustache on Barak's face makes me laugh every time I see it.

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Subject:	To help stifle the rumour mill
Time:	12:42 am.

Because I want to make sure incorrent information doesn’t continue being spread, I posted a variation of this to both the Darkside Rainbow blogpost which discusses some details of my suspension and an earlier post on Firefox news. I've edited my remarks slightly for clarity and relevance in posting here.

The image I was suspended for was not a commission for a piece of fanfiction where Harry is stated to be 18+.

The piece of Snape/Harry artwork was posted without “friend’s lock” in a community intended for adults, and similarly in my journal, which is also intended for adults. It was under a “cut” in both places and provided content warning. Unless linked to by a third party elsewhere, in the places where I posted it, a user would need to click on a cut beneath a label with the adult rating (pornish_pixies) or on a cut duplicating the adult rating as listed in the subject line (my personal journal) to view it.

The person who commissioned the artwork from me asked for Snape/Harry, explicit but loving, and left all the details to me. I made no statement of either Snape or Harry's age, and make no statement now. I had no age in mind when drawing Harry other than the recipient of my artwork had previously asked me for a commission (which fell through due to timing) of Harry as a young man and not a teen.

I would like it clear that I make no statement as to whether or not Harry is a minor in this image, and though I question the criteria for my suspension by Six Apart, I accept it without any admission of guilt. My intent was not to draw Harry at a specific age and as he doesn’t exist other than as I rendered him, I cannot ask him if he is 16, 17, 18, 19, or 201 for that matter. I will say, however, that any reference for which I used in the creation of his pose is of a female above the age of 18.

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Subject:	Oh, universe, you make my icon even more appropriate
Time:	9:26 pm.
Mood:	tired.

These things come in threes they say. I just got home after going up to Berkeley again for more house-hunting. We've driven a lot in this past week, and today was an early start. There was a brief break in the afternoon before more decision making that was spent hanging out with some fen who happened to live in the area and extended me an invite to a little fanmoot. I shamelessly brought the male contingent of my future housemates with me to crash the party as I helped myself to fruit and cinnamon bread. I really appreciated the conversation, the cooking and neighbourhood tips, and I'd like to say that the War of the Rings game was really inspiring to the game development side of my tribe. Thank you all, on several levels! :3

In terms of the suck, my imac has been a bit fussy lately, and tonight it was only on for a few minutes when it started being fussy again. As I set it to restart, I turned and said to J, "I'm going to freshly back up my important stuff." I skip back in with a stack of blank DVDs and then...doom. Based on troubleshooting, I'm fairly sure my poor little Alphonse has the logic board problem that plagues the older flat panels. This means another drive over the hill tomorrow, so I can take my baby to the Apple Store and pray for the best. Luckily I have multiple backups of my artwork that are staggered in time and the last seven days worth of my email on the server, so if I'm missing anything, it'll be high res versions of only one or two pieces and some time to get this all in order too. Not a tragedy, and still feeling zen, but I must say there's a bit of Murphy-spawned amusement going on over here.

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Subject:	A quick note about something to think about...
Time:	12:20 am.

Fandom is worried about moving.

I didn't plan on entrenching myself anywhere, but I figured I'd friend the journals made here of people who I'd previously had friended on LiveJournal. I just added back 50% of the people on my previous flist, and of the people who have friended me here? At the time of my posting this, I have 673 people watching my journal, which is a little less than a third of who had been watching me on LJ where I last weighed in at around 2100 or so. I think that's some pretty good statistics in terms of how quickly fandom could move and set up shop on alternate services, and there are options for exporting and importing posts to other journalling services running on LJ's code and not by Six Apart.

Being nomads isn't the solution, but if my situation is any example, neither is worrying about finding the people you were previously connected with. :)

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Subject:	Matt Damon just gets more awesome...
Time:	11:03 pm.

And so do you guys. Fen, you crack my shit up. :D

heraliceeyes gave me a damn good laugh (nsfw, my snape/harry modified) when I got home tonight in response to Mr. Hassan's not so hilarious reply in this non news/biz thread.

I knew there was a reason I began releasing as much of my art as possible under Creative Commons.

According to LJ's (previous?) means of defining the interests lists, Mr. Hassan is a supporter of Creative Commons himself, as well as freedom of speech. I hope he fully appreciates the new political merit of the artwork I helped collectively produce. The number of fandom females responding to his comment may also want to know that Mr. Hassan also lists "powerful women" in his user interests, of which I can gather from my point of view over here, he's getting a good long look at right now. I would honestly like to have a conversation with this guy if he left the smilies at home.

Moving on, I just got back from yet more chicken coop building and the movies. No matter what they say about contractors, the chicken co-op as we like to call it would have been done far cheaper and far faster had this not been a mother's day project from J and his siblings to his mom.

But the important thing is the Bourne Ultimatum and two hours of feasting my eyes on Matt Damon and wondering just how much more awesome he could get. I read the article about him in EW earlier in the day (no manual labor here, if you'll recall), and oh the long-latent Damon/Affleck shipper in me wibbled. I also had no idea he and Joaquin Phoenix were who Gus Van Sant wanted for Brokeback. Not that I'm complaining about the Heath and Jake, but you know. How delicious is thinking about that.

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