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[drunkoffthestars]

Hey! I made it to Cincy and back and I’m not dead! And I brought back Graters icecream (black rasberry chip and mint chip)!! *has foodgasm*

So much to catch up on!

Thing 1: RYAN ROSS GOT A TATTOO!! This makes me laugh hysterically, want to lick his wrists, and has bumped Tom Waits up my list of ‘things wot i should give a listen some time’. Damn you, Ryan Ross.

Thing 2: I <3 the Teenagers vid. Apparently there are ‘extended versions somewhere else? Whatever. <3 I also absolutely adore that there are a bunch of (presumably) teenie-types who don’t like it because it isn’t ‘deep enough’ or whatever. I actually think I broke something laughing. *loves on Gerard*

Thing 3: fandom_counts is really freaking cool. Nearly 12,000 14,000 fannish journals have joined. Damn, there are a lot of us.
Thing 3b: I like it when people are sane. I am also fascinated to see if the convergence of unfortunate events will start another fannish shift.
Thing 3c: I also want to re-extend my offer of webspace/fic hosting/subdomain/whatever to anyone who wants it, for backup or whatever. I’ll help if you don’t know HTML.
Thing 3d: Also on that vein, most people have probably already seen it, but fanarchive looks to be a really cool project, and I’d love to see it succeed.
Thing 3e: I do have a greatestjournal, in case of emergency. Same name as here. Man, I had forgotten about that icon. Also, 2000 icons with a basic account? *has icon envy* Though they do seem to delete them after a while if you never post. I kind of want to go through and upload all my icons ever. Feel free to friendify if you have one. I’m poking around, and it would be hard to find everyone again. I don’t have ANY contact info for pretty much everyone besides their LJ name.
Thing 3f: The more I learn about this whole fiasco, the less I like any of it.
- I don’t like Eljay/SixApart’s handeling of any of this.
- I don’t like that the person/group claiming partial responsibility has been revealed to be a gigantic bigot, slimeballs of the highest order, and bad at their professed mission to boot.
- I don’t like what Head Honcho had to say.

"Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues," countered SixApart's Berkowitz. "It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not. We have an awful broad range of discussions and topics and other things going on in LiveJournal, and we encourage other broad-ranging conversations on all sorts of topics. This was a specific case where we felt there was not a reason (for these journals to stay online)."

Berkowitz said the company would "obviously apologize" to anyone whose journal was deleted in error but added: "That's going to be a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen."

- What’s to be done is anyone’s guess, but eff that noise. I’ve been an on-again-off-again paid member for a while. Pay when I’m heavily invested in fandom, let it go when I’m drifting. So I plunked down my $20 when I jumped feet-first into bandom. But I’m feeling less and less like ever giving them money again, despite the lack of icon space. I don’t need to give money to people who don’t think me and my friends and the community we, NOT THEM, built ‘belongs’ here.
- Which isn’t to say that the sky is falling or anything like that. I just don’t like it. *does the five-year-old foot-stompy-thing*

Thing 4: Um. I forgot. I’m going to tear myself away from the internets and get some food and some sleep. Or something.

Comments

[xxdance.livejournal.com]

iawtp. can you imagine if all investigations were as slack-assed as this?

"This guy once said he was going to kill someone who cut in front of him in line! Obviously he is responsible for mass murder!"

i understand what they're trying to do. and i'm for that--but wtf, attacking people for the things they put in their interests doesn't make any sense. am i going to get in trouble because my one interest is 'marvelous things?' MARVELOUS THINGS COULD IMPLY PEDOPHILIA OMG. if there is genuine, obvious proof that the community/user is up to no good, like, if they're posting about it all the time and essentially admitting to it, by all means, take care of it. but if you're going to delete a group simply because it has 'lolita' in the title, even though it has nothing to do with child pornography, you should probably just go right ahead and delete everyone who has ever said 'stop raping my friend's page.'

[clare-san.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whole thing is made up of so much ridiculousness, it kind of burns.

[mitchco.livejournal.com]

I'm just reloading the profile for that fandom_counts com, and it just keeps... getting... bigger. INSANE.

[clare-san.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!! SO CRAZY!! SO COOL!