I is artiste!

Why did no one tell me about artpad.com??? It's brilliant! I drew something, if by 'draw' one means 'used my mouse to create art in much the same way as paint, only with instant replay'! Oh, the horrors! *beams* You can tell I'm going to be playing with this all night, can't you??

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It is 3am and I cannot convince myself to go to bed. There isn't even anything new and exciting happening online, I'm just... I dunno. Haven't done this in a while. And I'm absolutely shattered, too. Boo, hiss.

Anyway. I was thinking. I don't want to go back to work on Monday. I'd really like some more weeks off. Like, six more weeks. Of holiday. Yeah, that would work...

SQUEE!!!

ZOMG selenak You rock!! Thank you sooo much, the I, Claudius mini-series arrived today I can't stop squeeing!!!

Fool me once...

Here's the thing.

6A/LJ are homophobic asshats. No, you're not paying attention. THEY'RE HOMOPHOBIC ASSHATS.

The recent furore over so-called child pornography (read = anything reported by Warriors for Innocence, which included role-playing journals, anything featuring explicit artwork of any kind, any questionable fic featuring things such as incest etc, even literary studies journals focusing on novels such as Lolita) and the mass strikeout of journals led to 6A/LJ backpedalling furiously to win back their users, with promises that only those journals that actually featured/promoted child pornography would be 1) examined, and 2) dealt with.

Yesterday, ponderosa121's account was permanently suspended. Why? Because of a piece of artwork depicting an adult Harry and Snape in a sexual position. Let me stress this: she drew a graphic sex scene between two consenting adults, and posted it to an adult community. And her account was summarily removed. It wasn't even striken through, was it? No, because they'd we'd notice, and the lj-strikeout would continue. Instead, if you'll look at how her username now shows up -

... Well. I, for one, am not content to sit around and wait to be erased from existence by homophobic fuckwits.

I AM CALLING FOR 6A/LJ TO OFFER THE 'REFUND' OPTION TO ALL PAID AND PERMANENT ACCOUNT HOLDERS THAT WANT TO LEAVE AS A RESULT OF THIS LATEST RUN-AROUND.

I, for one, do not want to stay here for a moment longer than necessary. Who wants to test how long it is before their particular interpretation of 'obscenity' comes to include all slash and adult fanfic and fanart?

Useful links:
- bookshop summarises what's happening here.
- update from Ponderosa on her GL here.
- Fight back for the artists!

ETA: aaaand... due to LJ's 'no linkings, ZOMG!!' policy, I've had to remove the link to ponderosa's work. Because two men going at it might shock you into deviant practices. Obviously.

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This is a test of using the latest version of Semagic to post to multiple journals: GJ, LJ and IJ.

Useful things in light of LJ crappiness

I bring you other people's useful guides. These are fabulous.

- How to back-up your lj entries onto your very own personal archive: here

- How to upload your lj entries onto another provider (such as insane journal or livejournal): here.

- How to syndicate your friends from GL or IJ onto your LJ flist (or vice versa): here.

- How to post to multiple journals at once: here.

- Other useful advice: here.

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Come join us at fandom_flies for the plotting of the mass exodus!

I am currently listed as kangeiko at both IJ and GJ, so please contact me there if you are moving!

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ETA: From fandomtossed over at GL:

Dear LJ,

You are screwed. Contracts can't change online without notice, court rules.

No love,

Me.

Vox

Anyone seriously attached to their Vox account...? No?

Then come join me in cancelling the bastard thing. (To do this: log in, click on 'account', then 'account options', and click on 'cancelling account' on the left-hand menu.) The best bit was the very last page, where you could write about why you were cancelling your account.

Seriously therapeutic. Enough cancellationsoacross all non-essential accounts, and we might get somewhere... (and if nothing else, it'll streamline things considerably!).