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Geeky fun with maths (with extra comics-geekiness)
Why yes, another post! And I still haven't got round to posting my belated report on Friday's delightful adventure -- possibly I am constitutionally incapable of reporting on fangatherings until well after the fact.
So, today's September 10th's xkcd:
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I'm pretty sure this is a better example of what you're referring to
I've seen but not been involved in the controversy in bandom over whether stagegay is good or bad -- not been involved in because bandom is not my fandom. Yes, some of those boys are pretty and look good on each other, yes I've heard the music and like some of it (and know what "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" means) ...I'm just not fannish ( Read more... ) -
several diversions, and a number of people named Jack
(Diversion in the sense of a pleasant entertainment, rather than the sense of shifting attention from one subject to another.)
First of all, last week petronelle came to visit me and Te. She is quite diverting on her own! Delectable foods were delected, fancuddles occurred, and I won at making fangirls squeal, hands down. (In fairness, I must admit most of ( Read more... ) -
To anyone who thinks...
...that the community moderators of daily_deviant have responded to the mess they've created for themselves in a reasonable way:
Here, for contrast, is an example of an *appropriate* response to make after discovering that you have behaved in a racist manner and thereby offended othersWhen I came across the above-linked post, I knew it would eventually be ( Read more... ) -
On transformative uses of copyrighted material
So, if Andy Warhol had had an LJ, he would've been banned for appropriating Campbell Soup's trademarked label design. At least that seems to be the message behind the bannings of both the community improved_archie and its former maintainer mightygodking.
Too bad. I felt like doing some transformative artwork.
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Political cartoon: Fandom and SixApart
Last night brown_betty, in between writing brilliant posts and comments about the "clarification" (I do not think that word means what they think it means) of LJ's permissible content policy, she came up with a brilliant idea for a political cartoon about the whole mess ( Read more... ) -
Fanart: Teen Kilroy (rating to be determined after Abuse deletes my account)
Okay, LJ is claiming that not only text-only description, but any non-photographic depiction of someone under 18 (and photos, too, which I'd say everyone was on the same page about except that LJ has spectacularly failed to specify that only photographs of minors which include nudity and/or a sexual theme are obscene, so anybody who's posted fully- ( Read more... ) -
Congratulations 6A! You lose at the Internet.
You've probably seen posts all over your friendslist about this announcement from SixApart (unless you're one of the many people on my flist who are avoiding their friends pages in fear of spoilers for the new Harry Potter book, and yes, the timing of the announcement right when so much of HP fandom is offline, not to mention right after permanent ( Read more... )