Ugh

A 8-post collection

Day Off, Day On, Day Off...

Today, everyone is back to the grindstone. Assuming there aren't the massive amounts of sickies being chucked because who wants a week like this, right?

If there's ever a campaign to make the entire Ekka Week a holiday, I'm in. Just because of this shit.

My little darlings are both ready to rock and roll. Which makes a pleasant change from the death scenes of the week prior. Mayhem continues to claim he's cured and we're all working hard to get him back on a balanced diet.

He still finds vegetables abhorrent, so we're still mooshing them up real fine and hiding them.

Tonight, though, I am doing a Green Fry. Because I want to use up the Wombok and the bok/pak choi that's going limp in the veggie crisper. The kale may be a lost cause, but I'll see what -if anything- can be salvaged.

I also need to get money, I need to get some fruits for miss Chaos' lunchbox, and I need to clean the house. Not a fun schedule, today.

Financially, I'm doing... small amounts of better. Though Bitcoin is still doing it's small-child-on-a-trampoline impression [bouncing, but not that high or in any way exciting] I am actually selling some of my books.

Someone, somewhere, paid for Amity and the remainder of the Hevun's Child series. Huzzah.

And then someone somewhere else paid $0 for all of the Instants anthologies. Boo. Each one of those is a year of my work. Shame on you. OTOH, it's illegal for me to profit off of fanfic, so...

Sigh.

There is no "Orphan Works Copyright Act."

There is no "Orphan Works Copyright Act."

nashscribblings:

I dunno where that stupid post came from, but there is no such thing as the "Orphan Works Copyright Act."

Check the US Congressional docket. I'll wait.

See? Not there. Because it doesn't exist.

There's a recommendation the Copyright Office is considering making, based on an existing law for a five-year pilot program. They're taking comments on it. Read the link above.

But the sensationalism is wrong, and Tumblr isn't helping. Stop reblogging it.

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Leaked Sony Email Reveals Marvel's Distaste For Female Superhero Movies

Leaked Sony Email Reveals Marvel's Distaste For Female Superhero Movies

chaoswolf1982:

In short, the comic industry doesn't want female-led movies for the same reason Nintendo doesn't want any movies of their works: "We tried a little before and it sucked, so we're not gonna try anymore".

So walk me through the logic, here…

1. Under-budget and under-sell female superhero movies because you don’t believe in them

2. Cast eye-candy “talent” in the lead role who can barely

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krxs10: NEW VIDEO RELEASED OF MENTALLY ILL MAN TASED TO DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR "SAGGING PANTS" On November 26, 2013, 38 year old...

krxs10:

NEW VIDEO RELEASED OF MENTALLY ILL MAN TASED TO DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR “SAGGING PANTS”

On November 26, 2013, 38 year old Ervin Edwards, partially deaf and mentally ill, was arrested by police for sagging his pants and taken to the West Baton Rouge Parish jail in Louisiana. He only lived for a few more minutes inside of the cell.

For 18 months, police have lied over and over again about what happened the night Ervin Edwards died in their

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blue-author: note-a-bear: braiker: laughterkey: eyeandclaw: dorkward: sandandglass: Tony Abbott, Australia's Prime Minister and...

blue-author:

note-a-bear:

braiker:

laughterkey:

eyeandclaw:

dorkward:

sandandglass:

Tony Abbott, Australia’s Prime Minister and self-appointed minister of women’s affairs, winks at a radio DJ after Gloria, a 67-year-old pensioner, tells him that she has to work as a telephone sex worker to make enough money to pay for her medical expenses. 



Classy!

Tony Abbott is actually the verifiable worst.

Countdown till conservatives use the mention of gifts for her grandchildren as a reason to dismiss this, because the poor can’t

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My muses, my characters, and the workings of my butterfly mind...

I apparently have a poetry muse that only turns up at BF in the morning. If I’m asleep, I miss it.

This muse can also turn up when I’m rat-faced tired. Often, too tired to write anything down.

Same way my story muse tends to bug me when I’m driving the car. Dang muses. Always turning up at inopportune moments.

And then there’s my characters.

Argumentative bunch, the lot of them. Some get really

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