Yesterday, one of the headlines on Yahoo said "IAEA to help in Iran Crisis" which I thought read "Ikea to help in Iran Crisis"
Sadly, IKEA might be able to handle reconstruction better.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Aug 10, 2005 11:04:56 am PDT #7027 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov - Aug 10, 2005 11:05:34 am PDT #7028 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Where are they now?
I think the people who owned the goats rounded them up.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 10, 2005 11:06:12 am PDT #7029 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Sadly, IKEA might be able to handle reconstruction better.
"Everything you need for reconstruciton will be in this series of flat packs... everyone got their allen wrenches?"
Jesse - Aug 10, 2005 11:06:23 am PDT #7030 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I imagine some of the rage is coming from people who have as little, or less, and consider it right that they pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Really, who wouldn't rather get free money, as opposed to working some crappy temp job?
brenda m - Aug 10, 2005 11:06:54 am PDT #7031 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Send laminate bookshelves to EVERYONE!
By the time they get them set up, they'll have no energy left to build a nuclear arsenal. It's a perfect plan!
Kat - Aug 10, 2005 11:08:03 am PDT #7032 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think that if people ask for money and get it, power to them.
There's definitely this aspect. She's possibly something (insert word of your choice here) for asking. And in some ways, she is no worse than the utne woman who got people to collect for a new computer for her.
brenda m - Aug 10, 2005 11:08:09 am PDT #7033 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I imagine some of the rage is coming from people who have as little, or less, and consider it right that they pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Then they should do so, by all means. That said, I wonder how much of the rage is inspired by the red-on-white text motif in her journal.
Kat - Aug 10, 2005 11:09:15 am PDT #7034 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
That said, I wonder how much of the rage is inspired by the red-on-white text motif in her journal.
bahahahah!
Ah, people are strange.
Scrappy - Aug 10, 2005 11:12:16 am PDT #7035 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think some people are pissed because she is asking to be paid for writing something which is already infringing copyright, and making fan fiction a for-pay endeavor is likely to bring negative attention to a form of writing which is already on shaky legal ground. I can see how that would rankle--and I don't read fan fiction.
Emily - Aug 10, 2005 11:13:22 am PDT #7036 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Also, people are protective and irritable about fanfic in general. I mean, there's this sense of "We know we're not doing anything wrong, but we also know that we're better off not attracting legal attention," and what she was doing could attract legal attention. Honestly, I understand people getting pissed.
Well, that and maybe they've had it up to here with STUPID MORONS and are on a SHORT FUCKING FUSE and ONE MORE IDIOT WAS TOO MUCH... er, I could be projecting, though.
(Or, rather, What Robin Said, with a little added Internet Ire (like road rage, but it needed allusiveness. consonance. alluooooo something. chole?))