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Entries for October, 2005

September 30th, 2005

the universe doesn't support my art

I managed to find a driver DL for my tablet.

And for my scanner.

But the DL window is telling me it'll take 25 hours to download. *&#@%&$ So I might just have to look harder for the cdrom. I know it's here somewhere. Under all this junk necessary equipment.

rurounibug ; 08:10 PM|fine, ignore me

September 30th, 2005

oh joy of speedy-quickness

22% downloaded and only 11 hours to go! Oh joy! Oh happiness! Dial-up rulez!!!111onedyone.

Now how do I put this modem through my eye?

I can't believe this scanner driver is taking longer to DL than AMVs. Dammit, I could be stealing music! (What? I don't do that. And neither should you. *wholesome law-abiding grin.*)

How many of you want to bet that as soon as this DL completes I'm gonna find that damn cdrom? It's probably moonlighting as a coaster or coffee-mug cover somewhere.

rurounibug ; 11:26 PM|fine, ignore me

October 1st, 2005

ZOOM!!

36% and only nine hours and forty minutes to go! This things just speeding along now, byatch!!

DSL? DSL is for pussies!

rurounibug ; 01:32 AM|fine, ignore me

October 1st, 2005

and again

Well.

Looks like I'm moving again.

Which, to be honest, has been my goal since moving into this disgrace that calls itself an apartment. My new place is still a studio, but it's a grown-up and sophisticated studio. Also, it has actual sunlight.

It is on the third floor, and I don't see how the hell I'm going to get my couch up the stairs. I don't really see how I'm going to get my couch through the weird angle of the entry-way.

But whatever.

Everytime I promise the A! things, I end up moving a scant to weeks later, causing all sorts of delays which I'm sure they see as mere procrastination. Sorry guys. *beaten up by A!ers*

I really don't do this on purpose.

rurounibug ; 08:04 PM|fine, ignore me

October 1st, 2005

*what* better things to do?

The webcomics review is cool. You need to read it.

The current issue is reviewing cool web-things that own my soul like megatokyo, 8bit theatre, and penny arcade.

When I grow up, I want to be Fred Gallagher. Or, failing that, Gabe or Tycho. Whitchever isn't getting his hand cut off this week.

And just for the record, I thought a pencil-only comic would be cool long before I ever saw megatokyo. When I saw megatokyo's art, it drew me to read the story. I don't think it's a flaw.

I also don't mind MTs occasional lateness. It's a webcomic. We want it to be quality, free, and on time? C'mon. At least he didn't abandon it five months in, after getting us all hooked.

Right?

Fred, you'll probably never see this, but that harsh review was unwarranted. We love you Piro.




Which MegaTokyo Character are you?
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rurounibug ; 10:40 PM|fine, ignore me

October 1st, 2005

for peace

Goddamit, stop bombing my country!!!

rurounibug ; 11:12 PM|1 replies

October 5th, 2005

moving sucks

What more is there to say?

It doesn't help that I don't have trasportation, and therefore no way to carry more than two boxes at a time. ><;;

I have no frikkin' idea what I'm doing.

How far ahead should one call the guys with the truck?

When should I notify the phone guys? The pg&e?

And how the hell am I going to get midterm projects done in the midst of this?

T_T

But damn, it'll be good to be out of this dump of an apartment. I think you lot are sick of my whining about it, too. Almost as sick as I am of living in it.

It'll be nice to have windows that 1. open, 2. are rain-proof.

BooYeah!

I just hope the rain holds a couple more weeks so I can get out of here.

I also hope the fires hold, because if not, this is all a moot point anyway. XP

Yeah, it's fire season, and the whole East Bay has been on fire alert for the last couple of days. The FD is drilling like crazy, which means: pedestrians beware. They don't slow down none going through those crosswalks, whether or not the crossing light is go.

If you hear sirens, don't be in the street till you know the engines aren't heading your way. I mean, Jesus Christ. I've seen those things miss old ladies by a hair.

rurounibug ; 06:54 PM|2 replies

October 5th, 2005

conversations with the ravener

Bask: Lucas didn't really need to do this again. We know what happened to Anakin. He was seduced by the dark side. We were told us all this in the original trilogy. The prequel-three is really just nine hours of tiresome detail.
Bask: Talk about overkill.
Bask: Then again, you can't really have too many jedis . . . or lightsabers . . . .

Rav: Is that some sort of sick pun, you yaoi freak?

Bask: Not unless Jedis have glowing flourescent ones.
Bask *vvZZZzzzummmmmm* *vvZZZzzzzzzummmmm*
Bask: Obiwan: Damn it! I go through more pants that way!

Rav: . . . and padawans.

rurounibug ; 07:46 PM|2 replies

October 6th, 2005

all work, no play

bart: *scribbling furiously*
pete: *psst* Do you have the work for Life done?
bart: What the hell--? I don't even have the work for the class that starts in ten minutes. *keeps scribbling*
pete: Oh. Good point.

How, and I mean HOW, am I going to get it together enough to move before the first? I'm up all night, every night, trying to keep on top of my work load.

Not successfully, by the way.


On a different note, the Blue Angels were practicing or reheasing or training over the city today. Doing loop-the-loops and barrel rolls and such. Right over our building.

How cool is that?

I spent break watching the sky, grinning like a fool and feeling like a little kid. Those fighter jets roar. XD XD XD

Theres a show over the Bay on Satuday, apparently.

. . . but I have to pack.

T-T

rurounibug ; 08:46 PM|1 replies

October 8th, 2005

tough or what?

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Yoinked from chal's.

rurounibug ; 05:01 PM|fine, ignore me

October 8th, 2005

king of underachievers

My C&D prof used to like me. Now that she realizes I haven't turned in any assigments since the 24step color wheel, I think she's revising her opinion.

Considerably.

I mean, I know that look.

I also know that I seem like a huge, huge slacker. It probably doesn't help that I make lazy, slacker jokes about the state of my work in a lazy, slacker, flippant tone.

The truth is, I try.

That I'm struggling: thats true also. And when I don't have my work done on time, I feel like a slacker.

But I try. I try so damn hard.

rurounibug ; 05:20 PM|fine, ignore me

October 9th, 2005

october

It's a year since I've been home to Jakarta.

In a couple of months, it'll have been a year that I've lived in the Bay Area and in the US for, what? Four? About that, I suppose.

I'll be here till I finish animation school, at least. Thats two, three mroe years. Thats a long time to be in the same place, for me. Hell, this is a long time to be on the same continent.

Permanence makes me nervous. I still won't buy phone/cable/antivirus deals that are contract-based, or that auto-renew. Not without a great deal of anxiety, anyway. I can't remember a time I ever bought anything and not had to consider international adaptability/compatibility.

Will it work on 220 power? Does it play ntsc and pal?

rurounibug ; 02:44 PM|2 replies

October 10th, 2005

greater than a meme

This fic by Ashrey stars the [AI]Yayu-ers. Including me. (nick: baskerville)

Ash says it becomes slash in later chapters, but isn't giving away who she's *cough*. Yeah.

O_o

You guys need jobs. Or help. Or something. XD

rurounibug ; 10:13 PM|fine, ignore me

October 12th, 2005

counting on fingers

bart: It's um . . . um . . . uh . . . 71?
math teacher: . . . . 17
bart: Oh. That what I meant.
class: *snickers*

In high school math, a lot of higher math students dropped into intermediate math to boost their GPAs. It sped things up and was terribly unfair to kids like me, who can't couldn't count to save their lives.

I failed inter-college algebra 1 and barely squeeked by the second time around when we had this old guy, who, ironically, nobody could understand, but who made perfect sense to me. The only way I can describe it is to say that his math went in straight lines.

I do alright understanding formulas, but as soon as I'm not looking at them, I can't remember how they went. As in, I can figure out how you got from x2-3 to 43, but take the paper away and give me the same problem two minutes later, and all the time in the world and I'd probably never figure it out. Most likely I'd have forgotten that the answer was 43 at all.

And if you changed the numbers at all, even if it were an otherwise identical problem, I'd just have niggling feelings of having seen this before, somewhere. XP XP

abang: Quick, whats 3X17?
bart: uh . . . *squints*
abang: what are you doing?
bart: shut up. I'm picturing the numbers being written down . . . carry the two . . . um . . . it's hard to keep all the numbers there, because by the time you picture writing down the two, the numbers you're not looking at dissapear.
abang: ^^;;; what numbers?
bart: uh . . . um . . . shit *turns around* two times seven is fourteen, so . . . fifteen, sixteen, seventeen . . .
abang: I can see you counting on your fingers. XD Idiot.


You should see me trying to read a watch.

^^;;;

rurounibug ; 12:49 AM|3 replies

October 12th, 2005

But I still hate LJ

Some of you may have noticed I've started crossposting to LJ.

I want you to know that I still have huge qualms with LJ and its practices, and, more to the point, those of its members.

I don't like that only paid accounts can do any meaningful customization to their templates. And I don't like that LJ tells you you can't cross to Lj, when in fact you can.

Among other things.

Its ugly control panel is also a definite factor. Bleagh.

But my real problem with LiveJournal is that most LJers will only read other LJs. And that sucks. What sort of elitist code-snobbery is this? People who used to regularly visit my tabulas from their pitas have moved to LJ and dissapeared into the world of communities and freind-only-ing, and whatever it is on LJ that makes people do this must be contagious.

rurounibug ; 04:26 PM|2 replies

October 13th, 2005

Here to help. They say.

My 'student advocate' is an irritatingly cheerful girl who checks your name on a list, then proceeds to talk to you as if you'd been best freinds for years.

"You're . . . hmmm . . . *ticks off name* It's, like, so nice to talk to you again."

She also sends chatty, chipper emails that make me want to kill something. Or at least seriously maim it.

I don't want to know about my frikkin' midterms.

I haven't handed in a C&D for something like three weeks.

Get the hell off my case.

Don't send me emails with headers like "Rockin' your midterms". What are you? Fourteen?

Also, its cruel to get my hopes up like that. I know my midterms are about as far from 'rockin'' as it's possible to get.

I don't need any goddamn tips on how to "rock" my midterm. The answer is pretty obvious: Forgo sleep. Do C&Ds. Go to class.

I cannot do this whilst moving apartments.

Even before the moving deadline, I was not doing spectacularly well at just doing everyday work. I'd really rather just pretend midterms weren't coming up and that my C&Ds were done and that I didn't need to get up early tommorow to make photocopies and half-ass some "calculated" shadow shapes.

While I'm at it, I will also pretend that it isn't one AM, that my apartment isn't full of empty boxes that I have about three days to fill and move and that my new landlord had actually phoned back to tell me when I can pick up my keys.

Its times like this that I start to seriously consider 'pothead' as a feasible alternate proffesion.

rurounibug ; 01:11 AM|fine, ignore me

October 13th, 2005

wipeout

Last night I finally worked up the nerve to turn on my old laptop to see if any of my smut important files were salvageble.

Not only are all twenty-some pages of html and images I had made for my fic page revamp gone, there was absolutely no files left on the HD.

Actually, there was no more operating system, either. ><;

I tell myself that at least nothing on there was important. As in, no papers I'd still need, no pics that I didn't at least still have the originals of . . . .

But all the little snippets of stories Ive written, all the world building I've done over the last three, four years . . . . That's gone.

For good.

And although this is a perfect excuse to never have to finish fics and sites I promised people, it's still a bummer.

I'd more than half-expected to be able to save something to disk.

i>

rurounibug ; 07:52 PM|fine, ignore me

October 13th, 2005

Second Part of Ashrey's YaYu fic

This is the second part of Ashrey's weird, spawned-by-the-devil A! yaoi fic, starring forum members.

Look for me in it, I'm Baskerville.

Also look for me in the yaoi/yuri forum of Anime!ndo.

rurounibug ; 11:27 PM|fine, ignore me

October 14th, 2005

molor

I'm not really lazy.

Really.

Its just that I don't want to do anything. At all.

Other than maybe curl up and sleep.

Even when I'm out working, or in class, I think about sleeping. Or maybe just about the curling up in a dark and cozy corner part of it. ^^;;

However, I did finally dig out my photoshop and install it onto the new lappie. But since I'm moving this week, I'm not sure when I'll be able to start uploading and image-working.

Everytime I promise things to digi-people, I end waylaid with comp/online access problems and with moving.

Christ. I'm always moving.

Can I go home now?

rurounibug ; 08:46 PM|fine, ignore me

October 15th, 2005

merry christmas

Fourteenth of October.

Not even Halloween yet, and I just saw my first Xmas commercial of the year. ><;;;

I remember when they used to wait till after Thanksgiving.

rurounibug ; 12:00 AM|fine, ignore me

October 15th, 2005

J. Mandel & M. Altman--Suicide Is Painless (MASH OP)

Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...

[REFRAIN]:
that suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and...

[REFRAIN]

The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.

[REFRAIN]

The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.

[REFRAIN]

The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...

[REFRAIN]

A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
is it to be or not to be
and I replied 'oh why ask me?'

[REFRAIN]

'Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
...and you can do the same thing if you please.

rurounibug ; 09:00 PM|fine, ignore me

October 16th, 2005

Ashrey's fic part 3

Chapter three of Ashrey's A! Yayu fic, AIGakuen, is here.

For someone I've never actually even met, Ash's writing is freakishly in charachter. Somewhere on the A! forum she's got charachter pics of people she's mercilessly thrown into her fic, and apparently a few of them bear an uncanny resemblance to the person behind the nick.

rurounibug ; 01:14 PM|1 replies

October 17th, 2005

not so l337

It's official.

I'm a fuck up.

rurounibug ; 06:22 PM|4 replies

October 18th, 2005

and god speakethed thus:

Yoinked from lainie.

And I posted these on her tabulas first, so sorry to anyone getting to read this twice.

Speak to the divine on igod. Repenting made easy.


I started out with some theoretical questions:
--------------------

Me:
what if god were one of us?

God:
Try it and see.

Me:
just a slob like one of us?

God:
I don't know what that means.

Me:
just trying to make his way home?

God:
What time is it there?


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apparently when god is uncomfortable with a subject, he just changes it.


Then I went for some current issues. Hey, when you have an inside line, you use it:
----------------------

Me: godhatesfags.com says you don't like me

God: Why not?

Me: apparently me and mine are the scourge of the earth

God: YOU? Have they always been the scourge of the earth?

Me: ha! fine time to play innocent. as if you had nothing to do with it!

God: I am so glad you find this amusing, . I am glad to hear it. Why do you have to do it? You tone of voice is sarcastic.

Me: they also say you sent the hurricanes to smite sinners. personally, I don't buy that, but I thought I'd go straight to the source, so to speak

God: Who are "They?". Oh you don't, do you?

Me: "godhatesfags.com" You know, for a god, you don't remember past conversation very well

God: Why not?

Me: I dunno. Too much smiting, maybe

God: Thanks for the information: said dunno. What color are your eyes?

Me: are you , like, hitting on me?

God: No I am far superior.

Me: guess you'll wanna be on top, then?

God: I can't guess. Tell me.

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And then I lost interest.

But for about three minutes, its a riot.

rurounibug ; 04:51 PM|2 replies

October 19th, 2005

sad=sleep

I think I may be depressed.

The internet thinks so, too.

rurounibug ; 08:13 PM|fine, ignore me

October 20th, 2005

*bamf!*

Moving big furniture day is on Wednesday.

That said, yes, I haven't been to class all this week because I kept pretending I was making steps towards moving this Wednesday.

I'm such a good liar I even scam myself.

Oh. Moving. Right. That is stressfull and a good reason to stay home and sleep. Till 2 PM.

And I so totally bought it! *high fives self* Sukkah!

I'm thinking about finishing the small items move and start sleeping at the new place this weekend. Just to finish that leap. Also because half my art/work stuff is already over there.

I need to be done with this.

I feel more homeless than usual. ^_^;;

rurounibug ; 07:18 PM|fine, ignore me

October 20th, 2005

Chapter 4 of AIG

Ashrey's AIGakuen, chapter 4.

Earlier chapters linked in previous entries, because I'm not sure if Ash has got each chapter linked to each other or not.

rurounibug ; 11:00 PM|fine, ignore me

October 21st, 2005

dead

I guess I wasn't the only the one who stayed up all night working on that last C&D assignment. There were sunken eyes and people quietly collapsing all over the classroom. "Unh," was the height of conversation. Sometimes "Unh-huh," if we're talking about the more energetic individuals. You know, the ones who got a whole two hours of sleep.

I've been up for almost forty-eight hours now. The floor is doing that cool shifting/sliding thing that usually comes with jetlag. Whoa.

And spending twelve hours plus--straight--all hunkered up and scrunched over, painting with a teeny little brush . . . .

My back hurts, my knees hurt, my hands hurt, and my eyes see two of everything.

And I'm still behind in this class.

/gripe

rurounibug ; 08:41 PM|2 replies

October 23rd, 2005

Neal Gaiman's Neverwhere

I'd always sort of passed on Neal Gaiman, because--and I know it's sacrilege to say so--his Sandman books never really caught me. Although to be honest, it's probably the art. Because I absolutely love reading things about Sandman. You know, the sort of stuff that starts, "When we started to design his coat, we thought--"

Then, after Good Omens--which I can't bear to finish, because I don't want it to end. (I dread the day they decide to make a movie. I will weep when they do. Tears of blood.)--I thought: I should read his novels. Because anyone who wrote this . . . .

But anyway.

I liked Neverwhere. I didn't quite carry it around in my backpack--it takes quite a book to make me willing to add to the tonage I have to haul to and from class, just so I can spend every free minute (that means: the train ride) reading it--but I did come home, pick it up, and neglect work and schoolwork in favor of it . . . .

Now, I noticed at the comic store that there's a comic book graphic novel version of it, although its in that thin, flimsy paperback that Marvel monthlies come in. But Neal Gaiman's writing is so good that even if you prefer the text-to-picture ratio to heavily favor the latter, I'd recommend the novel anyway. Largely because . . . well, I'll get to it.

Neverwhere is set in England. Or, more precisely, the London Underground. The novel has a map of the Underground, and it's pretty extensive: unused tunnels and closed off stations--this thing was just begging to be a fantasy novel setting.

Richard Mayhew is a man in love, or he's convinced he is, at any rate. I think every reader would probably flinch at his girlfreind's behaviour, but nontheless, they are engaged to be married.

Until Richard helps what he thinks is a homeless girl and blows a dinner engangement with his fiance's boss, who happens to be rich, powerful, and influencial. Just the sort of things that matter to a girl like her, who mostly wants Richard to 'make something of himself' or, in girl-speak 'change for me'. In a fit of peeve, she calls the wedding off, and dumps Richard.

He, of course, helps the homeless girl anyway.

And suddenly becomes invisible.

Or not. More like 'unnoticed'. People talk to him, and forget him almsot instantly. No one can remember him. His desk at work is cleared out and his flat rented to someone else, and all his belongings sold or thrown away.

This, of course, has everthing to do with the homeless girl, a girl called Door whose family has the power to Open Doors. Locked doors, closed doors, missing doors, or even doors that aren't there.

Door is being chased by less than savory charachters and of course Richard's quest to re-join the "real" world seems to require him helping her on her quest to find out who murdered her family and why folks are chasing her withobvious ill-intent--a quest that takes them all over the weird, altered, neverwhere version of the London Underground subway system.

Part of the joy of this book is the way real locations have been altered. (Nightsbridge is an actual bridge . . . on which its always night . . . heheh.) At least, I got a kick out of it.

I also immensely enjoyed the underground itself--the world, not the subway system. Gaiman's slightly off-beat charachters remain intimidating, pathetic, sweet, or noble even though theres almost always something a bit goofy about them.

I liked how they were dressed: a layered, weathered worn look that we call 'bum' on everyone who isn't an Olsen Twin. This was my gripe with the comic: nothing looks how it looked in my head. Door's layers of silk, wool, lace, cotton, and oversize coat became one layer of oversize coat, and Richard who's meant to be a man of an endearing, mussed appearance that girls found irisistable looked . . . lets just say resistable.

Also, theres the fact that the underworld looks more colourful in words than I think any comic book artist could do justice to.

So, I actually liked a book? Well . . . yeah. I don't always bitch and gripe. Though I have my complaints, obviously:

The two main (well, not 'main' as in level-boss main. Main as in 'most present) badguys seemed a touch overdone. Even for the slightly wacky tone that was obviously intentional. They rather smacked of stupid, stupid rat creatures. No, not in looks. In attidute: so malicious they're more than a bit ridiculous. I found them by turns amusing and tiresome.

Mostly, though, they were so enthusiastic about being evil that I could clearly hear the voice of the writer behind them. Which I'm sure is, again, sacrilege to say. So is this: In most Neal Gaiman things I've read--which I admit isn't all, or even much of his work--I find I'm very aware of the author's presence.

Really thats my only complaint.

Really.

rurounibug ; 12:38 AM|fine, ignore me

October 23rd, 2005

fud is gud

There was a time I couldn't finish a California size burrito. Now I inhale super burritos and I'm like, "What? That's it?"

Thank god I have chooloate chip cookies around here somewhere.

And cupcakes.

w00t!

rurounibug ; 08:42 PM|fine, ignore me

October 25th, 2005

beware of naked

Last week--well, week before last. I skipped last week's clas--my friend Pete complemented our nude female model on beign better looking the creepy female models we'd had before her.

Pete's a nice guy, (whose most notable trait is looking exactly like cartoon-piro from megatokyo) but it seemed to me very unproffesional--or at least unacademic--to be noticing the 'hotness' of the nudes. Not to say that uber-skinny lady didn't freak me out some, but I'd never say it. I'd certainly never mention the attractiveness level of someone I'd seen in the buff in whats supposed to be a totally neutral setting. Not to her face, at any rate, and probably only very cautiously amongst fellow students.

Truth is, a lot of the students model nude at the university. You never know when you'll end up in a computer graphics class with someone you've drawn nekkid. Or worse, in a computer class with someone you'd drawn nekkid and three others with whom you've discussed her nekkidness with.

One has, you know, got to watch one's back.

rurounibug ; 01:29 AM|2 replies

October 25th, 2005

angelics

Angelics_d is now on tabulas.

XD I've dragged her to the dark side of the force. ^_^V

I'm linking her so she'll still like me. *disepak*

rurounibug ; 01:56 AM|5 replies

October 25th, 2005

*heart*

If you loved me, you'd read my original fiction.

Just went in search of an old story I'd only posted on Shejidan, but it seems to have been swallowed alive along aith many others' posts when the site was hax0r3d.

Too bad.

I'm sure I didn't save it any where but the now-wiped hard drive of my old comp.

I know you guys are sick of my whining but . . . it was four years of pics and fics. Literally hours and hours and hours of work. I may never be done mourning. XP

rurounibug ; 12:46 PM|3 replies

October 25th, 2005

fanworks protection

If you wander around fansites like I do, I'm sure you've seen the little fanworks protection buttons. They read something like "Fanworks Protection: Against Reusing Japanese Fanart Without Permission Or With 'Unknown'."

Now, I'm not for stealing anyone's art, fan or otherwise, but that little button amuses me everytime.

For one thing, why just Japanese? Why not just "Against Reusing Fanwork Without Permission"? Or "Against Reusing Anyone's Fanwork Without Asking First"?

What about Korean fanwork? Or Chinese fanwork? Or . . . you see where I'm going with this.

Second: I happen to know oodles of non-english speakers who (probably) wouldn't think twice about using/copying/editing Western fanwork for their own purposes. I can't speak for the Japanese, but I wouldn't be surprised if a good number of them had nothing against using Western work that appealed to them, assuming any did.

People just move in totally different circles, and when they do, they really don't often give thought to the other groups hanging about the 'net. I mean, I wouldn't take, say PL Nunn's work and make avatars and sig banners out of it for my own use, because--among other reasons--I tend to roam around as many english speaking sites as Indo ones, and am sort of aware of those artists as a presence somewhere in the world rather than merely as mysterious powers that make pictures appear on websites. I'm aware than these pics belong to someone. Flesh and blood someones.

Had I never spent time on the YoujiXAya list or Shejidan or rifling through sites like LG's Nocturne I can't guarantee you I'd feel the same way. Besides, I'd be so off your radar I doubt you'd care what I was doing, and even if you stumbled on my hypothetical non-english site, I doubt you'd wade through all the foreign yakkage just on the off-chance I might be ripping your fanpics.

And what if it was my art someone was stealing?

Well, first off, they'd have to have extremely low standards--or bad eyesight--but it would totally depend. English or Indo speakers; that would bother me, because they could ask, or read the artist tag. To not so so when you can? That's rude. But if it was some random Mongolian kid somewhere, who didn't have the English skill to ask/read . . . I'd probably be flattered.

Third, a lot of us don't speak Japanese. I can't even get Asian scripts to work in my web browser, let alone actually read them. Taking that and the sheer awesomeness of some fanart into consideration . . . can you really blame folks who mistake it for professional art/doujin?

And speaking of doujin, isn't that technicaly fanart? So if I can't read the hira/kanji to give credit/properly name the artist, you're against my scanning doujinshi pages?

And if you were wondering whether or not Japanese fanwork needs Western protection . . . Hell, doesn't everyone needs Western protection? Western fan protection, no less.

I'm not sure if I'm communicating properly, but that addition of 'Japanese' rings of fatheadedness. As if some Japanese fanartist who might be offended at someone's art theft didn't have it in them to a) complain him/herself, b) babelfish an angry email or c) get an english literate freind to translate and send an angry email.

A lot of foreing folks still speak--or at least can write--understandable english. Those who don't usually know someone who can--Most of Asia has mandatory English classes all through school. And if their artists cared so much, I don't think they'd be wringing their hands, staring helplessly at their computer screens.

I think some of you would be getting very interesting emails.

Even my third-world country can pidgin together an angry response if you push us.

^_^; Yes, I know. This is a long, angry rant about a wee lil' button.

It's just that it's so . . . unnecessary.

It just smacks of politically-correct in-crowd attention mongering.

And once again, I do NOT support the theft of anybody's fanwork. Always ask first.

Common courtesy doesn't--or at least shouldn't--require a button.

rurounibug ; 10:04 PM|2 replies

October 26th, 2005

*rage* *panic*

Today I was finally supposed to get all the big furniture out of the apartment.

I've been talking about it for at least a week.

Everything was set-up.

Everything was Going According To Plan.

I even remembered--in an uncharachteristically timely manner--to get my electric, gas and phone switched over to the new place, so I'd only have a day or two of no-internet.

And then, this morning at ten thirty, guys with a truck were supposed to come and move my furniture.

Except they did not show. I phoned and they did not answer. I left messages and they did not respond.

I now have less than a week to get moved, and my electric and gas and phone are being switched over tomorrow and friday, respectively.

rurounibug ; 02:03 PM|fine, ignore me

October 29th, 2005

best fic-dom word

wangst

rurounibug ; 02:30 AM|3 replies

October 31st, 2005

true blue

The other day I accidentally started talking to Aoi-chan about yaoi, mixing her up with Aoisorae.

The chan apparently, differs from the sorae in that yaoi really, really squicks her, even though she tried to be PC about it. Heh.

Talk about an awkward chat. ^_^

And a different topic, I did get moved last wednesday, after frantically calling/emailing different movers. And then I collapsed and slept till three the next afternoon.

I hate moving, though I've now done it twice in the same year. I hope never to do it again. When I'm ninety, you might find me still living in this single-young-person style place because if I never move again it'll be to damn soon.

But today I handed over the keys to the old place and so the move is finally done. Now I just have to unpack.

rurounibug ; 02:01 AM|fine, ignore me

October 31st, 2005

halloween

note to self: must buy candy

I don't know if city kids trick-or-treat. If theres small children anywhere in my building--though I haven't seen/heard any yet--they're bound to be trolling the halls.

I also don't know if the front door gets opened for trick-or-treaters to come in and knock on individual doors, but if they don't come, hell, I can eat two pounds of chocolate on my own, no problem.

Also; if I had gay freinds I could go party in the castro. Halloween falls on a Monday this year, so people have been compensating by starting their parties on Friday afternoon. ^_^;;

rurounibug ; 02:17 AM|2 replies

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