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The chaos continues apace. Though we did have the most orderly fire drill ever, so I suppose that's something.

Quick heads-up, couldn't wait for RFM because it ends on Saturday, but Boundbooks brought a Help Somalia auction to my attention -- all the info is in a comment here.

And now some crass consumerism! Who doesn't dream of ( A Cheaper World? )

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Sweet Loki in a hoopskirt, LJ, what is wrong with you.

My personal chaos field appears to be holding steady, but on that note as I am supposed to be nominally on the side of good, I wanted to mention one or two things. I think probably 99% of the Cafe doesn't need to hear this. But I'm on a broadcast band, guys, so if this doesn't apply to you, just feel well-adjusted and scroll on for justice.

First, someone the other day linked me to a website where a portion of Cartographer's Craft was archived without credit. Normally this would be An Incident, but it seemed reasonably obvious to me this person was archiving it there so they could read it on some kind of mobile device in their spare time. (Why else archive starting at chapter fourteen? I mean what?) So this is just a reminder: even if you're stashing something away for personal purposes, the internet is like a giant series of WIDE OPEN DOORS and people who enjoy looking into them. Lock that stuff up or credit it; most people would also prefer that you ask first. They'd probably love to hear you want to read their porn on the train!

Second, I don't even know how to get into this, but I will give it the old college try: if someone is writing you a fanfic to a prompt on a kinkmeme, and they are actually filling the prompt, and they happen to toss in something that you dislike in two or three chapters out of, say, fifty...could you maybe stop and think before flipping your everloving shit? I get that there's shit not everyone wants to read, but I thought we'd been over the whole "sexuality is not something you warn for" thing. Also even if you're not the original shit-flipper, but you want to be warned for a specific genre of sexual relationship -- I get that in a kinkmeme the ships might not always be 100% clear immediately but perhaps you may wish to consider avoiding A KINKMEME if you can't deal with ladyparts.

Dude it isn't even me writing it, I just can't believe what I've seen go down in the past two days. We have had this wank already! Wank done! No take-backsies!

Third, if you're going to tell someone the quality of their work is declining, may I refer you to The Table Of Praise And Criticism? Unless you can back up your criticism with something less vague than "declining quality", consider not opening your mouth and proving to the world what a dipstick you are.

I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW, YOU GUYS. My latent anger at Overboss for sending me ten questions a day all of which are answered in his own personal copy of the Big Book has faded completely!

In return for putting up with my crap, enjoy five minute distraction: Draw A Stickman.