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[minervasolo]

They're advertising chocolate on television! Oh cruelty! Damn you, Easter!

They're also advertising a new series of No Angels, which is absolutely brilliant. Drama about nurses. Still hooked to Desperate Housewives, especially the precocious teen Julie.

I've had three bowls of cereal today. I'm not meant to have carbohydrates without protein, really. Also, I'm getting more and more certain I'm lactose intolerant. I need to buy lemons for tea and give up the organic milk for the skimmed stuff. Diet probably isn't helping the achy-flaky hands thing either.

Here's something interesting for anyone who's drawn fanart. The thief doesn't actually seem to understand that it is theft. She's taking both fanart and and officially released images and turning them into t-shirts and the like to fund her children's anime habit. Fanart is a dodgy legal area (especially depending on the nature of the scene, though this stuff is all G-rated and damn good), but I haven't heard of nearly ass many instances of C&D letters as fanfic gets, especially since it's all non-profit. It's a depiction of love for the series, not malicious plagiarism, though they are using someone else's intellectual property. Taking it and selling it on merchandise? That's pissing two sets of people off - the property owners and the fanartists. Let alone the shit she's ging to get into for taking Buffy and Kill Bill and Disney and various anime images from official merchandise.

And she's threatening to sue for defamation. Bwahaha, indeed.

So that's the trainwreck that caught my attention today. Essay is over, seminar is bluffed through (I admitted to not finishing it, and I wasn't the only one) and perscription ordered. I really ought to get hair and glasses sorted out too, before I turn 19 and it all gets stupidly expensive. And plus before the fringe sends me blind. Someone mentioned I look like I'd been crying earlier - it's the bloodshot eyes from the hair and the red face from the cold.

I have randomly started drawing a comic about an Incubus. That's what I get for rereading GlamourLust. Anyway, it's different from Freefall, though I'll probably stick it up on the same site. I've only got two pages (neither compeltely finished) so far.

Ugh, sleepy. I'll actually be glad to be away from the laptop for a bit. Of course, now I have to start on the magazine stuff, and Sam is being very uncommunicative about what the pages are meant to look like (apparently he's been given a lot of instruction). Also, the editors can't seem to attach articles to emails, so I now have a layout guide with nothing to lay up. Must go hunt them down about that too.

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

In a weird sort of way I found Glamourlust less good the second time round. I think it suffers from excess of authorial intervention, and, er, I think in the interval between Read One and Read Two I lost interested in "it's magic" as an explanation for things like "boys have wings". Bionics that fail are much more messy fun.

Er. Since I'm here - get a copy of "Observatory Mansions" by Edward Carey and read it. It's weirdly good and has a very interesting narrative style.

Wow, I sound dull.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, Glamourlust has plenty of faults - I find the random author insertions a bit irritating - but they manage to keep the characters pretty much true to their designated 'roles', so the 'chaos' one doesn't suddenly turn around nice and repentant, and since I was in a mood to look at pretty people, it sufficed nicely!

Book recs are always good. I've been wandering around recently, not wanting to reread booklist stuff and not having anything else. Picked up some John Wyndam and that Pompeii book that's been on hte best seller lists for a while, and I'll keep an eye out for this one!

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

Speaking of fanart for fun and not profit - what about those sites which take commissions for fanart? I have no clue how they get away with that. O.o Brilliant link, btw. XD

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I think they manage it because it's one off, and it's more about the artist than the art. If the person wanted official merchandise, they'd paid the same price for the official stuff. If it's up on ebay it usually gets jumped on sharpish, but one on one seems to be overlooked.

And because the companies don't know, obviously ^_^

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

Never never never never try and cut your own fringe. I ended up with a complete disaster that way (and then one of my "friends" told me asymetric fringes were in - grr). I got my dad to cut mine last time.

As a deprived student, have you considered getting a HC1 form for perscriptions etc once you're old and wrinkly like me? (God, you're still 18, I feel old. I'm 21 and considered "the baby" by my pals.) They've just made the process a lot more complicated but you should check at your union advice office if you could qualify.

Heck, I'm boring.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I'll look out for that form. I knew there was one, because I had a 20 year old friend at college who was always complaining about the amount of forms she had to fill in to get the medication that kept her basically alive. I guess I'm lucky, being one of these with a late birthday that gets me through the first year, but now I've got to think about it, and advice like this is really useful!