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2013-04-25 10:10 pm

So... it's been forever since I've posted anything...

...And the new layout for posting does not make me eager to use it... >_>

But I wanted to come and just post about whatever.

I have been writing, I promise! IDK that anyone out there really cares that I've been writing, but I have been. Nearly every day I write something, but I haven't managed to finish anything. I've got a J2 fic that I wrote, I'm planning on posting it in the next week. It's been "done" for a while, but it's going through a rewrite to expand it because I don't feel like it's really done yet.

Still working, slowly, on my Cinderella!Sam/Gabriel au fic. I found all of my chapter notes on it a couple weeks ago when going through my papers for my Novel Writing Class. I thought I'd lost them forever, so I nearly squeaked when I found them in class.

Realized in the last two weeks that I lost my Original Fiction story I'd been working on since the start of high school. I'd still been working on it up to the first semester of my Novel Writing Class last year. But my external harddrive got corrupted, then my laptop died. I hadn't had it backed up on anything else, and the e-mail I sent of it to a friend was so long ago that it's since been gotten rid of. *cries* I'm actually working on a rewrite from scratch and the first chapter is better than my original first chapter, but I know there are things I'll forget. 80/90 pages of work, just gone. :(

Some good news (imo), I found some old bunnies I'd planned on writing today. I was going through one of my old journal/notebooks. I found my original scenes from my Belle!Sam/Beast!Gabriel fic in there, as well as chapters of Mystery Spot Misunderstanding (omg, so long ago). But there were also two pages of bunnies for Sam/Gabriel, Jared/Jensen, and even one Superwho fic... I am pretty excited to start working on them, but I've got these other things I would like to finish first, you know?

There's a first time Sam/Gabriel fic with outsider!Sam I was working on around May of last year... It's reached ~6k words and then I just got stuck. I really like what I've written so far, but I need to figure out how to get them together and decide how I want to end it...

Another fic is a first time Sam/Gabriel with Sam having been split into two Sams: confident!Sam and insecure!Sam. I've gotten...~5k words of it written. I know how it ends. I know how I want to get there. But every time I open up the doc to work on it, I'm unable to figure out exactly how to make it work. I'm stuck on just how to create the confrontation that I know I need between the characters. >.<

Oh, and to my shame, I have been writing a fiction in a completely different fandom. I have about 45-50 pages (teeny pages in my little True Blood notebook I got at Comic Con last year) of HP re-sorting fic written. IDEK what I'm doing with it. I just know that I got the idea for it sometime last year or so and have been writing it in short little spurts over the last couple months. I actually really like what I've written so far, but I feel so bad that I've gotten so much more written for that than any of my OTP. ;_;

I've been tempted to just post what's written and hoping that any comments I get will motivate me to get them done. But I did the WIP-posting thing with Mystery Spot Misunderstanding. Getting so many comments was amazing, but I hate keeping readers waiting for so long in between, especially w/ no guarantee that it will get finished for a really long time.

So yeah, there's a bit of an update for anyone who is interested. :D

*randomness*

~ Willow
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2012-04-19 02:35 am
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hmmm, a meme I have seen around...

How it works:
Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
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2012-04-16 01:14 pm

Comment Fic Meme!

Sam/Gabriel comment fic meme


I'm running a little Sam/Gabriel comment fic meme over at [livejournal.com profile] sabriel_mini while I work on getting Round 2 of the Sam/Gabriel Mini Bang started. Head on over there! Leave prompts! Write fills! Have fun!
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2012-04-13 07:05 pm

Taking on the 100 Things: Blogging Challenge!




{Take the 100 Things challenge!}


[profile] priceless_pixie sent me the link to this challenge last night. It sounds like a lot of fun and I've decided to have a go of it.

I'll be blogging about "100 Fics That I Love" because goodness knows I've read enough fic to blog about them. :D There will be multiple pairings (and even fic with no pairings at all).

EDIT: I'll also have fics from fandoms besides Supernatural. I started branching out in reading other fics last year (though I'd read Harry Potter fic before ever realizing SPN had some and before I knew what a fandom was). There won't be many as nothing has held onto me as well as SPN has, and always will. But yeah. There will probably be some Clex (Smallville) fic showing up, as well as Leverage and Harry Potter. Maybe others, I'm not sure.

This entry was originally posted here.
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2012-04-11 09:27 pm

Here we go again....CISPA is the new SOPA

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] legendarytobes at Here we go again....CISPA is the new SOPA
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] sxymami0909 at Here we go again....CISPA is the new SOPA
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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] sio at here we go again....CISPA is the new SOPA
PLEASE PASS THIS ON! i've shared on FB and a couple forums and hardly anyone else is--that bothers me on some level. we DON'T need this kind of censoring to be passed!!!

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] colonoscarpeay at CISPA is the new SOPA

Here's their next move: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, would obliterate any semblance of online privacy in the United States.

And CISPA would provide a victory for content owners who were shell-shocked by the unprecedented outpouring of activism in opposition to SOPA and Internet censorship.

The House of Representatives is planning to take up CISPA later this month. Click here to ask your lawmakers to oppose it.

SOPA was pushed as a remedy to the supposed economic threat of online piracy -- but economic fear-mongering didn't quite do the trick.

So those concerned about copyright are engaging in sleight of hand, appending their legislation to a bill that most Americans will assume is about keeping them safe from bad guys.

This so-called cyber security bill aims to prevent theft of "government information" and "intellectual property" and could let ISPs block your access to websites -- or the whole Internet.

Don't let them push this back-door SOPA. Click here to demand that your lawmakers oppose CISPA.

CISPA also encourages companies to share information about you with the government and other corporations.

That data could then be used for just about anything -- from prosecuting crimes to ad placements.

And perhaps worst of all, CISPA supercedes all other online privacy protections.

Please click here to urge your lawmakers to oppose CISPA when it comes up for a vote this month.

Thanks for fighting for the Internet.

-Demand Progress


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2012-04-11 01:07 am
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Supernatural Meme...

Snagged from [livejournal.com profile] yellowbulma.

1. Deangirl or Samgirl?
I have been a Sam!girl since Pilot and I will be forever.

2. Casgirl, yes or no?
Depends on the season and episode. Season 4? Not at all. Season 5? Mostly, yes. I even wanted more of him. Season 6? You know, I mostly was a Cas!girl because I understood that he couldn't always help and Dean was just being an asshole for just expecting his help all the time. But when he messed with Sam's wall, no.

3. Favorite season?
Jeez, um. This is hard. It's close between 1 and 2... I think 1? But they're really close.

4. Favorite episode(s) from your favorite season?
I love Skin. And all the episodes with Meg.

5. Season you're most likely to re-watch?
I rewatch a lot of the stand-alone/filler eps in Season 4, but full seasons I'm more likely to rewatch... Probably season 1.

6. Season you hate the most?
Season 4, all the way. They started making Dean worse with his attitude and holier-than-thou/self-righteous attitude than he'd been in the seasons before. And made Sam out to be a bad guy when he tried to hold onto anything to keep himself alive for months when Dean couldn't last 2 days without him.

7. Favorite episode of the current season?
Pfft.. Time For a Wedding? I dunno. They've spaced them out so much this season I can't even remember all of them right now. But that one had me rollin'.

8. Least favorite episode from the current season?
The Born-Again Identity. I won't be able to watch it a second time and I didn't want to even watch it the first time around.

9. Favorite angel?
Gabriel.

10. Least favorite angel?
...That's a really hard question. It's between Uriel and Zachariah. And I think I'll choose Uriel because he was so evil to Sam.

11. Favorite demon?
YED all the way. Gawd I miss him. And I really love Meg 1.o.

12. Least favorite demon?
Ruby 2.o

13. Favorite one-episode character?
They've made so many of them characters that came back... HMMM... You know, I really liked Sarah Blake.

14. Sam's hair looked best in which season?
FFFFFF, IDK. Not Season 4. Season 4 hair was awful. Season 4 was awful overall. You know, I think I like Season 2 hair a lot. Just enough over his forehead that he had bangs, and they can be flipped or pushed behind his ear. But not non-existent as they've been for so long.


15. If the show would have ended the way Kripke wanted it to, with Sam and Dean battling each other and jumping into the hole together (and God might show mercy on them, idk), would you have preferred that?
No way.

16. Best cast character throughout the whole show?
IDK. Almost all of them? Jared really does make an excellent Sam. And Jensen plays an awesome Dean.

17. Do you think Chuck is God?
I like to think if he was, he would be more involved.

18. Who's a hotter psychic, Patrica Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt or Sam?
Sam, all the way. ;D

19. Freedom or Peace?
Freedom for sure

20. Dimples, freckles, eye-crinkles, bowlegs, bangs, woobie frowns or jaw clinches?
LOL, dimples, bangs, and jaw clinches ;D

21. Favorite kind of monster?
Vengeful spirits.

22. Weapon of choice?
Love the Colt.

23. Favorite death?
Don't have one. I don't like when any of them die. I will admit to having LMAO at Dean's deaths in Mystery Spot.

24. Favorite minor character's death?
NONE. I DON'T LIKE ANY OF THE DEATHS. OKAY.

25. Pre-apocalyptic, apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic?
Pre-apocalyptic.

26. Scariest episode?
Bloody Mary. That episode scared me, ngl. And it was the goriest the show had gotten at the time which was another big shock to it for me.

27. Best song that mattered for a scene? (you can't choose Carry on Wayward Son)
"Bad Moon Rising" in "Devil's Trap"

28. Best and worst young versions of characters?
Dude. Colin Ford was the best young!Sam everevereverever. Worst..? HMMM. BB!Sammy, from, like, the Shtriga episode.

29. Characters I ship like crazy?
Sam and Gabriel. *nodnodnod*

30. Favorite female character?
That would be Ellen, for sure. I miss her so much.

31. Best and worst season intro and finale?
Best season intro..? um.. IDK. I don't quite understand the question, I guess. Maybe if it's the "Then"/"Last Season" it would be Season 2? Best finale is Season 1.
Worst opening, I have no idea. Probably Season 6 because Sam isn't Sam and Dean lets other hunters walk all over him even though he's way better than they'd ever be.
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2012-04-10 02:31 pm
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Storyfinders...

Is there a reason they changed the font over at [livejournal.com profile] spnstoryfinders? I go away for four days and come back and it's different. @_@ Annoying. :/ Though that comm tends to like to change more and more and more, doesn't it? lololol... It looks like I'll finally be able to post a request over there again, now that it won't look like I'm copying someone else's and changing it to my preference when really they just got to it first.

I'll share stories of my Vegas trip later, right now I'm going through flist and getting annoyed at stupid things because I'm still tired and sore and bitchy.
wolfish_willow: Steve Harrington looking up at the Creel house in Season 4 (Default)
2012-04-05 09:30 pm

Going to Vegas...

I am going to Vegas this weekend. So, yeah. Won't be posting anything new for at least the next four days (I'm so bummed that I can't finish the second Sabriel Week fic I was working on). But yep. I will be gone until Monday. Wish me luck, I have no idea what I'm doing!!
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2012-03-11 05:23 pm

Kony 2012

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] insanityoutlet at Kony 2012
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] keiramarcos at Kony 2012
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] romennim at we won't back down
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] princess_aleera at we won&#39;t back down
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] synnerxx at we won't back down


Spread the word. Link to this post if you want. I have it unlocked so everyone can see it. Do everything in your power to get the word out and make this known to everyone.

GET INVOLVED. STOP AT NOTHING. THE WORLD MUST KNOW.

I dare you to stop scrolling through your dashboard. Stop checking your Facebook newsfeed that you’ve already checked two seconds ago. Stop updating your Twitter and seeing what your favorite celebrities are saying. Stop watching funny and nonsense videos on Youtube. Take time to educate yourself to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in this world. This is your chance! WATCH THIS VIDEO.

Let’s make JOSEPH KONY Famous!!

Who is JOSEPH KONY?

He is THE WORST LIVING CRIMINAL. He abducts children and makes them use guns to kill their own parents. He takes girls and forces them to be sex slaves. He calls his abducted children the Lord’s Resistance Army, AKA the LRA. He has abducted over 30,000 children and forced them to be child soldiers in Central Africa. He remains at large because he is INVISIBLE to the world. FEW know his name, even FEWER know his crimes. WE ARE MAKING HIM FAMOUS! Because when he is, the world will unite against him and demand his arrest.

We can help make a change. We can make a difference.

I feel so inspired. I feel the need to help and make a difference. This has to happen in 2012. We can’t let him go around and keep doing this to children in Central Africa. Let’s make his name known so he can be stopped. HE CAN NO LONGER BE INVISIBLE!
NOTE: THIS ORGANIZATIONS POLITICS AREN'T IMPORTANT TO ME. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF GIVING THEM MONEY. YESTERDAY I DIDN'T KNOW WHO JOSEPH KONY WAS. TODAY I DO. I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW WHO THIS MAN IS AND WHAT HE'S DONE. THAT'S WHY I POSTED THIS VIDEO -- KEIRA
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2012-03-06 11:23 pm

OMG, GUYS! I HAVE TO SQUEE TO THE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND

(The headdesk icon is the closest one I have to "ded", so)

I'M SO EXCITED AND HAPPY, I CAN'T EVEN.

Okay, so. Backstory, or whatever.

I'm taking a Novel Writing class this semester. I couldn't take any of the classes I actually need, but I needed to take at least 1 class this semester to get my parents to stop looking at me like I do nothing since I still haven't been able to find a job. :/

So, I was too afraid to join the SciFi/Fantasy group because they were loud with big personalities and crazy intimidating. I joined Mixed Genres and decided, since I didn't think I could write a fantasy story, to try my hand at some sort of thriller/mystery. I've done the first 4 assignments with this idea in mind.

But I decided last week I was going to change my project to a fantasy story I've been working on for years. It would be easier to meet the word count requirement and I would be opening up this story I've been trying to get motivated to turn into something better. I figured it would be okay because one person is writing a paranormal novel and another person is writing one with a person with special gifts, so obviously fantasy was still allowed, or at least people with powers are.

I turned in the first 3 assignments last week for the teacher to read and leave me feedback for. These were for my first idea, right? But I was afraid that they sucked because the people in my group thought it sounded more like a comedy than a thriller and that totally shot my confidence to be able to write it, which is part of what prompted me to switch.

But I got the teacher's feedback back tonight and. O_O For my synopsis she wrote, "Good plot. You've done a good job establishing three unique characters with plenty of conflict. This can make a good thriller."

And for my character descriptions/biographies she said, "Good work - very comprehensive. You've given all your characters very 3-D personalities and lots of good psychological motivations." --- I about died already here, btw.

The third assignment was a character sketch. I had to put one of my characters into a scene with conflict in order to show their reactions. This is the one that pretty much killed me ded 'cause I thought the sketch was going to get awful feedback since it was so much shorter than the other ones in my group.

Her feedback: "Very good writing. You jump right into the action, and immediately create tension. Good use of sensory details. This is a good sketch." AND THERE ARE NOTES THROUGHOUT WITH LITTLE THINGS SAYING "Excellent contrast" AND "Good emotion".

AND GUYS. I'M GOING TO KEEP WORKING ON THIS ORIGINAL STORY INSTEAD OF THE FANTASY ONE. BECAUSE. IT DOESN'T SUCK APPARENTLY.

*wibble* It's thanks to fanfiction that I've gotten the practice to be able to get such good feedback on my first try in this class and I just want to say how much I appreciate all the comments I've gotten on my fics all over again because. Wow. I wouldn't have done nearly as well if I hadn't felt encouraged enough to keep writing for Supernatural. *wipes tear*
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2012-03-01 06:35 pm
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So bored...

I'm so bored, man. Had a headache most of the day so I didn't get any writing done. I'm just waiting for my parents to finish their dinner so we can continue watching "Real Steel". I've never watched it before, but I like what I've seen so far. :D

But, guys. I was so bored today that I cleaned the kitchen. ;_; It was sad. I'm hoping to get some writing done tonight, after the movie. Gotta work on my [livejournal.com profile] spn_j2_bigbang. And an original story for my Novel Writing class. :/ BLEH. But my friend was awesome last night and helped me out with what I'm writing for BB, so that's something. :D

I wish there was something I could write real fast. Something short and easy so I could post. Because there needs to be more Sam/Gabriel in the world. And though I can't enjoy my own stuff, I like to believe other people do. heh. *flops around* IDEK what I'm talking about right now. I'm all over the place.

Feel free to leave me some short/simple prompts in comments. I don't promise to write anything, but maybe something will catch my eye and force my muse into the writing mood. *hopeful eyes*
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2012-02-28 06:34 pm

Random post is random

First of all, I want to say thanks to everyone who sent me a cute blue dragon. :D

Thanks [livejournal.com profile] meh_forget_it, [livejournal.com profile] confetticas, [livejournal.com profile] enmuse, [livejournal.com profile] viridescence, [livejournal.com profile] lexicale, and [livejournal.com profile] salire!!! They are very much appreciated and put a smile on my face.

ALSO

I've moved quite a few of my fics over to my account at AO3. The link to my page or whatever is here. I've managed to get Mystery Spot Misunderstanding over there, as well as A Heart's True Haven. And quite a few of my other shorter fics. :D And if there is a fic I've got posted on this journal, that isn't posted there, that you would like to see on AO3 feel free to comment at the fic or PM me letting me know. I'll definitely post it over there. I've gotten most of the major and a few not-so-major ones. But they haven't all been posted over there. lol

Okay. So. That's it. I think. :D Now I've got to go to class. ;_; And turn in my character sketch scene that is really stupid compared to the ~amazing~ character sketch I read from someone else in my class. *le sigh*
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2012-02-14 11:31 pm

Happy Valentine's Day everybody!

It's late, I know. But it's only 11:27 here, so it's still technically Valentine's Day. LOL

I just wanted to say thanks so much for the lovely virtual gifts!

Thank you [livejournal.com profile] lexicale, [livejournal.com profile] viridescence, [livejournal.com profile] varkelton, [livejournal.com profile] salire, [livejournal.com profile] cherry916, and [livejournal.com profile] sailorstarshine!!!

I feel so loved and thought of right now. :D

I hope everyone has had a good day, whether you do Valentine's Day-type things or not. :D
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2012-02-01 01:21 am
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some fun shtuff

I want to do that 3 sentence in WIPs meme going around but don't have any I can actually share right now. So this sounded like fun. :D

snagged from [livejournal.com profile] cha

If you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don't just post a word and not copy - that's not as much fun!
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2012-01-31 11:55 pm
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Freaking AIM

I'm going crazy because I can't sign onto AIM. I didn't realize until now how much I rely on it to talk to my friends. ;_; And I was really looking forward to getting some writing sprints done after class, but it won't let me log in and they are apparently having trouble with their servers as it won't even let me change my password like their site is telling me to do. @_@
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2012-01-24 03:29 pm
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U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] wistful_fever at U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] lk737 at U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA
Kosmonaunt on Tumblr just posted this link to the U.S. Petition to stop ACTA. Here is what was said about it:

Americans, this is a link to the White House petition to End ACTA and get the Obama Administration to withdraw its support! This petition needs 25,000 signatures by February 20, 2012! Please, Please take a minute to sign this petition!! I'm sure the more signatures we get, the greater chance the Obama Administration may listen to us.

Please pass this along!!

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Please check it out and Retweet if you're on Twitter (hashtag #ActAgainstACTA). Here is the shortened link for Twitter -- http://t.co/suHDHx8K



Thank you to everyone on my flist and twitter for talking about this and making us so aware! You guys have really filled my flist with so much information! *massive hugs*
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2012-01-23 04:20 pm

To UK Flisties

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] de_nugis at To UK Flisties
(Taken most recently from [livejournal.com profile] amber1960, slightly adapted.)

If you're from the UK and you believe in freedom of speech and an uncensored interenet, you really need to sign this petition. There are others floating about, but that particular one is the best way to ensure that your voice gets heard. It's hosted on the directgov website and addresses parliament directly. If it gets more than 100,000 signatures, it becomes eligible for discussion in the House of Commons.

Everyone's been getting so worked up over SOPA -- and rightly so -- that ACTA seems to have slipped under the radar. This is hugely problematic, because ACTA is a similar bill, but it has the potential to be far more damaging than SOPA ever could be.

Some people seem to have this misconception that ACTA is the 'European SOPA', but that simply isn't true. It's a global treaty, and it's already been signed by eight countries, including the US, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore. Europe votes on Thursday. If they vote 'no', the bill will have to be taken back to the drawing board and reformulated, which should buy us some time at the very least.

If you think this doesn't affect you, you're wrong. If ACTA passes, it could well signal the end of the internet as we know it, and that isn't an exaggeration. It's not just about watching movies and television online. If ACTA passes, sites like YouTube, Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and even Google and Wikipedia could become impossible to maintain. ACTA would allow ISPs to monitor your net activity and cut off internet access for your entire household if one person is suspected of breaching copyright. Think Big Brother is Watching. I don't think I need to emphasise just how damaging it can be to be without internet access in this day and age, when we rely so heavily on technology.

It's not only bloggers and fandom that would be affected, either. Small businesses, independent film-makers and unsigned musicians who have previously found their niche online would also suffer hugely, and would be at risk of being bullied into submission by Hollywood and multinational corporations under accusations of copyright infringement. All those artists who found fame by uploading covers of songs to YouTube would never have had the opportunity to do so under ACTA, as those cover versions would be prohibited.

I know the internet has its problems, but to my mind it's the single greatest invention to come out of modern times, and it would be an absolute travesty if we were to lose that now. From a personal point of view, I can't even put into words how important this is to me. I've met some of my closest friends through the internet and online fandom, people whom I would likely never have met without it, and it's given me this amazing social support system. I don't want that to end here, and I want to preserve it for future generations so that they can have the same experience and opportunities I've been given through my online interactions.

I know that opinions on the seriousness of copyright infringement and online piracy vary wildly, but that isn't really the point. Internet giants such as Google are opposed to this bill, and it's pretty safe to say that they're not in favour of copyright infringment, as anyone who's ever had a fanvid taken down from YouTube will be painfully aware. Whatever your stance on copyright, this isn't the way to go about dealing with it. This is dangerous legislation that impeaches on some of our most basic human rights, such as the right to privacy and freedom of speech.

So if you're from the UK, please, please sign the petition. If you hail from elsewhere in the world, there may well be similar movements in your own country, but I think the most effective thing anybody can do right now is to keep talking about this. Talk about it on Livejournal, on Twitter, on Tumblr, on Facebook, and anywhere else you can think of. Make sure this issue is never far from people's minds. The internet is an amazingly powerful tool: let's utilise it while we still have the chance.

Please repost and spread the word :)

SAY NO TO ACTA!

Please consider reposting this, especially if you have a large proportion of UK flisties. And please consider spreading the word via other platforms: Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, your own personal network.

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2012-01-23 03:51 pm

post

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] cantarina1 at post
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] electricdruid at The fiasco continues

ACTA in a Nutshell –

What is ACTA?  ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.

Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”

What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.

Essential ACTA Resources

  • Read more about ACTA here: ACTA Fact Sheet
  • Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text
  • Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history
  • Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response
  • Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video
  • Watch a lulzy video on ACTA: Lulzy Video

Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA.

Via Tumblr



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wolfish_willow: Steve Harrington looking up at the Creel house in Season 4 (Default)
2012-01-21 06:04 pm

I can't find a "Help Me" icon or anything similar to go with this request, lol

Hey there lovely members of my flist. :D

I was wondering if there might be anyone out there willing to beta for me. A long term-ish beta would be great, but I'll take someone just willing to help out with a Castiel/Sam/Gabriel fic I'd like to post.

Help with grammar and looking for typos are always great. And making sure everything sounds good/makes sense. If there are sentences/words that just don't flow right or take you out of the story, those are the kinds of things I want to know about. It's a fic I wrote for a [livejournal.com profile] spn_gabriel stocking and I'd like to post it to my journal, but I'd really like it to get looked over by someone first if I could.

And if anyone is up to the task of being a more long term-ish beta, I mostly write Sam/Gabriel (as I'm sure is fairly obvious to those of you who've friended me, I think) and the occasional Sam/Castiel and Gabriel/Sam/Castiel is my OT3 that I hope to write more of in the future. UM. I do sometimes write J2 as well, but I know that's not everyone's cup of tea (or coffee or pop or whatever choice of beverage ;D) so you wouldn't have to worry about those if you didn't want to. :D

Right now it's mostly 2 stocking fics I need looked over, I think. I'm still plugging away at my [livejournal.com profile] angstbigbang so I won't be writing new Sam/Gabriel fic for a little while longer. But I'd really like to post the few I do have sitting around. :)

Just comment if you're interested. I might not be online much more tonight 'cause my bestie is coming over to hang out and I've got to get ready, but I'd be so grateful for any help. :D