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[jedishampoo]

The stuff that lingers on the Internet long after you think you and yours have deleted them...

Please be warned ahead of time that there are some links to some safe AND non-work-safe, NC-17 pics and words below the cut:



1) Back in the day, in 1999 when fanfiction.net had like 40 Star Wars stories, my best-guy-friend Arco wrote what are still probably the grossest and most shocking Star Wars stories ever. (This is when I was writing PG-rated Obi-Wan het.) His stories were so messed up that I had trouble reading some of them (and still do). I think he had like several hundred either hating or loving reviews on his first evil masterpiece, “Psychotic Jedi F**kfest.” But ya had to admire his creativity and use of decent grammar and spelling. (BTW, he also wrote some other good stuff which is still on fernwithy’s Star Wars page and in the TFN archive. At some point I will update my own webpage with some things as well.)

He removed these stories from the web long ago. But apparently they are still cached and being read today! hungrysarlacc, who posts some pretty hysterical lines from Star Wars badfics, featured PJF a week or so ago: Quotes from “bad” Star Wars fanfiction (it’s the one at the top).

2) Arco himself pointed me toward someone who has apparently created fan-art based on the story: NON Work-Safe Picture. The legacy. Sigh.

3) I discovered that a four-year-old picture of me from WorldCon 2001 is on the internet, on Hotornot.com. Here’s me tan and 10 lbs. thinner. (How the heck do I get that off of there?)

4) And a Google search revealed that when I first started posting fanfiction, I put my real name on there. Why, oh why?



So the Internet isn’t as fleeting as one might think. Help!

PS: My new Icon! Quote from Eddie Izzard! Sorta!

Comments

[slyvermont.livejournal.com]

I gave you a 10 also. And I explored the site some. And this is what I found.

To remove your picture, the site says:

"Yes, once you are logged in, you can take yourself out of the photo rating pool by going to the "My Rating" section. There will be an option there to take yourself out of rating. You can take yourself out of the meeting site by going to the "Edit Profile" section. There will be an option there to take yourself out of Meet Me. If you don't see this option, your picture was not approved and is not currently being shown in the Meet Me section.

To remove your photo from the system, click on the "Change/remove photo" link, and then click the button under your photo. If the picture does not appear to go away, hit refresh/reload on your browser."

Of course, since you didn't place it there, you probably can't remove it. I wonder if someone put it there instead of a picture of themselves.

But what I really want to know is, how did you find it there?

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Oh, a friend sent me the link. I'm sure the putting up involved some friends from IUPUI or Indianapolis and/or alcohol in some way, but I really don't remember. The trouble will be finding whatever and whoever's e-mail was used to do it, four/five years ago. It's sort of embarrassing. Actually a lot embarrassing. ;) I don't mind having pictures on my own website. But on a ratings website? ::blushes::

Thanks for the info, though. Maybe if I don't figure it out I'll just write them and say, please?

(The weird thing is, I've had two people write me recently who apparently met me at that Worldcon, saying, do you remember me? Uh, No. They weren't scary e-mails, and I haven't heard back. Jedishampoo was my "badge" name at most cons I've been to.)

But really, I've only now realized how staying the Internet is and how careful you should be. Nothing you take off really stays off.