YAY and BOO!
Jul. 19th, 2009 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedishampooYAY: I has finished my fic for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
7thnight_smut. It's at this moment being cleared of plotholes and egregious grammatical errors by my beta, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sharpeslass. I shall not divulge the final word-count but I'll say it's the longest thing I've written in the Saiyuki fandom. I sure hope my recipient doesn't hate it-- one never knows. Still, I'm just glad it's done. ::phew::
BOO: Apparently Jamba Juice's ad agency has totally ripped off artist/cartoonist David Rees with their latest ad campaign. (Found onurbaniak's journal-- http://urbaniak.livejournal.com/208277.html; warning on that link for language.) I guess some young ad executive was dying for ideas and decided that this Internet cartoonist would be obscure enough to rip off completely. It really ticks me off that this happens so often in our money-and-fame-driven society, though I am shocked it happens in our instantaneous-blogging Internet culture. I mean, maybe there's not much new under the sun. And the original cartoonist was using art from the public domain. But copying someone's stuff exactly? Slimy, I says. (Says the once-hopeful-ad-exec and writer. I changed my mind on careers but I still respect good advertising.)
7thnight_smut. It's at this moment being cleared of plotholes and egregious grammatical errors by my beta, sharpeslass. I shall not divulge the final word-count but I'll say it's the longest thing I've written in the Saiyuki fandom. I sure hope my recipient doesn't hate it-- one never knows. Still, I'm just glad it's done. ::phew::BOO: Apparently Jamba Juice's ad agency has totally ripped off artist/cartoonist David Rees with their latest ad campaign. (Found on
urbaniak's journal-- http://urbaniak.livejournal.com/208277.html; warning on that link for language.) I guess some young ad executive was dying for ideas and decided that this Internet cartoonist would be obscure enough to rip off completely. It really ticks me off that this happens so often in our money-and-fame-driven society, though I am shocked it happens in our instantaneous-blogging Internet culture. I mean, maybe there's not much new under the sun. And the original cartoonist was using art from the public domain. But copying someone's stuff exactly? Slimy, I says. (Says the once-hopeful-ad-exec and writer. I changed my mind on careers but I still respect good advertising.)
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:31 am (UTC)It's actually not AUish at all... but it conforms with the request and there's no way I'm going to come up with anything better in time. I'm terribly uncreative right now. I hope the requester isn't too disappointed.
I never really did understand how doujinshi worked, do they just sell those to cover printing too? Because I've seen some that seem awfully high-priced.
You know, I really don't see the big deal about Twilight.
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:35 am (UTC)Doujinshi sold by their creators, either at Comic Markets in Japan, stores in Japan or on their personal websites, are not expensive. I'm talking five bucks or so, here.
It's when doujinshi sell out or are hard to find in the US that you encounter high prices from re-sellers. I sell my extras on E-bay, but I usually try to start them out at what I paid.
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:41 am (UTC)Oh, okay. That makes sense. 'Cause I don't think I've seen anything for less then fifteen or twenty bucks.
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:14 pm (UTC)