in lieu of an actual entry...

from icarusancalion

You're on my friends list! I wanna know you. I want to know 33 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, talk every day or already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine. I just want to know you. Copy this and post it with your answers in the comments.

1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favorite place?
5. Favorite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you ?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of lj?
11. What is your favorite sport?
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What color eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What 's your favorite bar to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

(no subject)

Preemptive war paper all but done. All I need to do is walk away from the computer for a bit, write a conclusion, and do one last edit. ALL GLORY TO THE GREAT GAZOO!

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In my latest noscans_daily/Scans Daily 2.0 update, I included some policy changes.

Creator Rights

Scans Daily and No Scans Daily welcome the participation of comics creators. Creator participation is subject to the same basic rules that govern the behaviour of fans in the community. However, SD and NSD recognize creators prerogative to control the republication of their work.

1. Copyrighted material will be immediately removed at the request of creators and copyright owners.

Requests for removal of copyrighted material should be directed to the moderation team

2. Spoilers will be removed at the discretion of individual posters. It is not our policy to suppress discussion of comics.

Requests for removal of spoilers should be directed to the original poster.

Our stance on creator rights, combined with some forthcoming changes to scan posting rules, will I hope make it clear that we have no intent to harm creators, or the industry as a whole.

Psuedonymity and Internet Identity

Given the recent creator-fan conflicts over the 'realness' of internet identity, in both in our community and science fiction fandom, I thought it would be a good idea to clarify our position. SD and NSD respect our members' rights to privacy and control over their online identities. As far as we're concerned you are your pseud.

Trolling and attempts to dismiss other posters on the basis of their 'hiding behind a fake name' will not be tolerated.

Unauthorized public release of a fellow member's contact information will result in immediate banning.

All of a sudden this has become a hot issue again. It blows my mind how uphill a battle this has been for everyone trying to assert a right to privacy on the internet.

Other things I'm working on for the comms:
- finding us a permanent home
- modifying the posting rules to be as TOS proof and fair use friendly as possible
- writing up our rationale for moderating the comms as as woman-friendly, LGBT-friendly, anti-ableist, anti-racist and so forth, and what that means for members

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I've decided that when school and the comms are settled, I'm going to work on revamping and expanding Essential Ms. Marvel, with a lot more reviews and essays. Probably many of them mine. *g* I'm still torn between a closed membership comm, or a blog. Another advantage of a comm that just occurred to me, is that I can invite 'guest' posters, to add Carol content with their existing accounts.

And speaking of Ms. Marvel, I've been meaning to talk about how utterly creepy I find Osborn's gift of Carol's identity to Moonstone. And how he calls Moonstone my Ms. Marvel. Emphasis in the book. Implying that she exists only to fill a role, the same one that Carol filled for Tony: attack bitch and field leader, when Tony/Norman have more important things to do. Expect much rambling on this subject.