life is short

Oh, dood. Livejournal. What the fuck? It is my understanding that pornish_pixies was deleted because some twittish group was searching on "incest" or "non-con" or "rape" and reporting said journals to the LJ abuse team. It always aggrieves me when there are not only puritanical idiots out there, but people willing to accomodate them. I am well aware that Livejournal is a private site and all its denizens agree to adhere to Six Apart's terms of service, but they're not even abiding by their own. (Yes, that's a post from a community that has vested interest quoting from a site that doesn't agree with them, but I don't think we have anything resembling authoritative sources here.)

The site mentioned in the links above also feels totally hinky to me. It's basically a domain with a Blogger blog and some links to books about the damage sexual abuse does to children. I would think that a site that does this sort of thing and actually works with law enforcement would have a press coverage section/touts of their busts or whatever you want to call them. The complete and utter idiocy of this still boggles me though. Do the people running this site (if it is more than one person at all) realize they've just sent a big fucking warning bell to any "real" pedophiles/child porn aficionados on Livejournal? (Not that this would be out in the open anyways, if these people had a shred of sense.) Now they're just going to drive them underground and onto some service that's even more obscure where nobody would think to look for them. Brilliant way to save the children!

I have no grudge against many nice people who work at Six Apart, but the way the company itself has behaved since it bought Livejournal is deeply fucking unimpressive. Six Apart has, in many different and small ways, decided to piss off the population of this fair site. I have lived and breathed fandom for over half my life, and I have been on Livejournal for a very long time. (Sometimes I suspect it's so they can make everybody move over to Vox, but that is all conspiracy-minded paranoia.) I don't know how long I can stay on a service that so chooses to disrespect so many of its (paid) users based on the insane frantic rantings of some half-cocked vigilante. Sure, they can just keep all the teenies and the emo kids as paid members, but it wouldn't be quite as fun anymore, would it?

In my world, heroes bugger each other senseless. Not all of them, but more than you'd think, and probably not who you're thinking.

I guess I might have to check out The Authority, along with the eight bazillion other Warren Ellis things after Transmet that I always mean to read.

This? This is the coolest fucking thing ever. But my god, so much food!