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[cleolinda]

Durrrr. Have been useless today. Slept later than I intended, and then the power went off (for two hours! on a sunny day!), and I ended up reading all the way to the beginning of section four in Crimson Petal, and even after the power came back on the house remained hot as Hades, and now I'm spilling wearing eating oatmeal for dinner and I don't want to work.

May do Attack of the Clones next. Crimson Petal gave me a couple of ideas. (No, you don't want to ask.)

I'm also thinking of reversing my position on the whole NO REPOSTING OMG thing at m15m. Mostly because it's unenforceable and I'm tired and it really shouldn't be this big a deal. Unless someone can give me a compelling reason why I shouldn't, I'm basically going to post over there that I would deeply prefer that you not repost my work, but if you just absolutely cannot restrain yourself, credit and a link back to the comm is fine, and leave a note in the comments (of this entry that does not yet exist) telling me that you did. Of course, in order to see it in the first place, you'll have to join the community--the point of which is to have sort of a mailing/notification list of people reading/using my work. Basically, I'm getting a lot of requests from Harry Potter fansites for POA in 15 Minutes and I'm just tired of explaining myself.

Meanwhile, the King Arthur will stay open until I post a new parody, which may be a while.

(Ugh. Maybe that was too much oatmeal. Don't feel so good now.)

Comments

[elven-kiss.livejournal.com]

hey, I'm a member of m15m, and I wanted to let you know that I added you here too. so if I comment on something, I didn't just pop out of nowhere!

[meredith-mae.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you should say "Don't so it unless you can't restrain yourself." If it's unenforcable (which I don't doubt it is) you don't have to keep trying to enforce - but you don't have to TELL people you aren't enforcing it. Since it already says all you can post are excerpts and you have to credit and give a link, if people repost, hopefully they will credit and give a link anyway. I think it's more likely people will see it as free reign to post, and start not crediting you for your awesome work and not linking back to m15m.

[silverhill.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. (And I was going to say the same thing.)

You could say something like "Requests to repost this elsewhere are considered on a case-by-case basis."

Otherwise, I'd stick with being strict about it.

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

I found a copy of The Crimson Petal and the White at the thrift stop Tuesday and took it home solely because you've been raving about it. It looks as if I, too, might have to start raving about it. Plus it's all about Victorian whores, which I've been researching as of late. Isn't it odd how the moment you start to research a subject, related items fling themselves at you?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

So true. I keep waiting for the part where it's going to start sucking, and it hasn't come yet. (Perfume was also awesome. I just didn't talk about that as much because it took me a day to read it. Not Victorian, however.)

The thing I love about the book, as a researcher, is how it takes you down a street and you feel like you're there, and you could tell someone what that street is like. That's why I'm pissed Faber didn't name his source books, because I don't know how much is true and how much he made up, which would actually matter if I started cribbing his research. That's the kind of book I've been looking for for years--a book that would go through all the major streets in Victorian London and describe what was on that street and what it looked like and what kind of people lived/worked on it. Like for Black Ribbon--where does Hamish Black (dirt poor cabbie) live? Where does Rose Hannah (pleasantly upper class) live? That kind of thing.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Slept later than I intended

You too?

Oatmeal is like wet cement with extra carbs, but every so often I have to snarf a big bowl of it. Then I sit around feeling like Jabba the Hutt.

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

mmmmm, oatmeal.

and dammit, ive had crimson petal for about 9 months and havent opened it yet. really really should start. once ive finished my stephen king books ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/___destijl/]

And I just made this AotC icon last night. I'm such a dork, but really, Mouse from the Matrix? Was hot.

*is the only Matt Doran fangirl you will ever meet, ever*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, whoa, it's the same guy? That's worth a joke or two...

[http://users.livejournal.com/___destijl/]

Yep, same Australian hottie. I made Elan Sleazebaggano icons. I have no life other than obsessing over this guy.

[wock.livejournal.com]

You have to protect your intellectual property... or you'll lose it. Just put a copyright notice on all your stories and "may not be reproduced without written permission" but let people *link* to it.

That way you control it. And you can make sure that anyone reading your parodies also sees the ad for your book. Once people start copyiong it, pretty soon it loses your name and credit. Look at how much Dave Barry, Steven Wright, and Jeff Foxworthy stuff is circulated uncredited.

[ulicqel-droma.livejournal.com]

If it's not too personal, what kind of oatmeal was it?

I can't wait to see you do Attack of the Clones. I wouldn't be surprised if you don't make the Sound of Music reference that everybody else did. But that's because you're intelligent and creative and funny and you rock and I'm gonna shut up now.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Sound of Music what...? Oh, you mean in the whole meadow scene? Yeah, never would have occurred to me.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it was just your basic Quaker Oats stuff, although I tend to put maple syrup on it. Minute oatmeal out of the giant canister--I don't hold with that packet crap, the kind that usually has freeze-dried "fruit" mixed in.

Adding comment to m15m for past links

[(Anonymous)]

Would it be possible to dispense with the "comment in m15m" part for past posts? I posted and emailed excerpts, links, and copyright notices for "Troy" and "Arthur" all over the place, and it would be a real drag to track them all down. None of the excerpts were more than a few lines long.

-Andy Perrin

Re: Adding comment to m15m for past links

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Excerpts are fine and don't count--that's total Fair Use clause stuff right there.

[rinabeana.livejournal.com]

I thought you might be amused by these limericks (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rinabeana/57867.html). The Troy m15m is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Good luck with the book!

[sodafiend.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I and my NutraSweet-powered minions shall track down the plagiarists and make them watch "Boobah" until they pee themselves and promise never to do it again. And then, they have to go shopping with my Mom and sister, which may destroy their eternal soul.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

K, now I *really* have to read Crimson Petal. Right after I finish my stack of Alison Weir books. *eyes bookshelf warily*

Hm, I've never had oatmeal. Well, I did when I was 5, because I saw in a commercial that the dinosaur eggs in it turned to oatmeal dinosaurs, so OMG MOMMY, YOU HAVE TO GET IT!! Turned out to be the yuckiest stuff ever. After that I just stuck to grits...

[moralanqua.livejournal.com]

OMGWTF!1! Liek u r so kewliez!

I like you. You have purple. Shall befriend you and your wanton horsemasexual hut of random HOR nudity.

KTHNXBAI!

ps - just dont EVAR touch The STEVE.