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[cleolinda]

Aight, I'ma give you a completely unrequested, free-of-charge rant right here. And let me clarify first that it's not any one person who's pissing me off; it's the fact that multiple, numerous people apparently cannot read and continue to do exactly what I asked them not to.

If you like one of the "Movies in Fifteen Minutes," I am glad. I am delighted, I am overjoyed. If you repost the entire thing on your journal/website/blog DESPITE the fact that there is a clearly stated, boldfaced warning at the end that says, "DO NOT repost this parody 1) without my name or a link back; 2) with any changes to the wording or language; or 3) in its entirety on your journal, on your website, on a message board, on fanfiction.net, or on ANY OTHER PAGE ON THE INTERNET without my written permission," I WILL find out about it, due to a little thing called Technorati, and I WILL come over to your blog, and I WILL ask you, very politely, to take it down. Really, can't you 1) save us both some time and 2) prove that you can, in fact, read?

So far I've had to ask half a dozen people about Phantom/15M alone, and each person has very kindly taken it down and apologized. Again, it's not that any one instance or person that pisses me off. It's the persistence of humanity at large to delight in posting things that do not belong to them, even after being asked not to, that drives me nuts. Why? If you want to impress your friends with funny things you found, I promise you--a link to the page will impress them as much as the whole thing, AND it takes up less space in your journal. So, in conclusion: Do not post it on your blog. Do not post it on a log. Do not post it on your site. Do not post it late at night. Do not post it on message boards. Do not post it near fjords. Do not post it on your coffee cup. Post it and I WILL FUCK YOU UP.*



* Where "fuck you up" means "request depostification in a polite and gentle manner," but that doesn't rhyme with anything.

Comments

[malanai.livejournal.com]

I usually post links to the community and no excerpts when I'm alerting people to the hilariousness that is your writings. ^_^

However, I did post the "entire" Passion of the Christ in 15 minutes on my journal in quotes and with a link to your LJ. Is that going against your wishes? Should I remove it?

[tundraeternal.livejournal.com]

Can i just say how fascinating it would be if someone bothered carving m15m into a fjord?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, no, that was just a quick joke. I mean, the whole thing IS the joke, and it's not something I'd end up republishing for real. It's all cool.

(I notice that it's always the people who worry whether they've done the right thing who actually HAVE done the right thing and don't need to worry about it anyway.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, that would actually be kind of awesome.

[elbales]

Poor Cleo.

*offers booze, Tums, and hot chocolate--your choice*

[delle.livejournal.com]

UGH! how frustrating!!!!!

you've been MUCH nicer and politer than I would have been in your position. and if you are finally forced to password-lock or take them down entirely, they'll have no one to blame but their greedy little selves. (of course, you'll get the blame for being selfish, so you can't win)

am so sorry.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I did the members-only thing, and it was totally not worth it because I got 300 emails asking where HP/15M was and could I personally add them to the comm because they couldn't figure out how to join. After about a month of that, I was just like, "I will let ALL OF YOU plagiarize it to your hearts' content if you will just LEAVE ME ALONE!"

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, hot chocolate.

(What's good to spike hot chocolate with?)

[whizbang121.livejournal.com]

kahlua?

[shanisasha.livejournal.com]

Depostification? Is that the legal term?

Ugh. I still think you should unleash Teh Minions on them.

[shanisasha.livejournal.com]

Peppermint Schnapps

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Kinda like Mt. Rushmore except with m15m!

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

Creme de Cacoa, Peppermint Schnapps, Kahlua and Irish Creme. Not all at once, perhaps.
Or fuck it, all at once sounds pretty damned good, actually.

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

It never ceases to amaze me how damn STUPID people are. Dudes, if you're gonna plagiarise, plagiarise something unknown! Less chance of getting found out :p

Seriously hon, they need asses kicking. Want me to send round [Unknown site tag] to sort them out for you?

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

ok, that should be snowking

LJ is not my friend today.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

I just wrote quite a long peroration on how people are apparently FUCKING ILLITERATE and thus unable to follow really very simple instructions. I feel your pain.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's okay. The weird thing is that, with this round, everyone's credited me out the wazoo, so it's not actually plagiarism. I just can't quite seem to get them to understand that I don't want the whole thing reposted under any circumstances when it's so easy just to link back to the page, kthnx.

[spiderfarmer.livejournal.com]

So, is it ok if I post this in my journal, but don't link back to you, cause I really need the cred of people thinking I'm teh funny?


Heheheh, I jest, I jest. Don't hurt me. ;)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

For real, man. Sometimes I wonder how they managed to read the thing in the first place.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, for real? You had me going for like half a sentence there. People actually ask me shit that stupid.

<3

[anna-sinistra.livejournal.com]

Icon love... is it free to steal?

[spirit0fstlouis.livejournal.com]

Try Bailey's. It's fantastic in hot chocolate.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

People who can't figure out how to join a community don't deserve to join.

[ex-krazycat651.livejournal.com]

I think this is the part where I comment on the fact that a fjord is in fact a river-like thang. So it'd be really hard to do that.

Course, if you figure it out, I'd love to see it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I thought it was. But I figured maybe the carving was in a frozen fjord, or something.