Cleolinda everywhere

Who returned to 600 comment alerts in her inbox? I DID, I DID!

D: I know I've said this a zillion times (and possibly more), but you are an absolute hero for doing this. We all owe you cookies, alcohol, boobies, internets, our first-borns...

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library-of-sex.livejournal.com

I will gladly offer my boobies! What are you willing to contribute? :P

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My first-born? Failing that, cookies. Or icons. Or fanfic, in a fandom of Cleo's choice, provided it's one I can write for.

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library-of-sex.livejournal.com

If someone would be nice enough to reproduce with me, I'd give up my firstborn, no questions asked. Alas, my sad boobies and some stale cookies are all I can offer to show my love and admiration!

Cute icon, BTW!

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greyduck.livejournal.com

I suppose it's better than having stale boobies and sad cookies to offer...

(Insert lame-assed "how does one cheer up boobies" riff, here.)

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Hee, thanks! ^.^

My dad will marry me off, which will presumably result in a first-born to give away. Unfortunately, I have no boobies icons, but I can bake cookies, probably using recipes from FW. ^.^

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gwyndolaeth.livejournal.com

there you go.

:)

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Hee! Actually, I could probably make a manga boobies icon using one of those saved Hellsing manga scanslations I have on my hard drive somewhere...

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I spent the entire day stalking FW. I feel bad for being so lazy, but at the same time it was totally satisfying. Two of those anonymous comments you included in the update? Were me. So was Y ALOHA THAR. xD

But then some rude mousie ruined all the anon fun, so now I have a JF account. I suspect this will just enable me to waste more time there.

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Heeee. And yeah, Rude Mousie pissed me off. Well, they weren't rude per se--people just seem to think that they should go around mentioning unrelated personal elements even after everyone's asked them not to. I've been really impressed with the amount of self-policing from the other FWers, though.

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Oh, is that what it was? All I saw was

snacky's mod post saying "Hey, way to go doofus!", everything else was screened by the time I spotted it.

Yeah, no need to go crossing the line into people's personal lives. That's no different from all the dicks who came out with the "She put the books before her KIDS?! GOD, what a crappy mother!!" comments after Jo's testimony.

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Yeah, it was yet another comment about his girlfriend, except this time it gave her real name as well. It's still not as bad as the anonycomment we had last December on a Lexiconwank entry--Some Girl had a friend who was taking Some Girl to a Christmas party where Girlfriend would be, and Some Girl was gleefully detailing her plans to us about how she was going to go accost Girlfriend and mention FW and everything. More real-name dropping there as well.

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Wow. That is some world class tactlessness.

That was the thing that kind of bothered me about yesterday's

jkrtrialblog entry. I mean, people are entitled to their private opinions of others, but the girlfriend doesn't really have anything to do with this outside of the fact that she's connected to Steve. I'd rather people mock him for his weak chin and his old age than for what his girlfriend was wearing.

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I'd actually rather people not mock Steve's physical appearance at all, because it doesn't actually have anything to do with the massive amount of fail going on, which is all purely professional/intellectual. If someone's going to be a complete asshat about, let's say, breaking into the modeling business, okay, I can see it.

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Well, I say that because of all the "boyish, Harry Potter lookalike" nonsense being bandied about in news articles. I can't roll my eyes hard enough.

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Well, that is true. Although I'm still more inclined to phrase it as "What crack is the NYT on?" than go after SVA himself. I don't know... I just always think about how I'd feel if people started ranking on a picture of me. That idea has always haunted me ever since people started doing it to Cassie Claire.

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Yeah, I guess if you dig deep for some humanity, he's still a person and it's a cheap shot. *grudgingly*

Ugh, NYT. Keep your purple prose to yourself, please.

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duncanatrix.livejournal.com

Oh, and I meant to tell you that if you want to sell some stuff, you ought to make t-shirts or something via Cafepress. Unless you already have a store. In which case, I really want a shirt that says "A revolution without Dance Dance Revolution is not worth having." /end

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She has a store! And...I can't remember what it's called.

Wait...here it is: http://www.cafepress.com/m15mcharity

The stuff there now is for charity, though, not for her own $$$

...I would love that on a shirt. HEE.

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Isn't DDR trademarked, though? I don't think I could use a quote containing it.

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I'd have to look into this question more if you actually wanted to consider using it, but at least regarding trademark infringement, if you're not using it to describe a product and if there's no likelihood of confusion, I *think* you could actually use it (perhaps with the "TM" symbol just in case) without trademark infringement. Because, see, trademark law protects against someone else using a mark that's been developed to distinguish one product in order to sell or promote another, unrelated product. Essentially protects a company or person from others trying to cash in on their trademark in order to sell something or similar. But again, I would have to review some law stuff first, since I haven't done trademark study in about 2 years. :) And it might raise other issues.

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It's just always been my Better Safe Than Sorry policy not to use any names that recognizably belong to someone else in merchandise. I'm probably being too safe, but it's easier that way sometimes.

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Well it's not a bad policy; and I could see where the Dance Dance Revolution thing might cause problems, so sticking with things like, "Outta my way, PLEBE." or something is safer. :)

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marginaliana

I have to say (since anon is off now over there) how much I appreciate your coverage of the trial. At work all I can manage is the WSJ Law blog and it's so annoyingly filled with people who don't really seem to get it! Then I come home and read fandom wank and suddenly there is sanity again (bet you never thought you'd read that sentence without sarcasm tags).

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falco-conlon.livejournal.com

Haha! OOGA BOOGA! That's the best error ever.

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morganwolf.livejournal.com

My gang and I will be at NYCC all weekend. I'd tell Sister Girl and BF to say hi if she sees us, but... we'd probably scare her off.

We have tickets to the Neil Gaiman reading, WOOOOOHOOOO. Sadly we are not meeting him, because that costs $500 a pop.

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eldritchdragon.livejournal.com

I'm going to NYCC and attending the reading too, but isn't it possible that fans might accidentally run into him before the event? I've never been to a con before, so I don't know what the exact protocol is or if it allows guest speakers to wander around at all, but from stuff he said on his blog last summer for the San Francisco Comic Con it sounded like he would sign things for fans if they happened to spot him wandering around the con when he wasn't running to be on time for something. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking on my part that he would do it again. :/

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morganwolf.livejournal.com

Possibly, that'd be nice-- we'll be there all weekend, I don't know how long Neil will, but if we ran into him it'd be wonderful. Mostly I go to conventions to socialize, so I've seen "celebs" wandering around but really never approached them.

It's our dream-- my husband and I, that is-- to have Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett sign our copy of Good Omens. It was one of the first things we bonded over when we met, our love of that book. Since we're going to the North American Discworld Con in '09, maybe we can make it happen. *fingers crossed*

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eldritchdragon.livejournal.com

I was lucky enough to get Terry Pratchett's signature on my first copy of Good Omens when he made an appearance in New York to promote the release of Thud!. I really hope I get the chance to have Neil sign it too.

Speaking of autographs, did you know that the newer copies of GO contain an introduction in which Terry and Neil share amusing anecdotes about some of the more interesting copies of GO that they have signed? Apparently, someone once brought a copy that had so completely fallen apart that they had to carry it in a plastic bag, and another kept theirs on a bed of velvet in an ornate wooden box. :D

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brainchild129.livejournal.com

Cleo, I saw this and thought of you, and after dealing with all this FW stuff, you'll probably need a good laugh:

Rifftrax is going to do a track for Cloverfield. (http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/cloverfield)

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Heh. I'm glad I went ahead and did a Fifteen Minutes, then. I keep meaning to buy one of the Trax and I just haven't yet.

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