November 2007 Archives
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Great ytmnd or greatest ytmnd?
[completely safe for work and kids and everything else, but may contain hazardous levels of cute]
And now, the lighter side of DOING IT WRONG
Oh boy! Fantasy writers! Look! Dragon Magazine wants your fiction!
…all rights to it, forever.
…at three to six cents a word.
…
AHAHAHAHAHAHA*snort*HAHAHAHA–here, have $0.09-$0.18 worth of words on the house: kiss my ass.
If Dragon was an independent mag that couldn’t afford to pay more than that, I’d almost–almost– see it, except for that part about wanting you to give up ALL your rights to your stuff. People, who owns Dragon now? Just this tiny poor little company called HASBRO. [edit: hi, I am a retard, Mattel makes Barbie, not Hasbro. Good grief, brain, way to drop the ball there.]
Now this is just conjecture here, but if pressed I would have to speculate that that Hasbro can afford to pay just a leetle more than three to six cents a word for work-for-hire–which is basically what this is.
And hell, if it was just the rate, if it was just a humongoid company like Hasbro being tightasses, that would be ridiculous enough. But on top of that, they want to own your work and all rights to it forever. Ahahaha no. As wiser folks than I have pointed out in comments on that post there: thinking you like the world and characters you used in that story you sold Dragon and you might want to use them again? Fuhgeddaboudit, Hasbro/WotC owns them now, lock stock and barrel. I’m just sitting here pondering the absurdity of the potential for getting C&D’d for writing stuff that takes place in a world and with characters you created, and I’m not sure whether to laugh or weep or both.
But hey, at least if it’s a marketable enough concept, they might someday let someone write professional fanfic for it! Maybe even you!
I know three to six cents a word is better than nothing, but it’s sure as hell not worth selling your story’s soul for. If you’re not emotionally attached to a particular piece? Sure, go for it, as long as you’re certain you’ll never want to have any control over it (or make another dime from it) again. But if I ever decide to try sending stuff out into the market again, I know where it’s not going to go.
excuse me you are DOING IT WRONG
As you all may know, a Saudi woman was recently sentenced to 200 lashes for being raped. …excuse me, my bad, 90 lashes for being in public with a man she wasn’t related to, being raped, and then getting another 110 tacked on for having the unmitigated gall to appeal.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Or, more precisely: what’s missing from this picture?
So apparently, shopping is a bigger issue than the fact that, y’know, a woman has been sentenced to some pretty goddamn cruel and unusual punishment for nothing but being in public with a guy while in possession of a uterus. Thanks for the help dispelling that stereotype, folks. Mighty kind of you.
Go ahead. Dig around. You won’t find a single mention of this on the NOW website. Not one.
More Sim Crap for Silent Hill sims
There’s a set of Brookhaven Hospital floors here.
There is also a painting recolor you may like here.
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I imagine Ray has dubbed it “Bongzilla.”
Also, here’s that package of shirts for Heather (Silent Hill 3) I kept meaning to round up.
[incoherent]
Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes (emphasis mine)
BUT THEY HAS THE OIL, SO THEY IS OUR FRIENDS.
Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK.
[100 Candles] updatey!
Chapter 2: Willie Nelson Wants You Back
In which Jeff misses Kenny and raids Amazon for all his books.
DIE IN A FIRE
I guess I need to take a look at the security on this blog, because these fuckheads, no longer content to keep the spam confined to comments, fucking spammed with actual posts that I didn’t even notice until I got bored and went cruising through old entries this morning.
[edit: dammit, I didn't want to upgrade to 2.3 yet but apparently that's what I'm going to have to do to make sure this doesn't happen again. THANKS, WORDPRESS >:(]
silent hill 0 GET
I have squeed a bit on Meadowmines if you are interested in that sort of thing (spoiler level: I just flushed the toilet in the Sanitarium)
