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[krickets]

→ Seeker fandom is bleeding all over my flist. Sorry guys. That totally sucks. I never got a chance to watch season two but I dug the show during season one. I know how you must feel. *hugs* So many great shows with awesome female characters have ended over the past couple of TV seasons. I heard that Damages got canceled too. Suck doesn't begin to describe these moments. I feel for you all.

→ I was going to write two more fics for the five acts meme but I really think I burnt myself out. I'd need at least another day and I don't think that'd qualify as sneaking it in under the wire, lol. Oh well, it was fun! I wrote seventeen fics for the thing. 17! We're still collecting links, but the amazing meme runner, toestastegood, and I have been collecting them all at this here delicious. 319 fics so far, sure to be far more by the end.

→ I had been downloading the episodes nearly every week [except last week] so yesterday I finally decided to start watching The Pacific. I am 3.5 episodes in and really quite enjoying it a whole hell of a lot. Each episode ends and it definitely doesn't feel like an hour has gone by. And I think that's saying something considering that it's a WWII epic. Can't wait to watch the rest and then go read slybrunette's fic. The show is really pretty -- it makes me want to make icons!! [That never happens anymore.]

→ Still have not watched Treme. I blame HBO for having too much good programming to possibly catch up with in a timely manner.

→ QUESTION: How do you feel about fan-artists [of any variety, iconners, vidders, writers, artists] keeping their items under friends-lock so you have to join their community in order to see their work. I for one feel I have been manipulated every time I have to click that "join" button. So to me it does feel manipulative more than anything. [Not to mention annoying.] I just don't get it. Especially when you're going for a hunt for icons and a large chunk of icon posts advertised at the communities end up being locked. It's possible some of you on my flist have comms like that, so feel free to defend your position at will.

And, on a related, though kind of off-topic note, what about icon/art comms that only display ONE entry per page? That makes me so irritated. There's no opportunity to scroll through and see what pops, what looks pretty, etc. Let your eye catch something interesting as you look down the page. It makes the process more time consuming and far less fun than it should be.

Comments

[gigglemonster.livejournal.com]

I would like to give a hearty AMEN to everything in this post.
Well, except for the Pacific cuz I haven't watched it yet. But I definitely plan to now! :)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

You might like The Pacific, I'm not sure. You should give it a go if you really think you'd like it.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I'm saving up Treme too. I figure I'll wait until Lost is over and my brain's all mine again so I can give it the attention I'm sure it'll deserve.

You're right, television is not being kind to shows with strong female characters right now. I never watched Seeker, but I'm still mourning Ugly Betty so I can feel your flist's pain. United States of Tara has some wonderful albeit dysfunctional female characters, so that's usually where I get my awesome ladies fix these days.

I hate when I have to join a comm just to see the icons. I usually refuse unless I really love the preview. The practice seems a bit silly to me.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I watch so much TV as it is I don't think a couple more will kill me. Plus like half of them are ending/have ended over the last year. *sobs*

Yeah I am completely bummed about Betty in a way I can't really describe. Because my parents were avid watchers I've watched on and off for all four years but I didn't really become a regular viewer until last season for some reason, at which point I re-watched all three seasons. Anyway, I feel the thing that strikes me about Betty the show, Betty the character, and what she stands for, is that she is, and the show was, just remarkable. Simply the diversity represented, the fact that most of the major characters were female or gay, etc. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. For a show that was really just a bunch of quirk, I think it was something important. The fact that existed was important. And now it's gone.

Oh, *sniffle*

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD MAKE ICONS. OMG I WOULD DIE. (seriously, I'm hard up for them. fix it.)

I hate when people flock their art. I don't see a reason for it. It's like, why, so you can see just how many people care enough to read? Does it really matter that much? I don't get it at all.

Ditto on the one entry. The frak?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I swear as soon as I have time I am going hunting for screencaps!

I just DO NOT KNOW.

*hands*

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Screencaps can be d/l-ed here. Just, you know, a gentle push.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm familiar with those.

I'm a few minutes from starting ep 5. Hey I could conceivably stay up through ep 7 tonight if I wanted... lol

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

;)

lol, you could try. Ep 7 might also give you nightmares. Just saying.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Warmares?

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. I was up till 2:30 writing fic afterwards so there wasn't much opportunity for me to have them but I have heard...

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Oh they'd probably be a welcome break from my usual dreams. ;)

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I hate your dreams and I'm not even the one who has them. Seriously. Creepy cracky ass dreams.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I had one the other day that SORT OF involved Fringe, and space travel, and a far off distant planet, and being kept underground in a pod, lol... it was NOT COOL.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Um, it does not sound remotely cool. It sounds...claustrophobia-inducing.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

At least it was a pod and not a coffin? LOL.

[akzseinga.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD MAKE ICONS. OMG I WOULD DIE

I second this!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

We'll see. I don't know if I have any icon making fu left.

[meresy.livejournal.com]

The Pacific is something else. I'm all the way up to the current ep, and it only gets better (and harrowing, but that's a given.)

Friends-locked art comms don't get my traffic, simple as that. Maybe, maybe they would if I'd seen something of theirs that was truly rock-awesome and I needed more, but nothing's overcome my unwillingness yet! I won't friend randos just of icons or something, either -- I track the public stuff or I move along.

Single-entry displays are something I don't often come across, but I don't think it bugs? I tend to search by tag or go entry-by-entry anyway...

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I am really loving it as it goes along. I think I'll watch the 5th ep tonight before bed.

I really really don't like to join them. And half the time I do it's out of desperation and then I almost immediately leave again. Unless it's a comm with a LOT of makers then maybe I will stay because it's not just ONE person's vanity that I'm stroking. ICK. The whole thing is just ICK.

Well I guess it bugs especially if I've seen a particular icon credited to them and I'm trying to find the entry because I want to tell them it's great OR because I want to see what other icons were in that particular batch. It would be nice to be able to click on a show's tag, and then scroll through a page and find things more easily -- or based on previews "guess" which entry it is that I'm looking for. But even if I'm just trying to get a sense of an artist's work, it's limiting in that sense too. IDK, it does bug me, but lots of things bug me.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I haaaaaaaaaaate having to join friends-only groups, but, having made icons, I don't really understand being too worried if people steal/don't credit them as long as they're not hotlinking. And people who join can steal/hotlink as easily as anyone - no way is anyone going to be able to scour their whole member list for the culprit once it reaches a certain # of members. IDK, it just seems pointless to me. I'll join, but half the time I leave again once I've snagged the icons I came for.

And I HATE HATE HATE the comms that display only one entry per page.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yeah it doesn't really seem like that much of a deterrent anyway from the people who really do want to steal. Which I guess I can understand it as a reactionary measure, but it just seems like a trend that a lot of people have bought into rather than an occasional measure for protection.

THANK GOD I am not the only one that is bothered by this.

I think more people should post about their discontent with these two trends -- maybe they will stop doing it!

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Yeah I HATE when people lock their icons. If they're really good, I'll join but mostly I just ignore them. It's just such an ego kind of thing, it annoys me.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I think so too. I will join if I desperately am seeking icons in a fandom but half the time when trolling icon comms I page through the entries and just "open in a new tab" the entries that interest me. Then after the fact, I will go through the tabs, so by that time I don't even know which entry it was that was locked.

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

what about icon/art comms that only display ONE entry per page?

I HATE that so-fucking-much. I mean, what's the point? I like to scroll down and do that too, it's just-so-freaking-unnerving.

About the friends-locked arts communities, I generally agree with you that it doesn't have much of a point and that I'd like to join a comm if I want to, not just to see how the icons are. Though I've ended up in some where the maker ended up making them locked because they kept on being hotlinked each month (meaning, getting their bandwidth eaten up in six days more than once) and in that case considering how unnerving it felt the one time it happened to me I can sort of see why they'd think it was a solution. But if you do that just because you don't want people to steal icons or crediting or stuff then imo it's pointless because it'll happen anyway and tbh I think that if you make icons you do that to share them, which does make locking pretty much pointless. So yeah, I generally don't get it unless it's a case of continuous hotlinking.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Haha I do not know! I remember when I first started seeing this I didn't get it. I'm sure the first few times I presumed that there was only one entry in the community or all the other entries were locked. I still don't understand why they do this.

And yeah I can see where someone might be trying to protect themselves from hotlinking, especially if they use a free account like photobucket. But I said above that it seems more like a trend that people have bought into rather than a reactionary measure to protect their bandwidth. I'm sure the bandwidth thing happens though, but maybe more like 10% of the time. lol.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Well you definitely should try it. I have liked it so far.

I guess if they are one of the only, or one of the few, icon makers that make your fandom -- then you'd really have no choice, would you? LOL. But it still feels manipulative.

Right? I hate that, WAY TOO MUCH CLICKING. No way to browse at all. Just. UGH. So annoying.

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

My husband is recording the Pacific (of course) but dubbed in French, so he's behind. maybe I should have watched. it played on the TV as I was doing something yesterday, looked harsh as expected (I'm a delicate flower with war series/movies)

17!!! that is so awesome. and I went to have a look at the delicious account, it's fantastic. thanks so much for the hard work!

When an artist asks me to join in order to see, I say "too bad!" and go elsewhere. it annoys me to no end. and gah, yes, communities with one entry are not convivial at all. ohhh, I wonder if ?style=mine would work for that? damn. now I'd like to find one and try!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

To be honest I haven't liked the last two eps as much as the rest of the series but that's because they've been focusing on a group of characters that I have not really learned to care about as much. I am missing the others. (Where are they? Boo.)

Yeah we still have to collect the rest of what was written after we did the initial collection, but the amount of fic and the amount of fandoms represented is completely awesome!

I'll have to remember ?style=mine for next time. Seriously.

[siluria]

I watched my first Seeker episode on Saturday (someone was trying to pimp it to me) - I wonder if I have the kiss of death.

Locked arts posts are frustrating. I believe you can do what you need to in order to protect yourself from plagiarism, but if you're making it difficult for your market/customers to see your work, they (read 'me') aren't going to bother so don't pimp yourself at comms!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, someone else on my flist said the same thing since he just started watching halfway through this current season.

Yeah I agree. I know that some comms have a general "don't link to it if it's a locked post" but artists get around the rule by making the post public for the first 24 hours or for the first 3 days or WHATEVER. But by the time I get to it, it's locked so pooh-pooh on them.