steady rollin'

Mercedes Lackey is now welcoming the production of fanworks provided they're released creative commons.

This makes me happy in several ways, and slightly inclined towards redoing some abandoned fanart. I still don't believe in the need for permission, but the encouragement is nice. If only I hadn't been utterly disgusted by her self-insert and washed my hands of all her novels.

Now if only Robin Hobb would stop being full of crazy and anti-fan so I could start buying her books again.

two midterms down, two to go...

And so do you guys. Fen, you crack my shit up. :D

heraliceeyes gave me a damn good laugh (nsfw, my snape/harry modified) when I got home tonight in response to Mr. Hassan's not so hilarious reply in this non news/biz thread.

I knew there was a reason I began releasing as much of my art as possible under Creative Commons.

According to LJ's (previous?) means of defining the interests lists, Mr. Hassan is a supporter of Creative Commons himself, as well as freedom of speech. I hope he fully appreciates the new political merit of the artwork I helped collectively produce. The number of fandom females responding to his comment may also want to know that Mr. Hassan also lists "powerful women" in his user interests, of which I can gather from my point of view over here, he's getting a good long look at right now. I would honestly like to have a conversation with this guy if he left the smilies at home.

Moving on, I just got back from yet more chicken coop building and the movies. No matter what they say about contractors, the chicken co-op as we like to call it would have been done far cheaper and far faster had this not been a mother's day project from J and his siblings to his mom.

But the important thing is the Bourne Ultimatum and two hours of feasting my eyes on Matt Damon and wondering just how much more awesome he could get. I read the article about him in EW earlier in the day (no manual labor here, if you'll recall), and oh the long-latent Damon/Affleck shipper in me wibbled. I also had no idea he and Joaquin Phoenix were who Gus Van Sant wanted for Brokeback. Not that I'm complaining about the Heath and Jack, but you know. How delicious is thinking about that.