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[candyland]

HAPPY TURKEY DAY, EVERYONE!!

Every year, Jerry the Band Director dismisses us from our last rehearsal before Thanksgiving break with the instructions, "Go home, rest, and come back having gained at least five pounds." I'm pretty I did =D Mommy outdid herself this year--it was DELICIOUS! So much food...so much wonderful, wonderful food!

We ate at about two o'clock this afternoon. It's now twenty to nine. I'm thinking I might go make myself a turkey sandwich. WHY AM I HUNGRY AGAIN?? *stabs stomach and dies*

Oh oh oh, and I finally got to see the Conan live-action drama. I've had it for a few days, but I haven't had time to actually watch it. Pretty sure I was fangirling like crazy over the Shin/Ran moments. Utter, utter sweetness ♥ A few things were kind of dumb, but overall? Pretty pleased =D

And it's official--I've been plagiarized from. An author named Li Ping on ff-dot-net has been taking fics (mostly from 30_kisses, but also from a couple of other comms, it looks like), translating them into German, and posting them without A) the permission of the original authors, and B) credit given to the original authors. At present, this person has taken two of my Kisses stories--"Wild Goose Chase" and "The View." "Wild Goose Chase" really makes me mad because I wrote that for magic_truth.

The dumb thing is that it wouldn't have bothered me so much if they'd even just slapped my name on there as the original author. I've had people ask if they can translate a few of my stories, and I always say yes with two conditions: A) credit me as the original author, and B) send me a link to where you post them so I can see what they look like in a different language. I just think it's kinda cool. This...gah. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION!

*bows* That is all...for now. *goes to make a sandwich*

Comments

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

What, 30_kisses? I'm pretty sure it's the original theme community. I had fun writing for it, too, and I loved the challenge--it was my first attempt at a theme comm. I am now a theme comm addict >.> But the plagiarism thing just irritates and saddens me.

This author also took one from a 10-theme comm, I can't remember which one. Did the exact same thing with it--translated and posted it without credit to the original author. It's been reported--not much else to be done.

That was kind of the thing that bugged me about it--some of the visual effects were kind of silly. I gotta admit that when it got to the end and Shinichi was saving the day, I even said out loud, "That is ridiculous." But I liked the plot and I looooooooved the Shin/Ran interaction. Because I am an utterly hopeless fangirl like that ♥

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I meant that I'm glad I didn't join, because maybe I would have then been stolen from as well. Though the original reason why I didn't join was just because I like hugs and nights better than kisses. XD

**nods.** The way the day was saved was kinda silly as well. I guess several things about DC would look rather ridiculous in something live action. It makes me wonder what a live-action YGO would be like....

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Doing Kisses was a fun experience, but I'm also enjoying the change in pace for theme comms (doing Nights and Hugs and all these other ones). But I did learn something from it--never again will I claim two couples on the same theme comm x_x When it came to ideas, it was extremely difficult to keep the streams from crossing.

The plot was good, the acting was pretty good (he had Shinichi's pouty!face down pat, I thought)...it was just those couple of wonky little visual effects. But overall, love. *pets Shinichi and Ran*

Live-action Yu-Gi-Oh...oh Lordy, I'm not even going to try and figure out how they'd get the hairdos right, for starters...