This is seriously depressing.

What a ridiculous kerfuffle.

*shakes head at LiveJournal*

I'm rusty_halo over at GreatestJournal. If you have an account there and still want to be friends, please friend me. (I'll try to do the same with everyone on my FL that I can find.)

I don't really expect fandom will end up migrating over there, but it's nice to have as a backup. I do think an exodus from LiveJournal is inevitable, but a better alternative will have to come along and establish itself first.

Hopefully it'll be something fan-created, non-profit, and free of censorship. People are working on this, right? I vaguely recall seeing something on metafandom. *sigh* I'm so out of the fandom loop.

If you haven't already, join fandom_counts and fill out the poll at fandompays.

(If you've been living under a rock, you can catch up at metafandom. It's also making mainstream news.)

Oh, and back up your journal: PC / PC and Mac.

This leaves me feeling so disgusted and angry. LJ is so *personal*--many of my most heartfelt thoughts and writings are here, and many of my most important social relationships are based here. It feels deeply disturbing to know that my journal or that of someone I care about could be arbitrarily deleted by the Thought Police.

I realize that SixApart has the *legal* right to do what it wants--it's dangerous that we've allowed something we care about so deeply to be under control of a commercial interest that doesn't care about us at all. (For all the crap FanLib spewed, the one argument that I sympathized with was that we're *already* entrusting our community to a commercial venture). Hopefully this will be a lesson that fandom learns and takes to heart in its migration away from LiveJournal and to whatever hopefully-improved place the future brings....

I mean, when I got into fandom, I met everyone on YahooGroups, and LJ was this crazy newfangled thing that I didn't want to have to deal with. And it really wan't that long ago. LJ seems so established now, but in a few years we could be totally happy somewhere else.


Anyway, in better news. What I was actually coming here to post about (before getting distracted by all this crappy stuff) is the new Velvet Revolver video, in which Scott Weiland pulls off an absolutely *stunning* Clint Eastwood impression. I can't stop drooling. My god, the hotness. *drifts off to happy place*


ETA: Oh yeah, and if you're on MySpace (I know, it sucks), you can friend me there.