Betnii

It's been a long time since I've written anything in this journal, almost a year actually, and it's been a very long time since I've written anything at all. Like many of you, I decided to give NaNoWriMo a go again this year, and despite it being day 4 I've only written 2029 words... not a brilliant start, I must admit.

"Yellow" was the first piece of work I uploaded here, and to be honest I'm currently in complete shock that I actually got a Daily Deviation for it.

Thank you so much to everyone who viewed, commented and faved it, as well as a huge thank you to =LadyofGaerdon and ^neurotype for suggesting and featuring respectively.

I feel really overwhelmed that anyone even likes my work. Your support is so wonderful and so appreciated, thank you.

[EDIT: I'm trying to send thank you messages to all of you who have faved, but the system is now picking them up as spam XD I will keep persevering though.]

This journal is just a short one for the purpose of thanking you guys for getting me to 3000 pageviews, I'm really honoured that you continue to be interested in me even though I haven't put anything up in a longggg time.

Thank you also to the people who've donated to me: I'm so flattered that you would do so. <3

Finally, all three of the pieces I have up here (which I now strongly dislike, by the way) have been edited. They may be considerably shorter than you remember as I've chopped out a lot of the shitty clichés. I'll be continuing to edit them over the next few weeks, but Yellow will probably remain mostly intact as it's my most popular deviation.

Anyway, thanks again, and check my ACTA journal post if you haven't already as we need all the help we can get!

Hoped the last journal would be my one and only foray into politics, but then news came to me about ACTA and I repeatedly smashed my head against my desk.

ACTA:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Cou…

It's basically SOPA's big bad European cousin. Because of the fuss kicked up by PIPA and SOPA, ACTA managed to slip under the radar. In January, it was signed by the EU and 22 member states. Not good.

Stop ACTA info site:
www.stopacta.info/

The signing of ACTA by the EU doesn't mean that the agreement has passed: it still has to be ratified by the European Parliament. In June 2012, members of the European Parliament will vote to either ratify or reject ACTA.

Read here about how to influence your MPs to vote against ACTA:
www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_…

If you cannot do anything else, at least spread the word. ACTA has not received the publicity or media attention that SOPA did, and people can only act against the agreement if they are aware of it. This is not just an isolated problem within the EU, nor is it an isolated problem within the US: this affects all of us globally.

If you haven't heard what SOPA and PIPA are you've probably been living under a rock for at least the last month.

SOPA:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Onl…

PIPA:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_…

If you can't be bothered to read a ridiculously long article about them, let me summarise for you. They are bad. Do not want.

People of the US, this is your crazy government at work here, so please do something about it. SOPA and PIPA have the ability to cause the take-down of sites with the /potential/ for copyright infringement. Fucking EVERYTHING has the potential for copyright infringement. That means Youtube, Facebook, Google as they would have to monitor every site they link to, and yes: dA too, will all disappear.