a dude at the gym just reached in his bag, pulled out a bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup, smiled & shook his head like that’s just something that happens to people, put it back and then pulled out a bottle of water instead
I can almost guarantee this man has a toddler. (This is definitely something that can just happen, then.)
You know, an R-rated Deadpool film is well and good, but I kind of want to see Wade show up in one of the regular X-Men films, too.
I want to see him hastily catch himself every time he’s about to say “fuck”, because he knows that the film – being rated PG-13 – is only allowed one F-bomb, and he wants to make it count.
I want to see him throw the ugliest tantrum when, after he spends the whole movie saving up that one allotted “fuck” for the perfect moment, somebody else uses it up before he has a chance.
I was thinking about John’s dong while ironing (as one usually does), specifically the tyre lever scene, when Mary says ‘It is a tiny bit sexy’ when John stuffs a large piece of metal down his pants
He fights Billy, finds Shezza and then they all go into the car to St Barts
Have the St. Barts scene where John’s junk is discussed
Then John and Sherlock take a cab to Baker St, where we have the scene with Mycroft, Anderson and finally Janine
And John sits while feeling utterly jealous
Janine leaves, and Sherlock talks about Magnussen while John is trying to digest the Janine thing
And then Magnussen enters Baker St, his minions having to frisk John
TO FIND
THE TYRE LEVER?!?!?
I’m expected to believe John had that lever down his trousers when he sat in 2 cars, climbed stairs and sat to watch Sherlock cuddling with Janine?!? And forgot he had it THERE?
What I’m saying is that John is so HUGE, he does not find strange at all to carry that large piece of metal between his legs for an hour? maybe 2?. It was bussiness as usual for dear old John.
Oh Sherlock. I don’t know if I should envy you, be happy or fear for you. Really.
Fyi for anyone (in the US at least) wanting to get a Rosetta stone set, but balking at the price; Target has them half off on the website, which they’ll match in store (at customer service), and has a 50% off ‘coupon’ in the cartwheel app that stacks, so it’s essentially 75% off right now for in store stock. (So a little over a hundred for a full set).
Last week when the news made the rounds that this site had been scraping people’s fics wholesale off AO3, I went over there to see whether they had any of my books, and they did – a fair number of them – so I sent them a DMCA.
Haven’t heard anything new from them, but I did a search or two and found that nothing was coming up under my name: which was good as far as it went.
At the same time, not being sure where matters stood, I did a little googling around to see what might have changed since last week. These posts may be useful to those of you who’re concerned your intellectual property may have been scraped:
Note when you look at the next page that the listings are not in alphabetical order, but are strangely scrambled. There are a lot of possible reasons for this, but I’m gambling on someone wanting to make it harder for you to find your stuff. …Anyway, by happy chance my name was on the first page, so I clicked there –
And lo and behold, there are four of my books (well, three really, they got A Wizard Abroad twice) still there. So now I get to DMCA them again.
Note that an earlier search on “Diane Duane” showed me nothing. I have a feeling this is not accidental. If you’re going by my example, make sure you search on an author’s first name as well as their second. In fact, search on all their names that you can think of. And on as many pseuds and pieces of pseuds as possible.
…So the note from Castle Fanfiction seems to be a pointer to a new tactic on these folks’ side of things. Also: the company has indeed changed their domain name to ebooks-tree.net. (The company may just have wanted to muddle the trail a little. In any case the old domain redirects to the new one.) And judging by my own results, at least URLs where links to books were once posted also now seem to have been changed.
One other note in passing: I tested the link from the .mobi version of AWAb and it leads to a “Buy a premium access package!” message from Nitroflare. Once you refuse this a couple of times, it starts throwing up ad pages for online games and clothing stores. These I shut, and eventually reached a button which actually downloaded a genuine .mobi of one of my books. (Worse still, it was one of the NMEs, which means that once again somebody has either bought one of these things from directly from me and then uploaded it, or found another way to scrape it. Or both. Gah.) So now I will have to register with NitroFlare as well to use their “advanced takedown tool” and get rid of this thing. There’s another hour of writing time I’ll never see again…
So if you have been affected by this: Go back and check again. Don’t believe in the search box: you’re going to have to dig deeper.