Randomness and the Avengers.

Saw "The Woman in Black" again last night - just as scary as the first time, only I made myself watch all the bits where I was hiding behind my jacket last time :). Dan really does a fabulous job of carrying the movie and each shot is so beautifully framed.

I now have the urge to run off and write a shit scary short story.

Also saw "Holy Flying Circus" this week - Rob saw it on the plane, but missed the end so wanted to see it. Very funny. It's about the release of "Life of Brian" in case anyone was wondering and the actors portraying the Pythons are hilarious.

Having the Dyson fixed today so that is doesn't sound like a banshee anymore. The service person is supposed to be coming by before 1pm.

Soph (thwax) has done a great post on the Paypal issue regarding them demanding that sellers not sell certain kinds of erotica. Censorship – credit card companies are burning our books. I was going to do one of my own, but basically my stance is, 'what she says'. There is also a petition here to try and stop it, because if we let what is essentially a bank dictate content what will be next to go? Personal morals aside, whether you want to read about this stuff or not, it's legal and hence no one has a right to force a ban. Individual retailers have a right to decide what they sell, but not be forced into it by a payment provider.

My Loki obsession is still going strong. I've gone from someone who didn't care that the Avengers movie was coming out, to someone who wants to see it NOW ... well except for the fact that I have a fic brewing and I want to finish that first before its Jossed. I have over 300 piccies in my Avengers folder already and most of those are Tom Hiddleston. I also love the fact that he has a twitter and is not afraid to use it :). He comes across as a genuinely nice chap.

As temaris pointed out, the new poster for Avengers, which in the UK is now called Avengers Assemble, is somewhat lacking in aesthetic beauty. Frankly it looks like it was put together by the intern and it has pretty people in it they seem to think that makes it okay. It doesn't have Loki though, so I protest - strongly!

The Slippery Slope

Okay, I said I wasn't going to do this because Soph said it so well over here Censorship – credit card companies are burning our books, but I have to have my say as well.

If you are not aware what this is about, last week Paypal sent out emails to several of their clients (including Smashwords and AllRomance) telling them they would stop their service if they continued to sell erotic books with rape, incest, psuedo incest or bestiality in them (this includes weres in animal form). Then they gave them just days to deal with it.

This is censorship, plain and simple and its a slippery slope. What if they take a dislike to vampire fic next?

I don't tend to read these sub-genres in original fiction because a whole heap of it is crap and I don't like rape fic. However, then I thought of it in fanfic terms. Hypothetically, if those of us who read fanfic were to pay for it (we don't because that would be illegal) Paypal's actions would have just wiped out 50% of the Supernatural fandom, about 80% of the Tokio Hotel fandom, 25% of the Avengers fandom (Loki/Thor anyone?) not to mention a good percentage of the kink memes out there and that's just four examples I thought up in about ten seconds.

Paypal say they are reacting to the credit card companies. Well frankly it's about time we said no to the credit card companies; how dare they try and tell us what we're allowed to read!

Please consider signing the petition below and register you opinion.

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Stop Internet Censorship!
This is a petition to bring awareness and protest about Paypal being able to dictate to eBook sellers what forms of erotica they may and may not sell.