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clevermanka) wrote2020-02-15 08:09 am
clevermanka) wrote2020-02-15 08:09 am
Raving
Y'all. Y'ALL. ranalore wrote me the most incredible Untamed fic for a birthday present. I mentioned in a comment yesterday how I wasn't really reading much Wei Wuxian/Lan Zhan fic and BOY HOWDY now I don't need to read any more because this fic is so fuckin' amazing. It packs an incredible amount of heat and feels into fewer than 2k and absolutely rocked my world.
Appropriately, happy International Fanworks Day!
Forgot to mention the results of my Twitter poll yesterday. So, this poll taught me something other than 5% of the people who voted would not be so foolish as to consider using the word "succor" in a fic and that something is apparently, unlike on Dreamwidth polls, Twitter votes are private? Or am I just not seeing where the results are detailed...
And now, a rant! Just fuck the recording industry, for real. Let me tell you about being friends with the frontman of a band that allllllllllllmost made it big before getting screwed by their major record label.
So, the house where Ghost Story takes place. I lived there for seven years, nearly five of them with two dudes who lived in the upstairs apartment, Smirl and Ritchie (we already sound like a sitcom, don't we? god I miss them). Smirl was the front man for one of the more successful local bands of the 90s. And when I say "more successful" that's saying something bc Lawrence was considered the little Seattle of the music scene (this sounds so corny now but it really was a big deal). There's a reason I was going out three times a week to see local shows. It was amazing. Anyway, Smirl's band was called STICK and they were so good. I still listen to their albums (they're great workout music, too). They got signed to Arista and released their first CD. Arista gave them zero support, zero promotion, and then of course complained bitterly when the album didn't sell. When the label rejected every track on the second album, claiming "not a single hit" on it, they broke their contract and released it under an independent label. Two members left, then the band broke up for good. Arista didn't do well by another band with Lawrence members (BR5-49 for any alt-country fans) so yeah. That's just ONE label that fucked over two bands that I knew. File under I Hate Capitalism, y'all. I'm still bitter on STICK's behalf. BR at least had a good run. STICK was fucking robbed.
ranalore wrote me the most incredible Untamed fic for a birthday present. I mentioned in a comment yesterday how I wasn't really reading much Wei Wuxian/Lan Zhan fic and BOY HOWDY now I don't need to read any more because this fic is so fuckin' amazing. It packs an incredible amount of heat and feels into fewer than 2k and absolutely rocked my world. Appropriately, happy International Fanworks Day!
Forgot to mention the results of my Twitter poll yesterday. So, this poll taught me something other than 5% of the people who voted would not be so foolish as to consider using the word "succor" in a fic and that something is apparently, unlike on Dreamwidth polls, Twitter votes are private? Or am I just not seeing where the results are detailed...
And now, a rant! Just fuck the recording industry, for real. Let me tell you about being friends with the frontman of a band that allllllllllllmost made it big before getting screwed by their major record label.
So, the house where Ghost Story takes place. I lived there for seven years, nearly five of them with two dudes who lived in the upstairs apartment, Smirl and Ritchie (we already sound like a sitcom, don't we? god I miss them). Smirl was the front man for one of the more successful local bands of the 90s. And when I say "more successful" that's saying something bc Lawrence was considered the little Seattle of the music scene (this sounds so corny now but it really was a big deal). There's a reason I was going out three times a week to see local shows. It was amazing. Anyway, Smirl's band was called STICK and they were so good. I still listen to their albums (they're great workout music, too). They got signed to Arista and released their first CD. Arista gave them zero support, zero promotion, and then of course complained bitterly when the album didn't sell. When the label rejected every track on the second album, claiming "not a single hit" on it, they broke their contract and released it under an independent label. Two members left, then the band broke up for good. Arista didn't do well by another band with Lawrence members (BR5-49 for any alt-country fans) so yeah. That's just ONE label that fucked over two bands that I knew. File under I Hate Capitalism, y'all. I'm still bitter on STICK's behalf. BR at least had a good run. STICK was fucking robbed.