dogmatix

PSA: Radiocomix, the people who S&tB is hosted with, is doing an Indigogo campaign to collect funds to stay in business, since their (ex-)accountant did an 'oops' that left them in the IRS's bad graces. If you'd like to contribute (and have the disposable income to do so), their page is here. Also, if you contribute and let me know, I will do a small B&W sketch for you in thanks. :3

Title: Sebastian and the Beast: Ch 8, Pg 6
Rating: Pg-13
Idea/art/writing: Matix
Co-writer/beta: Allie (yume_no_kage)
Summary: Beauty and the Beast with a twist (and a wriggle)
A/N: Gaah, my last crosshatching pen (aka. the 005 Micron one aka. the thinnest dang nib they stock) has bitten the dust. Artstore visit, scheduled!


Sebastian and the Beast, Ch8 Pg 6


[Cover]
Ch 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6&7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Ch 2: 1, 2, 3&4, 5, 6, 7, 8&9, 10, 11, 12&13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Ch 3 1&2, 3&4, 5&6, 7, 8&9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28&29
Ch 4 1&2&3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
Ch 5 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Ch 6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Ch 7 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Ch 8 Cover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5


Colour Pages
Field Promotion
Merry Solstice
Pony!Guys

Author M.C.A. Hogarth is under fire by Games Workshop(Warhammer). They got Amazon to pull the e-book version of her book, 'Spots the Space Marine,' which is in no way based on Warhammer 40K or anything else to do with Games Workshop. So why did GW target Hogarth? Because they're claiming trademark on 'space marine.'

Yes, you read that right.

Games Workship is actually trying to claim trademark on 'space marine' as a phrase in printed matter, as if it hasn't been in common sci-fi usage since, oh, the 1930's. Now, they do have a trademark on it when it comes to tabletop games, but books? Nu-uhn. (and really, even the tabletop RPG thing sounds a bit thin, considering that there was a game put out by another unrelated company called, yep, Space Marine, before, as I understand it, Games Workshop was even a gleam in anyone's eye)

If you follow sci-fi/fantasy news, chances are you've read about this somewhere today. The president of SFWA, John Scalzi, has a post about it here, and here's Hogarth's own LJ post.

*checks date* Nope, it's not April Fools. Dangit.

&#*@%& - didn't we just go through this? As if SOPA/PIPA weren't bad enough, now it looks like they're trying to pull a fast one. And this time it might be global. *seethe*

The quick and dirty on ACTA.

The facts in summary, from EFF.org

The legalese

Worrisome Speculation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

"the same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens' Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the "Three Strikes" /Graduated Response) so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers. While mandating copyright filtering by ISPs will not be technologically effective because it can be defeated by use of encryption efforts to introduce network level filtering will likely involve deep packet inspection of citizens' Internet communications."