yaoi manga licenses

Libre Publishing sends a cease and desist letter to BeBeautiful.

shahrizai brought it up on my post about the latest yaoi manga, and looking at this, it doesn't bode quite qell for BB.

One quote: It should also be known that the cartoonists and authors are being victimized by this illegal act, and they are very annoyed by it.

Hm.

Well. Either way, unless BB gets all the licenses of their current works, it's going to be no fun being them for the next few months. I don't know a lot about licensing though; with Biblos bankrupt, BB probably can't get back the licensing costs they paid? So does that mean they would have to pay again?

[fic] "And It's Like This" (FFX, Rikku)

Title: "And It’s Like This"

Author: Demeter

Disclaimer: All rights and privileges of Final Fantasy X/X-2 characters, objects and plots are property and trademarks of Square Enix, Playstation, and associated parties. The author claims no legal responsibility for problems associated with using this work. The original story, relationships, and characters found within the fic are property of Demeter.

Series: Final Fantasy X

Rating: 13+

Characters: Rikku and her ever-changing cast of friends.

Notes: I spent almost two years on this stupid thing. Still not perfect, still not satisfactory, but after all the tweaking, I think this is the closest I’ll be getting.


~*~


( Rikku's life. And then some. )

life as I know it

Or not know it. Seriously, another year in Japan. It sounds like many kinds of awesome on paper but I'm starting to feel the grind of work. Or rather, of non-work. I'm required to come in during school breaks unless I take nenkyu (paid vacation), but those precious days (twenty in total per contracted year) are usually saved for some vacation, so I sit at my desk all. week. long with nothing to do but surf the internet. Paradise you say? Loveliness? It sounds like it! I like the sound of it. But, alas, it just means a slow bleeding of my brain cells to a better place. Rest in peace, it wasn't like I needed you anyways.

/whine

The cherry blossoms are out again! I still haven't gone on my great cherry blossom adventure, but next year, for sure. It's my last year and I'll have a lot more motivation than I have now. ;) There's a famous spot in Nara that I've been hoping to go to, so yes, April next year will see me, Nara, and maybe a picnic munchies to tide me over as I enjoy hanami.

Doing lots of random cleaning. I want my apato as clean as possible when my family arrives, so that means a lot of cleaning on the weekend before rather than now, because it's just going to get messy again. Man, I wish I was better at keeping thing tidy. I mean, seriously. I clean in the morning and by the afternoon, it's like a tornado hit... maybe I need to get rid of some of the things I've amassed in this past year and a half. No, seriously. I buy so much manga and anthologies that they take up at least a bookcase. And the food in my pantries... I need to eat everything before buying more!

Ah, Japan. I didn't think it was possible, but you've turned me even more into a packrat than before!

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I saw the 'new movie' of what is apparently the Kingdom Hearts 3 game and it looks gutshiveringly awesome.

Too many kinds of awesome!. I don't even dare think of how it's going to go down, but YUM! YUM! YUM!

And the official Crisis Core website is up! I'm actually really excited about this game (even if it is for the PSP... woe, I shall have to buy it now.) because it focuses on Zack and oh, I do have a soft spot for Zack. My only hope is the controls aren't quite as bad as Dirge of Cerberus.

(and yay, we'll have glimpses of Tifa)

Though I have to say... JEEZ LOUISE, ZACK IS HOT. 0_0

and he looks strangely like Sephiroth.