fuck.

[thehefner]

scans_daily is suspended. First details are here, and now it looks that Peter David himself (a writer I absolutely love) might be responsible in some capacity.*

EDIT: PAD's responded, and it looks like he wasn't responsible (although he DID issue a report to Marvel), but he ain't shedding any tears.

Guys, I am seriously, seriously upset. I... I can't even get my thoughts in order here. There are many logical ways to look at all this, I know, but right now, the purely emotional response is all I've got. I never honestly thought I'd have an appropriate time to use this icon, but right now, this is it.

I just think about all the wonderful comics that I'd never have even HEARD of without scans_daily. About all the awesome people I've met and friended from there**. Including a girlfriend! A girl who was the best damn person I met all last year, who I wouldn't have met otherwise if she hadn't been taken with this intense Harvey Dent fanboy! Scans_Daily actually got me laid!

But most of all, when I think about all the goddamn hours I've put into scanning and cropping and writing and editing posts of my own, and to think they're all just gone... like tears in the rain...

It's... it's the only place I've had for years now where I could actually just let loose with my love of comics and Harvey in particular, knowing that there would always be at least a few people who would get it and share my passion.

I literally have nothing else like that, never have. Not the comic shop, no social circle IRL, certainly not comic conventions, and definitely not anywhere else on the internet. Message Boards, jesus god save us all, never again. Even with the occasional troll and handful of fools and jerks, scans_daily has been a godsend to me as a fan. A place that would *daily* remind me why I'm a fan.

PAD, or whoever's responsible: way to totally fucking ruin the euphoric giddy feeling I had from getting a good review.



*And, if I'm not mistaken, he's LYING, as no, the whole issue of X-FACTOR was NOT posted! The mods have been rather strict about their "half an issue or less" rule. Which may not be any more legally sound than if they HAD posted the whole issue, but let's get the fucking facts straight first.

**Roll call: who here do I know purely and solely because we met on scans_daily?

Comments

[princessebee.livejournal.com]

So... an author pitched a fit because he was called out on sexism? That's about what I've been able to glean. Have you other links?

I agree s_d was a fantastic resource in many ways, despite the many pinheads who posted there in force. But... all the awesome scans! That is sad.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

While PAD is, as it turns out, NOT the guilty party (not exactly: http://peterdavid.net/) you'll have to confer with kali921 about the full extent of the bullcrap there. As I recall, it was a flagrant case of a writer not understanding the fucking internet, and actually taking the term "die in a fire" seriously. Sexism in writing was also involved, but the criticisms of said sexism wasn't what spurred him to log onto his wife's LJ and personally respond on scans_daily in the first place.

I wish I did have links, but unfortunately, all the evidence was on scans_daily. I mean, I doubt anyone would give a shit legally if we even still had the evidence, as I'm sure we're still in the wrong in the letter of the law.

I know, all the awesome scans! Like, new and current scans I can live without, but what about all the rare and obscure ones? The indie comics and back-up stories that no one read when they first came out? The lost treasures? The found treasures that deserve rediscovery?

There's got to be a way for us to have it both ways. scans_daily has been the best way I've ever known to celebrate comics.

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

I believe the Photobucket bit. I've had images removed from Photobucket that I know no one complained about and that I surely didn't put on a site that sucks down as much bandwidth as scans_daily.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I think he is at least partially culpable. What makes you think that he's not? He ran to Marvel and cried about someone posting X-Factor scans and thus brought us most definitively to Marvel's attention. Look at the screencap on my journal.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

From what I can tell, I think you're right, he's at least partially culpable. But much as I'd prefer to point the finger at one person as the cause, there are other factors at play here. Some, perhaps, long in the making.

I don't think we can put it all on him, based on his own blog post on the matter. But he certainly doesn't come off smelling of roses, or whatever the saying is.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Well, we'll likely never know, and you're of course right, there are other factors at play. But he's gone and blamed Photobucket, which...I don't think is in any way an accurate assessment of the situation.