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[geekchick]

Man, just when you think William Sanders over at Helix couldn't possibly be a bigger tool: TADA!
[Edit: Looks like someone wised up and took the stories down entirely; both links are currently 404. What was there in both cases was a single sentence: "Story deleted at author's pantiwadulous request."]

No wait, there's more! Protip: When you find yourself in a hole, especially one which is now well over your head, the proper course of action is to stop digging. (Context for this one here)

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[gible.livejournal.com]

Asshats indeed...they're both 404 for me...and I even went and found the link to it on *thier* site, and it still doesn't work.


Here's hoping you've merely overloaded them. XD

[geekchick]

It looks like while I was posting, someone wised up and took down the pages in question. The rest of the site seems to be up.

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

screencap: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2669762070_8115effc4c_o.jpg

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

...author's pantiwadulous request

"Pantiwadulous" may be my favorite new word of 2008.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

ARGH. D:

[geekchick]

Oh, it gets better. Now he's demanding people pay him to take their stories down. (Now, the contract apparently says that Helix retains the right to non-exclusively display the story in perpetuity, but just a bit before he'd said that anyone who wanted their stories removed could just ask.)

Superdickery!

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

*brain asplode* Wait. So now, not only do amateur writers often pay subsidy publications like the National Library of Poetry anthologies in order to get published, but now writers have to pay in order to get unpublished?

[geekchick]

Some context on the whole shitstorm.

[chadu.livejournal.com]

I like your new icon.

;)

[geekchick]

Hello? Police? Batman?

I'M TRAPPED IN A SEWER WITH A CONFESSED ARSONIST, BROCK!