Remember when I ranted against employment credit checks on here? Well, guess what.

[LJ_Reloaded]

California has TAKEN ACTION.
We are awesome.

http://www.calaborfed.org/index.php...l_put_california_on_path_to_stronger_economy/

AB 22 (Mendoza) – No credit checks for employment unless related to job. Over 65% of all employers now use credit checks to screen out prospective employees, even though no research ties credit scores to work performance or trustworthiness. A worker’s credit score may suffer because they lost their job, lost their home, lost their insurance. AB 22 bars credit checks for employment purposes unless a worker’s credit history is substantially related to the job.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I am one of the many, many, people who actively worked to make this happen. On behalf of the thousands, you are welcome.

Of course, we are not done yet. Let's face it, the sheer number of applicants for any job has become simply insane, and employers have a large number of quick-and-dirty ways to reduce the load for themselves.This is one of the unfair and unusable ones, there are others.

Now, what have you got on the subject of writing, or erotica?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I am one of the many, many, people who actively worked to make this happen. On behalf of the thousands, you are welcome.

Of course, we are not done yet. Let's face it, the sheer number of applicants for any job has become simply insane, and employers have a large number of quick-and-dirty ways to reduce the load for themselves.This is one of the unfair and unusable ones, there are others.

Now, what have you got on the subject of writing, or erotica?

I'm itching to resurrect the trolling of Twilight fans, this time over the pedophilia themes in the story. An underaged girl dating a hundreds year old vampire? A baby marked for marriage AT BIRTH?

Nah, I'm sure that has been done a thousand times...

 

[Stella_Omega]

Have you actually read the books?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Have you actually read the books?

Yes, and I am still pouring brain bleach into my eye sockets.

Edited to add: of all the things and people in the world who PROCLAIM to get under my skin in an undying effort to boost their ego, this series is part of that 1% that just happens to have seriously succeeded.

Here you had L.A. Banks with a masterpiece of a Vampire Huntress Legend series, and she couldn't get shit for sales compared to this absolute hack of a story called Twilight. Beaten by SPARKLING VAMPIRES.

Yes, that fucking chaps my hide. This fourth rate bitch gets to dine in the same places as JK Rowling but LA Banks couldn't afford health insurance and died of CANCER. Banks easily out-wrote both these authors, in fact her prose ran rings around them enough times to circle the Sun and leave room to tie a knot. But yet she won't ever get a movie unless they white-ify the entire cast, and a movie about a werewolf marking a BABY as his bride gets top box office billing.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well why write more about twilight then? There's already plenty out there. I know it's easier to be funny about things we detest than be sincere about things we appreciate, but easy is only... easy, not good.

Write about L.A. Bank's stories. If you're really good you might draw new readers to the series. That's how I've discovered a few good authors.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yes, and I am still pouring brain bleach into my eye sockets.

Edited to add: of all the things and people in the world who PROCLAIM to get under my skin in an undying effort to boost their ego, this series is part of that 1% that just happens to have seriously succeeded.

Here you had L.A. Banks with a masterpiece of a Vampire Huntress Legend series, and she couldn't get shit for sales compared to this absolute hack of a story called Twilight. Beaten by SPARKLING VAMPIRES.

Yes, that fucking chaps my hide. This fourth rate bitch gets to dine in the same places as JK Rowling but LA Banks couldn't afford health insurance and died of CANCER. Banks easily out-wrote both these authors, in fact her prose ran rings around them enough times to circle the Sun and leave room to tie a knot. But yet she won't ever get a movie unless they white-ify the entire cast, and a movie about a werewolf marking a BABY as his bride gets top box office billing.

The fourth rate bitch is a first rate marketer. she watered down the vampires to hit the teeny bopper audience.

Then once trendy the lemmings chimed in and started following. The average twilight fan is the same person who bought new kids on the block records. Mindless masses. She hit it dead on.

Ther trends have even hit the NH stories here. You can see a difference in the stories in that category that were written when The category was starting and whats there now, and they are winning the contests with regurlarity

pop culture is what hot right now and Ywilight is hot. Doesn't mean its good, just means its hot.

I hate the shit, but more power to her. I fault no one for succeeding.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Well why write more about twilight then? There's already plenty out there. I know it's easier to be funny about things we detest than be sincere about things we appreciate, but easy is only... easy, not good.

Write about L.A. Bank's stories. If you're really good you might draw new readers to the series. That's how I've discovered a few good authors.

People know about her already. No black author has ever had a story that came anywhere close to Stephanie Meyer's level of success in America, much less JK Rowling's level. None ever will, unless they can find a way to hide their identity. You can say whatever you want about whether this country is racist but no black author will ever do that well. No matter what they do.