Wow, fascinating. Gawker outed the Reddit mod who created Creepshots and Jailbait and many of the other unsavory shit on Reddit.

You can feel the flopsweat of the guy when they call him at work.

Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit's role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women.

I am OK with that.

I could get behind a theme of Africans using steampunk technology to drive out the Europeans.

At least one of the Oswald Bastable series. Sorry Michael Moorecock is so prolific that there is no way I can remember the title. But Robur the Conqueror is leading a group of revolutionaries to break the colonial empire.

It is interesting how people at reddit are upset about this: after they have invaded other people's privacy.

And pedestal sinks are the worst.

They are. I hate ours.

ION, why am I suddenly craving ALL the burgundy velvet blazers? I shouldn't be browsing Etsy for them, I should wait and see if I win this current round of photo judging, and if I do, I can get this one.

ION, why am I suddenly craving ALL the burgundy velvet blazers?

I think I need one in midnight blue.

All the of Bastable series have Bastable, knocked into alternate world after alternate world, turning against colonialism and siding with the oppressed of the earth. Only that does not always turn out well either. Cause Moorcock is into moral complexity. But the Robur one is the Steampunkiest of them.

[Edit]Theliteratary consensus is that Warlord of the Air is the Steampunkiest of the three. Don't know if that is the one with Robur or not. Been a long time since read the series. I think I may well need to re-read the Nomad of the Time Stream trilogy again.

It is interesting how people at reddit are upset about this: after they have invaded other people's privacy.

Children's privacy, in fact. Upskirt photos and all.

I'm a hardass about not outing people in fandom, but it's really hard to hang onto that principle in light of someone who trolls so hard.

This does have me thinking about anonymity. Some of the people on that Predditors tumblr have their Reddit profiles linked on twitter with their real name, so -- no sympathy. If you want to be anonymous on the internet, it doesn't seem that hard. Make a dedicated email address, don't talk about your personal life details, don't tell people you meet in person your handle, etc. Obviously, anyone could read this site and know exactly who I am, but I'm pretty careful not to put stuff on the internet that I wouldn't want generally public. At least, not locked down to people I (think I can) trust.

Considering he was posting salacious pictures of minors without their permission in a forum devoted to same, I don't really have any problem with someone outing him to the legal authorities, nevermind the general public.

Have you read The Stress of Her Regard? Byron! Shelley! Keats! Vampires! Yes, it's my favorite by him.

I am so very unsurprised that you love this book. My favorite Powers, though, is Last Call. Tarot! Poker! Vegas! Bugsy Siegel! Fisher King mythos!