In an attempt

[cornerofmadness]

to escape the election anxiety, I tried to clean and didn't get far. Tried to write and didn't get far. Gave up and went down to the school because I said I'd attend the wildlife seniors presentations. Spring semester is senior research presentation but on the whole our students don't get a lot of presentation experience so the wildlife biology profs decided, let them present their summer internships as practice. They asked the other profs to come to support the students.

I was the only one that did (that could be because they went to vote but I doubt it. It's par for the course). I thought they did pretty well. I did get some writing done there. I do feel bad that no one supports anything any more at that school.

Today was odd on the writing front. Got one rejection (on a story I really like, ah well) and another got short listed but I won't know for several weeks on that one.


Fannish 50, the dark side of fandom and how not to feed into it. Arcana, Helluva Boss (of which I saw a tiny bit of a leak) and now Hazbin Hotel have had content leaked. The Helluva Boss leak I caught was a leak of attempt two because so much of the Ghostfuckers episode had been leaked they had to redid it. I don't know about Arcane as I have never seen it. But someone just stole the ENTIRE second season of Hazbin and posted some of it and is selling the rest. Yesterday it was just a 'leak' with Vivziepop talking about the disrespect but this is a whole new level.

Some fans got spoiled thinking the leak was a good fan animation (I did that with the tiny piece of HelluvaBoss I saw) Others are going after the leaks and using it to boost their own YT/TikTok content. I feel confident in saying, don't do this. Don't be that fan. Don't feed into this. In the case of Hazbin, it's not due out for a while. They had just wrapped the voice acting and now it's all been stolen, story boards, songs, the acting, the animation. It's not like you can redo an entire season. And I find it sad that someone WILL pay the $$$$ to get the episodes up for sale (because we know someone will)

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[binary_sunset]

Considering that they just finished recording the voicework last month (I think?), anything for Hazbin is gonna be pretty rough. It's not like they just sit on a perfectly-polished piece of animation for months before its release lmao. I really don't understand why you'd drop good money on a half-finished TV show.

[cornerofmadness]

Exactly, they did just finish the voice work. He's already leaked two complete episodes (one has to assume it's either rough AF animation or it's just the voice work.) I don't know why you'd drop money on it either. I do have to wonder if the hacker is trying to ransom money out of the studio and is doing this when they wouldn't give in. It's so odd to me but this is the third show this has happened to that I know of which means there has to be more.

[binary_sunset]

yeah, I mean, they probably didn't steal the master copy. Similar versions would have to be archived across different devices, since so many people are working on them. IDK man, this is such a weird cybercrime to me.

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah not sure what they got but it's popping up everywhere on social media apparently. Spindlehorse can't pull it down fast enough. But i agree it's so weird.