X-files Shadows

[Giuliana]

Thisis the stock appearance when the sun is low. Since no shadows are created, it looks as though your cockpit is outside of the plane, with an annoying sun glare always visible if the sun is behind you.

Thanks man! I have my own skycolors without the orange glare, but thanks to your datarefs (never heard about "cockpit_near_adjust" and "cockpit_near_proxy" before), I was able to finally eliminate these stupid jagged shadows!

Is it only me? at 8:00 the FPS drop from 35 to 9... I cant use it unfortunately.

I gues LR already know to do sth like they just cant afford it as it is a FPS killer.

However is a very clever fix, If only I could use it...

In the fall of 1998, the rec site IOHO made a positive recommendation for Complicated Shadows. This rec included an excerpt from the fic. This set off a very complicated number of heated discussions and angry accusations, all which publicly played out at alt.tv.x-files.creative. Things that contributed to this storm of reaction: a history of personal tensions among several BNFs (Hindy, Kassandra (the author, using the name Sheare Bliss), CiCi Lean, and others), accusations of Scully Bashing (which had become more prevalent due to what some fans felt to be Scully's changing characterization on the show itself), misogyny, plagiarism, shipping wars, personal grievances with translated to anonymous squealing to owners of domains which resulted in TOSing, discussions of Fair Use (and the use of the quoted text of a fic on a rec site, which led to the supposed refusal to remove it by a website owner), and much more.

Hi All,Just finished reading Bliss' A Different Light", Skinner's point of view on Mulder's ordeal in "Complicated Shadows." What a terrific story! I can't wait until Sheare follows up with a story on Mulder's super baby - she's made me into a Skinner fan.

Now, I AM getting suspicious. Heck, this may just be some strange advertising campaign for their works. We've already been prompted to read two stories from the militant anti-Scully noromo trio ( The End & Complicated Shadows), practically promising that we'd weep from the beauty of their prose. After rant.html, I've hadenough.

Okay, I'm going to tell y'all a little story. About a year or so ago, I wrote a story called Complicated Shadows. It was posted to the X-clusivepage, and was queued up to be posted to EMXC. The first post went through on EMXC and the very next day, two people posted to a semi-public/semi-private mailing list making scarcely veiled accusations of plagiarism with regard to someone else's story. I had been a member ofsaid mailing list. I had friends on said mailing list. That same day I received a long accusatory email from said someone.

I was stunned. Thematically and stylistically and in terms of plot, Shadows had no relationship to the second story. The only similarity wasthat the first post of Shadows mentioned a sexual psychopath who liked to use the trappings of the S&M underculture. The similarity was strictlythat, the S&M underculture. I sent the entire text of the story to the author who had written the accusatory note to me. She read it and sent meseveral emails retracting the accusation privately, apologizing, etc. By that time, I was upset enough to withdraw permanently from the community,having seen my name smeared with an untrue accusation. And not one of the three parties retracted this accusation until nearly a week later. Bythat time, I had pulled the story from EMXC, XAPEN and Jeannine Ackerson's mailing list, I was that upset. It actually took more than a week for theauthor to post to the mailing list and admit that she had suggested to her two friends that the story was plagiarized, and that something needed tobe done. It took just under a week for the two accusers to admit their own responsibility and apologize to the mailing list and retract the accusation.

My point? Be very damned careful before you suggest plagiarism. I posted recently to comment on similar themes and an identical title. I think Mare will tell you I never suggested plagiarism--in fact, I had written to her privately before posting just to point the similarities out--and warn her of a potential conflict or confusion. I didn't post exceptionally clearly in my original post, but took pains to make sure that it was apparent I was not accusing Mare of plagiarism in my secondpost.

Ideas? Well, that's trickier. Proverbs tells us that there is nothing new under the sun. Despite our undeniable human ingenuity, there's what a friend of mine calls the bottleneck syndrome. Given a certain set of circumstances, there are a limited number of potential plots. So, if you're wanting to pair Skinner sexually and emotionally with someone from the show, you can go the slash route with Mulder/Krycek/or any one of the Lone Gummen/Tom Colton--you see what I mean. The possiblities are limited. It becomes worse if you aren't looking at slash. You've got Scully/his secretary/Lucy Kasdan/AD Cassidy (and that's only after the movie).

Authors? We also need to be careful. Yeah, it's really irritating to find that someone's done your idea, only differently, only in some way that you don't like. If you believe it to be true, posting in public support of these accusations is more honest than taking the private email route, but it's no less painful or damaging for everyone involved.

Sheare Bliss:My name is neither VDentata nor iwonders. As for being the only person having a quarrel with Lisby, I am not quarreling with Lisby. Trust me on that one. Neither am I the only person she has baited, inflamed, attacked, or enraged in recent months.....at least three people of whom I am aware fall on that list.

Am I to suppose that you are, perhaps, the person who suggested that the unauthorized use of Complicated Shadows text was an appropriate use of the Fair Use Doctrine? Shall I suggest that to the world at large in an open forum?

It did seem strange that it didn't go up until August 30th--right around the time Cici was TOS'd, now that I mention it. My, my, and the first thing to go was the Socks Shoppe. I wonder who among us entertains an irrational dislike for 'the cult of the dead lab rat'?

If we are going to make baseless accusations around here, well, I have plenty of my own. Listen, guys. My personal, *gut-intuition* list of suspects inmy TOSing, is also pretty short. In fact, it's excrutiatingly short.

And... there could even be a good argument made that naming the person EVEN WITH PROOF might not be a wise or appropriate thing to do. I'd have to carefully make even *that* decision when that time comes.

Guys, bliss isn't the scapegoat whom y'all can point fingers at for every ill around here, just because she's stated opinions many of you don't agree with or has had private arguments with some of you.

Diana Williams posted two excellent messages on Copyright and Fair Use earlier in the Copyright Infringement argument with Hester, some days back. In one, shestated that anything you publish on the 'Net is essentially copyrighted, but that you may not be able to prevent people from making copies. Her second message lists several sites. I went to these sites out of curiosity to see if there was, in fact, any action I could take to get the excerpt of Complicated Shadows taken down from a certain web site.

The excerpt of my work is a small part of the whole, and therefore cannot be proven to violate my copyright. Now, there is some argument on what percentage of a work CAN in fact be used within parody or satire, so I again welcome comment from any attorney with a working knowledge of Fair Use

Oh, and for the record, dignifying any accusations as lunatic and patently false as the kind that have been aimed at me in recent days by a denial is absurd.Stillwater wrote to me to ask me let this rest, but I see that Laura and Marlene still have some sort of bizarre ax to grind. In fact, I did make a denial in answer to Laura's pot stirring post up in the Unfounded Accusations thread. Facts are just too difficult to deal with, apparently.

Throughout Lisby's alleged travails, the last communication I had with her was a one line message on September 12th, I believe stating that I would be gratefulif she would remove *the quoted excerpt*, not the page or the recommendation.

I posted publicly to SlashX on three occasions, asking that the matter be kept between me and Lisby and establishing my position. As for Hindy, I have no ideawhere her head is at or why she persists in making subtle hints that I am persecuting her, when I just flat don't care.

On the day that Cici Lean was TOS'd permanently, I wrote to Hindy privately asking her if she'd had anything to do with it, primarily because the [[SocksShoppe]] went first, she's been public about her animosity to what she calls 'the cult of the dead lab rat', and semi-public about her animosity to Cici.

Sheare Bliss has used this forum to imply that it is my hobby to bait and flame. All I say is, I double dog dirty dare someone to produce evidence of that.I understand that Bliss has now devoted an entire site to proving that somehow I am responsible for "abuses" that made it necessary for her to pull her writing from the Web. I haven't gone to the site and I am not going to. She and her supporters have wasted enough of my time.

To set the record straight, the "abuse" I committed was the use of two paragraphs from her story, Complicated Shadows, on an IOHO recommendation page. On this page, I said that CS was my favorite piece of fan fiction and that everyone should go to eXclusive and read it. I did not archive the story. I did not even provide an active link to eXclusive. I used the two paragraphs to illustrate what fine writing she is capable of.

About three weeks ago, Bliss sent me an e-mail that--despite what she claims--was not polite. In it, she told me that my recommendation of CS was "hypocritcal in the extreme." She demanded that I remove the entire recommendation page. I told her no on First Ammendment and Fair Use grounds; I also assured her that I was absolutely sincere in my statements on IOHO. I asked her to be at peace and know that I wished her no harm. But my refusal began this entire saga of story pullings and nasty MSTings, Debbilmouse guest books signed by "Lispyhater," etc. Friends of Bliss's have written to me, promising revenge for "driving a better writer than you off the Web." Someone signed the IOHO guest book telling me to "grow up" because I would not take down the page and the quote. I assure you, writer, that I *am* grown up. Let me prove it.

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