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I don't know if I'm just in a good mood (which seems unlikely given how achey I am and how poorly I'm sleeping) or if kids these days are rocking it pretty okay but I recently bought a metric crapton of music on Amazon because they had an mp3 sale (recently being over the past few months), and aside from the Katy Perry experiment, I've been really liking a lot of it. Whole albums worth of liking it, and not just the usual 'there were a couple of tracks on this album that were good, so it was worth my five bucks'.

That was quick

*sigh* I try not to take on the role of the 'traditional geek' and complain when somebody pees in my swimming pool, the swimming pool I have carefully nurtured and loved for years. For the most part, unless somebody asks me the foolish question "So do you like steampunk stuff?", I'm happy to quietly let other people enjoy their adulterated, co-opted, watered down, bowdlerized, WRONG versions of things.

But today while I was doing research (it was very important and also necessary) I came across a wall decal, a lovely three and a half foot design map of the hundred aker wood, from the frontispiece of the books. Except somebody had painstaking gone through and removed the Shepherd art of the characters and replaced them all with the Lovable Highly Colorful More Recognisable More Commercially Viable Disney versions. (Sorry, I don't know the name of the artist responsible.)

Up until this point, I've been perfectly willing to accept that it's just harder to find the book art for things than the cartoons. It means I work a little harder for what I get, and sometimes I get nothing. Life's like that. But if Disney plans to devour and absorb the book art until, like the Holy Church and European paganism, there is nothing particularly left of the original, then I shall be surly.