| huzzah! stuff! |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|11:10 pm] |
Yuletart image is sent out one hour ahead of deadline (wooo), sweet potatoes for potluck tomorrow are in the fridge, and I am over 30K on my novel. I feel this has been a Good Day.
...still 10,000 behind on NaNo, but. That's okay!
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| TWoP Update |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|11:02 pm] |
I did hear back from the mods, which I didn't expect. Basically, the problem was my tone. Oh, and the mod who actually suspended me and deleted my posts didn't read far enough back--or ahead--to notice that the thread had been and continued to be way off-topic.
I honestly didn't realize that TWoP had a long history of being faily. It's a shame, because I really liked the SGU snark, as well as the recaps of Flash Forward. Oh, well. |
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| Podfic progress |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|07:20 pm] |
I had to start again, because the stand mike wasn't working. It'd be fine if I had a desk, but with it on my lap in the back bedroom, I get echoes, and it picks up the ambient noise every time I shift position.
So I started...and realized quickly that the mike that connects to the jack on my laptop apparently picks up the broadcasts from the Catholic radio station whose tower is about a block away. While there's a certain irony in having the Catholic station ruining my attempt to record the NC-17 slash, I'm getting down to the wire here, and this is not helping.
Fortunately, I don't pick the station up after sundown, which still gives me a fair chunk of recording time. I've also ordered a USB headset mike that should get here on Wednesday. I kind of wish there were an adapter so I could use the jack mike at work, because my headset is crap. |
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| SGA canon questions |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|04:20 pm] |
Because my memory is crap, do we ever see the team camping offworld, i.e. see what kind of tents they use and such, or is the offworld camping a pure fanon thing?
Unrelated, I remember the team sitting together in their mess hall in a couple of episodes, but I can't recall which those were. Argh. My memory, worse than a Swiss cheese. |
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| Television Without Pity--But Racism is Dandy! |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|06:49 pm] |
Okay, I should have known better. But I was enjoying the SGU thread on TWoP, with all of the lovely snark. And I appreciated the fact that most of the posters seemed to get why having sex in someone else's body was skeevy, and why it's problematic that the black guy in SGU is yet another Angry Black Man.
( Seriously--I should have known better. ) |
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| The glory as I dreamed |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|12:48 am] |
The glory as I dreamed [Reference]
by Te
November 12, 2009
Disclaimers: No one and nothing here is mine.
Spoilers/Timeline: No real spoilers, takes place when Bruce is eighteen.
Summary: In which the two most obsessive people in the universe do what they do best.
Ratings Note/Warnings: Sexual content.
Author's Note: An AU 'missing scene' for ending *2* of A way so familiar. Will not make any sense without the other.
Acknowledgments: To Jack, Pixie, and Mildred for audiencing, encouragement, and putting up with me when the story veered sideways.
Story! |
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| AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|08:37 pm] |
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I just renamed the files on teland because a rather gratitude-inducing individual informed me that -- somehow -- it got indexed on google, which... no.
WORLD OF NO.
I -- look. It could be as simple as the fact that I've been using my gmail to point people to the story, but I would like to ask -- *beg* -- that those of you who have read the thing *not link it anywhere*. At all. Yes, that includes del.icio.us, nalasalad2. And maybe don't write out the links in your google apps?
Christ.
I'm going to put in that thingy to block robots just as soon as I can make my brain work enough to do that. In the meantime...
Hell. Just take the 'me' out of the file name. Save it onto your hard drives if you want it, because I'm *thisfuckingclose* to yoinking it. |
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| young rats are exhausting |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:10 pm] |
It's not exactly that I had forgotten already how much energy and destructive initiative young rats have once they've gotten over their initial shyness, but there definitely was rose-tinted nostalgia blurring those memories. In any case I now remember why the free playtime outside I give younger rats has always been only an hour or two at most, whereas I let older ones out as much as they like as long as I'm home.
I also need to come up with more entertainment to occupy them now that they feel secure outside. Currently Noah in particular expends most of his not inconsiderable energy trying to get out of their play enclosure (simple wood panels held together with cable binders), that I put up for their safety while they are this young and reckless. Though even with the escape attempts, it still makes watching them easier. And the ferret climbing tree I bought for them has been a big hit, but clearly I now need to do some more landscaping to satisfy their exploratory drive. |
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| RIP Edward Woodward |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
I used to watch "The Equalizer" every week. I loved Edward Woodward's character, who was a morally grey character that wasn't typical for the 1980's. Even though he was old enough to be my grandfather, I thought he had an incredibly sexy voice.
Years later, I saw the younger version of him in the original Wicker Man Despite the ridiculous campiness of the whole thing, I couldn't help feeling sorry for his rigid, uptight, clueless character in the end.
He was a damn good actor, and he'll be missed. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|03:08 pm] |
I am agog at the United States Postal Service! I ordered some Titan Books Transformers collections off Half.com Friday night--well after business hours--and two of them arrived TODAY. Monday. The equivalent of overnight delivery, since they couldn't possibly have gotten to the post office before Saturday morning.
Via Media Mail, which is supposed to come within 4-8 days, if you are lucky.
You are raising unreasonable expectations, Postal Service! The next time I completely fail to get a package, I will be even madder at you!
The collections themselves are LOVE, by the way. I first encountered them in person in New York two weeks ago, and bought two--Legacy of Unicron and City of Fear--because they are just that exciting. You see, the UK Transformers collections were originally published in magazine-style format, so regular comics-sized reprints (like the IDW ones) don't quite do them justice. Nor, frequently, do the scans.
The paper on the Titan reprints is also a bit less glossy. I don't like glossy paper, especially on trades, where the angle of the pages increases its tendency to reflect back at you.
And on Half.com, as opposed to in New York, they are pretty cheap. |
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| Fannish miscellany |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|09:24 pm] |
I'm not doing Yuletide this year. This year's deadline falls right when we'll be getting ready for our trip, and I didn't think I was going to have the bandwidth to deal with writing fic in a fandom I don't usually write in for a strict deadline. But I kind of miss being a part of all of the excitement.
On the other hand, my Podbang is going along pretty well. I HATE Audacity, I really do. It's not easy to use--why in the hell can't you record over something, or stop and start without creating a new track?--and it crashes a lot and doesn't autosave. I'm about halfway through with 4 hours of recording, although a lot of that will need to be edited. Although I have limited times I can record, because of my wacky schedule, I can take my machine to work and edit on my lunch hour.
Everyone's very excited about AO3, and while I'm glad to see that it's in open beta at last, my two attempts to upload have been exercises in frustration. I still don't understand the tagging system--and yes, I have read ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) zvi's post--but for me, having tags for genre and communities and specific elements of a fic all lumped into one cloud make it difficult to know how to tag my fic, and how to search for something I want. While I'm glad that the Archive is RPF-friendly, the design and implementation don't work very well for RPF. And I really don't like the warnings options, because they don't leave enough flexibility for the authors or provide clear, straightforward warnings for the readers. I may try again later, but right now, it's not working for me. |
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| Archive of Our Own? |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|01:54 pm] |
Thanks to the excellent zing_och, who also got me the Dreamwidth code, I now have an Archive of Our Own account!
It is exciting. I wasn't active in fandom (lurking *a lot* but not really active) during the heyday of central archives, so I've always sort of quietly yearned for a place to put my stuff up, where all my little incidental things could get edited up properly without spamming my flist.
A stable server with resources is nice--I put a bunch of my stuff up on the Marvel Fanfiction Archive site, which doesn't exist anymore.
(I mean, obviously not stable *yet*. But eventually!)
In other news, I'm not very prolific, but after five years it does add up! *eyes stack of things to upload* |
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| mmm, yule! |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|04:09 pm] |
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Hello, Yule Writer and Other Curious People! Here's my letter in which I...well, basically repeat my prompts and give a little bit about the sources. I'm crossposting it to Dreamwidth and Insanejournal because I feel like it, and if you feel the need to track me back farther my Livejournal is still available to you.
I asked for two comics fandoms and two book fandoms this year: the comics are Lovebunny and Mr. Hell, a short-lived series that mostly parodied superhero comics, and Hothead Paisan, an independent queer comic, and the books are Dragonsword, a fantasy trilogy, and The Changeling Prince, a fantasy novel.
( Here's the nattering! )
So, there you have it, and in conclusion, *HEARTS*. |
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| AOOO |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|07:03 pm] |
I want to invite you! All of you! Unfortunately I only have one invite. First to comment gets it (I'll need an email address).
Invitation is sent! |
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