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    Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ sistercoyote ]
         		3:26p
    LJ, redux
    Is LJ being exceptionally robust, or is it just me?  Vandalism by pissed-off ex-employees?

    It's probably just me.  But I can't get to LJstatus to find out for sure, so I thought I'd post here.

    Sorry to bother everyone (okay, I'm not.  Not really.)

    Edited to add:  Okay, not just me, then.  On the one hand, Phew.  On the other hand...I bet this has the potential to become epic.  Even when it turns out to be just a hiccup.

    Edited again to add:  Now when LJ comes up it shows the following message:  LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.

    Thank you for your patience.

    Final edit:  It's baa-ack.  And I'm going to the bookstore.
    fandom_lounge
    [ sushi ]
         		5:15p
    RIP, GJ.
    And GreatestJournal is dead.

    http://www.greatestjournal.com

    A week in the new year, and two journaling services are already dead? That's harsh. Check out the 403 error.
    celandine
         		2:03p
    Catching up on the mail...
    I'd let the mail accumulate for a few days, and now have a couple of holiday cards to acknowledge - from [info]mrowe (I think it's a little too early for Easter - it was here before Twelfth Night!), and from [info]new_kid16. Thanks guys!

    So today I should: balance checkbooks, call to make eye exam appointment, call to make mechanic appointment, walk Juno, check work email, write syllabus for upper-div class (the grad syllabus is nearly finished, worked on that last night). I was going to go in to campus today but couldn't seem to wake up this morning, so will go tomorrow instead.

    Have not managed to start any ficlets. Hopefully on the commute tomorrow.

    Current Mood: okay
    fandom_lounge
    [ hypno_jango ]
         		11:31a
    While gamer sites are doing the "Best/Worst of 2008" awards, Zero Punctuation decides to do one too... but a little bit differently.
    Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ anarchicq ]
         		6:54p
    Portollies.com poll
    Doubtless you saw this in Metafandom, but I thought I'd post it here too.
    Portfollies.com poll

    "Portfollies will be a social networking website where people can upload their portfolios (text, image, video and audio files), both original and fan works. The website will also offer communities/forums, and a variety of tools to help with creation and communication."
    fandom_lounge
    [ arionhunter ]
         		11:16a
    Your Daily Dose of Adorable
    2.1-Meter-Tall Pine-Cone Totoro Unveiled in Japan.

    If only that had been in the Rose Bowl Parade, I might have watched.
    fandom_lounge
    [ ilya ]
         		9:57p
    LJ going under?
    The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.

    The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.

    Source

    Can you imagine the amazing bitchfest wankery that would go on if anything happened to LJ??? The internet would implode...
    Monday, January 5th, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ shark ]
         		8:32p
    A Request for Recs
    This one is for my mom - she just finished reading Phantom of the Opera (book, obviously) and wants to know where the fandom is - or at least where the fanfiction is: if anyone could rec me some good bookverse fic* I would be very, very much obliged. Good mimickry of Gaston Leroux's style (in the puffin classics translation) is a gigantic bonus.

    Also one from/for myself - now that I've exhausted Yuletide's offerings and am already in the middle of the Dragonchoice duology (it's good!) - is there any other good Dragonriders of Pern fic on the net? I'll read most anything, although I really like metay fic.

    * (gen or het, ideally; I think she would freak if I linked her slash. Also, non-porny, since I would freak at sending links to porn to my mom)
    celandine
         		10:20p
    Juno picspam
    I only had my cell phone to hand, but here is Juno with her nose pointed directly at Good Omens. I couldn't resist. Sorry for size/fuzziness!

    ( I love my dog )
    celandine
         		11:15a
    Okay, brain
    It's time. Classes start in one week. You need to write syllabi, deal with work and school email, and do all the other necessary things for the beginning of the semester. You also need to write a dozen ficlets.

    While doing all the useful household stuff you did this weekend was good (cleaned both cars, vacuumed 2/3 of house, did some raking, belatedly pruned roses, did laundry, cooked like a mad cooking thing, took Juno to dog park, talked to maternal unit, etc.), it is, sadly, now time to WORK.

    Current Mood: grumpy
    Sunday, January 4th, 2009
    venivincere
         		10:14p
    Sad and angry
    I just found out that one of my childhood friends was murdered two days ago. He and his older brother moved away when we were still just kids, but our families kept in touch. His brother was just in town this summer, visiting for a few days. I found out from my mom that the neighborhood association where he lived had turned off the streetlights and let go the guard who used to patrol the neighborhood at night because people were not paying their association dues. Since then, several cars have been broken into, and now this. They took his laptop and cell phone; he had nothing else.

    http://www.wbt.com/news/details.cfm?article_id=44925

    Current Mood: sad
    fandom_lounge
    [ negativecosine ]
         		6:25p
    Disney Buys Fanlib
    Written up here by [info]stewardess.

    (May shortly be wanky, but not provocative enough for [info]clairvoyantwank just yet, I thought.)
    venivincere
         		5:36p
    Simple and Delicious
    4 strips thick-cut bacon, trimmed of excess fat
    1/2 head cabbage, rough-chopped
    salt and fresh-ground pepper to taste

    Chop the trimmed bacon and separate into pieces. In large sautee pan or wok, heat bacon until grease from bacon coats pan. Add rough-chopped cabbage, sautee, stirring frequently, until bacon done and cabbage just going soft. Add salt and fresh-ground pepper to taste, stir in, turn off heat and serve. Can be served as is, or over rice (basmati is best). Enjoy!

    Current Mood: full
    Current Music: blessed silence!
    Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
    fandom_lounge
    [ staroverthebay ]
         		8:31p
    Pratchett recs?
    Okay, I think this is the place to post this, but if it's not, let me know and I'll delete it. It seems to pertain to "fandom" as a general rule.

    Anyway, the news about Terry Pratchett being knighted has inspired me to pick up the books I've had sitting around waiting to read. I've finished "Mort" and I'm most of the way through "Wyrd Sisters" and while I can say that I love Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the character I'm really in love with is Death himself. (God that sounds weird!)

    Being that I'm pretty much broke right now (car payments, credit card payments, car repairs and now I'm going back to school... I has no money to spare on things like novels!) I have to reserve them at the library through their transfer system, and the transfer system is not very good at giving decent book descriptions beyond author, title, year published and format (hardcover vs softbound). So what I'd like to know is this: which books focus most on Death and his household? Because I seriously love his laid-back everything-in-due-time attitude, and I'd love to read more of his escapades. I'm sure I'll enjoy any Pratchett book I pick up, but I'm really eager to read the books about Death. (Why do I get this weird feeling that I sound like an emo-gothic-wannabe when I say that?)
    fandom_lounge
    [ freezer ]
         		7:22p
    Got an account on JournalSpace?
    Not anymore, you don't.

    Journalspace is no more.

    DriveSavers called today to inform me that the data was unrecoverable.

    Here is what happened: the server which held the journalspace data had two large drives in a RAID configuration. As data is written (such as saving an item to the database), it's automatically copied to both drives, as a backup mechanism.

    The value of such a setup is that if one drive fails, the server keeps running, using the remaining drive. Since the remaining drive has a copy of the data on the other drive, the data is intact. The administrator simply replaces the drive that's gone bad, and the server is back to operating with two redundant drives.

    But that's not what happened here. There was no hardware failure. Both drives are operating fine; DriveSavers had no problem in making images of the drives. The data was simply gone. Overwritten.


    For all the bitching we do about LJ and (occasionally) JF, at least their backups actually back things up.
    jordangrant
         		3:49p
    Owned (HP/DM) -- Post 74


    Title: Owned
    Rating: Adult
    Summary: The Malfoys have always been owned by the Potters. HP/DM. Deathly Hallows compliant although the epilogue is ignored.
    Warnings: Slavery, dominance/submission, slash, angst, romance. Since this story spins off of canon, Harry's in a relationship with Ginny when we begin.
    Disclaimer: Based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter works, the full canon except the DH epilogue. No infringement intended and not for profit.
    Feedback: Yes, please.


    ---- This story is based on a prompt provided by [info]lothy.
    ---- Latin incantation and translation provided by [info]fabula_rasa.
    ---- Owned banner art by [info]quill_lumos.
    ---- Thanks to [info]triomakesmehot, [info]quill_lumos, [info]hogwartshoney and [info]clauclauclaudia for the feedback and valuable comments.

    WARNING: Cliffhanger



    ( Continue Reading )

    Current Mood: head-achey. Owww.....
    fandom_lounge
    [ vitalitat ]
         		10:05a
    New Doctor actor is youngest ever

    Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.

    ( Text of article )


    ETA!
    MORE IMAGES? Is this the right guy now?

    ( Fixed the cut, sorry )

    Yeah, that's him... The Viggo thing kind of went out the window just now.

    ETA 3:
    Hasn't Tyra taught us anything at all? ANGLES. It's all about the angles.

    ETA 4:
    And now a video interview.
    Friday, January 2nd, 2009
    venivincere
         		9:35p
    Ouran note
    I've fallen in love with Haruhi all over again. *silly grin*
    fandom_lounge
    [ photosinensis ]
         		7:43p
    Naruto Shippuden on Hulu? Sign me up!
    Remember that post about Crunchyroll going legit? One of the first things they're picking up is Naruto Shippuden, which will run on Crunchyroll with subtitles an hour after the show runs in Japan for the paid members there. Joost.com, Hulu.com, and Naruto.com will run the episodes for free a week later. This will start with the next episode, running on January 8.

    In addition, subtitled episodes will be uploaded to all above websites at 8/week until the entire catalog is available.

    In related news, Dattebayo has dropped Naruto Shippuden from its subtitling rounds.

    I'd like to start a betting pool on when the wank will begin.
    fandom_lounge
    [ tree ]
         		8:43p
    Did you know...
    ... that TV Tropes was on twitter? I didn't. I almost wish I still didn't.
    fandom_lounge
    [ seto_fangirl ]
         		12:42p
    11th Doctor Who to be announced tomorrow.....

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7807742.stm

    Countdown to wanksplosion somewhere in the fandom tomorrow....
    Thursday, January 1st, 2009
    celandine
         		10:11p
    Lazy day
    I really didn't do much at all today except take Juno to the dog park, read, and fool around online. I reposted a bunch of fic to various comms and tallied up all that I wrote in 2008, which was a LOT. Still have several reposts to do tomorrow from fests that have had reveals.

    [info]angela_snape wrote me a darling Draco/Severus drabble: Enchained

    Oh, and I got two cards yesterday, one from [info]r_grayjoy (I chortled madly at that one - I've definitely been in fandom too long!), and one from [info]julifolo. Thank you!

    Current Mood: calm
    celandine
         		2:28p
    Year end fic stats and some links
    In 2008 I kept a spreadsheet to record all my fic-writing, which made it relatively easy to compile stats for the year. *is total geek*

    ( Verbosity, aka word counts )

    ( Fandoms written )

    ( Pairings and characters written, by fandom )

    ( Links to the longer fics )

    Holy crap, but that's a lot of fic-writing. I'm trying to avoid signing up for fests this year (although there are one or two exceptions I may make as the year goes on, and I'm still participating in [info]daily_deviant), which will likely reduce the 2009 total considerably. I'd like to get back into the habit of writing from my own inspiration, and perhaps even restart work on the original novel that I was contemplating a year ago. I have at least 8 WIPs, too.

    Current Mood: mellow
    celandine
         		12:49p
    Yuletide reveal!
    I wrote "Principles," a story focused on Michael Godwin in Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint universe. I'll be reposting it on the fic comms and at Wellinghall soon.

    And thank you again to seren_ccd, who wrote me "Truly, He Hadn't," in the Fire and Hemlock universe by Diana Wynne Jones!
    venivincere
         		11:12a
    Resolutions and Roundups
    Resolutions:
    1. Attempt to have a little more personality and get involved more. I hate feeling like life is doing me instead of me doing life.
    2. Get healthy, which will probably do wonders for making #1 work.
    3. Write more, even if it is utter crap.
    4. Post more here.

    Fic roundup for 2008:
    This is a list of my fics which were published on Skyehawke; there may be a bit of bleed-through from 2007 because I posted my fest fics there in January. Missing: this year's Prince of Tennis fic for Santa_Smex: the reveals aren't until mid-January.

    View-master
    Sometimes we all need a little help communicating. Snape/Harry. Warnings: Voyeurism, cross-dressing, spanking, mild D/s, a bare hint of M-preg.
    [ Published 2009-01-01 ]</font>


    A Superior Choice
    Snape/Harry. Romance, Angst. "Tabula rasa," Harry says again, because it's the only thing he can think of with Snape's nose so close to his face, pushing everything else to the edge of his vision. "Potter. My tabula will never be rasa."
    [ Published 2008-08-31 ]


    A Time to Dare
    Snape/Harry. Sometimes the risk is worth it. Romance with a little hurt/comfort thrown in.
    [ Published 2008-08-30 ]


    Up Snape's Bum
    For Pushdragon's inadvertent challenge. Claim: Hermione Granger.
    [ Published 2008-05-11 ]


    Except Sunday
    Sanada/Yukimura, PG-13. Routine is discipline, discipline is strength.
    [ Published 2008-04-13 ]


    A Royal Bill of Goods
    Eiji/Oishi and a little bit of Atobe/Tezuka. NC-17. Humor. "How many times do we have to tell you? The wasabi was an accident!"
    [ Published 2008-01-10 ]


    A Bit of Comfort
    Snape/Harry. Summary: Harry can't seem to get Snape out of his head. Or is it Voldemort? Angst/Humor. Warnings: Chan, spanking.
    [ Published 2008-01-05 ]
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