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| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 |
fandom_lounge
[ sistercoyote ]
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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 ]
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5:15p |
RIP, GJ. And GreatestJournal is dead. http://www.greatestjournal.comA week in the new year, and two journaling services are already dead? That's harsh. Check out the 403 error. |
fandom_lounge
[ hypno_jango ]
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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 |
daily_snitch
[ ziasudra ]
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10:12p |
The Daily Snitch: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Archive: Walking the Plank, a Harry/Snape archive, has been updated with new stories and art.
- Challenges: catchmysnitch posts its January Challenge: Invisibility Cloak
fwhg_ldws announces Round 2 signups for Fred Weasley/Hermione Granger Last Drabble Writer Standing.
Prompt claiming is open for the do_me_veela Veela Fest 2009. More information here.
- Communities: hp_beholder will begin signups for Round 2 on January 29.
hp_rarities posts information about its upcoming fest.
Nominations are now open for hpgw_otp's Fourth Annual Best Of Awards.
springtime_gen posts Springtime Gen 2009: Rules, FAQs, Guidelines.
sshg_exchange has started posting.
- General Interest: LiveJournal Inc Press Release
- Have a Laugh: regan_v posts HP on LJ: how would HP characters have used LJ, if it had been available at Hogwarts? And its sequel: Harry & Co. on LJ.
- Hot Recs: Forbidden Passion: A Soap Opera in Five Acts, by Anonymous. (Snape/Lupin, NC-17, see warnings)
Taste, by Anonymous. (Snape/Lupin, NC-17, see warnings)
- News: Emma Watson talks life, Deathly Hallows & more in new interview
High Res Weasley Wheezes, Trio and Slughorn Half-Blood Prince Photos
HP Fan Trips Including London and the World Premier of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Participate: bottomsnape is looking for helpers to gather art and fic links.
- Resources: metamorfic_moon has posted the Pink Christmas Advent Index.
snapeartcontest posts the masterlist of past contests.
- Search:
daily_snitch is looking for fan works and resources featuring Bellatrix Lestrange.
Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! |
fandom_lounge
[ anarchicq ]
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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_wank
[ dogbite12 ]
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12:54p |
So Transfan, I Herd U Liek Pedo Bear? Transformers comic book fandom wank.. Early this morning, it was about pedophilia. My doppelgänger from the IDW fan forum Skwege learned that he had been accused of having sex with children by the IDW forum fantards on Transfans.net. Sprunkner is a real internet tough guy. Unfortunately, he made it quite easy to find his dox.
Skwege was not happy to find he'd been slandered as a pedo. So he calls (yes, as in calls Sprunkner's landline) to tell him to take it down. No yelling, just something along the lines of "call me whatever you want but accusing me of child fucking is not cool."
What does Spencer (Sprunkner's IRL name) do? He freaks out and hangs up!
That's right-he's a coward. So Skwege leaves him a voicemail: "Hi Spencer : You like to make libelous accusations about people having sex with kids? That is really grown up of you. Oh wow, you live in Washington State as well? What a coincidence! Bellingham is only an hour from here.
It's not funny! I know little punks like you think they can run around all anonymous on the internet and think nothing can bite them in their ass. However let me tell you little man, you are going to retract your statement, and then apologize. Talking shit about someone is one thing, but making a disgusting and FOUL comment like that is libelous. I have the time, money, resources, and most importantly the fucking patience to see this through so don't toy with me little man."
Then Sprunkner has his wife (yes, someone actually agreed to marry him) respond. He doesn't have the balls to answer Skwege himself-he makes his wife call him back and tell him not to call. Unfortunately, Spencer posted her phone number and email as his contact information.
Some PMs get exchanged on the IDW forum and Sprunkner accuses Skwege of threatening him (although I doubt the police consider being asked to take down a post or telling someone you're suing them for slander are violations of any particular laws). He makes an announcement on Transfans.net, crying that Skwege is harassing his family and that he called the po-po on him.
Sprunkner did call the police and they in turn contact Skwege.
The result? The police are highly pissed off-at Sprunkner. Because this is much ado about comic books.
All this name calling and wank is over whether or not the comic book series All Hail Megatron is in continuity.
The police were not too happy about being called to mediate a dispute over Starscream's alt mode.
They lecture Sprunkner and felt Skwege was somewhat justified. Skwege apologizes for dragging the wife into the mess because being accused of fucking children is serious business that involves the IRL banhammer.
The wank continues on Tranfan.net where Sprunkner whines some more (I guess his wife made him sleep on the couch) and Skwege threatens to post a scan of the police report.
These fine examples of male adulthood continue to fight about giant robots. I believe Sprunkner's wife summed it up succinctly in an email to Skwege: "This is a fight over made up robots-let it go."
Unfortunately, everyone ignores her.
Edit: I accept this is total fail. Need more recipes and fail macros, please. |
fandom_lounge
[ arionhunter ]
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11:16a |
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fandom_lounge
[ ilya ]
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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.SourceCan you imagine the amazing bitchfest wankery that would go on if anything happened to LJ??? The internet would implode... |
| Monday, January 5th, 2009 |
daily_snitch
[ padme_kenobi ]
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11:53p |
The Daily Snitch: Monday, January 5, 2009 Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! |
fandom_lounge
[ shark ]
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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) |
metafandom
[ kiltslave ]
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8:49a |
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2009 |
fandom_lounge
[ negativecosine ]
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6:25p |
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daily_snitch
[ titti ]
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4:48p |
Special Edition: Percy Weasley (Fic Edition - R and NC-17) ( R and NC-17 )If you have more fic rated R or NC-17 that you will like to see posted, please leave a comment here. Previous editions can be found at Live Journal, InsaneJournal and JournalFen |
daily_snitch
[ titti ]
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2:36p |
Special Edition: Percy Weasley (Fic Edition - Gen through PG-13) |
daily_snitch
[ titti ]
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2:15p |
Special Edition: Percy Weasley (Art and Resources) - Art:
( G to PG-13 )
( R and NC-17 )
- Resources:
- nqdonne's Master List of all my Percy fic recs - Tag on H/D Hols for all fics featuring Percy as a featuring secondary character/pairing - The Percy tag on Daily Deviant - Percyness: The Percy Weasley Archive - Prefect? - snape_percy is for fiction, art, and discussion related to the pairing Severus Snape/Percy Weasley - weasleys_wood - A Percy/Oliver Community - percy_ficathon - A Percy Fic/Art Exchange - allie_andromeda's Percy Weasley recs - percy_fans - for everything Percy - billxcharliexpercy club at deviantART - percy-x-penelope club at deviantART - lucius_percy - percy/draco, percy/george, percy/harry, percy/hermione, percy/kingsley, percy/lucius, percy/neville, percy/oliver, percy/penny, percy/tonks tags at hp_springsmut - Percy/Snape at the Snape/Weasley Archive - Essay: Excuse Me, I'm Head Boy: Percy Weasley by strangemuses
If you have more art or resources that you will like to see posted, please leave a comment here.
Previous editions can be found at Live Journal, InsaneJournal and JournalFen |
| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 |
fandom_lounge
[ staroverthebay ]
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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 ]
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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. |
daily_snitch
[ furiosity ]
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8:08p |
The Daily Snitch: Saturday, January 3, 2009 Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! |
fandom_wank
[ aeka ]
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3:26p |
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fandom_lounge
[ vitalitat ]
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10:05a |
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| Friday, January 2nd, 2009 |
fandom_lounge
[ photosinensis ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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12:42p |
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daily_snitch
[ oddnari ]
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3:59a |
The Daily Snitch: Wednesday, December 31, 2008; Thursday, January 1, 2009 HAPPY NEW YEAR - Actors and Movies: Happy birthday, Pam Ferris! Ferris, who turned 61 on January 1, 2009, played Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Happy birthday, Verne Troyer! Troyer portrays Griphook, the Gringotts goblin, in the Harry Potter movies. He turned 40 on January 1, 2009
Emma Watson talks of the two Harry Potter and the Death Hallows films and on wrapping up the filming for the movies
Daniel Radcliffe's next on-stage project may be a musical
Daniel Radcliffe speaks about Dumbledore's funeral in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Archive: The Snape/Lupin-centric Moonshadow archive has been updated
Snape/Hermione-centric archive When I Kissed The Teacher has been updated
- Challenges: HarryLovesDraco have posted 2009's first challenge: New or First [On LJ] [On IJ]
snupin100 have posted Challenge 189: Resolutions on LJ and IJ
Snapedom are looking for ideas for new challenges
- Communities: HP_Unfaithful are gathering prompts for a mini-fest in January and February on LJ and IJ
Snarry_Swap have started posting
lupin_snape have posted the Snupin Santa 2008 Guessing Poll
HP_Traditions have begun sign-ups for their fest. Sign-ups are open on LiveJournal and InsaneJournal, and will run from January 1 to January 31, 2009
snape_het is a new community featuring Snape-centric het pairs
hermione_loves is a new community featuring Snape/Hermione, Sirius/Hermione, Remus/Hermione and Draco/Hermione
- Essay: geri_chan wrote about the similarities between Snape and Harry
- Hot Rec: More Than Blueberry Scones by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, Teddy/suprise partner; PG-13)
Before We Get Too Old by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, Draco/Astoria; R)
Elephants by Anonymous (Harry/Draco; NC-17)
The Fall by Anonymous (Teddy/James Sirius; NC-17)
- News: Six new high-resolution stills from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (featuring Ron, Ginny, Harry, Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall and Slughorn) are now available online
- Resource: PotterCast 179 offers the best of 2008
Send your fandom news to Daily Snitch! |
| Thursday, January 1st, 2009 |
fandom_wank
[ hypno_jango ]
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9:21a |
The grammar! My eyes! I'm just C&P'ing a mousie's post from wank_report. I can't pass up entitlement wank. Crunchyroll is going legit. The site owner, Shinji, has been wheeling and dealing to have anime air subbed only days after it airs in Japan. OK, users are pleased, the Naruto fans look on in anticipation, everything seems hunky-dory. Then, Shinji introduces Anime memberships for the site. Did not read all of the benefits but the gist seems to be higher quality videos and quicker access to the anime from Japan. That happened in the past few weeks. Now queue the new year! Oops, did he just say that he was removing all fan uploaded content and getting permission from the publishers? Queue the butthurt, angst, and I will kill for my anime!!!!Z!!!!!!ZOMG~!!!! Along with people eagerly trading links for other sites to feed their addiction. The dramas, anime, and music sections now look like ghost towns, with the exception of stuff Shinji has wheeled and dealed for. People are predicting the death of the site, but for now, it's fun seeing the entitlement angst going on over there. |
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