Monday, April 21st, 2008
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1:43 pm - Roswell escapism
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I did some RL work this past weekend, and some OTW work, and some OMG my home is a pit chores, and a little bit of reconnecting with family since we've been having some rough times of it lately... though I had hoped to do more on all fronts. But any motion in the right direction is progress, so, yeah... go me. I still need to reconnect with some friends and professional colleagues who've I've been meaning to talk to for weeks, because I've kind of sucked at the whole communications thing lately for various reasons. Sigh.
I was feeling quite under the weather (and not all of that was the slight hangover from Friday night's two glasses of wine... sheesh, at least it's cheap to get myself tipsy) this past weekend, so I kind of curled up and hid from the world, and spent a huge lot of time in a media haze, drifting in and out of watching DVDs and sleeping. Many of the episodes now have a lovely dreamlike quality in my mind because I was drifting in and out of sleep as I watched them.
And, um, in the process I kind of mainlined seasons 2 and 3 of Roswell between Friday night and Monday morning.
This means that yay, I can safely read whatever fanfic and watch whatever vids I can find without being spoiled, which is a nice feeling. It also means that oh, woe, there are no more new eps to watch, which is not a nice feeling. On the other hand, closed canon is a nice thing, in general, for me, so the benefits outweigh drawbacks.
I think season 1 is my favorite, and it is available to stream-watch for free on hulu.com, which is cool. I found season 2 to be OK and kind of fun, and season 3 taken in its entirety was quite satisfactory for me, but since a few of the premise-foundation situations and characterizations that season 3 is built on... didn't ring true for me, really getting into where they took the show based on that foundation was not an easy, smooth path for me. I got there, but it just didn't flow, you know?
That said? It was really cool to be able to watch a show that basically takes a lot of my favorite features of the Superman mythos and posits a what-if: rather than a solitary alien sent to Earth, a small group of aliens were trying to survive together. I like that idea. I mean, a single character with their superpowers and their weaknesses finding their way alone in the hostile world is interesting, absolutely, but multiple characters each with superpowers and weaknesses, plus all of the interactions between those characters and their care for each other, and the interactions between those characters and their human-native Earthling friends and enemies... it's exponentially more interesting. I mean, if you had the unique power to fix bad situations for individual people, but doing so put your own existence, and the existence of those you care about, at perpetually-increasing risk, how would you cope with being unable to save everyone on this planet, and even on other planets? I adore watching characters facing down that dilemma.
Plus, Max gets whumped a lot. ;-)
And then there's the fact that this show puts a brickpile on the accelerator of this whole huge hotbutton kink of mine:
Willingness to walk knowingly into certain suffering and possible failure, emoting the whole darned way, into something they alone might have the uniquely-suited knowledge, skills, emotional or physical capacity to endure. And hair to push back away from their expressive eyes. :-9 Unique skillset, willing and aware self-sacrificial tendencies, expressive or deeply introspective emotions. Oh, yeah, baby...
I first posted that paragraph on my LJ back in 2003, by the way. Ahahaha.
And yeah, there are plot holes big enough to land multiple flying saucers in, and I don't care. Roswell pretty.
How was your weekend?
current mood: grateful
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| Thursday, April 17th, 2008
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8:20 am - Another note about IJ status
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| Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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12:50 pm - *cuddles IJ close*
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And IJ is back! With apparently no data lost! Go Squeaky! \o/
More info is here: http://squeaky.insanejournal.com/72329.html
And yes, I am going to buy/gift more paid and/or permanent accounts as soon as my next paycheck clears, because I believe in IJ, just as I believe in JF (which I've also been paying for, and hosting my website with).
And I am going to be more diligent about backing up the content I care about.
And I am going to make more progress on setting up my WordPress blog on my site, and getting cross-posting working so that when I post there, the content is also mirrored over to IJ and JF.
/nods emphatically
But right now I have RL work (meh), and then OTW work (OMG *squee!*) and a bunch of other stuff I'm behind on...
current mood: calm
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| Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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7:10 am - Poor Squeaky...
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| Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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7:46 am - Email address change!
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I'm shifting my primary fannish email address to elke.tanzer @ gmail.com.
I adore the folks who run slashcity, but we haven't been able to figure out the intermittent email problems I've been having (which may be in my own computer's email client, or caused by some bizarre interaction between my client and the server). If you're trying to reach me, please try the gmail.com address first rather than the elke @ elke.slashcity.org one.
I've been thinking about doing this for ages but it always seemed like way too much work to find all the places I've got my email address stored and update them. Cripes, how many websites and mailing lists am I on, anyway? :-P
And I'm still hosting my fannish website at http://elke.slashcity.org/ of course!
But, see, last night? Someone trying to email me a completely innocuous message got the most ironically funny bounce error ever:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
elke @ elke.slashcity.org
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: Gmail tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 Your message was rejected because it appears to be part of a spam bomb -- . ( reason: ' porn ' ) . We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. Thanks for your continued support. (state 17)
The saddest thing is that there wasn't even any porn in the message!
(And yes, I still have reservations about using the "Don't Be Evil" Empire for my email, and yes, I am a newbie to the Gmail interface so this is yet more new technology I am learning this week. My brain feels very full at the moment.)
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| Monday, April 7th, 2008
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9:43 pm - Verbotene Liebe!
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| Sunday, April 6th, 2008
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11:09 pm - OTW, how I adore thee, let me count the ways...
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I adore learning new technology to benefit my community.
I love applying what I know and utilizing my quirky geeky skills to benefit something I deeply care about.
Open Source tools and projects fill me with glee.
I am so proud of my tribe, for every now and then spontaneously bursting forth, like trees flowering in the spring, with amazing ideas and leaps of both logic and faith... and then building the infrastructure to carry those ideas forward to fruition.
See, I promised myself that I would donate more than money to Organization for Transformative Works as soon as my workplace-related craziness calmed down, and as soon as I pulled myself partway out of a really down, dark time lately. I'm still pulling myself out of the dark unhappy place, but I feel really, really good about myself right now. Why?
Because I followed through, and stepped forward during one of OTW's recent calls for volunteers, was accepted, and over the past few days I've learned a bunch of new technology I've been curious about for a while. I'm helping build processes and infrastructure to not only help OTW committee I'm now part of (Webmasters) to handle current requests, but also to help future members of that OTW committee in the event that I for whatever reason have to move on from that role. And together with my fellow new Webmaster Committee Member over the past couple days, and with mentoring/training from a couple fabulous OTW folks, I did a bunch of website updates that needed to be done. Checking off to-dos feels so great!
I feel fabulous. Really, really fabulous.
(I have to be clear here that although I am now an OTW Committee Member (and OTW Member and Donor, because even when I didn't have time to donate, I was able to contribute monetarily), I am not speaking for OTW officially, nor am I speaking on behalf of the Webmaster Committee or anything like that... I'm just babbling here as myself, OK?
This is my personal love note to the OTW, and if I could paste pink sparkles and glitter all over a journal post, I totally would right now.)
( head over heels, ass over teakettle technology geek in lurrrve (with reference links) )
I think OTW+technology just may be my OTP.
*squee!*
current mood: geeky
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| Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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4:46 am - random roundup
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I need to take a moment to tell all of you how much you brighten my life, how much you enrich my knowledge and appreciation of technology, and how much you renew my hope in humanity.
I'm serious.
You're all awesome. We as a community come together in amazing ways, create awesome synergy, and teach each other all kinds of technology and foster curiosity and lack-of-fear of both new technology and creative uses of it. Every time I think I know how rare that sort of encouraging, empowering community is, something else bonks me on the nose, wet newspaper-like, and I realize anew how amazing we really are.
So yeah, y'all rock. *hugsmish*
And now back to random roundup-ing...
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) amalthia on IJ is looking for advice to capture VHS onto DVD, to tackle a sizable anime fansub collection. Go forth and share your knowledge (and horror stories)!
Speaking of new technology, if you're using the new web browser Flock (available for Windows, Mac and Linux), please comment here and let me know what you think of it. It's supposedly wonderful and amazing and I'm going to be testing it out later this week.
rusty_halo on IJ has been experimenting with Wordpress and cross-posting plugins for LJ and IJ. I need to do a bit more research on this, get it working on my sites, and write up a guide (assuming no one else has already done that by that point).
http://rusty-halo.insanejournal.com/333621.html?style=mine
http://rusty-halo.insanejournal.com/333127.html?style=mine
ETA: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/07refugees/77014.html?style=mine
Also, the awesomely fabulous antennapedia on LJ has apparently found and squashed the bug that was giving me fits as I was trying to copy over my LJ entries into my JF and IJ, so later this week I'll be trying again. Whee!
(Have I mentioned how much I adore fandom? And how much I've learned by being fannish with you all? Because HOLY CRAP YES AND YES AGAIN.)
j_crew_guy always puts together such neat genre links! From this post, some positive rumblings that Being Human may be being made into a full season! SQUEE!
(If you haven't see the pilot thingie, by all means try to figure out a way to do so. I wish I could point you to a fast, clear, legal way to get your grabby hands on the episode, but I don't know of one! Brit TV does cool vampire stuff so amazingly, and the angsty werewolf gets nekkid, and their flatmate is utterly adorable, and oh, it's just lovely.)
Which reminds me... I haven't spotted any fanfic comms over on IJ for the UK series Ultraviolet nor for Being Human. Unless I've missed 'em... have you seen any? I'm thinking of things similar to the LJ comms uvfics and beinghuman_fans and beinghuman_fic... I've been prowling around in asylum_promo and syn_promo but haven't spotted anything yet.
I'm rec'ing Ranma 1/2 stories and vids over in IJ on hidden_treasure this month. Signups to rec in any fandom this month close on April 5th. Go sign up! It's easy! You only need to rec a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 12 fanfics for your fandom in a month, and you may also recommend up to four extras - vids, fanart, essays, etc. And rec'ing crossover fic is OK! So far this month there are only four rec'ers, doing One Piece, Doctor Who, Torchwood and Ranma 1/2, so there's plenty of opportunity for you to contribute... go read the userinfo for details!
current mood: happy
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| Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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4:40 pm - Elke's Moratorium on Acquiring New Fandoms
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Given my usual moratorium on acquiring new fandoms this time of year...
*looks around cautiously to see if anyone will ever fall for me saying that I'm turning monofannish ever again*
*knows you all know me far too well*
*gets to use my upside-down icon anyway*
:-)
Happy April Fools, everyone!
I've just seen the first few episodes of Scrubs this past week. I'm going to get the DVDs. Where's the fic? :-D
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| Friday, March 28th, 2008
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8:18 am - Languages, languages everywhere!
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I'm seeing more and more posts on my various flists about learning languages and online tools and social networking sites and lessons collections. This is really a cool cultural movement, using our new shiny technology for language study!
You can learn Welsh from BBC Catchphrase lessons at http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/ .
You can put Japanese lessons on your iPod from http://www.japanesepod101.com/ .
There's Spanish lessons that are the right length to listen to during your coffee break at http://www.radiolinguamedia.com/cbs/www/index.html .
And there's http://www.livemocha.com/ , a social networking site where you can sign up for a course, practice and connect with native speakers of a whole bunch of languages.
What other language learning sites do you all know about that I haven't noticed yet?
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| Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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8:09 pm - a couple fun fannish comms on IJ
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So I've discovered a few nifty communities over on IJ...
The userinfo wasn't very helpful, but http://asylums.insanejournal.com/kinkfest/tag/mod+post has everything you need to know about the kinkfest comm.
And now there's 80sficpicalooza - 80s FicPic-alooza: The Golden Age of Kink
You don't need to be a writer to supply prompts, and you don't need to supply prompts to participate by responding to the prompts and writing or making art.
I know I have readers who are into Jem and the Holograms, the original Transformers, Galaxy Rangers, Voltron, The Muppet Show, Thundercats, and eeeeeeeeeee!!! RANMA 1/2!!!!!
*cough*
But I also suspect that some of you are also secretly fostering your little plotbunnies for Bosom Buddies, the Dukes of Hazzard, Macguyver, Red Dwarf, Footloose, Fame, St. Elmo's Fire, Flashdance, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dead Poets Society, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Lost Boys, Top Gun, The Breakfast Club, Aliens, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dirty Dancing, Back to the Future...
Or you could put in prompts for the Care Bears, or write some Strawberry Shortcake smut, or you could always slash the Smurfs. What? There were all those little male smurfs and only one smurfette to go around... what do you think they did whenever they got blue balls? Oh, wait... their balls were probably always blue...
o.O
O.o
Did I really type that?
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| Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
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11:38 am - SHareCon beading creations, and holiday greetings
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An update on the beading project I mentioned here on IJ... (and apologies for the chaotic cross-posting earlier this month - I'm still shoving content around on JF!)
The SHareCon folks are still figuring out how they're going to run their auctions to offset the con deficit, and I'm still having issues trying to photograph these creations because the shine-glare off the shell beads is problematic, but I've put up photos of the necklaces, bracelets and earring sets I've made which will (at some point later this year) be auctioned off to benefit SHareCon. They're at http://elke.slashcity.org/sharecon2008.html temporarily.
(And no, I'm not attending the con, nor am I a Starsky & Hutch fan, but many of my friends are, including lauramcewan, who inspired all of these pieces by sharing her squee.)
*twirls happily* I made pretty shinyness! :-D
Happy Easter to those celebrating, and belated happy New Year to those celebrating that this week, and happy Ostara-week to those celebrating, and happy Mabon-week to those celebrating! Oh, and I think I also missed Purim this year, so belated joyful Purim to those who celebrated that, too!
And happy springtime gleefulness to everyone in the northern hemisphere, and happy autumn harvestyness to everyone in the southern hemisphere!
current mood: chipper
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| Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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9:46 am - OpenID friending
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If you are using OpenID to keep track of and comment on your reading list across multiple journaling services, and would like me to friend your OpenID with this journal, comment here with your OpenID (and tell me who you are if I won't recognize the OpenID if I know you by a different username!), and I'll see about figuring out how to friend your OpenID.
Thank you!
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7:46 am - art and vid insta-recs
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A faaaaaaabulous vidder who had a happy get-ya-dancin' vid in the Escapade vidshow this year has put her new vid online! smutcutter has all sorts of wonderful vids at her site, including my favorite Anakin Skywalker vid ("Back in Black") and the utter-glee-inducing slash comedy anthem "I Kissed A Girl". But this newest vid? Is called "Head In The Game", and it's two characters from Oceans 11 & 13, set to a song from High School Musical.
It's fun! And it makes me want to get up and dance! Yes, even at oh-my-god-it's-early on a Saturday morning!
Go see! Right-click to Save-As the .mov files to your computer, of course, and after you've bounced around to the vid, click on the link at the bottom of her vids page to send feedback!
SmutCutter's Vids Page
And if that isn't enough to cheer you up this morning, then you should follow the example of more than a few folks on my various flists, and hop over to davidkawena's deviantART gallery of Disney Heroes as Pinup Boys.
Yeah, you read that right. Go see!
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| Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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7:02 pm - SW fic: Dark Offering (adult content)
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Because we all know what the internet is really for (besides photos of cats, I mean), and maybe we could all use a bit of distraction right now.
(And... Y HALLO THAR, people who are only reading this journal because I organize technical information about journaling services and such. If you didn't read my userinfo carefully, you might have missed this: I'm a multifandom multipairing multigenre fanaddict, among other things. I read and write gen, slash and het fanfiction. Yeah. THIS IZ MAH PORN LET ME SHOW U IT.)
Fandom: Star Wars (set post-RotJ)
Title: Dark Offering
Author: elke_tanzer on IJ and JF
Rating: adult content
Summary: A master-less apprentice and long, restless nights of intense dreams and confused desires.
Warnings: Pain/pleasure confusion and a naked Jedi.
Disclaimer: If I were George Lucas, these movies would have been quite different, but sadly, I own nothing. No copyright infringement or offense intended.
Critiques: Only if the spirit really moves you, since this was already published in the Con*Strict 2007 zine. It's timed out now, so I can post it on the web. Feedback is always welcome, of course!
I'm also cross-posting this to starwars_fic over on IJ, motivated by das_dingsi's IJ Asylum meme here. If there's a comm or two here on JF where it would be appropriate for me to also post it to, please enlighten me.
Notes: This story stemmed from the ideas that Luke is a sub without a dom, a padawan without a master, and that from one very, very intense experience, he might extrapolate incorrectly that physical/mental intensity is closely associated with the dark side only, exiled from the light. Alas for the master-less apprentice.
( Dark Offering )
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| Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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7:43 pm - Step by step: moving LJ memories into del.icio.us
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morgandawn is awesometasticakes. She figured this out last December (http://morgandawn.insanejournal.com/69697.html?style=mine) and the following is my notes on how I'm using her technique to move my LJ memories into del.icio.us.
Please note that if your memorying patterns are that of a sane person have been mostly for your own use and you do not feel the need to make your memoried posts findable via del.icio.us, you may want to simply slurp down the contents of your memories to your local computer. brown_betty put together a tutorial last year on how to do that: http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/297465.html?style=mine
However, if you are a crazy fanperson like me want to make your memories accessible from any computer connected to the internet, either privately for just you, or publicly for the whole intarworld to see, the following may just do the trick.
I know the following works for MacOSX. It will probably work with Windows, too, and any other operating system that runs Firefox with del.icio.us plugins. ETA: Morgandawn attests that it works for her on Windows!
ETA: And also, she reminds me this will work for any webpage full of links, not just a list of memoried LJ posts. Amazing!
The process here is to allow you to easily bookmark all of your memoried posts into Firefox, and then to import them from Firefox into del.icio.us, and then to give you the opportunity to go through and tidy up their tags, and *then* to make them public if you want to. To do these steps, certain tools are available to help you.
( This gets long, but it does work, and it's not as scary as it could be! )
Please let me know if you try this process, and what worked and what didn't for you. I've just done one of my memories categories, and I'm still learning myself, but I have a gazillion memories to transition over, so any streamlining of this process we can collectively figure out will be greatly appreciated.
I say again, morgandawn is awesometasticakes.
Note that there are a bunch of cool tools for del.icio.us linked here: http://del.icio.us/help/thirdpartytools
And there's an interesting article from last year with 8 tips for better delicious bookmarking.
Oh, one more thing... since I've got stored memories on both IJ and here on JF as well, I am planning on migrating them all to del.icio.us eventually. My extra brains will all finally be in one place! Well, until I hit whatever their limit is on how many bookmarks will fit into a single del.icio.us account... ;-D
current mood: still rather amazed
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| Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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11:23 pm - Yes, I will be at Escapade!
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http://escapadecon.net/ -- The con is going to be small this year! If you've never attended, heck, if you've attended before and were thinking about skipping this year, please consider attending!
I have no idea if I'm going to be there on Friday or not (pesky RL OMGWTFBBQ), but I will be attending on Saturday and Sunday.
I do not currently have roommates. Or a room. And I can't remember if I registered or not.
Shit, I'm disorganized.
But yay Escapade!
Are you going to be there? Comment, please!
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| Thursday, February 14th, 2008
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12:37 pm - A bit of love for all of us
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Happy Day-Before-Cheap-Chocolate-Sales Day, everyone!
I was thinking about posting some virtual flowers for all of you, but then I realized that instead I wanted to write a little love-letter to all of us for being who we are, in every stage of our personal transformations, for who we are when we are alone, for who we are when we are with friends, for who we are when we are with partners, and for who we are when we participate in our specialized communities, our local communities and our global community; for when we are trying new things, for when we cherish old things, for when we grow beyond our expectations, for when we let old things go, for when we find new fascinations, for when we don't give up looking for the things we want and need in life, for when we learn what is failing to nourish us and remove it from our path.
But for some reason finding the words I want is really difficult at the moment, because it feels like I'm trying to sum up something really big, and it takes too many words to explain what I mean. So I am going to say just a few little words, and then let a bunch of photos inspire you to infer the rest.
We are magnificent. We just are. Every one of us.
Now, go look at lots of butterflies. And tadpoles. And lots of frogs.
*hugsmish*
(cross-posted to LJ, IJ, JF)
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| Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
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11:59 am - Things to watch, read, listen to, think about...
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Found by way of many on my flist, Baby-stepping away from racism: A guide for white people by LJ user paradox_dragon.
Also found by way of many on my flist, the LJ community halfamoon: "Half a Moon is a fourteen day challenge celebrating female characters in fandom, which will run from February 1 through Valentine's Day. Fanfiction, vids, recs, art, picspam, icons, meta, fanmixes, and outside links to content fitting the theme of this community are all welcome--the only rule is that the primary focus must be on a female character or characters."
Found by way of LJ user ngaio, you have to see this guy's tuba: Fnugg, by Øystein Baadsvik.
Found by way of LJ user synecdochic, Waiting on the World to Change, the Deaf Performing Artists Network's interpretation of a song by John Mayer.
(cross-posted to LJ, IJ, JF)
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| Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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10:46 am - *blinks* OK, maybe I'm not so cheap...
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Wow! People are bidding on me at Sweet Charity! I feel all ho-some!
(Reminder: what I'm offering is listed out here in case you missed it...)
And there are news updates (and instructions on how to bid, and how to find cool things to bid on) at the LJ sweetcharityho community about the poor overworked server that's somehow trying to keep up with all of this charitable frenzy!
Go go ho power!
(cross-posted to LJ, IJ and JF)
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| Saturday, January 12th, 2008
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7:30 pm - Yeah, I'll probably go cheap.
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This is the first time I've offered myself at Sweet Charity. Be gentle.
I've been wanting to do this since Sweet Charity first started, but haven't had time. This time? I'm making the time, and I hope to do this from now on for each Sweet Charity auction.
This particular Sweet Charity auction is to support those affected by the writer's strike. Donations go to The Writer's Guild Foundation to "assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike" -- this money goes to people who are not members of the WGA; it's for other folks who are out of work because of the strike, like crew members.
I'm offering:
Graphics: Seasonal set of four original 100x100 icons (summer, autumn, winter, spring), based on my own nature photography. You may specify text and/or text color and/or border color for each icon, if you like.
Graphics: Pagan wheel of the year icon set: eight 100x100 icons for Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltaine, Midsummer, Lughnasadh, Mabon and Samhain (or alternate names or spellings for those, of course!) based on my own photography. You may specify icon text, text color and/or border color as you like.
Jewelry: Jewelry set: Stone and/or glass bead necklace in the length and colors of your choosing, with silver-tone or gold-tone findings, your choice. Matching bracelet and/or anklet in the length of your choosing. Matching earrings for pierced ears.
Jewelry: Stone and/or glass beaded necklace-badgeholder in the colors and length of your choice, silver-tone or gold-tone findings. Basically this is a necklace but with two clasps rather than a clasp and a ring at the ends of it, with a plastic sleeve of the sort as one would get at fannish cons. Might also be used for holding workplace ID or mass-transit pass. If you'd like matching earrings for pierced ears and/or a bracelet of your choice of length, I'm happy to make those for you as well.
Bidding commences on January 18th. Go ahead, buy me.
The "fan alight" photo in my icon above is my own photography, in case you're curious.
(cross-posted to LJ, IJ and JF)
current mood: creative
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6:06 pm - OTW: This, I believe.
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I support OTW for the same reasons I would support a new community garden or a new public library or a new national park.
I donate to OTW for the same reasons I donate to the ACLU and the Sequoia Natural History Association and the Nature Conservancy, and for the same reasons my websites are hosted on fan-run hosting services.
I don't have time to spare right now, and I didn't have time to spare last year, or I'd have volunteered for one of the committees myself. As it is, I applaud the efforts of any group who are striving to build and preserve scalable, supportable fannish infrastructure into perpetuity, and I donate bits of money when I can afford to. I am an optimist. Also, this group already appears to be greater than the sum of its parts.
Fandom is infinite and varied. There is strength in our diversity and our community, our samenesses and our differences. Fandom is my village, my home, and myself. And OTW has the potential to be a great community resource.
This, I believe.
References:
http://transformativeworks.org/
http://community.livejournal.com/otw_news/
(cross-posted to LJ, IJ and JF)
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| Saturday, January 5th, 2008
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10:47 pm - Threesome squee!
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3_ships stories are posted! And lookee lookee what was written for me!
The Five Of Swords
a Pirates of the Caribbean Elizabeth Swann/Jack Sparrow/Will Turner story
Requested Element: Swordplay.
Summary: The story goes on.
*squee!*
Oh, yum...
Thank you, mystery author!
ETA: I'm going to quote settiai and thank her for putting the following list together: "The following fandoms are represented this year: Angel (2), CSI (1), Doctor Who (new school = 1; old school = 1), Firefly (2), Friday Night Lights (1), Grey's Anatomy (1), Harry Potter (3), Heroes (1), Numb3rs (1), Pirates of the Caribbean (2), Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1), RENT (1), Saiyuki (1), Smallville (1), Stargate SG-1 (1), Supernatural (2), Torchwood (3), Veronica Mars (2), X-Men comics (1)"
As always, witchqueen did a fabulous job with this exchange. Big heaping thanks to her, too!
(cross-posted to LJ, IJ and JF)
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1:56 pm - Flashback to January 2005
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In cleaning out my GJ, I found this post. I am amused.
Fun stuff to look at!
The Yuletide archive - obscure fandom fun!
The I Saw Three Ships archive - multifandom threesomefic goodies
The Slash Advent Calendar 2004 - multifandom stories and art
Secret Slasha - Buffy and Angelverse
BishonenInk's lovely Advent Calendar - stories and art
The Fanfiction Symposium - a collection of hundreds of essays about all sorts of fannish topics
The Foresmutters Project - an effort to make the earliest slash available online; check out the archive for early and epic K/S
Minotaur's Sex Tips for Slash Writers - everything you ever wanted to know, and which Minotaur's been asked
Killa's Historical Resources for Fanfic Writers - incredible and organized and did I mention incredible?
Publications by Henry Jenkins, the author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
More photos from the French rugby calendar (whee, nekkid guys!)
As long as we're having blackout parties... some recipes from http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/
Hurricane: This is apparently the original from Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans' French Quarter.
This should be made in a Hurricane glass, a lantern shaped footed vesel. If you don't have one, you can use a Bucket or Collins glass. Fill any of them with ice.
1 oz. Light Rum
1 oz. Dark Rum
1/2 oz. Passion Fruit Juice
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
Garnish with a lime squeeze, cherry, pineapple spear, and a paper umbrella, of course. You can also mix in a shaker and strain into a cocktail glass.
Hurricane #2: It'll blown you away!
This should be made in a Hurricane glass, a lantern shaped footed vesel. If you don't have one, you can use a Bucket or Collins glass. Fill any of them with ice.
1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Bourbon Whiskey
1 oz. Bacardi 151 Rum
1/2 oz. White Creme de Menthe
1/4 oz. Lime Juice or Sweet & Sour
1/4 oz. Grenadine
Top with Soda
Garnish with a lime squeeze, cherry, pineapple spear, and a paper umbrella, of course.
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1:36 pm - Closing out GreatestJournal backup comms and my GJ journal.
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Since GreatestJournal is going the way of the dodo...
I'm closing out the crumpeteers community on GreatestJournal right now. It was set up in January 2005 as a meeting point for the crumpeteers community members from LiveJournal to find each other in case LJ went down. I'm currently the only member, there have been no posts in the comm ever, and only four people total are supposedly watching it: elke_tanzer, mzcalypso, txsybil, ysrith. I've just emailed the current mods of the crumpeteers LJ comm as a courtesy FYI to let them know.
I'm closing out the bsg2003chatter community on GreatestJournal next weekend. It was set up in January 2005 as a meeting point for bsg2003fic and bsg2003chatter community members from LiveJournal to find each other if LJ went down. There have only been two posts made there in the entire history of the comm. There are 15 members: aeteananke, altera, aryas_zehral, darkelegance, elke_tanzer, fahrbotdrusilla, illmantrim, jasonbondshow, liz_marcs, maryavatar, msgenevieve, musical_statues, pouncer, reaper2004, zivia. There are 21 people supposedly watching it: aeteananke, altera, aryas_zehral, darkelegance, elke_tanzer, fahrbotdrusilla, fatuorum, happyme, illmantrim, jasonbondshow, jaybee65, liz_marcs, maidazia, maryavatar, msgenevieve, pouncer, reaper2004, tigerlady93, wrenlet, ysrith, zivia. I've just messaged the current mods of the LJ comms bsg2003fics and bsg2003chatter as a courtesy FYI to let them know. I've also posted a message in the to-be-deleted-next-weekend GJ comm.
So long, GreatestJournal.
(cross-posted to LJ, IJ and JF)
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