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7:43 pm
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| Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
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8:35 pm
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Loneliness is finding a seriously deformed noodle in your Chef Boyardee Ravioli-inna-can and not having anybody to show it to. D:
(It's, like, one eight-inch-long strip of ravioli noodle! It was all curled up in the can like a tapeworm or something! Awesome.)
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In other news, for reasons that don't need exploring at this particular juncture, I need the titles of some yaoi/BL comics or videos that prominently and explicitly feature the notorious self-lubricating anus. Preferably ones that an American otaku might recognize, or at least ones that have self-explanatory titles. Anyone suggestions?
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| Monday, February 21st, 2011
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11:18 pm
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I recently was assigned responsibility for the care of a medium-sized Peace Lily.
Under my normal plant care regimen (put some water in the pot whenever I remember or it starts turning yellow) it is experiencing what one might term failure to thrive.
So! I know JF was all about Hot Fuzz fandom. Surely someone can point me to a primer on the care and feeding of peace lilies? :D
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| Friday, July 23rd, 2010
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1:12 pm
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The fic I am currently writing involves close third-person POV of a character who is - well, who is an AI designed to pass the Turing Test, so is very good at seeming human, but is fairly sure she isn't actually, and for lack of a better model treats all that emotion and relationship stuff as an ongoing trial-and-error experiment.
...it feels like the easiest and most honest POV I've ever written, and I feel like I should be worried about that.
Also, I just noticed that it seemed like the Internet had been a bit short of fail and raeg recently, and was delighted. And then remembered I'd been slacking off completely on the UFB mod queue. <_< Maybe I've finally discovered the true use of UFB: let angry people post things to let off steam, then just leave it sit in the mod queue.
(Actually the real reason is probably that everybody's too busy over at the Fail Meme, which I have been avoiding like an avoidy thing in favor of my happy porny kink memes, but I like feeling important, so there.)
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| Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
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12:36 am - The perils of RPS:
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Spending the afternoon reading figureskating slash, and then realizing you are expected to spend the evening making small talk with the dear, white-haired old grandmother of a member of the US men's figure skating team, who trains with Johnny Weir's old coach, no less. When said grandmother has just come back from an event at the rink where a significant proportion of the porn you have been reading was set.
OOPS.
(Luckily, she's mostly deaf, so I didn't actually have to say anything in order to carry on the conversation.)
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| Monday, January 11th, 2010
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7:50 pm - poor, misunderstood Longcat.
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My sister is going through the (ridiculous, but still smaller than mine) pile of books she acquired over the holiday, and in one of them, we found a story called "The Longcat", published in 1904 by Colette.
How is it that the internets does not know yet about the original Longcat?
"Babou, nicknamed the Longcat, really did measure, stretched right out flat, well over a yard and a quarter. If you did not arrange him properly, he was not much more than a yard. I used to measure him sometimes."
( More excerpts from the adventures of the original Longcat! )
If you want the rest of the story you'll have to find it in an anthology. :D
I think "poor, misunderstood Longcat" needs to become a catchphrase, though.
Also, Colette was truly a woman who would have been at home in the 21st century (why is her famous same-sex kiss with Missy de Morny, onstage at the Moulin Rouge, not available on youtube??)
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| Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
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8:06 pm
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We're watching Harry Potter & the Half-blood Prince while waiting for Dr. Who to come on BBCA, or well, everybody else is while I half-listen and work on writing a post, and I just want to note that Harry Potter under the influence of felix felicis sounds *exactly* like Tennant's Doctor.
I mean, *creepy* exactly.
It's sort of horrifying.
(Somebody needs to get Ten some felix felicis really. I want 1980s!emo!lupin to stalk him thinking he's Barty Crouch escaped from Azkaban, and Ten to take him on as a companion without knowing about wizardry - ("Huh, a basic dimensional fold, just like my mum's sewing closet at home." "--you're not human, are you?" "Well, not exactly. You?" "--it's a long and complicated story." "Skip it then?" "Cheers.") and they have emo!adventures and the TARDIS helps Remus hide the werewolf thing and they make Ten all kinds of antidepressant potions and moan about evil-ex-boyfriends and then go to the cheetah planet. I am convinced this happened.)
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| Sunday, December 13th, 2009
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8:42 pm - This is real scientific research, I swear!
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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009
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10:19 pm
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So at the Interrobang Studios business meeting tonight, we were trying to come up with a name for our newest flash game.
Among the things we learned were that there is no phrase or word that is not either a) a porn film, b) a street name for drugs, or c) a genre of experimental music.
Well, almost no phrase or word.
Another thing we learned is that (until tonight, at least) the phrase "Booty and the Blowfish" had exactly *seven* search result on Google.
This is a *travesty*. What is wrong with the porn industry??
(We decided that the title was too suggestive for a game with crayon graphics and the world's cutest bubble-blowing, treasure-hunting submarine, btw. We went with "Bubble Crunch", instead, which is only a music genre and an Australian equivalent of Rice Krispie Treates. And decided we would have to develop a game we could use that title for.)
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| Sunday, October 4th, 2009
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9:48 pm - Nota Bene In Vacuo
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In re rumors I have been hearing about ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) unfunnybusiness:
1. There are two active moderators at UFB, and only one of them is ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) pyratejenni.
2. Nobody has *ever* contacted the other moderator with a complaint about PJ's moderation at UFB.
3. There are currently exactly two accounts banned at UFB; one was a blatant troll and one was that annoying guy with the tea icon (He got a permaban mostly for trying to cheat his way out of a temporary ban.) They were joint (and very satisfying) decisions.
4. In the year since the new, clearer moderation policy was posted, nobody else has been banned for more than a one-week cooldown, and there have been very few bans total. (If this statement is wrong, *please* correct me.)
5. If you want to see something at UFB change, you probably want at least one moderator on your side.1 Insulting one of them while assuming the other is either nonexistent or irrelevant is probably not a good strategy.
6. As far as I am aware, everybody who has ever followed the policy for contacting moderators that is in the community userinfo has gone away satisfied. Failing to read or follow the userinfo is also probably a bad strategy if you want to be heard.
(This is not me speaking officially, btw, as officially, I have never been given a complaint. This is me speaking as somebody who is darkly amused by people's consistent inability to at least complain *accurately* or *usefully* when they complain, since I run across someone whining that UFB is ground under PJ's iron boot at least once a month.)
1Technically, in fact, the other mod is the community owner and could lock everyone else out if she felt like it, so if you have an irrational grudge against PJ, your best bet is probably bribery. I happen to know that she would currently do just about anything for a Doble Model E steam automobile.
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| Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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10:56 pm
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My opinions on the Lambda Awards debacle (not that any of you care about my opinions on it, but it took me long enough to figure them out; I want to record them for my own posterity, if only so I can later marvel at how wrong I was. Also, may I note that I am continually befuddled by what does and doesn't wind up on UFB? ..oh god, while I was writing this it ended up on f_w instead, heaven help us.)
1. The Lambda Literary Foundation has every right to make this decision, they are not oppressing anyone by doing so, and I think it was, in fact, a good decision: the nature of glbt literature and community has changed, and the LLF needed to change as well, to keep doing what it wanted to do.
2. The way they went about implementing and publicizing this decision was deeply, deeply unprofessional, and has major problems with the implementation. (And frankly, the more I read, the more I suspect that it was also made for the wrong reasons, and some of the people closely involved who oppose the decision probably have reasons to oppose that aren't visible to us.) All the same, I still support the decision itself.
3. People talking on all sides of this argument are full of entitlement, privilege, and bonus!racism, and I don't want to be on a side with them. :/ The people on the anti-lambda side are managing to be offensive in far more creative and comprehensive ways, while the pro-lambda side are being more offensive in ways that are grindingly personal to me, so congrats there guys!
4. If I try to talk about it in any more depth, I run smack-dab into my major issues about the umbrella label glbt and its component parts (and, yes, glbttqqi++ too), and any attempt to go into any depth beyond that rapidly involves into me rambling at tl;dr length about that instead of privilege, so I shall keep my thinking about labels until a better time to talk about them.
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| Friday, September 25th, 2009
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11:14 pm
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I am at Small Press Expo!
Well, actually I am currently at the home of Das Flughafen, where we are lairing for the weekend to get to the convention. We went early tonight to pick up our exhibitor badges and go to the special exhibitor panel with Gahan Wilson & networking reception. I met a Harry Potter slash fan already! (there are fangirls *everywhere*. I will be wearing my pin from last year's con.txt all day tomorrow, and see how many I can smoke out.)
So, yeah, Interrobang Studios has an exhibitor table, selling comics and prints and Spinks what I have crocheted, but there are five of us to about five feet of table, so I will probably get to do quite a bit of wandering around. We are under orders to actually talk to people and make friends at this con. Making friends is *hard*. (Unless they are fangirls.) But SPX is awesome! How have I lived here all my life and never gone before? Everyone here is whacked! It's awesome!
Also, Kevin from the studio has a design up for voting at Threadless. It is a cartoon of a vegetarian zombie saying "BRAIINSSS!". If you grok Threadless, will you please go there and vote for him? Thank you. Otherwise Kevin's girl user will do dreadful things to me for not promoting it hard enough.
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| Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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11:06 pm
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Hi! Remember when I used to talk about Doctor Who on here all the time?
Let's do that some more.
The best_enemies community on lj is picking up speed, and they've started an Academy-based rpg (or something, rps confuse me these days) and that combined with going through some of my old school papers, has me reading the Wikipedia entries on "Theta" again and trying to understand them. ("Theta", of course, is the Doctor's school nickname, short for Theta Sigma which may be his actual use-name on Gallifrey, or as close as can be rendered in English.)
And now I want a Doctor Who fic fest (preferably doctor/master, but I'm easy) with these as prompts:
( C'mon, 'Big O Notation'? 'Axiom of choice'? 'A Function defined for two complex variables'? This is like Time Lord porn. )
(Also, Θ looks like an egg with a needle in it, which is where Koschei left his heart. just sayin'.)
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| Monday, August 10th, 2009
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11:09 am
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I love my jf flist: I can be away for ten days, and it only takes a perfectly reasonable amount of time to get caught up on reading. :D
Of course I suppose I should still check over community business more closely. And read the h_d picspam. But I haven't *dared* even look at my other journals yet...
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| Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
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12:05 am
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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6:31 pm - Hi I am here.
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Among other things, have been catching up with JF happenings for the past week. Wow. Unfunnybusiness sure isn't being funny right now, is it?
Every so often I think maybe I should start actually paying attention to comment threads there, and even doing vaguely mod-like stuff. But then, the mob there presumably knows what they're getting into, and are fairly good at shouting each other down when necessary, so why bother unless there's an actual TOS issue or something?
Then I remember that a large part of my initial purpose for the community was to put all the ferrets down one pair of trousers, after all, and I wander off and do something else.
(I am currently playing with a ST fantarty meme, my response to which that gets the notes "tentacles, hybrid babies, cocktail metaphors, space floozies, old people, Rihannsu, crossdressing, Star Wars quotes, JF injokes, Captain Rachel Maddow, Vulcan-touching, anthropomorphization of spaceships, bad art, large image files without alt tags, and girlsex." I feel this is adequate warning, and only spoils as much as is necessary.)
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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1:27 am - Things I have learned today:
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Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei are not the same person.
I am ashamed of the fact that I didn't know this.
I would be more ashamed, if it weren't for the fact that when I tried to tell RL people how ashamed I was, none of them even had any idea who Ayatollah Khomeini was. D:
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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1:58 am - librarything is dangerous
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| Saturday, June 6th, 2009
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10:08 pm
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There is a giant (anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-hate) evangelical church in my town that is currently running a giant ad campaign themed around God Loves Shrimp.
No, really.
I... don't even know where to go with that. I ... where are *they* going with that? When I saw the ads I assumed they were a with-it, liberal church, riffing on the protest slogan to point out that not all Christian bank on hate, but according to their website, *not so much*. How to you run a message series with that title (apparently actually *about* the way that Christ's sacrifice frees us from the old laws of the Pentateuch) and still preach in support of Focus on the Family? ...it's. just. And, yes, considering that the filename of the ad is "god_hates_shrimp", they know exactly what they're referencing.
You know that bible quote about the log in your eye? Yeah. That one. (I love that searching the internets for "beam in your eye" gets links to people talking about robots with lasers.)
To keep on the topic of my town and Christians, though, there's one thing that always makes me happy coming into town. If you're not American, you may be unfamiliar with the phenomenon of people who own land near a busy highway putting up three crosses so everyone who drives by has to see them, usually with a sign quoting John 3:16 or some other over-referenced-to-the-point-of-triteness Bible verse. (If you are American, you're probably all too familiar with it.)
Well, someone's done that on the road into Annapolis, but instead of three crosses, they've got a cross, a crescent, and a star. And instead of referencing John 3:16, they reference 1 John. (Alas, I don't remember the exact verse, but I think it was 1 John 2:11. Something along those lines, anyway; most of 1 John is like that.) I'm with that guy.
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| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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8:51 pm - GIP
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There is a new Tek Jansen comic! So I have a boobies icon. Now that nobody's bothering with boobies icons anymore.
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