seperis | Feb. 1st, 2008

Feb. 1st, 2008

I love my job.

Coworker: You look bored.
Me: There's nothing to do until the next build.
Coworker: Want a login to Unix?
Me: ....really?
Coworker: *magic* Done. Have fun! Google for instructions!
Me: ....wow.

Seriously.

I have no idea what to do with this. Yet I am pleased.

Before I snap and do something I might eventually end up somewhat regretting, is anyone else having bizarre problems with del.icio.us?

And random updates! Because I can.

Fannish Resolution #4: Track my leaving feedback versus number of stories I read to find out what proportion of fic I feedback and why/why not. Possibly do it publicly.

So, my stats as of 1/31/2008

Stories Read: 32
Vids Watched: 1
Stories FBed: 30
Vids FBed: 1
Authors/Vidders: 31
Fandoms: Stargate:Atlantis, Torchwood

OTW

otw_news has announced a call for academic papers by the new journal Transformative Works and Cultures. From the notice on

otw_news:

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is a new international peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works edited by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. TWC publishes articles about popular media, fan communities, and transformative works, broadly conceived.

More information can be found at their website: Transformative Works and Cultures.

*wistful* This makes me wish I had the academic training to write papers.

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Newletter 3 is also up, and my personal part:

Open Doors update from Mary Ellen Curtin (mecurtin)

The Open Doors project of the Organization For Transformative Works is dedicated to offering shelter to at-risk fannish projects. While some of these projects will be integrated into the Archive of Our Own or the Wiki once those services are up and running, others which have a particular historical significance or are structurally difficult to integrate may continue to be preserved as "special collections". We hope to be unveiling our first project well before the end of February.

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OTW FAQ Part 1 is up for reading, mulling, and commenting. It's interesting.

Fangirls Around and About

Fifth Annual Valentine's Day Game

From her entry:

These past four years, on Valentine's Day, I put together a little project that I call the Valentine's Day Game, which is something of a misnomer, because games tend to involve strategy and all that good stuff, and this is all pretty straightforward.

I had nearly 200 e-mails last year, and I'd love to see even more people than that this year!

And that covers what I have read today.

The 'tag this' function no longer gets an internal error, but cannot edit an entry's tags without deleting it. If I go to full-screen, it deletes and logs me out of my account. After logging back in, teh entry is gone, but the tags I used stay, and it will have the number of entries wrong.

You know. They are *this close* to me doing a screen-shot-by-screenshot narrative via email if I have to, because seriously. This is deeply annoying.d

Two things.

Recs

The Cowgirl Variant by

samdonne, SGA. For those who loved Your Cowboy Days Are Over and Summerland, this is the beginning of another story in this universe, still incomplete. Go read it.

I saw it pop up on my flist and thought I was hallucinating. This is my favorite story in any fandom bar none; I just--can't really get over the sheer scope and I don't think I ever will.

And since I'm here:

DVD Commentary by

samdonne and another DVD Commentary by

general_jinjur, both of which are excellent. And I did a long rec for it here. Mostly me trying to quantify a feeling of wonder.

Random

Star Wars Guide to the Candidates. It's funny because it's true. So, so true.

Quotes

If you don't send me feedback, I will sob uncontrollably for hours on end, until finally, in a fit of depression, I slash my wrists and bleed out on the bathroom floor. My death will be on your heads. Murderers
. -- Unknown, on feedback
BTS List
That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
-- pricklyelf, on why Lex goes bad
LJ
Obi-Wan has a sort of desperate, pathetic patience in this movie. You can just see it in his eyes: "My padawan is a psychopath, and no one will believe me; I'm barely keeping him under control and expect to wake up any night now to find him standing over my bed with a knife!"
-- Teague, reviewing "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"
LJ
Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
-- hwmitzy and seperis, on bead addiction
AIM, 12/24/2003
I could rape a goat and it will DIE PRETTIER than they write.
-- anonymous, on terrible writing
AIM, 2/17/2004
In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
-- silverkyst, on wtf
AIM, 3/25/2004
Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
LJ, 4/2/2004
silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
AIM, 1/25/2005
You know, if obi-wan had just disciplined the boy *properly* we wouldn't be having these problems. Can't you just see yoda? "Take him in hand, you must. The true Force, you must show him."
-- Issaro, on spanking Anakin in his formative years
LJ, 3/15/2005
Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
-- Summerfling, on shower sex
LJ, 7/22/2005
It's weird, after you get used to the affection you get from a rabbit, it's like any other BDSM relationship. Only without the sex and hot chicks in leather corsets wielding floggers. You'll grow to like it.
-- revelininsanity, on my relationship with my rabbit
LJ, 2/7/2006
Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
LJ, 4/13/2006
Rule 3. Chemistry is kind of like bondage. Some people like it, some people like reading about or watching other people doing it, and a large number of people's reaction to actually doing the serious stuff is to recoil in horror.
-- deadlychameleon, on class
LJ, 9/1/2007
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Fan Fiction is John Cusack standing outside your house with a boombox.
-- JRDSkinner, on fanfiction
Twitter
I will unashamedly and unapologetically celebrate the joy and the warmth and the creativity of a community of people sharing something positive and beautiful and connective and if you don’t like it you are most welcome to very fuck off.
-- Michael Sheen, on Good Omens fanfic
Twitter, 6/19/2019
Adding for Mastodon.
-- Jenn, traceback
Fosstodon, 11/6/2022

Feb. 1st, 2008

glee

del.icio.us

links! so many links! links! links!

del.icio.us problem continues

rec - cowboy variant by samdonne

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