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| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
fabu
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7:58a |
Archive of Our Own
Many thanks to ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) norah, who gave me an invite code to the Archive of Our Own. I've uploaded 29 stories of various sorts and so far I really like the interface - it's pretty intuitive and straightforward. A few items I'd like to see changed (and yes, I will give this feedback to the people who can do something about it): 1. Polyfic "pairings" frequently break the posting interface, because the character count exceeds the limit. This is a hassle, particular when the auto-complete feature suggests a pairing name that then won't allow you to post. 2. Speaking of polyfic, I wish that was an option, instead of "multi" which is vague - it could mean "multiple partners" or it could mean that there are multiple relationships in the story. 2. Posting a series is tricky, because there's no way to add stories out of order - the site assumes that the first story you post is the first part in the series, the second story you post is the second, etc. - this is doable for a completed series, but with a new series, I can see that I might go back and write something that takes place chronologically earlier than some of the installments I've already posted. It would be great if there was some kind of parent/child relationship between a series and the stories within that series, so you could do global updates to the series, rearrange the order of the installments, etc. I've been so busy uploading fic that I haven't done as much as a reader. I wonder - for those of you who are reading fic on the archive, are you using the bookmark functionality? I can understand how it would be helpful to see internal recs flagged for other readers, but it also seems redundant to me, since I use del.icio.us for tagging (and, for that matter, for finding fic). |
stevie_stever
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5:01a |
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asakiyume
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7:43a |
Pen Pal, part 12
For earlier installments, click hereDear K--, It’s hard to believe it’s really true, but I’m going to I think I’m going to be able to help you in a better way than just by sending letters. This is what happened: I went to the post office on the way home from school last Friday, and your letter was waiting for me. I practically hugged the envelope. But then I read it. ( Read more... )Love, your friend, M-- Current Music: Gi Gi D'Agostino: The Riddle |
mackenzie_crook
[ abitobsessed ]
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3:51a |
The Climate Challenge is live
Over on TheClimateChallenge.org you can now take environment-based quizzes featuring Mackenzie, David Tennant, Miranda Richardson, Ashley Jenson, Gael Garcia Bernal and others. Multiple choices where you have the celebrity say your correct answer. Or an obviously ludicrous one. Up to you.  |
girlgenius_lab
[ six_crazy_guys ]
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1:42a |
OMG OMG OMG Forget Moloch/Violetta and Moloch/Wilhelm and Moloch/Snaug. Castle/Moloch is obviously the way to go! Current Mood: cheerful |
girlgenius_lab
[ taffy1 ]
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12:19a |
WindyCon
WC was about as much fun as you have with your socks on! I was thrilled to death to meet the good Professors. I asked them if they had a favorite character. Kaja said she really liked Klaus, but also liked Tarvek because he was so misunderstood. Phil answered succinctly "Agatha". I finally had to pull myself away because I was afraid they'd think I was some kind of crazed stalker. Crazed, maybe; stalker, hopefully not. |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
girlgenius_lab
[ wbwolf ]
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9:24p |
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lignota
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8:42p |
Yuletide makes me feel warm and fuzzy
Yuletide chat is totally addictive. And I have figured out how to do IRC even though I have never done it before! Haha! *is total technoclueless dork* Current Mood:  cheerful |
lignota
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7:19p |
Yuletide Letter now exists
Dear Yuletide Writer, The link to a Yuletide letter that I put in my requests should actually take you to a letter now. :-) Sorry for not getting it done before requests were sent out. -L'I., a.k.a. Zdenka Dear anyone else who is reading this, especially if you have done Yuletide or similar things before and do not mind Babylon 5 spoilers, feel free to read my letter (including original requests) here and see if it is coherent and stuff. If you notice anything that would break my writer's brain or otherwise make her/him unhappy, please do point it out to me. :-) Current Mood:  nervousCurrent Music: Franz Danzi: Wind quartet in g minor, op. 56 no. 2 |
classic_film
[ mothergoddamn ]
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10:01p |
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asakiyume
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2:38p |
Not One of Us, Issue 42
I’ve been waiting for this issue of Not One of Us (the communication issue, says John Benson, the editor) for some time. I’ve been looking forward to it because it has a story in it that I’ve been waiting to share with people—not a story of my own, but a story my father wrote, “Love in Another Language.” It’s the story of Shozo Sakurado, who claims to be the last speaker of his language. Sally Raven thinks Shozo is paranoid (“He thinks people are plotting to help him out, to do him favors behind his back. He believes persons unknown are trying to jolly him up, make him feel good”), but she also loves his musical language, which he teaches in a classroom jammed between a tattoo parlor and a shop that sells incense and scented candles. The last speaker of Aore lived on Mafea Island in the Republic of Vanuatu, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific—all of which sounds fictional but is factual … The words Aonae and Aore are similar, but they mean quite different things, like Portland and Portland. It’s a wonderful story; it’s one of my favorites among the things my father has written. To read it, you must buy Not One of Us (you can do so here), which comes to you as a print-and-ink publication through the post rather than as pixels and coding over your computer. It’s worth the $4.50 ( actually more like $8.00, because you must pay postage...) for the one story, but there are four other excellent tales as well. ( stories! )Furthermore, Not One of Us also includes poetry, strong poetry that demands your full attention. ( poems! ) Current Mood:  chipperCurrent Music: Joe Hisaishi: Kodamas |
geekmama
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10:42a |
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asakiyume
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9:49a |
the road goes ever on
Here is U.S. route 202, that goes from Maine through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.  And here is a road of sorts, a way--a waterway--it passes over.  And here--underneath a cut because let's face it, the image is dull--is a guardrail to keep traffic from U.S. route 202 from ending up traveling the waterway. ( guardrail )Do you know what I love? Walking on guardrails. I don't do it much, but it combines two things I love: balancing, and guardrails. It's the perfect way to be between places. Current Music: Patrick Wolf: Damaris |
kestrell
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9:03a |
There is a new edition of Green Man Review online
at http://greenmanreview.com/whats_new.htmland I have four new reviews: 1. _Hellbound Hearts_, an anthology of stories set in Clive Barker's Hellraiser universe written by many of our best contemporary horror writers http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_kane_hellboundhearts.html2. Lucy A. Snyder's new novel _Spellbent_, a dark urban fantasy in hwich the female protagonist practices a sort of magic for hackers http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_snyder_spellbent.html3. For those who like their horror mixed with more than a little bit of humor, there's Seamus Cooper's The Mall of Cthulhu, a story of one Boston barista's battle with the forces of darkness http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_cooper_mallofcthulhu.html4. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, edited by Ellen Datlow http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_datlow_besthorror_volumeone.htmlblock quote start There is a lot to be excited about in regard to this new annual which will hopefully attract many new readers who, like myself, tend to be more interested in horror than fantasy. The quality and variety of stories, along with the depth and breadth of Datlow's summary of the year in review, makes The Best Horror of the Year informative as well as entertaining, and any horror fan who wishes to keep current with the state of the genre will want to have a copy. block quote end |
stevie_stever
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5:02a |
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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
greenlily
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10:12p |
[tv is my anti-drug. oh wait.]
This whole not-quite-the-flu thing is getting really old. The cough is a lot better, but I'm still totally exhausted all the time. I skipped the Anthology concert last night because I was having trouble keeping my eyes open, and I slept through most of today without meaning to (which wouldn't have been so bad, except MITG&S needed an accompanist for today's rehearsal and I've known all week that I was going to be too tired to go play for them). Observations on this week's catching-up-on-the-DVR. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: as blogged |
classic_film
[ breakattiffanys ]
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1:46p |
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negothick
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2:56p |
A weekend of ends of the world
I was going to say "Apocalypsed" but that's not quite right, nothing religious or revelatory really in either one. Last night, I saw the Chelsea Players version of Eric Bogosian's play "Humpty Dumpty," which was inspired by the Y2K madness, but which turns out to be perfectly relevant to the current time--there are even lots of references to flu epidemics! The Times review in April 2002 said this: "the play was written last year. But its intentions were reinforced by the Sept. 11 attacks, and they are being given an urgent tingle by the virulent chaos in Israel. It is about Americans, the conspicuously consuming, career-manic sort, whose heedlessness toward graver matters leaves them unprepared when they have to cope with a vague, accumulating threat that begins to look apocalyptic." Without any special effects, with nothing but conversations and some decidedly UN-sympathetic characters, there was genuine suspense, maximum dread, and minimal feeling of being manipulated. And I'm sure you'll know what I just saw whose results were the opposite: Yep, 2012, the mother of all disaster movies. Manufactured suspense, minimal dread, and manipulation to the MAX. Was Emmerich being ironic at times, deconstructing some of the disaster movie tropes he played so straight in Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow? I won't do any spoilers, in case some of you might want to see the movie, but let's just say that I'd like to talk about the ending some time. . . |
woolymonkey
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5:57p |
Has David Brent changed sex recently?
I've just come home from a dyslexia workshop for UU tutors, where I gathered a small amount of useful info and enough material for a new episode of The Office. The trainer was David Brent in female form, if you can imagine that. She was totally freaked when one of the tutors attending the workshop said he was dyslexic. After that, she couldn't give him a handout without fussing over whether he'd be able to cope with it. She consistently referred to people with dyslexia as "they" so she could tell us exactly what "they do". Apparently, they don't like to be stereotyped because they're all different. But don't correct their spelling because, (David Brent voice here, please)"they won't remember anyway: they're dyslexic!" Then she read our feedback forms while we were still in the room with her, albeit trying to get out. "Simplistic and patronising. Well thank you very much!"I promise you: a) I did not make it up b) Was not my form, honest. Out of a group of 11, I can think of at least 4 (other) people who looked fed up enough to write that. c) Those quotes are what she said. I did not even tweak them. |
stevie_stever
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5:01a |
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nineweaving
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12:28a |
Lots of quail in Cremona
Fortunately, the Actors' Shakespeare Project held over The Taming of the Shrew for a few more performances, so I got to see it after all. And well worth it: that was the neatest use of the Induction ever. As you'll remember, there's a framing story, in which the drunken tinker Christopher Sly is hauled off in a stupor to a sumptuous upper room, dressed grandly, and convinced with overdone obeisances that his reality has all been madness, that he is truly a lord awakened from a dream. A worried potboy is dragooned to play his lady, pawed and pinched. And a company of players are brought in to act this comedy for him. As this company does it, the frame is contemporary. But the players are too few, doubling and tripling roles nonsensically, until one by one the people in the barroom take the stage, changing caps for capes and feathered bonnets, wearing ruffs with their suits and ties. Sly on the sidelines follows the script in a battered paperback, hunched over it and muttering the lines to himself, objecting, jeering, calling out for definitions—"I trow"?—until like Bottom he can stand the shadows no more and takes the stage, bestriding it and roaring. Even then, he keeps and brangles with his text until Kate snatches it and flings it to the crowd, and he is full Petruchio. And the busboy is Bianca. Dude.  I've come to girl it slenderly in Padua;
If slenderly, bent-genderly in Padua.
If my lord has a cod of gold
Then my god, how the sod's been sold...He's prettier than Katharina even still—she's a nutcrackerish virago, all whipcord and blaze, while he is all girlish and twirly, with an undertone of pout. And sings her lessons in a pretty alto, the Latin as scat and torch. Nice casting all around: Tranio, the clever servant masquerading as the heir is small and elegant and black, while the foolish young master is plump and affable and round-bespectacled, like something from the Drones Club. It's a riotously knockabout production—overhead pipes are swung upon, groins are kneed, and Kate hangs a bound Bianca from a hook and then upends her. The thwarted dinner scene is played like touch football; the cook's stewpot is overturned on his head in a hail of carrots and potatoes, and Petruchio clangs on his tin helm with a ladle. And the confrontation of the true and false fathers—each wearing Chip Delany's beard—is done as the mirror scene from Duck Soup. That Speech ("I am ashamed that women are so simple") is pretty much an insoluble problem. They come closer to solving it, by paradox, than I have seen. The director softens it somewhat by having Petruchio kneel beside Kate when she offers her hands to his boot, and there's a hint of conspiracy between them. Nothing new in that interpretation; but what rocks is that both the other froward wives are played by men. Bianca is the busboy still; and Tranio is now an ain't-no-flies-on-this-widow, in pearls and a silver wig. Score. After Kate and Petruchio go off with the wager, as the party's breaking up, Bianca snatches off her wig as if it's too damned hot for her, and her newly wed husband gazes with his jaw dropped, is about to speak— The lights go up. Nine |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
shikuchi
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8:30p |
Pinkertons gonna shoot you dead
Follow, Follow! #3  We hold these truths to be self evident, that giant eyes and itty-bitty mouths are really cute, within reason... Anyway, I promised a post about Pinkertons, and sadly, I know actually very little about them. The truth is, I only found out about them this year. My history teacher was telling us about Carnegie (whose name, much to my profound annoyance and frustration, is not pronounced CAR-negie, like they say on NPR, but car-NAY-gie, which is crazy and weird and crazy, but anyway), and he was going on, and then he was like, "... so he hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency." And of course, at that point I perked up and was like, "Detective agency? With sinister implications? What what?" ( it gets better! ) Current Mood:  avid!Current Music: theme song from Kiki's Delivery Service |
asakiyume
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4:20p |
three things in the kitchen
(1) A leaky tap that makes music. Kappas like this kind of music, I believe. (You can listen for 22 seconds and see what you think.) (2) An orange that has been zested (de-zested?) looks like Acoma pottery. Exhibit 1: The Orange  Exhibit 2: Acoma Pottery  (3) Something came in with the spinach. Something withered, but pretty. Here it is on the floor.  Current Mood:  curiousCurrent Music: Peter Tosh: Equal Rights/Downpresser Man |
kestrell
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12:08p |
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stevie_stever
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5:02a |
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