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cereta is where you want to go for Sesame Street fandom, well-articulated powerful feminist rage, cute kid stories, and Grading Hell Theater.
laurashapiro is the source for vids. Vid recs, new vids, vid meta, vids vids vids. Viiiiiiids.
slodwick makes, I swear to God, the best art on the internet. I don’t know what she does, exactly, I just know it’s MAGIC.
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photograph by jagelado
commute
Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. (John Berger)
John Berger, obviously. Used when I’m going to be (a) checking in on the computer every now & then, but not that often, (b) on the public transit system for a while, (c) out of the house.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 1%.
distract me!
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
A Robert Benchley quotation. Used when I’m doing something and not too fond of the task.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 95%. I may have forgotten to change the away message to a ‘no, really, working’ one, but likely not.
DVD
They call it a medium because nothing’s well done.
A Groucho Marx quotation, on television. Used when I’m watching a DVD or streaming media.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 10%. I don’t multitask well, and I have enough trouble with most media without introducing further distraction (exception: when I’m watching something fannish and need either to snark or squee with someone.).
nonprofit
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
A Logan Pearsall Smith quotation. Used when I’m doing honest-to-god paid work, especially the administrative nonsense that much of my job consists of.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 3%. This is one of my ‘no, really, working’ messages, but if your inquiry is either urgent or simple (very few are both), I’m open to interruption.
otw
“You make the thing because you love the thing / and you love the thing because someone else loved it / enough to make you love it.” (Thomas Lux)
Thomas Lux, duh. From this poem, A Horatian Notion. Used when I’m in OTW meetings or writing OTW policy.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: either 95%, if you’re in OTW (especially if you’re on one of my committees or the Board) or 5% if you’re not. Same caveats as above.
writing: word count
Word count as of $time: # words. Next goal, $time+half-hour, # words.
Stolen from synecdochic; I keep meaning to either actually use this or take it out of rotation. I almost never have IM on when I’m writing—see above, multitasking, inability to.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 50%. Be prepared for me to (a) abandon you mid-sentence for my own sentences, (b) copy-paste what I’m working on at you, and (c) be unable to talk about anything but writing, both in the small and large sense.
writing: drops of blood
Writing is the easiest thing in the world: just stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
A many-attributed quotation! Used when I’m writing and it is not going well.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 100% (oh god, get me away from this before I go mad) or 5% (endless slogging middles do not go away just because I want them to).
writing: narrative structure (revision)
“I question your narrative structure.”
“Well, I question your stupid face.”
From lim’s the move. Used when I’m revising fiction.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 50%.
writing: romance at short notice
Romance at short notice was her specialty.
From a Saki short story. Used when I’m writing and it is going well.
Chance of my being accessible via IM: 0%. I love you, but when writing works, I want to grab on with both hands as long as the ride lasts.
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I’ve been meaning to post this for literally months. Sigh. And it’s not even complete. (I am pretty sure it was dira who started this meme, but if it wasn’t her, then to whoever did, thank you! I love this meme more than I can tell you.)
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Subscriptions are coming-in-2010 feature of the Archive of Our Own, so eventually I will be able to do this kind of thing automagically. However, for the nonce, I continue to hand-code recs posts, with love and care and the deep desire to get more people reading awesome fic.
Halves, by vensre. Merlin. Merlin Emrys/Arthur Pendragon. Rated teen and up, no archive warnings apply. “Arthur has what Merlin was looking for.”
“If you try to make me some kind of joke knight, or saddle me with land somehow, there are going to be consequences you won’t like.”
Arthur gave him the You Ruin All My Fun face.
This is the story where Arthur and Merlin are so in love. No, wait, that’s the entire fandom. This is the story where Arthur and Merlin get married in a small private traditional ceremony. No, really. No, really! (The Dragon is going to fall off a rock laughing when he finds out. \o/)
An Anatomy of the World, by yunitsa. Swordspoint. Alec Campion/Richard St. Vier. Rated teen and up, no archive warnings apply. “On a cold autumn night in Riverside, Richard St. Vier takes home a stray.”
“Oh, good,” the youth answered with equanimity, taking the stool beside his. “Because I am entirely out of money. Will you buy me a drink?”
I’m a little scared by how much this reads like Kushner wrote it. Lush, gorgeous sentences, with brittleness lurking just behind the punctuation. (Spoilers for Swordspoint.)
Naturalistic Observation, by perspi. House, M.D. Greg House, James Wilson, Lisa Cuddy. Rated teen and up, no archive warnings apply. “This is the story of how the head of Oncology came to occupy an office next to the Department of Diagnostics.”
“I would like to request an office transfer. As soon as possible.”
“You’ve only been in your new office two weeks,” Cuddy points out, even though she probably should have seen this coming. “After the negotiations—”
Dr. Adams raises both hands in a gesture of supplication. “No, no, see, I appreciate that you got me into one of the non-glass offices. My clients appreciate the privacy.” He finally slumps a little into the chair and says, “I just don’t think it’s possible to practice psychiatry with Dr. House as a neighbor.”
Wherein House wears leather chaps, Cuddy takes photographs, and Wilson is sneakier than she gives him credit for. (I don’t understand why these people keep underestimating each other! Just assume that nuclear war is about to break out and you should be okay, right?)
Teaching the Indie Kids to Joust Again, by Aja. Merlin RPF. Merlin Emrys/ Arthur Pendragon, Bradley James/Colin Morgan. Rated mature, no archive warnings apply. “If the Mountain will not go to the sea then the river must bring them together.”
BE IT HITHERTO KNOWN THAT PRINCE ARTHUR OF CAMELOT HAS BEEN CLIMBING HIS MANSERVANT’S BEANSTALK FOR GOING ON, LIKE, THREE HOURS, AND HAST FOUND IT TO BE NOT ALL THAT UNPLEASANT, MAYBE EVEN SOMETHING TO TRY AGAIN LATER WHEN HIS HANDS AREN’T QUITE SO CHAFED FROM ALL THE GRIPPING.
Let me put it this way: I have caught myself, more than once, looking for the .avi file of the episode laid out in this fic. No, it is not an episode tag. It, in fact, does not exist. My brain is convinced it does; that is how well this fic taps into the heart and soul of Merlin.
GO READ EVERYTHING. And leave feedback! The Archive is a little sparse for feedbacked fic at the moment!
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For the nth time, LiveJournal has committed fail and then madly backpedaled. If anyone needs a Dreamwidth invite code, ask me!
oyceter talks about books. All the time. She talks about books in a smart, thoughtful, critical, demanding way, and that is almost everything I want from the internet right there.
hradzka: he writes a poem every day, and they tend to be good. I am impressed. And I feel he should be watched closely.
bell takes pretty photographs, and who doesn’t want more pretty on their reading list? They tend to be kickass still-lifes, for which I have a major kink, and she talks about House, too! I’m kind of considering giving her a friendship bracelet based merely on that.
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and you all must bear it.
Thanks to keira_daily maintainer dreamiflame, obama_daily maintainers ladypolitik and whatsgood, various posters at ontd_political, and zoe-saldana.com.
I’m feeling the double-x chromosome vibe these days, so below the jump you will find scads of Keira Knightley, Michelle Obama, Rachel Maddow, and Zoe Saldana. \o/!
(As an aside, does anyone else have the picspam ethical question of preferring posed-and-published shots because they were meant for public consumption, rather than paparazzi shots, but not wanting to condone the creepy photoshopping and manipulation of those professional snaps? Because it troubles me.)
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Because we have conversations like this:
what if folks in my little corner of fandom started writing Twilight fanfic? I can’t decide if I’d rather see daegaer write about the pure [disdain] with which certain telepathic assassins would view Edward, or the epic story charting Edward’s actions throughout certain biblical events. thingswithwings and toft might collaborate on a story in which it is revealed that while vampires don’t have PIV sex before marriage, pegging is a-okay as long as the dildo is sparkly enough. bravecows could write a series of short, perfectly formed Discworld fusions in which Otto despairs of talking sense into either Edward or Bella. raven might be tempted into femgenathoning Bella aboard the Starship Enterprise.
Now I am trying to figure out what I would write for Twilight fanfic. I think it would be Edward/Bella/Jacob OT3, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what the banter would be about. (I mean, there really isn’t any topic of conversation or interest covered in the books other than, you know, vampires and sparkling and Wuthering Heights.) Someone should tell me what they would bicker about. (Nabokov’s calling Jane Austen “gentle Jane”? Gourmet flavors of mountain lion blood? THESE ARE THE THINGS I CARE ABOUT.)
What would you write?
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Here’s the plan: every Friday, let’s recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That’s it. No complicated rules, no “pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die”. Just introduce us to some new things to read.
(Your cat will, in fact, eventually, die. I just thought I’d put that out there. Sorry.)
mrcreek doesn’t post often, but when he does, it is almost entirely awesome sci-fi. Completed novels! With real science!
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bigbangindex is a necessity for people in fandom who like to stretch out on the couch and put their laptops on their stomachs and read for a few hours straight without any of that pesky “searching.” This is the best resource I have found yet for discovering completed, current, and future Big Bang ficathons.
intro_to_cs is a community for people following along with MIT 6.00: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, which is part of their OpenCourseWare project; the lectures, reading assignments and problem sets are all free and available online. The goal is to do a first run-through from November 2009 – February 2010. Totally worth doing if you are interested in learning computer science with a great, supportive bunch of people.
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Gacked from God only knows who, at this point: Here’s the plan: every Friday, let’s recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That’s it. No complicated rules, no “pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die”. Just introduce us to some new things to read.
copracat: for your daily dose of Australian politics, race and feminism smarts, and fannish glee, with occasional Regency romances and terrible American cop shows.
roz_mcclure: feminist Jewish thinkiness, Shakespeare and Ibsen geekery, reports from the ground of living in London!
samvara: OTW’s current ADT chair, a cute dog, reports from MBA classes (no really, it’s fun). And science trivia!
Go subscribe. And tell me who I should be reading!
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