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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
musesfool
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10:24p
he's done it with just one hand most of the time
Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating! Happy Thursday to those who are not. I hope everyone had a lovely day, regardless.
My day began with BACON and PIE and ended with FOOTBALL and PIE, and in between there was stuffing and homemade cheese macaroni and turkey that was actually moist and tasty (!!), and more family shenanigans than you could shake a stick at. My brother was in rare form tonight, and basically had the whole table in stitches for most of the meal. Mostly at my expense, but eh, that's not new. and unfortunately, the Giants are capping off the day by sucking like unto a hoover, but I am too full and sleepy to care too much.
I am thankful for my family, my friends - including you guys - my health, and my job. Man, a year ago at this time, I was a week away from being laid off. I'm still a little freaked out by how that went, still anxious and lacking in confidence sometimes, but I'm so glad I found a new job quickly, and one that I mostly like, for people and an organization that I like. (I'm also grateful that I have tomorrow off and I don't have to use a day - it's one of our holidays. Mmm...sleeping in...) I'm grateful I have health insurance and can pay my rent and that I have an apartment I love.
I'm thankful for fandom, not just because of all the great stories to read and the feeling of having people who get my excitement about various shows and characters, but because of all the great people I've met and become friends with, who've made my life richer and better and more fun all around.
*hugs*
And also, I am thankful for PIE, and I would share some with you all if I could.
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current music: Giants v. Broncos on tv
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(comment on this) Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
musesfool
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10:41p
mama, put my guns in the ground
Criminal Minds
( spoilers )
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Maybe I will try to write. I would like to post one more story this month, if possible, before I buckle down on yuletide and broken toys.
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current music: Knockin' On Heaven's Door - G'n'R
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11:55a
some days, there's nothing left to learn
So I have this thing where I reverse numbers all the time, e.g., I usually have to redial new to me phone numbers two or three times because I switch the order of the numbers, etc.
NOTE TO SELF: NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE DYSLEXIC WITH ROMAN NUMERALS!
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current mood:  busy
current music: i saved the world today - eurythmics
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(comment on this) Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
musesfool
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11:44p
with a red guitar on fire
For tonight's bout of stress baking, I made blueberry boy bait (as recommended by ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) devildoll), which came out well, I think (I am taking half to work and half to the parents), but I also think it needs more blueberries. Clearly I need to double the amount next time. And possibly make it in cupcake tins or my mini-loaf pan. Hmm...
Maybe one day I'll be like a real food blogger and remember to take pictures of stuff before I slice into it and wrap it up. Today was not that day.
On my ride home tonight (I was at work late again), I listened to Adam Raised a Cain a few times and vidded it in my head. I would be the most literal vidder ever. Anyway. I know I say this all the time, but where is the Sam Winchester vid to this song? WHERE IS IT? I think this season has provided more awesome footage for someone to do this.
( the lyrics, in case you missed them the first 100 times I mentioned this idea )
Seriously, if I had minions, I would make one of them vid this for me.
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current music: desire - u2
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2:07p
big fish, little fish
some days, the bear definitely eats you.
favorite repeated typos of today:
RPF for RFP
partners hips for partnerships
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current mood:  stressed
current music: down by the water - pj harvey
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(comment on this) Monday, November 23rd, 2009
musesfool
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11:01p
please tell me we'll stop for popcorn on the way
Big Bang Theory
( spoilers )
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Castle
I don't think I like Beckett's hair. It's too...helmety. Or something.
( spoilers )
*happy sigh*
Castle is my happy place.
Now I need to sleep because I have to be in early tomorrow for meetings. Ugh.
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(comment on this) Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
elke_tanzer
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9:58p
George Lucas Totally Owes Me A Drink
(Star Wars fandom, don't ever say I don't give you pressies.)
On the AO3, there now exist fandom titles for:
Star Wars (Comics)
Star Wars (Video Games)
For all of the book series' various eras, using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_books as a reference:
- Star Wars: Sith Era - Various (synonym: Star Wars: Old Republic Era - Various)
- Star Wars: Rise of Empire Era - Various
- Star Wars: Rebellion Era - Various
- Star Wars: New Republic Era - Various
- Star Wars: New Jedi Order Era - Various
- Star Wars: Legacy Era - Various
For the films:
The synonym fandom titles for Star Wars Original Trilogy are currently:
# Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
# Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
# Star Wars: A New Hope
# SW:ANH
# ANH
# Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
# Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
# A New Hope
# The Empire Strikes Back
# Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
# Return of the Jedi
# SW:RotJ
# RotJ
# SW:ESB
# SW:TESB
# ESB
I am currently looking at the 84 works that had been tagged by their authors into the Star Wars fandom to figure out if we can make Star Wars a synonym for Star Wars Original Trilogy temporarily, because currently there is only one work in any of the synonyms of Star Wars Original Trilogy, because that work was tagged into the Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi fandom initially by its author (full disclosure: that was me). All of the existing characters and pairings tags have now been untangled, and the fandom tag Star Wars is now a temporary synonym for Star Wars Original Trilogy.
As soon as we get metatagging capability, Star Wars will be a separate tag which encompasses all of the component Star Wars fandoms under its umbrella, so to speak... all of the movies and expanded universe tie-ins and books and videogames and tv shows and whateverthehellelse... and we'll all be able to breathe a little easier.
The synonym fandom titles for Star Wars Prequel Trilogy are currently:
# The Phantom Menace
# Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
# Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
# Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
# Star Wars (TPM)
# Star Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith
# Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
# Revenge of the Sith
# Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
# Attack of the Clones
# SW:AotC
# AotC
# SW:RotS
# RotS
# SW:TPM - Fandom (this is a slight glitch that we'll have to deal with tomorrow related to when the rake process rakes; there is also currently a freeform tag TPM which should ultimately possibly be a fandom tag synonym instead, but I'm not sure, since it's being used as a timeframe-type freeform, like pre-ANH or pre-TPM)
# Phantom Menace
I'm still wrangling character and pairing names, but I think we've got the fandom titles sorted out, and we're working on the character and pairing names for the movies which had already been uploaded into the AO3 are now wrangled. The Expanded Universe character and pairing details will come later. Thank you for your patience as the wranglers wrangulate.
Additional references:
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=star+wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_Universe_%28Star_Wars%29
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.njoe.com/index.php?id=view&sub=append&sub2=doa (New Jedi Order character reference)
(Also, should anyone feel the need (I will not be held responsible for what may result):
Star Wars Holiday Special (TV))
ETA: My tag wrangling process has been ficced. OMG. Love.
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the_shoshanna
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5:25p
random update time!
Despite having slept better last night than I have in days, I am catastrophically exhausted. This seems vaguely unfair. On the other hand, I know that I would sleep better (and feel better generally) if I got back to the gym, so whining only reminds me that I'm being a slug. I know I used to be able to keep up with work, journals, other fannishness, and meal prep and still find time to work out, but I'm really not sure how past-me did that. I think she used mirrors, or clones or something.
I am slowly uploading my fiction to the Archive of Our Own! I've never used another archive, so I can't say how the AO3 (or AOOO, if you prefer) compares to other archive software, but I can say that I think it's awesome! With the tagging and the relationships between stories and the stuff I've only begun to explore! It's going to take me a while to get everything up there, though. I can tell I'm going to start eagerly looking out for code pushes on the archive the way I eagerly look for them on Dreamwidth and on Thunderbird (of which the next major version is due any day now omgcomeonalready). Seriously, I love it when software I use all the time gets an update, it's like a little present for me.
Tagging on the AO3 is indeed a thing of wonder, but it's a complicated thing of wonder. Thankfully, Zvi has explained tag-wrangling for us beautifully. And jinjur has written tag wrangler RPF fic, because the tag wranglers are just that awesome.
Unrelatedly, because you don't have to be involved with the Organization for Transformative Works to use the Archive it's developing, my OTW committee (Development and Membership) is working on wrapping things up for the year and planning for 2010. I think we had a terrific year, and I've enjoyed being a part of the group, though I never feel I'm doing as much as I should. But I'm excited about some projects for next year! And hey, did you know that WE OWN THE GODDAMN SERVERS?
After posting my thoughts about Supernatural the other day, I did read all the reaction posts I had waiting. Most people on my droll/flist have been pretty negative, and, y'know, I agree with pretty much all of it. (In particular, ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) amalthia linked to an excellent thinky meta post by faye_dartmouth.) But I'm still watching, and even enjoying. Why? Well, I think I'm just not all that invested, so when it fails, I can shrug, instead of feeling betrayed. And I'm still enjoying a lot of good fanfic. But I'm definitely not going to be trying to talking anyone into liking it -- at the same time, I don't mean to talk anyone out of enjoying it! Sigh. I do wish I could kick Kripke's ass hard, because I think he deserves it.
In the category of other TV, we watched the first hour of the new Prisoner without being remotely drawn in, sigh. I suppose we'll get back to it, but what I've read about how to ended does not fill me with the urge to do so. And I've seen about the first three episodes of White Collar and mostly enjoyed it, but am not hooked. I don't think it's gone anywhere yet, and I'm pissed that they apparently jettisoned the cool lesbian-of-color FBI agent. Honestly, a lot of my urge to watch it comes from people squeeing about fic for it.
On the other hand, I'm still enjoying Merlin! Which I would never claim is a genuinely quality dramatic production. But I knew that going in, and I watch it while I'm cooking, and again, there's charming hot fanfic. (And some charming people posting adorably about it.) I wonder how much TV I'd even watch, if there were not fandom and fanfic?
Workwise I'm in pretty good shape these days, except that the author whose book is due back to the press in eight days (and I'll be in Mass. for four of them, for the Thanksgiving holiday) asked if it was too late to substantially reorganize a section of the book. YES, IT IS. THANKS FOR ASKING. But I've simultaneously started on the next book, and I don't think there was a single missing reference in the entire bibliography, which is just a miracle, people. You don't even know how unusual that is what a geek I am the pain of the lonely copyeditor why I'm telling you this.
So I will leave you with news I just saw on researchgrrrl's journal: "The Simpsons's 2010 Hallowe'en special will feature a segment in which Lisa falls madly in love with a vampire boy named Edmund. Cast as the voice of Edmund? Daniel Radcliffe." Heee!
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11:44a
fic: your ears tuned to the roar (SPN; Jo, Ellen; gen)
your ears tuned to the roar
Supernatural; Jo, Ellen; pg; spoilers through 5.10; 1,510 words
In which Jo grows up.
Thanks to angelgazing for handholding and title-wrangling.
( your ears tuned to the roar )
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Feedback is adored.
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current music: Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
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(comment on this) Saturday, November 21st, 2009
elke_tanzer
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7:58p
I'm sitting here in happy tears, because yeah, this is how it feels.
Of all of the things I never, ever, ever expected to say in this lifetime...
Because general_jinjur is amazing, and the OTW is amazing, and the AO3 is amazing, and the Wrangulator is amazing, and because everyone who is uploading stories and tagging them is amazing...
Go read:
forma by general_jinjur. It's Tag Wuzzle Wrangler RPF.
I will apparently be cosplaying myself next Escapade, y'all.
(If there is a fanartist in range of my voice who can draw in the style of Nausicaa Valley of the Wind and is willing to do a commission, please let me know.)
(Heck, if any fanartist wants to do something related to this, let general_jinjur know... she says the Wrangulatorverse is open to sharing according to the open-transform statement on her profile, but I'm sure she'd love to hear if you make any derivative work from it!)
And yes, the tag wrangling team is still looking for more volunteers.
*holds out hand*
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