| Sweet Charity Vidders - 2008 & 2009 |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|04:38 pm] |
If I've done this correctly, links to all the participating Sweet Charity vidders on the final compilation should be here. Clickable & lickable - go forth and watch and leave feedback.
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[Dec. 15th, 2009|09:52 pm] |
OMG the Paul O'Grady Panto is a hoot.
I miss them horribly.
I simply have to get to one next year. |
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[Dec. 15th, 2009|05:48 pm] |
Anyone here have an a03 account? I'm looking for an upload proxy.
(not that I'm done.... ARrrrrrgh) |
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| Spreading the word: LiveJournal FAIL. |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|10:32 pm] |
I've just made the following as a post in my LJ:
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LiveJournal is removing the Unspecified option for the gender field. That's right: you get to be male or female. Period. That's it.
Details here: http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/366609.html
This journal has been, in my user profile, "Unspecified" gender for a long time, because gender is not binary. If/when I am unable to decline to state my gender, or if/when I am forced to declare my gender along a binary division, here on LJ, I will be deleting this journal.
I have Dreamwidth invite codes for anyone who wants them, just provide me with the email address you want the code sent to. There is also http://dw-codesharing.dreamwidth.org/ as well, which does not require you to provide your email address to anyone.
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Dreamwidth, I adore you. <3
ETA: And now I've added the following to my LJ post:
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ETA: The code has now been rolled back and will not be pushed with the next codepush.
After seeing some of the reaction to this entire situation from my LJ friendslist, however, I will be deleting this journal later today. elkes_obsession is already gone. I had been committed to trying to do everything I could to keep unbroken links, to retain memories categories, to not delete entries, even though so many things about LJ's ownership bother me. I'd tried to retain the human connections across the multiple sites. But apparently plenty of the folks I've felt I was making the effort for are sick and tired of this sort of thing. I'm getting a 'don't let the door hit your ass on the way out' vibe, and damn, that HURTS. And so now I'm just DONE.
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So.
![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) elkes_obsession
And elke_tanzer. Created on 2002-04-13 12:36:18 (#527447), watching 515 friends, communities, and feeds. 19,435 comments received, 19,512 comments posted, 2,880 Journal Entries, 204 Tags, 16,918 Memories.
Done.
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| Because it wouldn't be theholiday season without LJ acting like asshats. |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|11:33 pm] |
Take a look at this charming news from ![[dreamwidth.org profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) synecdochic about LJ's decision to make Gender a mandatory field and only allow the options 'Male' or 'Female.'
Even if I didn't have friends who identify as transgender or genderqueer, I'd still be disgusted by LJ's shortsighted and, quite frankly, hateful decision, because...what will our next mandatory binary choice be? “Black or White?” “Christian or Atheist?” How many ways can you imagine you being written out of the equation?
Read the relevant linked posts, consider changing your gender listing to unspecified' while you still can (if you haven't already done it), and consider – one more time – whether it might not be smarter to leave LJ once and for all.
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| Stoves and Emails and TV... |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|08:25 pm] |
1. Stove is here. we're going to need to fiddle with the temp calibration - first stop is to get a new oven gauge as the old one is fluctuating.
2. amusement fact of the day: people who send you messages via LJ inbox but set their privacy settings so you cannot reply via the same. And then are vague in their requests. Making it harder = no response - not given what is happening around Casa De Morgan Dawn these past few months.
3. we got caught up on both Glee and Dexter. I like Glee for the music. As for Dexter - wow. Any word if it has been renewed for next year?
To still catch up: Fringe, Flash Forward, Dollhouse (we've missed all of season 2), Big Bang Season 2.
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| Hahha. Hey wait...that's not funny |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|11:07 pm] |
Tomorrow our new stove will be installed. we wait in dread because anytime anything in this house is touched...it breaks. so let's see what the installers do with an aging gas line. excitement.
on that note...our aging dishwasher has sprung a bad leak. by the time we noticed it had warped part of the cabinet/floor. we've tried various fixes (in fact that's how we spent the weekend) and need to wait a few days before testing again. if this repair does not work, we need to order more parts and replace the gasket and spray arm. If it still leaks.....we may have to buy a new one since there have been too many problems with it (over 12 years old and we've done all the repairs ourselves). I;d normally say...scrap the dishwasher concept, but I cannot wash dishes by hand with my bad hip/wrist and xlorp is running triage on way too much in our lives.
thank goodness we no longer buy holiday gifts for each other...that's a major termite repair, a new stove and a new PC all in the span of 4 months. This is the rainy day we've saved for. But ouch.
PS. my gastroparesis is back - this is the longest period I've had it without being on pain meds. Ouch again.
PPS. On Tuesday we call tehc support and demand that they send someone out to fix the motherboard problems that have cropped up in my new PC.
PPPS. And...in spite of all this I think...hey..it could be worse. In fact...2 years ago this Christmas it was worse. My mother was in the hospital with a pulmonary embolism and both xlorp and I were embarking on the Year Our Parents Almost Died.
So termites-gas-stove-water-leaking-dishwasher-motherboards......"I fie in your general direction" (apologies to Monty Python for the slight liberty with the quote).
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| All I can do is offer virtual chocolates. And keep learning. |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|04:30 pm] |
I'm not the most knowledgeable person around, about a bunch of stuff, yeah. And I try not to talk about stuff I don't know about... if I haven't earned the right to talk I try to Just Shut Up. I'm privileged in some ways and not so privileged in other ways. I sometimes say stupid shit without realizing it's stupid shit and then I try to learn and apologize and never make the same mistake twice. And a lot of the time, for me, it's easier for me to see how something is stupid hurtful shit when it comes out of someone else's mouth or keyboard, because when it comes out of my mouth or my keyboard it didn't immediately sound stupid or hurtful to me.
Stuff I have learned lately (not just from the latest shitstorm going on, but lately in general)...
1. When someone says they prefer a specific gendered or nongendered pronoun, I JUST DO IT. I just need to respect that preference.
1.a. If I screw that up once for someone? Please, anyone, give me a gentle reminder. If I screw that up twice for someone? Please, anyone, KICK ME.
1.b. This is not just related to whether or not I respect the person being referred to, but is also related to whether or not I respect everyone's right to have a personal pronoun preference.
2. If I don't have a clue whether someone prefers a specific gendered or nongendered pronoun, chances are that using 'they' as a singular, or zie and zir, will not piss them off or hurt them.
2.a. (I'm not sure about this, but so far it's holding true...) If I use they, or zie and zir, in reference to someone, and they distinctly do not prefer that, they can easily correct me without too much trauma or drama for either one of us.
2.b. There are folks who prefer they over zie and zir (or sie and hir), and folks who prefer zie and zir (or sie and hir) over they.
2.c. There are folks who do not self-identify as trans* who prefer non-gendered pronouns. There are folks who do not self-identify as cis* who prefer non-gendered pronouns.
3. It is awkward as hell for me to ask if a friend or acquaintance prefers any specific pronoun. That doesn't mean I should ever assume that they prefer she or he or zie. I should NOT ASSUME, even if I know them offline, even if I would probably tend to assume one pronoun is more likely than another based on my own personal history and the name they've chosen to use in any given setting, or any physical characteristic they've presented to me or kept private from me, or any attitude they've said or typed about any topic under the sun.
3.a. Awkward is not necessarily the same as hurtful. And if I can get myself through an awkward situation to prevent myself from hurting someone? If I realize the awkward situation is an option, I'm darned well choosing that rather than knowingly hurting someone.
3.b. It's really easy to be hurtful unintentionally if I don't know what I'm talking about.
So.
All I can do right now? Is offer virtual chocolates, and try not to mess this post up, because I just can't be silent right now. I'm sorry that people suck, and I'm sorry that folks I care about are being hurt, and I'm sorry that I've been unintentionally hurtful in the past.
And I desperately hope that I'm not being unintentionally hurtful now, especially given the current state of the latest shitstorm (which I am trying to avoid, actually).
ETA: And yes, this post is from a me-centric place, because when I tried writing it any other perspective, I came across even to my own eyes as megapreachy and talking about things I haven't earned the right to and ICK ICK ICK. I feel mostly-OK about talking about myself here, so yeah, I did. I wish I could do better, but I feel like this is better than silence, because I can't be silent when something is Not OK By Me.)
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| Idol RPF: Drive-By Devotion (Adam/Tommy) |
[Dec. 10th, 2009|10:40 pm] |
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http://astolat.livejournal.com/215342.html haha, okay, so here is the full version of the ludicrous porn story I started on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) aianonlovefest the other day. I had it finished a bit earlier today but ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) merryish said it was too much porn for noon, but good for 2am, and I had to agree, so I waited a bit to post. :>
Seriously, this is even more x-rated and also even more COMPLETE CRACK than before, you are warned.
Drive-By Devotion (6,970 words)
Adam/Tommy, so very very adult & explicit
It seemed like a good idea after five martinis in the Wynn high-rollers bar.
(Read the story!)
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| This made my day |
[Dec. 10th, 2009|05:01 pm] |
Working with websites stored on the Internet Archives is a lot like how the Internet used to be before Google and search engines. The only way you found another website was to click on a link..and then another...and then another. You wandered the deserts being guided by wisps of clouds and the angle of the sun. And if you ever looked back....you'd see no trace of how you got there.
Which is why finding this and then being able to create the Fanlore entry here made my day.
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[Dec. 10th, 2009|09:59 am] |
ok I watched a bit of Top Gear in America special....
How did the producers think that painting up those cars and setting them loose in hicksville would not result in danger? I'm honestly surprised no one was hurt.
However the Vietnam special... the sight of Clarkson in misery is joyful. Richard and James are very cute together <3.
I need to watch them both all the way through but the bits I've snagged have been fun. Except for the roadkill. ew.
(and James looks so elegant, even on a bike. His legs are a mile long... *thud*) |
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[Dec. 10th, 2009|12:41 am] |
Well now, apparently, because I don't like the OTW and am displeased with the yuletide move, I hate Astolat.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot.
Pardon but I've been doing yuletide since the first, long before this OTW stupidity. I know what the yuletide mods go through and what work they have to do. I'm happy for them that they have found something to lighten their burden. I'm not happy with what they've chosen.
So since when did not agreeing someone's decision to do something equal hating them? Is this what general LJ fandom has become, a bunch of convert or die types? I wasn't aware that I was no longer allowed to disagree with what other people do that affect me. I agreed to allow yuletide to have my work, not the a03 archive. Man, for all several people go on about permissions and specifying where and how their own work can be archived, it seems they don't think that same courtesy should be extended to other people. I'd like to hear the screaming if one of their fandom archives decided to move to some unfinished forum based platform run by some bunch that wants to study the contents for marketing research and needs content to swell its ranks.
I'm still boggled at the total state of unfinishedness of a03. Some parts yuletide will be using aren't even finished being coded yet... @.@ What's the date? When's the stress testing going to happen? Then they have to get 1500 ish people signed on, situated and in working order... Mad props if they can but my cynicism, let me show you it. I do coding for a living and maybe that's why I'm all @.@ at this schedule. For their sakes I hope it isn't a mongolian clusterfuck.
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[Dec. 8th, 2009|08:14 pm] |
well I left a comment on my displeasure at having to use Ao3 here
No, I do not wish to orphan my works. I want my name attached to them. I don't want them on that archive _at all_ While they might be entitled to whatever current one I do because it was clearly spelled out (even though I completely missed it until too late) that it was going to ao3; I did not in any way agree to my old things being sent there.
Not just me, I'm sure there are plenty of other people. They didn't agree to give their stuff to anyone but yuletidetreasure.org. humbug.
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| /sings along with the rest of the tag-wranglers |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|06:56 pm] |
I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD
BUT THE AO3 CODERS MOST OF ALL
BOOM-DE-YADA, BOOM-DE-YADA...
:-D
In only-minorly-related news, apparently my long-slumbering infatuation with Merlin UK fandom has re-manifested. The trouble with tag-wrangling and thinking about what Freeform tags I might want on my own bookmarks is that I keep finding all kinds of neat new things to read!
Which reminds me... not for official tag-wrangling, but for my own bookmarks... I'm thinking I want to start using nonfandom-specific tags for the following concepts, because when I'm reading in Merlin and Smallville (and other?) fandoms, I find myself seeking these themes out:
Secret Revealed
Secret Revealed To Partner
Secret Revealed To Partner - Unresolved Sexual Tension
Secret Revealed To Partner - Established Relationship
Secret Revealed To Ally (or perhaps To Friend? hmmm.)
Secret Revealed To Nemesis
Secret Revealed Anticlimactic
What do you fine folks use to tag or bookmark such concepts?
ETA: Oh oh oh! I almost forgot! I've stumbled across a couple completely adorable Fred & Ginger fanvids recently! I think I found one of them via ![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) veni_vidi_vids and another via... um... hang on, I've got it here in a tab somewhere... aha! stultiloquentia and someone else (sorry, I can't find you!) right around the same time, and the others via google-searching trying to figure out where I'd found the first one, before I remembered!
glvalentine's rec of Love You Madly by roseytrebles
Fanvid: "Happiness" [Astaire/Rogers Films] by icepixie
They Can't Take That Away... by duckmilk productions
Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance) by StrictlyTaboo
Support For My Argument by vespersaw
Also Caught by vespersaw, featuring not only Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but also William Powell and Myrna Loy, and Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn...
*swoon*
(I must interject here that never in a million years did I ever expect to find fanvids including footage of Captain Blood (and Robin Hood OMG) aside from the fantastic One Night Fandoms: A Tribute to Yuletide by eruthros and thingswithwings!)
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