Below are the most recent 19 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
the_shoshanna	4:35p	happy birthday to ellen_fremedon! Here's hoping it's squeeful, skiffyful, and generally awesome! [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
the_shoshanna	6:20p	because this is exactly the kind of thing that should be preserved: behold a most excellent Fanlore article on manpain, deriving from the conversations I linked to a few days ago. [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
the_shoshanna	3:24p	the power of positive whining I went to the gym today! [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
the_shoshanna	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, 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! [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
swtalmnd	12:21p	Sunday Meanderings In the form of a list! Deadline to sign up for a holiday card from me is December 7 -- that's when the art supply place claims it will deliver my blank cards, heh. I launched my fine art site and totally forgot to tell y'all -- Antemortem Arts is open, and I've even put stuff in my Etsy shop. I have exactly 3 pieces of fan art left to do, and then those commitments are fulfilled. Since they're all due for Xmas (2 HP Holiday Card Exchange cards, and my own HP Xmas card), I'll be all done by the end of the year. Weird! I found betas for accioslash's LLM fic, and it will be posting in santas_lap along with the Sirius/Neville I still have to finish, oops. I've been making some quiet writing progress on various things, including a certain person's incredibly belated prize fic (one more scene and it's done!), a chapter of the no-longer-New Thing that I probably ought to post to swtalmnd_nano, and little dribs and drabs to my other three WiPs that aren't for any fest or person or anything. Coconut Cocoa Tea ftw. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Time Won't Let Me, The Smithereens (Comment on this)
the_shoshanna	2:51p	Happy birthday to pharis! If I could, I'd send you a pair of Winchesters; as it is, I can only send you all the best wishes I've got! [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
the_shoshanna	2:54p	Supernatural 5.10, "Abandon All Hope..." ( I may harsh your squee, but I may also squee your harsh! I'm just funny that way. ) And having had my say, I can now read the dozen or so reaction posts I have open in background windows! Except that I should really get back to work. Sigh. Maybe I'll go make myself some popcorn! [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
thete1	12:48a	The glory as I dreamed The glory as I dreamed [Reference] by Te November 12, 2009 Disclaimers: No one and nothing here is mine. Spoilers/Timeline: No real spoilers, takes place when Bruce is eighteen. Summary: In which the two most obsessive people in the universe do what they do best. Ratings Note/Warnings: Sexual content. Author's Note: An AU 'missing scene' for ending *2* of A way so familiar. Will not make any sense without the other. Acknowledgments: To Jack, Pixie, and Mildred for audiencing, encouragement, and putting up with me when the story veered sideways. Story! Current Mood: enthralled Current Music: Badly Drawn Boy: "Bewilderbeast" (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
thete1	8:37p	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH I just renamed the files on teland because a rather gratitude-inducing individual informed me that -- somehow -- it got indexed on google, which... no. WORLD OF NO. I -- look. It could be as simple as the fact that I've been using my gmail to point people to the story, but I would like to ask -- *beg* -- that those of you who have read the thing *not link it anywhere*. At all. Yes, that includes del.icio.us, nalasalad2. And maybe don't write out the links in your google apps? Christ. I'm going to put in that thingy to block robots just as soon as I can make my brain work enough to do that. In the meantime... Hell. Just take the 'me' out of the file name. Save it onto your hard drives if you want it, because I'm *thisfuckingclose* to yoinking it. Current Mood: gaaaaaaaaaaah Current Music: Angie Martinez: "Live At The Jimmy's" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
swtalmnd	5:01p	Mini-Commisions: Twice the Snarry, Twice the Fluff! Aaand, belatedly, we have the last of the mini-commissions! RL trickled down to screw up my past few weeks, so they took longer than intended, but they're ready go go out with tomorrow's mail. All of my commissions lists are officially closed at the moment, as of this posting. Whee! ( Snape and Harry Fluff Redux ) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Lucky Ball And Chain, They Might Be Giants (46 Comments |Comment on this)
the_shoshanna	8:23a	once more, with thinking. The manpain flowchart cracked a lot of people up, as well it should! But I also want to point people to some really good analysis that has come out of the responses to smallbeer's question. The short version is that, in a comment to walkingshadow, lea_hazel asked, "What happens if any of these things apply and you're not a man?" walkingshadow answered, "I think the short answer is that bundled in the definition of "manpain" is the assumption of the foregrounding of (white) men's pain over and above and at the expense of other characters, and the deeply skeptical reading of that trope," and pointed her to a comment thread over at smallbeer's LJ entry, but that's not the only thread there in which people are offering good insight into the dynamic. Fans=awesome. [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
the_shoshanna	11:40a	manpain flowchart! So, first smallbeer asked how people would define "manpain" in a fannish context. Then people offered suggestions (on Dreamwidth and on LiveJournal). Then walkingshadow made a flowchart. THEN I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF. [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
bethbethbeth	11:40p	DW: The Waters of Mars Assume spoilers for anything below the cut...including spoilers for the Xmas special trailer. ( That was... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
the_shoshanna	7:04p	I cannot possibly be the only person who is sitting at a computer re-re-refreshing the front page of the Archive of Our Own and grinning like a fool. * fandoms: 893 to date * works: 10586 to date * people: 1335 to date [[refresh]] * works: 10589 to date [[refresh]] * works: 10597 to date * people: 1336 to date [[refresh]] * works: 10601 to date * people: 1339 to date [[refresh]] [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
bethbethbeth	8:07p	I LOVE MY YULETIDE ASSIGNMENT (...AND I TOTALLY KNEW I'D GET THAT REQUEST BECAUSE I AM PSYCHIC!!!) This entry was originally posted at http://bethbethbeth.dreamwidth.org/518726.html. | read comments at Dreamwidth. | How to use OpenID (Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
cmshaw	4:09p	mmm, yule! Hello, Yule Writer and Other Curious People! Here's my letter in which I...well, basically repeat my prompts and give a little bit about the sources. I'm crossposting it to Dreamwidth and Insanejournal because I feel like it, and if you feel the need to track me back farther my Livejournal is still available to you. I asked for two comics fandoms and two book fandoms this year: the comics are Lovebunny and Mr. Hell, a short-lived series that mostly parodied superhero comics, and Hothead Paisan, an independent queer comic, and the books are Dragonsword, a fantasy trilogy, and The Changeling Prince, a fantasy novel. ( Here's the nattering! ) So, there you have it, and in conclusion, *HEARTS*. Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
bethbethbeth	10:44a	Archive of Our Own: Open Beta... Unnecessary full disclosure: I worked for the OTW for 16 months in its start up year...er...sixteen months. Now...with that out of the way... Hi all! Just a quick note to let you know that the OTW's archive project, i.e., an Archive of Our Own, is going into open beta this Saturday! As the blog entry tells you, there are going to be two ways to get an account: (1) get an invite from an existing account holder (I have one invitation at the moment, and I'll give it to the first known-to-me person who asks for it in comments at dreamwidth by leaving an email address. (note: "known-to-me' doesn't mean we're bff's and go on holidays together; it could just mean we've had a few amicable exchanges online.) (mine is taken) (2) put your name on the account queue (an exact link for this queue will be announced by the OTW tomorrow...for now, what they have are multiple links in the "heads up" post I linked to above for a fixed world clock, showing you what time the queue will start "moving" in your time zone. ETA: The link to the Account Creation Invite Page has appeared here. Remember this is still in beta...eventually I believe anybody will be able to open an account with no hoops to jump through. But it can be fun to get involved with projects when they're still at an early enough stagea to help shape the way they're eventually going to work. (eta...if you don't need a cool new archive to house your fanworks right now, or if you're too tired to learn a new upload system until work eases up or the semester ends, or if you have philosophical objections to this or any other archive, for whatever reason, I'd suggest that instead of starting a debate in the comments, you just don't open up an account. Easy-peasy.) This entry was originally posted at http://bethbethbeth.dreamwidth.org/518540.html. | read comments at Dreamwidth. | How to use OpenID (Comment on this)
the_shoshanna	9:50a	in happier news -- the Archive of Our Own enters open beta! OMG, everyone -- all the work that people have done and are still doing, and all the generous support from so many fans, and here it comes! Still in beta, yes, but open beta launches in nineteen hours! (link to a world clock to see when it opens in your time zone) Details are on the OTW blog post, where you can comment, and are mirrored on DW here, on LJ here, on IJ here, on yahoogroups here, and probably on billboards on the Moon, we're so excited! Open Beta means accounts will be available to all, limited only by the speed at which the system can take the strain. Anyone can get an invitation by adding their email address to the invitation queue; existing users who have been helping with the alpha versions will also be given some invitations to pass on to their friends, in thanks. All details are in the blog post! Woo-hoo! [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)
the_shoshanna	7:50a	...my ISP is back. After popping like a soap bubble and giving no evidence for almost forty-eight hours that it would ever reappear (and there were pretty good third-party indications that it wouldn't), my ISP is back up and says it's here to stay. Of course, I spent many hours in the interim establishing new addresses, changing all my list subscriptions, and notifying everyone in known space (my job is conducted entirely over the Internet!), and now I'm trying to decide if I really want to undo all that and trust that they'll stick around stably. I'm -- thinking not. There are things I really dislike about gmail, but interacting with it through Thunderbird/IMAP helps with most of them, and a major new version of Tbird is due literally any day now that I hope will help with some of the remainder. And that they could let a "billing dispute" reach the point of taking them down so comprehensively is -- not encouraging; and there were some signs that they might be in trouble before this, although they were nothing that in themselves should send users fleeing the ship. And the owner, who from all accounts was the heart of the company and its tech specialist, is definitively out of the picture. I do really prefer using a small independent shop rather than a ginormous impersonal corporation, though. And I'd had my mundane email address there for more than a decade, and my fannish one for -- five years? Flail. [a Dreamwidth post! | read comments at Dreamwidth | post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use OpenID] (Comment on this)