I'll saunter past the obvious pun in my title. But this is what I discovered this week in the Internet Archives and then spent time documenting on Fanlore.
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I feel like I am cautiously able to poke my head up and look around again.
1. We're waiting for the dishwasher parts at which point we will try to repair the dishwasher once again. After that it is curtains for the machine.
2. I am eating a bit more but only with the help of medication. I plan to go back to the MD after the holiday and ask for the ovarian cancer screening. It is most likely the EDS (connective tissue disorder) that is causing the problems but the symptoms are lasting longer than ever and even the medications are not restoring me like they used to. Once the BigC is ruled out I feel I'll have the luxury to fiddle with the other more likely-but-not-likely-to-kill-you tests/possibilities. The tests are fairly cheap and non-invasive a(at least until they find something odd) and together can catch up to 80% of the cancer. Earlier detection vastly increases your odds. So if you find yourself :
- Abdominal pressure, fullness, swelling or bloating (me)
- Urinary urgency
- Pelvic discomfort or pain
- Persistent indigestion, gas or nausea (me)
- Unexplained changes in bowel habits, such as constipation (me)
that is persistent (more than 3 weeks) and not going away. Get tested. 3. Had a lovely chat with a friend that cheered me up. 4. Was deeply amused by this fanzine listing: Flying Nun fanzines. oh my! 5. I too have Livejournal membership discount coupons to give away - if anyone is planning on becoming a paid member, the coupon will give you $10/off a yearly subscription. Just drop a comment below. I think you need to be on my reading list. 6. xlorp begins his 2 week (unpaid) time off next week. I'd rather have more time with him than the money so it is all good.
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Somehow I'm not in my usual holiday mood this year. December is zooming by at a truly ridiculously fast pace, and I haven't had time to do most of my usual things beforehand. Also I am physically ill and feel like crap. Bleh.
Two things I found myself reading this morning, both resulting from ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) zvi's signal boost:
marina about Russophobia and who is Russian. And branchandroot While we're at it...
![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) thete1 "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!"
(Full disclosure: I was trying to learn how to date again around the time of the Transformers film this past summer. That's how I ended up seeing it, along with Wolverine and a couple other films. I'm not proud of this fact, but there it is. And only one of the many reasons that one particular guy from last summer and I are not seeing each other any more is that I tried talking about why the Transformers films were problematic... I'll leave it to your imagination as to how spectacularly well that went. *eyeroll*)
Short summary of something that could turn into a huge tl;dr post, because holy crap this year has sucked: If I wasn't angry, I wasn't paying attention.
Here, have more links:
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/the-last-airbender-primer/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/the-last-airbender-film-cast-in-60-seconds/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/do-children-see-race/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/featured/yellow-face-a-documentary-on-the-last-airbender-film/
http://www.racebending.com/v3/interviews/sdcc/
I'm thinking I may need to get my hands on DVDs of the Avatar: The Last Airbender tv series, because I haven't seen it. I will not be seeing the Avatar movie. ETA: To clarify, I will not be seeing EITHER of the movies; see comments below.
In completely, completely unrelated news, I've now got a draft of my Yuletide story that doesn't make me cringe, so at least I'm on the ball about something.
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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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By way of temve and jamie:
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/the-new-facebook-privacy-settings-a-how-to/?em
http://gawker.com/5427077/the-valleywag-guide-to-restoring-your-privacy-on-facebook
http://dotrights.org/what-does-facebooks-privacy-transition-mean-you
For the record? I really, really, really, really, really, really, really dislike Facebook. But I'm there with my RL identity helping family members stay in touch with each other, and attempting to teach them about online privacy and security issues. The whole site leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and I feel like I'm being online-stalked by most of my high school graduating class most of whom apparently couldn't be bothered to Google for me for nearly twenty years. Ugh. The things I do for my extended family...
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Infinite, undying
by Te
November 14, 2009
Disclaimers: No one and nothing here is mine.
Spoilers/Timeline: Mostly vague and AU-ized references to older storylines. Takes place not long after "War Games."
Summary: There is careful, and then there is careful *enough*.
Ratings Note/Warnings: Sexual content which mostly doesn't have a damned thing to do with the content some readers may find disturbing.
Author's Note: A closer-to-real sequel to ending two of A way so familiar. Will not make sense without the other.
Acknowledgments: Pixie and Mildred asked very nicely, and then joined Jack for audiencing duties. *hugs all around*
Story!
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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.
elkes_obsession is gone, as it was a navigational tool to organize my views into various LJ communities, and I'd left it up in case others were getting benefit from it.
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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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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 Okay, this one is funnier and pornier. Clearly, bad pick-up lines are more to my muse's taste than AU scenarios. Color me surprised. I employ the Jaja icon for obvious reasons. This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. Please comment there using OpenID.  messages in bottles recovered.
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| 2009-12-13 16:30 |
| All I can do is offer virtual chocolates. And keep learning. |
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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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It's my birthday! To celebrate, I...expanded my RPF repertoire to Texans. Okay, so I did that a few days ago and have just been lazy about posting it here, but also, I was kind of hoping to enter the CWRPS fray with something either screamingly funny or unapologetically raunchy (my Id epic for this fandom, because I have at least one for pretty much every fandom I've ever read: thirtysomethingphotographer!Jeff, twentysixyearoldmodel!Jared, his promiscuous and globe-trotting lover, and nineteenyearoldbabymodel!Jensen, who Jared talks Jeff into mutually seducing [not that it takes much persuasion, Jeff's already all secretly yearning], and aren't you sorry you never asked?). Anyway, this little tidbit is neither of those things, but people were amused, and eventually I'll get around to cross-posting.
Still adding words to my Broken Toys story. I need to rewatch me some Dark Angel to pull in details, then get the draft busted out so I have a clear plate in case of needed pinch hitting. Six people have reported in on their Nuna Exchange stories, so that's half the participants. I'm really hoping the other half come through, as I am not so confident in my ability to pull 500 words of DBSK fic out of my brain right now. The fandom is pissing me off big-time, and the boys are under a huge amount of stress, and I just want to whisk them off to a private island for a little secluded R&R. Which actually isn't all that different from my usual attitude toward them, so there you go.
Still watching for a Yuletide pinch hit or two to pick up, but I've been sick and busy at work and haven't even had the wherewithal to wrangle for the past few days, so I need to catch up on that. Right now, this next week looks slightly less full. ::knocks on wood::
I did manage to shave some kilobytes off a few of my animated icons and upload them, though. Still working on the rest, but the only ways I know to cut file size involve methods that make said rest look like ass, so. May have to come up with another option, but at least I have my Yoosu goofiness again, and it might even work better with the one panel shaved off the front. It changes the rhythm and emphasizes the pelvic thrust, which is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
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I meant to post this during Thanksgiving weekend, but as usual this year, I'm behind. on. everything.
( Guidelines behind a cut, because you've probably seen them lots of times already... )
( Elke's Holiday Wishlist 2009 )
Hey, also, if you've posted your wishlist, can you please link me to it? Thanks!
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Happy Hannukah to those who celebrate, and may all of our lights be festive!
My favorite of the recent related uploads at Flickr are First Nights Glow and a Frabel Glass dreidel.
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| 2009-12-11 16:15 |
| Update! Because deep down I know you care... |
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Really, really deep down. *cough*
- I have 3 different fics that would be done if I could get my porn muse to cooperate. One that's my original santas_lap contribution, one that's a very overdue gift, and one that no one cares about but me. Heh.
- Holiday cards have started coming in! My wall is getting festive.
- Speaking of festive, I decorated! I posted photos to my RL blog, and can't figure out if y'all care enough to repost here. I'm going to go the lazy route and wait for someone to ask, I think.
- Made one sale of holiday cards at Etsy, two to people I know IRL, and have a line on two more. Otherwise, Etsy has been a total flop, sigh. But there are zombie head stitch markers! How can someone not want to love those? One good thing about Etsy is that it's very cheap when things don't sell.
- Sent out my cards for the HP Holiday Art Card Exchange. Will post after I'm sure they've been received!
- Finished my own card design, and now I just need to spend a day printing, folding, writing in, addressing and stamping. Also need to do this for RL people.
- A little behind on shopping, mostly due to lack of funds. Ah, well, something good will happen soon! Either that, or everyone else is just gettin' cards, dammit. XD
Happy Holidays to you all -- I hear it's starting Hanukkah tonight, if that's your thing enjoy the candles and latkes! And remember, next time someone snottily insists on a Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays, Auntie Amy says it's always appropriate to reply wishing them a miserable New Year. *cough*
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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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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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groggy
bitchy
frustrated
creative
touched
excited
busy