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red_eft

23rd November, 2009. 11:10 pm. huzzah! stuff! Yuletart image is sent out one hour ahead of deadline (wooo), sweet potatoes for potluck tomorrow are in the fridge, and I am over 30K on my novel. I feel this has been a Good Day. ...still 10,000 behind on NaNo, but. That's okay! Comment at Dreamwidth Read comments Make Notes

copracat

23rd November, 2009. 5:20 pm. cool Googlewave just slipped me a bunch of invites. Comment with email if you want to come play so I can send you the invite. I think it will be fab for collaboration. All comments screened. Comments open on all journals. I'll update when they're gone. This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. comments. Make Notes

elke_tanzer

22nd November, 2009. 9:58 pm. 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 - 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 (Also, should anyone feel the need (I will not be held responsible for what may result): Star Wars Holiday Special (TV)) This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1016724.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current mood: busy.

elke_tanzer

22nd November, 2009. 4:56 pm. Useful links... http://twitter.com/otw_news http://twitter.com/AO3_Status/ http://transformativeworks.org/ And really, the current temporary AO3 glitch is not related to the Star Wars Holiday Special, I swear. (Don't ask. Tag wrangler humor.) This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1016499.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current mood: calm.

ratcreature

22nd November, 2009. 4:20 pm. SGA canon questions Because my memory is crap, do we ever see the team camping offworld, i.e. see what kind of tents they use and such, or is the offworld camping a pure fanon thing? Unrelated, I remember the team sitting together in their mess hall in a couple of episodes, but I can't recall which those were. Argh. My memory, worse than a Swiss cheese. Make Notes

elke_tanzer

21st November, 2009. 7:58 pm. 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* This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1016266.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current mood: enthralled.

elfwreck

21st November, 2009. 12:19 pm. Wicca: still not a race. In today's "Activism: Ur Doin It Wrong" department, we have accusations that slurs against pagan rituals are racist. Set aside, for the moment, that said slurs don't actually exist. That... give some insight into the mind of the commenter, but isn't, in fact, relevant. What's relevant is that she thinks Wicca's being insulted, and she's "calling" the supposed insulter on her "racism." (In a community about public transportation. So, um, more than rather severely off-topic all around.) I don't have an icon that's halfway between "facepalm" and "headdesk." (And I don't want one; that would mean I expect to find *more* stuff like this to post about. Which I'd really rather not.) Oh, and the comment threads hit Godwin's law, ablism, classism and childfreekiness. And NEVAR AGAIN TEH BURNING TIEMS! A glory of fucktupitude all around. (I got this from dot_pagan_snark, and it's been on stupid_free, so apologies to people who already know about it. Sharin' the pain, folks; sharin' the pain.) This entry is crossposted at http://elf.dreamwidth.org/283818.html. You can comment there with OpenID from your LJ or IJ account. Comments so far: Read 3 Notes -Make Notes

elfwreck

21st November, 2009. 7:52 am. She is too fond of books Hi, my name's elf, and I have a reading problem. When most people say "reading problem," they mean "the letters look blurry to me" or "I've been assigned more pages than human eyeballs can absorb this weekend" or "ack, my comprehension of Russian is too low for me to get the right concepts out of this physics paper." It almost never means "I think I've been neglecting other parts of my life for reading." Because reading isn't considered a dangerous addiction. It has no physical side-effects. It doesn't make the mind slow or incompetent. At no point, in the throes of reading, is one incapable of driving or performing surgery, should one's skills go in those directions. (Well, save for the "must put book down" part. However, after that immediate shift in awareness, one's reflexes and attention are both available to whatever tasks might be at hand.) And it's not expensive. Nobody sells off his car and formal clothes to get books. Nobody hocks her wedding jewelry. Books--really good books--are available everywhere at prices ranging from "cheap" to "free." And the internet hasn't made that any less true. Entertaining content, informative & educational content, useful, delightful, important content, is free by the terabyte. And oooh, I want to read it ALL. ( I read a lot. I could read a lot more. ) Read 3 Notes -Make Notes

elke_tanzer

21st November, 2009. 10:38 am. tags to consider using on AO3... Speaking just as myself, and not in my role as volunteer tag wuzzle wrangler... my first fanfic my first explicit fanfic embarrassing old fic you don't have to know the canon one of my best if you only read one work by me I think it would be so nifty to be able to see what others choose of their fics for those tags! This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1016047.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current mood: curious.

rivkat

20th November, 2009. 10:23 pm. So far behind Still taking Eight Crazy Nights prompts; Thuvia, I’ll hold a space for you unless you tell me otherwise. Week-old TV thoughts (boy am I behind: this is not a good semester for fannish activities for me!): ( SPN, The Real Ghostbusters ) ( Last week's Fringe ) comments on DW Make Notes