maybe a little less incense in the wintertime
Sunday, February 10th, 2013 18:50Lots of snow, but we didn't lose power. Ellie and I have spent most of the weekend cleaning the house. This included trying out our new Laundry Pod (which we got at a pretty steep discount from Fab.com for Christmas), for washing nice wool sweaters and delicates. It is pretty much a giant salad spinner with a drain hose, but it seems remarkably effective as long as you don't over-fill it with clothes. My bras and tights rejoice at the gentler handling.
I bought a lot of groceries a week ago and have been succeeding reasonably well at feeding myself. The only failures have been one under-flavored curry and a poor understanding of how fast the baby bok choy would go bad, meaning I didn't get to use it (and want to replace it before making my first attempt at at-home shabu shabu).
I have taken over the email newsletter for the local historical society.
Planning to do Mardi Gras nails for Tuesday. I have a decent collection of nail polish but I don't wear it very much. I am unskilled at painting my nails and, because I work with my hands a lot of the time, it chips quickly.
Signed up for SuperBetter. I think gamification will help me form better habits.
Hater-Free Wednesdays is a new tumblr aggregating reviews and stories about comic shops to help people find local shops that will not shit all over their gender/race/etc.
I bought a ticket for Fall Out Boy's Boston show in May! Very pleased to have them back. I'm not exactly in bandom any more - I am hardwired mono-fannish, and got into the Avengers thanks to the movie (and then I slid sideways into ALL THE MARVEL COMICS EVER, sort of, so that's a huge canon and fandom) - but I miss going to concerts.
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stultiloquentia: Fictions and Elsewheres
I bought a lot of groceries a week ago and have been succeeding reasonably well at feeding myself. The only failures have been one under-flavored curry and a poor understanding of how fast the baby bok choy would go bad, meaning I didn't get to use it (and want to replace it before making my first attempt at at-home shabu shabu).
I have taken over the email newsletter for the local historical society.
Planning to do Mardi Gras nails for Tuesday. I have a decent collection of nail polish but I don't wear it very much. I am unskilled at painting my nails and, because I work with my hands a lot of the time, it chips quickly.
Signed up for SuperBetter. I think gamification will help me form better habits.
Hater-Free Wednesdays is a new tumblr aggregating reviews and stories about comic shops to help people find local shops that will not shit all over their gender/race/etc.
I bought a ticket for Fall Out Boy's Boston show in May! Very pleased to have them back. I'm not exactly in bandom any more - I am hardwired mono-fannish, and got into the Avengers thanks to the movie (and then I slid sideways into ALL THE MARVEL COMICS EVER, sort of, so that's a huge canon and fandom) - but I miss going to concerts.
stultiloquentia: Fictions and ElsewheresYesterday on the train I read Scientific American's special report on parallel universes. Briefly: they ain't science fiction. They're theoretical, of course, but at least some of the theories are at this point pretty darned solid and make sense of increasingly huge heaps of data.I knew there was a reason I made an entire religion in Auriel whose cosmology says that everything is stories and god is a writer. (Well, a reason besides ego. Heh.)
...
Why should fandom care? Well, mostly because science is cool. But also? It means our stories are real. Quite literally. Every course of events and configuration of particles, every decision and every outcome you can possibly imagine is, in an infinite universe, occurring right now. Kurt and Blaine? Somewhere, incomprehensibly far off, they're as solid as you and I, and muddling through snowstorms and love. Somewhere slightly off to the left, they've already been married for eighty years. We'll never meet them, and nor will our descendants, because, among other problems, the multiverse is expanding faster than it's possible to travel though it. But they're out there.
They're making up stories about you.
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011 21:0121 Days of Dreamwidth
21. What's your favorite thing about Dreamwidth?The community. :) (I mean, the features are great, don't get me wrong! But the people...)
Links
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multikinkmemes! There's a bandom post, hint hint.littlebutfierce is hosting a love meme. I has a thread. Will monitor the post for other people's threads, too.going to see My Chemical Romance again, brb!
Monday, May 9th, 2011 11:2221 Days for Dreamwidth
( a few more )Links
azurelunatic: I exist, and I exist in many universes. (Yet another rant about queer erasure) Silence = Death. If fictional people are silenced by their authors, then fuck yeah, we're marching right the fuck in and giving them voices.
Plans
Get on plane. Change planes in New York. Maybe briefly meet up with Kajsa in Baltimore. Get self + suitcase to the Haus of Fangirl in MD.(no subject)
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 11:07Notes
I already have a few ideas of things to post. If there are things you would like me to post about, then prompt me. (No guarantees, since I will be offline for 5+ days, but I will try.)
Questions meme!
( Long-overdue )Links
( 2 links: Portal fanart and criticism of rape culture )Plans
Finish up my semester (my last semester of undergrad omfg), MCR concert, Capture the Flag in Franklin Park, play party.I do this for regular sex, too. If I can say that no, we're not raw-dogging it; no, you're not sneaking it up my ass; no, you really have to stop when I say stop; then I can say "yes" to the sex itself. Limits may feel all limity, but within those limits, some fucking hot sex can happen. Without limits, you're not allowed in my house, much less my vagina.
My bedroom isn't very large so I needed a small makeup vanity. I'm the type that likes to see all my makeup because if I don't see it, I won't use it.
commodorified: Found Goodness The Prophet, peace and blessing upon him, said:
"Help your brother, whether he be an oppressor or one of the oppressed."
Some said "O Messenger of God, we help him if he is oppressed; but how can we help him if he is an oppressor?"
The Prophet said, "By stopping him."
sassbandit: Bandom-related articles about audio engineering and production So I was digging around in the archives of Mix Magazine which is a trade magazine for audio engineers, and thought some of the following articles might be of interest to bandom folks:
melannen: AWESOME!!! ...So the other day I did that Dinosaur Comics fanart where they have feathers?
And Ryan North, creator of Dinosaur Comics, found out about it somehow, and he went back in the archives and has posted an alternate, scientifically accurate version of the comic starting at the beginning.
azurelunatic: WICKED PRETTY THINGS: My $0.37 Editing my stories as I did was an act of self-erasure: sometimes necessary to survive, but not okay, never okay, merely the lesser of two evils. Pretending that the world only contains straight people is not okay. Teaching your children that the world only contains straight people is not okay. It is a denial of that-which-is, a denial of c'thia. Treating any mention of same-sex romance as inherently more sexually explicit than an equivalent action of an opposite-sex couple is not okay. Trying to pretend that the only possible ethical instance of human sexual behavior is for reproduction is not okay. Teaching your children that is not okay either.
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 09:26Much of this essay annoys me, but I want to reproduce this quote:
( links and stuff )
Now to get ready for my interview. It's going to be great but I am still super-nervous, of course.
But, in the digital world, you get to decide exactly who to be, where to go, and how to behave. This can be problematic if you try to create an entirely new persona (it’s a dishonest and unsustainable representation of yourself), but when wielded skillfully, it can propel the real you to new heights. Rather than create a whole new you, create the best you. Choose the traits you like about yourself, and exemplify them online. Let the less attractive qualities fall by the wayside. Place yourself in a digital environment that will allow you to flourish.This is actually something I did in my offline life, parallel to beginning and sustaining my online life. I've referred to the name 'Sofia Blackthorne' (which I use in any context where my legal name is not required and where explaining myself won't be absurd) as an aspirational identity, by which I mean: I had an idea of who my ideal Me was, and I continued to develop that ideal self, and I named it so I'd have easier access to it all.
When I focus on creating an improved digital version of me, I find those qualities actually start to carry over into my physical self.
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Now to get ready for my interview. It's going to be great but I am still super-nervous, of course.
- mizubyte: Master List: Bandom Timeline
- via multiple people: Avatar Remix - A.V.A.T.A.R. (Anglos Valiantly Aiding Tragic Awe-inspiring Races)
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denise: (no subject) Meanwhile, I'm on the lookout for Dreamwidth users who have Etsy shops -- it doesn't matter what you sell, as long as it's handcrafted of some sort. I'd like to put together a showcase of DW users' creativity -- it's really easy for us to show off writers (of both fiction and nonfiction) on DW, since the tools we have for sharing and promoting writing are fairly well developed, but
mark and I always wanted DW to be a place to showcase all kinds of creativity, from writing to craft to photography to just plain chronicling your life, and I'd really like to start doing some work to promote the non-written forms of creative work our users get up to.- Related to the above: etsy! My comm, which I have thrown into the ring in support of Denise's endeavor. Join, tell me what kinds of things you would want out of such a community, make posts... I will gladly take on co-mods if people want to get involved on that level.
*flop* I definitely ran out of spoons for socializing. I'm still suffering those effects.
Stuff that happened: I met a bunch of people! Includingzeenell in meatspace for the first time, viklikesfic, cesy, cinco, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eleanor_lavish, schuyler, melannen, libitina, merisunshine36, and lots of other people.
A+++ con, would attend again. (Already preregistered for 2012!)
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Stuff that happened: I met a bunch of people! Including
zeenell in meatspace for the first time, viklikesfic, cesy, cinco, eleanor_lavish, schuyler, melannen, libitina, merisunshine36, and lots of other people.A+++ con, would attend again. (Already preregistered for 2012!)
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Friday, June 11th, 2010 23:02Another good day of research. Tomorrow is haircuts for Mom and I - I desperately need one; it's been about a year. (My hair has a rapid growth cycle, so the ends get very thin if I forgo trims, which makes them even more prone to tangling.) And I'll probably do at least one more day of research before I head home, but even if I don't manage that, I'm satisfied with the materials I have.
I'm getting caught up on my dreamroll. I had to use the ?date=YYYY-MM-DD argument to view the older posts, but I have finally caught up to the point where ?skip=NNN works. Links from the past two weeks forthcoming; I foresee a heavier dose of fic recs than usual, because ofkink_bingo and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bandombigbang.
I'm getting caught up on my dreamroll. I had to use the ?date=YYYY-MM-DD argument to view the older posts, but I have finally caught up to the point where ?skip=NNN works. Links from the past two weeks forthcoming; I foresee a heavier dose of fic recs than usual, because of
kink_bingo and bandombigbang.(no subject)
Monday, May 24th, 2010 21:43Hello from New Orleans!
( catching you up on me )
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azurejay: a lot of things get broken (bandom, Pete/Patrick, ageplay, SFW) and if you do whip her from time to time (bandom, Pete/Ashlee with Patrick, multiple kinks, NSFW)
toft: oh, boccaccio, wtf
femslash_kink (Second Annual Femslash Kink Meme)
azurelunatic: An Open Letter to Jackasses Wasting My Time on Twitter
theleaveswant for kink_bingo: Pervertible World: Essay and Picspam
( catching you up on me )
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azurejay: a lot of things get broken (bandom, Pete/Patrick, ageplay, SFW) and if you do whip her from time to time (bandom, Pete/Ashlee with Patrick, multiple kinks, NSFW)toft: oh, boccaccio, wtffemslash_kink (Second Annual Femslash Kink Meme)azurelunatic: An Open Letter to Jackasses Wasting My Time on Twittertheleaveswant for kink_bingo: Pervertible World: Essay and PicspamI Refuse To Dignify This With A Title by reni_days (Panic, Brendon/Spencer, in which Brendon is a rock star and Spencer writes fic about him, and then they fall in love)
FEMINIST HULK MAKE TWITTER FUN
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center blog: How You Can Help
kink_bingo: kinky vid recs
DREAMWIDTH: WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?
copperbadge:
recessional: Criminal Minds: London, 1435
You can do something about street harassment (makes me want an iPhone)
blushingflower in kink_bingo:
reni_days (Panic, Brendon/Spencer, in which Brendon is a rock star and Spencer writes fic about him, and then they fall in love)FEMINIST HULK MAKE TWITTER FUN
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center blog: How You Can Help
kink_bingo: kinky vid recsDREAMWIDTH: WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?
copperbadge: It did get me thinking about fanfic in a slightly more abstracted way, and about why this current debate over it really enrages me so much. I don't normally weigh in on wanky matters, so to get me to make a statement about it, it must really have got under my skin. Now I think I know why.
recessional: Criminal Minds: London, 1435You can do something about street harassment (makes me want an iPhone)
blushingflower in kink_bingo: Hi! The
I told the mods I'd write about my own kink practice and how that relates to my interaction with kink fic. Which is of course a lot easier to say than to do.
Tags:
- fandom,
- fandom:bandom,
- fandom:recs,
- feminism,
- kink,
- links,
- meme,
- meta,
- rape,
- recs
daily song + links
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 00:39Daily Song (right-click): My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
Since they're what I listened to at work today.
1.fairestcat: Some meta recs and a tangent about my own participation in these conversations
2.helens78: geek conventions and body/self image
3.sanguinity: There Are Some Battles That I Do Not, Will Not, or Can Not Fight
4.yvi: Dev \o/
5.roga: "APPARENTLY NORWAY IS SENDING TO THE EUROVISION THE LOVE CHILD OF JOHN SHEPPARD AND ADAM LAMBERT"
Since they're what I listened to at work today.
1.
fairestcat: Some meta recs and a tangent about my own participation in these conversations2.
helens78: geek conventions and body/self image3.
sanguinity: There Are Some Battles That I Do Not, Will Not, or Can Not Fight4.
yvi: Dev \o/5.
roga: "APPARENTLY NORWAY IS SENDING TO THE EUROVISION THE LOVE CHILD OF JOHN SHEPPARD AND ADAM LAMBERT"(no subject)
Friday, May 7th, 2010 23:29Ellie and I are going to Northampton tomorrow! I should go to sleep as soon as I post this.
Daily Song (right-click): Morningwood - New York Girls
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Daily Song (right-click): Morningwood - New York Girls
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010 23:00Today's Daily Song is not a single song! I have zipped eight songs from the supplementary playlist for And In Darkness, Light, the name I use for stories about Marcus (currently in progress: a trilogy plus some other stuff).
And In Darkness, Light (Supplementary Soundtrack) 47.2mb
( tracklisting )
( how the music for AIDL works )
If I post about the actual content of AIDL, in terms of themes and plot and everything, that'll probably go inauriel, but I'll link to it the next time I update my journal.
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And In Darkness, Light (Supplementary Soundtrack) 47.2mb
( tracklisting )
( how the music for AIDL works )
If I post about the actual content of AIDL, in terms of themes and plot and everything, that'll probably go in
auriel, but I'll link to it the next time I update my journal.( links )
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 23:20Daily Song (right-click): Escape the Fate - Cellar Door
This may have to go on certain of my writing playlists. (Not playlists I listen to while I write, mind you. More like fanmixes I make for myself.)
Academichic: Dress Your Best Week
I'd like to participate in that, but IDK whether I'll have the spoons.* I could try picking out my clothes ahead of time and writing the entry in advance, I guess. I've been meaning to assemble fabulous outfits more often (inspired partly by one of my coworkers and partly by the underutilized parts of my closet), but, ugh, effort. This kind of thing is usually the first to get pushed aside.
When it comes to picking out clothes in advance, there's also the problem of Boston's highly fickle weather. I can't just glance at a forecast and create five outfits for a work-and/or-class-week! I have to have backup outfits: what if it rains, what it it's suddenly and briefly hot or cold, etc?
* I'm still trying to figure out the extent to which I'm comfortable with conceptualizing my depression as a disability. I often feel like I am too functional to really count. :\
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This may have to go on certain of my writing playlists. (Not playlists I listen to while I write, mind you. More like fanmixes I make for myself.)
Academichic: Dress Your Best Week
I'd like to participate in that, but IDK whether I'll have the spoons.* I could try picking out my clothes ahead of time and writing the entry in advance, I guess. I've been meaning to assemble fabulous outfits more often (inspired partly by one of my coworkers and partly by the underutilized parts of my closet), but, ugh, effort. This kind of thing is usually the first to get pushed aside.
When it comes to picking out clothes in advance, there's also the problem of Boston's highly fickle weather. I can't just glance at a forecast and create five outfits for a work-and/or-class-week! I have to have backup outfits: what if it rains, what it it's suddenly and briefly hot or cold, etc?
* I'm still trying to figure out the extent to which I'm comfortable with conceptualizing my depression as a disability. I often feel like I am too functional to really count. :\
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