solenne: (Default)
[personal profile] solenne
Well I had a pretty busy week since I last posted.

On Wednesday I had nearly 8 hours of classes without a break (the last time that will happen since I'm graduating soon). The professor let us leave a bit early and we went out for some strawberry beer for our friend's birthday. We just happened to stumble upon the hardest pub quiz ever. The questions were so hard that we often times didn't even understand what was being asked. We were to busy drinking and laughing though.

The next day I had no class, so I went out with friends and we played some really heated uno. Then I had to rush back to go to the aforementioned friend's birthday party. We drank some really good wine and ate some phenomenal pizza.. Then I rushed back home to pack cus I had a bus for home in the morning.

Friday I went out with friends in my home town. This was my third day going out with people and I was running out of steam.  I swear I usually don't socialise or go out this much. To my surprise this didn't mean I was too tired to party on Sunday. It was time for our graduation party (or 'finished attending classes' party i guess, we haven't had our exams yet). The hassle of getting ready and waiting in makeup the whole day really tires me. I always start feeling out of place when I need to doll up (professionally) and attend things like this. I cried for my high school prom cus I thought I looked ugly in full glam makeup. Now I had similar problems with the hair. I thought It made me look 40 years older. Suddenly I started doubting my dress, which I do kinda regret wearing. When we arrived we also didn't particularly like the vibes. But then the music started. My feet still hurt two days later, my throat is sore, I had a whale of a time. Barely had time to eat cus I was dancing so much. There was carpet so we quickly discarded our shoes to be able to dance more comfortably. I have a nice picture of our discarded heels on a pile. Hated the pictures that they officially took of us, but a friend brought a little camera and absolutely saved the night with her pics. I will definitely be putting those in my photo album. My parents were nice enough to help our trio get back home. They went out to dinner with my brother while I was at the celebration. They had that life changing pizza I mentioned.

It took the whole Monday to recover. I missed lunch in the cafeteria, limped out of my room for dinner. I did start a new book though! Finally continuing the Game of Thrones. Started A Storm of Swords. Enjoying it so far, but I needed to dig through my pics to find my handmade family tree guide. I am sure I forgot a lot of things cus it's been two years since I read the last book, but I am not having any problems so far. Been thinking of starting the show. I have watched parts of it before. Not the first season though. I was too young when it originally aired. So I am a weird mix of spoiled and unspoiled. I am currently ignoring the tomorrows exams, and blissfully reading. Told my friend it was very nice and relaxing to be reading something not for uni and not Shakespeare, and she said only I would find GOT relaxing. I think anything that can get me immersed can be very relaxing. Just read the chapter where Jon meets Mance Ryder and I feel like this will be a character I enjoy.

Enough from me. All partied out.

Solenne
Tags:
[syndicated profile] fanhackers_feed

Posted by fanhackers-mods

Today’s post is the last of three go-to pieces of criticism suggested by Matt Hills: his first was for fan studies generally; his second, for Doctor Who, and today we get his last.  –FC

~~~

Lastly, if I had to absolutely and artificially name just one title that has cut across a huge swathe of my work since it was published (and formed the basis of an entire book of mine responding to its ideas — Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event from 2015) then it would probably come down to this, in terms of the sheer number of times that I’ve cited it and built on its ideas…

One Quote to Rule Them All, Perhaps:

different contexts of delivery and the paratexts that often provide such contexts expand the text, in the process offering different possibilities for its valuation. If “aura” is the sense of a text’s authenticity and authority—which, by nature, could never be an actual, uncontested quality of a text, only a discursively constructed value—while Benjamin focuses on how reproduction can lessen aura, surely we might explore ways in which reproduction might change the text, add context, “tradition,” and “presence,” and thereby increase aura.
         The Two Towers DVDs wrap the film in aura; housed in an attractive, high-quality box, the discs are filled with explicit and implicit grabs at the title of “Work of Art.”  (Gray 2010: 97)

It’s from Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers and Other Media Paratexts by Jonathan Gray (2010). Not really a fan studies book per se, but it sometimes gets treated as such, I feel. And Martin Barker (2017) wrote a journal article on how the concept of the “paratext” had become vital to fan studies in the wake of Gray’s intervention. In a sense, this work might encapsulate the first two academic texts that I’ve mentioned above - both of them are really about how fans consume, interpret, and commune with paratextual materials such as comic-con souvenirs or official magazines. Gray’s scope is very wide-ranging, taking in industry “hype” as much as fan-created paratexts, but I think that his ahead-of-the-curve turn to paratextuality continues to be indispensable for theorising fandom in our social media-framed, platformised, and algo-ridden present, where fans are constantly navigating, negotiating and creating (as well as trying to tune out, evade, or viscerally reject) worlds and whorls of proliferating paratextual matter comprising of widely differing cultural politics.   

— Matt Hills (Honorary Professor at the University of Bristol, and previously Professor of Fandom Studies at Huddersfield University).

Poster: Francesca Coppa

Exploring My Limits

2/6/26 14:35
hrj: (Default)
[personal profile] hrj
The Bay Area Book Festival was enjoyable and productive on Sunday, though also exhausting. I sold enough books to make it financially worthwhile, though I really need to have more realistic expectations of how many copies of Daughter of Mystery to bring versus later books in the series. I have fantasies of people buying the whole set, or already having the first book and coming back for more, but realistically that's not the way to bet. I was delighted to sell several copies of Skin-Singer and people seem to be very attracted to the cover art. Also had a number of people take my cards to follow up on the blog and podcast.

But by four in the afternoon I was thoroughly done and packed up an hour before actual closing. Crowds happened out by then so I don't think I missed anything serious. It was amusing that when I was packing up and my booth mates offered to help I had to work hard at saying yes and pointed out that I could, of course, do it all myself if I had to. One of my friends at the booth did a hands on her hips-type gesture and said, "You know that's a trauma response, right?" Yeah, I've had that pointed out before. And I'm still not quite sure how I acquired it, but I'll own it.

Several friends dropped by the booth either previously arranged or just by chance. So that was nice.

Monday I pretty much decided to vegetate. I've been able to cut back the pain meds to just Tylenol and have a couple of the oxycodone left over that I didn't need. But everything is just more tiring than usual and the most relaxing position for my arm is resting on the arm of my recliner, slightly elevated and on a padded surface. Most of the initial pain seems to be due to bruising from the operation and that is definitely going down consistently.

The one work-around that is actually going very well is using longhand plus speech-to-text to get Lesbian Historic Motif Project blogs written up. In fact, it's going so well that I need to remind myself to use this method all the time.

I have added one more bit of historic trivia to The History of Related-ivity which required consulting with the author of the source material as to how they wanted to be cited. The next serious task for that project is to come up with cover art for the book. Otherwise it's pretty much ready to go except for assigning ISBNs and maybe soliciting a couple of cover blurbs. I think I'm aiming for a August 1 publication date or thereabouts.
Tags:
dickinsons: (classic who)
[personal profile] dickinsons posting in [community profile] fandom_icons

barbian1vilannpantene

01-05: Doctor Who (First Doctor era)
06-10: Blake's 7

Here @[personal profile] dickinsons 
 

thesleepingbeauty: fashion design &hearts; please credit <user site=livejournal.com user name=littlemermaid> @ <user site=livejournal.com user name=dream_fairytale> if using on livejournal (disney princess | rapunzel)
[personal profile] thesleepingbeauty posting in [community profile] nexticon
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday



alternative )

link )
ysabetwordsmith: Cats playing with goldfish (Default)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
This is today's freebie. It was inspired by prompts from [personal profile] siliconshaman, [personal profile] enchanted_jae, and [personal profile] frith. It also fills the "Lavender" square in my 6-1-26 card for the Pride Fest bingo. This poem belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics and is filed in the Shiv thread.

Read more... )
missdiane: (Domobunny)
[personal profile] missdiane
The cardiologist didn't have any sort of grave diagnosis, but since my ECGs come out with a small issue and I did technically "fail" the nuclear scan (not by any leaps and bounds, thankfully), he wants do double check to make sure things are good and what course to take be it meds or minor procedures.

I have a carotid artery doppler scan next Thursday and then he wants to schedule a heart CT but since the latter requires a creatinine blood test before, since I'm seeing my GP for my regular follow up also next Thursday, we'll bundle the blood tests together and I'll schedule the CT after that.

Coincidentally, my GP, cardiologist AND University Radiology are all in the same small building together so it's at least convenient. I could also technically go to the Labcorp in the building next door for a whole one stop shopping experience but that location truly sucks with crowds and long lines even if you make an appointment so I'll just schedule the blood tests at the nearby Labcorp in Walgreens.

Mom had to have surgery on her carotid arteries which made her neck look weird but she was also a smoker for many years. I did get some of that secondhand as a kid but hopefully it didn't wonk things up TOO much.

He didn't have an answer about whether I actually have that bicuspid instead of tricuspid valve but the CT may answer that. I also wanted to know since I found it said if you do, you should let siblings know so they can get checked. As much as they annoy me, I certainly would warn them to get checked if I turn out to be genetically defective and all.
douqi: (couple of mirrors)
[personal profile] douqi posting in [community profile] baihe_media
The Way Back to You (清水方至, pinyin: qingshui fang zhi), a new live action baihe drama, popped up on my radar a few weeks ago. It is currently airing on YouTube (with a new episode every Monday) and is available in its entirety to paid subscribers on iQiyi. The circumstances of its production are a bit mystery-shrouded. The production company, Lumina Entertainment, is ostensibly based in Canada. Meanwhile, its iQiyi page lists it as 'Taiwanese', but the voice acting, aesthetics and the names of the crew all scream mainland China. It's certainly been embraced as mainland Chinese by the mainland baihe audience, who have been speculating that the secretiveness and the lack of prior promotion might be a tactic to avoid drawing too much negative official attention.

You can watch the trailer here:


And here's the synopsis, taken from the show's iQiyi page:

Shen Fang, a passionate and courageous younger girl, meets Gu Qingshui, a calm and emotionally reserved older girl. What begins as youthful, innocent affection ends in misunderstanding and separation, Years later, they reunite, navigating workplace challenges, family pressures, and social conflicts. Through mutual growth and reconciliation, they ultimately break free from societal constraints, presenting a powerful story of female self-discovery and emotional growth. This is a mature, cinematic take on the “second-chance” trope, centered on queer generational echoes, healing, and emotional reconciliation.

The show consists of six episodes of between 20 to 30 minutes each. The official YouTube channel is here (there's also a danmei drama, Dual Stars, currently airing on the same channel) and the show's iQiyi page is here.
ysabetwordsmith: Cats playing with goldfish (Default)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Fun with Language." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

I'll be soliciting ideas for linguists, translators, interpreters, historians, diplomats, refugees, explorers, partners, teachers, clergy, leaders, superheroes, supervillains, alien or fantasy species, failure analysts, ethicists, activists, rebels, other people who get into interesting linguistic situations, translating, interpreting, reading, researching, revising theories, conversing, traveling, inventing languages, parenting, teaching, adventuring, leaving your comfort zone, discovering things, conducting experiments, observation changing experiments, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cleaning up messes, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, saving the day, discovering yourself, studying others, asking for help and getting it, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, preparing for the worst, expecting the unexpected, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, returning home, libraries, laboratories, meeting rooms, ruins, liminal zones, trading posts, port cities, schools, churches, supervillain lairs, nonhuman accommodations and adaptations, farmer's markets, starships, alien planets, magical lands, foreign dimensions, other places where languages mix, alphabets, pictograms and other symbols, lost languages, ancient tomes, mysterious texts, misnomers and mistranslations, recordings, the record that breaks the record player, puzzling discoveries, sudden surprises, the buck stops here, trial and error, intercultural entanglements, enemies to friends/lovers, interdimensional travel, lab conditions are not field conditions, superpower manifestation, the end of where your framework actually applies, ethics, innovation, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.

If you speak a language other than English and know untranslatable words from it, by all means share. Some other resources you might find helpful:

20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words From Around the World

45 Beautiful Untranslatable Words That Describe Exactly How You’re Feeling

203 Most Beautiful Untranslatable Words [The Ultimate List: A-Z]

Beautiful Untranslatable Words From Around The World

Eunoia website


Currently eligible bingo card(s) for donors wishing to sponsor a square:

Hazbin Hotel Fest Bingo Card 6-1-26

Pride Fest Bingo Card 6-1-26


Among my more relevant series for the main theme:

The Bear Tunnels features numerous tribal languages.

Clay of Life is Jewish fantasy with occasional bits of Hebrew or Yiddish.

The Daughters of the Apocalypse spans a variety of languages, including a split before Before and After English.

Eloquent Souls presents a setting where soulmarks are common, but they don't always appear in the same language.

Fiorenza the Wisewoman is Italian fantasy with bits of Italian.

Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania, with languages including Dacian, English, French, Hungarian, Romanian, and Latin.

Hart's Farm is a free love community with a few really exotic characters, set in Sweden with occasional tidbits from other languages.

Not Quite Kansas includes demonic and angelic writing.

Peculiar Obligations features a mix of Quakers, pirates, and other people speaking diverse languages.

Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all trying to get along and figure out how to make a functional society. It spans a wide range of languages including Arabic, Dhivehi, English, Esperanto, French, and several tribal ones.

Or you can ask for something new.

Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.

Read more... )
badly_knitted: (Get Knitted)
[personal profile] badly_knitted posting in [community profile] get_knitted

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: What kinds of organizers do you like to hold your arts and crafts supplies?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



76 Doctor Who icons

2/6/26 13:17
annabeth_roses: (DW: 11 & Amy museum (Van Gogh))
[personal profile] annabeth_roses posting in [community profile] fandom_icons
76 Eleventh Doctor era icons. Mostly Eleven, but also a few of Amy and a couple of River. There is one spoilery animated icon from The Wedding of River Song. Mostly icons from Vincent and the Doctor and Night Terrors. Some from The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang.

Teasers:



icons here @ my journal
[syndicated profile] eff_feed

Posted by Dave Maass

EFF is on the front lines of the fight against tech-enabled tyranny, but we aren't alone. Our team depends on your help to fight back against the surveillance state.

JOIN EFF

People around the world are pushing back against the mass surveillance that undermines privacy and free expression for everyone. You can help during EFF's spring membership drive.

One of the people who joined the fight for digital rights is EFF client Will Freeman. Will created the website DeFlock.me to reveal the dangers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—cameras that collect location data on every vehicle they see and upload that to a massive nationwide police database. Deflock.me turns the tables by enlisting ordinary people to track the locations of tens of thousands of ALPR cameras.

But when the police spy-tech company Flock Safety went after Will's website with legal threats citing trademark law, he saw it for what it was: an attempt to silence critics and dim the light on mass surveillance.

The company will try everything it can to downplay the criticism, but EFF will be right there demanding accountability.

"I was totally unprepared to receive a cease & desist letter. I can see how most people would be bullied into submission by a threat like that. That's when I remembered Dave Maass from the EFF introduced himself via email several weeks before, so I reached out for help," Freeman says.

And that's when EFF stepped in. Recognizing DeFlock.me as a quintessential expression of grassroots advocacy and a form of criticism protected by the U.S. First Amendment, EFF's lawyers helped Will fight back. And the Big Surveillance Tech flinched.

But these battles against Flock's Spying tools rage on. In cities around the country, privacy advocates are pressuring officials to block or end contracts for ALPRs—and winning. The company will try everything it can to downplay the criticism, but EFF will be right there demanding accountability.

Two people wear EFF Claw Back member t-shirts. The front shows a cat swatting at spy cameras and the back says “Mass Surveillance” with red claw marks through it

Get the new Claw Back member t-shirt featuring a fierce feline swatting at community surveillance. You might empathize with him, but there’s a better way. Let’s end the law enforcement contracts, harmful practices, and twisted logic that enable mass spying in the first place.

"I'm really grateful the EFF was able to step in and help. Without them, free speech would be only for those wealthy enough to defend themselves against billion dollar companies. We've grown a lot since then and are expanding our efforts to expose and push back against mass surveillance on our streets," Freeman says.

Support the movement

stop mass surveillance tech today when you join EFF

____________________

EFF is a member-supported U.S. 501(c)(3) organization. We've received top ratings from the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator since 2013! Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.

shroomystar: (seashore)
[personal profile] shroomystar posting in [community profile] 100ships
Title: oaths, sometimes hippocratic
Rating: Teen
Category: F/F
Fandom: The Pitt
Author: shroomy(y)star
Ship/Characters: Victoria Javadi/Cassie McKay
Warnings/Notes: lingerie, dom/sub undertones, age difference, old woman guilt (lol), situationships. first do no harm is more of an outsider thing than an actual medical thing or part of the hippocratic oath from what i can tell, but i thought it was too fun to pass up on, so i used it anyway.
Word Count: 2200
Summary: First, do no harm.

ao3 | dreamwidth
susandennis: (Default)
[personal profile] susandennis
My mother had a younger brother who married young and then went to France for World War II and got killed. His wife remarried changed her last name and had a life. Over the years, as the eldest remaining relative that they can find, I've been contacted by veterans organizations asking this or that about Billy. It happened again yesterday. I don't know what made me answer the phone call but I did and a very nice old guy asked me to confirm some info they had about him. I did. And that was that. He was long dead before I was born and my Mom was not one to wax on about dead (or even alive ones, really) relatives. So my knowledge bank account about this guy is pretty lean. But mainly I wonder about a project that would have people calling people like me about people like him. Weird.

My mother also married a guy who was killed in World War II but I don't know where exactly. He was an only child. We used to go visit his parents when I was little. They lived in Oklahoma. They were a hundred years old then (it sure seemed to me) but had a great porch swing. I never get calls about him.

Yesterday afternoon Biggie was sleeping beside me on the couch. He was snoring loudly. And then, all of a sudden, he jumped up and RAN to the glass door. It was a second or so before I saw the reason. A nice big old fat bird was out on the terrace. Not one of those silly humming birds but a proper fat bird. He stayed out there for a long time. Hopping on the railing flying around. Biggie was on duty - sending stink eye signals the whole time and for some time after he left. That boy does love his birds. And that bird was sure lucky there was a door.

Today is water aerobics. And I slept late. So when I did wake up, I shot out of bed, into my swimsuit and managed to get in a lovely swim with time to spare.

I got an email this morning from Experian that my credit score had dropped. I checked Chase and BECU and while the scores are not the same, they are both fine 850+. So I went to Experian and clicked on log in. They wanted a password, then the answer to a question, then a pin number, then a secret code, but they never sent the text and I figured the next requirement was a blood sample so I just said fuck it. The only thing I buy these days that considers my credit score is insurance. All I got is car and I just paid it so fuck 'em. I actually should buy some renters insurance but I keep putting it off and one day I'll be dead and it won't matter.

I ordered 3 pairs of shoes from Zappos. They are downstairs in the package room and will be brought up here later this afternoon. I will keep one pair maybe or maybe none.

I have a collection of puzzle games on my phone. Each has a daily puzzle and I have become a slave to them all. Yesterday was the first day of the month and I got all of them done and even added one. About once a week some publication or another publishes an article that says that puzzles keep the brains of old people sharp. I figure if I can do a perfect month with each of these puzzles, my brain will be able to cut tomatoes. Now, wouldn't that be handy?! Of course, our tomatoes, here in the Northwest pretty much always suck so actually not that big a deal.

Today is also house cleaning day. But that's not til later. I have knitting and crochet to do and a good book to listen to and a ballgame tonight.

Julio is the perfect picture when he's sleeping.

PXL_20260531_211823484

TV Tuesday: TV Plus

2/6/26 10:59
yourlibrarian: Dreamwidth Sheep with TV and Glasses (OTH-Dreamwidth TV Talk-seleneheart.png)
[personal profile] yourlibrarian posting in [community profile] tv_talk
Have you developed any sort of TV-watching habits? In example, these might be tied to specific days of the week, viewing order of pending shows, things you do when watching with someone else, etc.

Poll #34681 TV Watching Habits
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

Do you feel you have any habits tied to watching TV?

View Answers

Yes
2 (20.0%)

No
4 (40.0%)

Depends on the show
4 (40.0%)

If yes, when did these habits start?

View Answers

In childhood
1 (16.7%)

In adolescence
2 (33.3%)

As a young adult
1 (16.7%)

With a family or friends
3 (50.0%)

After a change in your life
1 (16.7%)

When you became part of a fandom/fannish about something
3 (50.0%)

After TV changed
1 (16.7%)

Something else mentioned in comments
0 (0.0%)

What do the habits relate to?

View Answers

Watching the show
3 (50.0%)

Preparing to watch the show
2 (33.3%)

Post-show viewing
1 (16.7%)

Being alone
0 (0.0%)

Not being alone
1 (16.7%)

Eating or drinking
0 (0.0%)

Games/activities during the show
2 (33.3%)

Location
0 (0.0%)

Scheduling
3 (50.0%)

Something else mentioned in comments
0 (0.0%)

Are the habits...

View Answers

Comfort related
2 (33.3%)

Entertainment related
3 (50.0%)

Socializing related
3 (50.0%)

Tradition related
2 (33.3%)

Practical in nature
0 (0.0%)

Have the habits ever been documented in some way?

View Answers

Yes
3 (50.0%)

No
3 (50.0%)

Are the habits something you hope to pass on/share with someone else?

View Answers

Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
4 (66.7%)

Yes, some of them
2 (33.3%)

Are any habits related to particular events?

View Answers

Yes, season premieres
1 (16.7%)

Yes, season endings
2 (33.3%)

Yes, when a show ends its run
1 (16.7%)

Yes, for certain guest stars
0 (0.0%)

Yes, annual events (awards, sports etc.)
1 (16.7%)

Yes, holiday viewing
0 (0.0%)

Yes, rewatches
3 (50.0%)

Yes, something else mentioned in comments
0 (0.0%)

No, none of these
2 (33.3%)

Random Check-in

2/6/26 21:44
fred_mouse: drawing of mouse settling in for the night in a tin, with a bandana for a blanket (cleaning)
[personal profile] fred_mouse posting in [community profile] unclutter

It's been some months since we've had one of these posts, so I hope everyone is doing okay.

How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?

Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.

Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last weekthree months!!

Profile

darkemeralds: A round magical sigil of mysterious meaning, in bright colors with black outlines. A pen nib is suggested by the intersection of the cryptic forms. (Default)
darkemeralds

July 2025

S M T W T F S
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
202122232425 26
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Page generated 2/6/26 22:39

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags