Nine things make a post?
Between getting things done in RL while listening to Dresden Files, and finally making those two recs posts, I am in that place where I've done too many of the things that had been sitting for ages on the top of on my procrastination list, and now I am at the loose ends of maybe having to do the really scary important stuff. So, instead, here is a very scattered post of things-I-have-not-been-posting-about in the form of a list:
1. I still need to write more of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fenellaevangela's yuletide fic. Because she deserves better than she got. ): I know exactly what to write, I even bought myself the offline version of write-or-die with Christmas money, I just need to make myself sit and *do* it.
2. I also need to post at least another couple of pages of How The Master Stole Christmas, but I appear to have lost my copy of the original in the post-holiday cleaning, so I get to defer that until I find it again. :P
Instead, I drew an illustration forphilomytha's Vorkosigan fic The Earring, featuring Lord Regent Aral Vorkosigan going slightly native on his first visit to Beta Colony. (Going slightly native in this case = wearing nothing but sandals, a tiny clingy sarong, earrings and body glitter.)
And yeah, I did work out a whole earring system just to do that. :P
Want Dresden Files/Vorkosigan crossover fic now
3. Way back before the holiday, I posted my second entry in the Ace Manifestos Project on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
asexual_fandom: Charlie Weasley, the closest we will get to canon, and I don't think I ever linked it here, so here it is.
The ace manifestos project is still chugging along! And still taking sign-ups; we just had people claim John Sheppard and Castiel (finally!) but there's plenty more to go. I am debating what I want to claim for a third one, but all my first ideas would be hard, and I want to keep doing something I can just chuck out a few paragraphs of meta and some links on. The rest of you should sign up though, if you haven't yet!
4. I've seen that audio/dialect voice meme going around, so I thought I'd link to this: North American Dialects Survey, a study being currently run out of Yale that's looking for voice samples from people all over North America. It's just about as simple as the meme version, only For Science! And then you can do the meme one and share with your reading list. :P
5. I'm still behind on catching up with various fandoms I'm in that have current canon (the BBC RPS ones in particular. Ten o'clock live starts next week!!) I just started catching back up with lolitics, and OMG, the role-players have been on a roll since Christmas!
I'm way, way behind on the kinkmemeand my wips on it, but:
...Wizard Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, turned Peter Mandelson, the Dark Lord, into an adorable beagle puppy, while they were drinking together over the holiday. And now Peter Mandelson communicates on lj solely through emotive pictures of adorable beagle puppies. Mostly while falling asleep on Bercow's head. I share this with you guys because nobody in my real life would understand if I tried to explain why I keep reloading those threads and smiling uncontrollably.
(I love, love, love a good in-character lj roleplay. Especially if it has no fourth wall. Although apparently I have embarassment-squick around posting rpf fansquee to a community where the characters themselves turn up and comment on it, as much as I love observing it. :P They are also - especially Balls' player - doing some really interesting conceptual stuff with striketext around how online communication actually works, in analogue to both in-person communication and fully-drawn prose, that I so wish I could meta on without having to reference lolitics slash RP in detail.)
(I still feel occasional twinges of guilt about following non-US politics fannishly when I know that people are being personally and hurtfully affected by all of this stuff, but it is still hard for me to feel angry about anything your government is doing when at its worst it is still about 10x more rational, effective, just, and compassionate than mine is.)
Also I want a Dresden Files crossover where Mandelson, Bercow, Cable, and BONE are all on the White Council together
6. RE: posting to the lolitics comm on lj: apparently I have been over on DW long enough that I have officially forgotten how to do lj tags. I had to actually look up how to do an lj user tag after failing on my first four tries.
7. CENTRAL MARYLAND IS GETTING CHEATED OUT OF SNOW. Like, three times so far this year, they've predicted a major storm in our area, and then gone "well, actually, it looks like the heavy stuff will be to the north, south, east, and west of us." !!! Not fair.
...on the upside, though, they are starting to talk about the Chesapeake Bay freezing over, and if that happens, I am okay with lack of snow.
(I know, I realize that severe winter weather can be very difficult and even disastrous for a lot of people - especially a major bay freeze, which can paralyze the ports, lead to shortages on the islands and Delmarva, and damage infrastructure - but it's also part of the climate and the culture here, and something we need. The Bay regularly froze over every 10-50 years, and it's something of a needed 'reset' button for the ecology. And, given climate change, I never expected it to happen in my lifetime - this may be the last time this interglacial that it does.)
8. Still listening to Dresden Files! Still enjoying in that trashy genre fiction sort of way! (The audiobooks also let me drag it out, since there is no more pairing!fic left for me to read, sigh.) Apparently, listening to Dresden Files right before sleep makes me have dreams about Pennsic War, and no, idk either, but it's consistent so far.
(Although, the night I put upstellar_dust's recs post, instead of Dresden Files I read two new Merlin AUs I'd missed before. One of them was about Medieval LARPing, which you'd think would trigger SCA dreams if anything did, huh? But instead I dreamed about the one with Sedoretu instead, which is okay, because I will take dreams about Le Guin poly marriages anytime.)
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a. Another blogroll overview/recs post for the new year, since I just finished going through my blog bookmarks and cleaning them out.
b. A books read/reviewed roundup for the year, too.
c. A post about that Top Gear Big Bang I unwisely signed up for and have been putting off thinking about until I was done with yuletide, including a poll on which story I should finish for it.
d. Another post about Holmes AUs! A silly one!
e. A long meta-post I have half written, which is turning out even more difficult to write than I expected, about Dresden Files, the Noir/Hardboiled Detective genre, gender and misogyny contextualized within that genre, early 20th century genre traditions in general and my, and media fandom's, relationship to them, and my reaction to Dresden Files in that context (especially contrasted with other fans' reactions).
f. An explication of the Betan Earring Code I worked out! With gratuitous illustrations of as many characters as I can get away with in Betan costume (there is not *nearly* enough Bujold fanart in general, srsly) plus a make-your-own-Betan-Earrings toy!
g. Two fanmixes I have almost ready to post and just need to finish the graphics on!
h. Apost series of posts on population demographics and patterns, climate change and the end of the world, and invasive species and the great Holocene mass extinction, to draw on my actual! college! training! to explore the upcoming end of the world.
i. A post about gender and sexuality in the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, with heavy emphasis about how there need to be way more Gethenian and Sedoretu AUs written in media fandom. :P (I was thinking about doing this as an ace manifesto, but I think it's probably better not to try to fit it into that keyhole.)
...okay, I suppose now I need to go work some more on the actual scary stuff, mutter.
1. I still need to write more of
fenellaevangela's yuletide fic. Because she deserves better than she got. ): I know exactly what to write, I even bought myself the offline version of write-or-die with Christmas money, I just need to make myself sit and *do* it.2. I also need to post at least another couple of pages of How The Master Stole Christmas, but I appear to have lost my copy of the original in the post-holiday cleaning, so I get to defer that until I find it again. :P
Instead, I drew an illustration for
philomytha's Vorkosigan fic The Earring, featuring Lord Regent Aral Vorkosigan going slightly native on his first visit to Beta Colony. (Going slightly native in this case = wearing nothing but sandals, a tiny clingy sarong, earrings and body glitter.)And yeah, I did work out a whole earring system just to do that. :P
3. Way back before the holiday, I posted my second entry in the Ace Manifestos Project on
asexual_fandom: Charlie Weasley, the closest we will get to canon, and I don't think I ever linked it here, so here it is.The ace manifestos project is still chugging along! And still taking sign-ups; we just had people claim John Sheppard and Castiel (finally!) but there's plenty more to go. I am debating what I want to claim for a third one, but all my first ideas would be hard, and I want to keep doing something I can just chuck out a few paragraphs of meta and some links on. The rest of you should sign up though, if you haven't yet!
4. I've seen that audio/dialect voice meme going around, so I thought I'd link to this: North American Dialects Survey, a study being currently run out of Yale that's looking for voice samples from people all over North America. It's just about as simple as the meme version, only For Science! And then you can do the meme one and share with your reading list. :P
5. I'm still behind on catching up with various fandoms I'm in that have current canon (the BBC RPS ones in particular. Ten o'clock live starts next week!!) I just started catching back up with lolitics, and OMG, the role-players have been on a roll since Christmas!
I'm way, way behind on the kinkmeme
...Wizard Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, turned Peter Mandelson, the Dark Lord, into an adorable beagle puppy, while they were drinking together over the holiday. And now Peter Mandelson communicates on lj solely through emotive pictures of adorable beagle puppies. Mostly while falling asleep on Bercow's head. I share this with you guys because nobody in my real life would understand if I tried to explain why I keep reloading those threads and smiling uncontrollably.
(I love, love, love a good in-character lj roleplay. Especially if it has no fourth wall. Although apparently I have embarassment-squick around posting rpf fansquee to a community where the characters themselves turn up and comment on it, as much as I love observing it. :P They are also - especially Balls' player - doing some really interesting conceptual stuff with striketext around how online communication actually works, in analogue to both in-person communication and fully-drawn prose, that I so wish I could meta on without having to reference lolitics slash RP in detail.)
(I still feel occasional twinges of guilt about following non-US politics fannishly when I know that people are being personally and hurtfully affected by all of this stuff, but it is still hard for me to feel angry about anything your government is doing when at its worst it is still about 10x more rational, effective, just, and compassionate than mine is.)
6. RE: posting to the lolitics comm on lj: apparently I have been over on DW long enough that I have officially forgotten how to do lj tags. I had to actually look up how to do an lj user tag after failing on my first four tries.
7. CENTRAL MARYLAND IS GETTING CHEATED OUT OF SNOW. Like, three times so far this year, they've predicted a major storm in our area, and then gone "well, actually, it looks like the heavy stuff will be to the north, south, east, and west of us." !!! Not fair.
...on the upside, though, they are starting to talk about the Chesapeake Bay freezing over, and if that happens, I am okay with lack of snow.
(I know, I realize that severe winter weather can be very difficult and even disastrous for a lot of people - especially a major bay freeze, which can paralyze the ports, lead to shortages on the islands and Delmarva, and damage infrastructure - but it's also part of the climate and the culture here, and something we need. The Bay regularly froze over every 10-50 years, and it's something of a needed 'reset' button for the ecology. And, given climate change, I never expected it to happen in my lifetime - this may be the last time this interglacial that it does.)
8. Still listening to Dresden Files! Still enjoying in that trashy genre fiction sort of way! (The audiobooks also let me drag it out, since there is no more pairing!fic left for me to read, sigh.) Apparently, listening to Dresden Files right before sleep makes me have dreams about Pennsic War, and no, idk either, but it's consistent so far.
(Although, the night I put up
stellar_dust's recs post, instead of Dresden Files I read two new Merlin AUs I'd missed before. One of them was about Medieval LARPing, which you'd think would trigger SCA dreams if anything did, huh? But instead I dreamed about the one with Sedoretu instead, which is okay, because I will take dreams about Le Guin poly marriages anytime.)9.
a. Another blogroll overview/recs post for the new year, since I just finished going through my blog bookmarks and cleaning them out.
b. A books read/reviewed roundup for the year, too.
c. A post about that Top Gear Big Bang I unwisely signed up for and have been putting off thinking about until I was done with yuletide, including a poll on which story I should finish for it.
d. Another post about Holmes AUs! A silly one!
e. A long meta-post I have half written, which is turning out even more difficult to write than I expected, about Dresden Files, the Noir/Hardboiled Detective genre, gender and misogyny contextualized within that genre, early 20th century genre traditions in general and my, and media fandom's, relationship to them, and my reaction to Dresden Files in that context (especially contrasted with other fans' reactions).
f. An explication of the Betan Earring Code I worked out! With gratuitous illustrations of as many characters as I can get away with in Betan costume (there is not *nearly* enough Bujold fanart in general, srsly) plus a make-your-own-Betan-Earrings toy!
g. Two fanmixes I have almost ready to post and just need to finish the graphics on!
h. A
i. A post about gender and sexuality in the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, with heavy emphasis about how there need to be way more Gethenian and Sedoretu AUs written in media fandom. :P (I was thinking about doing this as an ace manifesto, but I think it's probably better not to try to fit it into that keyhole.)
...okay, I suppose now I need to go work some more on the actual scary stuff, mutter.
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2. I look forward to the end of How The Master Stole Christmas, when you get to it. Also, awesome earring pic -- and now I really want your 9f post about the Betan earring stuff!
3. Ahhhhh don't remind me, I haven't yet finished (STARTED) my ace manifesto that's due this weekend. I'm not even done reviewing the source material!
4. DIALECT FOR SCIENCE. DONE.
8. Oh, hey, you've been to Pennsic? COOL! I've always rather wanted to go, but never had the opportunity.
9. Nearly ALL of these posts sound fascinating! (And I for one am REALLY REALLY interested in option e, so I hope the difficulties don't bog it all down too much!)
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The main issue with 9e is that I keep going "I should put some actual concrete examples in here instead of just ranting! But to do that I'd have to re-read all my favorite hardboiled detective stories! And if I do that
I will have to write Dresden crossovers with all of themwhere will it end?"no subject
I...see your problem with 9e, yes. Er, good luck with that? :D
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And, yeah, an outlier cold winter can be nice for freezing out tropical invasives a bit, but no, pomegranate tree!
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I got a catalog from the nursery I got my pomegranate from and the variety I bought can take temps down to 10F. Maybe it'll be okay. Won't know 'til spring, I guess. I can already see parts of my blueberries that aren't going to come back, but other parts have big, gorgeous red buds on them and should be fine.
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Oh yes, I would like 9f with illustrations, please.