things

[melannen]

-- I have a summer cold. This is unfair.

-- I am getting nothing useful done this weekend.

-- The phone reinstall worked! Downsides include: randomly lost about 100 words' progress on Memrise, switched to new onscreen keyboard which annoys me, forgot how many @#%@$ notifications I had to turn off (keep discovering more). Upsides include: phone will now remember wifi passwords for more than two hours at a stretch, did not lose 2048 progress, can now play pokemon go again! (this may also be related to me getting nothing done this weekend.)

Here is a screenshot of my current homescreen. The tardigrade is to remind me that no matter what happens, something beautiful and magnificent and ridiculous will survive.



(pls to ignore all the voicemail notifications, that's what I'm doing.)

-- Today I bought a bright red nineties-vintage trench coat for $1, so that's my Halloween/cosplay taken care of for 2018.

-- There was something on pillowfort.io a few days ago about your "favorite" tags on AO3, and I hadn't even known that functionality existed, so now I am taking all the fandoms etc. that I sometimes randomly put in the AO3 search box when I need something to read and can't manage to use tag search like a real person, and listing them as "favorites". As part of that effort, here is a list of what comes up as a suggestion in my browser in the AO3 search box for every letter of the alphabet (not counting titles of specific fic). Maybe I should make them my new dw interests. :P

aaronovitch, barrayar, cnut the great, deadpool movies, eroica, force ghost han solo, garak, highlander, imperial radch, january, kent parson, lithoromantic, marcone, n'jadaka, one-punch man, porgs, ragnarok, silmarillion, tentacles, unpretty, vetinari, wngwjleo, yuletide, zelenka sex god

Comments

My that tardigrade looks happy to see you

[jesse_the_k]

I smell an AO3 ABC meme!

Re: My that tardigrade looks happy to see you

[melannen]

Go for it!

[sassbandit]

Hmmmm my ao3 search suggestions aren't great because I rely heavily on the more advanced search stuff. Excluding individual usernames, i get:

another name for videophones, birbs, chastity piercing, (nothing), (nothing), (multi-word "fandom:" searches), grief porn, handler, (nothing), (nothing), (advanced searches for "kudos:"), leverage, (nothing), (nothing), our lingering frost, person of interest, (nothing), riley, sleep, (multi-word "tag:" searches), videophones, white collar, (nothing), yanny/laurel, (nothing).

Oh well.

I could probably put together a pretty good list of what my favourite alphabetical tags actually ARE, but they're just not in that place in the UI.

[melannen]

Yeah, those are specifically the ones that I tend to come up with when I can't be arsed to use more advanced options, that would probably get a very different result.

Yours are still pretty interesting, though!