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I watched Into the Spiderverse over the weekend! It is just as amazing in all different ways as everybody has been saying. Definitely worth the big screen, even almost maybe got me to think it might be worth trying in 3D.
Two questions out of that movie: Why is there not more Liv/May fic already? Specifically why is there not more Liv/May where they've spent the past ten years in a Reed-Doom style UST-powered mad engineer's duel? Because that is pretty obviously what that movie was implying. (You should go read everything on AO3 already, of course, but that will only take you a couple hours.)
Also, where is the Shadowshaper crosssver?
Meanwhile, I have not been making super great progress on my writing WIPs project, but I have been continuing to distract myself with Javascript, so I did finish a couple of coding wips!
--for the shipposters and based on the slightly more complicated version of the pairing randomizer, this will tell you the basic relationship plot arc of your next fanfic! You should click it, and then comment to tell me what pairing it is for, and then (optional) either rec me or write me something that fits it. :D
--this was actually intended to be a srs useful tool, but it has turned out to be much more useful for farting around. (Also, #$% nested javascript arrays.) You put in a list of unsorted... whatever, and it helps you turn it into a sorted, ranked list by giving items to you two at a time and having you choose which one ranks higher. You end up with a list fully sorted by preference but only ever have to choose between two things.
This is a pretty basic computer sorting algorithm, but this version assumes the person sorting it is a human making subjective judgements, and therefore sometimes they will rank A higher than B higher than C higher than A; or choose A over B but also B over A; or be unable to choose which is higher even though one definitely is. And it assumes that's a feature of having humans do your sorting, not a but, so makes you make a LOT of choices. But every time I've tried it, I've completely agreed with the list I ended up with, even if I was verklempt to start! It works best with lists between ~5 and 15 items, though, or you end up with a completely ridiculous number of choices.
For example, here's lists of Knights and/or Ladies of the Round Table you can copy+paste in and rank:
Gawain, Percival, Lancelot, Galahad, Gareth, Britomart, Palomedes, Tristan, Dinadan, Bedwyr, Kay, Not-Appearing-In-This-Film
Elaine of Astolat, Elaine of Corbenic, Elaine of Benoic, Elaine of Garlot, Elaine the Younger, Elaine the Peerles;, Elaine of Listenoise, Isuelt the Elder, Isuelt of Ireland, Isuelt of the White Hands, The Lady of Hautdesert
Or you could, maybe, make a priority list of December meme topics or writing wips you should be working on instead of playing with javascript toys.
..and that pretty much clears out my coding WIPs! Except wrotegoat, which was supposed to be a fork of written?kitten! that fixed some bugs, had some more visible customization options, and also let you pick if you wanted your images from Flickr, Tumblr, dA, or a directory on your own hard drive, because Flickr wasn't coming up with anything good for super-fannish keywords. But somebody else fixed the bugs first, the Tumblr and dA APIs were SO ANNOYING (and also I'd never done anything with APIs before, so that didn't help), and it will pull from a directory on your hard drive - as long as you're running the code from that directory. And now Tumblr, dA, and Flickr are all terrible! So right now it's mostly just a better-documented mirror with a different skin. I will get back to it after fandom comes up with that AO3 for fanart that has a good API, maybe. :P (IDK, could I do it with Google Image Search maybe? I should probably learn how to work with APIs at some point.)
Random Les Mis Chapter Generator - It links you to a random chapter of the Project Gutenberg Les Mis. I assume there was a reason I thought this would be useful at some point. I thought Project Gutenberg had broken when I tried it just now, but apparently it just redirects you to the main book page once per session, and it goes to the right chapter after that.
Cordelia Vorkosigan Paper Dolls drag-n-drop playset!
Timebent - this appears to be another paper doll set, except it's a Homestuck/Doctor Who crossover? I have no memory of this place, but it does, to be fair, seem like the sort of thing I might do.
AO3 Randomizer - used to take you to a random AO3 work, but AO3 changed the way they generate URLs, so it is broken and not really fixable, and any way to do this with the current AO3 is beyond my skill.
Les Miserables random pairing generator
Press Butan - like the random pairing generator, except 100% old IRC chat injokes.
the Shiptoast generator, of recent fame.
Shipping Grid Generator - enter a list of character names, it generates a grid you can use to track how you ship them. Meant for Homestuck-style troll shipping, but has options for normal Earth shipping as well. By far the most complex thing I have ever coded from scratch, at least since NSA summer camp in high school.
...and I also threw up a drag-and-droppable version of the DW SignalBoost bookmarklet that started all this: SignalBoost 1.1. (If I keep going on the coding the next project is probably changing that so that a) subject lines don't stack and b) non-DW links fail more gracefully - both things I pretty much know how I would do already, but the devil's in the details.)
Two questions out of that movie: Why is there not more Liv/May fic already? Specifically why is there not more Liv/May where they've spent the past ten years in a Reed-Doom style UST-powered mad engineer's duel? Because that is pretty obviously what that movie was implying. (You should go read everything on AO3 already, of course, but that will only take you a couple hours.)
Also, where is the Shadowshaper crosssver?
Meanwhile, I have not been making super great progress on my writing WIPs project, but I have been continuing to distract myself with Javascript, so I did finish a couple of coding wips!
Fanfic Plot Structure Generator
--for the shipposters and based on the slightly more complicated version of the pairing randomizer, this will tell you the basic relationship plot arc of your next fanfic! You should click it, and then comment to tell me what pairing it is for, and then (optional) either rec me or write me something that fits it. :D
Pairwisest
--this was actually intended to be a srs useful tool, but it has turned out to be much more useful for farting around. (Also, #$% nested javascript arrays.) You put in a list of unsorted... whatever, and it helps you turn it into a sorted, ranked list by giving items to you two at a time and having you choose which one ranks higher. You end up with a list fully sorted by preference but only ever have to choose between two things.
This is a pretty basic computer sorting algorithm, but this version assumes the person sorting it is a human making subjective judgements, and therefore sometimes they will rank A higher than B higher than C higher than A; or choose A over B but also B over A; or be unable to choose which is higher even though one definitely is. And it assumes that's a feature of having humans do your sorting, not a but, so makes you make a LOT of choices. But every time I've tried it, I've completely agreed with the list I ended up with, even if I was verklempt to start! It works best with lists between ~5 and 15 items, though, or you end up with a completely ridiculous number of choices.
For example, here's lists of Knights and/or Ladies of the Round Table you can copy+paste in and rank:
Gawain, Percival, Lancelot, Galahad, Gareth, Britomart, Palomedes, Tristan, Dinadan, Bedwyr, Kay, Not-Appearing-In-This-Film
Elaine of Astolat, Elaine of Corbenic, Elaine of Benoic, Elaine of Garlot, Elaine the Younger, Elaine the Peerles;, Elaine of Listenoise, Isuelt the Elder, Isuelt of Ireland, Isuelt of the White Hands, The Lady of Hautdesert
Or you could, maybe, make a priority list of December meme topics or writing wips you should be working on instead of playing with javascript toys.
..and that pretty much clears out my coding WIPs! Except wrotegoat, which was supposed to be a fork of written?kitten! that fixed some bugs, had some more visible customization options, and also let you pick if you wanted your images from Flickr, Tumblr, dA, or a directory on your own hard drive, because Flickr wasn't coming up with anything good for super-fannish keywords. But somebody else fixed the bugs first, the Tumblr and dA APIs were SO ANNOYING (and also I'd never done anything with APIs before, so that didn't help), and it will pull from a directory on your hard drive - as long as you're running the code from that directory. And now Tumblr, dA, and Flickr are all terrible! So right now it's mostly just a better-documented mirror with a different skin. I will get back to it after fandom comes up with that AO3 for fanart that has a good API, maybe. :P (IDK, could I do it with Google Image Search maybe? I should probably learn how to work with APIs at some point.)
Random Les Mis Chapter Generator - It links you to a random chapter of the Project Gutenberg Les Mis. I assume there was a reason I thought this would be useful at some point. I thought Project Gutenberg had broken when I tried it just now, but apparently it just redirects you to the main book page once per session, and it goes to the right chapter after that.
Cordelia Vorkosigan Paper Dolls drag-n-drop playset!
Timebent - this appears to be another paper doll set, except it's a Homestuck/Doctor Who crossover? I have no memory of this place, but it does, to be fair, seem like the sort of thing I might do.
AO3 Randomizer - used to take you to a random AO3 work, but AO3 changed the way they generate URLs, so it is broken and not really fixable, and any way to do this with the current AO3 is beyond my skill.
Les Miserables random pairing generator
Press Butan - like the random pairing generator, except 100% old IRC chat injokes.
the Shiptoast generator, of recent fame.
Shipping Grid Generator - enter a list of character names, it generates a grid you can use to track how you ship them. Meant for Homestuck-style troll shipping, but has options for normal Earth shipping as well. By far the most complex thing I have ever coded from scratch, at least since NSA summer camp in high school.
...and I also threw up a drag-and-droppable version of the DW SignalBoost bookmarklet that started all this: SignalBoost 1.1. (If I keep going on the coding the next project is probably changing that so that a) subject lines don't stack and b) non-DW links fail more gracefully - both things I pretty much know how I would do already, but the devil's in the details.)
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It can take a long time to get through all the choices with a longish list, but by the time you're done, you've usually figured out your opinion one way or another.
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(bc with Flickr, the source is at least right there)
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Tumblr's would theoretically use tumblr's tag search, which only searches OPs. It doesn't have a CC option, but tumblr's TOS includes permission for images to go out on the API, and since wrotegoat wouldn't do anything except dynamically hotlink with a link to the OP, it seemed mostly ok? But I didn't even get as far as looking at Tumblr's API.
Pinterest is a mess.
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like I know enabling art theft is not your intention here, I just
Google Image Search is much happier about finding me Pinterest copies than the correctly attributed original
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Obviously that doesn't stop somebody from taking somebody else's work and reposting it as CC, but any art can be stolen and relabeled, and it would take a lot of effort for basically no gain to do that in order to put it up as CC on a search engine.
The CC/labelled for noncommercial reuse options on the big image searches/archives are an amazing tool that too few people know about or understand. You don't have to steal images! Thousands of people put them up for sharing!
Tumblr doesn't have built-in CC so it is much iffier, which is why that was my last priority. But nobody sees the images that come up in written!kitten except the one person writing, who sees them for maybe five minutes each, and they do all link to the originals, so it's not like reposting to a website or another tumblr post or something - it's more like saving them to your hard drive for your own use.
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...which, I gotta admit: I don't think I'm capable of that, but it would deeefinitely involve someone from this TV Tropes page if I was :P
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...actually I got as far in that page as Jack Sparrow, and yep. I'm pretty sure that's his relationship arc with literally everybody else in those movies (including his ship...)
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'someone I care about' -> 'someone I deeply love and am committed to'
'someone I oppose' -> 'someone I deeply loathe and am committed to destroying'
I'm not sure what fandom would suit this but now I want to read it. :D
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But I would love to see a fic where nemeses on its own was considered by all to be an appropriate culmination!
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...but then again, finishing that was directly inspired by the longfic I've been reading, where so far they have done "Enemies to One-Night Stand to Friends to Lovers to Enemies to Friends" and I still have eight chapters left. :D
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Nah, don't change it, it's so great!
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Also lmao wrote?goat! looks amazing, I love it.
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...which is pretty close to the Buffy episode "Something Blue" :)