Alina

dragovianknight @ 5:05pm: Crying is not productive
Particularly when there is quite literally nothing to cry about.

dragovianknight @ 9:30am: I am spoiled
For the latest SPN. I am now barely able to contain myself while I wait for the download to finish downloading (and then I'll have to wait until tonight to watch it; woe!).

I am a bad person in that I want to write PR apocafic so I can title it "The Lone Ranger". I am a worse person in that this idea was originally, "I wish there was an Autobot who transformed into a Ford Ranger, so I could call a fic..."

In spite of all of this, I kind of want to cry. No, there is no particular reason, aside from my brain being a very fucked up place. Work should be all KINDS of fun today. :P

dragovianknight @ 9:30am: To make up for doing nothing but bitch lately
Adorable baby bat.

dragovianknight @ 11:23pm: Wow, Ziggy...just keeps getting creepier
From episode 27 ( behind the cut: )

I swear, it's like they hired the SGU writers or something. Though at least we have Dr K to be completely unimpressed by him.

dragovianknight @ 8:51am: Wow, PR, that is a new low even for you!
I decided to catch up on Power Rangers RPM last night (because I ran out of SPD episodes), which means I have just now seen episode 22, "The Dome Dolls".

You know what I was expecting? Dolls. You know, like the thing Bugglesworth did in SPD? I was not expecting the title to refer to the show's women.

Yes. That's right. It was called "The Dome Dolls" because the women were running things in the dome while the men were unconscious. ::headdesks self into unconsciousness::

( Wakes up and cuts to spare you a small rant. )
Apparently, there are like five women in all of Corinth. And Vasquez is the only woman in the whole wide military. And let's not forget Ziggy waxing extra creepy when they were going to release the antidote city-wide: "With all the men asleep, this city's going to be crawling with chicks, eh? It's gonna be like shooting fish in a barrel!"

Edit: The episode can be found here should anyone want to headdesk themselves into oblivion.

Edit 2: You know what would have worked better? If, by liberal application of Handwavium, Dr K, Summer, Gemma, and Vasquez had been the only people awake in the dome, period. Because four people trying to hold the city's defenses? THAT is a worth-while reason to freak out, without the overtones of "OH NOES, what will we do without the MENZ!" (This thought brought to you by the fact that Vasquez all alone in the Command Center really was kind of creepy. That place is meant to be bustling.)

None of this is making me less bitter about our only female Red being evil, guys.

*I like Hicks, actually, but yes, I have resented him every time he's shown up and Vasquez hasn't.

fandom_wank @ 2:13pm: Hideo Kojima to judge Twilight fanart contest

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1224860.html

Just a light wanky snack.

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dragovianknight @ 6:02pm: So, the Hundred Hat Project is finished
Who has suggestions for charities that could make use of the hats?

dragovianknight @ 7:58pm: It's not that I don't love you guys
It's just that I am feeling very not-sociable these days, which is likely part stress and part seasonal depression setting in, and thus I haven't been even skimming my flist because I have this weird superstition that if I read you will somehow know I read and did not comment (I also turn off the ringer on my phone, lest the caller psychically know I can hear the ring and am just not answering). But I felt perhaps I should check in and let you know I am not dead.

Also? The Hundred Hat Project is finished. *fistpump* So I immediately started making queenoftheskies a Christmas stocking from KnitPick's Modern Classics Christmas Stocking Kit, which is my first real Fair Isle project and 27 rounds in I'm still mostly having fun with it, even if it does require a bit too much brain. I didn't really care for the green and gold combo, so I bought some Telemark garnet heather and am doing the stocking in red and gold. 'S pretty. (It was only after I was a couple inches in that I realized I was doing it in my high school's colors.) I'm doing it on size 6 needles instead of 5, because the DPNs I ordered specifically for this project were stolen when my mailbox cluster was broken into. The slightly larger needle size doesn't seem to be doing any harm, though.

Let's see, what else? Hmm, after so many weeks that I despaired of Edea EVER being fixed, I was finally able to drive her home...only to have the low pressure line of the power steering system blow (I guess since they replaced the high pressure line so it didn't leak, the low pressure line couldn't take the, er, pressure). But 4-H Lady and her husband and oldest boychild came over to my house and replaced that, and now, FINALLY, Edea is running and drives like a dream. It's amazing what going in and repairing years of half-assed repairs and patch jobs will do for a car. ::hugs car::

I have spent today watching Power Rangers SPD (Power Rangers, still my mental comfort food). A Squad still needs love, but I am fairly certain that SPD had fewer plotholes than the latest episodes of SPN. Just sayin'.

There is no good Nightmare Before Christmas fic in the entire internet. Though now that I've written this right after mentioning SPN, I kind of want someone to write a crossover where Jack Skellington pwnz the Winchesters. Because it would be better than Yet Another Fic where Jack gets a Daughter Sue. (What DID Jack ever do to these fangirls?)

And I think that should prove I am Not Dead Yet, so I'm going back under my rock now.

ETA: Semagic tells me it is a Moogle's birthday, so Happy Birthday, raisedbymoogles!

fanthropology @ 4:47pm: Media references to fanfic, the week ending 10/31/09

http://community.livejournal.com/fanthropology/468192.html

Margaret Smith interviewed Neville Longbottom actor Matthew Lewis for The Malden Observer (hee!) and other suburban Boston papers in advance of a HP exhibit at the Museum of Science. Asked whether he was familiar with HP fanfic, Lewis responded I have been given some fan fiction by various fans. It is interesting. Some of it is downright strange. But if people like the character so much and write their own back stories, I think it is wonderful. If the fans feel they know the character enough to write a complete different story, then that is wonderful.

On In Utah This Week, Kelly Ashkettle intereviewed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies publisher David Borgenicht. In response to a question about how the idea for the novel came about, Borgenicht responded Our associate publisher, Jason Rekulak, came up with the idea. He'd long been interested in the kind of videos that people were doing with segments of movies and the fan fiction that people would write, in which they'd take famous characters and put them in other stories, and he became really interested in trying to find a way for us to do something like that with a classic novel. Follow the link - it's an interesting read.

In St. Cloud State University's University Chronicle, Emilie Thiessen reported on an English class that has been creating content for Ning: Other Ning-based Web sites created in Professor Barton’s class include topics such as fan fiction, the scholarship of comic books, virtual reality, free software and music in the area. This is a 400-level college class? Also in the college press, Katharine Heriges, in the University of Tennessee's Daily Beacon, wrote Fat Girl is a state of mind — un-confident, lonely and delusional. In about 2007, the Fat Girl group of “Harry Potter” fans, who at the time were busy writing some steamy Harry and Malfoy romance fanfiction (”His name is Draco, thank you very much!”), were introduced to “Twilight.” Beth Clothier of the Western Illinois University Courier expressed alarm that now it seems that glorified fanfiction is being published as legitimate work. Don't they teach Shakespeare RPF in college these days? And finally, Morgan Feddes, in the Whitworth Whitworthian, wrote, in Do not fear the geek inside, I write fanfiction.

Actually, this could be a meme - prove you're more geeky than Morgan Feddes! (1) I dream about coding video games, (2) I read War and Peace for fun, (3) Got me there, I have no memory, (4) I tested out of Calc II when I was 17, (5) Okay, done that too (6) In college, now-husband's best friend awarded me the Mutant Ninja Turtle Award for Unrecognized Academic Excellence (long story) (7) Me to! (Whoda thunk) (8) I was sports editor of my college paper, and I was a math major (9) Only three or four times, but I have kids! Movies are hard! (10) I wore Star Trek t-shirts to HS every day of ninth and tenth grade.

Paige Wise, Chicago Sun-Times TV critic, in a review of V, wrote When sci-fi fans like a show, they really commit. They memorize minutiae, look for hidden themes, link to each other's websites, write fan fiction, and when necessary, dress like the characters.

In The Buffalo News, Joseph Popiolkowski, in a review of The Damned United, worte depending on who you talk to, this book-based biopic of English football manager (that’s a soccer coach, to we Americans) Brian Clough is either smartly imagined fan fiction or an affront to the late Clough’s good name sprinkled with too much Movie Magic.

Did you know that There are indeed several websites devoted to serialized genre fiction, notably fan fiction? Srsly, you have to take off your shoes to count them all!

On Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life, Thom Geier wrote, of 'authorized sequels,' But some of these brand extensions seem not much better than authorized fan fiction. Well, duh.

And, did you know Fanfiction.net is a website where users can write original stories featuring their favourite characters and features several horror favourites.?

E.B. Boyd, in a report on the closing of GeoCities for BayNewser, quoted archivist Jason Scott's site: "Already, little gems have shown up in the roughly 8000+ sites I've archived […] Guitar tab archives. MP3s that surely took the owners hours to rip and generate. GIF files, untouched for 13 years. Fan fiction. Photographs and websites of people long dead. All stuff that, I think, down the line, will have meaning. It's not for me to judge. It's for me to collect."

Finally, The Washington Post's Monica Hesse responded, presumably sensibly, to Got any good Twilight Fanfic sites you can reccomend?

(Crossposted to http://as-others-see-us.dreamwidth.org/7367.html.)

fandom_wank @ 12:50am: I refuse to return your stolen tablet until you buy me a better one

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1224553.html

Over on FurAffinity Kitara makes a journal about the theft of her tablet (the original journal is on the bottom half and the update is on the top half). She says she lent it to Recca_se_li and it was then either stolen by Razr or Recca lent it to Razr. Either way Razr refuses to answer any of Kitara's emails or text messages on the subject. Kitara then updates same journal (top half) when she manages to contact Razrs roomate/master/girlfriend/sockpuppet knowstobite. Knowstobite insists that the tablet was given to Razrs by Recca as a parting gift and that he will only return it once Kitara gives him another tablet of same or better quality.

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fandom_wank @ 2:01pm: This wank based on true events. [now with baleetion]

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1224328.html

I read the strangest rant today. How strange you say? So strange no one can agree just whether it's even a rant at all!

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fandom_wank @ 8:40pm: This wanklet was brought to you by the letters T & A...

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1224017.html

Caution: There are some NSFW links in the forums.

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dragovianknight @ 10:58am: Last night, I caught up on SPN 5x05 and 5x06
And can I just say...

( Cut for the most minor of spoilers. )

fanthropology @ 9:58pm: Media references to fanfic, the week ending 10/24/09

http://community.livejournal.com/fanthropology/467812.html

In a Washington Post article on for-profit non-original-author sequels that was picked up by the more linkable Detroit News, Neely Tucker quoted author Eoin Colfer as saying "This is not part of the Douglas Adams oeuvre. It's very authorized fan fiction." On the same subject for The Independent (UK), Paul Bignell and Andrew Johnson wrote While publishers have been maximising the similar potential of Jane Austen's legacy with titles such as Mr Darcy Presents His Bride, there is a quite understandable fear regarding the uncontrollable beast in which this slew of authorised books has its basis: fan fiction. And Chantel Delulio, writing in Washington College's The Elm, opined If people wanted fan fiction they’d search the Internet, not wait until a faceless executive in the sky plops down the work of another author and declares it part of the canon.

In the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Stanley A. Miller II had a write-up of the upcoming Geek.Kon: The activity and entertainment lineup includes a geek variety show, an "artist alley" with crafts for sale, and panel discussions on topics ranging from science fiction on television to a fan fiction forum to the intricacies of building a world for television, literature or games.

Remember Entertainment Weekly's semi-random list of the greatest cult shows of all time? The one that left off Star Trek but included SPN, in part because of its fic? Can't believe you didn't mention STAR TREK, the original series. Not as old or venerable as Doctor Who but certainly in American television it was the earliest cult show and the one with the most impact on our culture. And talk about fan fiction: Kirk/Spock slash fiction was being written decades before ''Wincest'' ever came into being. —M E Wofford

A PRNewswire release that was picked up by a large handful of media outlets announced that Jackson Rathbone's band, 100 Monkeys, will be headlining the [Nashville, TN NewCon] festival, which aims to inspire people to get more involved in the arts. The weekend includes Twilight- and New Moon-inspired art competitions as well as poetry and fan fiction contests.

In School Library Journal, Debra Lau Whelan wrote about the Chicago Public Library’s new Harold Washington Library Center, where high schoolers can take part in a variety of free digital media workshops where they can explore the creation of digital photography, fan fiction, graphic design, digital video and music production, and game design.

From the snippy author department: Kirk Read wrote a letter to the editors of The Dartmouth complaining about the content of a recent article. He called me overweight, middle-aged, hairy and with facial hair. At the time of the show, I was 34 years old, 155 pounds and didn’t have any facial hair. […] Neither of us deserved to be characters in Lambert’s imaginative fan fiction. Mr. Read, I've got news for you - to a teenager, you're middle-aged, and I'm ancient.

And more from the college press! In the Loyola Phoenix, LeeAnn Maton explained the word facepalm, then wrote ever since first hearing this word last week as my roommate read aloud Glee fan fiction (don’t judge me, it was her idea) I’ve found myself facepalming like crazy at what can only be described as an explosion of vacuous content in the mainstream media. And in the Rice University Thresher, Eric Doctor, in a review of the New Moon soundtrack, wrote For those who haven't gone outside in the last year, lest the sun reveal their sparkly-diamond vampire skin, Twilight is the popular and poorly-written book series that became an even-more-popular book series after the movie adaptation came out last November. Millions of pubescent girls - and some of my college-aged female friends - fawned over Robert Pattinson, wrote terrible fanfiction and made their own playlists for each book. Kiddo, for reasons I'm not going to get into here, I'd bake Stephanie Meyers a cake if I had the chance.

On Examiner: Sabrina Brody wrote, of some recently reported pairings-up amongst the usual tabloid fodder, Buying into these stories is sort of the same as convincing yourself that sapphic fan fiction about Cold Rush's Lily Rush and Bette from the L Word was an episode your DVR recording didn't catch.

Finally, in the Telegraph (UK), Tom Chivers listed ten of the most important rules of the internet, including Rule 34 (if it exists, there is porn of it). The spread of fanfic, slash fiction and hentai around the internet, as well as the rise of furries, are making this law more and more accurate every day.

(Crossposted to http://as-others-see-us.dreamwidth.org/7054.html.)