zvi talks about tv

Went to look at my google profile, and it said Happy Birthday, and had streamers and a cupcake.

I realize it's just a computer program that proves that elGoog is watching me, but it felt nice.

Also, I am making the really awesome pineapple upside down cake for myself. I just have to acquire whole milk. (What? Our house is a skim milk house.)

P.S. Happy birthday, marina. You are a much better person to share a birthday with than Elvis.

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you may love fic_rush

It's a periodic two day ficathon. Next challenge is Saturday and Sunday.

Also, I am superchuffed that so many stories on the list50 most recent recs of poly stories come from Three Ships. It makes me feel like I have really, truly contributed to fandom. (This 2008 list also features a few 3_ships stories, but not as high a percentage. And a couple on the 2006 list, including one of mine. *g*)

Also, have gotten pleased comments back from my recipients as well as compliments from other readers.

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Just watched last night's NCIS: LA and was very pleased to see that the caretaking between Sam and G is reciprocal.

I love the relationship between the two of them, but the fandom is driving me crazy with the feeling that Sam is G's nanny, and the show is driving me crazy by telling me that Callen is the biggest woobie that ever did woob.

I need some breathing room and some focus on Sam. Does anyone have recs for Sam-centric stories? (I'm not looking for Sam POV where the story is about healing Callen's broken heart.) Take the Offering, posted in this year's 3 Ships, is a very good story which goes in the direction of what I'm looking for. (Kensi makes it a threesome.)

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Ask me any fandom-related questions in the comments. They can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general.

Questions can be as wacky as you want and have as many subparts as you like. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.

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2009 I Saw Three Ships stories are available for your reading pleasure.

Will be posting post-challenge review in about a week.

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So, there's been two intermingled discussions lately about publicly talking about fanwork in less than glowing terms. The one is about "should you post concrit to a gift exchange fic" and the second is "is concrit socially acceptable?"

My answer to both of these questions is pretty clear (not as a comment to the version of the fic presented as a gift to the recipient, but on another copy or as a public review is good; yes, yes, yes.)

On the other hand, I am so completely goddamned frustrated, bored, and tired of these discussions being structured in terms of concerns about "making better writers fancreators" or "not driving writers fancreators away from the media fandom community."

Fuck fancreators.*

In the fandom of my dreams, critical discussion is for readers. In the same way that I tl;dr about Glee or Smallville or The X Files, I want to tl;dr about fan stories. I want to compare mpreg stories and tell you which is better and why. I want to deeply examine why I like some stories in the Ladies' Choice collection and why some of them leave me cold.

Even more, I want to read what all of you and you have to say about stories you have read or vids you have watched. (Sorry, fanartists, I don't like pictures.) I want to talk about podfic (will be setting up podfic discussion comm after 3_ships is safely out the door) with other people who like podfic, even if they are never, ever, ever going to read it.

You are smart people, who have interesting thoughts. That is why I have subscribed to your journals! And many of us have this specific thing in common: we like fanfiction! fanvids! archives! podfic! And I would like us to be able to talk about this thing we have in common. Because, at the end of the day, no one has explained to my satisfaction why Kripke is fair game for criticism, but kanata is not. No one blinks an eye if I talk about the heartache Glee brought when I watched the show, but if I talked about gblvr's femslash** wounding me in my soul, I would be a terrible, terrible person.

And I think that critical comments appended to a fanwork are a good place for the critical comments (with the exception of the recipient's copy of a gift) because the people most likely to be interested in further thoughts on a fanwork are the people who have just finished experiencing it. I am just sayin'. Most archive and journal commenting systems allow the OP to control whether or not they receive comments on a given work. They also allow the OP to control whether commenting is allowed at all. Not to forget, one has the power of the editorial note to say things like, "Not interested in critical discussion of the work; it is what it is."

But even if the poster of a work says, "Please don't tell me your thoughts on my yaoi," it is totes legitimate for me to write up my thoughts on yaoi and then link to the poster's work. For no other reason than I want to share my thoughts with my circle, and get their thoughts in return.

*Metaphorically: that is to say, stop making them the only people of concern in this recurring discussion. If you want to talk about literally fucking my fellow fans, all I can say is: if you are a female fan who's going to be in the DC area and would like to get together for sexytimes, drop me a line. I am easy and I closely resemble my usericon.

**AFAIK, gblvr has never written femslash. (But, gblvr, if you have, you should submit it to Ladies' Choice!)

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If I accidentally have sex with someone with whom I would, in actual point of fact, enjoy having an ongoing sexual or romantic relationship with, I should not hastily begin apologizing for the sex, calling it a mistake, or otherwise characterizing it negatively. Because if the other person had enjoyed having accidental sex with me and would have liked to intentionally have sex with me in the future, they certainly aren't going to say so after I declare that it was a terrible idea, having had sex with them.

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Ladies' Choice has 55 stories in it, right now. Seems pretty good to me, but I haven't gotten nearly as many from yuletide as I'd hope.

If you've read a Yuletide story with a woman having shameless, hot sex, please mention the collection to them. Any other story on the AO3 archive, too.

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format snurched from helens78

( The Calendar )

December (all for Yuletide)

24. Junior Wing How I Met Your Mother. Barney Stinson, Future Daughter, Future Son. 1486 words
25. Friendly Misdirection Leverage. Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer. 739 words
26. Not the Girlfriend Experience Glee. Mercedes Jones, Tina Cohen-Chang. 340 words
27. When You're Good to Mama White Collar. June/Neal Caffrey. 857 words

Total stories: 27
Total words: 30, 239
Average words per story: 1120
Shortest story: 94
Longest story: 2674
Median: 812

Fandoms written in: Being Human, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Glee, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Leverage, Merlin, Razia's Shadow, Star Trek: AOS, Stargate Atlantis, White Collar
Fandoms I had never written in before this year: Being Human, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Glee, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Merlin, Razia's Shadow, Star Trek: AOS, White Collar
Fandoms that really hooked me: Leverage, Star Trek: AOS
Fandoms I expected to be writing more, but didn't: Glee, Razia's Shadow, White Collar
Fandoms I expect to write in next year: Leverage, Star Trek: AOS

Favorite story this year: This is a lot harder to decide on than I expected. There's a lot of stories which have something I love about them, but there aren't that many stories that I would come back to if someone else had written them. This is not because my stories are bad, but they're so simple. I love to read fanfiction novels, but have not, so far, developed the patience to write them. My stories are rarely more than one scene. My top three are probably Parker's Surprise, The Proposal, and Whore, not necessarily in that order. Other people's favorite is Junior Wing, hands down.

Fests I participated in this year: 3_ships, One Night Stand Ficathon, purimgifts, leveragexchange, cliche_bingo, remixredux09, yuletide And I completely failed NaNoWriMo and polybigbang.
Fests I expect to participate in next year: 3_ships, saying_yes_2010, operation80, purimgifts, cliche_bingo, Remix/Redux 8 on the Archive of Our Own, NaNoWrimo, Yuletide.

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Having lovely time at Synecdochic's.

Failed to sign up for you_know_thats_right.

About to drink absinthe.

Will soon crow about v. popular yuletide fic and well-received yuletide fic, and whine about underappreciated yuletide fic in popular fandom.

3 Ships advancing well. Only one unassigned pinch hit, and it is one I can write myself, if need be.

Tomorrow, may watch Precious. Or Fantastic Mr. Fox.

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Violent suppression of peaceful protesters in Iran

got the link from someone on my circle, but I lost the circle link

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operation80 is doing AOS versions of all 80 original series episodes.

I have personally signed up for

1. 3x11 : Wink of an Eye
2. 1x28 : The Alternative Factor
3. 3x20 : The Way to Eden Katemonkey grabbed it

This should be awesome. Also, I am regretting just a little bit not signing up for The Cage, but it is not showing on Hulu, so that seems responsible of me, more than anything.

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I'd really love a comm for the discussion of podfic. I'd like it to include both podfic meta -- what's an effective way to use music, are certain stories more podficcable than others, what tagging data is good and where should it go, for instance -- and podfic reviews. The goal would not be to come to a single consensus about what makes a good podfic, but to articulate and debate aesthetic theories about podfic, in the same way that we articulate and debate aesthetic theories about television shows, music, movies, and, to a sadly lesser extent, fanfiction and other fanactivity.

It would specifically not be a place for concrit or recommendations; I think those are valuable, but they also lead the discussion to a really producer-centered place. This comm is for those who like meta discussion and podfic, without regard to whether they read, edit, or listen.

This comm is not, 100% strictly speaking, necessary. Jinjur has offered amplificathon as a place for meta discussion (and, in fact, this post was spurred by a discussion cathexys started in amplificathon. Personally, I feel like I would be hijacking amplificathon if I started the sort of discussion I'm interested in there, especially as even the most general discussion quickly leads to the implying of specific podfics, even if one avoids the naming of names. But maybe someone else would be willing to start the discussion there.



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So, underneath collections, there's a link to the collections bookmark.

There's nothing listed there.

Does anyone know what is intended to go there and how it is intended to get there? My first two suspicions are that it is either intended for bookmarks that collection maintainers will one day get to add to their collections (useful especially for off-site stories that are not getting transferred to AO3) or that it will collect bookmarks of stories which are part of the collection, and do that automagically someday in the future.

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I have a set of 6v computer speakers, the adapter for which I have lost.

I have a 9v ac adapter, which may have originally belonged to a telephone.

Am I going to blow up the speakers if I use the adapter with it? Inquiring minds want to know.

(Question courtesy of the mp3 player I got for Christmas, which appears delightful in many ways, except that it doesn't have an internal speaker. My "old" mp3 player is my LG Rumor phone, which includes a speakerphone because it is a phone.

It is much nicer to have an mp3 player tell me stories to fall asleep without headphones than with, to my way of thinking.

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Two stories were written for me, and now I am so happy, I do the dance of joy.

Musicality (NCIS: Los Angeles, Teen & Up, Sam Hanna)

Thank you. This was exactly what I wanted, a full picture of Sam, and he's got layers and backstory and wants and desires of his own.
( spoilery feedback is for my Yulie )

The one and only thing you could do to make this story better for me, Dear Yulewriter, is to tag it with Dark Agenda Challenge.

Not Looking For Sweet Talk (Leverage, Mature, AEP)

You had me at hello. Or actually at this is clearly some sort of weird glitch in the matrix.

( spoilery feedback is for my Yulie )

The one and only thing you could do to make this story better for me, dear Yulewriter, was if you submit it to the Ladies' Choice collection, after author names are revealed. (I have to ask you to wait because, the way the collection software works, your name would be shown to me early if you submitted it to my collection right away.)

Anyway, thank you so much! I really loved this story, and I was super pleased to get it. It really hit my kinks.

---

I read one more story before I decided the Archive is better browsed tomorrow. The Principles of Professional Pride, by Precious Ramotswe for bossymarmalade.

Okay,it was really for maggie, but this story includes so much of what I love about the series ( spoilery feedback )

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I've never done Yuletide treats before or pinch hit for Yuletide, but this year I did. (I've never defaulted for Yuletide before either, but I am not proud of that.)

The last one I finished about five minutes before e-mails started going out, but it's a story I've been wanting to write for a while, and it fit one of the prompts, so I'm glad I got it.

Looking forward to my story. Hurry up, e-mail machine!

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My mom makes an awesome cheesecake, but she keeps losing the recipe. She's had the recipe for decades, and the source was just an article in a newspaper she copied out onto a brown paperbag, and she keeps losing the bag. I finally got her to type it up one year, and she found the typed copy this time, but I am even less certain we're going to be able to keep up with an 8.5x11 sheet of white paper than we were with a large sheet of brown paper.

So, as with any text one wishes to preserve forever, I am consigning it to you, dear internets, for safekeeping.

( World's Best Cheesecake Recipe )

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I was listening to public radio while baking an absolutely ROCKSTAR pineapple upsidedown cake, when suddenly amazing Christmas-y SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD SWINGING MUSIC was on my radio. The Retro Cocktail Hour has a Christmas show, and your experience of Christmas music will not be complete until you listen to it.

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in Yuletide Madness.

My requests

Dear Yulegoat Letters indexed and letters posted after the indexing

dark_agenda's database of prompts with chromatic characters or sources

And, hey, if your yuletide or yuletidemadness story would qualify for the Ladies' Choice collection, please submit it! If you're worried that I will, with my modly powers, gain SECRET EARLY ACCESS TO YOUR FIC OR YOUR AUTHORSHIP, wait until the 25th or Jan 1 to submit, but please do submit.

On my honor, I promise not to pass on any info gained from programming mishap, and to immediately submit a support request to let someone know what happened.

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