I Have No Idea What to Call You People

I Have No Idea What to Call You People
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	User:	pouncer
	Date:	2009-11-25 22:58
	Subject:	Happy Thanksgiving!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	content

Tomorrow Mom and I and the puppies shall travel up to Baltimore to feast with my cousins -- my sister and Lochinvar flew out to Vegas this afternoon for a long weekend of shows and licentiousness (probably not really, but why not imagine the worst?).

Thanks to elishavah's technical support, I can gift you with puppy videos!

( I typed 'cute text' at first, a telling slip )

I spent the afternoon baking pumpkin bread. The one with pecans turned out picture perfect, while the one with mini chocolate chips looks like a reject from the goo factory. It's still tasty, though.

My thoughts on Criminal Minds: HOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! *meep*

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	User:	elke_tanzer
	Date:	2009-11-22 21:58
	Subject:	George Lucas Totally Owes Me A Drink
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	busy

(Star Wars fandom, don't ever say I don't give you pressies.)

On the AO3, there now exist fandom titles for:

Star Wars (Comics)

Star Wars (Video Games)

For all of the book series' various eras, using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_books as a reference:
- Star Wars: Sith Era - Various (synonym: Star Wars: Old Republic Era - Various)
- Star Wars: Rise of Empire Era - Various
- Star Wars: Rebellion Era - Various
- Star Wars: New Republic Era - Various
- Star Wars: New Jedi Order Era - Various
- Star Wars: Legacy Era - Various

For the films:

The synonym fandom titles for Star Wars Original Trilogy are currently:
# Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
# Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
# Star Wars: A New Hope
# SW:ANH
# ANH
# Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
# Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
# A New Hope
# The Empire Strikes Back
# Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
# Return of the Jedi
# SW:RotJ
# RotJ
# SW:ESB
# SW:TESB
# ESB

I am currently looking at the 84 works that had been tagged by their authors into the Star Wars fandom to figure out if we can make Star Wars a synonym for Star Wars Original Trilogy temporarily, because currently there is only one work in any of the synonyms of Star Wars Original Trilogy, because that work was tagged into the Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi fandom initially by its author (full disclosure: that was me). All of the existing characters and pairings tags have now been untangled, and the fandom tag Star Wars is now a temporary synonym for Star Wars Original Trilogy.

As soon as we get metatagging capability, Star Wars will be a separate tag which encompasses all of the component Star Wars fandoms under its umbrella, so to speak... all of the movies and expanded universe tie-ins and books and videogames and tv shows and whateverthehellelse... and we'll all be able to breathe a little easier.

The synonym fandom titles for Star Wars Prequel Trilogy are currently:
# The Phantom Menace
# Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
# Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
# Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
# Star Wars (TPM)
# Star Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith
# Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
# Revenge of the Sith
# Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
# Attack of the Clones
# SW:AotC
# AotC
# SW:RotS
# RotS
# SW:TPM - Fandom (this is a slight glitch that we'll have to deal with tomorrow related to when the rake process rakes; there is also currently a freeform tag TPM which should ultimately possibly be a fandom tag synonym instead, but I'm not sure, since it's being used as a timeframe-type freeform, like pre-ANH or pre-TPM)
# Phantom Menace

~~I'm still wrangling character and pairing names, but~~ I think we've got the fandom titles sorted out, and ~~we're working on~~ the character and pairing names for the movies which had already been uploaded into the AO3 are now wrangled. The Expanded Universe character and pairing details will come later. Thank you for your patience as the wranglers wrangulate.

Additional references:
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=star+wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_Universe_%28Star_Wars%29
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.njoe.com/index.php?id=view&sub=append&sub2=doa (New Jedi Order character reference)

(Also, should anyone feel the need (I will not be held responsible for what may result):
Star Wars Holiday Special (TV))

ETA: My tag wrangling process has been ficced. OMG. Love.

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	User:	elke_tanzer
	Date:	2009-11-22 16:56
	Subject:	Useful links...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	calm

http://twitter.com/otw_news
http://twitter.com/AO3_Status/

http://transformativeworks.org/

And really, the current temporary AO3 glitch is not related to the Star Wars Holiday Special, I swear.

(Don't ask. Tag wrangler humor.)

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	User:	elke_tanzer
	Date:	2009-11-21 19:58
	Subject:	I'm sitting here in happy tears, because yeah, this is how it feels.
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	enthralled

Of all of the things I never, ever, ever expected to say in this lifetime...

Because general_jinjur is amazing, and the OTW is amazing, and the AO3 is amazing, and the Wrangulator is amazing, and because everyone who is uploading stories and tagging them is amazing...

Go read:

forma by general_jinjur. It's ~~Tag~~ Wuzzle Wrangler RPF.

I will apparently be cosplaying myself next Escapade, y'all.

(If there is a fanartist in range of my voice who can draw in the style of Nausicaa Valley of the Wind and is willing to do a commission, please let me know.)

(Heck, if any fanartist wants to do something related to this, let general_jinjur know... she says the Wrangulatorverse is open to sharing according to the open-transform statement on her profile, but I'm sure she'd love to hear if you make any derivative work from it!)

And yes, the tag wrangling team is still looking for more volunteers.

*holds out hand*

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	User:	elke_tanzer
	Date:	2009-11-21 10:38
	Subject:	tags to consider using on AO3...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	curious

Speaking just as myself, and not in my role as volunteer ~~tag~~ wuzzle wrangler...

my first fanfic
my first explicit fanfic
embarrassing old fic

you don't have to know the canon

one of my best
if you only read one work by me

I think it would be so nifty to be able to see what others choose of their fics for those tags!

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	User:	pouncer
	Date:	2009-11-20 12:16
	Subject:	All my cares disappear
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	nerdy
	Music:	this girl was in my arms and swore to me, she'd be mine eternally

Thank you to everyone who answered my last post: I did go to get x-rayed on Monday afternoon, and no signs of pneumonia were discovered. The antibiotics seem to be working on the bronchitis; I can almost fill the entirety of my lungs regularly when I inhale. It's nice to be able to breathe again. The cough lingers, but far less frequently. The new CFC-free albuterol inhalers are awful, by the way.

I was stuck in an interminable meeting from Tuesday through Thursday, and my mental capacity seemed to drop with every line of data we reviewed. By yesterday, I was a zombie. An illustrative tale: yesterday morning, my mug of instant oatmeal was on my desk, and I lifted it to take a spoonful. I started to tilt the mug, and it wasn't oatmeal at all, it was hot tea, spilled from ribcage to thighs. This was my day. I have a long cardigan I keep for those rare occasions I'm cold (rare because our office becomes a sauna once the heat is turned on), and I wore it until my clothes dried. At least my trousers and t-shirt are washable.

Once home, I collapsed into a four-hour nap. I think there was a migraine lurking too. Hurrah for Friday.

The exciting family news has been the discovery that we should have named the puppy Houdini instead of Winnie. A timeline:

10 November: Climbs out of playpen with open top, appears in my sister's room
12 November: Claws holes in playpen with mesh tied around top, almost escapes
18 November: I arrive home to find the door to his new metal crate open, and Winnie trots down the staircase to greet me
19 November: Winnie is secured in his crate with metal loops from my mom's real estate signs.

I have video of Teddy and Winnie playing that is adorable (Winnie pounces!), but it crashed Firefox and even IE multiple times when I tried to upload to YouTube. I think it might be a compression issue: is there any video editing software you'd recommend? My freeware does not seem to work right anymore.

Amidst the work and illness and puppy drama, I did have some fun social outings: Jersey Boys at National Theatre Thursday a week ago, and then Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at 9:30 Club on Tuesday. Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons, and if half of what was depicted was true, they were a hotbed of drama. I watched, and the staging: characters talking to the audience, quick scene changes, familiar songs, made me think that the show was uniquely suited to the theatre. I have vague musings on the trend of musicals dipping into pop artists' back catalogue for songs, but nothing fully formed.

One thing amused me deeply: Valli and his bandmembers are from Belleville, New Jersey. They mentioned that, and my eyebrows quirked as I thought, "Isn't that where Gerard and Mikey Way grew up?" And thus sprang, full-formed, a 50s crooner AU where My Chemical Romance aren't emo rockers, but pop balladeers.

Speaking of rockers, Grace Potter fits the bill. thecuckoo suggested we go, and after a delicious dinner at Crème (quickly becoming a favorite), we staked out a spot on the floor of 9:30 Club. I have pictures, but they still need to be processed and transferred online. I've never listened to the Nocturnals' recorded songs, but man, they're fabulous live, high energy and groovin'.

I've managed to catch up on most of my television shows, original flavor NCIS excepted, so have some vague thoughts. ( Gossip Girl. NCIS: LA. V. Criminal Minds. FlashForward. )

I've also seen and enjoyed White Collar and Castle, but find myself with nothing to say about them. They're good! And entertaining! And make me happy!

Things to accomplish this weekend:

*Get together with djfanboy
*Plant flowering bulbs (tulips, hyacinths, crocus, narcissus, etc., etc.) in front garden
*Put away clean laundry (bonus: switch over closet from summer to winter clothes?)
*Sleep

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	User:	gem225
	Date:	2009-11-20 00:23
	Subject:	goodbye to the home that was
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	scared

I said goodbye to the house in which I grew up and was abused by my father, walked around, went to my favorite place to hide and play, remembered the good stuff. May this make my life easier, yes, please, yes, PLEASE.

Then I bought a Cookie Monster stuffed toy to sleep with. So OK, NOT doing that well after all, but that's how it goes, right? Yeah, that's how it goes.

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	User:	elke_tanzer
	Date:	2009-11-15 20:42
	Subject:	OMFG I LOVE FANDOM
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	amused

The current tag cloud of common tags on AOOO: http://archiveofourown.org/tags

I LOLed loud enough to scare the cats when I spotted that the most commonly-used of the common tags are apparently at this point in the open beta process:
Angst and Humor...
followed by Alternate Universe and Crossover...
followed by Drabble, Drama, Episode Related, First Time, and Romance.

Ah, fandom, never change!!!

Discussion and guides to using the labels and pairings and characters and metadata fields:
http://zvi.dreamwidth.org/568475.html
http://facetofcathy.dreamwidth.org/39611.html

( Thinky thoughts about my tags of choice... )

That covers all the stories I had uploaded to my outdated websites. Now I'm trawling through my journaling services for the rest of them, that I hadn't gotten around to reformatting yet... once I'm done with that, all the fanfic I've ever finished and posted online anywhere will all be available at http://archiveofourown.org/users/elke_tanzer

*waggles pom-poms at the OTW and the AOOO*

*\o/*

ETA: Holy crap, I had fics squirreled away all over the place. I'm up to over 40 works uploaded now, and there's at least one more I need to figure out how to associate properly with the rest of its universe, and I'm going to be tweaking the tags off and on over the next few days. But mission accomplished this weekend: I feel like I understand the AOOO interface. Yayz. Now to sleep for a few hours before starting the workweek...

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	User:	elke_tanzer
	Date:	2009-11-15 12:12
	Subject:	Thank heavens for un-startle-able support for beta testers!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	shameless mostly

I can't believe I just sent the questions I've just sent to AO3 Support asking for help using the archive, because it kicked an error message. Apparently the characters and/or pairings for one of my doppelganger-based moresome non-con fics startled or confused the software.

Ahahaha. Um. Whoops?

*attempts not to blush*

ETA: OMFG thank you to my super-sekrit iconmaker friend, because now I have a commemorative icon for when I tried to upload the a character list for my porny BSG fic "Gaius Baltar, Six, Six, Six, Six, Six, Six" and made the AOOO kick an error at me...

(The correct character list is actually properly formatted as "Gaius Baltar, Six", by the way, no matter how many versions of her are manhandling him in the fic.)

*laughs ass all the way off*

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	User:	pouncer
	Date:	2009-11-14 20:13
	Subject:	Dear Yuletide Author,
	Security:	Public

I hope you found something to your taste among my story requests. I like gen, het, and slash, and every rating from G to NC-17, so you have a lot of options. My main hope is that the characters feel true to canon or a reasonable extrapolation based on story-specific circumstances. And I want you have fun writing this, because that usually shines through while reading.

( Read more... )

My cough returned last Saturday, and I've been limping along on a steady dosing of albuterol. Last night I got the cough syrup with codeine out again, because it burned when I inhaled. And I woke up after fourteen hours of sleep to find my sinuses aching. I said enough, and went to a nearby urgent care place. I have ten days of super-strong augmentin, and instructions to take Sudafed every six hours. Work has three days of meetings next week, so I need to be feeling better or it's going to be total misery. The doctor gave me orders for a chest x-ray to make sure this hasn't gone into pneumonia. Do I really need to go? Medical opinions welcome.