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| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
sky_dark
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7:45p |
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| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
cupidsbow
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5:15a |
12 Days of Cliche: Day 3 - Vid: First Aid
Today is a happy day, as Hope and I will both be posting for our fest. Hope has written an awesome story about Jack and Ianto getting kinky with first aid supplies. I know, I know, that was my reaction too. :) And then I thought to myself, "Hey, I bet I could vid that!" So I did. Title: First Aid Vidder: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cupidsbowFandom: Torchwood Pairing: Jack/Ianto Rating: PG-13 Music: "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls Summary: Jack has a first-aid fetish... or maybe just an Ianto fetish. The Story: This was inspired by Hope's awesome story, "First Aid," which you can find on DeamWidth and LiveJournal. It's is NC-17 and smoking hot. Download: FileFront (7.14MB). Streaming: You can stream this from FileFront -- just click on the 'streaming' button. BAM isn't uploading at the moment, so I'll add it there later. This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/334856.html. |
| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
sky_dark
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9:15a |
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sky_dark
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9:05a |
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cupidsbow
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7:39p |
Junk Food
I swear junk food taste better to me now that it did back before I knew I was gluten and dairy intolerant. In fact, a lot of things taste better now. I think it's down to a) my body not being poisoned all the time, and b) my new philosophy of eating. Basically, as there are so many, many things I cannot eat, I am now allowed to eat anything I want, any time I feel like it. It is awesome! It sounds simple, doesn't it? But it took a while for it to really sink in. I'd keep looking at cherries at $26 per kilo or salmon at $10 per 200grams, and think, "No, it's too expensive, it's special occasion food." And then I'd wander the aisles full of stuff I can't eat without poisoning myself, and then go back and get a kilo of cherries and three serves of salmon. What the hell else am I going to spend that money on? A doctor's bill when I poison myself with crap? The car I don't own? The synthetic high fashion clothes that make me break out in hives? No. I have to eat, but I don't need any of that other stuff. So why not eat things I actually like? Asking that question has changed my whole outlook on what's expensive and how I feel about food. Like, just now, I had the munchies, because vidding uses the same mental muscles as writing, so I burn up fuel like crazy. And what I really wanted was junk food. So I ate junk food, by god! Of course, junk food for me in this instance equalled plain corn chips and homemade guacamole. NOM NOM NOM. Later, I might have my current favourite: a salmon salad as big as my head. Then I might have nectarines for desert. I might have two or three of them! Seriously, I love this philosophy of eating, and I've actually lost weight since I started it. I don't suppose it would work very well if I could eat lashings of butter or cheese or cream, or sauces, or potatoes, or deep-fried foods, or... pretty much anything with cholesterol or calories. But as things are, it's freedom. I love it. And speaking of junk food, I had a thought the other day. I have a supply of delicious gluten free bread now, and I was wondering if I could make garlic bread using garlic aoli. I might have to try it. And now? I will have tea, and then make more of my vid. This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/334841.html. |
cupidsbow
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11:57a |
12 Days of Cliche: Day 2 - Mpreg and Kidfic Recommendations
As soon as Hope's "12 Days of Cliché" idea was expanded from being a fiction fest to something more multimedia, we started throwing around ideas for types of fanworks we like to make. I don't usually think of recommendations as a fanwork -- not in the same way as fiction or art. But you know what occurred to me during that brainstorming session? They sure are a lot of work! And I only go to the effort because I'm a fan. I would guesstimate that if you squashed all the time I spend making recs back-to-back... it would take up maybe two or three weeks a year. ( ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) crack_van alone takes up a week: the best part of a day for each set.) That's really quite a lot! So, after that rather stunning realisation, I decided to celebrate both all that work, and the love of fanworks that drives me to make all those recs. In keeping with our fest theme of "clichés," the result is a set of favourites about born and unborn children, or mpreg and kidfic in our evocative fannish vernacular. :) I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. ( Musing on Mpreg )Stories
( Leading up to happily ever after... )
( Crack and angst... )
( Temporary adoption... )
Songvid
( Constructed mpreg (un)reality... )
This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/334499.html. |
cupidsbow
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1:39a |
and another thing
I can't decide what's crazier... that I thought making this vid with a single-track editor was a good idea... or that I'm still making it. OMG, there must be 200 cuts already, and I'm only 23 seconds in! Also, I have a horrible feeling I'm going to run our of source, even though I have about a zillion hours worth. How on earth do vidders do this??? <--See what I did there? I totally took back my tentative vidder identification. PS--The 1940s were on the good crack. PPS--This announcement brought to you entirely because Captain Jack Harkness looks good in a uniform. This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/334190.html. |
| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
cupidsbow
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4:31p |
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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
petronia
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11:15p |
Oh and! Yuletide is open, etc.
I received: The Play, the Withnail and I post-movie story I requested partly for sororial unit. I know, right? IMO this was the most difficult of the possible matches, so it was a real pleasure to find that someone had braved the finicky request to come up with a story that was sweet, funny, and very true to the canon voice. Thank you so much, Mystery Santa! ♥ There is a game that ppl play, right, where you guess which story I wrote in Yuletide? Some of you know the list of fandoms I offered, so given that it should be ridiculously easy. XD |
| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
cupidsbow
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3:49a |
12 Days of Cliche Fest
So, a few weeks ago, Hope said to me, "Hey, Cath, why don't we have a fest? Just you and me! We can write a dozen Torchwood fics and post after Christmas!" I pretty much did this: O_o Then Hope said some more stuff, mostly about it being a "celebration of cliches" which she knows perfectly well is like catnip to me. Cliches! Grrrowr.As a delaying tactic while I frantically thought about whether I wanted to write lots of cliche fics (duh, yes), and had time to do so (hahaha, no), I said, "Can I make vids?" and Hope, sensing my weakness, said, "Yep, of course." Vids! About cliches! "Oh my god, yes please," I said. I am such a sucker. :) And verily it has been so. I have made many, many vids in the last few days weeks, plus written some fic. This has been very pleasing and joy-making, but also rather terrifying, mostly because I've started to get ambitious with the vidding. It's been a pleasure to revisit some of my favourite cliches too, but I won't meta bout that now, as Hope has already said everything more elegantly than I could in her announcement post. Anyway, the long and the short of it is that Hope and I have most of a fest kind of done. Except for the bits that aren't. *panics* This is the plan: over the next twelve days, we're going to post twelve fanworks. It won't be every day, because some of the works go together, but there will indeed be twelve of 'em, and they are of many different types. We'll be posting here, and over at ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) hope's journal. I'll link her posts when it's her days. We've had a lot of fun putting our Cliche Fest together, and I hope you all have a lot of fun coming along for the ride. This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/333616.html. |
| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
petronia
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3:17a |
Merry Christmas all
We watched the Doctor Who Christmas special... from two years ago, shut up we're getting there. XD;; helvetius, your discs are the holiday gift that keeps on giving. Now that sororial unit is off we may make it through the fourth season by decade's end, and then I can actually READ SERIES DISCUSSIONS ON THE INTERNETS oh joy oh wonders, oh no wait there's more to download isn't there. orz The s3 ending arc before that, which was kind of \o_O/. And then I had to imdb to figure out where I'd seen the dude before (sororial unit didn't know, normally with UK TV she's like "oh that one's been in Harry Potter, she played whatserface in season one of Rome, and I think I saw the other on Buzzcocks"). EDIT - re this thread, I'm still waiting for my onsen special dammit. Holiday foodery roundup, because I know I will be looking for it next year: ( cake pan gingerbread thing )( bacon and mushroom stuffing )I also bought, get this, stuff for making mince pies? XD;;; It's incandescens talking about it every year, I've gone around the bend. Lauren, Cindy, your card and postcard arrived (several days ago, I've been neglectful XD;). Thank you! ♥ |
| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
sky_dark
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11:49a |
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cupidsbow
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11:45p |
Final Call for MistleTorchwood Players
MistleTorchwood's prompt deadline is nighThere's only 10 hours left if you want to leave a prompt for the mistletw fest. (I'm not going to police it strictly, as I'll be asleep when the deadline hits. *waves hands at timezones*) You can still claim prompts up until the 31st. In fact, please do -- the more the merrier! But this is your final window of opportunity to post your own prompt. mistletw is an end-of-year fest for Torchwood fans, so that we can give each other presents of fan fiction, art and vids. You can find the rules and sign-up post here. All pairing preferences welcome. This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/333564.html. |
sky_dark
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6:11a |
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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
sky_dark
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6:08a |
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| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
petronia
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4:19p |
Success!
Uploaded my Yuletide story! Rather, uploaded it yesterday, ran to a dinner party, came back home and did housework, slept, got up and made a PROPER CURRY, ate, and am now blogging while waiting for the dryer to do its thing, as there's no point in starting on the like twenty SSBB stories sitting in my inbox when I'm leaving the house again in 1/2 hr. orz It's a marker of how breakdown-inducing these community challenges are, that my natural misguided optimism only wins out enough to sign me up for them one year out of three. XD; This round was the smoothest-sailing thus far, in that I finished a whole three hours before deadline and while a couple of sections could have stood another edit the thing was basically DONE as opposed to missing chunks or otherwise soul-destroying. ( sub_divided was a hero, of course.) Not sure I'll go back for more next year, though; December is not a good time of year for two weeks to disappear into the writerly void. Speaking of SSBB, I think I might need a pinch hitter for the cover pic. o_o;; The artist in question is reliable; her computer situation is not, and therein lies the rub. Next up: cheapo movie night has come around again, which means it's time to review last week's (Disney princess meta). EDIT -- luckykitty, your card arrived! It's adorable. ♥ My first one this year~ XD |
cupidsbow
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10:51p |
Narcissism and vidding
I thought writing fiction was narcissistic, but it has nothing on vidding! You know that old adage about writing the stories you want to read? I do that, a lot of the time (although not always). And once enough time has gone by, I have been known to go back and read those stories as though they were written by someone else, and they are so satisfying, because they hit all of my buttons and none of my squicks. Vidding is like that, but taken to eleven, and without needing the cool-down period. I honestly had no idea how much I was yearning for a certain kind of vid about Jack Harkness. Until I made it. Well, more than one vid, actually. Now I can't stop watching the bloody things. It doesn't even matter that I'm still a beginner, and I can see all the rough places in the vids. It's like... it's like having new episodes of my favourite show to watch! I've been thinking about the timing of my foray into vidding, and how much it was driven by this want for a particular type of vid. Honestly, I was so spoiled by SGA, which gave me every type of vid I could ever want. There was just no need for me to try and make those kinds of stories myself. And now, I'm not only vidding, I'm creating soundtracks to vid to, because the music I want doesn't exist either. Necessity really is the mother of invention! Hahaha. I wonder if it's like this for other vidders? <-- See what I did there? I said before that I don't think of myself as a vidder, but I'm starting to. I just love this thing: remixing so many different elements at once. Love it. I've yearned to make a multimedia story for a long time, and finally, I feel like I have the tools within my grasp to do so. It's so exciting! Anyway, I wonder if other vidders got started because they wanted certain stories; so they made them, and then rewatched them over and over (the way I used to watch my favourite SGA vids, now that I think about it). I'm not sure I even need to post the vids I make. There isn't the same kind of response to vids as there is to fic, in any case, so it doesn't feel like anyone is particularly waiting for the next thing I do. And that means that affirmation really isn't the driving force (not that it's the only driver for fiction either, but it's certainly a factor). I'm starting to understand why kiki_miserychic says she mostly makes vids for herself and doesn't post them. It really is a strange new world! *goes to rewatch my latest Jack vid* This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/333082.html. |
sky_dark
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5:57a |
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| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
sky_dark
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6:22a |
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| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
sky_dark
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5:51p |
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sky_dark
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9:20a |
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| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
wynterhawk
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11:26a |
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cupidsbow
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11:34a |
meta twitter?
skuf posted Where's all the meta?, which is an interesting discussion on the changing ways we're producing and consuming meta. There's a nifty poll and everything. There's lots of good discussion there, and lots of good reasons why we might not be engaging with meta in the same way anymore. I just wanted to snapshot one of my comments (with some tweaking for clarity)... * People are still talking a lot, and it's still about fannish stuff -- it's all over both of my flists and my delicious feed. So what I'm wondering is if maybe some meta looks different to what we're used to, and so isn't pinging as meta. For instance, you've written a fairly traditional meta post here to get this conversation started: laying out the topic, discussing various possibilities, asking for comment. It's a successful formula and a common one for meta (in the past anyway). Now you've made me think about it, what I've been seeing recently (and admittedly, I haven't scanned my flist as much lately, so it could be a very biased sample) are more posts with short musings, or just questions, or a discussion that's not contextualised as meta, but clearly is. There are also several people on my flist who write meta almost daily, in these little soundbites -- it's their blogging style, but it would be hard to link one of those posts on a newsletter without context ( mecurtin, for instance, does this, although less often lately). These sorts of non-typical meta posts refer to and are using the language of earlier debates (we have a meta shorthand!). Sometimes they start with a single fandom, but then relate it back to bigger fannish issue, or vice versa. I take them in as meta, but kind of like meta twitters. * Maybe all the huge discussions of the last two years have actually changed the face of meta, because we feel more comfortable in just using that language and making short comments, rather than having to scale up our meta thoughts into full-blown essays. I kind of like that idea, although I don't know how you'd snapshot that kind of spread-out commentary to share to a wider audience. Have you guys noticed a change, or changed your meta ways lately? Or maybe your fandom ways? Is the media changing the message? Is fandom going through a sea change? ETA: OMG, I have the best cherry jam on crunchy toast. NOM NOM NOM. This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/332824.html. |
cupidsbow
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12:38a |
diigo vs delicious, and how to set up diigo
There are several reasons I have accounts on two social bookmarking sites. Mostly, I began by wanting a back-up site for my recs on delicious; but having now compared the functionality of diigo and delicious, diigo is the clear winner in nearly all respects. Social bookmarkingIronically, delicious wins this category. I started out on delicious because everyone else in fandom was using it, and that meant I could tap into the recs other people were posting and have a good chance of finding things I'd be interested in reading without having to wade through whole newsletters. The 'Subscription' feed is brilliant for this -- I can find everything with the 'torchwood' tag (for instance) that other people think worth bookmarking. I also pick up a lot of meta and vid recs from my Network, plus sooper-dooper stories in fandoms I don't follow. I actually scan these feeds to find things more often than my flist now, and the noise to content ratio is better (don't get me wrong, I love my flist's noise, but I just don't have as much time to read now, so prioritising is more important). Diigo doesn't have this infrastructure in place, as fandom hasn't picked it up en masse in the same way. So I still use delicious for the social bookmarking aspect. However, after delicious had suffered service interruptions a few times, I started getting more serious about backing up my library of links. That's why I first signed up for diigo, and after testing it out, I pretty much moved over to using it for everything other than the reading feed. Web 2 functionalityThe thing about diigo is that it has added functionality that's way ahead of that offered by delicious. For instance, when I bookmark something on diigo, it will automagically push the bookmark out to delicious for me, with no extra effort on my part. I can also automagically post the links to twitter, to livejournal and various other places, if I so wish. Behind the cut, I give a quick run-down of the neat tools I use on diigo, and how to set them up. ( How to use diigo )Anyway, there you have it: the quick and dirty guide to diigo. If you end up giving it a try, let me know and I can add you to my network. This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/332715.html. |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
sky_dark
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6:23a |
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