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campylobacterYou know that adage "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it"? I need to find a busy person, or clone myself. Or just blow off everything & blow a Ba'al clone.
I am so frelling behind on some of my favorite fandom activities:
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Random question: If anyone is using a variation of Flexible Squares as your LJ layout, have you noticed any random default re-setting? I think LJ has rewritten some of its core code to thwart comment spam, and inadvertently broken layouts that may have had incompatible CSS.
I am so frelling behind on some of my favorite fandom activities:
- finishing my
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stargate_summer Big Bang story, due in a few weeks - reading fanfic rec'd to me
- leaving feedback for fanfic I've read
- posting about the next phase of the daniel_vala Layout Contest
- nominating my favorite fanworks for the Gatefic Awards
- posting a boring update on my battle with comment spam
- polling about story length preferences
[Poll #1739325]
Random question: If anyone is using a variation of Flexible Squares as your LJ layout, have you noticed any random default re-setting? I think LJ has rewritten some of its core code to thwart comment spam, and inadvertently broken layouts that may have had incompatible CSS.
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Date: 2011-05-08 10:40 pm (UTC)Also: I use Flexible Squares and I don't see any changes to my layout.
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Date: 2011-05-08 11:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-08 11:42 pm (UTC)In the case of reading I can be listening to anything when I'm reading...nothing is likely to interfere.
"Writing" is totally different. I prefer relative silence when I'm "composing"...if I'm simply transposing something I've written in long hand then I can do so to anything but if I had my 'druthers I'd work to something that is appropriate to what I'm creating.
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Date: 2011-05-09 12:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-09 12:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-09 12:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-09 01:36 am (UTC)I also like the term 'intuitive' reader...readers who can create and understand the settings/characters without reams and reams of narrative. Once again it's how I read and because of that I assume that others read the same way so it's the way I write...for example if I describe a reception in the formal living room of an ambassador's home and there is a black marble fireplace at one end of the room, an "intuitive" reader should be able to picture the entire scene including the people there and how the room is decorated without me having to give them details.
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Date: 2011-05-09 05:20 am (UTC)I prefer the Show vs. Tell style of writing; instead of TELLING readers that Daniel's instinct is to talk/study/analyze to resolve a conflict or situation, and that Vala's is to take action, SHOWING them is more fun:
DANIEL: (restraining Vala's pickaxe) Wait! No, no, no, no, no! You can't do that! I told you, this is a piece of technology. You could damage it.
VALA: It's been buried for millions of years, Daniel.
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Date: 2011-05-09 12:19 am (UTC)I usually listen to old rock, pop, R&B, country, music from the 60s, 70s, 80s.
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Date: 2011-05-09 12:27 am (UTC)On rare occasions, I listen to 1 song on Repeat for reading/writing fanfic, and use it as inspiration for a scene.
On every occasion, I cannot read songfic -- you know, where Author Sue has Character A quoting the lyrics to Character B instead of finding something original to say.
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Date: 2011-05-09 01:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-09 04:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-09 04:30 am (UTC)As to reading, or for that matter writing, I chose the combination of the first three choices. I am musical and enjoy both making and listening to music, but I am primarily a visual learner, so auditory input, provided it is music I already know, is not much of a distraction, and can help concentration when I get stuck on something. When my kids have been too loud or the day has been too busy, silence is a comfort.
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Date: 2011-05-09 04:43 am (UTC)I was just telling
http://sg-fignewton.livejournal.com/202654.html
My first encounter with songfic was back in 1998 in The X-Files fandom; the movie "Titanic" had just come out Xmas of 1997, and every half-wit Duchovbot fangirl wrote a Mulder/Scully story with "My Heart Will Go On" in it. NOT ENOUGH BRAIN BLEACH.
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Date: 2011-05-09 05:25 am (UTC)If you are looking for Shades of Grey fic in general, this page on Stargatefan.com lists a fair number of them, most of them pretty decent, all of them gen.
I absolutely agree about the NOT ENOUGH BRAIN BLEACH, and I don't even follow X-Files. Ouch!
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Date: 2011-05-09 10:02 am (UTC)Canon tells us Jack does indeed listen to opera (Shades of Grey) and what with Daniel's piano (The Light), we can speculate about what type of music he would play. It is my personal fanon that Daniel is a talented pianist who tends toward the classics but can rip out some boogie-woogie when so pressed.
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Date: 2011-05-09 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-10 07:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-09 07:42 am (UTC)Writing, yes. Reading, no.
I'm an odd beast.
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Date: 2011-05-09 07:54 am (UTC)I'd always assumed that authors listened to instrumental music while writing; my 4 Stargate OST play counts in iTunes are all over 150.
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Date: 2011-05-09 08:34 am (UTC)*reads that back*
Wow, I make him sound like a tart. Good thing he is, then LOL
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Date: 2011-05-09 05:18 pm (UTC)Have you been assigned a beta or cheerleader yet?
OMGOMGOMGFLAILFLAILFLAIL
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Date: 2011-05-09 06:17 pm (UTC)Surveys for Cash
Date: 2011-07-09 08:42 pm (UTC)