The past few days I've been working on pieces for Zines, right now I'm working on a 2nd piece for one that is spicy. The SFW is just about done. And I'm brainstorming for another one.

Via bluedreaming, I came across a fair and very thoughtful post observing the impact AO3 has had on smaller archives, and by extension on fandom-specific communities. I love AO3 and everything it stands for and was born of, and I want it to keep existing. I also see a lot of commentary on the lost feeling of "community" in fandom spaces these days, and this post offers interesting insights into AO3's unfortunate contribution to the trend.

In 2012, for reasons that don't bear exploring at this juncture, I decided to make a list of all of the meta on reccing that I could find. I went through metafandom and I started going through metafandom and I ran out of steam. Every once in a while I'd pick it up again, and I'd, say, go pull more meta data for the links I'd pulled from metafandom. Sometimes I found that those links and entries that I read had since become locked or deleted; I chose to keep those links because I'd read the content there and I knew that I cared about it and maybe, someday, the entry would be accessible again, or, anyway, surely the data I did have meant something; I couldn't make myself delete anything, so there are some dead links in here.

Over my roughly 23 years in fandom, I've witnessed a number of scam artists, grifters, and otherwise bad actors within fandom. I've had the good fortune, but also the wariness and caution, to not be taken in by these people. So today, for my second Fannish50, I'm going to talk about signs of scam artists and other kinds of grifters, gaslighters, and toxic people in fandom that have become apparent to me over the years and have helped me avoid them.

Anon: Hey so I have a question. I asked one of the forensic psychology college professors (i'm a psych major) if l0li/sh0ta counts as cp and she said that it does because even though they are animated depictions, they are meant to represent children. Made me feel weird, what is ur stance on this?

Most of us have gotten used to building tables for the LJ bio field, and have discovered that the DW one doesn't work the same way. So I messed around for a while and came up with some guidelines.

A frontnav-style code inspired by a mix of vapourwave and general old Windows 78, Windows XP-era looks.

This is a test of lots of different mark up you should think about styling. It also uses a nonstandard icon size.

I have this much to say about the whole warnings debate: my feeling is that where one can take steps to be considerate to other people, particularly where that consideration helps people who have an issue in their lives which presents an impediment, those steps should be taken. The details from there are up to the individual but there are guidelines that exist which present a reasonable starting point.

I just submitted my essay about the early FromSoft game Evergrace to my editor at Sidequest. Huzzah!! Let me share some of the reading I did in the process of arguing why it's important for this game to be preserved and documented.

So it occurs to me that, regardless of how the current cycles of "oh wow so the OTW is pretty fucked up internally" shake out (which synonymous is v helpfully collecting for anyone who's lost track of the many threads of discussion) it might be beneficial for us all to work on our abilities to find & share fic via avenues other than Ao3 tags.

if anyone's tried looking for old icon posts on dreamwidth and livejournal, they likely have ran into icons hosted by photobucket. and because photobucket is annoying as all hell, they make it near impossible to save those icons, by slapping watermarks on them, fucking with the urls, and somehow disabling something as simple as ctrl+s to save a fucking image. i've had my workarounds for downloading an icon manually, but downloading an entire batch at once has basically been impossible because of these limitations. but i think i finally figured it out, so i'd like to share how i did it and maybe help other people running into the same problems lol

• Uses Chrome
• Microsoft Excel (desktop)
• Selenium (a plugin that works with Chrome to run scripts) - instructions given on how to download and install
• Does not require membership to the community (but it helps with downloads of community restricted content)
• Will download comments - all threads and all pages
• It works off a free LiveJournal Account, just set your style to Newspaper Theme
• Embedded images are not downloaded but to capture them you can convert the downloaded html pages to PDFs using a batch HTML to PDF converter

Fanfiction has improved many of my writing skills in ways that are directly transferable to original fiction. I wrote a bunch of fanfic in 2019-20 in particular, and I learned a lot from it that I can take with me into any future project no matter whose sandbox I’m playing in.

I didn't really have anything to say for day 9 or 10 but 11 is In your own space, recommend a fannish or creative resource and realized I should have posted my resource links for this challenge as opposed to day 7 (although, I'm proud of them, so I suppose they work for both)

I have a mate who's thinking of venturing into the smutty end of fan fiction writing.

So morgandawn asked me to write up this guide as it may be helpful to people who:

• Create fan art that needs hosting before being able to post on ao3 or other places (images, videos, audio files etc)
• Need a place they can upload those media files that isn't youtube etc where take-downs are automated
• Is the cheapest trustworthy place I can find (like, for a lot of you this might be effectively free)
• Doesn't require training as a sysadmin to set it up
• Allows porn (backblaze just say nothing illegal, bunnyCDN specifically say they allow it as long as it's legal)

Handy-dandy “you wouldn’t X a Y” meme generator, for all your Xing a Y requirements.