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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)
Written for a prompt that I liked on the ffxvi_kink_meme. It really played with what I like about their dynamic.
Written for the "ghost" prompt over at spook_me. As I was writing this I realized this was more inline with my big Dion character study project and decided to cut this story down to a sweeter size. This could be a companion fic to Visiting Statues. Post-game.
Four heroes, each bearing a crystal, come to Coneria, and it goes about as well as you'd expect.
He felt their presence more than he saw them, the warmth breath, the mournful moans, the shape of Zamazenta, the push of Zacian’s snout against his arm.
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.
A few days ago I created a custom mood theme, but it took me a little while to figure out how to create a custom theme without having to copy & past hundreds of links... I'm probably not the only one experiencing this problem, so I thought I could share my newly acquired skills with other Dreamwidth:ers ^^
Inspired by a encyclopaedic page for phosphophyllite I saw once.
14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture
"I can't speak French," announced pop group Girls Aloud in 2008, "Je ne parle pas Français," for the more educated amongst us. Like Girls Aloud, I also cannot speak French, and like any other English person, I am haunted by the spectre of French sophistication, by Françoise Hardy, by France Gall, by Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Isabelle Huppert—wow, that's quite a dark summation of French pop culture I've laid out before you. Regardless, I do not speak French, and yet long had I been aware that France, during the '80s and the '90s, received a lot more releases of things I came to love during that period also—in fact, my first encounter with the Sailor V manga was in collected French editions that a friend sent me, because, at the point, no one here had considered that a girl and her cat fighting diamond thieves and monsters might appeal to children. This is a long, rambling way of telling you that recently I made the decision to re-watch one of my favourite sentai shows, Chojuu Sentai Liveman, and decided to spice things up by watching the French dub. In doing so, I discovered the world of French pop star, Dorothée, and Club Dorothée.