Consonants and vowels all together, equally

SO.

I am very nearly ready to start posting my sequel to EWFS and I'm trying to figure out how to do that. Not where, but how; the where will be the usual LJ/DW/AO3, plus FA and Fire and Ice, and crossposted to the deamus and the HH comms on LJ.*

The how, though. The sequel is about 56,000 words long in 10 chapters plus a 7000 word interstitial story that bridges EWFS and the sequel. I can't decide if I want to draw this thing out in parts, perhaps two chapters or so a week, or just give it to everyone in a lump. At the end it will be on AO3 in downloadable form, so there's that, but I can't decide if people like things in pieces or sort of hate them. And given that the fic is entirely completed now it could be posted all-at-once (you know, save the space restrictions).

Which of course means I'm making a poll! As some of you aren't into DW (sadface!) and/or making an open id, I'm putting the poll on both LJ and DW. (So yes, you can vote twice if you really want to, haha!) Oh, and I'm sneaking another question in there, too.



Thanks all!

*I am not posting to Portkey because I didn't find posting EWFS there last year to be a good experience, sadly. I got a lot of slash hate in my comments, even though I warned for slash, partially because I didn't warn specifically for the background Percy/Oliver and Sirius/Remus, and partly because people are jerks. It makes me sad because back in the Pumpkin Pie days, H/Hr was a very slash-friendly ship. I got very few anti-slash comments on my fic at FictionAlley, and this was back in 2002 when people warned for slash pretty regularly. I'm not going to take it down because whatever, but I'm not posting anything else there. If any of you H/Hr folks has another place to suggest, I'm all ears!

So I'm ... going to Dragon*Con?

Yeah, clearly I'm surprised, too. I'm modding this comm, some of the other mods talked about going, and it snowballed. Most of the $$ will be the plane ticket. (Damn Jet Blue not flying to Atlanta!) (And I finally understand why everyone was like, "damn HP cons are expensive" because $80? Seriously?) I'm currently all about that Independent Film track. Anyway, yeah, let me know if you're going.

Meanwhile I'm thinking about doing this post about how Danny Williams is pinging the same spot in my heart that Leonard McCoy does. I'm generally pretty shy about talking about this sort of thing on LJ because I'm very self-conscious of the ways in which I don't do it like most fangirls, that is, it really isn't physical and all about the photos and all of that. In real life as well as in fannish life, I'm attracted to personalities very strongly, but looks I don't care about that much. It's a fandom: ur doin it wrong moment for me, so I don't talk about it often, but I'm trying not to be quite so reticent.



Semi-crossposted due to the poll. You can vote here or in this entry on LJ.

ziggy1278 gave me his old 1G iphone when he got his new one, and I've been using it as an ipod touch for a little over a year now. My phone is dying and I'm due for a new one anyway (I have AT&T) and I'm trying to decide if I should activate this phone or just get a new free one.

Reasons why not:
1) It's a 1G and old, so it's super slow and kind of lame.
2) I don't think I've used it as an ipod touch to it's ultimate capacity. I only have one program on it (Stanza) and mostly use it to read ebooks and listen to music, and occasionally take pictures and check my mail when I can. Oh, and bring recipes into the kitchen.
3) My phone bill will be higher with the data plan.

Reasons why:
1) I'll only have to carry around one device, instead of my iphone AND my phone. And when the phone rings and I have my headphones on I'll still hear it.
2) Ring tones for people! Texting will be easier. I can send pictures on twitter or whatever.
3) Hey data plan, so I won't have to wander the earth looking for wifi hot spots.

Okay, the poll won't work with a crosspost, so they'll have to be separate. I'll link in a bit.

So I have a lot of writing that I'll be posting in the coming year: Fics that were never posted on this journal (mostly exchange fics), I do want to put EWFS here, and I have three chaptered fics coming soon. I decided against a fic journal, even with all this volume, because this is a fannish/media journal only, already, and besides, fics are cut and make for short and easily-skippable entries.

I'll have enough to post a fic or a chapter a week probably for all of 2009; at least, that's the goal right now. So my question is, which day should I choose? Friday-Saturday-Sunday are out for weekend reasons. Tuesday is out because of Idol recaps/polls. I'm worried about Monday because it might be a skimming-catch up day, but I'm going to put it in the poll anyway. Personally I like Thursday mostly because I don't teach that day, and so can do all my coding in the morning.

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Thanks!

Friends, I've been wondering about a few things, and I thought I might put up a poll. I'm not sure your answers to said poll will make me feel better--it's probably more my own neuroses that are making it tricky to put these issues into perspective--but hey, there's always trying.

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Thanks!

A meme and a poll.

Girly meme, totally stolen from longtimegone because I need to spend a few minutes not contemplating the urbanization of Paris during the Second Empire.

( 18/99, so not particularly girly, no )

A small discussion on a friend's LJ leads me to ask these questions:
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Thanks!

To bring you up to date, in the last couple of weeks since I left my mother's house in Maine I:

• Hung out on Cape Cod with ali_wildgoose and emsariel
  
• Went to theoblack and blackholly's awesome New Year's party, which was followed by a gift exchange with good friends
  
• Saw Evil Dead the Musical with bhanesidhe and her friend Simon (Val, he does have an LJ, right?)

I know I haven't been posting much over the past two months, which is mostly due to a horrible case of writer's block that has metastasized from schoolwork to fic to LJ posts to emails. I have thoughts but I keep stopping before I actually write them down. The rants you have been spared in the past two months include( race and geekiness, sexuality and slash, hegemony and fandom power, and gender and humor. )

As you can probably see, one of my ongoing issues with this journal is what its purpose is and who its audience is/should be. Most of you that I've friended are old pals from HP days, not to say that I've left those days behind because I very much haven't. But this journal has been about more than HP for quite a while now, and also hasn't been about my personal life since I created a personal LJ and decided that I wanted jlh to be as free of f-locked posts as I could make it. Also, I really don't want to post about school, and school eats my head on a fairly frequent basis. Not to mention that posts about my academic work not only would make everyone's eyes roll back in their head, but also feel inappropriate for this space (not to mention a little too personally identifiable).

For about a year now, I've been posting a lot about television and movies, which is fine, except that I'm not sure that other than American Idol I'm watching the TV y'all are watching, because I'm not a SF TV fan. ( An apologetic note about not liking speculative fiction, and not having an inner twelve-year-old boy. ) Now, this isn't about comments, because we none of us comment on everything that we liked reading, but more a vague sense that not a lot of you are watching Top Chef or Studio 60 and while everything I write isn't going to be profound I don't want to end up off the filter because I'm yammering on about not much. Also, you know, you just sort of get out of the habit and then it's like, why would anyone want to hear my thoughts on yaoi, anyway? So anyway, this is an incredibly apologetic post just to clear things out and get myself back in the swing of things, and today I'm going to poke at some fic to see if I can't get the juices flowing again, get kick started, so that sometime next week I will actually be able to, horror of horrors, get some fucking work done around here. I end with a poll, to make myself feel a little better after all that insecurity, and to reward you for sticking around through all of this, because you all rock, whether you ever comment or not. Seriously.
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Now that you've taken it, I'll reveal the real reason for this poll, since it comes down to one question: Do you assume that het shippers are "predictive" shippers? That was the question I was trying to answer. All the rest of the questions were really just demographics. Note that I called "stop" and worked through the numbers yesterday, when overall 240 people had answered the poll.


( Part 1: Shipping. )

( Part B: Canon Predictions? )

( Part III: Discussion )

Huge thanks to everyone who voted and commented. The response was amazing, from all corners of the fandom, and I think really made it a poll that somewhat reflected fandom on LJ. Thanks again!

OMG I miss mistful already and she left two days ago.

So I'm at my freelance job and no one is giving me work and I just ate lunch and there is this big "thing" I'm trying not to think about and my workload from now until the end of the term is massive but do-able. I hate swanning in here and asking for stuff because it ain't that kind of LJ, but I'm sort of bored and not sure what semi-controversial thing I should post about just so I can have a lot of stuff to reply to. So hey, poll!

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The volleyball scene in Top Gun is a lot shorter than I remembered it being, but it still delivers. I wonder if there is some kind of timeline for gratuitous male nudity in popular film or if there is some sort of paper in that. hm.

So I just wrote some slashy smut, and I don't know where to put it, not being an PP member, and I'm thinking, should I start a fic LJ? Are there really people just here for the fic even though I don't post all that often? I mean, I'm working on some sequels for Swingers but that can go on hp_het_kink and erotic_elves; I'm also doing a challenge for erotic_elves, and of course I'm working on the EWFS sequel. On the other hand, a friend whom I know won't vanish (and I know where she lives) has offered me some webspace to post my story at, and there is always skyhawke. (By the way, an R-rated version of the EWFS sequel will be at FA no matter what.) So:

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Thanks again!