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item one: vexing.
so the new inescapable lj feature where all of your comments go into the lj inbox? has effectively broken the inbox for me, since i use it to manage podfic submissions for the archive (via tracker notifications), and now those submissions may as well go to my email inbox instead. they'd be easier to find and sort. i had a workflow! it was working nicely! damn. (i see how making comments dupe into the inbox is good, yes. i just would like a way to turn it off, but preserve emailing them.)(my solution is to move all my podfic tracking to a dummy account, so no comments will come in, and then i will just quit using the lj inbox attached to this account. but still. grrr.)
item two: ingratitude.
aphelant made a beautiful recording of my btvs/sga crossover, sailor's delight. it's so good. it made me cry! i mean, i seem to tear up at the drop of a hat lately, so i'm guessing ymmv. but still. she posted it during 14valentines, and i totally spaced on the idea that she was doing it, then was out of the country, and totally forgot to mention to her that i was afk, and i am more than a little concerned that means she had a little voice in her head for a couple of days, saying, "that jinjur. what a dick!" but i actually got feedback on the story that referenced her post, and that clued me in. phew. also, that means i got to listen to it. her recording is lovely and clear and sad, i really can't say enough about it. also, she made me a cover! :DDDD and cybel made it into a podbook! i am drowning in riches! everyone in the whole world (who listens to podfic) should go download it ( links are in her post) and listen. everyone in the whole world who doesn't listen to podfic should start, jeez.
item three: productivity.
i forgot to mention about how i also managed (already!) to do some stuff this year!
- my writing has already topped last year in quality (and i suspect overall wordcount, which is pretty sad, but i am not counting the j sheppard story that i am creeping along on, since i only managed to write about half of it last year. it will be finished this year, i swear. grrr j sheppard you weirdo pls behave.) i wrote my very first comment fic! and also my very first interspecies het love triangle fic! it doesn't have a title yet, and i haven't worked through the beta that ms phela has been kind enough to do on it yet, but those will come. it's here: untitled sga sam/sam kissing fic.
- podficcery.
for 14valentines, i posted:
- appellathon! raz0rgirl and i are running the in-a-name multifandom thingathon. we got like seven billion awesome prompts (though we are prompts-optional! we just think prompts are fun.), and have an active resource wiki for participants, and now i am having thinky thoughts about prompts as a type of stand-alone fanwork. instead of writing my fic for the fest. sigh.
- amplificathon! raz0rgirl and i are also gearing up to run the second year of the amplificathon multifandom points-based podfic creation festival! (note: i will either figure out a way to allow volunteers to do uploads to the archive before the posting period, or i will be having a nervous breakdown sometime in late april. fair warning.)
- otw stuff. i have been doing some. :D details later.
so the new inescapable lj feature where all of your comments go into the lj inbox? has effectively broken the inbox for me, since i use it to manage podfic submissions for the archive (via tracker notifications), and now those submissions may as well go to my email inbox instead. they'd be easier to find and sort. i had a workflow! it was working nicely! damn. (i see how making comments dupe into the inbox is good, yes. i just would like a way to turn it off, but preserve emailing them.)(my solution is to move all my podfic tracking to a dummy account, so no comments will come in, and then i will just quit using the lj inbox attached to this account. but still. grrr.)
item two: ingratitude.
aphelant made a beautiful recording of my btvs/sga crossover, sailor's delight. it's so good. it made me cry! i mean, i seem to tear up at the drop of a hat lately, so i'm guessing ymmv. but still. she posted it during 14valentines, and i totally spaced on the idea that she was doing it, then was out of the country, and totally forgot to mention to her that i was afk, and i am more than a little concerned that means she had a little voice in her head for a couple of days, saying, "that jinjur. what a dick!" but i actually got feedback on the story that referenced her post, and that clued me in. phew. also, that means i got to listen to it. her recording is lovely and clear and sad, i really can't say enough about it. also, she made me a cover! :DDDD and cybel made it into a podbook! i am drowning in riches! everyone in the whole world (who listens to podfic) should go download it ( links are in her post) and listen. everyone in the whole world who doesn't listen to podfic should start, jeez.
item three: productivity.
i forgot to mention about how i also managed (already!) to do some stuff this year!
- my writing has already topped last year in quality (and i suspect overall wordcount, which is pretty sad, but i am not counting the j sheppard story that i am creeping along on, since i only managed to write about half of it last year. it will be finished this year, i swear. grrr j sheppard you weirdo pls behave.) i wrote my very first comment fic! and also my very first interspecies het love triangle fic! it doesn't have a title yet, and i haven't worked through the beta that ms phela has been kind enough to do on it yet, but those will come. it's here: untitled sga sam/sam kissing fic.
- podficcery.
for 14valentines, i posted:
- annakovsky's a critique of pure reason (btvs/lotrps/meta crossover epic with a choice of three endings - crazily fun to read) here
- resonant8's teeth of the hydra (due south fraser/kowalski, with bonus deleted scene and sequel) here
- astolat's the dark side (sga mckay/sheppard (star wars au)) here
- trinityofone's as well as valor (sga mckay/omc, mckay/sheppard) here
- annakovsky's i am a stranger here, i am not permanent (harry potter/lotrps ron/dom crossover) here
- covers for a critique... and teeth... (ver 1, ver 2).
- appellathon! raz0rgirl and i are running the in-a-name multifandom thingathon. we got like seven billion awesome prompts (though we are prompts-optional! we just think prompts are fun.), and have an active resource wiki for participants, and now i am having thinky thoughts about prompts as a type of stand-alone fanwork. instead of writing my fic for the fest. sigh.
- amplificathon! raz0rgirl and i are also gearing up to run the second year of the amplificathon multifandom points-based podfic creation festival! (note: i will either figure out a way to allow volunteers to do uploads to the archive before the posting period, or i will be having a nervous breakdown sometime in late april. fair warning.)
- otw stuff. i have been doing some. :D details later.