I was talking on discord with
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• If you have an Android phone you can turn on the flashlight by hitting the mic button/saying "OK Google" and then saying "Lumos!" And of course, it turns off with "Nox!". This pleases my geeky little heart! (via a Facebook friend, who I know from fandom :-)
• Speaking of Facebook, I am loving the "secret" group Pantsuit Nation. It's a support group ( Read more... )

It is hard for me to have More Joy today, as Alan Rickman's death casts a very long shadow across my fannish life. Which, incidentally, started only slightly more than thirteen years ago. January 8th 2003 is the date I created my fannish livejournal. I learned about this type of fandom* in late 2002. I'd been living on a sailboat and thus only ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS! It's DONE!

The All-Atlantis Quidditch Tournament (13271 words) by
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I decided not to sign up for Remix (though I'm on the pinch-hitters list), but I'm still hoping to do
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Festathons! Lots of them! Whee!

1. I have signed up for ( Read more... )

The photo meme won in my meme me poll, but then ltlj posted something about the evils of hotlinking and I thought, hmm, maybe I should save all the photos I find and put them on my scrapbook before posting, but it just seems like so much trouble to go to. Besides, I am still dithering on my favorite drink. Clearly, I should have memed while the meme- ( Read more... )

I got a lovely be-tentacled Valentine's Day card from slidellra, hooray! And I'm touched to have been mentioned by a few people in svmadelyn's Valentine's Day thingy.

A couple of interesting things that are sort of tangentially related to Canada (which I dig):

Thanks to kaiz for pointing me to Rockstar Curling - NBC has an option on a reality show in which musicians ( Read more... )

For reasons which probably don't need exploring at this juncture I've been thinking (for a very long time, now; I promised to write about this last year) about names. Namely (heh): first names and last names, and the usage of each in fic.

There are three issues on my mind, which are only tangentially related: what name the POV character uses in ( Read more... )

After discussing drabbles with angiepen, I got the yen to revisit some of my old HP drabbles from hp100, so I spent twenty minutes or so happily re-reading (and in some cases, cringing); then I looked at my flist, and no doubt by utter coincidence at the very top was a post by bethbethbeth pointing to the (Harry Potter) Final Word Drabble Challenge, in which the final word ( Read more... )