Trying and failing to beat back the encroaching forest of open tabs... (Facebook, fandom, & writing)
Seriously, I still have well over 300 tabs open. *cries* Have some links!
First up, a few links about Facebook's recent experiment on manipulating its users' moods, all from
juniperphoenix. Here are three links from NPR and one post by danah boyd (which is the one you should read if you click only one of these links):
--"Facebook Scientists Alter News Feeds, Find Emotions Are Affected By It"
--"Lab Rats, One And All: That Unsettling Facebook Experiment": "Even assuming it's legal, though, and ethical, I speak here as a Facebook user and straight from the heart: It's gross. It's gross. There are people who can't afford to be made to feel very much worse than they already do; there are people at all times who are existing pretty close to the line between OK and not OK, and more who are existing pretty close to the line between somewhat not OK and really not OK. There's every chance that this experiment, predictably and as intended, took a depressed person somewhere and made it harder for him or her to get up. There's every chance that somebody went for a quick dose of distraction because of a breakup or a job loss or a death or a simple setback and didn't get it, because it was denied to them on purpose, just to see what would happen. / And by the same token, there's every chance that somebody had a bad day, posted about it, and didn't get the support they might have expected from a friend because that friend was having all that negativity hidden from them and never saw the post. Just to see what would happen."
--"Facebook Manipulates Our Moods For Science And Commerce: A Roundup"
--danah boyd: "What does the Facebook experiment teach us? "
copracat has an additional roundup of links on Facebook's experiment.
I'm trying to classify links as I file them for posting, so this batch is everything I have under "Fandom and Writing":
seanan_mcguire posted "Let's Talk About Fanfic".
melannen posted "Ten Simple Ways To Get More Attention For Your Fanwork", which is what it says on the tin.
Over at The Mary Sue, a video interview: "Lena Headey Gave An Interview As Drunk Cersei, And It Was Glorious".
Via Twitter, "'Cards Against Humanity' Co-Creator Publicly Apologizes for Transphobic Card". Turns out CAH has been periodically removing and replacing cards from the standard deck here and there: "'We talk about the idea of 'punching up, not punching down' all the time,' Temkin said. 'It's something that we stand behind: making fun of those power structures, because they're already powerful. Making jokes about rapes, making jokes about trans people, they don't have the same cultural power.'"
frith_in_thorns posted "Affliction"--Toby/Tybalt (October Daye) "h/c floof", and it is adorable. *^^*
Via Twitter, I think, YA author Paula Stokes wrote "Don't Lose Yourself". "These days I’m pretty sure I’m addicted to writing. No big deal, right? There are way worse things to be addicted to. Except that writing will eat your whole soul, if you let it. It will consume you from the inside out. Your writing highs will become the best moments of your life. Your rejections will become your crushing lows. And then, without even realizing it, you might lose the ability to separate yourself from your work."
Definitely via Twitter,
toricentanni posted "How to Work Your Day Job, Write Novels, and Not Lose Your Mind".
This is not new, and possibly I've linked it before, but when Pacific Rim 2 got confirmed the other day
shiroiko reminded me about Sarah Rees Brennan's write-up of Pacific Rim, and I just reread it and laughed all over again, so...there it is.
On Tumblr, a masterpost of someone's favorite Avengers headcanons, "mainly starring Clint". *g*
I know literally nothing about Dominion other than what's in this post at
tv_talk, and am kind of alarmed that the post is the first I've heard of it, given that Anthony Stewart Head is in a show about a war between angels. O_o
Via
yifu, some new character posters for the live-action Rurouni Kenshin.
mrissa, in writing up her June reading, mentioned reading Midnight Blue-Light Special and a piece of writing advice (sort of) from seanan_mcguire: "While on the Fourth Street writers’ seminar with Seanan I got promised werewolf rabies if I stick with this series, complete with Seanan actually getting to dissect rabid brains as research. This is a pretty good promise to dangle in front of a Mris, I have to say, and “start with unusual elements like the waheela, so that when you move on to werewolves, readers trust that you will do something unusual and interesting with them” is really quite good writing advice; people should take it to heart.
Via Scalzi on Twitter, "Ten Reasons To Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (or, Go Team Writers)".
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/532725.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
First up, a few links about Facebook's recent experiment on manipulating its users' moods, all from
juniperphoenix. Here are three links from NPR and one post by danah boyd (which is the one you should read if you click only one of these links):
--"Facebook Scientists Alter News Feeds, Find Emotions Are Affected By It"
--"Lab Rats, One And All: That Unsettling Facebook Experiment": "Even assuming it's legal, though, and ethical, I speak here as a Facebook user and straight from the heart: It's gross. It's gross. There are people who can't afford to be made to feel very much worse than they already do; there are people at all times who are existing pretty close to the line between OK and not OK, and more who are existing pretty close to the line between somewhat not OK and really not OK. There's every chance that this experiment, predictably and as intended, took a depressed person somewhere and made it harder for him or her to get up. There's every chance that somebody went for a quick dose of distraction because of a breakup or a job loss or a death or a simple setback and didn't get it, because it was denied to them on purpose, just to see what would happen. / And by the same token, there's every chance that somebody had a bad day, posted about it, and didn't get the support they might have expected from a friend because that friend was having all that negativity hidden from them and never saw the post. Just to see what would happen."
--"Facebook Manipulates Our Moods For Science And Commerce: A Roundup"
--danah boyd: "What does the Facebook experiment teach us? "
copracat has an additional roundup of links on Facebook's experiment.
I'm trying to classify links as I file them for posting, so this batch is everything I have under "Fandom and Writing":
seanan_mcguire posted "Let's Talk About Fanfic".
melannen posted "Ten Simple Ways To Get More Attention For Your Fanwork", which is what it says on the tin.
Over at The Mary Sue, a video interview: "Lena Headey Gave An Interview As Drunk Cersei, And It Was Glorious".
Via Twitter, "'Cards Against Humanity' Co-Creator Publicly Apologizes for Transphobic Card". Turns out CAH has been periodically removing and replacing cards from the standard deck here and there: "'We talk about the idea of 'punching up, not punching down' all the time,' Temkin said. 'It's something that we stand behind: making fun of those power structures, because they're already powerful. Making jokes about rapes, making jokes about trans people, they don't have the same cultural power.'"
frith_in_thorns posted "Affliction"--Toby/Tybalt (October Daye) "h/c floof", and it is adorable. *^^*
Via Twitter, I think, YA author Paula Stokes wrote "Don't Lose Yourself". "These days I’m pretty sure I’m addicted to writing. No big deal, right? There are way worse things to be addicted to. Except that writing will eat your whole soul, if you let it. It will consume you from the inside out. Your writing highs will become the best moments of your life. Your rejections will become your crushing lows. And then, without even realizing it, you might lose the ability to separate yourself from your work."
Definitely via Twitter,
toricentanni posted "How to Work Your Day Job, Write Novels, and Not Lose Your Mind".
This is not new, and possibly I've linked it before, but when Pacific Rim 2 got confirmed the other day
shiroiko reminded me about Sarah Rees Brennan's write-up of Pacific Rim, and I just reread it and laughed all over again, so...there it is.
On Tumblr, a masterpost of someone's favorite Avengers headcanons, "mainly starring Clint". *g*
I know literally nothing about Dominion other than what's in this post at
tv_talk, and am kind of alarmed that the post is the first I've heard of it, given that Anthony Stewart Head is in a show about a war between angels. O_o
Via
yifu, some new character posters for the live-action Rurouni Kenshin.
mrissa, in writing up her June reading, mentioned reading Midnight Blue-Light Special and a piece of writing advice (sort of) from seanan_mcguire: "While on the Fourth Street writers’ seminar with Seanan I got promised werewolf rabies if I stick with this series, complete with Seanan actually getting to dissect rabid brains as research. This is a pretty good promise to dangle in front of a Mris, I have to say, and “start with unusual elements like the waheela, so that when you move on to werewolves, readers trust that you will do something unusual and interesting with them” is really quite good writing advice; people should take it to heart.
Via Scalzi on Twitter, "Ten Reasons To Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (or, Go Team Writers)".
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/532725.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: