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(I have recalled that one can title posts and that once upon a time I did that more frequently xD should get into the habit again, it's fun)

1.
The storm will be rolling in today (probably snowfall starting late morning/noontime), with projected snowfall of over a foot, heaviest in the late evening/early night.

It is unlikely that I will be working tomorrow, based on this. It was one of the big things folk were talking about on Friday! "Do you think you'll make it in on Monday?" on everyone's lips, and the answer was usually "idk, depends on the plows/roads" with a side of "it'd be cool if the work site shut down though, then we could just relax and not think about it". [ETA: Foreman sent out a text saying that we indeed are not working tomorrow "Stay safe, enjoy the weekend, GO PATRIOTS", because obvs everyone also needs to care about Patriots vs uh I think Broncos...? tbh I'd be cheering for the Broncos but really I simply do not care about football enough for that. xD]

New England is pretty good about dealing with snow, so I'm not particularly worried about the storm. Got grocery shopping done ahead of time, I live in an apartment that's fairly well insulated, etc. Shouldn't need to go anywhere until the snow has stopped and the streets are clear.

(A police car just drove slowly down the street, siren on, for the purpose of annoying the people who left their cars on the wrong side of the street into moving said cars to places that abide by the parking ban. I expect that in another hour I might see tow trucks if they haven't. This doesn't happen for normal snow bans—the plows just go around them and leave them a bit buried in snow—but, well, this storm is RATHER BIG and I see why the city would rather that not happen.)

2.
At work on Friday, end of the day, I was about to wrap up when the back door for one of the elevators opened (this is the one that we Do Not Use) and the woman who operates it stuck her head out and was like "I haven't seen you at all today! How're you doing?" at me.

I proceeded to have a Very Normal Conversation with her and then, after she left, my coworker/cohortmate was like "were you FLIRTING with her?" and I was like "No??? Just because you (probably) do doesn't mean I am?"

however upon further review I'm like "yeah no the way I interact with her absolutely could be read as flirting" and also a bit "huh she did not need to start that conversation at ALL", so, you know. (I am not opposed to flirting with her, she's cute, I'm just. too aro for this. xD in a "flirting is fun but it's not going to be serious" way.)

(also there's a bit of me going "god if I'm gonna have cute women flirt with me I want them to be queer, and I present as a dude at work in a way that means I do not expect people to realise I'm not cis/that a woman flirting with me should be a queer act" with this. like. I pass. I do not really care to and in some ways do not wish to, but it sure is useful/safe to know that to most people I'm just another dude working at a construction site.)

3.
At class on Wednesday night (I do not like evening classes! never have!) I was bored for like... all of class... because I already understood what we were going to be doing (I knew this from the week before). Which meant I was drawing, because Why Not. Pencil and paper, that day, because it was a practical class and having a sketchbook out was simpler than having a tablet out.

The teacher, when he came over to be like "so you're bored", was like "nice art", and then one of my classmates was like "wait, is this what you do during class all the time? I thought you were taking notes. you're good!" and another was like "dang, why didn't you go to art school?"

It's... odd. I do not think about my art as particularly good, due to having friends who do art at a (semi)pro level and following a lot of pro artists' work. But yes, objectively I am a Skilled Hobbyist? I can generally draw things that look like what I want to draw? If I focused on practice (especially doing life drawing studies) I'd get better faster but... I'm still pretty good at this, yeah.

Anyway during class yesterday I took the design I was working out on Wednesday ("that looks like Nami from League of Legends", one classmate said, which I do not think is true except for the "looks like a water-person" aspects, but that's sweet anyway.) and drew him out in color to see the design better.

At some point I will name him (his baby name is Sunshine, I think, but that's not his name) and he only exists as a baby/child during the timeline as currently established, though I drew him as an adult, and I still need to write the story about his parents (and when they accidentally conceive him) but hey, here's my pretty boy who's even quarters of dragon/orc/triton/elf. xD (mild nsfw? no clothes but also no detailed genitals and no intended sexiness.)

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4.
My friend and I have started watching The Story of Yanxi Palace, one of

tavina's recs, and we are delighted by it. Mostly we're pointing at Our Protagonist (Wei Yingluo) going "THE AUTISM OF IT ALL" (occasionally going "haha she and Maomao [The Apothecary Diaries] would be so fun to watch interact"). We're also going "look at this bitch! (positive)" about Noble Consort Gao, wanting good things for Empress Fuca, and contemplating how bored Emperor Qianlong seems while bemoaning Qing Dynasty Men's Hair. (He has a very nice smile! He looks good bald! Except then we see his hair and sigh loudly.)

We're only three episodes in and Yingluo has already caused so much chaos and trouble. It's great. This is such a wildly different vibe from the last show we watched (The Story of Minglan), but both shows are gorgeous and care so much about MATERIAL GOODS and this one in particular is set in a SPECIFIC TIME in such a way that one could in fact look up more about the styles of dress and meaning of earrings/hairstyles/etc.

5.
I thought I had another thing xD uhhhhh some rapid-fire stuff since apparently I don't want single-paragraph sections otherwise:

a.
Still slowly watching ST:DSC. xD s3e4 was a meditation on how Trill work now and how Adira is a very cute character but also very much A Teen and meant to be relatable to teens more than me, an adult. More interested by how Discovery has a personality and watching the bridge crew (plus Georgiou) have a dinner party that goes bad and then make up with each other. And Michael not following strict Starfleet protocol.

b.
Reminded myself, this week, of the difference between talking on the phone for "migraine means I can't look at screens but I am BORED and I wanna talk to you" reasons vs "I am awake and wanna hang out with you but there's stuff I gotta do that requires my body but hey I can talk on the phone while I do that" reasons. It's a lot nicer when one's a person and not a lump, oddly! One feels a lot more like they're participating equally in the conversation that way! Wow! Such surprise!

c.
The remix event (

seasonalremix) that

hafnia and I are running got SEVEN WHOLE SIGNUPS (including the two of us), which is tbh pretty good for the first time we're doing the event and how it's a rather atypical sign-up/event structure (and that we weren't promoing it particularly hard). It's a good number for hand-matching, too, since there's variety but not an overwhelming amount of data to sift through. Excited to see how it'll shake out!

d.
I wanna work more on writing Rhei and Ames' story (since, y'know, I now know what their son is gonna look like :P), and as part of that have started writing down my mental outline/figuring out a timeline. Might post excerpts here as I write, once I get to actually writing? It's fun sharing things as I go! And also with dw I do not need to worry about character limits the way I sharing bits with friends on discord. xD

rionaleonhart

Having slid rapidly from 'enthusing about my new favourite show' to 'outright propaganda', I've written a Goes Wrong Show primer for

tv_talk. I thought I'd crosspost it here, in case anyone wants a general overview of my latest obsession, although I suspect my posts over the last month have already conveyed a lot of this!

If anyone's in the mood for something silly and fun, I'd like to recommend The Goes Wrong Show, which I discovered recently and absolutely fell in love with.

What is The Goes Wrong Show?

If you've heard of The Play That Goes Wrong, this comedy series is from the same theatre company, Mischief Theatre. Every thirty-minute episode is a new short play, performed by the determined but deeply unfortunate Cornley Drama Society. Every play goes as wrong as humanly possible.

In addition to being very funny, the plays are startlingly impressive technical achievements. These are genuine stage plays being filmed in front of a live audience, and making things 'go wrong' convincingly requires incredible pinpoint timing. So much hard work goes into messing everything up; it must be so much trickier than performing a play that goes right!

If you like Taskmaster, you might also enjoy this; they have a similar sense of people desperately struggling on with their mission while everything falls apart around them.

( Character overview below the cut. )

Where can I watch The Goes Wrong Show?

There's a good chance you'll be able to watch it at no cost! If you're in the UK, it's on BBC iPlayer (or DVD, if you don't have a television licence).

If you're outside the UK, I believe The Goes Wrong Show is officially available for free on the Lionsgate YouTube channel. As the videos are blocked for me, it's hard for me to check (let me know if it doesn't seem like the right link!), but I think this YouTube playlist should have all twelve episodes. I've heard from a couple of people based in the US that it's also on Amazon Prime there.

If I only ever watch one episode of this show, which would you recommend?

I love the whole show, and I think the first-listed episode ('The Spirit of Christmas') is a solid starting point. If you only ever watch one, though, the episode '90 Degrees' is a genuinely insane, extraordinary feat of performance. If you're wondering, they're not using CGI; they actually did that.

cornerofmadness

so my brain doesn't spiral out thinking about yet another ICE murder which is bad enough but it's the entire Trump admin (him included) trying to paint the victims as the violent aggressors. He had a legal carrier permit (which is something the right loves until they don't apparently) And what good does FBI resignations do when all that leaves is Trump's minions?

Or the fact that my student loans want me to slam my head into a wall. I tried to pay them last night and I had to update my account. I didn't want the multfactorial verification be a text because I often can't get texts here. I selected Email but it doesn't work. And doesn't work. And doesn't work. Okay fine I'll do text. I can't change it without calling them. I call today only to find out they don't work weekends. HOW are people who work all day expected to call you? Fine, I'll call next week but I gotta pay now. Phone option it is. I try that. and it keeps trying to delete my bank account. It takes me calling back and going thru it all four times before it works.

So what IS positive?

Well it's going on midnight but it's not snowing yet. (with my luck it means the power will go out over night. I can not leave it this hot in here and sleep. Ugh. I have it hot so it'll take longer to cool if I DO lose power)

Since it wasn't snowing I pay for the online Abney Park Dark Academia concert with like 20 minutes before it airs. It was actually really good. He's getting good at creating storylines for his concerts.

I had orange/peach ketel one vodka/St Germaine elderflower martinis with a twist of orange not lemon because of the infused vodka. Yum. I put all my liquor on the porch so it was icy. that was nice.

I made a call to my college friend who lost her dad about two weeks ago. I think I need to call more often. As with ELD who I talk to often, there is just something nice about actually talking to people.

I was able to cook off all the things I wanted to. The one mistake was the Aldi's struesel which I cooked to the package instructions to the least time suggested. Mom was right. I should have done less heat, longer cook. The outside had begun to burn, the goo came out but the inside puff pastry is near to raw. On the other hand it IS tasty and I would get this for company (and cook it lower and slower)

I finished the class work. I need to clean tomorrow if I have power. Here's hoping. (I suspect no one is going to work on Monday anywhere east of Kansad)

I forgot to share my story yesterday so have it now.

Title: Wake Up Your Dream

Summary: Emotional hurt and drained, Angel escapes to the carousel outside the hotel. Heaven is going to be barred to him, he just knows it. He’ll never see Molly again. What is even the point? He’s ready to give up but his friends have a different idea.

Rating: teen

Notes:Written for the allbingo prompt of Sing You Sinners and the lyrical titles bingo prompt of Lyric with "sleep" or "wake". I chose Wake Up by Julie and the Phantoms
Also written for spikesgirl58’s 6 word challenge. The 6 words were Subway, Proposal, Carpet, Priority, Nap, & Spend

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And it's Science Saturday

Arctic blast probably won't cause trees to explode in the cold — but here's what happens if and when they do go boom since this was clickbait all over the place this week, here is what it is.

Scientists may be approaching a 'fundamental breakthrough in cosmology and particle physics' — if dark matter and 'ghost particles' can interact

'Pain sponge' derived from stem cells could soak up pain signals before they reach the brain this would be game changing

2,400-year-old Hercules shrine and elite tombs discovered outside ancient Rome's walls

Medieval 'super ship' found wrecked off Denmark is largest vessel of its kind

'Goddess of dawn': James Webb telescope spies one of the oldest supernovas in the early universe
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cosmic-ring-cosmology-principle?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-ushttps://cornerofmadness.dreamwidth.org/2190354.html"> A massive cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption about the universe

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rionaleonhart

For each of my major fandoms, I do a short writeup talking about how it fits into my fandom history. A fandom qualifies as 'major' if I've written five fics for it, or ten thousand words across at least three fics.

I don't think the latest addition is going to be a surprise to anyone.

The Goes Wrong Show

I can pinpoint exactly when The Goes Wrong Show first happened to me. It was the sixth of December, 2025; I was thirty-seven. I was at my parents' house to see some relatives who were visiting.

My fifteen-year-old cousin, H, had removed himself from the socialisation and was watching a Minecraft video on the television in the sitting room. I asked if I could read in the room while he watched television; I thought that'd be a nice, low-pressure way for us to hang out. He switched from Minecraft videos to an episode of The Goes Wrong Show: "You'd probably like this more."

I've been aware of the existence of The Play That Goes Wrong for a long time; it's hard not to be if you're a Londoner! If you've lived in London at any point in the last decade, or if a visit has ever brought you to the West End, chances are that you've seen posters for it at Tube stations. I remember the evocative name caught my eye when it first started showing up.

My friend RD had seen The Play That Goes Wrong years ago and said it was hilarious, so it had stuck in my mind as something that was probably good fun, even if I had no actual plans to see it. I'd never heard of The Goes Wrong Show, but I realised instantly, from the style of the logo, that it was related to The Play That Goes Wrong, so I was interested to see what it was like!

The episode H put on was 'The Lodge'. As I had anticipated, it showed actors putting on a play - in this case a ghost story - and that play going wrong in every possible way. My main initial impressions:

a) this is very silly
b) this is pretty fun
c) there's a lot of genuinely impressive effort and skill on display; this is an actual stage play being filmed in front of a live audience, and it must take such precise timing to make things 'go wrong' correctly
d) who is that man?????

The man in question was the creepy owner of the haunted lodge. He was compelling! He was hot! He was loud and weird and ridiculous! At one point he got knocked out by a vase falling on his head, and somehow that only made him more attractive to me; it was such a well-done piece of physical comedy.

At one point H's mother, S, came into the room and saw we were watching The Goes Wrong Show. 'Oh, it's Robert,' she commented, when the man I was so fascinated by happened to be on screen.

S explained that the character of Robert had also been in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, which she had seen on stage. I'd originally assumed that the concept of this show was just 'a play goes wrong' without any kind of story behind it, and I was surprised and interested to discover that the 'actors' involved were actually consistent characters across the different plays.

'He's very good,' I said, enraptured.

After 'The Lodge' had finished, we also watched the episode '90 Degrees', at S's request. It had less screentime for Robert, alas, but it was an absolutely extraordinary technical achievement, improved even further by the fact that S's mother had now joined us and was absolutely losing it laughing.

So I'd now seen two episodes of The Goes Wrong Show! I'd enjoyed them, but I didn't carry on with the show straight away. Shamefully, what drove me to watch more wasn't actually the comedy; it was the fact that I found myself idly thinking about Robert while I walked down the street. I just wanted to see more of that bizarre handsome weirdo.

The show is on BBC iPlayer, and I couldn't watch it at home because we don't have a television licence, so I tried out another episode when I next visited my parents. And then another. And another, and another. And then I ordered every Goes Wrong DVD I could get my hands on, and then I started buying theatre tickets, and that's how we've ended up here. I'm so sorry.

Favourite character: who could it beeeeeeee (it's Robert, of course it's Robert, why do I have such a weakness for a large man with a loud and aggressive persona) (shut the FUCK up, Freud, I don't want to hear your opinion)
Favourite pairing: Robert/Chris. Their dynamic is just so fascinatingly weird. They're friends! They're enemies! They're bizarrely obsessed with each other! Robert has slept with Chris's mother! Chris has kissed Robert's sister! Robert has repeatedly attempted to incapacitate Chris in an effort to steal a role from him! Robert wrote Chris a role specifically designed to humiliate him, but also included a scene in which his own character and Chris's connect and find common ground! What's wrong with them?? I have no idea, but it's great.
Number of words written: 9,763 on my main AO3 account, plus about 3,000 words' worth of fills for the Three-Sentence Ficathon.

Snippet: I've finished most of the things I've started for the Goes Wrong series, but here's a silly little snippet that probably won't go anywhere.

( The Goes Wrong Show unfinished snippet, Chris and Annie, 2026. )

cornerofmadness

It was a good day. I actually slept 6 straight hours without waking up. People were in lab and engaged. I bounced early and thought well it's still sunny, let me do the laundry today (I do it on the weekend) and then go to Jackson for gas/food things I don't have, don't need, but want.

I have big heavy clothes so I need all three washers including the hated front loader. I plug in my quarters and go to turn it on cool water instead of blazing hot and...someone has broken off the temperature control knob. Well that's fun.

Put quarters in the big heavy sheets one and realize...it says out of order in small letters on the screen. Won't give me back my quarters and I REALLY want the sheets clean if the power goes out this weekend. Now I'm yanking stuff from the middle washer before it gets wet and shove the sheets in.

Go to the car to run to Jackson while this washes. My battery dies. I'm praying it's the battery (AGAIN) and not my alternator. Call AAA. It'll be at least an hour (well at least now I can finish laundry before leaving. Call Dad to wish him a happy birthday and tell him I'm stranded in the RV park's back alley (AGAIN. My battery has died back here before). He arrives an hour later and he has the big wrecker that could haul three cars. I feel bad as he has to back it out.

I race my dead-battery to Auto Zone and the guy looks at me we can't replace them in a honda CR-V. What? You have before. What year is it 2015. Oh, yeah we CAN do that. Over 2018 we can't because if you make one mistake which is too easy to do and the computer dies. I have never heard of this and resolve to ask Dad who obsesses over cars and he has a CR-V too (he had never heard of it and is now on a mission to find out) Frick and Frack might just be incompetent because he couldn't even get the housing off my battery and needs to get his coworker. He manages it. The terminal cover snaps off. he drops the battery in sideways, barely gets it back out. I drive off 230$ poorer just happy they didn't destroy my car (try Advanced Auto next time. Also they couldn't find me in the system. I've been there so many times....)

Kroger's of course is a nightmare. And the assholes in Jackson jumped the gas price over 30 cents since the day before (should have got that at work where they haven't) I get all kinds of things I can eat cold if the power goes out. That'll be tomorrow morning's excitement. I go to the library to get the book that was on hold.

I get home and my computer is off. Did I already once?!? Nothing else is blinking but firefox and edge both say thanks for updating so I think an update was forced.

I bought myself Archway Ginger snaps as a treat. They one of the few processed cookies I actually like. I now have a tons of salami, PB&J, and hard boiled eggs plus apples. I will have food.

Saying a little prayer for everyone's power.

But there was one good thing today beside Dad liking the gift I gave him. It's also my book birthday. Check it o ut!!

here on Amazon Paper back, hard back and ebook

Fannish 50 recs. Plenty of them. You can read if you're snowed in.

A Reason For Living Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem

How to Train Your Alpha Teen Wolf

An Unacceptable Loss Stargate Atlantis

Defining Love Torchwood

Workaholic FAKE

Honoring Satedan CelebrationsStargate Atlantis

Adaptability Torchwood

Not Restful The Fantastic Journey

JACKASS.OCT.11.19XX87_1.TRANSCRIPT The Murderbot Diaries

Adjacent

An Unexpected Discovery Stargate Atlantis

Awkward Conversations Chainsaw Man

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

Alive Again Torchwood

What Cowley Knows. The Professionals

Too Hot for Comfort Stargate Atlantis

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). The Professionals

Pillow Talk 9-1-1

Reflection At Bedside A Study in Emerald

Winter Wonderland The Sentinel

But What If There Was a Demon vs Dinosaur Cage Match? Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Being Prepared Due South

The Fear of Not Knowing Due South

Premonition Doctor Who

One More Tattoo Teen Wolf

Watch on YouTube

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solon_kitten

Alex White dropped a new post titled Organic Software, and...I have thoughts. Mostly hopeful, but still thoughts. The key point I wanna reply to is this:

My hope is that Linux becomes the family grocery store. You go in expecting to find highly quality, well made software and you accept that you'll have to pay a premium for it. As it is now, Linux users tend to expect things to be free as in freedom ✱and✱ beer. I hope this mindset can slowly change, and breed a platform filled with tools like Nova, Transmit, iaWriter, OmniFocus, CodeKit, Bike Outliner, BBEdit, TablePlus, etc. Tools built by small teams of passionate people (or even solo developers), offered at premium prices that support development.

The thing is, I've seen people consider it, but in my experience, the biggest hurdle always comes from three points of contention: no unified toolkit, compatibility issues, and dealing with the toxic parts of the userbase. I won't touch on the third point, as that's something I've not been able to deal with myself. The other two are kinda linked, and I can at least provide my own opinions on them.

Compatibility in this case isn't about the hardware itself. Not always, anyway (nVidia vs AMD vs Intel, anyone?). In this case, it about system configurations, and how Wayland Compositors aren't really standardized. This is because there are multiple toolkits, including Gnome/GTK and QT, and while you can make something from one of those toolkits, the application could have problems if your users run something else. It shouldn't be a problem, but it can happen, because not all compositors implement all of the same features, or may implement some features slightly differently. Gnome Desktop is well known for having this issue with some games, and how styling GTK apps can leave some of them visually broken at times.

The thing is, MacOS doesn't have this issue, because for the most part, all applications use the same underlying toolkit. Windows (usually) doesn't have this issue, because Windows has standard toolkits to use, like WPF and Metro/Modern Apps. Even the likes of MorphOS, ReactOS, and Haiku have their own general visual toolkits to keep things looking relatively uniform, and make applications easier to develop and support. All of them use a single display compositor as well.

Linux is mostly a "Build it yourself" OS, and while the likes of Flatpak, Snaps, and AppImages have made things much easier for this purpose, not everyone uses those options, and you still have to deal with compatibility issues between Wayland compositors. There've always been issues for the most part with X11/Xorg/etc desktops as well, though not quite to the same extent. It still adds mental overhead for developers and users, though.

I think that, if someone encouraged something similar to the old Xt (X toolkit) that could be targeted agnostic to the user's desktop compositor, it could help toward the goal of more professionally-coded software targeting Linux. They'd still have to contend with the community (which in some cases includes distro makers), but it could be something targeting Flatpak/Snap/AppImage to bypass issues with distro package managers, and delivered straight to users akin to an EXE/MSI installer on Windows, or a pkg/dmg and App Bundle for MacOS.

I do think it's possible, and even that Linux is making small steps toward that potential future. It's just that everyone will have a slow climb toward that goal as long as Linux itself is such a broad concept outside of the kernel.

One other thing I want to reply to:

Honestly, I feel the mindset has to change. If it doesn't, I'm not very confident for the future of computing. Making a leather bag by hand takes time, experience and high quality materials. One expects to pay for that time and skill. On the other hand, if quality doesn't matter to someone, they can grab a pleather bag made in a factory for pennies on the dollar. If everyone goes for the pleather bag, there's no incentive for the leather craftsperson, and soon enough it will become a lost art. If the perception comes to pass that people will only use free, data harvesting, online only, LLM built software, the desktop is in peril.

So, yes. You have the problem of "if everyone goes for the cheap option, there's no incentive for the professional" in computing, except that you also kinda don't. See, I'm going to mention something about the Furry Fandom here as well, because a similar concept holds true.

People will pay for things if they feel it's worth the value. That's why many Furry artists can charge $100+ USD for a pre-made adopt as an auction, and people will sometimes pay double the asking price just to get it from that artist in particular. A cheap artist who charges $10-$50 USD can sometimes get by (barely) while getting few takers, but someone much more well known will be swamped with commission applications seconds after opening them, because people want an art/story/song/fursuit commission from that artist. Enthusiasts will always flock to where their hearts desire.

The same holds for computers. The general public will swarm for cheap machines if they meet their needs, but enthusiasts will always pay top tier for something if they want it. Not everyone needs that $2000+ USD gaming rig and $1500+ USD trio of monitors to make a digital battlestation, but system builders won't go hungry as long as those enthusiasts are looking to get what they want. It's why people stick with Apple or Microsoft, despite any "controversy" or "scandal" or accusation of "overcharging".

People will gravitate toward what makes them happy. If someone is happy and content with a cheap Windows 11 laptop, that's their perogative. If someone wants a Linux machine, they'll go for that Linux machine. If someone wants that old Mac SE/30 to admire on their desk, or that $1000+ USD Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh to proudly display in their living room, the only thing stopping them will be their bank account (and sometimes no even that).

Software is the same way. People will pay for software as long as they find real value in doing so, and are able to. It's why I stuck with tools like Scrivener and Scapple and Aeon Timeline for writing, and why I have Microsoft Office and Adobe CS3, using them instead of LibreOffice and GIMP. Most FOSS options don't make me happy to use right now, so I pay for tools that do (even if they're old licenses at this point). I'm more than capable of writing in VIM/Emacs, typesetting in LaTeX, and hand-coding vector art in SVG. Much like programming things myself, I just don't enjoy it, and a large number of people are of a similar opinion.

Yes, market values are going to drop for software, but the same happened for hardware in general, and computing survived. People will eventually grow tired of how poor quality the AI slop applications are, and they'll move elsewhere toward applications that actually have value. It's just that they need to find that out for themselves, because if you try to nudge too hard, it's gonna turn people off of the very thing you're trying to promote. That's why Linux has its toxic community problem, because people either try to nudge too hard, or even force that change, only to make people turn away instead.

Organic software will be a thing, despite the markets, because enthusiasts will be there to back them as long as they possibly can.

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silveradept

snowflake_challenge would like us to take a moment, for challenge #12, and appreciate the people who make life better for you in your fandoms.

Challenge #12

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song… whatever moves you!

( I am not a rock, but neither am I someone who is in a great amount of community. )

Finally, I say this almost every time I talk about it, not because I believe that she'll ever come across it, but if that moonshot ever does happen, I want her to know it with certainty: Caroline, if you're still out there, we love 9th Elsewhere. And while we hope that maybe you'll pick it back up and bring it to a close, what we really want you to know is that the journey that Eiji and Carmen have taken holds a special place in all of us, so thank you for what you've done. I hope that knowing you have people who are fans and who have found this particular journey meaningful helps you with your own life, wherever you may be, and whatever you might be doing right now. I would love the opportunity to discuss umbrella-related poses with you again at some point.

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alexcat

#01 – Adamant	#02 – Snow	#03 – Lion	#04 – Spark	#05 – Amber
#06 – Lust	#07 – Bronze	#08 – Mint	#09 – Arctic	#10 – Black
#11 – Moonlight	#12 – Sunlight	#13 – Blue	#14 – Navy	#15 – Tea
#16 – Neon	#17 – Twilight	#18 – Blush	#19 – Wine	#20 – Nude
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rionaleonhart

When I was looking through my many

threesentenceficathon fills for The Goes Wrong Show, it occurred to me that I could probably use my 'unethical sexuality experimentation' fill as the first scene of a longer fic, perhaps incorporating a couple of my other fills.

Here's the result! Some of the scenes may feel familiar if you've read my Three-Sentence Ficathon fills, but the vast majority of this fic is brand new.

Title: Performance Notes
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: 14
Pairing: Robert/Chris by way of Robert/everyone
Wordcount: 3,000
Summary: The script Robert has written for the society to perform is, to say the least, extremely worrying.

( Performance Notes )

tielan

Usually when someone goes reading through my work, they go through multiple fics in a single fandom, kudosing all the way. (It's a nice feeling.)

I've just had someone who's kudosed a single story each of SG1, Firefly, Merlin, JLU, Harry Potter, and Atlantis, and two stories of The Bourne Identity.

Now I'm wondering how the others just didn't hit their buttons...

Also, the stories in each were "oddball" - not the major or popular pairing in most cases, and often not one of my more popular stories.

For instance, the Merlin fic they kudos'd was Merlin & Gwen, modern AU, which is not even close to common for the fandom!

cornerofmadness

I had nightmares all night so I was hoping for that snow day. I pull the curtains and nothing so I don't check my phone. Heck when I rolled out at 9 AM it was 40. I get to work and I need my phone to get onto my teaching software and work email. to my surprise the sheriff has texted. Now good ol' sheriff frazier is loosey goosey with declaring snow emergencies. And it's not just level 1. No it had gotten up to level 3. That means I shouldn't have been on the road. PERIOD.

I'm baffled. It's 40. It's dry. Why is it level 3. Why do I have 20 emails saying they can't be there. Why did we close two branches of our campus north of me? What the hell happened 10 miles away from me? I ask everyone who drove much further. NO ONE saw any winter, not even north in Jackson. So this must have been the narrowest band storm in existence.

Now I know almost no one from the midwest to the east coast is escaping this weekend's snow. A coworker's daughter works at Kroger and you can't even order food. They're completely booked out. I do hope I can get up there tomorrow. Okay I HAVE food. I'm a bit of a food hoarder by nature. My real mission is to cook off several meals in case the power goes out. Given my power has been going out for no reason, I'm worried. I'm fine with being snowed in. Without power, much less so. And remember everyone fill your car's tank if you can. If you live where winter is, don't let that go below a half.

Today was annoying AF though. The lesson capture software won't work even with IT fucking around with it for 15 minutes. And yesterday (if I mentioned it) only half my class was in the online homework section so I have the book store manager look into this and she tells me I never asked for this (then why is half of them in there?) and I wanted a paper book. No I didn't ask for that and do you need me to send back YOUR emails saying you had set up the online purchase? When I got back from class I got an email 'it'll be fixed tomorrow.' Yeah...

I do have one community rec, one that I'm already a member of and have fun with

halfamoon from their profile: Half a Moon is a fourteen day challenge celebrating female characters in fandom, which will run from February 1 through Valentine's Day. Fanfiction, vids, recs, art, picspam, icons, meta, fanmixes, and outside links to content fitting the theme of this community are all welcome--the only rule is that the primary focus must be on a female character or characters.

( check out the prompts under here )

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Guy's Grocery Games

adafrog

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

rionaleonhart

In my headlong, desperate fall into the Goes Wrong fandom, I've discovered a Twitter account for the character of Robert Grove, with the wonderful username of @robertgoodactor, operating mainly between 2013 and 2015. The account has apparently been mentioned in past programmes for the Goes Wrong plays, so it's presumably official!

Twitter is now a barely accessible mess, and I'm not sure how much longer it'll be possible to read Robert's tweets, so I've dug out my favourites and reproduced them in this entry!

( Official Twitter posts from Robert Grove. )

Tracking down all the scattered Cornley Drama Society lore continues to be a challenge, but I love that every character detail I'm rewarded with is absolutely stupid.

While I'm noting down semi-obscure Cornley lore, here's a short exchange I stumbled across in the script for the stage version of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, in which Chris and Robert try to show each other up in front of the audience while introducing the play:

Chris: This generous cash injection has meant that tonight's production will certainly outshine our rather underfunded Christmas show that Robert directed: Jack and the Bean.
Robert: In one of Chris's productions, due to an ill-timed haircut, Rapunzel had to be imprisoned in a bungalow.
Chris: Indeed, that was almost as bad as when Robert insisted on using a real cat in his production of Puss in Boots, which became known amongst the company as 'Puss Who Was Occasionally in Boots, but Often Refused to Wear His Boots, and Then Bit a Child'.

tielan

( for later consumption, or now consumption if you prefer )

cornerofmadness

because no one, not even me, cares that the heat is almost out again at work. Dad's like you've been saying this for a decade. Because it's true every winter. Let's never fix a thing at my school.

Though yesterday was strange. I was walking in the hall of my building when a young lady says 'I love your hair.' I thank her, pleased. 3 seconds later....was she on the phone with someone else? she's not one of MY students. Why did she say that? My hair is awful. Literally my entire life I was bullied for what my hair was like. I find it hard to accept praise for it.

Also I'm on a fanfic reading hiatus until I clear off the half dozen library holds.

What I Just Finished Reading:

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Vampire Hunting - hated this

Queen in Comics! By Emmanuel Marie - not a bad prose/graphic novel mix little bio. How, I don't know, but I had no idea Freddie was raised in the Zoasterian faith

Werewolf at Dusk and other Stories - David Small - three short stories, illustrated by Small.

What I am Currently Reading:

A Curious Kind of Magic - so far an interesting not-quite-cozy mystery

Sugar and Vice - oh look another baker cozy mystery, this one set in Florida. Even with the eye rollingly stereotypical amateur sleuth this is sort of fun.

What I Plan to Read Next: La Grand Familia and Zombie Day Care and the library books including one on Sally Ride and one Alison Bechdel who did Fun House. I hope this is better than that thing. (I needed a book about a character who does pilates. This graphic novel has that)

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Inspector George Gently

rionaleonhart

AO3 may be down, but never fear; I've brought a third batch of

threesentenceficathon fills!

Are they for fandoms you're in? W... well, no. They're still almost exclusively for the Goes Wrong Show, with one short and spoilery Silent Hill 2 fill. But they are fanfiction nonetheless.

( Silent Hill 2, James, 40 words, prompt: 'I love you. I'm sorry.' )

( Assorted ficlets for the Goes Wrong Show, mainly Chris and Robert, 1,400 words total. )

I was doing so well at keeping to three sentences to begin with! But here we are now.

silveradept

snowflake_challenge dropped their eleventh challenge, and it's a call-back.

Challenge #11

Grant someone's wish from Challenge #5.

( Merrily a wassailing... )

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: ROZEN - Master vs Master

cornerofmadness

damn near had to zip my jacket this morning (it was 14 F) Less said about work the better (still dealing with the issues of that mix up) but the funny thing is we were loaned (from another failing program) the autoclave and incubators. So I went in to see how they were going as my researchers are ramping up. The autoclave isn't put together (and the fuse box is MIA) and NONE of the incubators are done. Me and DM were working on them. It's like incubators by IKEA and it's ALL in German and nothing is complete (I have a German student, I might drag him in there) It's so dumb I'm laughing.

Today was Cheese Cake and Golden Girls at the library. Just bring/eat cheesecake and watch a couple episodes of GG. It was packed. I was someone's hero because I gave her some of my lactose pills (she forgot hers). You'll share them? Yes, of course. It was fun except....for the two tables in the back who just kept talking thru the entire first episode we watched. Like fucking non stop. I really wanted to say hey, STFU. We're here trying to enjoy ourselves but we can't even hear teh show. I hate that women are so well trained to be 'nice' that sometimes making waves is hard. And then they had the audacity to shove in a couple pieces of cheesecake and then left without watching the first 30 minutes all the way thru. Didn't care. Glad they gone.

Came home. Realized OMG the authors zoom is tonight and I'm exhausted. I shook it off. Wrote over 2500 words in 1 1/2 hours. Well yay for me.

No fannish 50. I'm too tired again.

Also dummy went outside this morning. Refused to come back. I'm like of all days to go out and run off rocket. He's back and he's fine.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Killer Confessions

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Page Summary

shadaras - The Snowstorm Cometh, and Other Updates
rionaleonhart - Mischief Theatre Should Really Be Paying Me By This Point.
cornerofmadness - I'm going to try to concentrate on the positive
adafrog - Saturday
rionaleonhart - Join Me In Fiction.
cornerofmadness - My life is a joke sometimes
solon_kitten - Re: Organic Software
skytintedwater - Snowflake 9
silveradept - Snowflake Challenge 02026 #12: A Token of Our Appreciation
alexcat - 100 ships
rionaleonhart - Fanfiction: Performance Notes (The Goes Wrong Show, Robert/Chris, Robert/everyone)
tielan - oddities in reading
cornerofmadness - Dodged a bullet
adafrog - Snowpocalypse.
rionaleonhart - I Am Now Puck.
tielan - links blinks
cornerofmadness - Just books
rionaleonhart - Chris Has A Good Time In None Of These.
silveradept - Snowflake Challenge 02026 #11: Wish-Granting Engine
cornerofmadness - Today was a tad chilly

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