Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 20: Canada Fandom: Canada Day
Jul. 1st, 2025 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ride_4everFrom this U.S. fangirl for Canada on today's Canada Day and every day: declaring my love and respect for the Great Sovereign Land of Canada.
Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.
(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)
Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.
(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)
Rebuilding journal search again
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pmalierak posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceWe're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Dreams as inspiration
Jun. 30th, 2025 10:35 ammelagan
How do dreams influence your creativity or vice versa?
I've dreamt whole story plots. Conversely, story plots have niggled at my brain as I've tried to fall asleep.
It's never all the detail I need, but it gives me a place to start. (usually they sit in a WIP file for awhile first--sometimes for a long time)
Does this happen to you? With good or bad results?
How are those WIPs coming along?
Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 19: the infamous due South troll
Jun. 26th, 2025 04:00 pmride_4everIf you are in due South fandom you know about the "infamous due South troll," she of many names and one obsession: for decades she has been seeking out due South fic and vids that don't jibe with her personal opinion about which ships and which storylines are "true or not". She was flaming me even before I posted my first fic...back in 2011 she flamed my comment that I made on YouTube about a due South vid that I liked, telling me what was "wrong" with the perspective of the vid and how I was "wrong" for liking it. She actively seeks out for reading and for watching stuff that she knows she won't like and then she reads it or watches it and then she spews out her hatred. The last most recent time that she flamed me -- before TODAY -- was in 2023 when she pounced on a fic that I had written eleven years earlier and said hateful things about it -- I did not respond to her hate and TODAY she returned to that same fic and in even greater detail than previously FLAMED THE SAME FIC A SECOND TIME. Hells, that is some tenacity -- REREADING a fic to which she had already "objected" (she told me that she "disagreed" with my fic) and then commenting further in the face of my previous non-response. /o\
The Right Match (Stargate Atlantis) teen and up
Jun. 26th, 2025 02:47 pmmelaganI finished the first of my dust bunnies. Having a deadline helped. And I didn't do this alone.
cassiope25 was a huge help both in encouragement and beta duties. I also have to give a special nod to em_kellesvig for solving an editing question. Even if McShep Regency Sentinel Guide stories aren't your jam you should click on the link just to see the gorgeous artwork she made for it.
Or check it out Here
The Right Match
This is the story I wanted to be able to give an explicit rating. Couldn't get the muse to cooperate, dang it.
Maybe the next one....
An update
Jun. 26th, 2025 02:54 pmmificI turned back on the AI functions for my iPad again so as to write a fic with minimal impediments (I have enough inbuilt impediments these days not to want more). So that's autocapitalisation, autocorrect, and predictive text. And JFC, but it's bossy! Constantly changing words from the way I wanted to write them to some AI bullshit of its own. I had to be super-vigilant with the betaing. Have since turned predictive text off again to see if that's better. I hate the AI aspect but it's such a tiresome slog correcting my own (numerous) typos with it all turned off.
Bum music, a bit of YT whimsy. In Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights panel there's a guy, face down, bum up, with sheet music stacked on his ass. So Amelia Hamrick transcribed it, James Spalink arranged it, and played it using period-type instruments. It's actually not bad.
I managed a short fic for into-a-bar. I've been using the challenge to add to my Losers in Pegasus series but was hoist with my own petard this time by being allocated an SGA character I'd killed off in the last fic! Finally figured out a solution (enter the clones!) but was unable to finish the longer fic (that gets Pooch to Atlantis) by the deadline, so that one will come later.
Still mostly doing art, and podficcing. And the podfics mean cover art so that's always fun. I now tend to beta-listen while working on the cover, although that makes it tricky to note down bits that I've flubbed.
My Mexican sunflower still has some flowers, which the bees will be grateful for. Pretty amazing, now we're past the shortest day of winter, but it's slowly winding up its flowering season. 10/10, will see how many years it can manage encores.
I have a few recs, but will do a separate post for those. Summer sounds a bit brutal up north (for many reasons). Hope you're all OK.
Bum music, a bit of YT whimsy. In Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights panel there's a guy, face down, bum up, with sheet music stacked on his ass. So Amelia Hamrick transcribed it, James Spalink arranged it, and played it using period-type instruments. It's actually not bad.
I managed a short fic for into-a-bar. I've been using the challenge to add to my Losers in Pegasus series but was hoist with my own petard this time by being allocated an SGA character I'd killed off in the last fic! Finally figured out a solution (enter the clones!) but was unable to finish the longer fic (that gets Pooch to Atlantis) by the deadline, so that one will come later.
Still mostly doing art, and podficcing. And the podfics mean cover art so that's always fun. I now tend to beta-listen while working on the cover, although that makes it tricky to note down bits that I've flubbed.
My Mexican sunflower still has some flowers, which the bees will be grateful for. Pretty amazing, now we're past the shortest day of winter, but it's slowly winding up its flowering season. 10/10, will see how many years it can manage encores.
I have a few recs, but will do a separate post for those. Summer sounds a bit brutal up north (for many reasons). Hope you're all OK.
Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 18: Happy Yuri Day!
Jun. 25th, 2025 05:10 pmride_4everToday is Yuri Day! For details about Yuri Day see this page on Fanlore. For details about yuri in general see this page on Fanlore.
The very talented and very generouspetra is offering to write prompted drabbles and poems for Yuri Day. See their post and leave them a comment for your drabble or poem at petra's Yuri Day post on DW.
The very talented and very generous
petra is offering to write prompted drabbles and poems for Yuri Day. See their post and leave them a comment for your drabble or poem at petra's Yuri Day post on DW.today's news....
Jun. 24th, 2025 04:09 pmmelaganAs it turns out, watching Meet the Press while drinking a glass of rosé enables much unladylike swearing and specific finger gestures. (all justified)
I should probably turn off the tv.
I should probably turn off the tv.
ouch
Jun. 21st, 2025 08:33 pmesteefeenote to self: do not purchase children's bandaids. children's bandaids were invented by an unlicensed sadist. sure, they're cute. but there's a reason kids hate having them removed, and that is: they don't come off! not without taking your skin with them.
boycott children's bandaids. even if they have SpongeBob on them.
boycott children's bandaids. even if they have SpongeBob on them.
Mirror Uhura
Jun. 20th, 2025 06:08 pmmificGoing slowly with my into-a-bar fic, but meanwhile, I made art of Uhura from the mirror universe to celebrate Juneteenth day. Click through for the full size pic on AO3.
