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- Resigned from OTW Board
- Tore/strained left upper hamstring. Took a week off work to avoid chairs and now slowly recovering. Ugh
- Switched to an ergonomic right-handed mouse - so much easier to use, still lefty at home
- Week #5 of Marketing Principles - text still v. boring, lecturer still excellent
- Trialled warming pad dog bed again this winter - we bought two but Kiba promptly ate one so we've embedded the other in the couch nearest my bedroom door. I come out each morning to find them both snuggled up on it = success!
- TEEN WOLF OMG, had v. low expectations, am pleasantly surprised
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‘Kindle Worlds’ Lets Authors Publish Fan Fiction — At Dubious Cost
Wired has words to say, and the OTW has them too.
Amazon makes a bid to cash in on fanworks - royalties and rights as yet unclear but not looking great..
Amazon makes a bid to cash in on fanworks - royalties and rights as yet unclear but not looking great..
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Awwww - TIME Tech - 50 Best Websites 2013
The AO3: Fan fiction is one of the great unsung popular literary movements of the past 50 years, but finding what you’re looking for online can involve sorting through mountains of inadequately-tagged and frequently dodgy text. Archive of Our Own makes it easy: it’s the most carefully curated, sanely organized, easily browsable and searchable nonprofit collection of fan fiction on the web, and it serves all fandoms equally, from The A-Team to Zachary Quinto and beyond.
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Kiba also loves the AO3, no really.
I am absolutely that person who makes their dog wear clothes. We're trialling a thundershirt that is supposed to help dogs feel calmer. Kiba hates thunder, motorbikes, sirens, fireworks and people having fun late at night (he hates them loudly) so this seemed worth trying.
The colour options were interesting plus you can have text embroidered on them so we went for a fun option,. Since the thundershirt arrived during the OTW April fundraising drive we also had a photoshoot and made an experimental gif.
The colour options were interesting plus you can have text embroidered on them so we went for a fun option,. Since the thundershirt arrived during the OTW April fundraising drive we also had a photoshoot and made an experimental gif.
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Donate to Support the OTW
We're doing amazing things and we need every $ to keep doing them. If you are in a position to donate, please consider doing it.
The OTW community, and the fannish community it is part of often expresses love directly through action. We've started a not so tiny organisation of our own, the Archive of Our Own, a wiki of our own Fanlore, a journal of our own Transformative Works and Culture, we're doing Legal Advocacy of our own, and one day we plan to have a Torrent of Our Own to preserve multi-media as well as what is currently hosted on the AO3.
Act now to support the projects you love.
The OTW community, and the fannish community it is part of often expresses love directly through action. We've started a not so tiny organisation of our own, the Archive of Our Own, a wiki of our own Fanlore, a journal of our own Transformative Works and Culture, we're doing Legal Advocacy of our own, and one day we plan to have a Torrent of Our Own to preserve multi-media as well as what is currently hosted on the AO3.
Act now to support the projects you love.
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Dear Diary
- Kenobi and Kiba mugged a 2yr old last night :( He had a very seductive yellow ball, they picked it up off the ground and we gave it back but there were kiddy tears of ball stealing distress. *winces*
- Life seems to be composed of tiny things right now. I've cleaned most of my room and eaten a lot of fruit and read a lot of fanfic.
- I have a new, fluffy pillow and one of those banana ones for reading with - it's great!
- I've ordered a bunch of yarn from Etsy and I'll hopefully find out what it actually looks like soonish. I feel some knitting coming on and I totally blame
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littleboot for this. - I replaced the AC adaptor that Kiba ate - ironically it was the recharger cable for the phone+tablet battery recharger thingie - which took me multiple attempts and an eventual actual electronics store (Altronics) who were excellent.
- I've survived yet another week of OTW stuff Six weeks so far… and that's taking a lot of my energy right now.
- The sunrise is lovely right now, I can see soon I'll be getting up in the dark but not yet!
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- Hobbit again last night with zorana - made better by giant beanbags. Still fun, Thorin's constant smouldering makes me giggle though.
- Doing all the personality quizzes! Colour Personality Enneagram
- OTW update: Five weeks so far… did I tell you I have a manifesto?
- The Redcaps are blossoming again \o/ I also saw a tiny little cocoon - hard to photograph in the wind but so delicate! So precise!
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- ROAD TRIP TOMORROW!
- Kenobi's lumps were all benign, the site of the tummy stitches is all wobbly and under observation (by me and by chaosmanor). He is also peeing with less abandon (ie, not on everything we walk past) which makes me nervous.
- Cleaned, washed, tidied
- Hung Stargate properly in living room - looks good
- OTW'd, a lot. [Board] Three weeks so far… [Development & Membership]
- Watched Episode 1 of The Bletchley Circle, will watch the rest (four female code crackers from WWII come together to hunt a murderer)
- Watched Episode 1 of Elementary, will watch more - female Watson! Holmes is less sociopathic and more emotionally available in this
- Still watching The Secret Circle, it's melodrama but has three generations of women interacting, many female witches and JR Bourne as a witch-hunter which given he's playing a werewolf hunter in Teen Wolf is kind of delightful.
- Watched E01S03 of Lost Girl, that's a v. dodgy plot-line they ran with and v. rarely handled well (not handled well in this case) but am still loving Kenzi and the relationship writing. Yay Lauren!
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Dear Diary
- Dentist has replaced a 15 yr old filling, it takes ages for me to go numb so we chatted a fair bit. They think the fact that a tooth now vibrates when I call the dogs post-braces coming off is hilarious and then I TOTALLY blew his mind by pointing out that Tolkien says dwarf gender is not visually distinguishable and that half of Bilbo's travel companions are probably women. I know dwarf women were actually 1/3 of the dwarven population and rarely traveled but since they are post-war refugees I think anything goes.
- Beach with woofers was sad for Kenobi - on leash until stitches come out .. soon... sooon
- Lunch in Freo with lilysea in which we lay about in various desirable locations and chatted - lovely, hot day.
- Home with some very dodgy email reading when the traffic lights were red, followed by some rapid email sending and bolting out the door again
- Furniture shopping with cupidsbow
- Accessibility Design, & Technology Meeting (AD&T) plus Board Meeting Two weeks so far...
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OTW Board for the 2013 term \o/
The official announcement is on the Transformativeworks website and I offer my thanks to Francesca and Naomi (who are stepping down) for the many hours they have devoted to both creating the OTW and keeping its many balls in the air.
I've created a legal-name DW for all things boardy although I chopped off some letters. The urge to use one of my childhood nicknames was strong, alas, using Miss MasieMoo or Captain Maia Skye-Cloud is probably pushing it.
Come chat if you have burning questions (which I shall probably answer with I don't know but I'll find out and get back to you) unless they are about me in which case I shall ramble and hopefully pass on useful information.
I've created a legal-name DW for all things boardy although I chopped off some letters. The urge to use one of my childhood nicknames was strong, alas, using Miss MasieMoo or Captain Maia Skye-Cloud is probably pushing it.
Come chat if you have burning questions (which I shall probably answer with I don't know but I'll find out and get back to you) unless they are about me in which case I shall ramble and hopefully pass on useful information.
*\o/* OTW *\o/*
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Dear Diary
- Iron Sky - seriously, go see it
- Braces re-wire... surviving on soft foods and all the painkillers.. .I am so ready to have them off
- Dinner with father and the new gf who has a sense of humour
- Breakfast with transcendancing - it's been far too long
- Marriage Equality Rally - many friends present, some sensible speakers and a lot of people with cameras
- Swancon Program Programming meeting to review software and discuss future requirements
- Inception with K. who had not seen it - my love remains steadfast
- AD&T meeting (made my apologies, not compatible with taking mercyndol)
- OTW Docs working Group meeting - lovely group of people - FAQs, tutorials, experimental screencast, fix ALL the docs!
- Dark Shadows tonight!
- MBA Unit 11 of 12 Marketing starts on Thursday
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Archive of Our Own and AD&T
I kind of fail at writing up my most recent couple of AD&T meetings, is being ridiculously busy an excuse?
These are not official communications, this is me keeping a diary and being open about what we do. People are welcome to ignore the fandom:archive and otw tag if it's not interesting to you, or to come chat about stuff if it is :)
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These are not official communications, this is me keeping a diary and being open about what we do. People are welcome to ignore the fandom:archive and otw tag if it's not interesting to you, or to come chat about stuff if it is :)
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AO3 - New Feature - User Stats
If you want to have a look at v1.0, give feedback, or get involved in helping design v2.0 you are very welcome :)
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OTW Stuff :)
It's the time of year when the OTW runs a membership drive and asks for donations again. There are many wonderful projects supported by the OTW including my pet love, the Archive of Our Own which has grown from a tiny, tiny thing to a far less tiny thing with over 40,000 users. The AO3 continues to need money to pay for hosting, hardware, backup space and bandwidth - help keep us viable please!
If you're in an position to help support financially, now is an excellent time.
If you're in an position to help support financially, now is an excellent time.
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importing party on the AO3
I'll be around for the second half of this... and I have a few invite codes to distribute. If you've questions about posting or have been meaning to get around to creating an account and uploading your works this is a great time to get organised :)
From Saturday 14th April, 17.00 UTC to Sunday 15th April, 02.00 UTC (see the time in your timezone), we invite you to join us in a live chat where our staff will answer questions about creating accounts, uploading, tags and more, provide a few invitations for those who need them, and celebrate as new works are uploaded!
From Saturday 14th April, 17.00 UTC to Sunday 15th April, 02.00 UTC (see the time in your timezone), we invite you to join us in a live chat where our staff will answer questions about creating accounts, uploading, tags and more, provide a few invitations for those who need them, and celebrate as new works are uploaded!
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Archive of Our Own and AD&T
Second Accessibility, Design, and Technology (AD&T) meeting attended by me, hopefully I will do better now that various life pressures are easing.
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The Smallville Slash Archive has been imported to the Archive of Our Own
I joined the OTW for many reasons, this one has been a long time in the making. Not preserving the Smallville Slash Archive specfically (although I have love, love, love for it), but preserving fannish works in general, and dying archives in particular.
MILESTONE!
MILESTONE!