Livejournal Questions

[lettered]

This actually has nothing to do with the recent drama.

I have a confession to make. I'm a genius. But I'm really tragically stupid also.


-how to put on a header. And why everyone can figure it out but me.
-what a DDoS attack is. Looked it up on Wikipedia. Still really don't understand.
-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.
-how to write short fanfic.
-who Rodney is.
-Henry Jenkins.
-GIP.
-how NOT to hotlink some images. I can do it if the image is in a format Photobucket will upload, otherwise I don't understand.
-how people keep up with their flists.
-how people keep up with stuff like which new cat macro is funniest.
-how anyone keeps up with anything.
-why seraphcelene can't be here RIGHT NOW, I dunno, making pie with me.
-how people find out people are talking about them when said people are not talking to them. It's not that I don't like gossip. It's that I don't understand it. I literally seem to have trouble paying attention to anything not aimed straight at me with a missile launcher.
-why I like Harry/Draco.
-flangst.
-how people not being able to post really isn't connected to the Great Strikethrough.
-how to play most online videos, or dl the equipment.
-birthdays.
-why I didn't find a plane ticket to NYC for an earlier day so I could watch DB with a2zmom.
-Spike.
-betas.
-most emoticons.
-who Jo is.
-what Due South is.


In other news, The Sound of Music in Sparta. (link courtesy imnotacommittee.)

Comments

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

THAT IS WHY I DON'T BETA.

Well, or very rarely, and then I demand they use someone else besides me ...

I say "I can copyedit and catch your typos and stuff, but otherwise I am useless."

I'll say stuff like "How did they get from standing up in this part of the room to sitting down in that other part?" and "They'd have to have three arms at once for this" and "But she hit her head and fell down, and nobody said or did anything, and then they all left ... Whut?"

That's about it for me.

I only keep up with my friends list because something like half of them don't post, or very rarely. I keep some folks on because they *used* to post some years ago and were good friends and I want to pick that up if they ever come back. (Plus I tend to let the comms & feeds wait around until I've caught up with personal journals, if ever.)

I never heard of "flangst." Must be friends-list angst, and I need to finish reading the comments to learn more ...

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I don't like creme brulee, either, except the top. I only eat home made creme brulee because then I can eat the top, add sugar, and blow torch the next layer.

Partly it is a carmel thing because I LOVE caramel. And my lovely caramel is adulterated by that other stuff.

Must be a texture thing. It's funny what you say about "texture eaters". I think that might be a reason I don't like lots of the foods I like. For instance I don't like anything custardy or moussey. But then I don't understand it when people say they don't like the textures of foods I DO like. My friends hate cocoanut for its texture, and I just cannot understand.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I think creme brulee is the blowtorch one. I do have a teeny weeny blow torch for making it, too. It's ...my favorite part of eating creme brulee. The eating is kinda meh, except for the torched sugar.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

ZOMFG you defriended me for flan.

I now have to make a locked post talking about you. But don't worry! I will make sure to include one or two of your closest friends on the filter, because that is how you find out someone is talking about you on LJ. Passive agressive filtering. Or PAF.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Hey there, Missy, don't stick that tongue out unless you intend to use it to lick flan.

And you SO DO care about being cool, hence these posts! You take this information, and you tuck it away, then you make another screenname for yourself where you are all TRENDY AND INFORMED and shit. Don't think I'm not on to you! Just because I AM NOT GETTING COMMENT NOTIFICATIONS.

Also, I don't have that big of a FL anymore. It's down to 125. It used to be, like, 400. I blame Fod. She taught me how to be mean ruthless discriminating.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

GUILT. THat's it exactly. I wonder how many feel as we do? I want to post about it now.

I love to beta, but then again I've only ever had that one bad experience and that was a long long time ago in a fandom that I didn't think was very friendly, anyway. I do have the problem of wanting to over-edit, but I try to make very clear what the story NEEDS and when it's just me wanting to strong arm my way in. So then I can still suggest changing it how I would want but hopefully the writer doesn't feel pressured.

I can wrap my head around almost any ship, but I bring my own baggage. For instance, I like E/C fine, but I would want the author to deal with all the issues I see there. Some of which the author does not want to touch on, and in fact, SHOULDN'T be touched on, in the fic they are trying to write. I have even read E/C semi-fluff, and rather enjoyed it, but yes, I'd have a hard time beta'ing it.

Thanks for sharing. I'm really glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

That's serendipity. Just today I was thinking, I wish I knew how to make a header for my journal. *bookmarks*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

My sister and my son are texture eaters. My son loves cold tomatoes when they are ripe. He will not ever eat a cooked tomato (or a dried one.) My sister will only eat things that crunch. She will NOT eat (drinking is different) anything that is soft and can't be crunched by her teeth. In other words, I am used to people having specifics with food, so I'm not surprised to hear you like the crunchy sugar (omg YUM) but not the smooshy cream.

Caramel - I'm going out on a limb and guessing you like toffee, too? ;)

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Everybody was talking about Henry Jenkins suddenly because of the FanLib thing ... the FanLib CEO wouldn't talk to any of the fanfic writers here who he'd already insulted and who he said he'd speak to and who set up Q&A sessions, but he *WOULD* speak to Henry Jenkins. Sooooo ... everyone was talking about Henry Jenkins & linking to his blog (including me).

I have his book "Textual Poachers," but I didn't even remember he was the author until someone else mentioned it!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Really? Do people really do that shit?

What the fuck is up with some people? Why do they like flan?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Toffee might be my favorite food. Apart from sandwiches. Was it you I gave that coffee toffee chocolate cake recipe to? Did you ever try it? I want to make it for you, Stoney.

I won't eat cooked tomatoes. Fresh ones are okay. Dried ones I love though. It's freaky.

Only crunchy foods cuts out a lot of food! Applesauce and oatmeal and ice cream! That must be really difficult.

[lynnenne]

It can be a group of individuals or even just one. But usually a spamming business based out of Russia or somewhere. The LiveJournal DDoS has been going on for weeks, so it's not really a new thing.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Heh. Jenkins even briefly appears in that vid you icon's from. Talk about media convergence. :)

This is one high-value post. I even learned about lolcode from following the wikipedia cat makro links.

-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.

Not necessarily... Paint Shop Pro costs only a fraction of Photoshop and is nearly as shiny. And I got an older Photoshop version for 50 euro on ebay.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. The technical part of beta'ing is really really important. I'm terrific with grammar, but we can all be wrong, and everyone makes typos. Plus I am NOT so terrific at the three arms stuff and blocking in writing. But yeah, I want more, especially stuff like, "I don't think this part is important" and "I don't think she would say that" and "did you mean for the theme to be this? 'Cause that's what I'm seein'..."

I'm only now realizing that not everyone can do the latter. And it's not because they're not good thinkers or writers or anything at all to do with intelligence and overall capability. It's just some of us have different skills. I certainly can't critique dance.

because they *used* to post some years ago and were good friends and I want to pick that up if they ever come back.

I have one or two like that. I imagine there'll be more as time goes on. There are some people I could never bear to cut. I can't remember if I commented on the comment you left where you said you friended me; I meant to. I wanted to say I'm glad we're mutually friended now because I enjoy talking to you and enjoy/feel informed your posts. I'm always happy to meet someone new with whom I can talk a lot ;o)

I think flangst means fluffy angst, but who the hell knows.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think some people stumble onto fabulous beta relationships and it just ...happens. I know a girl in another fandom I beta for, and we have a great relationship. I'm not writing in that fandom so she never beta'ed anything for me, but we seemed to really be on the same wavelength. Sometimes that just doesn't happen. I am so glad it happened for you!

I was lucky to stumble onto a2zmom, who was really my introduction to Buffyverse, but she's often busy and sometimes I want other opinions.

and is also good at saying if she's busy.

As a beta this is what I'm most sucktastic at. Sometimes I don't say no when I really should.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I got it to work! Thanks so much! I was going through all these posts for my individual format and it was all really complicated.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Because you could do such awesome headers!

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Yes they do.

And I like flan because it is a food AND IT JIGGLES. Also, it does not, like some other jiggly foods I will not mention, contain horse toe nails.

[pjgale.livejournal.com]

Ha! Sound of Music Sparta! I can't believe how well it went together. I missed the man boobs and abs though... (:

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Both of them are called Ray.

HA!

So, this is like a buddy cop show? Maybe I'll give it a try.

Curling is WEIRD.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I needed to include people in the list of things I do not understand.

I don't like jiggly foods, I guess. I will eat jello but I'm bored by it.

horse toe nails? Mention, please.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh, gotcha. I knew there was trouble before, but it seems especially bad since the 31st or so, so it seemed really weird. Thanks so much for the explanation.

[fodian.livejournal.com]

OMG STOP SAYING THAT!

*smacks you upside the head*

[fodian.livejournal.com]

Popsicle.

[minim_calibre]

It is! A heartwarming homoerotic buddy cop show with lip reading deaf wolves, ghosts, and a fabulous fandom.