Livejournal Questions

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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

[tkp.livejournal.com]

You were the first person I heard mention Jenkins. And you said it like I should know (but were very kind and nonpatronizing when I said I didn't!). But then suddenly EVERYONE was talking about him and knew who he was, and that's the main thing I don't get.

I know how to write short fanfic, but I don't know how to tell you how to do it.

I know and I find it frustrating. But yeah, I can't tell you how to write a long fic, either.

How do you write long fanfics that aren't really just strings of v. short fanfics?

I've been thinking about this a lot, actually. Right now I'm writing a long fic that's a string of smaller fics linked together, and it's really the first time I've ever done anything like that. Glimpses is like that, imo.

I have more to say on this, suddenly. Maybe I'll do a post.

[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]

This is true. I think that part of it was when everyone WAS talking about Jenkins because of FanLib, there were/are no people saying, "who's that?". It was all, "Why Henry Jenkins; of course; he's our hero; he bears a flaming sword."

Well I mean it was like that except for the sword part.