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

[my_daroga]

I love when you post questions I'm too lazy to ask. Only problem is being too lazy to read all the replies! No, I'm kidding. I knew some of it already, but some is very helpful.

And of course I assume you want to know my own thoughts about stuff people have already answered. Naturally.

*I use Photoshop. Mr. D had a copy from somewhere, and I can't remember what I originally started using it for but it's become indispensable. Both for my photography hobby (mostly to correct for stuff that happens to photos during scanning) and my new interest in art (the poto and dog portraits I've done). I'm always learning something else it can do.

*I write short fanfic not because I sit down and say "hey, this fic will be short!" but because usually my fic impulse is to explain one little thing, or explore an idea, and I do not want to put in the energy to put it in its own world. So all my stuff on ff.n was born out of a germ of an idea that I did not connect with anything else. I think this goes back to some discussions we've had about what we're trying to do when we write, rather than a technique.

*I'd like to tell you how I found Henry Jenkins. Years ago, when I was in college, I heard a quote somewhere about how fanfiction is what happens when corporations own our popular heroes. I was enchanted by it, and wrote it down somewhere with Jenkins' name, but forgot who he was. I kept that quote in mind, though. When I found LJ and joined, my interest in fan dynamics exploded, and I was reintroduced.

*I haven't kept up with my flist lately, because of being gone. And getting back into keeping up has been difficult. But usually I ignore most community stuff and filter for personal journals and read them at work. I don't read everything, but most people, yeah.

*Cat macros, which I lump in with lolspeak and CAPSLOCKING: I cannot explain why this cracks my shit up. But it does. Repeatedly. Intellectually I know it's stupid, but I can't stop laughing. Especially now that I've found loltheorists. I've also made some.

*Someone up there said something about gossip attention was a personal trait. I lack it in all areas of my life; stuff goes down at work that I have no notion of until someone pulls me aside and says "I can't believe you said that! Didn't you know ______?!" Online it's even harder, I think.

*You like Harry/Dracy because you're just as human and perverse as the rest of us. It just shows itself in bizarre ways.

*Spike. I would like to get some of that. Tell me how when you find out.

I miss Spike.

*I read "most emoticons" as "most emotions." Which frankly was less sad to me than it probably should have been.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

-I think my main point about image editing was, "Photoshop is freakin' expensive, yo."

-on Jenkins: I think it's interesting you heard about him in college. No one I talked to in college seemed to know fandom existed. I told my roomie about it, and she laughed at me and said it was stupid, and then proceeded to devour fic after fic. My roomie often did the former and I hated it, and then often did the latter too, which was something I really loved about her, except for the whole hypocrisy part. /min-rant.

-cat macros and capslock crack my shit up too. loltheorists looks awesome. Which ones have you done??! I wanna seeeeeeeeee. My favorites have to be lolpoets. I wanna make a whole series of those.

-on gossip: once I was sitting sort of next to this girl I sort of knew, but I wasn't sitting *with* her, if you know what I mean. She was talking to someone else at the table at normal volume. Then all of the sudden she said, "Oh, Joy, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were sitting right there. I didn't mean to say that." So I said, "it's okay, I didn't hear it anyway," and went back to eating my lunch.

Later I became convinced she started talking about me again after that (while I was still there) but I was so not in tune with what was going on I didn't even notice. It's not that I wasn't curious; I still think about it and kinda wish I'd heard what she said. But I have a very narrow focus, such a one-track mind, that...yeah, if you're talking smack about me I probably won't notice even if you say, LOOK JOY IM TALKIN SMACK. But this also probably has to do with an inferiority/superiority complex too: I doubt if I'm not in the room anyone remembers me enough to talk about me, and if they *do* remember they can only have awesome things to say because I am awesome. *shrugs*

You like Harry/Dracy because you're just as human and perverse as the rest of us. It just shows itself in bizarre ways.

Hee. I ♥ you.

I read "most emoticons" as "most emotions." Which frankly was less sad to me than it probably should have been.

Ha! I actually feel that I'm really good at understanding lots of different emotions. I more often feel confused by people's logic and thought processes. Their meta-awareness of their emotions, we might say.

[my_daroga]

!Photoshop is expensive. I think maybe we had to get it for one of Mr. D's classes.

@I'm fairly certain I didn't learn about Jenkins from anyone at college; I think the quote was passed along to me from some other fan-aware friend. I definitely discovered porny fic in college, though.

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In honor of Phantom of Suck:









Not really capsy or anything, but:


$I can be oblivious like that too. And I don't have much of a people-radar, in the sense that I tend to miss stuff going on around me unless there are dogs or something involved.

%I actually feel that I'm really good at understanding lots of different emotions. I more often feel confused by people's logic and thought processes...

That is an important distinction I had not considered. Perhaps I relate to that; I can sympathize with specific feelings better than I can understand what's going on in the guy in front of me.

[my_daroga]

By the way, every time your LJ loads it gives me a pop-up error message about a script not stopping or something. Did you do anything weird to your code?