Below are the most recent 14 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
ishtar79	2:55a	Checking out I'm off to the UK for two weeks visiting some friends, and pretty excited about it. I haven't been to Brighton since University, and I'll be spending New Year's in London, so YAY! Happy Holidays everyone, and catch you on in 2010! Current Mood: bouncy (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
skuf	11:40a	Happy Holidays! We celebrate Christmas on the 24th here, so assuming the next few days will be busy, I'm going to go ahead and wish you a merry Christmas/whatever you celebrate. Thanks to dancing_serpent for the card, to helkamaria for the card and cd <3, and to allzugern for the card, CHILI-CHOCOLATE-covered Brazil nuts, and mystery pressie <3 See you all on the other side! (Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
skuf	8:48p	Meta shill!* (One day I'll get around to posting my feelings on "pimp") noracharles posts "Call for contributor guidelines to metafandom, and for more dw meta", including a poll on "How would you as a reader like to be made aware of interesting meta posted to dreamwidth, including the sort not accepted by metafandom?". Fine, let it be this day: Considering the association of the term with the exploitation of women, I definitely have days where I feel it's a bad thing for me as a women to use it - in a way it legitimises prostituting women for your own personal monetary gain - the same way me using the terms "bitch" and "cunt" as invectives in a way legitimises the notion of female/female genitals = bad. The reason why I don't hate it 100%, 100% of the time, is because it's such a damn good word, short and to the point. It's not the same as "rec", and I really like the distinction! Is there another short word which works as well, which I can't think of? ETA: yourlibrarian says "shill" has been suggested. I like it! Except "shill cane" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. And an icon with a duck decoy would probably just confuse people… ETA2: Or would it&hellip? * Shilling? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
skuf	3:45p	From my to-post folder: ⇒ Red cabbage earrings, *wants*! How awesome are these?? I'm worried I won't use them enough, but darn, I'm tempted to get them, they're so well made! ⇒ isis linked to CatGyver, which led me to The last scene in "The Stringer", final episode of MacGyver, which I didn't really remember. I was extremely excited to learn MacGyver finishes the series going on a road trip with a young, male, leatherclad bikerfriend! Except sadly it turned out it was his son. ⇒ The free snowflake v-gifts at LJ was apparently a glitch, not intentional, *snort*. ⇒ Obviously all of you knew this, but I didn't - I always thought scans_daily (which I've never really been a part of/followed) belonged to a different corner of fandom than me. And that it was founded by guys (come and see the bias inherent in the system). Imagine my surprise that it's founded by female slashers! Yay! ⇒ Internet memes in RL make me happy in my brain!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
skuf	6:10p	Look what I made! ( Cut for pretty closeup <3 ) Snow lanterns are my childhood magic memories - I've been wanting to make one again for years, but it just hasn't been the right conditions for it when I had the time. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
skuf	8:49a	Where's all the meta? An issue of metafandom showed up on my f-page Sunday. It'd been 6 days since the previous issue. The issue contained 2 meta links, same as the previous.¹ Remember back in the day - e.g. 2006 - when issues were posted about every other day and had shitloads of links? What happened? Brainstorming: There are less active fen, leading to less meta overall (doesn't seem likely?) People are posting less meta (Yes?) People are posting more meta behind lock (I do this, myself, so I could see it being an explanation) metafandom editors don't go looking as far or as wide for meta as they used to (I don't know how links-collecting at metafandom differs now as compared to earlier, but I'd be surprised if this was the explanation) Meta is harder to find, because it's being posted more scattered across fandom, not just in one corner (long!explanation is long: I'm wondering if people's f-lists used to be more homogenous, so most people posting meta had a lot of the other people posting meta friended. So one meta BNF's f-list could have yielded enough links for a single issue, while now you'd have to check several f-lists, because the meta people are scattered??) Old issues of metafandom also included fandom-specific meta, new issues not [so much] (this is true, but there was still loads more general fandom meta back then) People are too worried/put off by the potential of wank to post even behind f-lock (this has influenced me hugely, so I'm likely to project that it's influenced others, too) Something I haven't thought of, which you will tell me in the comments (which makes me think maybe I should include a poll for interest's sake?) View/take poll at Dreamwidth - View DW post with comments ¹ Actually an issue was posted on LJ on Dec 8 with 1 link, which wasn't cross-posted. Same difference, really. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
ishtar79	11:41p	So, the Dexter finale. ( HUGE spoilers ) Current Music: Wicked Game (666 remix) by H.I.M (Comment on this)
tiferet93	12:08a	I want to post about how asinine it is that LJ is going to try and make people specify their gender. However I have strep throat and need to go to bed and am succeeding mostly in putting my foot in my mouth when I comment on public posts. Ergo: The changelog is here: http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/7932846.html synecdochic's words of wisdom are here: http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/366609.html And I would like to note that not only is this incredibly harmful, unfair and insulting to queer, genderqueer, transgendered and intersexed people, it's also damaging to women who prefer not to specify their gender in public internet fora because they are trying to avoid harassment. There is a great deal of non-trivial statistical evidence to the effect that when female internet users are forced to identify publicly as female to strangers, they are subject to statistically significant amounts of harmful sexually harassing behaviour. A 2006 University of Maryland study found that obviously female usernames receive 25% more harassing messages in chatrooms than sexually ambiguous or male usernames do. A Girl Scout Research Institute study found that 30% of teenage girls have been sexually harassed online. In the 2008 Cyberstalking Statistics produced by Working to Halt Online Abuse, 71% of cyberstalking cases involved harassment of women and girls. Many women, especially young girls, decline to identify themselves online by gender because they do not wish to attract this kind of attention. I'm not one of them, but I certainly understand the impulse--after all, I have always been openly female and have therefore had that kind of attention. Unfortunately. This entry was originally posted at http://tiferet.dreamwidth.org/34753.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: angry (and sick)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
skuf	1:08p	Show of hands for meta-beta duty? Could someone read over a short piece of meta for SPAG/clarity? (Comment on this)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
skuf	3:23p	I feel like Spammy McSpammerson these days! Just wanted to point out that you can still ask for a badly santa-hatted icon (DW link, so you can see what you're getting yourself into) - I just know there's at least one of you thinking, "Oh, we don't really know each other, obviously she doesn't mean me!" Well, I do, everyone should have a badly manipped santa-hat icon :o) I need more meta in my life. It's a little late to arrange something for December, but I'm thinking of doing another Mini Meta Fest in the new year. Poll #4694 Mini Meta Fest January 2010? Open to: All, results viewable to: All Interested in participating in another Mini Meta Fest in January? View Answers Yes 1 (100.0%) Maybe 0 (0.0%) No, but in February = yes 0 (0.0%) (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
skuf	4:46p	My Fleurcup arrived! My Fleurcup arrived today, one day ahead of schedule (site said three work days). It's not as purple as I expected, but the colour also depends on the light - in this pic taken with my phone, it's not very purple at all: ( Cut for image ) ( I couldn't wait to take it for a test-run - cut for the few, the squeamish ) P.S. I really need a TMI icon. (Comment on this)
skuf	1:17p	You guys, look what I made! I changed this into this (mah icon, if you have images turned off like I do): Not half-bad, right? For a beginner? Well, I thought I did pretty well :oD (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
skuf	7:44p	ElfQuest readthrough ~ Grub 2 ⇒ I finally got my ass in gear and joined the ElfQuest (GIP!) readthrough at elfquest. Which means there's still plenty of time for you to join in, too :oD ⇒ I posted on my experience so far with editing the boot menu of Grub 2 at linux4all. In short, old!Grub was much easier :o/ ⇒ I'm three gift certificates from being done buying Christmas present \o/ (I prefer to buy presents, not give money/certificates, but my brother's family only wish for things I can't afford. So sucks to be them). ⇒ I'm almost done with cards (was actually done, but doing a couple more), whee! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
sistermagpie	10:52p	An UnDeath in the Batfamily Talking about recent scans about one of S_D's favorite talking points inspired me to talk about him myself: Jason Todd. There's not a lot of agreement about this character throughout fandom, but the one thing people do seem to agree on is that editorial has not handled him well at all. ( And this was my take on that--which got long. ) Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)