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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!

The daily_snitch/dailysnitch is looking for a new editor for its Friday edition.

• Actors and Movies: Emma Watson's People Tree range to launch February 22nd 2010.
  
  Video: Tim Hailand talks One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe, reveals new photos.
  
  Deathly Hallows Death Eater actor donates first editions to charity.
  
  
• News: Harry Potter: Guardian's Icon of the Decade.
  
  
• Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fanworks and resources featuring Rowena Ravenclaw.

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[DCU] shadowvalkyrie: DCU musings: "Specifically, porn. [...] Even more specifically, kinky porn. And the discrepancy of why the Bruce/Tim variety tends to be a great deal more popular than the Bruce/Jason one."

[Torchwood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer] firefly124: Okay, so everybody else has probably already read this AfterElton article (the article compared Torchwood and BtVS in regards to character death, and the post builds on that. I'm not being more specific because I'm unsure whether details about Torchwood's third season are still considered spoilers.)

General

thete1: "I know it's racist, Te, but the special effects look awesome!": "This has been on my mind -- harshing *my* squee -- since that first Transformers movie came out and so many of you were full of excuses about why you were going to see it anyway. Despite the racism."

In a post titled Saying Goodbye, yourlibrarian talks about important changes in TV, reality shows, the demise of the WB, and that the cause for the popularity decline in music games could be "a stranglehold on copyright".

cluegirl: Thoughts Contingent on Reader Entitlement; the fandom edition: "So what is it that makes us as readers so much more ready to be spiteful about work we DID NOT have to pay for? Other than the fact that we can, and the writer in question is unlikely to have highly paid lawyers who might give us a telling-off for acting like arseholes, I mean?"

skuf: Where's all the meta?: "Remember back in the day - e.g. 2006 - when [metafandom] issues were posted about every other day and had shitloads of links? What happened? Brainstorming: ..." (Cross-posted to DW, where the big discussion obviously seems to happen, but I decided to link the IJ version on principle.)

xie_xie_xie: metafandom and its discontents: "But the last three or four times I submitted a link, either mine or someone else's, either QAF-specific or "big picture" fandom meta, it was just ignored. I never knew if they just didn't like it, or didn't get it, or what the problem was."

• Actors and Movies:
  Clémence Poésy talks return to Deathly Hallows in French Cosmopolitan.
  
  
• Archive:
  dmhgficexchange posted a list of entries for week two of its Ring in the New Year Exchange. Week one archive is here.
  The daily_snitch has posted its Special Edition featuring Gellert Grindelwald.
  
  
• General Interest:
  fanthropology has updated with: Media references to fanfic, the week ending 12/19/09.
  
  
• Hot Art:
  Certain Truths by Anonymous (hints of Harry/Draco, PG)
  Take Another by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, R)
  The Green Tie by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, R)
  The Joyous Misdelivery (a.k.a. it was because Hermione always wears granny's knickers) by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, PG)
  
  
• Hot Fic:
  Portrait of a Headmaster by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, NC-17)
  Observations by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, mention of Ron/Hermione, R)
  Darkstar by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, NC-17)
  Draco Malfoy's Travelling Theatre of the Strange and Spectacular by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, various other pairings, NC-17)
  Everybody's Hero by Anonymous (Harry/Draco, implied Ron/Hermione, PG-13)
  
  
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• ratcreature: random poll - if you've been in fandom a long(-ish) time, do you ever feel nostalgia for fandom how it used to be? ("Fandom" in this case intentionally vague as I just mean whatever form of fandom you were involved in the era you are nostalgic for.) And if so, for which time period? -
  
  (tags: fandom history poll)


• katta: Some clues on how not to write deaf characters - The disability fanfic site has uploaded a bunch of stuff, so I've been reading quite a lot, and there are a couple of things that bother me. -
  
  (tags: disability fanfic)


• box_in_the_box: WHY SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK CREATORS SHOULD NOT INTERACT WITH FANDOM: - It occurs to me that what we have here is a microcosm of the exact same sort of tension between entertainment media producers and consumers as exists in just about any other genre or medium now, in which the whole movement toward "the author is dead" has inspired a backlash from the authors themselves, who aren't content with telling stories so much as they want the power to dictate how their audiences should react to their works. -
  
  (tags: tptb fandom comics spiderman)


• sailorptah: Sigh. - But other times? Other times the discussion, while it may have started in a fannish place, has left that context behind long ago. Which means that, unless you were involved with it from the beginning, it boils down to this: "People you have no connection to (except that you both use the same blogging service, and/or enjoy watching TV and writing about it) said something which sounds like it was ill-advised (although you can't say for certain, because until five minutes ago you were not even aware this conversation had taken place) and now you get to hear a deconstruction of why they were wrong." -
  
  (tags: fandom meta)


• cupidsbow: meta twitter? - Maybe all the huge discussions of the last two years have actually changed the face of meta, because we feel more comfortable in just using that language and making short comments, rather than having to scale up our meta thoughts into full-blown essays. -
  
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• crabapplered: Metafandom needs to re-evaluate. - The point is, if someone wants to talk about the mechanics of chakra in Naruto, they don't really want people to pop up and go "pft! Chakra! Now there's some fine cultural appropriation in that series" -
  
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• rubyfruit_pixie: Also I Am A Horrible, Horrible Person (And That's Okay). - And I can think and squee at the same time. The two are not mutually exclusive, and I really wish people would stop thinking that they are. -
  
  (tags: discussions)


• renay: PSA to Emerging FFXIII Fans: Don't Do Racist Shit! - If these are the actions and behavior I have to look forward to from fans of Final Fantasy XIII, so help me, I am going to explode in rage on a near-daily basis. I mean, this is Racism 101 stuff. -
  
  (tags: finalfantasy race icons)


• renay: An Interesting and Heartbreaking Addition to the Debate At Hand: SEXISM! - My bottom line, to him and everyone else: the problem stopped being just the icons when people started defending their usage with extremely problematic words. Stop using the icons, yes, and then come back, because you defended them and you have to fix that mess you made, as well. -
  
  (tags: finalfantasy icons race gender)


• justira: Time to discuss racism and humour! aka how about them mildly infamous icons? - The relationship between humour and kyriarchy is... pretty complicated. It's quite easy to fall into a trap here: attempt, with the best intentions, to deride things worthy of derision, and yet in making the joke end up perpetuating those same ills. -
  
  (tags: humour race gender disability)


• vi: Bingo in FF fandom - It isn't this specific instance (Sazh and fried chicken jokes) itself, but that it is part of a larger trend of representing non-white characters in stereotyped ways, and the reaction of white-privileged fans being told that it's Not Cool. -
  
  (tags: finalfantasy race)


• heebeeAnyone else finding the "ironic" fried c - Anyone else finding the "ironic" fried chicken and/or watermelon-themed Sazh Katzroy icons in poor taste? -
  
  (tags: icons finalfantasy race)

This is a little sack I made for a friend. The colours are off. The one side isn't pink but red. It's a simple knit/purl pattern. I had some trouble casting on the stitches. Because I had the pattern I had to count the stitches and I was despairing over the fact that my first cast-on produces two "loops" instead of one. A phone conversation with my mother* and a good look at my new knitting book later I found out that I pulled back the thread from the wrong side.
And did you know that there are mutiple types of casting on stitches? My mother and I apparently use the "Italian method". I don't know if this is the correct English name. And we both knit the continental or German way. Making the sack took two days. It was good practice. The pattern wasn't too complicated and I got better at counting and checking my rows when I thought I miscounted.
Even though I did some tests with the pattern the first few rows (the bottom of the pink side) came out too loose. I used metal circular knitting needles (the only set I have). I bought two 200g skeins (German: Dogge) for 5€ each. It's an acrylic fiber.

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This is probably going to be my last post this year. So I wish you all a wonderful holiday season!


*My father had to hold the telephone to my mother's ear so she could cast on some stitches and describe what she did. It was the picture in the knitting book that made me realize my mistake in the end.

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Ich liebe es, nach einer Folge, die mir gut gefallen hat, die Reaktionen anderer Leute zu lesen. Allen voran diesmal cherrybina's screencap of awesome. Tipp: Das Beste daran ist nicht Arthurs Gesicht. Den Blick etwas weiter nach unten wandern lassen. ;)

Die erste Review, in der ich gestern über den ( spoilenden Harry-Potter-Vergleich ) gestolpert bin, war die von analineblue. Das passt!

saintmaverick bringt eine andere Szene gut auf den Punkt: ( Spoiler ) *flails* *flails more*

rane_ab's Eintrag zu 2x13 The Last Dragon Lord war meine erste Anlaufstelle gestern Abend. ♥

Jetzt brauche ich Fanfic. *geht suchen*

I'm a woman, bisexual, possibly polyamorous, atheist.
I'm also white, citizen of an industrial nation, cis-gendered and generally healthy.
I'm not entitled to judge who or what other people are or what they are allowed or supposed to be.
I can react to other people's behaviour if I feel it is demeaning, disrespectful, repressive, hurtful and indeed dangerous for others. I feel morally obliged to do so.
Other people can react to, judge or stop my behaviour if they feel it is demeaning, disrespectful, repressive, hurtful and indeed dangerous for others. They need no other reason.
It is very likely to happen that I may act protectively about women's rights, yet I still might make a racist comment. Being a woman doesn't make me better enabled to act politically correct. I might even act against the furthering of people's equality, even if it may not be my intention. Being whatever or whoever I am doesn't make me less likely to act "right", either. People's struggles for more rights, more power and more respect are ongoing and all of us won't always be right, it is the way of things. Nobody can tell me (or you) that I (or you) can't participate in that struggle. They can and will criticise our behaviour, however, and that is their right that we have to acknowledge if we really want this struggle to succeed.

• djin7: On Reviews, Concrit, feedback or flames, what not to do on the internet - However, if you do not want uninvited critical reviews mixed in with glowing, positive reviews? You must hand pick and select your audience to only people who will do your bidding, and instruct them to do so, whether it's to your best interest or worst. -
  
  (tags: reviewing feedback comments concrit)


• solarcat: A Question about Default Icons (Or, It's Amateur Sociology Time! \0/ ) - What impact does a default icon have? Do we draw conclusions about users based on their default icon? -
  
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• londonkds: The honeymoon between fandom and Dreamwidth faces its first test - It has been reported that Dreamwidth has received legal letters from Marvel related to the ever-controversial scans_daily community. -
  
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• elf: [in scans_daily] Some Copyright Basics - The basic principles, from a non-lawyer perspective (i.e. do not quote me in court unless you are attempting a defense of "not guilty by reason of mental defect or insanity"): Copyright law is *psychotic.* -
  
  (tags: copyright fandom)


• das_dingsi: Heads-up: You don't get to respect only the "good" trans people and still call yourself an ally. - When a person asks you to use a certain pronoun for them, you use it. When they say they are trans, you act accordingly and don't question their identity. The self-identity of the trans person overrides everything else. If you don't respect that, you propagate transphobia. -
  
  (tags: transgender fandom)

• Actors and Movies: The Economist on Economy of Harry Potter; Deathly Hallows Filming Ends in May
  
  Huddersfield menswear store provides shirts & ties for Deathly Hallows
  
  Tom Felton lists his favourite people & inspirations, including David Yates
  
  Bonnie Wright & Jamie Campbell Bower attend Maybelline Calendar launch
  
  Pansy Parkinson, Romilda Vane & Leanne actresses reprise roles for Deathly Hallows
  
  Half-Blood Prince Debuts at Top of DVD and BluRay Sales Charts
  
  Rupert Grint in February Issue of Total Film Magzine


• Archive: Walking the Plank, the Snape/Harry archive, is looking for volunteers.


• Communities: hp_humpdrabbles is a new community posting on Wednesdays.


• Hot Art: Determination by Anonymous (Snape/Harry; R, NWS)
  
  In the Garden by Anonymous (Snape/Lupin; work-safe)


• Hot Rec: The Song of Surrender by Anonymous (Harry/Ron; NC-17)
  
  Of Rhinos and Men by Anonymous (Snape/Moody; NC-17)
  
  Subtlety Personified by Anonymous (Snape/Slughorn; PG)
  
  Mad Wolves and Englishmen by Anonymous (Snape/Lupin; NC-17)
  
  Upon the Midnight Clear by Anonymous (Draco/Hermione; NC-17)
  
  Ride the Drafts in Empty Bedrooms by Anonymous (Snape/Narcissa; NC-17)


• News: James & Oliver Phelps to attend Harry Potter theme park opening in spring 2010


• Participate: silentauror wonders about fic exchange feedback.


• Searches: daily_snitch is looking for fanworks and resources featuring Gellert Grindelwald.

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Wow, die Fanfiction für die nächsten Monate ist gerettet! \o/

Von der Folge muss ich mich erst mal erholen. :D

Merlin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just took on Winsor Pilates for the first time, and I lost. I had no idea I was this out of shape!

Time to flop on the couch and watch the season finale of Beautiful People... yes, again. And you can't tell me they haven't watched AWZ. I swear I heard strains of "Unzertrennlich" playing during the tabletennis rooftop confessional! (Is anybody else watching this show besides omarandjohnny? And if not, then why not?!!! Take Glee, make the musical numbers glitter even more, swap out the moralistic lesson-per-episode with naughty innuendo, slap on an extra heavy coat of campy sparkle, and you've got this show. So much love!)

It's positively freezing here. -16°C (3°F). I have to work today. This is the second winter since I've been living here that's so cold. Last year my pipes froze and I didn't have running water for a day. This year I have to work at the Christmas Market.

I wouldn't mind the cold if my flat was properly isolated (which it isn't, so my kitchen and bathroom window are frozen) or if I was at home with the awesome new fireplace in our living room.

And I still have to find some Christmas gifts.

• noracharles: International fandom, again. - When you are in a discussion about tensions between cultures and prejudices against certain nationalities, and how Westerners (hint: especially Canadians and U.S. Americans) are generally ignorant, dismissive and fearful of people from certain countries, don't reframe the discussion to be about your own nation and culture, erasing and dismissing the actual people from actual different countries than your own whom you are currently talking to. -
  
  (tags: ethnicity fandom btvs ds sentinel)


• branchandroot: untitled - Were 6A ever called capitalist pigs? Multiple times in every heated post? Were they referred to at every turn as Americans or San Franciscans as though that somehow explained why they were bad? -
  
  (tags: sup lj ethnicity)


• bell: one discussion leads to another - However, the main reason I wanted to make this exchange public was to ask anyone reading my journals, on DW or on LJ, to not stereotype Russians in a similar way in comments to my posts. I feel it is phobic language in its own right, and just as I am trying to do away with ableist, racist, homophobic, and cis-privileged language, I would like to do with terminology and references that does not respect the complexity of a given culture and nation. -
  
  (tags: ethnicity fandom)


• cupidsbow: diigo vs delicious, and how to set up diigo - There are several reasons I have accounts on two social bookmarking sites. Mostly, I began by wanting a back-up site for my recs on delicious; but having now compared the functionality of diigo and delicious, diigo is the clear winner in nearly all respects. -
  
  (tags: delicious diigo howto)


• facetofcathy: Historical AUs and race--my thoughts and questions and no real answers. - We seem to have some kind of unspoken fandom consensus on this with respect to women in historical AUs, where they get to achieve a level of awesome about equivalent to a Jane Austen heroine, but are never quite too unbelievably modern, but I can't really find the conversation about race in historical AUs. -
  
  (tags: merlin sga race fanfic au)


• amber: come and play in my sandbox. - This isn't a Beginner's Guide to Dreamwidth, nor is it a comprehensive list of all the cool stuff the site has to offer. It's intended to be useful for people who want to RP here, and assumes prior experience in using a similar website to do so. -
  
  (tags: rpg dw)


• noracharles: Call for contributor guidelines to metafandom, and for more dw meta - How would you as a reader like to be made aware of interesting meta posted to dreamwidth, including the sort not accepted by metafandom? -
  
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• 51stcenturyfox: Let's talk about sex, baby - Sex means something, even PWP sex. -
  
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• marina: untitled - Now, we all know (well, maybe you don't) that ever since LJ was bought up by a Russian company the wank in English speaking fandom over THE KREMLIN TAKING OVER has been utterly insane. I remember when it first happened, I remember the initial panic (yes, panic) and how many people talked about feeling like LJ was on the verge of being purged of all that was "non conforming", everything that was "problematic" content. -
  
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Kaum bin ich durch die Kälte nach Hause und werde langsam wieder warm, erinnert mich ausgerechnet der Schnee daran, dass die letzen Wochen nur so an mir vorbeigeflogen sind. Der Schneesturm im Livejournal ist schon fast zwei Wochen her und Yuletide ist zum AO3 umgezogen! Eeeep.

~~Fan-Kalender mit Ereignissen seit meinem letzten Eintrag:~~

07.12. Schnee, ganz viel Schnee in meinem LJ. Wheee!! Vielen Dank! \o/

08.12. enednoviel hat mir ein absolut geniales "Starsky & Hutch"-Fanart-Lesezeichen geschickt. DANKE!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ Schade nur, dass ich es niemals in der Öffentlichkeit werde benutzen können, denn ... holla die Waldfee! *hust*

09.12. Habe lange und laut darüber gelacht, dass eine Gay Soap Convention in New York geplant ist und 5 der 8 Seifenopernstars die Jungs aus VL, AWZ und GZSZ sind. Das haben die sich bestimmt nicht träumen (!) lassen, als sie damals die Verträge für ihre Rollen unterschrieben haben.

( 10.12-18.12. Links, Artikel, Spaß mit Wikis, Sherlock Holmes, Merlin, Crossover, Recs, Fic )

♣ I have - I mean, my post on the recent Trans!fail and what (please, PLEASE) Not To Do, has been linked at The Hathor Legacy. Whoa. This is a surprise and also has never happened to me before. I mean, getting linked anywhere except for people's personal journals. Which is more... personal. - Anyways, cool!

♣ (I plan a second part, btw, because I've been stupid enough to read journal posts by parties involved and encountered some very upsetting statements which are variants of common transphobic... tropes. And cissexism. And cis privilege. But I feel I need to recharge my batteries first.)

♣ Early shift is EVIL. It's an inhuman condition for a Dingsi. I'm so glad this week is over.

♣ Snow is also evil, because it's my turn with the communal cleaning and that means I have to get up at 06:15 tomorrow (i.e. in seven hours) and make sure the foot-walk in front of our house is snow-free and covered in road salt. *hates*

♣ Party tomorrow at a local disco, might possibly attend. Yay socialising! ... Not if it stays that cold, though. The weather makes me want to curl up in my cave and eat steaming-hot meals four times a day. Sigh.

♣ I'm glad to have you.

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?".

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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?

This is not drawing. This is also not laundry. Today was decompression time though, so laundry has been pushed to tomorrow. In the process of compiling this I realised the creative niche that vidding fills for me, which is being able to sort all my squeeful thoughts and say here are all the things I love about ____. With music attached. I always feel slightly weird about vidding since I don't approach it with any intention to learn the finer details of editing or crafting a strong visual narrative, but coming to understand why I vid makes me feel more comfortable sharing what I've made.

I also feel like all the classic and contemporary big band/crooners I've been listening to while working in the lab this semester was just preparing me to fall in love with this show. Also, OT3 much? Purr.

( White Collar Vid - Neal/Peter/Elizabeth - Peroxide Swing )

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