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Re: The Hugo Awards and trademarks

2019-09-20T23:55:03Z

Many other people have said things I agree with, especially fairestcat, about the bullshit from the WSFS about how AO3 contributors shouldn't refer to ourselves as winners of a tiny fraction of a Hugo Award. The short answer is they're wrong, we are, and we already got our fangirl cooties all over their serious phallic rocket. And they can't change that AO3 did win and we are here; their own fucking members, many of whom are AO3 contributors themselves, voted us the award. Die mad, assholes.

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Well hot damn

2019-08-19T08:22:03Z

AO3 won a Hugo!!!

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Fanworks meme!

2015-08-14T10:10:54Z

Yoinked from were_duck and longwhitecoats.

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Kids these days

2012-04-03T19:37:23Z

Text of an email from one of my awesome roommates, sent yesterday afternoon:

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Another natural pairing

2012-02-08T17:48:55Z

There will be actual content again soon, I promise.

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A very short rec set

2012-02-07T03:58:49Z

Having spent way too much time this weekend trawling through the kink meme(s), it's fascinating to me how you can basically track the infiltration of the alpha/beta/omega trope (but usually in its "pure" alpha/omega form) into XMFC fandom via which prompts on the meme get filled over time. (Someone could totally do a fascinating longitudinal study on the infiltration/cross-pollination of phrases and motifs in XMFC fic over time, incidentally.)

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Spaghetti on the wall makes a post, right?

2011-09-28T20:14:02Z

Dept. of Oh Snap
New Delicious has killed old Delicious.
bookshop, reaction post
epershand, Pinboard elving exchange brainstorm post (soon to be a reality)
facetofcathy, rundown part 2
unjapanologist, fannish bookmarking service = want, also, Diigo censors bookmarks
somnolentblue, linkspam

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Oh noes, not the Internet bullies!

2010-09-20T21:45:11Z

H/t to corneredangel, here, for this:

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Also ≠ Follow Friday: Fannish stuff

2010-09-10T18:46:30Z

L'shanah tovah! Eid mubarak!

Speaking of Eid, eid_ka_chand is running its Eid-al-thon fanworks challenge, which is being sponsored to raise money for flood survivors in Pakistan. There's a little less than 48 hours left--if you can contribute a drabble, or a microvid, or some icons or meta focusing on Muslim characters in fandom, please do!

Also, wistfuljane is organizing a Most Awesome Asian Characters & Celebrities fest in honor of Trung Thu, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Go check it out! Comment! Contribute!

And finally, the OTW will be hosting a one-year birthday party for the Archive of Our Own on September 13, midnight to midnight UTC. More details at the post--party attendees will get commemorative graphics and door prizes, and there will be cool new features launched too. I'll be there at some point myself.

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Ensign Sue Must Die!

2010-09-02T22:54:19Z

Ensign Sue Must Die! Story by Clare Moseley, art by Kevin Bolk.

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help_pakistan offer

2010-08-21T05:51:47Z

I've put up an offer for help_pakistan:

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Um, yeah. I second the motion.

2010-08-13T01:21:54Z

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Oh frabjous day, DMCA (exemption granted!)!

2010-07-27T02:47:04Z

I thought I might see some posts about the 20th anniversary of the ADA on my reading page today, but instead it's full of the awesome news that the Library of Congress has granted a DMCA exemption for vidders, media studies scholars, and cell phone jailbreakers! (Link goes to otw_news, the DW mirror of the Organization for Transformative Works' blog). The OTW was the major proponent of the explicit language in the decision that acknowledges many aspects of vidding as fair use, so hooray for fair use, the OTW, and the LoC! \o/

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Brief music thoughts, some links

2010-05-12T22:37:31Z

I went to see Sea Wolf at the First Unitarian Church Sanctuary two Sundays ago. I really like Sea Wolf--they remind me of Blitzen Trapper by way of The Arcade Fire, or maybe the other way around, and they put on a show that for my money was really good; they are really energetic and committed live performers (related: I sometimes wish I were a bass player. Bass players always seem to be having the most fun, hanging in the back, wandering around the stage, rocking out). But it was about 100ª in the sanctuary even at 10 pm when their set ended, and I only lasted a few songs into the set by The Album Leaf before I walked out, because I was tired and completely uninvested in and unhooked by their music. The pre-concert email from R5 compared them to Sígur Ros, to which I can only say...um, yeah, a downmarket English-speaking version. But the sanctuary was packed when I did leave, as it hadn't been for Sea Wolf, so what do I know?

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Homer loved fanfic, you know.

2010-05-12T01:20:43Z

I was just going to leave this lie, because I find the arguments of Diana Gabaldon and other pro writers against fanfiction to be boring, untenable, offensive and deeply un-original, but there are some good posts being written by other people that really do merit linkage.

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