Susan

superborb posted: "Interesting people to subscribe to" meme!

I remember that when DW migrations were discussed on twitter, one of the common refrains was not knowing where to start. I feel like friending memes are kind of high pressure because of the expectation of reciprocity if you're totally new! Also, you have to BE THERE when the meme is still active. So I was thinking instead about:

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* INTERESTING PEOPLE TO SUBSCRIBE TO *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

• Today has been a day of discovering incredibly soothing activities!
  
  
  • butnotdegeneres recommended Picross Luna, which is a pastel witchy looking nonogram thing that has eaten hours of my day.
  
  
  • I installed the kudosed/seen/unseen script for AO3 and it turns out that going through a fandom tag and clicking "skip" on anything in a language that I can't read or that's a crossover into something I don't care about is INCREDIBLY PEACEFUL. 10/10, would recommend, at least if you're like me and you only truck with small-ish fandoms. ... I just find clearly defined end points soothing! Being able to tick things off makes me happy!
  
  
  • Twitter rolled out the scheduled posts thing for non-business accounts and I didn't notice! So now I can queue a shit-ton of links to cute soothing art and not a power in the verse can stop me.


• Scum Villain's Self-Saving System has latched onto me, I was right right. ... Or I latched onto it, I guess, because my brain goes "Oooh, id fic that hits all of the delicious tropes? Yes, you may have happy chemicals for this." I am strongly considering reading the other (more sweary) translation, just to see if I can match up which bits of the fandom read which translation.


• It's been disgustingly warm this week, even for me.


• A group of us got together and had a socially-distanced picnic, and it was really nice! The anxiety was high, but my theory was "All involved parties have been as locked down as possible, and there's no way for any of us to isolate due to the house layout, so if one of us goes we might as well all go." We got to see our friends and gently roast each other and laugh at each other's quarantine haircuts! I nearly ate a wasp sandwich while looking for the wasp that had been harrassing Lex! I continue to be confused by the neurotypicals, because when I'm at home not interacting with people, I'm like "Yes, this is how life has always been," and when I'm sitting in a park with my friends I'm like "Yes, this is how life has always been," and basically what I'm saying is that I love my friends but also forget that I've not seen them in a while once I actually see them.


• Monday marked... Twelve years since my dad died? I think? 2008-2020, what is maths. Didn't drink to him this year, but that's because treating my mental health issues, which I feel is a better tribute considering he didn't or couldn't.


• I accidentally fell into a pit of fandom nostalgia this week and god I miss fandom newsletters. Like ff_press was GREAT and I loved it. It wouldn't work now, because fandoms are spread too far across the internet, but weirdly having a feed reader bring me AO3 updates for my fandom makes me feel more involved? I dunno, feelings are weird, nostalgia is weirder, I don't have object permanence and my memory's awful so nostalgia as a CONCEPT is fucking weird.


• I really need to figure out a better solution for my keyboard and stuff. When I have access to my desk, it works great! Got my laptop on top of a box so there's space for me to use the desk as well, and it's probably better for me through ergonomics or something. But I don't have access to my desk 9-5, when I'm trying to do things, so... Not perfect yet. I'll think of something.

fandomcalendar posted: Multifandom: March Meta Matters Challenge

While creators have often used multiple sites to host their works, one type of work has generally been left out of fans' efforts at archiving and preserving fanworks -- meta. In many cases, meta posts have not been copied anywhere else other than the location where they were first posted, leaving them particularly vulnerable to loss.