Forecast calls for random links

[daemonluna]

Friends, I had too many tabs open. I had four windows of anywhere from 30-50 tabs each. There was an awful lot of stuff I'd been meaning to read, share, or otherwise do something with. There was fic, So much fic. Things I meant to go back on comment on, things to read later, lists of other people's bookmarks or authors where I was halfway through skimming what they'd written by fandom. 

But I've been meaning to try switching from Chrome back to Firefox. And that means closing Chrome. All the windows. All the tabs. 

After forty minutes, I am down to one window with nine tabs for later. The fic I'd meant to comment on were bookmarked and closed. The fic I'd meant to read are getting marked for later (or re-marked if they need to be bumped up the queue) and the I-am-midway-through lists of other people's bookmarks were dumped in a file as links for later. The random open Tumblr and Gmail windows got shut down as I went.

And the random links I'd been meaning to share are...well, all here.



Fandom and finding queerness is a bit of meta that I definitely relate to, and I think some of you will too.

We took it. We stole. And again and again, for years and years and years, we turned that theft into an art. We looked for every opening, every crack in every sidewalk where a little sprout of queerness might grow, and we claimed it for our own and we grew whole gardens. We grew so sly and so skilled with it, learning to spot the hints of oh, this could be slashy in every new show and movie to come our way. Do you see how they left these character dynamics here, unattended on the table? How ripe they are for the pocketing. Here, I’ll help you carry them. We’ll make off with these so-called straight boys, and we only have to look back if somebody sets out another scene we want for our own.

The Fanfic Author’s Guide to Metatext (As Used on Ao3) looks supremely useful, as does the summary of AO3 hidden operators for searching and The Life And Death of Fandom Platforms is something I still need to look at. AO3 Wrapped will let you generate a summary of your yearly AO3 reading.
 

If The King of Attolia was a Broadway musical  is just a delightful bit of what-if.

I know this video is a commercial for a Japanese infrastructure company, but it's also amazing art made with conductive thread.

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin is something I need to go back and read in more detail. same with The Oldest True Stories in the World, about oral tradition Dialect: A Game about Language and how It Dies just looks cool.  
 

A vid rec for The Great British Bake-Off! (I am sure this came from dine at some point in the last six to eight months)

A fantastically bonkers saga involving real estate and a yard sale.

Lube and science! Osmolality and pH, specifically.

Ursula Vernon Creates Hopeful Post-Apocalyptic Comic With Help of Image-Generating AI, and it's lovely.

And now... time to get up and take a break from the screen! 

Comments

[dine]

oh wow - I cannot even imagine having that many tabs open! I start getting twitchy if I've got more than 7-9 open at one time. but it's great to see some of what you're clearing out

I remember that vid GBBO! it's wonderful

so many thanks for the link to that fantastic bonkers saga. I couldn't stop laughing as I imagined events rolling along

[daemonluna]

I could see it all unfolding too. It's the same person who wrote about the The 1969 Easter Mass Incident.