4am rambles

I looked at the cover for the latest issue of Skip Beat and decided I'd had enough of Ren and his stupid angsty face. Call me if it ever becomes about Kyoko again.

I keep thinking I'm done with Glitch and then something new and fun happens. The other day I decided to find the key to the locked door in Subarna Spells, and in the process had a nice conversation with others waiting for it to respawn (I eventually got bored, came back an hour later to see some still waiting and found it on the ground) Then I got in and it was so much fun:people jump from ledge to ledge and when they see a sparkly rock respawn shout out the location then everyone converges at once to mine it in seconds before moving on to the next one. Then I decided to check out one of the other hidden key locations, and found a note inviting people to join a group for user generated quests. So I checked one out, but got stuck…and while wandering around encountered an invite to an unrelated party. When I arrived only the host was there, but we had a nice chat and they gave me all their leftover food (any day that results in free food is a good day, even if it's virtual)

I find this Supernatural fan film interesting. From what I've seen, Counteragent and Naomi Novik both produce fannish works which are of high quality but way too in love with male characters for my tastes, and Supernatural girl!Sam/Dean fanfic tends to feel like regular fic with the pronouns changed to me, but I'm wondering if that fact that there's actual women playing the characters would make any difference. I quite liked swirlygate, but that didn't take itself at all seriously. Anyway, even if it doesn't end up being my sort of thing I think it's a cool idea.

Various things to do with the OTW and AO3

If the new AO3 skins are bugging you like they were me, go to the public skins, "Snow" is pretty close to the old settings. It would be nice if I could have learned about this from the AO3 instead of via my network :/ A tutorial would be nice too, I find the way skins are set up confusing and I have a computer science major (what is "chaining"?)

Speaking of the OTW, elections are coming up soon, and I have a vote this time! Unfortunately things have gone very pear-shaped recently causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, but hopefully the organisation can learn from it and grow stronger as a result. hl's endorsements in this post have been backed up by other people's I've seen, especially Julia Beck and Jenny Scott-Thompson(*), though Lucy Pearson has since dropped out. Here's a big collection of lots of links.

This is a nice description of how the preferential voting will work (in unlabelled pictures). One thing that may not be clear to people who are less familiar with this type of voting: if there's someone you really don't want on the board, number all the boxes and put that person last. In general, numbering all the boxes is the best way to make sure your vote counts.

(*)Who are, I must admit, the two I know personally. But this means I would have noticed if I'd seen anyone say a word against them, and I haven't.