Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 7th, 2009
elke_tanzer	6:56p	/sings along with the rest of the tag-wranglers I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD BUT THE AO3 CODERS MOST OF ALL BOOM-DE-YADA, BOOM-DE-YADA... :-D In only-minorly-related news, apparently my long-slumbering infatuation with Merlin UK fandom has re-manifested. The trouble with tag-wrangling and thinking about what Freeform tags I might want on my own bookmarks is that I keep finding all kinds of neat new things to read! Which reminds me... not for official tag-wrangling, but for my own bookmarks... I'm thinking I want to start using nonfandom-specific tags for the following concepts, because when I'm reading in Merlin and Smallville (and other?) fandoms, I find myself seeking these themes out: Secret Revealed Secret Revealed To Partner Secret Revealed To Partner - Unresolved Sexual Tension Secret Revealed To Partner - Established Relationship Secret Revealed To Ally (or perhaps To Friend? hmmm.) Secret Revealed To Nemesis Secret Revealed Anticlimactic What do you fine folks use to tag or bookmark such concepts? ETA: Oh oh oh! I almost forgot! I've stumbled across a couple completely adorable Fred & Ginger fanvids recently! I think I found one of them via veni_vedi_vids and another via... um... hang on, I've got it here in a tab somewhere... aha! stultiloquentia and someone else (sorry, I can't find you!) right around the same time, and the others via google-searching trying to figure out where I'd found the first one, before I remembered! glvalentine's rec of Love You Madly by roseytrebles Fanvid: "Happiness" [Astaire/Rogers Films] by icepixie They Can't Take That Away... by duckmilk productions Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance) by StrictlyTaboo Support For My Argument by vespersaw Also Caught by vespersaw, featuring not only Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but also William Powell and Myrna Loy, and Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn... *swoon* (I must interject here that never in a million years did I ever expect to find fanvids including footage of Captain Blood (and Robin Hood OMG) aside from the fantastic One Night Fandoms: A Tribute to Yuletide by eruthros and thingswithwings!) This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1018626.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: busy
Friday, December 4th, 2009
elke_tanzer	10:09p	Friday Random Roundup I won't be giving Motorola any of my money anytime soon. Sexist advertising pisses me off. Pheh. Need to cleanse my brain a bit after that... By way of swanswan, footage from myriad BBC costume dramas set to 'It's Raining Men.' (Clearly, I am not watching enough BBC costume dramas.) I will probably need this when I am home again for Christmas... Lifehacker's How To Fix Your Relatives' Terrible Computer. Also, wintery desktop backgrounds. Bleh, winter. In hotter news... asdf;lkjasd;flkj;alskdfj j_crew_guy why oh why do you share these tantalizing links? If you’re a fan of Christian and Oliver, Deniz and Roman, Dante’s Cove, Queer as Folk, One Life to Live, Verbotene Liebe, Alles Was Zählt, GREEK, and Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten... http://gaysofourlives.org/ March 26-28th 2010 in New York. *bouncebouncehappybounce* The Lair - The Complete 3rd Season on DVD this coming March 23rd (And yes, I am severely behind on my drunkened liveblogging of this season's eps. I will catch up, I swear. Because The Lair is made of awesome silliness with a side of hot steam and a massive helping of CHEEZE. ALSO? ALSO ALSO ALSO???? OMG TEASER TRAILER. BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY TEASER TRAILER. Yes, this official online series thing is really happening: http://buckrogersbegins.com/ If the above link or embed on youtube doesn't work, here's an alternate link to the teaser trailer on scifiupdates.com. (And no, prior to this new web series, I was not terribly much a Buck Rogers fan. But now I am, and it's all Bobby Quinn Rice's fault. Thppppt!) Further details and geekyblogs' reactions to the trailer: http://trekmovie.com/2009/11/30/new-teaser-for-cawleys-buck-rogers-web-series/ http://scifiwire.com/2009/12/teaser-trailer-for-new-bu.php http://gilgerard.tripod.com/ (scroll down to September on Gil's blog...) http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/12/so_theres_a_buck_rogers_web_series_or_something.php YouTube playlist of the DragonCon Buck Rogers panel (includes spoilers!)... This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1018618.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: TGIF!
Monday, November 30th, 2009
elke_tanzer	10:44p	Randomness from the Star Wars Holiday Special So. I've pre-populated the tags for the named characters from the special now. Including Lumpy and all three of his synonymous names. So now we're all set to run a Star Wars Holiday Special characters challenge. ;-D I think my favorite part of this OMGWTF fandom wrangling has to be this: "Though scenes of Chief Bast conversation with Darth Vader cut from A New Hope were included in The Star Wars Holiday Special, Bast's presence with Tarkin during the final moments of the Death Star shows that this is not the same officer." "The lookalike officer in the Holiday Special has not yet been identified. His connection with Bast, if any, has not been explained." I swear, there's a wookieepedia page for each of them... "This article is about the Imperial officer. You may be looking for his look-alike..." http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Moradmin_Bast http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Unidentified_Moradmin_Bast_look-alike I mean. Really. SRS BZNZ. And no, I did not pre-populate the unidentified look-alike. X-P This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1017981.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: busy
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
elke_tanzer	3:07p	More blathering about Star Wars tag wrangling Here's my first draft of notes on how I've been wrangling, which is being posted in the internal documentation for Tag Wranglers (and will be kept updated there). OMFG. ( Long long long details... ) I am currently seeking input on how to convey the multifandom concept of "Apprentice (or Student) Dominating Master (or Teacher)" as well as "Master (or Teacher) Dominating Apprentice (or Student)"... because the concept is bigger than Star Wars. :-) This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1017706.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: busy
elke_tanzer	12:50p	Smallville Slash Archive status, WhitFic Archive status Another perspective on the saga of the SSA: http://enderwiggin24.livejournal.com/133864.html Short version: Yes, the archive contents will be sheltering at AO3 at some point. Now that the archivists-in-absentia problem has been dealt with, that work can begin to proceed. <3 Also, Minotaurs was the sole-archivist for the WhitFic Archive (also Smallville-related, but separate from the SSA), and I'm connecting his Dad with the AO3 (which I expect to proceed very smoothly), so that archive will be sheltering at AO3 at some point as well. (Yes, Minotaurs' server is still functional and DNS is still working in the meanwhile, for his fannish and nonfannish customers.) This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1017422.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: calm
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
elke_tanzer	7:02p	Pray for me, people, I'm tipping my toes into Freeform tags... And WTF, fandom? How is it that no one has uploaded a story into the AO3 with the Freeform tag "Topping from the Bottom"??? This entry was originally posted at http://elke-tanzer.dreamwidth.org/1017128.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: Baffled