Does anyone know someone who needs a room for vividcon? seperis, nightchik and I were wondering if someone would like to room with us. We have a reservation for Thursday through Sunday afternoon, but it'll probably be extended into Sunday evening.

E-mail at svmadelyn@yahoo.com if you're interested. *g* :D OMGVIVIDCON.

Title: Four Birthdays John Connor Never Celebrated
Author: svmadelyn and mahaliem (HP section)
Notes: Very (very very) belated pinch-hit for the Sarah Connor Chronicles Flash Fiction and Art Challenge.
For the amazingly patient fan_elune. Her prompt: Gen. What Future!John's birthdays have been like. Crossovers with BSG, Heroes, and HP since back in the day, I visited your journal and you liked all of those things. (As do I!) Technically, also a crossover with T3. And with all those fandoms, you'd think there'd be more than 2,000 words, and you'd be wrong.

Thanks to ainsley for the tremendously helpful beta! :D

( Four Birthdays John Connor Never Celebrated )

I believe I would also like the sun and the moon. Does anyone out there have a decent familiarity (nothing in depth required! Just knowing who the characters are is pretty sufficient!) with Heroes, SCC, BSG annnnd HP?

And does that person perhaps want to beta a 2,000 word story? I wrote half, and mahaliem wrote the other half. And I finally had a spark of energy and managed to finish it!

So, um, any takers? (I will totally settle for anyone being able to pretend they know a couple of those fandoms. *g*)

seperis, nightchik and I have decided we're doing karaoke again for Vividcon, but I cannot decide on our song. (I solicited opinions! Neither one of them picked any! NOW I PICK. Or uh, you do.)

So please to vote on which vid we should do for karaoke.

Poll #1230686
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Pick one!

And:

ETA: *pokes at poll* Anyone know why I can't see, say, *actual results?* *eyes livejournal*

ETA2: I am smart! If you open up the view answers in another tab, you can see the results. /PSA

Detente by entangled_now - Dr. Horrible/Captain Hammer. Technically, this one is a sequel, and you can find a link to the original at the top. But I'm a bigger fan of the sequel. *grins* Much adorableness and self-delusion.

Captain Hammer had a hilarious comeback for that but Dr. Horrible was already sliding the shirt up his back, all warm fingers and sharp nails and he forgot what his hilarious comeback was and then he had to let go of Dr. Horrible's throat because his shirt was over his head, and then it wasn't. But there were fingers in his hair, pulling him up and in and Dr. Horrible had an evil, evil mouth. Captain Hammer investigated it, purely for research purposes, so he'd be immune to its evil influence next time.

Marvel vs. DC, Iron Man vs. Batman youtube of hilarity: We are here to meet the species that made The Dark Knight. You have been deemed worthy enough to share all of our technology with you!

Isn't this what we all need? (wee comic)

Every single one of you at the Heroes Comic-Con panel, I kind of hate you a lot right now.

Just FYI.

*FLOUNDERS* I read through the live blog - they DID show the entire first hour of S3, so there are MASSIVE SPOILERS.

I did not manage to control my flailing/squeaking/seal clapping motions. It sounds like our show is BACK. S3 is S1 on steroids indeed, Jack Coleman. I think today will be well spent watching the G4 marathon of S2, and writing my heroes_bigboom fic.

(Even if you're not in the fandom, go check out the archive. It's that pretty. *g*)

Dear Heroes Fandom,

I don't know about *you*, but it's kind of hard to search through communities, personal journals, del.icio and...well, everywhere else there's Heroes fic, in order to find the stories I want to read. Things get so easily lost on the internet, or people delete their journals, and we miss out on great things! Imagine if there was a place where Heroes fans could go and search for stories all in one spot - and only Heroes stories?

So a few months ago, I decided to start The List, a new Heroes archive. We accept and host finished Heroes fiction of all ratings, pairings and genres. We'll also be opening a section for meta shortly. This archive wouldn't be opening without the AMAZING talents of elli and syrenslure, so if you think the archive is as lovely as I think it is, it is all thanks to them. I like to think I contributed when I encouraged Elli to find a picture of Sylar in his hot coat for the linkback buttons. You know, things like that! *nods*

I have a personal goal of seeing 300 stories archived in our first month. Read more here!

Come check us out! If you've written Heroes fic, WE WANT YOU.



PS: We heartily encourage you to friend/watch heroesarchive - it will be low traffic, we promise, and will provide you with any important updates on the archive.

AND ALSO - Would you like to be a Featured Reccer on the archive? See more details here!

Dear Friends,

FanLib.com was founded on the belief that fan creativity is a true art form that deserves a first-rate showcase for cultivation and celebration. Over the course of the past fifteen months, you have triumphantly confirmed this notion with an astonishing display of talent, enthusiasm, imagination and camaraderie.

So, it is especially difficult to announce that FanLib.com will shut down on Monday, August 4, 2008.

While individual sites may come and go, fan creativity can never be stopped. The inspiration behind FanLib.com will continue to drive legions of passionate fans to find and make new destinations at which to thrive. With that in mind, please consider these other creative communities that welcome your participation:

...and so on.

*waves bye!*

Okay, so take the post I made yesterday, make it about 8 times more crass, and then we'll finally have a more accurate portrayal of exactly what Laura Hale is doing with her fannish wiki.

liviapenn lays it out nicely here. And as Livia said in comments: Fans are hard workers. Fans love contributing their time and energy to dream up, make and build awesome things. She's taking advantage of that, basically tricking other people into working for her, for free. What annoys me most, I mean besides ALL of it, is that she's tainting the hard work of every other archivist, organizer, list-mod and comm-founder in fandom who wants to build useful fannish infrastructure-- NOT for our own gain, but just because we like fandom to be easy and well-organized and convenient.

As one of those people who *likes* the work of building infrastructure and making things easy to find, there's a lot of curse words I'd like to employ here.

In summation, if you're a little 'wtf' at being thought of as a marketing tool, don't edit, visit or have anything to do with that person's wiki. bethbethbeth also posts on an entry Laura made - including ideas on how to create traffic for the wiki, including 'generating wank' and making a public service announcement on the FanHistoryBot. So now you can conclude that in addition to liking the fact that she can say that she has all those pages on her site (looks good on paper!) she can also use it to get more people to visit because they want to see if they're even on the wiki in the first place. Everything has an ulterior motive here.

(But if you want to check things out for yourself, or verify your own information - read that post so you can do it without affecting her stats in a positive way.)

Friends don't let friends visit Fan "History".

The thing that not many people have really brought up during this "FanHistory outs fans!" mess is that...well, it's pretty obvious that Laura Hale/purplepopple/partly_bouncy is, rather than being in it for the lulz, in it for the pagehits.

I will mail anyone who can generate 500 unique visits for *her site name* half a dozen home made chocolate chip cookies. :) ...and then a couple days before this on Fandom Wank, there's an entry that mentions Fan History in relation to another fan. Now several days later, we have the outing of another fan with links to Fan History flying around everywhere.

I, for one, don't really appreciate the blatant manipulation at work here, and this willingness that someone is showing to so disrespect the wishes of fans in our community for her own very, very personal gain.

I don't pretend to know her specific motivations, but I think it's fairly obvious that she wants to either sell the thing (she had discussions on the site about the matter; no clue what happened with that), or gain ad revenue - (See also: Project Wonderful and here.) In partly_bouncy's LinkedIn profile, she mentions how she's Currently working in marketing related job for an entertainment company. - Which really, rather explains quite a bit. We're seeing "all publicity is good publicity!" in action here. I don't like the picture she's painting of the lengths she's willing to take her site to, and I do not support the precedent she is setting.

So in all of the links you're probably seeing flying around today, I would urge you not to reward her efforts and her behavior by bothering to visit her site.

ETA: And as pointed out in comments, this post does really spell out things: If you are making more than you need to operate, figure out some way to kick some back to the users in give aways or contests. And then, if you're asked, tell your users that all the extra money is going into a savings account for the site to help cover costs in the long run. Say this even if it isn't true.

Son of ETA: astolat posts on the matter here.

Every once in a while, I worry about myself. This is one of those times, perhaps because I have just finished reading several David Cook/David Archuleta stories and now...find myself reading Batman/Joker. There's a Sam/Dean and a Sark/Sydney open in other tabs too.

*quietly boggles* There are slightly different - um. Tones to these stories. We can go with tones.

isagel and I celebrate strange things in her awesome Vermin story. I like to encourage a healthy body count. I set a goal yesterday of three and she admirably met it!

isagel: Eight or nine dead people now.
svmadelyn: *BEAMS*
svmadelyn: way to TRIPLE YOUR BODY COUNT.
svmadelyn: ...we're not normal people.
svmadelyn: this is okay.
isagel: *clings to this belief*
svmadelyn: it's okay because it's for the greater good, you see.
svmadelyn: rescuing Mohinder.
svmadelyn: saving the planet eventually.
svmadelyn: overthrowing pesky aliens.
isagel: Aaaah.
isagel: They're very pesky.
isagel: Um.
isagel: Twelve dead.

Later:

isagel: I can't believe I just killed off twelve people in roughly a page.
svmadelyn: Well. It's Sylar.
svmadelyn: it'd be wrong if you *didn't.*
isagel: Granted.

Mmmmm. MayhemandConsortiumdeathhhhs. In summation, if you are looking for really *fun* (um, we all know how I define fun kind of evilly, right? Right.) Heroes and/or X-Files fic, this story is GOOD TIMES.

Michael Bay's Rejected Dark Knight Script - It's the comments that kill me. *tilts head* Or the hacking of (all) the internets. Or the CGI of the...American flag.

*pounds ground*

In other news, in the last few days, I have:

1) Seen two vids to Cry Me a River for Xena on youtube and nodded a LOT.

2) Commiserated with isagel over the lack of crazed cliche fic for Sylar and Mohinder. Then we discovered how easy it was to set up Sylar and Lex brooding over Clark and Mohinder, going on (killing) sprees and cringing over their nearest and dearest wearing such distasteful clothing. It writes itself.

3) Came across How To Hide an Unwanted Erection - which seems QUITE helpful.

4) Traipsed around downtown Chicago with rageprufrock and thehoyden and had the BEST turtle cheesecake EVER at Taste of Chicago. As I kept exclaiming: "It's a street made of food!" We all agreed that it was pretty magical.

5) Discovered that Heroes is going to be doing Webisodes with the guy who used to be on General Hospital and Port Charles playing a postman.

6) Written 600 words of my heroes_bigboom story - still no clue what is happening in it, but Sylar and Mohinder are running a lot, so.

7) Flicked a lighter at the computer screen of a job description I really, really want. Because flicking a lighter totally indicates SERIOUSNESS.

So...does anyone want to join a random chat on AIM? Anyone reading this is very welcome to join in. I feel sociable today!

See, totally random! -

svmadelyn: I am bored.
svmadelyn: I had a thought.
fox1013: mm?
svmadelyn: I thought about posting how bored I was.
svmadelyn: and that people should come join me in a chat room.
svmadelyn: where we could talk about exciting things.
svmadelyn: like...yarn. and such.
fox1013: hee
svmadelyn: but! it would be nice to have one other person in there.
svmadelyn: in case no one else came.
svmadelyn: *solemn*
fox1013: ...that's me, right?
svmadelyn: Foxlet, will you be my one other person?
svmadelyn: You are bright.

So...yeah. If you'd like to join us to just talk about fun random fannish things or laze about on a Sunday, feel free to join us on AIM in 'openfandomchat'. If you don't know how to invite yourself to the room, just ping me as svmadelyn.

In other news.

Best Doctor Who link ever, y/y?

So, Stargate Continuum.

( Spoilers. )

My sprained ankle muscle thing or whatever managed to alleviate enough where I walked around the neighborhood a bit and hit a store for much needed sugar-y goodness. There was a kid asking for some "Russian coke" and I was just as confused as the shop owner. (For a moment, I was wondering if I was seeing someone dealing drugs. I was terribly excited!) But a regular Coke sounded good so I wandered to the back, and then noticed that on the side of my can, it had the Olympic Games Collector Series. In Russian on one side. So I brought it up to the kid and I'm like, "So, Russian Coke is actually--" and the kid *snatches it from my hand* and goes, yeah! RUSSIAN COKE YEAH! And I sort of narrow my eyes, but the Cokes are like, five feet from me, so I just turned and got another one. The kid however is talking with his little buddy about what an idiot the guy is for not even knowing they carry Russian Coke. So I told him his error.

The kid is *sneering in my face* and pointing at the side. "Does that LOOK ENGLISH?" he asks.

I point at the small text underneath it - "1 of 5 (collector's cans). In Russia, Coca-Cola uses this logo. Inside, enjoy the same great taste." So it's not RUSSIAN COKE, but it's REGULAR COKE, to CELEBRATE THE WORLD or whatever. Maybe it was the fact that I read it aloud. Maybe it was the fact that I read it slowly, because it was pretty obvious, hey, not the brightest crayon in the box. I made sure my hand wasn't covering the prominent "Coca-Cola" blazoned on the other side.

I TOTALLY THOUGHT HE MIGHT PUNCH ME over the "RUSSIAN" COKE. But they just walked out the door, and the store guy looked pretty despairing over humanity. As are we all, as are we all.

I am totally feeling the Olympic Spirit. *gnaws on cookies*

Er, anyway, I'm pretty behind on everything online related. I've been in a bit of a Mood lately, so I'll try to do better.

AHHH DOCTOR WHO.

...okay, so I've been eaten alive by Doctor Who (and Torchwood). NO REGRETS. I'm--okay, so I've seen so few episodes, yet I've downloaded 4.12 The Stolen Earth along with everyone else. And shrieked giddily like everyone else. These shows just make me stupidly happy.

And if you have yet to come across a source to see 4.12, why, you can just email svmadelyn@yahoo.com and I will happily...assist with that. (Again, must email, doesn't count if you comment as that just makes more work for meeeee.)

Er, if that's not your thing, have some awesome songs.

Spitting Games - Snow Patrol - I'm not usually a big Snow Patrol fan, but I heard a few chords of this on Torchwood last night, downloaded it promptly, and fell in love.

Hungry Like The Wolf vs. Sk8ter Boi - Avril and Duran Duran mashup. This should not be GOOD. But like fox1013 was saying last night, where it's one of those things that you think will be so bad that it's good? It's just actually kinda...good. Yeah, we don't know either.

Lucy - The Jones Gang - So this is just kind of my favorite song in the world these days.

Make You Happy - The Levellers - I uploaded this song for someone else and see no use in letting the link go to waste. Plainly, this song just makes me happy. *g*

I need some seduction fic. Some courtship fic. *mulls* I would especially love some recs in...well, Torchwood. I have been reading Jack/Ianto a lot lately, despite having seen...maybe two minutes of Ianto and ten minutes of Jack. But that hardly matters!

Anyway! SEDUCTION FIC RECS PLEASE. I will take recommendations from any fandom, but I can't promise I'll read every rec, as I am very...moody. SGA fic written in the last year or two would probably be a good bet too. And probably Due South. (I have been reading some fic there too. Again, I do not know why.) *mulls* And it's not like it has to be, you know, "nice" seduction fic. Just something with some good old-fashioned horrible coveting/obsessive and terrifying adoration would be awesome as well.

rageprufrock says she'll write "depraved fic" - presumably for good seduction/courtship J2 or SPN recs. (I'm lying, she's writing the depraved fic anyway. But maybe it'll get written faster? *hands*) Neither of us really needs any SV recs because...well. If we haven't read it, it'd be a sign of the apocalypse. SV's been good to us. *wistful* Other fandoms should follow suit!

If anyone needs the season 5 premiere of SGA, just drop me an e-mail at svmadelyn@yahoo.com and I'll send you a link straight-away. (No, commenting here is not the same as an e-mail that I can just hit reply to, my dears.) Yay SGA!

Also, I'm watching the SoapNet coverage of the Daytime Emmys, and this crap is gold. And by gold, I mean horrible. Poor Rebecca Budig and Finola Hughes - they're too awesome to be standing outside in 110 degrees! Eeee, liveblogging! And omg, Antonio Sabato Jr is coming back to GH's Night Shift spin-off as Jagger as an FBI agent AND he has a son named STONE?

...I refuse to get excited considering what Night Shift was last year. Refuse....refuse...refuse butomgjagger