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astolat's livejournal's InsaneJournal:
- Create a new bookmark on your browser's bookmarks bar, then edit it. Copy and paste the code from this textarea into the URL field (sorry I can't make a draggable version here on DW as the javascript is being yanked, understandably).
eta:melannen has already made the first improved version, which now warns you if you try to signal boost an access-locked post!
eta2: I've now updated the bookmarklet so that it preserves the HTML encoding in the selected text, so for instance if you select a chunk of text that includes an image or links to an AO3 story or to another DW post, the links will be preserved. It does NOT work on embedded video, sorry. :(
eta3: v1.4 with fixes and stripping excess Signal Boost: prefixes from - Go to a Dreamwidth post that you want to signal boost. You have to be ON the post itself; sadly this doesn't work from within your reading list. Also, you need to be logged in.
- If you want an excerpt, select some text in the post.
- Click the bookmarklet. You should be taken to the Dreamwidth post form with the signal boost content prefilled. You can add any other content you want, copy and paste the content to create posts with multiple signal boosts, etc. Whenever you're happy, you post it like any other post.
| Monday, January 14th, 2019 | |
| 3:24 am | sharing a post I am noodling a super basic little bookmarklet to make it easier to signal-boost posts, and here is a post I wanted to share that I have used it on! :)
I have some more thoughts re: communities. Specifically, there were a lot of comments wishing they were more active, but not sure a) how to get them to be active, b) what purpose a community serves in modern fannish times, and c) not sure how to run/start a community successfully. And that led to this collection of thoughts about communities! You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 | |
| 2:56 pm | SignalBoost bookmarklet Okay, here is the little bookmarklet -- it's pretty limited, but it serves my own laziness, so I share it FWIW and if anyone has the time and wants to upgrade it, go for it and drop me a comment and I'll (ha ha) signal boost any new versions! Here's the underlying javascript in much more readable/editable form for anyone who wants to muck around with it: signal_boost.js on Gist (now 1.4 by eta2: Safari for iOS install instructions by Pre-Github versions preserved: 1.1, access lock, no HTML copying 1.0, no access lock check You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Sunday, January 27th, 2019 | |
| 2:41 am | IMPORTANT POLL So I am doing this thing again I seem to do in Transformers fic where I am having a burst of You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Thursday, January 31st, 2019 | |
| 8:02 pm | Transformers: Excessively Clever (Megatron/Optimus) hahaha I had fun writing this :P  Excessively Clever (18605 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers Generation One, Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime Characters: Swindle, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee (Transformers) Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Accidental Voyeurism, Non-Accidental Voyeurism, mining Series: Part 14 of Transformers works Summary: Dont let this become one of the occasions you get excessively clever, Swindle," Megatron said. "My patience for the current situation is highly limited. With many thanks to You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 | |
| 1:28 am | Signal Boost: federated fandom
So then I clicked a link in cesperanza's comments and signed up for what seems to be the current fannish-testing-ground on Hubzilla, fandom.stopthatimp.net. Lots more details in arduinna's post and I am lazy so I will only point over there and say I'm there too! http://fandom.stopthatimp.net/channel/as You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Monday, February 4th, 2019 | |
| 2:51 am | Signal Boost: Markdown Simplifies Formatting Your DW Posts
Markdown is a silent feature inside Dreamwidth's HTML editor. You turn it on by making the first line of the post: I did not know that you could use Markdown in DW! Super cool. (Much more info about Markdown and how to use it in that post.) You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 | |
| 9:54 pm | Transformers Animated: A Degree of Compatibility la la la it's the consort fic that ALL OF YOU WANTED FIRST, lol <3  A Degree of Compatibility (8500 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers Animated (2007) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime Characters: Optimus Prime, Megatron Additional Tags: consort, Arranged Marriage, Light Masochism, Consent Issues Series: Part 15 of Transformers works Summary: And whats the price for a Decepticon leaders help these days?" Optimus said. "Head of his captor on a pike? The Councillors started falling over each other hurriedly protesting, no, no, of course not, how could Optimus think, neverand Megatron laughed over them all and said, Its not your head I want to mount. I have demanded you as my consort. Okay, well, thatsunexpected, Optimus said, blankly. You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Friday, February 8th, 2019 | |
| 3:44 pm | Signal Boost: Chocolate Box pinch hits up for grabs If you feel like writing a story of at least 300 words by Tuesday, consider pinch hitting for Chocolate Box! It's a relationship-based challenge (/ or &), so keep that in mind when reading the requests. eta: Fanartists, many of these prompts are for sketches/fanart too! Take a look if you can! You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| 5:11 pm | SignalBoost bookmarklet update! Now boosts HTML I am using the signal boost bookmarklet to signal boost this update to the signal boost bookmarklet and if any of you signal boost this and someone boosts that then eventually clearly we will create a vortex in the space-time continuum. :P
I've now updated the bookmarklet so that it preserves the HTML encoding in the selected text, so for instance if you select a chunk of text that includes an image or links to an AO3 story or to another DW post, the links will be preserved. It does NOT work on embedded video, sorry. :( You can just copy and paste that code from the textarea into the URL field of the bookmarklet to upgrade it. Also here's the underlying javascript in much more readable/editable form for anyone who wants to muck around with it: signal_boost.js on Gist You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Sunday, February 10th, 2019 | |
| 1:35 am | I think I failed this test? Ultimate Fanfic Tropes Showdown 3.1 I feel like my final list is not actually true because I change my mind on what each trope means depending on context, which in this case was the trope it was matched up against! Rank Name 1 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time 2 Enemies to Friends to Lovers 3 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc) 4 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings 5 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU 6 Daemons 7 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings 8 Seemingly Unrequited Pining 9 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc) 10 Adopting/Raising a Baby 11 Friends to Lovers 12 Vampires/Werewolves AU 13 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance 14 Hogwarts AU 15 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target 16 A/B/O 17 Found Families 18 Loyalty Kink 19 Pride and Prejudice AU 20 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU 21 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop 22 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom) 23 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out 24 Amnesia Fic 25 Hurt/Comfort 26 And They Were Roommates! 27 Body Swapping 28 Hot Single Parent(s) 29 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together) 30 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job 31 Actually Unrequited Pining 32 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU 33 Polyamory 34 'They All Work In An Office' AU 35 High School/University AU 36 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU 37 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel) but the real list is more like: 1) Competence (how! how can they not have included competence!) 2) Fealty (their linked definition of Loyalty Kink is REALLY not the same as mine) 3) Antagonist/counterpart romance 4) Bonding (really any imposed connection) develops into chosen connection 5) AUs that create interesting new stakes and worldbuilding 10) Isolated together 11) Huddling for warmth 12) Family/kid fic 13) Hurt/comfort the others are in here in a vague cloud, happy to read them, wouldn't immediately jump 100) Artificial conflict/misunderstandings 1000) Unhappy endings 1,000,000) Mundane AUs But the REAL real answer is that it totally depends on the fandom! What I want is different depending on the fandom and the pairing. But OKAY fine, that is much less interesting for quiz purposes, I GRANT YOU. You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| 1:44 am | Signal Boost: The Self-Curated Vidshow Challenge! This was really neat to do, and I'm having so much fun going through the vidshows!
In January I asked vidders to make vidshows using only their own vids. A whole lot of you did! There are 47 vidshows by 31 different vidders, all ready for browsing here: I called mine Conversations, because I discovered while poking around for a theme that I had this bunch of vids that all have (at least for me) a strongly defined narrator voice talking to a second character. You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Thursday, February 21st, 2019 | |
| 3:20 am | Transformers Prime: The Parent Trap (Megatron/Optimus) Here is the teenager story, because the other TFP one decided it was NOT finished after all. :P  The Parent Trap (17924 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers: Prime Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime Characters: Megatron, Optimus Prime, Arcee, Ratchet, Original Cybertronian Character(s) Additional Tags: Teenagers, Cybertronian Parenting, Sparklings Series: Part 16 of Transformers works Summary: Oh my God, are you saying that Megatron had Optimuss baby? Miko shrieked piercingly. You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Saturday, March 30th, 2019 | |
| 7:02 pm | Adam Lambert memorabilia? Is there anyone on my flist who would find joy sparked by a free box of Adam Lambert memorabilia? I am kondoing my space and would happily ship it to anyone who would enjoy it. It's mostly shortly-after-Idol-era magazines, signed Idols tour stuff, CDs. Comments screened, drop me an address, first person gets it. :) You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Thursday, May 16th, 2019 | |
| 6:37 pm | Game of Thrones I've been ranting over on tumblr at length, but I figured I would also just throw out for the record my final depressed predictions for the season finale: What I think will happen, all of which I very much DNW: - Grey Worm dies trying to save Dany - Arya kills Dany - Dany has dying vision of being with Drogo again - Bronn kills Tyrion with the crossbow - Arya goes back to the Faceless Men - Jon Snow being unhappily crowned king with Sansa smiling in the crowd - Drogon flies off and lays dragon eggs as final scene Minor alternative options: - Arya kills Drogon instead - Jon kills Dany and takes the black and goes north - bewildered Gendry is crowned king as Robert's only heir - less-bewildered Tyrion is crowned as Cersei's only heir - Sansa ends up as queen either herself or by marrying one of them What would actually be interesting: - attempts to kill Dany fail - Dany executes everyone who tried - Dany ends up crowned queen and we all hate it, thanks In retrospect that would be a really brilliant way to do Dany getting the throne--which on the face of it seemed from the moment she set sail with her three dragons and massive armies like the stupidly obvious outcome--but in a way subverts traditional storytelling and fantasy tropes of the noble destined king. Taking away her legitimacy WOULD mean something then; that story is better and more true to GOT if she's not actually the rightful heir to the throne, if she takes it with the excuse of being close enough and with sheer brutality and by beating everyone else in the death count, if the show doesn't let us CHEER for her getting the throne, if the show is teasing us with noble Jon Snow only to yank him away like Lucy with the football: ha ha you thought nobility and honor and right means shit? Even if that does happen, it won't repair the garbage writing of this season, and they could have gotten here so much more skillfully, but at least it would be SOMETHING. So it won't happen! :P You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |
| Monday, May 20th, 2019 | |
| 2:50 pm | Game of Thrones: Pride (Jaime/Brienne/Cersei)  No s8 spoilers here, it diverges mostly after the Red Wedding and was mostly written before s8 started. But I especially wanted to finish it off after the just-delivered load of rubbish, lol. (Beware spoilers in comments though! I suspect many other people have Strong Feelings at the moment. :P) Pride (22745 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister, Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Cersei Lannister/Brienne of Tarth Characters: Jaime Lannister, Brienne of Tarth, Cersei Lannister, Sansa Stark, Grey Wind Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Queen in the North, the wall - Freeform, Winter, House Lannister Series: Part 10 of Game of Thrones works Summary: Jaime didnt understand why Cersei suddenly insisted on trimming his hair and shaving his beard, but he also didnt care to fight her on it, even though hed just as soon have kept the beard: it was bitterly cold in the small tower room with its arrow-slits. At night, even curled together under the two blankets theyd been allotted, it took the better part of an hour before their bodies could warm the bed enough to sleep. You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( |