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Am I right in thinking none of the post-scratch trolls ever use the word "love" in their dialog, even in terms of remarks along the lines of "I LOV3 L1CK1NG TH1NGS 1 PROB4BLY SHOULDN'T B3 L1CK1NG?" And that none of the humans or pre-scratch trolls have used it while talking to them?

I thought none of them ever used it at all, but when I applied Google to the question, I found Equius's introduction telling us that he loves being strong. Well, how could I ever have doubted that?

Aside from, I guess, downloading the entire archive over the course of a whole day, is there any more thorough way to find every instance of the word in all of Homestuck?

Thoroughly investigating questions such as this is an appropriate use of my time.

kate_nepveu

The Pip has been sleeping poorly, which means Farscape in the wee hours.

( S01E04, 'Throne for a Loss' )

( S01E05, 'Back And Back And Back To The Future' )

Spoil me and have your food ration eaten by a puppet.

*goes looking for Moya icon*

james_davis_nicoll

101 Female F&SF authors you could try:
( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363928.html

james_davis_nicoll

The Ex-Urbanites

A doleful morality tale about the fate that waits for those who make the fatal move out of New York and into the countryside. Although an endless struggle, mounting debt and alienation from their families are almost inevitable, the ex-ubanites are to respected for the example they set for lesser Americans.

I don't recall the last time I read or heard something quite as aghast as this is at the idea of leaving the City.

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363738.html

james_davis_nicoll

The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes

This is a "story-ballad". A seemingly lucky win at cards leaves a chancer in possession of a magnificent silver horn and his ambition to learn to play it sends him straight on the path to hell.

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363496.html

sparkymonster

( You're about to view content which the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Crossposts: http://sparkymonster.livejournal.com/476635.html

wordweaverlynn

housepet: I can't imagine who would have invented the tuba.

gramina: I think it was someone in the middle ages.

housepet: They must have been bored.

wordweaverlynn: They didn't have reality TV.

housepet: How did they think up anything so convoluted? They must have been licking toads.

Crossposts: http://wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com/780611.html

kate_nepveu

Is there another Discworld book that starts out this bleakly?

whump posting in

wiscon

Because of a family emergency, cynthia1960 and I cannot attend WisCon this year. We have a room in the Governors' Club reserved in my name for Thursday evening through Wednesday morning. If you have been looking for a Governors' Club room, please contact me through whump@dreamwidth.org to arrange a transfer.

yhlee

OMG Zappos has videos you can wait until the shoe is at the angle you want (approximately anyway) and then pause it

what did I do for art reference before the internetz

*bouncebouncebouncebouncebounce*

yhlee

Knight of Eyes
(General Shuos Jedao from "The Battle of Candle Arc")

1. I botched the original version (watercolor pencil, I stuck it up at my dA account for the morbidly curious) so used this as a test piece for the trial of Autodesk SketchBook Pro 6. I like the app. It has a few quirks but the UI is reasonably consistent and if there's extra stuff I need done, I'll take it into GIMP.

(I did give MyPaint a swing, but could not figure out how to make it do one specific thing that I will need sometimes. For painting from scratch off a single scan, it looks like it will probably work, and hopefully this summer I will be able to put it through its paces. Eee!)

Anyway, I remain firmly convinced that watercolor pencil is a valid medium that can be made to work well. Unfortunately, in over two decades I have comprehensively failed to figure out how. I keep mine anyway because I still like them, even if I'm thoroughly bad at them.

2. I used maybe half of TylerCreatesWorlds' (dA) Nebulae Tutorial to figure out how to paint nebulae with airbrush/round soft brush/smudge. For serious, it's not that bad. If I'd realized it was more fun to do it this way, I wouldn't have spent all that time fighting GIMP's filters for that other piece.

3. Someday I should research military uniforms instead of just making stuff up because I am supremely lazy.

4. I do realize that I lack the ability to draw straight lines. :-( I keep hoping that my coordination will improve, but I...just don't know.

5. Crit welcome. I mean it; I know I have a lot to learn.

Also,

daidoji_gisei, I am still working on the Marguerite piece! At this point I have to make hard decisions about just which M1911 reference I want to commit to, and then there is the important matter of her shoes. I expect I will be hitting up Zappos for virtual shoe-shopping. But I should be able to finalize the pencils tomorrow and scan, and then take it into SketchBook as well.

ihuntsnarks posting in

wiscon

The Con could still use some extra hands, so if you just want good karma, or desperately need a collectable WisCon mug read this: http://wisconnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/volunteer-needs-at-wiscon-37.html

kate_nepveu

For those of you Trek fans looking for a bitter cathartic laugh: Star Trek Into Darkness: The Spoiler FAQ from io9.

oyceter

I really didn't want to go back to my apartment and have to deal with the now-empty rat cage and assorted paraphernalia, so to put it off, CB and I crashed his friend's place and did a 7-episode Game of Thrones marathon.

( Spoilers for both the show AND all books )

I'm good with any and all spoilers, so 'ware spoilers in the comments as well!

Crossposts: http://oyceter.livejournal.com/1015448.html

james_davis_nicoll

I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they eat their young if not raised properly; and how, at the end of their lives, they hurl themselves – lemming-like- over cliffs to drown in the surging sea. They are, at heart, sea creatures, birthed from the sea, married to it like the fishing people who make their livelihood there.

Crossposts: http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4363008.html

onyxlynx

9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?

By now, just about everyone I've thought of suggesting someone that they might be interested in reading has already subscribed and granted access to each other. Wait, that sounded awkward.

onyxlynx

Ray Manzarek of the Doors.

Via

supergee , although I am using the L.A.Times link because I don't have a hazmat suit impervious enough for tmz dot com.

Current Music: "When the Music's Over"

deirdre

So, there’s a whole bunch of changes at Flickr. I’ve been with Flickr since 2005 and been a pro member since those memberships were available.

Essentially, pro accounts are going away except for those of us grandfathered in, and that means Flickr’s going to be a serious ad platform.

So here’s how I feel about that: A lot of my photos on Flickr are, like my Twitter photos, incidental photos. Like this one.

Those that are more seriously nice photos and the big galleries, along with the photos I’ve had in gallery shows (like this one)? Well, let’s put it this way: when nice photos are used in an ad [1], the photographer gets paid. Yahoo! hasn’t offered to pay me; in fact, I’ve been paying them.

Those photos and sets will be going away. I may move them to one of my own sites or another ad-free platform, but they will not remain on Flickr.

They can use my crap to sell their ads, but I won’t be paying them for the privilege.

[1] To clarify, they are not re-using my photos in a new context but intend to show ads with photos.

They are selling an ad-free experience for double what the old Pro accounts cost, which — seems high.

Not interested.

Also, it’s not clear if things like statistics are going away, but I’m guessing they won’t be putting energy into it, either.

Originally published at deirdre.net. You can comment here or there.

Crossposts: http://dsmoen.livejournal.com/466243.html

supergee

I loved Ray Manzarek's organ music so much that I even tolerated the guy braying crap like "Our love become a funeral pyre" on his records.

Crossposts: http://supergee.livejournal.com/3012744.html

piglet

...you find in your (magic?) closet a perfectly fitting *divine* pair of vintage black heels. That you do not recall EVER having seen before, and have no idea the provenance thereof.

...your bike share key arrives. I repeat. YOUR (MY!!!) BIKE SHARE KEY ARRIVES!!!!! Now to leap the login hurdle, sigh.

Crossposts: http://porcinea.livejournal.com/380049.html

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Important Homestuck question.

Farscape S01E04-05, "Throne for a Loss" and "Back And Back And Back To The Future"

The Nina Allen 101 Women to Read Meme

CBS Radio Workshop: The Ex-Urbanites

CBS Radio Workshop: The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes

Important issues of importance

Dialogue While Watching "How It's Made"

about 20% through Monstrous Regiment

Governors' Club Room for 5/23 to 5/29 available

(no subject)

[art] Knight of Eyes

Call For Volunteers

some of you need this

Game of Thrones 3x01-3x07

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley

3 Questions

Requiescat in Pace

Flickr Changes

RIP Ray Manzarek

ecstasy, aka that moment when...

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