Ooh! Assignments are out already! Better get this done!
General direction: I have a yuletide tag here, and it goes back 6 years. So if you're the deep researching-type, you can see a lot there about what I like and what I do. In general, though, I'm just pleased as punch that we've matched up on one of these fandoms, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do!
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General direction: I have a yuletide tag here, and it goes back 6 years. So if you're the deep researching-type, you can see a lot there about what I like and what I do. In general, though, I'm just pleased as punch that we've matched up on one of these fandoms, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do!
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chipper
sheafrotherdon was in a car accident last week that bruised her up badly and totaled her car.She's put up a donation page to help her cover the costs of a new car that insurance falls short of, and is offering ficlets in return. Help her out?
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I WAS going to write a post today about how I'm never, never, never going to graduate (apparently), but then a MAGICAL thing happened. So I'll do that later.
As you may have heard, JK Rowling posted a story about the origins of Ilvermorny, the North American school of witchcraft and wizardry, today. And I know there are issues with the lack of Native American roots in the North American school, I do. But the story she tells us today rings true as the origin of a based-on-European-model-(Hogwarts) school brought by settlers. I'm sure the Native American magic folk had their own (no doubt better) way of doing things before, during, and after Ilvermorny was set up. And I think the story leaves us room for that option.
What I'm really jazzed about is the fact that she placed Ilvermorny on the highest peak of Mount Greylock. Because this means that the North American school of witchcraft and wizardry is literally in my backyard.
I mean literally. I took this picture from my porch.
And, look. I feel like it's my moral duty to set some people straight on some things about the area, already. io9's already complaining about ~of course it's in Massachusetts~ and my fellow Williams alums, as much as I love them, are claiming Ilvermorny for themselves, but I need to be clear.
The *highest peak* of Mount Greylock is in Adams, Massachusetts. And we *need* this. Badly.
I mean, we've got Susan B. Anthony's birthplace, and that's pretty good. But the people who started and run her museum are of the "SBA was anti-abortion" ilk, and that's....not my jam. Adams isn't ivy-covered. It's an old mill town that's struggling to figure out what it's going to be in the 21st century. North Adams has started to be the new, cool, Art town. Williamstown will always have Williams. All Adams has is the peak of Greylock. (And it's been trying desperately to get something going in the surrounding glen for decades.)
And now it has Ilvermorny.
So, things to know if you're writing about Ilvermorny and you need a local guide. First of all, here's an album I made years and years ago for an online friend who lives in N. Ireland and wanted to see what the area looked like (and, okay, yeah, there's some Williams in there too. I do love the place. It's just not Ilvermorny. :D)
Second of all, the Audubon Society probably has the best map and good information about the mountain and its environs.
And yes, it's basically a hill, but it's the highest point in Massachusetts, which is probably why she picked it.
What is *actually* up at the peak, for us Muggles anyway, is a lighthouse-looking War memorial tower (currently under reconstruction and covered with scaffolding) and a little lodge that serves lunch and a prix fixe dinner in season. I may go up there sometime this week and get some current pics for you all.
It's also ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE STATE from Plymouth, so it would be awesome if fic set in this setting could acknowledge that fact. ;)
I mean, it takes four hours to DRIVE that distance. In the 21st century. Just sayin'
At present, there is exactly one stoplight in Adams, Massachusetts. There is a McDonalds and a Subway, and a couple of family-owned local eating joints. A diner/pizzeria and a a couple pubs. A decent Austrian restaurant that also used to be an Inn. One elementary school. One charter school (where I used to work), and a regional high school shared with two other towns, and is technically on the town line with one of them. There is a statue of President McKinley (for no real specific reason other than he was a friend of the Plunketts, the big family in town for whom the elementary school is named) in a little traffic circle in front of the library and one of the three Catholic churches in this tiny town of under 9000. One of them is closed now, but the people of the town held vigil in one of the other ones to keep it open. There's a large Polish heritage contingent in town, and St. Stanislaus Kostka's is theirs.
ETA more things I keep thinking of. There's so much that is magical about Greylock. My husband, who isn't really a HP guy, keeps popping up to tell me about the magical things he's seen while he's trail running. There's a great big old hollow tree trunk! There's the Old Coot of Mt. Greylock!. There's the Bob's Hill boys and the novels about them. There's the influence of Greylock on Herman Melville when he was writing Moby Dick, and Thoreau's walk up the mountain.
We literally just had a Faerie Festival last weekend.
ETA more things, like this video my daughter's class made. (she's not one of the speakers, but she's in there)
The Thunderbolt, which is a ski run straight down the mountain and used to be used for Olympic training in the 30s and 40s. There's still an annual ski race and town festival around it.
My husband's hiked straight up the Thunderbolt a couple times (the first time by accident because he got off his intended trail.)
I took a pic of the mountain from my porch again today, which is a much clearer day. You can see the Thunderbolt cut right into the side of the mountain. The rockslide to the right of the Thunderbolt is held to be the face of "Chief Graylock," but from what I can tell that rockslide happened in 1990 (I've lived here since 2003), and the interpretation of it as the head of a Native American chief appears to be local legend.
We have lots of street parties in the summer, and outdoor movies projected on the lawn of town hall. Basically: we're Stars Hollow, not Cambridge.
I'm here for more Ilvermorny context details, seriously. Just ask.
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As you may have heard, JK Rowling posted a story about the origins of Ilvermorny, the North American school of witchcraft and wizardry, today. And I know there are issues with the lack of Native American roots in the North American school, I do. But the story she tells us today rings true as the origin of a based-on-European-model-(Hogwarts) school brought by settlers. I'm sure the Native American magic folk had their own (no doubt better) way of doing things before, during, and after Ilvermorny was set up. And I think the story leaves us room for that option.
What I'm really jazzed about is the fact that she placed Ilvermorny on the highest peak of Mount Greylock. Because this means that the North American school of witchcraft and wizardry is literally in my backyard.
I mean literally. I took this picture from my porch.
And, look. I feel like it's my moral duty to set some people straight on some things about the area, already. io9's already complaining about ~of course it's in Massachusetts~ and my fellow Williams alums, as much as I love them, are claiming Ilvermorny for themselves, but I need to be clear.
The *highest peak* of Mount Greylock is in Adams, Massachusetts. And we *need* this. Badly.
I mean, we've got Susan B. Anthony's birthplace, and that's pretty good. But the people who started and run her museum are of the "SBA was anti-abortion" ilk, and that's....not my jam. Adams isn't ivy-covered. It's an old mill town that's struggling to figure out what it's going to be in the 21st century. North Adams has started to be the new, cool, Art town. Williamstown will always have Williams. All Adams has is the peak of Greylock. (And it's been trying desperately to get something going in the surrounding glen for decades.)
And now it has Ilvermorny.
So, things to know if you're writing about Ilvermorny and you need a local guide. First of all, here's an album I made years and years ago for an online friend who lives in N. Ireland and wanted to see what the area looked like (and, okay, yeah, there's some Williams in there too. I do love the place. It's just not Ilvermorny. :D)
Second of all, the Audubon Society probably has the best map and good information about the mountain and its environs.
And yes, it's basically a hill, but it's the highest point in Massachusetts, which is probably why she picked it.
What is *actually* up at the peak, for us Muggles anyway, is a lighthouse-looking War memorial tower (currently under reconstruction and covered with scaffolding) and a little lodge that serves lunch and a prix fixe dinner in season. I may go up there sometime this week and get some current pics for you all.
It's also ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE STATE from Plymouth, so it would be awesome if fic set in this setting could acknowledge that fact. ;)
I mean, it takes four hours to DRIVE that distance. In the 21st century. Just sayin'
At present, there is exactly one stoplight in Adams, Massachusetts. There is a McDonalds and a Subway, and a couple of family-owned local eating joints. A diner/pizzeria and a a couple pubs. A decent Austrian restaurant that also used to be an Inn. One elementary school. One charter school (where I used to work), and a regional high school shared with two other towns, and is technically on the town line with one of them. There is a statue of President McKinley (for no real specific reason other than he was a friend of the Plunketts, the big family in town for whom the elementary school is named) in a little traffic circle in front of the library and one of the three Catholic churches in this tiny town of under 9000. One of them is closed now, but the people of the town held vigil in one of the other ones to keep it open. There's a large Polish heritage contingent in town, and St. Stanislaus Kostka's is theirs.
ETA more things I keep thinking of. There's so much that is magical about Greylock. My husband, who isn't really a HP guy, keeps popping up to tell me about the magical things he's seen while he's trail running. There's a great big old hollow tree trunk! There's the Old Coot of Mt. Greylock!. There's the Bob's Hill boys and the novels about them. There's the influence of Greylock on Herman Melville when he was writing Moby Dick, and Thoreau's walk up the mountain.
We literally just had a Faerie Festival last weekend.
ETA more things, like this video my daughter's class made. (she's not one of the speakers, but she's in there)
The Thunderbolt, which is a ski run straight down the mountain and used to be used for Olympic training in the 30s and 40s. There's still an annual ski race and town festival around it.
My husband's hiked straight up the Thunderbolt a couple times (the first time by accident because he got off his intended trail.)
I took a pic of the mountain from my porch again today, which is a much clearer day. You can see the Thunderbolt cut right into the side of the mountain. The rockslide to the right of the Thunderbolt is held to be the face of "Chief Graylock," but from what I can tell that rockslide happened in 1990 (I've lived here since 2003), and the interpretation of it as the head of a Native American chief appears to be local legend.
We have lots of street parties in the summer, and outdoor movies projected on the lawn of town hall. Basically: we're Stars Hollow, not Cambridge.
I'm here for more Ilvermorny context details, seriously. Just ask.
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I haven't been posting overly much about Jamberry stuff lately, largely because it's had to take a backseat as I finish my last diss edits and the semester. BUT they just launched a #throwbackthursday summer event where they bring back an old design for a few days, every Thursday in the summer months. AND the first one looks like this:
So, you know, I thought some of you might like to know about that. :D
It's a popular design, and they are saying "while supplies last," so if you think you want some order now. I've reserved a few for myself, but one of those is already spoken for (and not by me!)
They'd also mix really well with one of the Mother's Day sets (that you don't need to be or have a mother to buy!) Just sayin' :D
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So, you know, I thought some of you might like to know about that. :D
It's a popular design, and they are saying "while supplies last," so if you think you want some order now. I've reserved a few for myself, but one of those is already spoken for (and not by me!)
They'd also mix really well with one of the Mother's Day sets (that you don't need to be or have a mother to buy!) Just sayin' :D
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Okay, here's a post.
I'm writing a conference paper on intersemiotic translation in internet culture, trying to make some space in translation theory for non-linguistic, or at least, more-than-linguistic translation. I'm using The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Hamilton as examples of translational texts that are doing both, but I also need an example of non-linguistic semiotic translation.
And I know that, for example, I've seen posts where people have conversations with only their icons, and that's the sort of thing I'm looking for. But it's not exactly translational until we're setting up equivalencies.
So, this is what I was thinking. I'm going to post an icon or a gif in comments that clearly expresses something specific--an emotion, a reaction, whatever else an icon or gif can express without words. In replies, would you help me by posting an *equivalent* icon or gif, but from a different context or fandom? that way, we've got little translations in this post that I can cite as examples of what I'm talking about?
I'll post one equivalence in the first thread too, to show you what I mean.
The ideal examples will be wordless, because I'm trying to demonstrate the ability of nonverbal semiotic systems to translate.
Let's try this!
ETA: Feel free to add more threads with different source images. The more the merrier! Signal boosts are also welcome.
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I'm writing a conference paper on intersemiotic translation in internet culture, trying to make some space in translation theory for non-linguistic, or at least, more-than-linguistic translation. I'm using The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Hamilton as examples of translational texts that are doing both, but I also need an example of non-linguistic semiotic translation.
And I know that, for example, I've seen posts where people have conversations with only their icons, and that's the sort of thing I'm looking for. But it's not exactly translational until we're setting up equivalencies.
So, this is what I was thinking. I'm going to post an icon or a gif in comments that clearly expresses something specific--an emotion, a reaction, whatever else an icon or gif can express without words. In replies, would you help me by posting an *equivalent* icon or gif, but from a different context or fandom? that way, we've got little translations in this post that I can cite as examples of what I'm talking about?
I'll post one equivalence in the first thread too, to show you what I mean.
The ideal examples will be wordless, because I'm trying to demonstrate the ability of nonverbal semiotic systems to translate.
Let's try this!
ETA: Feel free to add more threads with different source images. The more the merrier! Signal boosts are also welcome.
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</a>Definitely my favorite yet. This is a wrap over polish. The shiny holographic with cracks, "Shattered glass," over a deep purple metallic lacquer, "royal."
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I am a total dork and ordered a personalized Hogwarts letter for Cassie, as it is her eleventh birthday, and even though it's not the summer before school starts, it seemed appropriate.
I slipped the letter, which I got from this Etsy shop, into the mailbox and then asked her to pick up the mail after we got home from the bus stop this afternoon. Then, because I am still a total dork, I videotaped her reaction.
She gave me permission to post it to youtube and share it.
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I slipped the letter, which I got from this Etsy shop, into the mailbox and then asked her to pick up the mail after we got home from the bus stop this afternoon. Then, because I am still a total dork, I videotaped her reaction.
She gave me permission to post it to youtube and share it.
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- Current Mood: pleased
It's at http://shanjamon.tumblr.com
I figured, in the end, jamberry stuff is much more suited to tumblr, because it's so visuals-heavy. Follow me there! I'll post pretty, shiny things on the regular.
ET fix link!
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I figured, in the end, jamberry stuff is much more suited to tumblr, because it's so visuals-heavy. Follow me there! I'll post pretty, shiny things on the regular.
ET fix link!
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I only got as far as Bucky and Steve quoting Laurens and Hamilton after Tony insults the show and they need to put him in his place, and I had to rush here and tell you all about it.
They Call Themselves The Trash Of The Thing (2326 words) by follow_the_sun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Hamilton - Freeform, Musicals, Bucky Barnes is Hamilton Trash, Not Canon Compliant, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Hamilton: The Musical, Christmas Fluff
Summary:
Um, yeah. I fell into the Hamilton hole. Hard.
ETA:
“I definitely enjoyed it,” Bruce says, very carefully, fully aware that if he phrases this question just a little bit wrong, it could be taken as fighting words. “It was very well done. I’m just asking what the specific appeal was to Bucky. He always struck me as more of a Glenn Miller kind of guy.”
“Yeah,” Natasha says wearily. “Hamilton’s just a story about an idealistic orphan who picks fights with half of New York City, loses his best friend-slash-lover in a war, and hangs out with a group of fighters who are just as crazy as he is.”
“Oh,” says Bruce. “Right.”
Seriously. SERIOUSLY
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They Call Themselves The Trash Of The Thing (2326 words) by follow_the_sun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Hamilton - Freeform, Musicals, Bucky Barnes is Hamilton Trash, Not Canon Compliant, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Hamilton: The Musical, Christmas Fluff
Summary:
Bucky Barnes might have liked Hamilton: The Musical a little too much.
Um, yeah. I fell into the Hamilton hole. Hard.
ETA:
“I definitely enjoyed it,” Bruce says, very carefully, fully aware that if he phrases this question just a little bit wrong, it could be taken as fighting words. “It was very well done. I’m just asking what the specific appeal was to Bucky. He always struck me as more of a Glenn Miller kind of guy.”
“Yeah,” Natasha says wearily. “Hamilton’s just a story about an idealistic orphan who picks fights with half of New York City, loses his best friend-slash-lover in a war, and hangs out with a group of fighters who are just as crazy as he is.”
“Oh,” says Bruce. “Right.”
Seriously. SERIOUSLY
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ecstatic
Also, will you take a look at the challenge I proposed for Day 6? I rather foolishly posted it on a Saturday and I suspect no one saw it. :D
Day 7
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
So, with all the Hamilton love (which, I AM THERE. I got a copy of the soundtrack for Christmas and it is all I've been listening to...until I needed to break out the Bowie playlist today), and also the Glee love that lives on...I wonder that more people aren't talking about Looking.
I mean, it stars Jonathan Groff, is what I'm saying. Frequently nude and having sex.
And, well, that's probably the first thing that attracted us to it. But it's also a great little show, filling the Queer As Folk-shaped hole in our hearts (this use of the first person plural is because it's one of the few shows Jay and I enjoy together), but without all the melodrama. Seriously, the absolute best thing about this show is that it's a LGBT show where no one's bashed, and no one's slurred, and the drama is just...life stuff. It's post-gay marriage queer TV, and it's lovely.
And, yeah, it's already been canceled. But they're making a movie, which Groff referred to when he was on Colbert, teaching Stephen how to walk like King George.
So, Looking. It's on HBO Go, and was posted in the vault, though I'm not sure if they're still current? It's out there. Go find it.
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Day 7
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
So, with all the Hamilton love (which, I AM THERE. I got a copy of the soundtrack for Christmas and it is all I've been listening to...until I needed to break out the Bowie playlist today), and also the Glee love that lives on...I wonder that more people aren't talking about Looking.
I mean, it stars Jonathan Groff, is what I'm saying. Frequently nude and having sex.
And, well, that's probably the first thing that attracted us to it. But it's also a great little show, filling the Queer As Folk-shaped hole in our hearts (this use of the first person plural is because it's one of the few shows Jay and I enjoy together), but without all the melodrama. Seriously, the absolute best thing about this show is that it's a LGBT show where no one's bashed, and no one's slurred, and the drama is just...life stuff. It's post-gay marriage queer TV, and it's lovely.
And, yeah, it's already been canceled. But they're making a movie, which Groff referred to when he was on Colbert, teaching Stephen how to walk like King George.
So, Looking. It's on HBO Go, and was posted in the vault, though I'm not sure if they're still current? It's out there. Go find it.
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