Creative Imperative

octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed!

gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i>

vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. WIP; will be deleted unless more interest is shown.

And,

Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker.

It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans.

I'd like to point out that currently I have two polls up for debate, as can be seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, and whatnot. =) Otherwise, the FAQ and The Rules are already up. The tags/memory post is still a WIP.

I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs.

On any asylum, you should always read their info first for rules and any regulations. :)
(Please note that all asylums listed below have been around for a good while; these are not new.)

graphix - A great graphics asylum that offers making and posting of many types of graphics.
NOTE: We currently are in need of active makers, please help!

ijelite - Another great graphics community that offers icons and all sorts of graphics.

christians - A place for Christians and non-Christians alike to discuss the Christian faith, prayer, and problems.
NOTE: Need active members; please join us!

iconism - An icon only asylum.
NOTE: Sister asylum of graphix.

hardball - Want to debate? This is the place to do it. Please read rules before posting/commenting.

addme - A place to find friends to add!

( HERITAGE LAKE LODGE )

From the business section of the Guardian this week: Google seeks to turn a profit from YouTube copyright clashes. The article's subtitle gives you the gist: "Group is working to persuade music and video companies to cash in rather than clamp down when their content is uploaded." In short, Google wants to use their content fingerprinting system to report uses--even transformed uses--to copyright holders and then to offer them the chance to put ads on user-generated content. There's lots wrong with that, but perhaps the wrongest is the idea that the companies have the right to take things down because "because the use does not fit the original's values." C'mon, Google! Don't be evil!

In brighter news, UK Will Urge EC To Legalise Mashups, Format-Shifting, Content Sharing. This "could include legalising more outright copying, the creation of sound/image mashups, format-shifting and sharing material with family and friends."

Relatedly, folks seem to be figuring out that the DVR isn't actually the death of commercial television and that so-called "music pirates" actually buy more music. While we've heard this song before, optimistically copyright holders will eventually figure out that they shouldn't be afraid of new technologies.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

All day today. Every time I opened a box to put something on a shelf... oooh I want that! oh! that too!
Shiny! Snowmen!Reindeer!Gingerbread Men! Santas! baskets! tins!Cookie exchange stuff!
Good grief what was I thinking? Good thing they pulled me off to work the front.

It seems odd to be peeved that someone's not going to stick needles in you, but I rang the blood donation people about my new drug, not wanting to waste the time going if they were going to nix it and was told that they don't want my blood because of my bipolar disorder.

Big question mark – I asked whether that meant that they generally wouldn't take blood from mad people and got a load of guffle in reply. But that's how it feels.

I'm pissed off. It may be unreasonable of me to be pissed off, but I am.

This entry was originally posted at http://lexin.dreamwidth.org/17109.html. You can comment here or there, it's up to you.

Man in the Moon
Lit behind cut
( Thought I'd post these before I have to throw them out )

Welcome to our weekly update from the chair of ADT. All the news that's fit to print about the progress of the Archive of Our Own is below the cut. This post may also be found on the Archive of Our Own, which is commentable by anyone with or without an AO3 account. Comments are disabled elsewhere as we're noticing people ask similar questions and would like everyone to be able to share the discussion.

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One of our senior coders, the lovely Elz, recently decided that she’d like to fill a few gaps in her knowledge of programming by working through MIT’s OpenCourseWare series Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. In the true spirit of fannish community learning, she’s set up a Dreamwidth community, intro-to-cs, so that anyone else who is interested can join in and support one another. If you’ve always wanted to learn computer programming, now is your chance – the course doesn’t require any previous experience.

You can also fill that burning desire to learn coding by volunteering for OTW coders – all abilities and levels of experience very much welcome!

dreamyeyed_luna - Anything related to Luna Lovegood.

espanolfandom - This community is for those interested in learning or improving their Spanish language skills through fandom. Stories from any fandom are also welcomed.

sports_rpf - RPF stories of athletes from any sports. We also allow news article postings, icons, picspams, pretty much anything sports related.

moviefics - Home to fics for movies. Icons, vids, fanart, and podfics related to movies are also welcomed. RPF/RPS about actors from said movie-verses are also okay. Het, gen, femslash, and slash are more than welcome.

supernatural100 - Weekly drabble challenge in the Supernatural fandom. Drabbles can be set in the Supernatural world with any character or RPF with the actors. Older prompts can be written at any time. Gen, het, slash, and femslash is more than welcome.

Hello all,

What a year it's been. All I can seem to think to say is, 'Wow'. Some of these most extraordinary things have happened and I'm not even sure where to begin. It's all happened so fast and the only thing I've realized is how out of touch with things I've become.

Oh, not that I'm old and it's one of those generational gap things, not at all. I'm just...I'm not sure how I can explain it. People in the world today are so different in their views, they seem to think that everything happening is new or some how unique. Bad guys getting away with the loot, politicians acting like children, world gone mad, freedoms being experienced for the very first time, it's all so much to take in.

It's little wonder we're starting to question, well, everything. The saying goes, I think, 'these are the times that try men's souls'. I don't know about men's, but mine is sure feeling a little used. See, I made a little joke. It's what some people do when they're nervous and not quite sure what to say. Guess it just helps to have someone to say it to.

Do you need someone to talk to? I've got a free ear and some cheese cake.

Thanks for listening,
Rose Nylund, ask_rose

fanowrimo

A fan fiction writers Nanowrimo in December!

When the crazy of Nano just isn't enough LOL XD

No, seriously, this is a comm where, for the month of December, you work on those fanfics that have been sitting on ff.net, or your desktop (or wherever) for eons that still need to be finished, that you keep meaning to get to, but never have due to writers block, life, etc.

Or, if you have signed up for one of those nifty prompt tables, and never got around to doing anything with them...

Then December is the month to get these fics done :D

So stop by, introduce yourself, pledge to breathe new life into those dusty old unfinished fics :D

Welcome to our October, 2009 newsletter. Get news from all your favorite committees about all your favorite OTW projects...right beneath the cut!

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For those looking for Invite Codes for a Dreamwidth account:

dw_code_feed

A feed of the Dreamwidth Code Sharing community. The community was recently restructured to allow anyone to post. Invite codes now appear on the front page.

Want to write something, but don't have the time to commit to a long term project?

Need a quick break, but don't want to read a novel?

Come to porn_battle! Starting November 1st we'll be taking prompts, then we'll post them for you to write. The catch? They must fit in a comment, that's all!

Come one, come all!

( Mod Cooperative - a place where players and mods come together to help each other out! )


( Old School RP - a place to advertise games that follow old school rules of RP. )

horrorwood
Calling all horror characters for a rpg!!!

For the first time, I have an olfactory hallucination. Wherever I go I can smell petrol.

It's vile.

This entry was originally posted at http://lexin.dreamwidth.org/16525.html. You can comment here or there, it's up to you.

For the first time, I have an olfactory hallucination. Wherever I go I can smell petrol.

It's vile.

This year's story for the Spook Me community on LJ is a Sapphire and Steel creation. I don't know if I achieved scary but I hope that I achieved eerie, at least. If you haven't seen S&S, Sapphire was played by Joanna Lumley, Steel was played by David McCallum, and the fans have never really figured out what it all meant despite thirty years of trying; so don't let ignorance of canon stop you from giving this a go. It's only a shortie. :-) (If you read this on Dreamwidth or Insane Journal you get a pretty icon by Calapine as well.)

Sapphire and Steel, gen, mild horror themes, 2,700 words. My prompts were 'plant', 'The Green Girl' and 'Dread Visitor'. That last one I couldn't sneak in although I could argue that it makes a sort of default appearance. I apologise for any potential Mummerset in here. I am but a poor colonial.

Beta by the lovely Escargoat on LJ.
( The Green Girl )