Lotripper, mostly

SlashaBaby (Lotrips holiday fic exchange) signups are open, I hope everyone considers joining in! The deadline is October 31, stories are due December 26, great way to see in the new year :-D (If anyone wants to avoid LiveJournal, comment here or email me, we can make it work.)

And for inspiration, check out amygirl's latest Lotrips+ picspam, EyeCandy #226!

In other news, I'm three days into a four day workshop of all day meetings and I'm so freaking tired of being around people all the freaking time. I come home and zone out all by myself.

The old Delicious was built on old (2000s) technology held together with spit and duct tape. The new owners had to start over, and that's difficult, so features that most people didn't use were undoubtedly too expensive to include, at least in the first release.

I miss the features too (like bundles and 100 bookmarks per page), but remember, it's the first release, and it's a free service.

It's also sad that all those people didn't opt in to transfer their accounts, so their bookmarks disappeared. Not AVOS's fault though: the old TOS was written such that users could control our own data, which is generally a good thing. But here it bit us in the ass. Sigh.

ETA: via cleolinda and brewsternorth Apparently any tag w / in it parses out and is no longer seen. Which means D/s overnight falls from fannish use. *sigh*

ETA2: as of September 28, delicious fixed the slash problem and some of the others

Just quoting anatsuno here:

Tomorrow Friday, September 23, is the day your Delicious bookmarks will disappear if you don't log in to the site and allow them to transfer your bookmarks.

If you've ever used Delicious to look for fic / meta / fanart / fanvids to peruse, you know how precious the network of bookmarks that's there now is precious. Please, do what you can to preserve it?

Click, log in, accept the new ToS: http://www.delicious.com/

Fandom will thank you! -- M

and here, have three pictures of Billy from 2010 that I don't think I've posted before: one big, one small, and one with The Proclaimers

When girlchild and I went to see the LOTR films on the big screen this summer, we agreed that Sam is a true hero, so I wanted an icon, and fileg just posted some beautiful ones. I highly recommend her icons, they're a treat for the eyes!

fileg's LJ LOTR movie and actor icons and fileg's icon site

Orlando, Elijah and Liv as if in Classical European Paintings Includes Orlando in Renaissance garb, Elijah as a Regency gent (he should do more costume dramas!) and Liv in something very frothy that might be Georgian but maybe I'm dreaming and it's Victorian.

Elijah's doing a ton of PR for his new series, Wilfred (starts on the 23rd on FX TV US) Tons of good links on Always & Forever // Elijah Wood, but my fave, for Ces and ana: Elijah and Zooey Deschanel at the Critics' Choice TV Awards from eyeprime.net

Sean Bean also around doing Game of Thrones PR lots of links on The Mighty Bean, the skype interviews are particularly fun to watch.

And I'm willing to give Peter Jackson, Fran, Philippa, et al., the benefit of the doubt on Hobbit movie casting. I didn't think I'd like the Haldir changes in LOTR, or Arwen, and I now love them both. Making The Hobbit a little bit less of a Boy's Own Story is fine by me.

WH Auden seems to have written a really explicit poem, The Platonic Blow. It reminds me of excellent slash fic, in quatrain rhymes.

ETA to fix mighty bean link, thanks splix!

It's been 10 years since the FOTR publicity push at the Cannes film festival. kiltsandlollies has a sweet hobbit-heavy picspam, not_alone's Cannes section from her delightful fannish narrative, A Journey with Frodo, and nzstories has another picspam

All that inspired me to organize my various images, and I found some additional ones: Hobbits and PJ doing a kickline, Viggo in a green shirt, Liv in a black dress, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, John Rhys Davis, Ian McKellen, Sean Bean with Orcs, Dom with Orcs, Orlando in a buzzcut and suit, and Orlando kissing Viggo's cheek, and Orlando kissing Viggo's cheek. ( so young! )

A partial list of Al Qaeda attacks since 1993: Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen, USA, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Pakistan, Bali, Morocco, Turkey, Madrid, Iraq, UK, Somalia... (source: BBC timeline). I'm glad he's dead, so he can't do any more damage.

Monaboyd Month! monaboyd_month is a celebration of the fictional slash relationship and real life friendship of the actors Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan. Please sign up. They start making the posting schedule next week, so the deadline for claiming your date is April 15.

Dreamwidth people: I made a feed, monaboyd_month_lj_feed for your circle reading convenience

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The Hobbit has started filming! And Peter Jackson made a video about it!

It looks really gorgeous: Bag End and Gollum's caverns and parts of Rivendell that we never saw before, Dwarves doing fight training, Jed Brophy!, and Martin Freeman wearing an abominable suit but (or maybe therefore) looking very Hobbity! I wasn't around during the original LotR filming, so intend to enjoy this a whole bunch.

on the dreaded Facebook (I have a fake account there, they're relatively easy to make) / on YouTube / ( embedded here just because I can )

I am feeling better, thank you for the hugs.

ETA: old youtube link was pulled, so I put in a new one. Hrmph, facebook, hrmph