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May. 2nd, 2012 @ 12:21 am Cyber Housecleaning II: Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
Initial Report
Dragon of Shadows
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: intimidatedintimidated
Theme Music: "Africa" by Toto
Tags:
Welp, the votes - such as they are - are in. By the power vested in me by my hand-knit wool vest, I hearby declare [info]shadowphyx to be a Community fanfic archive by no sooner than Saturday, 5 May, 2012, and no later than Sunday, 6 May, 2012.

I'll be using the intervening time to pull all the entries, restructure the coding, and hunt down the corresponding entries in my own journal to edit with the new URLs for the stories in question when they've been re-posted. For a select few, I'll try and hunt down the other communities to which they were posted and change those URLs as well, but I make no promises. Community Memories - aka the "Archive Directory" - will group the stories by fandom with crossovers having their own section.

Expect to see sawdust flying for the next few days.

Peace, love, and candied jellyfish!

-Lady Shadowphyre
Apr. 30th, 2012 @ 10:49 pm Cyber Housecleaning
Initial Report
Drug of Choice, Web of Life
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: nervousfrazzled
Theme Music: "Apollo's Lyre" by Steven Halpurn
Tags: , ,
Okay, okay, there goes my New Year's Resolution, I know.

See, I'm trying to sort out and consolidate the number of places I have my fics posted, ie the number of separate places I have to log into in order to post everything I write where people can find it. FF.N won't take songfics/RPS/porn, for instance. Not sure LJ will take the porn, either, actually, but I think that's what those little "flag for adult content" things are about, right?

Anyway, so I want to take [info]shadowphyx down, or at least create a community with the name that I can maintain/post to/update regularly without signing in and out and trying to keep track of multiple passwords like I have to for my RP journals (yet another set of things I've let fall by the wayside since... well, to be honest, since before I got pregnant, but I'm still trying to delude myself into believing I'm really an honest-to-goddess Responsible Adult). I don't really want to delete the journal, because then I'd lose the comments, and some of those I haven't responded to. ^^;;; Um, sorry?

Thoughts? Comments? Advice? Help? Mew?

-Lady Shadowphyre
Apr. 3rd, 2012 @ 02:16 am No, We Don't Accept Call Waiting
Initial Report
Linear Time
Current Location: The Command Outpost
Expression: draineddrained
So, I voted in the Republican primary here in Georgia. Who did I vote for? Doesn't matter; the Romneybot2012 is going to end up as the nominee; we're just watching to see which of the other two die-hard wingnuts circling the drain will drop into the number two slot nefore they ultimately lose the election.

My primary computer, Carson, had an unfortunate tea accident due to a cat, a baby, or a loose top... I'm not quite sure which as it's all kind of a blur of tea and panic and crashing computers and towels and putting my skills at disassembling Carson to the test to sav him. Bottom line: the motherboard was fried, and Carson is in the shop awaiting the replacement motherboard. Until he gets back, I'm using R Dorothy, a refurbished Everex StepNote of obsolete vintage with a partially broken "B" key and a run-down battery, which is why she's been assigned as the child's media screen. This is why I'm not online as much.

Valentine's Day saw me gifting my dear hubby with a second-hand male gray tabby kitty. After two weeks of observing his eratic and skittish behaviour and breaking up fights started by the elder, dominant kitty, Twilight, Hubby decided to designate Cat 2.0 as "Dingbat". He and Twilight are getting along much better now (in that they haven't killed each other yet) but we don't like to leave them alone for too long. Just in case.

I want Carson back already so I can rescue my NaNo2011 and type in chapter eight (hand-written). And then back up my files again.

Anyway, here's something awesome:



Peace, love and candied jellyfish!

-Lady Shadowphyre
Apr. 1st, 2012 @ 11:11 pm April, Come She Will
Initial Report
Is that a demonic duck of some sort?
Current Location: The Command Outpost
My sincerest apologies for not writing before now. A lot has happened recently. It all started when I voted in the Republican primary. Suddenly, a light seemed to go off in my head. What was I thinking, standing in the way of such greatness? I am a mere woman! I should be like my great-grandmothers, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, not going out and getting some fancy-schmancy education, or starting my own business like I'm capable of such independence! I should be looking to Bella and Edward of Twilight as my role models for a truly fullfilling relationship with my husband. I...

...I can't do this. ~falls over laughing~

-Lady Shadowphyre

PS: One of the above is actually true! ~GASP~
Mar. 2nd, 2012 @ 09:16 pm Blood In The Water
Initial Report
Blood Stains
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: geekygeeky
Tags: ,
Many of you may be familiar with the recent incendiary attacks leveled by Rush Limbaugh against Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. Some of you may even be aware of what her testimony before Congress was about, namely the health issues of two of her friends, one with ovarian cysts, another who had been raped, and were unable to get the necessary treatment at the Catholic school because those treatments came under the heading of "birth control".

I'd like to take the time to talk about another reason why women might want hormonal birth control options that actually has nothing to do with being sexually active or not. Males who read my journal, you may wish to turn away, because this discussion is about to get bloody.

How many women hate their periods, show of hands? )

Bottom line: this hormonal birth control implant means I spent two years out of the working three without needing to spend money on tampons or Midol, two years my husband doesn't have to tiptoe around my monthly mood swings (including the year he was in Iraq, during which neither of us were having sex).

TriCare covered the first one. My husband's next job may well have us moving to Virginia, and I'd rather not lose the option to get it again, whether I'm having sex or not.

Peace, love, and candied jellyfish.

-Lady Shadowphyre
Feb. 27th, 2012 @ 09:06 pm The More Things Change....
Initial Report
My Heart's Desire
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: pleasedpleased
Tags: ,


Funny thing is, no one looked twice when that was me and my husband, and it's about the same level of Homecoming PDA....

Peace, love, and candied jellyfish!

-Lady Shadowphyre
Feb. 23rd, 2012 @ 07:57 pm Short Shorts and Spaghetti Straps
Initial Report
D'oh!
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: aggravatedaggravated
The AC just kicked in.

We set it so it only kicks in if the thermostat registers the temperature as above 76 degrees.

It's fucking February!!

Peace, love, and candied jellyfish.

-Lady Shadowphyre
Jan. 20th, 2012 @ 03:40 pm Seems I Am Not The Only One....
Initial Report
Lady Shadowphyre
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: amusedamused
Theme Music: This Space Prohibited by Copyright Holders
Originally posted by [info]morgandawn at Seems I Am Not The Only One....
......who feels the need to take a break from an increasingly dysfunctional relationship.

Black March - Thursday March 1st 2012 to Saturday March 31st 2012 With the continuing campaigns for internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites like Megaupload under allegations of 'piracy' and 'conspiracy' the time has come to take a stand against music, film, and media companies' lobbyists. The only way is to hit them where it hurts. Their profit margins. March 2012 is the end of the First Quarter in economic reports world wide. Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy. Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine. Wait the four weeks to buy them in April: see a film later, etc... Holding out for just four weeks, maximum, will leave a gaping hole in media companies profits for the first quarter, an economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments world wide as stocks and shares will blip from a large enough loss of incomes. This action will give a statement of intent: "We will not tolerate the Media Industries' lobbying for legislation that will censor the internet."
Original image and campaign source: reddit.

Edited to add my own thoughts (not part of the original reddit call for action) And if you do not feel like taking a total break and perhaps want just a trial separation or couple's counseling, then perhaps consider Black March Lite 2.0 = spend, but spend money on those content creators and independent retailers who came out against SOPA/PIPA.  And tell them why you're buying their products in March.  There are many of them.

And for those who favor the more targeted boycott, you can find info  here.  But no matter which,  you can participate and you can tailor your level of participation.  We have the tools, the will and the strength to take a stand.


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Black March - Thursday March 1st 2012 to Saturday March 31st 2012
With the continuing campaigns for internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites like Megaupload under allegations of 'piracy' and 'conspiracy' the time has come to take a stand against music, film, and media companies' lobbyists.
The only way is to hit them where it hurts.
Their profit margins.
March 2012 is the end of the First Quarter in economic reports world wide.
Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy. Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine.
Wait the four weeks to buy them in April: see a film later, etc... Holding out for just four weeks, maximum, will leave a gaping hole in media companies profits for the first quarter, an economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments world wide as stocks and shares will blip from a large enough loss of incomes. This action will give a statement of intent:
"We will not tolerate the Media Industries' lobbying for legislation that will censor the internet."



Additionally, there are wonderful alternatives. Libraries, for instance, or video rental shops. If you have to buy something, be it for a gift or for yourself, Amazon.Com has a "used" section which, in addition to being cheaper than new, does not put the profit into the pocket of the media company that produced it but into the pocket of the seller. Used book stores like Book Nook are also great alternatives.

Peace, love, and candied jellyfish!

-Lady Shadowphyre
Jan. 19th, 2012 @ 05:54 pm SOPA-PIPA... Sopapilla... Hungry....
Initial Report
Knitting Takes Balls
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: hungryhungry
So, how did everyone survive the Blackout? Me, I decided to use the time I couldn't work on my novel to knit. The lack of Wikipedia made it highly difficult to research key elements of my novel, as finding the information in books both takes longer and leads to me having ten or twelve large heavy textbooks open around me instead of ten or twelve Firefox tabs.

Don't look at me like that, I close them when I'm done.

Of course, now I have to scramble to get work on my novel done before Congress starts passing laws on things they clearly don't understand and once again make it very difficult for me to research FTL travel, hypercubes, dimensional shifts, micro-circuitry, and gnocci. (Someone's gnocci recipe that happens to be coincidentally similar/identical to someone else's could be considered copyrighted material, don'cha know.)

I'd post a picture of the knitting I did yesterday, but Disney might complain about the "Finding Nemo" book edge in the picture.

Peace, love, and candied jellyfish.

-Lady Shadowphyre

P.S. Hera? I started work on your scarf with a colour of Caron yarn that was discontinued, so I'm having to switch halfway through - in pattern, at least - to a different shade and brand. That okay?
Jan. 17th, 2012 @ 05:07 pm Blackout, We Have Blackout!
Initial Report
Light Lives in Darkness
Current Location: The Command Centre
Expression: rushedrushed
It's official, everyone. Beginning at five o'clock UTC, the internet is instituting a blackout in protest of SOPA.

Sites like Wikipedia, Google, and Reddit will be unavailable to prove just what happens if you shut down whole sites just for posting copyrighted material. All of you who rely on Google or Wikipedia for research? Get it done quick, or go to the library and find a few dozen books.

So in nine hours, we go dark.

.....

~scrambles to get a sh*tload of research done in the next nine hours~

Peace, love and candied jellyfish!

-Lady Shadowphyre