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The Escapade 35 Vid Show served up a delicious platter of fanvids!

I've made what observations and comments I can, but I would thoroughly appreciate any readers who are familiar with canons that I don't know, or don't know fully, jumping in to speak more accurately about works based on Wicked, Starsky & Hutch, Agatha All Along,The Professionals, The Terror, Dark Winds, Fangs of Fortune, Arcane, Heaven Official's Blessing or Our Flag Means Death.

In fact, I would also love to hear from *any* viewer with their own perspective on *any* of these vids!

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I have made two songvids for the upcoming DC-Slash online convention!!! (You can click for more info about the con - the link will open in a new window.)

The convention is July 19-21 and the vid show deadline is July 12, so I actually got my vids in ON TIME!

There's both short, and one of them is to a Wizard Rock song. In other words, they're by me. ;-)

One is for the fandom Tatort Muenster, while the other one is about Gollum. They're premiering at the con, so I can't link to them now. But I am very excited!!!

Twenty-four vids in a great variety of fandoms!

ETA: And here's an official list! http://connexions-so.dreamwidth.org/15206.html#cutid1

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You know the "pants" word-substitution game that has given us classics like the following?

LOTR: "Gondor has no pants! Gondor needs no pants!"

and

SW: "I find your lack of pants disturbing."

koslorollo observed recently that we haven't played that game yet in Tin Man fandom, so I posted about it here on loltinman, whereupon much hilarity ensued.

Then I was looking at my regular mail today and I had an ad from an online clothing retailer whose subject line said, "PANTS STARTING AT $14.99" and I immediately began trying to retro-engineer the sentence to figure out what word it *used* to begin with. Then I realized it was actually about pants. *foreheadsmack*

I changed my default icon!

I haven't changed it since gblvr made it for me and I adopted it, when I first got on LJ. I was heavily into Legolas/Gimli at the time, so it was frequently appropriate. I hardly ever use it any more because I've moved on to other fandoms (butterfly that I am), and if I don't remember to change it, it sometimes looks out of place with whatever the discussion is.

So I stared at my icons page for a while - Tin Man? Good Eats? UFO? - and finally settled on a fractal icon, which shouldn't look out of place anywhere, unless the colors clash. ;-)

Thank you, gblvr, for years of fabulosity!

I just got an email from a group I belong to on-campus for discussing student information literacy. The email was about teaching students to distinguish sites that are appropriate to use for research from sites that are not, and it gave links to a number of "spoof sites" - sites that mimic authentic sites - which make an excellent exercise for students and frankly, faculty, in trying to figure out what sources are dependable and which ones aren't.

The email included a link to a spoof site that claims to save students the trouble of reading the Lord of the Rings. Its author promises, "I'm sure the following synopsis and suggestions will help you make the grades you obviously deserve."

http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/homework.htm

It starts off sounding like a sloppy but fairly realistic description of the plot, but by the time you get to Galadriel's chain-smoking evil sister Beruthiel, you know something's up.

I appreciate all the responses to my last post! And no, I don't think any of you are paranoid - I feel the same way. My fic site, Flammantia Moenia Mundi ("the flaming ramparts of the world" - it started as a site for my Emergency slashfic) is meta-tagged so as not to be picked up by search engines, and the majority of my fic still goes into zines.

My first thought was to go to www.feyworld.com, but it's just a placeholder. I should have thought of googling - it's what I usually do! - so I'm glad y'all suggested it. I got only a handful of hits, mostly comments on Library of Moria. Apparently she's a LOTR fan, which I should have guessed from the name. That makes me feel a LOT better, since my LOTR stuff is out there on a variety of archive sites and is a lot easier to find than most of my other 'Netfic. So I don't feel paranoid that she found me.

But I don't feel inclined to have my stuff on her site, either; it's on the Axe_Bow archive and a few other places and that's enough for me. As shawan_7 says, one has very little control over other people's sites and how they present one's material.