Things happen, even IRL
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Now that my sibling has finally stopped dragging their heels and bought a Worldcon membership, I can reserve a hotel room for us! I went for the nearest-by option in the price range. This is A Success in my adulting life. Now, the plane tickets...
fandom_stocking now has a list of needy stockings available! Full disclosure: I am on it.
For those of you who are exchange mods,
morbane was in correspondince with AO3 over the Reveals Bug – and discovered that there moderation queue functionality is apparently a bug. Post with explanation. I'm drafting together an e-mail to AO3 over this, asking them to please not "fix" this "bug".
In the realm of actual post-posts to make, I have an idea for a post that is half condemnation of Hogwarts House sorting and half rage at the "archetype and 1-2 quirks" school of characterization, a half-post idea that's basically just me quoting stuff someone else wrote on Tumblr + adding a few other translations of the relevant passage, and of course the "OCs must serve either as foils or worldbuilding" post, but: tired. I have to pack and do a ton of bureaucracy and ugh.
space_swap fandom pimping post will go up over the weekend.
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In the realm of actual post-posts to make, I have an idea for a post that is half condemnation of Hogwarts House sorting and half rage at the "archetype and 1-2 quirks" school of characterization, a half-post idea that's basically just me quoting stuff someone else wrote on Tumblr + adding a few other translations of the relevant passage, and of course the "OCs must serve either as foils or worldbuilding" post, but: tired. I have to pack and do a ton of bureaucracy and ugh.
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Date: 2019-01-10 17:25 (UTC)I'm also looking forward to your Hogwarts House sorting condemnation post (even though I love sorting people/characters into Hogwarts Houses as shorthand/discussion driver ;)
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Date: 2019-01-10 17:35 (UTC)My main condemnation will be that it simplifies things overmuch, and all the characters I like are complex! Moreover, I like the complexity about them! *shakes fist at sky* But I'll leave my actual talking points for the post.
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Date: 2019-01-10 17:41 (UTC)My main condemnation will be that it simplifies things overmuch, and all the characters I like are complex!
It definitely does that! Are you familiar with the Sorting Hat Chats system, which relies on the Hogwarts houses, but also adds another dimension (or several) to it? I've found it to be a really neat framework to think about the more complex characters where the simple one-dimensional Hogwarts House system fails or comes down to picking one house out of a hat.
But, anyway, yeah, I'll wait for your actual post!
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Date: 2019-01-10 21:58 (UTC)I'd be interested in your thoughts on OCs--I still, in 2019, see people say they won't read fics with OCs.
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Date: 2019-01-11 14:42 (UTC)I still, in 2019, see people say they won't read fics with OCs.
I've seen that too, as well as OC hate. The OCs I write into my fics, on the other hand, tend to be very well-received, and people tell me they love them. Even the one who ended up together with the protagonist. :P Thus, I decided I should probably write down some of my OC creation philosophy.
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Date: 2019-01-11 23:37 (UTC)Take religion, for example -- it was interesting to me to read the guidebook and see it had info on different places of worship and where to find them. That's something I've never seen in a Finnish info package for a secular event, and it struck me that that must be how the American idea of religious freedom comes up in practice. I'm so used to thinking of religious freedom being respected by not talking about religion in public spaces at all if possible. I knew it's a fundamental conceptual US/Europe difference (freedom to do smth vs. freedom from smth) but it was cool suddenly seeing an example of it. And it wasn't just the religion thing; it's kind of hard to explain, but there were these little social cues in interactions that I could only identify as vaguely "American."
I think this sort of ~open atmosphere of self-expression could be seen as the positive side of US culture, even if I think it would get exhausting living like that... All in all it was just weirdly fascinating seeing Americans irl -- I haven't met many. They really exist!