(to distract me from the yulefic)
Ficwriting by committee nonbinding poll is still open! Likely it will be until the heat death of the universe.
On the topic of fandom in general,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
greywash has a post on the history of fannish migrations and some speculation on the likely next home of fandom, including a lot of tech stuff. For those new to Dreamwidth, sylvaine has a comm recpost, organized by topic, for panfandom/multifandom/nonfandom comms active on DW within the last year. Oh, and isis has some general advice on tag use & blacklisting on DW.
With regards to Guardian,![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sid_guardian is a new noticeboard for linking 镇魂 | Guardian fanworks of all kinds (such as fic, art, meta) as well as other Guardian-related posts, and for making Guardian recs. So far, there are posts on icons (none of which fit my esthetic of unedited screencaps), a bit on actors in other roles, and a vid finder request. Once I finish an actual fic for the canon, I'll advertise it there. Over at galaxysoup's, there's a decent episode content guide for those "which ep did Shen Wei drink alcohol in again?" questions. Very useful for figuring out which ep to screencap from for my upcoming icon! (Either Shen Wei or Ye Zun, probably the latter.)
For fen of Zhu Yilong (plays Shen Wei in Guardian), there is a Zhu Yilong only cut of 情定三生 ("Love Three Lives") available on Bilibili. I have been informed that nothing of value was lost, and the plot makes just as much sense as in the full cut.
In the realm of non-fandom things that are cool, here's a post on Chernobyl on Imgur. [Content note: contains pictures of people who're dying gorily of radiation poisoning – stop after the pictures of vehicles being sprayed/the caption "All vehicles entering and leaving the 30km exclusion zone were meticulously cleaned and measured for radioactive particles." to avoid.] It debunks a number of exaggerations and misinformations about the process that have spread in Anglophone media; namely, the men who went on a diving expedition into radioactive water to drain the pressure suppression pool all lived to tell the tale, and are still alive today. (The firemen, OTOH, weren't so lucky.) The main draw of the post is the clear and concise explanation of what happened that night, why it happened, and what the containment efforts were. Artur Korneyev, one of the men who built the original sarcophagus and was involved in designing the modern containment, is still alive, despite leading loads of reporters into the sarcophagus and taking a selfie with corite, though he's been barred from re-entering the site due to cumulative radiation exposure, and is sickly in his 60s. It's a piece of history that gets held up mainly as a way to scaremonger about technology gone too far; the reality is much more interesting.
Ficwriting by committee nonbinding poll is still open! Likely it will be until the heat death of the universe.
On the topic of fandom in general,
greywash has a post on the history of fannish migrations and some speculation on the likely next home of fandom, including a lot of tech stuff. For those new to Dreamwidth, sylvaine has a comm recpost, organized by topic, for panfandom/multifandom/nonfandom comms active on DW within the last year. Oh, and isis has some general advice on tag use & blacklisting on DW.With regards to Guardian,
sid_guardian is a new noticeboard for linking 镇魂 | Guardian fanworks of all kinds (such as fic, art, meta) as well as other Guardian-related posts, and for making Guardian recs. So far, there are posts on icons (none of which fit my esthetic of unedited screencaps), a bit on actors in other roles, and a vid finder request. Once I finish an actual fic for the canon, I'll advertise it there. Over at galaxysoup's, there's a decent episode content guide for those "which ep did Shen Wei drink alcohol in again?" questions. Very useful for figuring out which ep to screencap from for my upcoming icon! (Either Shen Wei or Ye Zun, probably the latter.)For fen of Zhu Yilong (plays Shen Wei in Guardian), there is a Zhu Yilong only cut of 情定三生 ("Love Three Lives") available on Bilibili. I have been informed that nothing of value was lost, and the plot makes just as much sense as in the full cut.
In the realm of non-fandom things that are cool, here's a post on Chernobyl on Imgur. [Content note: contains pictures of people who're dying gorily of radiation poisoning – stop after the pictures of vehicles being sprayed/the caption "All vehicles entering and leaving the 30km exclusion zone were meticulously cleaned and measured for radioactive particles." to avoid.] It debunks a number of exaggerations and misinformations about the process that have spread in Anglophone media; namely, the men who went on a diving expedition into radioactive water to drain the pressure suppression pool all lived to tell the tale, and are still alive today. (The firemen, OTOH, weren't so lucky.) The main draw of the post is the clear and concise explanation of what happened that night, why it happened, and what the containment efforts were. Artur Korneyev, one of the men who built the original sarcophagus and was involved in designing the modern containment, is still alive, despite leading loads of reporters into the sarcophagus and taking a selfie with corite, though he's been barred from re-entering the site due to cumulative radiation exposure, and is sickly in his 60s. It's a piece of history that gets held up mainly as a way to scaremonger about technology gone too far; the reality is much more interesting.