Valabar's!

Sep. 7th, 2010 12:47 am
jmtorres: Morrolan from the Taltos books. Dark Star.  (morrolan)
Longtime readers of my journal may recall that I once ran a fic exchange for the Vlad Taltos and Paarfi novels about Dragaera by Steven Brust, and relatedly, an lj community named [livejournal.com profile] valabars. I am now attempting to kickstart the community on dreamwidth: [community profile] valabars; and to get the ficathon fic archived on AO3 (if you wrote fic for that ficathon back in 2005, you can read how to post to the Valabar's collection on AO3 here).

But! This community is not just for the oldtime members who survived my first travesty of an attempt at running a fic exchange! It is also for anyone who thinks they might enjoy participating in a fic exchange for the Dragaera books in the future! Because AO3 automates so much that I might actually make the damn thing annual! If there is interest! I promise to use fewer exclamation points in the future. Really. I'm slightly drunk right now, is my only excuse.

Also, for anyone who wants to talk about the Dragaera books!. I myself just finished reading Iorich. spoiler? )

Who's with me?
jmtorres: (phone)
Testing post by email and post from phone because I am going to be shutting down my usual channels of fannish interaction for a few weeks. I had a fairly nasty scare this weekend with missing an online exam and I may yet have to withdraw from college for the semester, pending how I do on a shitload of extra credit, so I'm trying to put the pedal the metal and ignore you all.

On the plus side I have turned on the ability to txt me from DW (for those of you still on LJ, you can txt me from there too) so if you have any desire to send me brief, cheer-filled messages regarding the relationship dramas of people with wings, or whatever else floats our boats, you know where to find me.

ETA: my email/phone posts will not automatically cross-post to LJ. Also I am generally considering ceasing to cross-post to LJ, so people who wish to follow me on LJ may want to follow the syndicated feed of my DW: [livejournal.com profile] jmtorres_dw. This won't allow you to see locked entries but it will allow you to see public entries; most of my entries are public on DW except for those on [whine] and [loki] filters. A more detailed plan for my escape from LJ will be plotted later.
jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
LJ has been using some javascript bullcrap to change links people post to merchants like amazon so that LJ profits. [personal profile] elke_tanzer rounded up assorted entries on the subject.

I have a shit ton of invite codes for dreamwidth, if anyone wants a journal on dreamwidth. Partially I have this many because I have multiple accounts with dreamwidth; partially because I suspect people are disinclined to go through the hoops of asking for them if I just say "I have codes, email me." So don't email me, don't ask, just click on one of the links below and you will be whisked away to the dreamwidth journal creation page. If you care to comment to let me know to cross some out, that'd be awesome. But don't feel obligated. You can just click and go to town, that's fine with me.

And seriously, I have a bunch. Take multiple if you have a purpose for them. Want to start a comm? Apparently you don't even need a code for that, once you have a personal account! Want one journal for fandom and one for personal? One for musing and one for posting fic? Go to town. Use my codes. Dreamwidth won't give me any more until all of these are gone!

https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?from=jmtorres&code=KP2Z97FYPX555AAAFDY2
https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?from=jmtorres&code=8M3MKVXBF9KANAAAFDY3
https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?from=jmtorres&code=DXB7GNH7DSMMXAAABBET
https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?from=jmtorres&code=EWY8XB664J82XAAABBEU
https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?from=jmtorres&code=GVWB72K2BQRCSAAADP7L
https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?from=jmtorres&code=RT7H2RT7K7GXXAAADXEL
https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?from=jmtorres&code=XXRKR7QJSAEDNAAAEB2W
jmtorres: (mocking)
If you have a Paid or Permanent account, you can send up to 10 LiveJournal Basic/Plus users a $10 coupon for an annual paid subscription now through January 15th, 2010. Recipients can upgrade for $9.95 (instead of $19.95) for one year by enrolling in our automatic payment plan or make a manual payment of $15 (instead of $25). Please note that these coupons are not transferable and cannot be used to renew existing paid accounts.

I can provide coupons to any ten people with basic accounts on LJ who would like patronize them. If you can't figure out how to comment on my DW, you can also email me: juliette dot torres at gmail.
jmtorres: From Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video; the peach-haired, wide-eyed iteration (Default)
My original plan for dreamwidth:
--crosspost most entries to DW and LJ, slowing tapering off until only big announcements are crossposted to LJ, regular content on DW
--consolidate comments on DW
--leave my LJ habitually locked; open my DW to the public until DW is out of beta

Is the last bit I'm concerned about. I'm considering going back to habitual access-locking before official release. The reason I was going to hold off that long is that DW will deal with certain bugs (openID appearing to be a non-option if anonymous commenting is disabled, unless you're already *signed in* to openID) and, I hope, release certain features (linking openID and regular accounts, if you have both) by the time we come out of beta.

HOWEVER. I don't actually like dealing with people I don't know all that much. So I am considering access-locking all my regular DW content as I do my LJ content.

Please raise your hand if you give a crap either way. Tell me why. (Dear lurkers: this means you too.)

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