#use for livejournal

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when House says Wilson's name

#house md #gregory house #prince's talk tag #after almost two weeks of going through the transcripts of every episode I finally finish this and the Wilson version #first off thank you to the clinic-duty team on livejournal for making the transcripts for these episodes #because this video would be near impossible to make without their clear transcripts. I hope y'all are doing well #ive been reading a lot of fics with these two and i see how the authors have the characters refer to each other in their fics #and that got me wondering how much do they say each other's name in the show and how do they refer to each other #since this is the house video ill put his stats here #s1 was 19 times s2 was 31 s3 was 34 s4 was 30 s5 was 35 s6 was 58 s7 was 25 and s8 was 28 #in total he says his name 260 times. Mostly refers to him just by Wilson #He's only said Wilson's first name 7 times. Once by Jim 3 by Jimmy and 3 by James #He'll use his full name in professional settings or to be sarcastic or to pretend to be him #You know since House is the main character and in every episode of the show i thought he'd say his name more than him #but Wilson beats him by 42 times bc s7 and s8 he doesn't say his name as much. it took Wilson getting cancer for him to say it more #than he was before that point

[tranzombie]

oh what i’d do to see pete wentz’s notes app

#fob #fall out boy #pete wentz #i just know hes using it like he used to use livejournal

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms #like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form #and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space #you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc #and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law #and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright #none of those things have fuck all to do with form! #anghraine rants #fanfiction #general fanwank #long post #thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash #and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it #both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his #and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild #ivory tower blogging #anghraine's meta

[tomorrowillbeyou]

alright, i'm not sure how much of this is already commonly known but i have been investigating the source of these images:

and this video:

a comment on this blog post suggests that they were taken in sydney:

the upload date of the video also dates the events to before january 2008. we know that tucker rule and james dewees were there. the song they're singing is gloves by reggie and the full effect:

for these reasons, i THOUGHT that the photos and video were taken at the sydney entertainment center on november 30th 2011. reggie and the full effect opened for mcr that night and gloves was on their setlist:

this is backed up by this youtube comment on the dancing queen video talking about fluxuation in sydney (i unfortunately can't find the video it mentions but the channel is here):

tucker talks about playing for mcr in australia in 2007 in this podcast clip:

this was what i THOUGHT. and i was going to post this but i thought i should do a little more research just to see if i could find anything more. and i stumbled across this livejournal post:

every single image on the post is broken. but i'm pretty confident that the pictures we all know and love were in there.

^this one especially seems to line up. they were taken at a bar called the lobo plantation in sydney on november 29th 2011.

the captions of the other pictures make me SO mad that they were deleted. im so fucking curious. well thank you to deleted livejournal user theyoungpretend for (probably) being the one to post these historical images. if anyone knows of any way to access the rest pls lmk (tinypic went down and all the images hosted on there were deleted)

also this picture seems to have been taken on the same night??

here are some more (questionably worded unfortunately. like some of these are really insane) posts which mention what happened:

x (i think this may be from one of the people in the picture above?), x, x, x (hidden in. ryan ross/matt cortez fic?), x, x, x, x, x, x (masterpost where almost all the links are broken). ive saved all of these on the wayback machine in case they ever get deleted.

this iconic ray moment was the day after btw:

if anyone has any more info or any pics PLEASE let me know!!!!!!

#even if this already is common knowledge i havent seen any posts that talk abt it so . im educating the people #mcr #ray toro #tucker rule #james dewees #<- tagging those involved in the incident. i guess #there are also video links in the livejournal but im not putting those in the post out of deep sympathy for tuckers digital footprint. #im guessing 90% of people wont click the link but if anyone does or sees these tags um. there they are i guess #im SO serious abt the videos btw be normal pleaaaseeeee #ya this is what i stayed up all night for and now my head hurts. lmfao well i hope its of use to at least someone #if i notice a mistake in this after i post ill acc kms #tucker lean deep dive!

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

In goofy David Tennant/Michael Sheen Loud news, my husband stumbled upon an edit with David Tennant and Michael Sheen about how they’re In Love ® and he’s been solidly on the ‘Yeah, they’re prob fuckin’ train because of me & he was like, “I don’t get it, they’re not physically compatible at all, one is really skinny and the other is cherubic—“ and I was like bruh you literally described the one who plays an angel on TV as cherubic 💀 💀 💀 certifyibly Good ™️ casting big rare W to Neil Gaiman

#he’s not even in the fandom he just had a fancam recommended to him & it was almost all staged clips lmaooo #he didn’t believe me at first until i explained to him how aggressively bisexual michael sheen is and the heavily implied poly drama #he isn’t nearly as invested as I am but he’s a full believer now as an *outsider* lmaoko #*lmao (i am not retyping i cannae type on mobile) #also ‘not physically compatible’ made me chuckle like bruh these men are so thirsty #i love people (and celebrities) whomst’ve just cannot help but constantly reveal themselves lmaooo #also he thinks rpf is hysterical & we used to read livejournal beatles rpf in high school on school computers so he really is the one #good omens #bbc staged #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #david tennant #michael sheen #i must stress he is entirely outside of the fandom and skeptical on all ‘these ppl are fcking’ shit and even he’s like ‘oh okay lol i guess’ #incredible #also i don’t want good omens stuff on his computer like was it just listening to us?? help???

[elialys]

Sitting there trying to find a non-confrontational way to talk about how the lack of engagement with the fics we write is depressing as fuck. Not coming up with anything since the mood on tumblr these days is to shame writers who feel sad that 99% of their readers don't interact with the stories they share yet still read everything.

How do I explain how incredibly heartbreaking it has been to see the community aspect of fic writing/sharing DIE over the years?

#of course its unhealthy to let it affect you as a person #but how do we not talk about how PASSIVE fic reading has become?? #i have been doing this TWENTY YEARS #i literally have gone through the death of fic reviews and fic comments #people used to have whole conversations and discussions in comments on livejournal #why are we not allowed to talk about this?? #writing #fic writing

[louderfade]

i am indifferent to mcr and related content on here but i simply adore how devoted their fans are, well, in general really, but specifically to these musicians' old livejournal accounts. i was huge on lj bc i am old and these mcr fans are still out here posting entries from 2006 just bc they're interesting or relatable or revealing of the author's preferences. like if i were forced to be famous (god forbid) i would want fans like that. who track down my ancient public lj and are so affected by it that they come here to upload screenshots of an incomprehensible personal post i made about suffering rage-induced headaches while in my sylvia plath era on a tuesday morning at age 19 using the office computers at my shitty temp job while listening to sunny day real estate complete with my edgy requiem for a dream userpic and some poetic word salad i entered in the "mood" textbox that day and then tag it with #she knew everything or use it as a source to support their fucking internet essay about bands i found lyrically influential in my youth. those fans are the realest. and shout out to livejournal for remaining untransformed through the ages in order to make this possible. long live lj and mcr fans too i hope y'all never change rock on.

#personal #i still use lj for real i have like three active accounts #one is a very organized wishlist ive had forever but my mom still uses it to buy me presents so i keep it updated #i still post the occassional very important thing on my original account there #screaming into the void and all you know i'll be doing it until i die #mcr #livejournal

[celestialspritz]

👽pseudosims eyes 4t2 (reuploaded)👽

i converted these a long time ago, but only shared them on livejournal, i think. i remembered them today when i was looking for cute sims 4 alien eyes to convert, so i decided to reupload this set

they're contacts only, meaning they'll be in your blush category :)

DL @ SFS

credits - psuedosims

#posted on the wrong blog at first rofl #ts2 #ts2cc #s2cc #mycc #dl:eyes #💌 #LMAO i actually used the same hair in this preview as the other preview on livejournal.... how

[dirtyoldmanhole]

reasons why this gunter/corrin doujin is going to be amazing: this

#i am fully embracing the 00's doujin/livejournal ship manifesto vibe and this thing is exploding with affection <3 #i could not stop cackling the entire time while drawing shinjichair!gunter.... SERIOUSLY WHAT HE'S LIKE HALF THE TIME LMAO #'noo.... i shouldn't~~...." #meanwhile gunterfuckers are like 'please let us dick you down hot grandpa <3' 'it might not fix you but it'd fix us. i think' #own art

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

#house md #james wilson #prince's talk tag #finally!!! it's done! this and the house version took almost two weeks to do #first off thank you to the clinic-duty team on livejournal for making the transcripts for these episodes #because this video would be near impossible to make without their clear transcripts. I hope y'all are doing well #ive been reading a lot of fics with these two and i see how the authors have the characters refer to each other in their fics #and that got me wondering how much do they say each other's name in the show and how do they refer to each other #since this is the wilson video ill put his stats here #s1 was 11 times s2 was 18 s3 was 45 s4 was 32 s5 was 41 s6 was 60 s7 was 47 and s8 was 48 #in total he says his name 302 times. Mostly refers to him just by House #the only time I've heard him say his first name its when he's being professional or when he's really angry (and that one time he proposed) #and even then it's always the full name not just the first name #the only instance I've seen him use just his first name was on that note he put on House's xmas gift that we see in season 5 #and as much as I wanted to put that moment in here he never actually says the contents of the note out loud so i had to leave it out #but what surprised me was he says House's name more than House says his name #especially when the earlier seasons didn't have him say his name as much

[sunglassesmish]

we’re going to be so annoying and just add ‘also cas is gay’ to literally every post aren’t we? so true of us, i wouldn’t expect anything less

#love that misha is always the one to give us these things #say what you want about him but literally since he first stumbled onto cas sucking dean off on livejournal in 2008 #he was like sure you know what yeah. and he stuck by it

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 10 #columbo likes the nightlife #when there's a blue light special at the kmart rave #god lil grandpa is so hip and modern. all grown up and using emoticons on livejournal

[moregraceful]

i made what was a huge medical decision today that has been received very badly by my family and i feel absolutely nothing but pure freedom and joy about it. the thing i'm really fixated on rn is when should i post this fic i just finished

#i think october 1. for halloween #it was for skelly season but it took such a weird turn in the end that i feel weird about gifting it to someone lol #very short list of people i would subject this particular rarepair agenda to on purpose. maybe just beryl #the medical decision is legitimately life-altering and i should be stressed but i'm just like it's my body. my body horror. and i'm free :) #i'm stressin way more about the fic bro #and like if i don't gift the fic do i then go back and commit to making it even weirder and rarepaired.... #stars future leadership polycule (two guys who are dating and their captain who holds their hand in high stress situations) #what am i even talking about..................... #today my boss was like thank you for your (insane 11 paragraph long) email! i used it as a meeting agenda with my boss :) #i was like oh no now my grandboss knows i use my boss's inbox as my work livejournal #i got to remake my schedule tho now that i'm almost done with my training!! i gave myself a three day weekend... #...so i can go to the therapy i need to deal with this job. was anyone gonna tell me abt secondary trauma or was i #just supposed to find that out on my literal first day of work lol #my therapist was THRILLED she was like oh i have SO many books to recommend we're gonna have SO much fun!! i was like oh no #fridays off and life is good tbh!! except for the fic. i don't know what to do abt the fic #fresno oilers.txt

[misscammiedawn]

Tumblr works for me. It does. I enjoy it here. But I feel like I made compromises a decade ago and we have been slowly declining ever since.

We achieved perfection in blogging spaces when Livejournal allowed you to select which avatar you wished to use for every post and include little formats like "mood" and "currently listening" after the body of the post.

We had something beautiful in animated forum signatures good enough to make Patrick Bateman sweat.

We had Vine, a platform with shortform media content so good that my vocabulary hasn't recovered seven years after it closed down.

I have seen things you people wouldn't believe... and all these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Perhaps I am being an old lady. I just... I really want to be able to switch my avatar when I post. Something so simple. So small. Something I had and just assumed would always be there.

#dawn posting #tumblr #vine #livejournal #I used to go spelunking in the abandoned Geocities of old #enshitification

[235uranium]

niche question bc im curious how ppl learned about the history/basis of various subcultures

i'm not asking what introduced it to you, i'm specifically asking where you went for resources on fashion, music, history, ect.

(note that this is almost definitely skewed towards goth and jfashion during the late 2000s-mid 2010s. I also have no idea how emo and scene work as subcultures sorry I skipped right to 'goth that's annoying about the music')

#☢️.txt #goth #punk #j fashion #genuinely curious about this! #for ref i learned my stuff from gothic charm school and this other blogspot blog i cant think of the name of #and for lolita it was mostly egl livejournal and fyeahlolita #tho i did start using tumblr bc of alt fashion!

[incorrect-rangers-quotes]

writing fic (again) and i thought of something i would Really Enjoy and was like, wait, no, rangers aren’t mean like that.

and then i realized that, wait, no, yeah, rangers are absolutely mean like that. rangers can be downright cruel in the way that you won’t realize it’s cruel at 10 when you first read these books, but then if you’re still obsessed with it at 20 (im bitches etc) you’ll look back and be like Holy Shit.

i love it. it’s the greatest thing. i can write these just boys as fucked as i like. morgarath is about to regret so many decisions.

#rangers apprentice #im so sorry im basically using this to livejournal my fic but like come ONNN #who else am i gonna talk to? people on my art blog? #i put my gay sta rwars there!!!! #not a quote #one day ill go thru that tag and purge everything but lbr its not today nor soon #morgarath: why are you here #crowley: in as few words as possible to be a giant bitch to you :)