Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in rydra_wong's LiveJournal:

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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
12:36 pm	Etc. Fandom Secrets friending meme This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/353330.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
9:40 pm	Further to the last post fandomsecrets would like you to rec your favourite Dreamwidth comms, fannish and non-fannish, for the benefit of people who may be new to DW: Community rec post This is a big big comm moving over, so make them welcome, folks. *g* This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/353182.html: comments | comment | OpenID
12:33 pm	Relevant to your interests? fandomsecrets is officially moving to Dreamwidth on June 2nd. fandomsecrets This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/352954.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Friday, May 11th, 2012
8:35 am	Relevant to your interests: Black Widow prompt meme I am not in Avengers fandom, but from the posts all over my reading page, I know that many of you have just seen the movie. So you might like to know that cantarina has started a Natasha Romanov/Black Widow prompt fest. You're welcome. (Thanks to terajk for the link.) This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/352111.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
5:40 pm	3W4DW linkage Among other things: such_heights's Female Character Trope Fest is open, with 738 prompts in a wide variety of fandoms. ephemere is hosting a Love Meme. whatawaytoburn has a podfic meme. kanata has this year's transfic mini fest up and running. And the tag feed has been switched on (picking up any public posts tagged with "three weeks for dreamwidth", "3W4DW", "three weeks" or "threeweeks"): http://www.dreamwidth.org/latest?feed=threeweeks This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/351706.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
2:38 pm	Rec: The Verb Survives I haven't recced fic in forever. This is about Teal'c and the women in his life, Shakespeare, The Vagina Monologues, words and power. stultiloquentia, The Verb Survives (Stargate SG-1, Teal'c, Drey'auc, Ishta) On the blanket beside him, Cassie chattered to Janet about what she'd seen, indignant that a passage she remembered from school had been cut from the production. "Yes," Janet agreed, twinkling. "They've taken some liberties with the text." To take liberty, Teal'c thought. Janet was still talking about the length of the original play, how it would have been shown in Shakespeare's time, and other productions Janet had seen. "Right after Star Wars came out, I saw one at the community college where the fairies all had lightsabers," she told Cassie, who couldn't decide whether to respond with giggles or disdain. Teal'c thought of the Most Glorious Tales of the Divine Court of Apophis, which never changed, even in inflection. He thought of Colonel O'Neill standing before a system lord and saying nothing but, "O most powerfulest one," and causing not satisfaction, but sore offense. He thought of Sha're of Abydos, as Daniel Jackson had described her. To take liberty with the text. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/351282.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Monday, April 30th, 2012
7:59 pm	Signal-boost: hat-passing time ilyena_sylph is doing a fundraiser to get killing_rose the fuck away from her abusive living situation. She needs to raise a lot of money, since killing_rose is moving from Alaska to the lower 48, but if you could even donate $5, it'd help a lot. If you can't donate, please, please signal boost. Fund-raising post here. Thanks so much. Thanks to panda (via recessional) for the handy copy-and-paste text. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/350959.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Friday, April 27th, 2012
10:15 am	Surprise 3W4DW is surprising! The person who's previously been chief cheerleader and reminder for Three Weeks For Dreamwidth is currently AWOL, but over in three_weeks_for_dw, people remembered that it'd be due to happen about now anyway. So, here we go! For anyone who's not been aboard for previous years: the basic idea is to produce new content which will be exclusive to Dreamwidth (i.e. not cross-posted) for at least three weeks after the posting date. In practice, people use it as an excuse for fests, celebrations and blogging challenges of all kinds. If you're not comfortable with switching off the cross-poster for a while, there are plenty of activities taking place in comms and memes. There's already a anime/manga/manhwa/manhua drabblefest, a writers' friending meme, and the female character trope fest 2: electric boogaloo. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/350481.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
8:10 pm	MY DEADLIFT SMUGNESS LET ME SHOW YOU IT. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/350266.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Friday, April 13th, 2012
1:13 pm	Anyone in Inception fandom? erika is looking for a beta "who's willing to go through betaing (critically) a fic that's most likely going to be over 30k". ETA: While you're there, check out the rest of the comments to the Needs Must post, and see if there's anyone else you can help out. And/or post your own request. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/350110.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Friday, April 6th, 2012
7:11 pm	BECAUSE I ALWAYS HAVE TO SHARE OKAY Climbing: it really is this pretty. Life On Hold trailer The film's available now (download, with the DVD coming soon), and it lives up to the trailer, for anyone who's interested. niqaeli described climbing as "ballet meets geology", and this is ballet/geology porn. But even if you're not a climber, watch the trailer. It's a very pretty thing. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/349376.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
9:11 pm	The power of Toph compels you terajk has started the People with Disabilities (PWD) Being Awesome Commentwork Fest. Go, prompt, fanwork. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/348952.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
7:04 pm	Small victories I don't know heartequals, but their I'M SO F**KING AWESOME POST is a damn fine idea: I was whining in a mental health community today about how annoying it is when I do something and I'm super proud of myself but to everyone else it's like nbd. Even people who know me, know my diagnosis, who have lived with me, still get all like "yeah you got out of bed. . .and then you found five dollars?" Fuck that, bros. Small victories are still victories. I deserve a high-five and so do you. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/348112.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
8:13 am	FYI, because I ran into this If you don't allow LiveJournal to run Javascript (which some people don't for security reasons, after the run of malware-riddled ads a while back), their new "lj-spoiler" cut doesn't work. At all. eruthros explains in more detail: So LJ has just instituted a new kind of cut-tag-thing - "lj-spoiler" - which theoretically can be used for in-line expansion and in comments and will be all pretty. There's just one problem: it's so javascript dependent that there's no indication that it's there if you don't allow lj.com to run scripts. Like, not, "the in-line expansion doesn't work," but flat-out "can see the spoiler text without even a header or indication that it was under a cut." And it also doesn't show up in (most?) email-notifications at all. And some people have suggested that it does not interact well with screenreaders. So that's fun. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/347357.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
6:01 pm	The Backbench Business Committee having refused it a debate ... the "Drop the Bill" petition is now heading steadily towards 200,000 signatures. Sign, pass it on, write to your MP. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/347055.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Saturday, February 18th, 2012
10:41 am	While we're signing e-petitions Again for British citizens or UK residents -- this seems to be the one with the best numbers so far against the horrific cuts to disability benefits: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20968 Reasons to sign ... so many, but here's one of the latest: Guardian: Disabled people face unlimited unpaid work or cuts in benefit Disabling (ha, ha) comments as this shit triggers more stress than I can handle. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/345806.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
7:36 am	*fist-pumps* NHS bill eligible for new parliament debate after 100,000 sign e-petition Occasionally, slacktivism strikes a blow. (If you're a British citizen or UK resident and haven't signed it yet, please do, and pass it on -- bigger number, more noise.) This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/345593.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
12:44 pm	Meta Month of March Sign-ups open on the 15th: month_of_meta This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/344577.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
11:11 pm	For British citizens or UK residents Here's the e-petition calling for the government to drop its Health Bill. You will note that it currently has over 50,000 signatures. 100,000 potentially forces a debate in the Commons, which could help slow the bill further. It's not often I venture out of the bunker in which I am trying to live in until the next election, but it's not often you get such a low-effort chance to kick them in the teeth, either. Pass it on. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/344076.html: comments | comment | OpenID
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
9:40 am	Heroes Arrive Last terajk's mini-fest about navigationally-impaired characters is now live: Welcome to the Heroes Arrive Last fest--a celebration of characters who have a poor sense of direction or get lost easily. This is a party, so I hope it's fun! You can do anything you want: fic, art, vids, meta, rec lists, picspams, poems, icons, podfic, etc., etc., etc. This post was originally posted at http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/343982.html: comments | comment | OpenID