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Loooool. Come back with a PhD.
Ok terrible news. My bulletproof kink wandered into the Heated Rivalry fandom and those boys are freaking hot and now I haven’t come up for air in over a week. I’m so sleep deprived that I’m getting carsick driving myself to work. New fandom serotonin is hitting so freaking hard. Send help soon.
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Hi!
I was checking some of your fics in this link https:// www.trickster(.)org/speranza/stories(.)html and next to the titles there is a number like for example Eight Sessions (270K) -my favorite dS fic ever- and I was wondering what is the number? I thought it was the number of words but I didn't remember that fic being so long so I checked ao3 and yeah it says 34,432 words. Then, I checked other fics' word count in both pages and at least some of them don't match. What is that number then?
LOL - I love this question, even though it makes me feel OLD AS DIRT.
In the olden times of the dial up internet, the number you put next to a story was NOT the word count but the FILE SIZE - it was 240k in size, this is to say, a quarter of a mb--and this told the reader how long it would take to LOAD in your BROWSER. Now of course 240k is not very much, but understand me when I say that my first computer/word processor was an Atari 130, which had as its total system memory, 130k!! (Which was double my dad's computer, which was an Atari 65, which had--yes--65k total memory!)
Anyway Eight Sessions was written in--hm, looks it up, May 2002! Which means that only 20% of people had broadband internet at that time - so 80% would have had dialup and have to get the story through a modem. I posted the story to the F/K email list in parts, and then when it was only you wanted to make sure people knew how big it was so that they could anticipate the loading.
I didn't even have a LJ yet in May 2002--I caved and got one in December of 2002. Yikes!
Oh nostalgia. I used to be able to estimate my reading time based on how many ‘k’ a fic was. But if memory serves, people started using ‘k’ to mean how many thousand words their fic was. And suddenly my short read before bed was a ‘how is it 5 o clock already’ morning.
Wonder Woman: Batman, we could make good use of Nightwing with this. Would you call him?
Dick, who's filling in for Bruce as Batman: I'll call him
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Hal: you've gained some muscles
Jason, dressed as Nightwing: I started working out
Hal: Damn. What's the routine cause I just saw you last week and you look completely different.
Jason: steroids
Dick, as batman: *chokes on coffee*
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Superman: We might need someone who's good with guns, hm... Hey Nightwing you're in contact with redhood, right? Could you have him come?
Jason, as Nightwing: ... I don't see why not
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Wonder woman: this security is an issue we need someone who can hack this system long enough for us to get pass
Superman: hey hood, any chance you can give red robin a call?
Tim, with 5 inches of padding, as redhood: on it
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Hal: isn't robin usually with you all?
Flash: yeah we could use him with this one
Superman: Red Robin, would you call in Robin for us?
Damian, in red robin costume: he's dead
Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as
- sneezed wrong
- turned your neck a little too fast
- slept weird
- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual
- breathed
- failed to breathe properly
- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time
- looked too hard at something too far away
- knees
I want a groundhog day episode of a show on which during each subsequent loop when the character-who-remembers is explaining the situation, they get these responses from a media savvy character…
“You mean like the movie Groundhog Day?”
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“You mean like the Star Trek: the Next Generation episode Cause and Effect?”
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“You mean like the X-files episode Monday?”
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“You mean like Stargate SG-1 episode Window of Opportunity?”
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“You mean like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Life Serial?”
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“You mean like the Xena: the Warrior Princess episode Been There, Done That?”
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“You mean like the Fringe episode White Tulip?”
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“You mean like the 12 Monkeys episode Lullaby?”
(this one is followed by a quick exchange of “They made a tv show based on 12 Monekys?” “Yeah, it was pretty good.”)
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“You mean like the Supernatural episode Mystery Spot?”
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“You mean like the Charmed episode Deja Vu All Over Again?”
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“You mean like the Dark Matter episode All the Time in the World?”
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“You mean like the Star Trek: Discovery episode Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad?”
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“You mean like the Legends of Tomorrow episode Here I Go Again?”
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“You mean like the Blindspot episode Everlasting?”
with the response “That one doesn’t really count, it was a dream after the first explo-”
“Ok, yes fine, so then, you mean like the Japanese light novel All You Need to Kill and the subsequent Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow?”
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“You mean like the short lived 2006 tv series Day Break?”
“THERE IS NO WAY THAT WAS YOUR FIRST THOUGHT! ADMIT YOU REMEMBER THE LOOPS!”
“Never!”
Movement nudge! Aging well and hopefully without pain.
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Re-reading your own fic is wild.
Okay, that's a really good sentence. Typo. Typo. Huh, did I write this? It's actually not bad. Typo. Hm, I would cut out that part now, but it kind of works. TYPO. Oh, this part is really good. That is the wrong word, wtf? I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. ANOTHER TYPO? FFS.
Editing your own fic: Typo. Tense change. Shoot I used this word twice already. Another tense change. Adds a sentence in. Takes out the sentence when you see you actually added it in three paragraphs later. Typo. Trying to figure out how to start a sentence without using the character’s name. Why did everyone keep glancing at each other? Get to the end and dammit, what kind of author leaves it on a cliffhanger like that?
At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...
This is incredible.
Reasons Keladry of Mindelan is the best Tamora Pierce character:
“Nobody will kill two kittens in front of me then.”
Determined to demonstrate her femininity as a page to prove a sociopolitical point at age 10
“When I see anyone big pick on someone small, well, there’s going to be a fight.”
“I would have done over the whole four years.”
Aroace icon (and therefore no uncomfortable age/power gap romance) 😌
(sees any form of bullying) “This is wrong.”
Calls out Jonathan’s BS even though she follows him without a word because she’s…
Profoundly and fundamentally loyal
Several whole books of Raoul dodging social obligations and being the best knight-master hey don’t have SEX WITH YOUR SQUIRE Jonathan when I get you
Raoul to Wyldon: ‘Why the FUCK did you think she wouldn’t go after the refugees, you dumbass? You should have chained her to her horse.’
glaives are sick as hell
intentionally suffered every possible horrible fear the Chamber of the Ordeal could put her through week after week out of sheer determination to face her terror
fighting style of choice: ‘whatever. go my birds plus dog’
The focus on tactics and command!! She’s not a lone and legendary hero, she’s a teammate and leader
Corksniffing losers have to sully an awesome new space photo just to erroneously claim film is inherently superior.
I think this version is the original color processed version, which is still not as saturated or contrasty.
That's still an amazing result just from darkroom processing, but the deep blue version in the tweet definitely needed some help from Photoshop. And, personally, I think they overdid it.
The new photo was actually taken in darkness. It is a moonlit photo taken at extremely high gain (ISO 52,000). They did a long exposure to make it appear as if it were as bright as day. But without significant editing, that is going to make the colors less saturated and reduce the contrast.
The same thing would happen with film.
This is another version they did with a more accurate-to-eyeballs exposure.
Film is great.
Digital is great.
Space is great.
I love film.
But it was not a great medium for space.
Most astronauts are fighter pilots. And there are only a few who are genuine photographers. You can train a fighter pilot to competently use a camera, but becoming a good photographer during the days of film usually took years of practice.
During the Apollo days they would send them up there with the best camera available. Usually a 70mm Hasselblad medium format. But the astronauts proved that the only way to get amazing photos without being a photographer was mostly down to luck.
We see the best photos they took, but those only amount to a handful. And as you saw above, NASA often had to do a lot of darkroom magic to make them aesthetically pleasing.
If you look at the Apollo archives, you can find hundreds of photos like this.
I'm fond of this one.
There was no instant feedback. They didn't have any instincts for settings or focus or composition. Most of the time they were just collecting visual data.
But every once in a while the stars aligned and they took absolute bangers.
That flag one is amazingly composed. But it took them a few tries.
Digital cameras give you a better baseline of quality. They can focus for you. They can meter for you. And they have high ISO gain that film could never touch.
They are... fighter pilot friendly.
With digital, they can look at the back screen and see if they bungled the exposure.
If they take a photo like this...
They get instant feedback and can be like, "Houston, where is exposure compensation?"
There is an undeniable ineffable quality that film sometimes delivers. But the medium is far less important than the skill of the person taking the photo.
Don Pettit is my favorite astronaut photographer. A true artist.
He really makes you forget about whether film is better than digital. He makes one remember that the person taking the photo is the paramount variable.
There is a great interview from Smarter Every Day where Don talks about how he captures amazing photos from space.
Ok yeah, this one’s pretty fun.
Puts the product on tumblr for all to share it
My what a guy, that Gaston.