#tolightamatch

[olderthannetfic]

How do we safely host audio/visual?

tolightamatch replied to your post “A New History of Fandom Purges”

Wow I forgot how much of that I personally witnessed/was part of! Fuck. I forgot how YOUNG I was then damn. Ao3 is SO important. How do we expand to audio/visual though?

An interesting question.

Ideally, one would want a site that has everything integrated. But in the short term, and especially if we’re talking about AO3 itself, I think the answer is to find hosting that can be reliably embedded on AO3 but that is not going to kick off any material. Not ideal, but practical.

I’ve started seeing more vidders using the Internet Archive, Google Drive, and Dropbox, all of which are better for longevity than Youtube. (But also, many of us just put in multiple embeds and a download link, and usually one of them will stay up.)

I’m not involved with OTW anymore, so I don’t know the internal workings, but my sense is that even images are just too expensive to host given that AO3 operates on a shoestring and has many code overhaul things that need to get done for the text side of things, for the search, etc.

[topaziraphale]

Because you deserve to see how the universe aligned perfectly for once.

[fuck-customers]

This new system is TRULY a POS. The parent company & programmers are in the UK, WE are in the PNW. the on site help aren't listening about certain features we NEED to happen, we are 2 weeks into it and we STILL have problems cropping up that are super bad (rvc specific crashes?! People cant find their suspended transactions. The End day reports are WRONG.) We lost 4. 4! GOOD. EMPLOYEES! WHY THE FUCK DID WE SWITCH?!

[ahnsael]

@tolightamatch replied to your post: “So I’m not sure yet, but I think the former potential date and I are...”:

She works with you yeah? Maybe she just wanted to guve you a heads up that she was at work & thus wouldn't be able to reply right away? I would maybe follow up on the potential date again but in person if possible.

No, she was a guest a day before I went to Disneyland, and we just sort of hit it off. I just figured that since she had gotten off work since then, and never texted back, that she was done with me (the tribulation of depression is thinking that EVERYTHING bad must be because of me).

Read the next bit for more.

@whim-without-gumption replied to your post: “So I’m not sure yet, but I think the former potential date and I are...”:

I really don't think you've done anything to mess up here. She seems to have a lot going on in her life, and is choosing to treat her interactions with you rather casually.

I know you’re right...I just tend to view every possible failure as my own. World War II? I wasn’t even alive yet, but part of me feels like it’s my fault.

But I don’t only know you’re right because what you say makes perfect sense; I know you’re right because as I was on my way to work last night, she texted me (I’m not silly, though, I didn’t actually read it until about an hour into my shift since I don’t  text and drive and also because that’s the first time since I got to work that I had to digest whatever she had sent...I didn’t want to read until I had time to reply so I wasn’t leaving her on “message seen” (or whatever it is that it says on her end once I’ve opened the message).

She thanked me for telling her about the guy coming in and talking smack (apparently she’s already out of that guy’s house as of Wednesday but struggling to find places to stay and...I live with my parents I can’t exactly offer their house, I did that once for someone and the parents were not happy about it and...well, rightfully so). She also said she still wants to go out.

So I may not have bought that Flash plush for myself after all. She seems to like sloths, and this one wears a tie like I do at work, so...it just seemed like a groovy thing to get her. Even if things don’t work out in the long run, I hope she enjoys it if/when I get a chance to give it to her.

But...between her trying to find a place to stay, and apparently having just put down a down payment on a car, she’s struggling right now. She has talked her boss into letting her work double-shifts to earn more money (and also mentioned a second job, or maybe just a second location with the same company, which I didn’t know about before we texted last night), and I agree, I’m not the top priority right now.

Which is, as the British would say, altogether right and proper. She’s working to get her own stuff in order, and I’m a distraction from that. Perhaps a welcome distraction, but a distraction nonetheless. And I’ll be happy to distract her when wanted, but otherwise let her take care of business for herself, because I’m not exactly in a position to “rescue” anyone, and she may not need “rescue” in the first place.

It’s not like I’m in a hurry. It’s been almost 11 years since my last date. I can wait a while longer until it’s a good time for her. I don’t exactly have other women lining up to out on a date with me, so the odds of her “missing her chance” are VERY slim.

[gallusrostromegalus]

tolightamatch replied to your post

“prokopetz: prokopetz: Bite-size pastries are dangerous for me...”

@gallusrostromegalus there are things I would do for that recipe. We have a Klotchky recipe that was supposedly from my grandma but it is Not Right, there is something missing and NO ONE in my family can figure out why. I am hoping yours Tastes Right.

Aunt Hattie’s Klotchky Recipe:

Dough

2 cups All-purpose Flour

1 cup Butter

1 cup Cream Cheese

1 tsp salt

Optional, maybe it’ll help: tablespoon whiskey or bourbon (Aunt Hattie loved her some boozy desserts so her original recipe calls for a whole shot of whiskey but that much tends to effect the texture of the dough).

Filling:

Some kind of berry jelly

just buy the solo brand almond filling? it’s good and I’ve never been able to re-create it.

Instructions: blend dough ingrediants like you’re making pie dough.  refrigerate for at least half an hour.  roll to 1/3 inch thickness, cut into 2-in long diamond shapes. dab 1/2 tsp of filling in middle, fold long ends of diamond over. place on ungreased sheet (they won’t stick) bake at 350 for 10-15 min until they get puffy and golden brown.  Allow to cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

[penny-anna]

@tolightamatch replied to your post: Listen. I have 2 degrees and a while ago I put a...

Cold water, it will unseal. I wish I could say this was my knowledge, but no, husband does. Ty husband.

oh damn I wish I’d known that at the time, would have saved me losing a perfectly good tupperware

[icryyoumercy]

there’s a warm-up thing for singing/tongue twister that goes ‘blaukraut bleibt blaukraut und brautkleid bleibt brautkleid’

and while i don’t know for certain, it makes me think that somewhere in walter moers’s education, he’s had someone try to teach him singing

it’s a sort of random unimportant joke, but with me dealing mostly with english originals, having a joke like that in a text is just... it makes me feel like i’m not a stranger, not some random weirdo who stumbled over something that was never meant for me, but instead perfectly welcome where i am, that something was written for me, for people like me, and *shrugs helplessly*

i guess it’s one of those sudden unexpected representation things, only in this case i should have been expecting it

[chocolatequeennk]

I just finished Forever and Never Apart, I love the entirety of Being to Timelessness it is quite honestly EXACTLY the kind of fic that is up my alley!! I was wondering if you were going to keep going into the Ponds and everything? I mean it reads open ended but its also a good ending too really, so just asking. I'm about to enjoy the What If spin-off anyway, but was just curious if we were going to see how exactly things go. Again: LOVE your writing, you're very creative & super talented.

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for sending such a lovely comment. It really made my day, especially after the struggle I had with writing last night. 

I have plans for the specials and beyond, including Amy and Rory and Melody. I mean, obviously I have plans for them, given all the changes to River in the Library. 

If they’ll actually get written is a different question. This is the first story in this series that I’ve tried to write while gainfully employed, and it’s not going well. I don’t have time to just sit down and spend 3-4 hours a day on it for a month or more, which is how I wrote the first drafts of all the other stories. 

Plus I need to work on a few professional writing things, which of course eats into even more of my time. 

So... I hope I’ll get back to it. I love the ideas I have for this series. But it might be a while. If I don’t, I might do some kind of series of posts where I sketch out all the outline ideas I had, just so you can see where people end up.