art recs, swan lake musings, and tagging

Some of you may remember the Torchwood Babies art I recced a while back. There's a full-on comic now... TEH CUTE, IT BURNS. I may be a small gibbering wreck now.

Ronon in a tutu manip. But, er, it doesn't actually look very silly. And my brain is half torn between trying to figure out whether it's going the Ballet de Trockadero de Monte Carlo (the blokes in full ballet drag in tutus and en pointe who take the piss) route or the Matthew Bourne route, which is so manly and thud-inducing that smelling salts are often required for the audience. Because, well, I can see him doing either - alternately giggly and pissed off or smouldering all over the stage. Ronon as The Swan. :swallows: For those familiar with the all-male Swan lake, I'll just let your brains absorb that image. Get back to me when you recover. :muses: Not entirely sure who'd be The Prince in that production, though - I can't think of anyone in the main SGA or SG-1 cast who'd be that lost, insecure and lacking in confidence - you'd have to do major character assassination to get anyone to even get close to it (though you could probably tweak early Xander or Willow from BtVS without a problem).

In other news, foolishly spent a good couple of hours yesterday evening tagging the entirety of thedarkisrising (ah, the power....). Four years worth. Still got 2006 to go. Course, now I found out that the template for that community doesn't show tags. Oh well. Least it'll show up on the flist. Internet Jesus knows how long it would take with a high-traffic community. Came across the first post about the car crash with added elephants and... oh, fandom. Your poor optimism and tentative hopefulness - because at that point, the narnia film hadn't come out yet so Walden were a completely unknown quantity aside from effects, and then the utter optimism and hope that we had post-Narnia. :cuddles and supplies DIR fandom with vodka: Oh, and found a pre-film rights bought and massacred post about fantasy casting. I'd completely forgotten my musings about Brian Cox as Merriman. Huh. Yeah, *definitely* better than Mckellen.

ah, the fun of guinea-pigging a new system....

They uploaded a new design of the xml versions of the articles. It looks very nice, it's much cleaner and simpler and prettier and confuses the luddite authors less than the old version.

It went live end of last week.

So of course, our department has spent the last two days hitting the brick walls of all the things they forgot to put in because they don't come across them. We're getting about one every half hour at this rate....

Example #5,321 : Paragraph and indent tags in tables aren't even *registering* - the new system is actually ignoring them. (they're present in the base xml file, but if you hit 'view source', they disappear)

Yesterday I had to point out that they'd missed a bunch of font tags out of one section of the css.

Me : 'there's something wrong with the css tags'
Them : 'we see nothing!'
Me :prints out and circles the missing section in red ink from the css file:
Them : 'er. whoops.'

Ah, designers' vision vs. the people who actually have to *use* it...