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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.

First, crepe_suzette explains what Torchwood Three really are : Dad's Army. No, really. And thus actually makes them sound so much more convincing and explains *so much*.

Second. Arrgh. I was hoping for a stress-free evening - it started that way. Jack/Ianto porn, the musicals bits from Children in Need (and Holby City were so much more fantastic than the actual musicals, aside from Connie in Sound of Musicals. So. Must. See. Well, and the BBC newsreaders. But they're always bloody inspired.)

And then I found out why darkisrising.net's mail was giving me error messages on mailwasher. Cue franticness, fury, and tearing out of hair :

:sigh: due to invoices never reaching me, darkisrising.net's domain didn't get renewed on time. The hosting's all paid up, but the name was held by someone else. spent the evening getting it sorted and paid. Now just have to get the nameservers re-directed. Hopefully I won't have to re-load everything and http://darkisrising.net/slash will be back up by the weekend. On the other hand, this is efiction we're talking. gah.

Also, it might possible help if I went and installed terrapin (my lovely, sleek, no frills ftp program I paid 20 quid for back in 2001 and as far as I can tell are still selling that exact version) on the laptop. That way I can actually upload stuff like the updates to Oi Yanks No to my sites. And yes, for the nitpickers, it does include finally correcting the James Nicoll quote on the front page.

Actually, question regarding OYN : from searches and link searches, it appears about all of 2 sites have a permanent link to OYN. But it gets loads of hits, and half the time when someone has an English question, or there's a debate on a forum, Oi Yanks No gets cited to and linked to. So how many of you buggers have it in your favourites?

If you got to robinhoodbbc's profile, you may notice that other comms are listed. :wails: It was pre-emptive, dammit! (How to tell one has been part of fandom for too long : you can predict the basic splits and what lines they'll split along straight off.) I won't be able to predict the ships and what'll cause the shipper wars before the show even starts, but I can at least get a quick 'n' dirty fix in for people to post stuff. No, I'm not precious about modding. Never done it before. I just... filled a gap. Mind you, seriously surprised that a fandom that has at its base been going in fairly constant popularity since about the 13th century hasn't had those lj names snapped up yet. Hmmp. Suppose the RoS lot, who were the last major permutation of this fandom, and still going, tend to label themselves as RoS fans primarily, and thus snap up those permutations - see rosfic. (Prince of Thieves does not count, as it's more like one fic every blue moon on the asteroids of the moon of Eris, I think it's actually impossible to do more than giggle over Maid Marian and her Merry Men and Men in Tights, and we do not speak of the unclean thing that was filmed in the colonies.)

Another thought : Was flitting around a few people's sites, and looking at the date some fandom sites were last updated. Some of them, it's been *years*. I only kept my BtVS/Angel sites around a year or so after losing interest, and I'm pretty sure It's Been Emotional, pretty though it is, last gasp of nostalgia that it is, will be going the way of the dodo next time I get my ruthless streak going. Along with Adaptation, which never really got off the ground properly, and probably the fridge site. Christ, I may even start a new archive site for the new fandom, along the lines of Wraithbait, archiving the fic. Been a while since I did much web stuff, and it'd be interesting.

Just pondering, for the people who create stuff and then leave it up for years (taraljc, for example), any reason why? Nostalgia? Pretty? Lack of 'wanna smash!' compulsion?

Work do was... work do. I asked lots of questions, we found out what it is Marketing actually *does*, large amounts of people seem to have no idea what it is Production does, unless you're part of Editorial (we're Editorial Production. We liase.) and all seem to be fairly unaware that these are the people who control the end result, it was concluded that the entire company would like a detailed 'who does what' list so we a) don't have to make pathetic bleating noises when we have no idea who to ask, and b) stop Customer Services randomly forwarding queries to us on subjects we have no idea about whatsoever.

There was an art competition to draw an animal you felt represented the company, with two categories - best representation and best artistic, voted for with different coloured stars stuck on there at lunchtime. Turns out I'm one of the few people who can actually draw in the entire company aside from Trevor the designer and Tom in our group. And yes, I did draw a horse because it was one of the few things I could remember how to draw realistically from memory. 'Er... Freedom! Ahead of the pack!' James, looking over my shoulder : 'Guinness!' (the surfing advert). He does have a point. Trevor won artistic. :pout: Unfair advantage. Still, came out of the day with a plus : five extra bonus holiday days for entire company next year! Wheee!

*Finally* started Temeraire. Go away, glorying in the astolat prose. Also, the whole 'oh, this is *so* clearly converted M&C fanfic that got away from her' and spotting the bits.

The head cold rages onwards. What's this thing you call balance?