Hi! First time long time.

I'm working on a personal fanworks archive site, and I'd like a section to be devoted to fanmixes, with audio files (that I own locally & would make available to the web server) embedded in a playlist format.

My understanding is that base HTML has fairly robust audio embedding/playing capabilities of its own, but I want to get a sense for whether there are other tools worth looking into, whether because they make for a better music playing experience, easier administration, etc.

I'm interested in any templates, tools, special-purpose themes for a SSG, or just plain tips & tricks that might be relevant for this purpose. Thanks!

These questions were written by losseloth.

1. Do you have a favourite cause that you support?

2. If so, how do you support it?

3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering, etc)?

4. Have you ever led any group?

5. If so, how was your experience with it?
OR: 5. If not, why, is it a conscious choice, of lack of opportunity?

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Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry (s1, e1-6)

  

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In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Robert comments on Sandra 'flirting with everybody'. Everybody, you say? I do love an opportunity to ship a character with everyone, but how do I learn how to write everyone?

When I get fannishly into a work of fiction, I want to gather whatever information I can find that might be useful for characterisation. Usually, this is a simple matter; I just have to watch the show or read the book or play the game!

The Goes Wrong Show universe is more of a challenge. The actual actors are playing fictitious 'actors' who are playing characters, and it's the 'actors' I want to learn more about. If you want to learn more about the fictitious members of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, you really have to go digging!

There are snippets of characterisation scattered across a bunch of theatrical performances and supplemental materials, some of which are readily available and some of which really aren't. The Goes Wrong Show itself is easy to come by; it's on BBC iPlayer (although I bought it on DVD because we don't have a television licence), and I've heard it's free on YouTube outside the UK.

(If you're curious about this stupid thing I've gone insane about, I suggest trying the Goes Wrong Show episode '90 Degrees', which instantly makes it clear how ludicrously dedicated the (actual) actors are to the craft of fucking everything up. It takes genuine effort to make a play go this badly!)

Beyond that, I find myself desperately piecing these characters together through brief faux 'behind the scenes' videos across various platforms, and one two-hour in-character radio broadcast, The Christmas That Goes Wrong, which aired in 2016 and is now only available on the Internet Archive.

(I'm including this link solely for my own future self's reference; this is very much a 'this is of interest to me and only me' piece of media! Do you want to hear Chris Bean and Robert Grove fuck up and play 'Summer Holiday' instead of 'White Christmas' three times? Of course you don't. I do. This is for me. If for some reason you do decide to listen, the programme starts three minutes into the audio file, but I really wouldn't recommend it unless the Goes Wrong universe already has its claws in you.)

I still haven't seen The Play That Goes Wrong itself, which is where most of these characters actually originated. I am, I'll be honest, eyeing up theatre tickets.

Anyway, here are my favourite stupid facts I've gleaned about the members of this fictional drama society from supplemental materials. Actually, now that I double-check, all of these facts are about Robert, my beloved terrible egotistic weirdo. (Why are all of my blorbos the worst? Why can't I ever fall in love with someone nice?)


( Stupid facts about Robert Grove of the Goes Wrong Show. )


My personal favourite bit of supplemental Goes Wrong material I've come across is this stupid two-minute promotional video (Tumblr link) in which Robert is helping Chris try on suits. Extremely weird and homoerotic; single-handedly sent me from 'I'm not really shipping any of these characters' to 'okay, yeah, these two should have absolutely disastrous sex'. Robert may or may not actively be attempting to murder Chris here?

Last one! The polls for July, August, September, October and November are still open. You can make your case for your faves in the comments and if we missed something, you can do a write-in vote in the comments.

We'll leave the monthly polls open for a couple more weeks then do a run-off poll.

What are you thankful for this week?
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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

The last website that I was on was TheFanlistings.org! You might recognize it, as it's been around since 2000 as a directory of approved fanlistings.

What's a fanlisting? In the words of the site itself: "A fanlisting is simply an online listing of fans of a subject, such as a TV show, actor, or musician, that is created by an individual and open for fans from around the world to join. There are no costs, and the only requirements to join a fanlisting are your name and country. TheFanlistings.org is the original (but not only) web directory for fanlistings, dedicated to uniting fans across the globe."

Basically, it's an old-fashioned way to connect with other fans of a subject, by listing all fans who sign up in the same place for easy searching! They were popular in the early internet, when social media wasn't as prominent, so fellow fans were harder to find. They're making a comeback, thanks to the revival of the indie web, though!

If you want to join some fanlistings, I recommend browsing the approved fanlistings of TheFanlistings.org (as previously mentioned), and their partner site, AnimeFanlistings.com. You can put your Dreamwidth journal in the "website" space, so other fans can find your journal!

If you want to look through some fanlisting collectives (which is a website where somebody hosts their fanlistings), I recommend browsing through EPHEMERAL, which is a directory for exactly that! I have a fanlisting collective myself, as well. It's very small for now, and I aim to keep it that way.

I really like fanlistings, because it means that I don't have to put my stake in search engines and unreliable algorithms to find other fans. Plus, it doesn't have any requirements that you sign up to anything, unlike social media! You can find any fan across the whole, wide internet.

So, Shadow Milk Cookie's corruption involved ripping off his flowing, religious-coded robes, revealing a skintight bodysuit underneath. A skintight bodysuit that, mind you, he looks much happier in.

I’m stuck between wanting to commentate on the inherent queercoded nature of this, and just wanting to call him the word.

( NSFW joke under the cut... continue? )

Do you ever see a piece of fiction that you wish you had gotten into as a kid? Like, you love it Now, but you wish you had the experience of enjoying it as a child, too? Although I often wish I could experience pieces of fiction for the first time again, too, so I suppose the grass is always greener.

I guess what I’m saying is that, in a universe slightly to the left from ours, a tweenage Azure became SICKENINGLY obsessed with Riku Kingdomhearts. Just an absolute BLOODBATH. Because if I have one thing in common with my tween self, it's undoubtedly that we both love mean queercoded characters who experience SHAME 🔥🔥💥💥💥🍾🎉🔥💥💥💥🎉

Challenge #3

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

I hate to use the exact same fandom twice in a row, when I am a multifandom girlie at heart, but I feel like this couldn't be for any other fandom but Pokemon. You'll understand why thanks to the contents of the letter itself.

Dear Pokemon,

( Letter under the cut... continue? )

Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page: Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

I went into this with the mindset of "which websites would I show people to get them into my interests?" And thought of three.

( My Site Recs )

Name: Chi or Chihiro

Age: eh

I mostly post about: My own thoughts. Tumblr interactivity felt hollow so I cam e here.

My hobbies are: making up AUs and drawing digital art on crack ships when I have the motivation. My current hyperfixation is Aqua from Kingdom Hearts and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7

My fandoms are: currently just the AU I've created for Kingdom Hearts. Didn't like the ending of the third instalment so now it's just a Keyblade Guild living in peace with Aqua x Sephiroth as my main focus.

I'm looking to meet people who: wanna chat about any similar fandom interests with me. Happy to talk about Kingdom Hearts, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Zootopia, ATLA and LOK (no LOK haters please), anything nostalgic from the early 2000s, really

My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: no NSFW stuff

Before adding me, you should know: Due to religious reasons, I do not celebrate or participate in anything to do with Easter, X-Mas, Halloween or Thanksgiving

⌈ Secret Post #6942 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #991.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander in Heated Rivalry (s1, e1-6)

  

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61 icons of angelina jolie in lara croft: tomb raider (2001)



over here at yeonmo

SUBJECT: Angelina Jolie
CANON: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
CREDIT: yeonmo or ninjawon
ICON NOTES: 61 icons!
WARNINGS: guns



over here at yeonmo

Here is where you can drop your recs or ask for recs for fanworks or any kind of media or content. This week's optional theme:

Stories from holiday challenges and exchanges

There's been a lot of exchanges and fests going on recently - Yuletide, Fandom Trumps Hate, Lune Secret Santa, Christmassy...

Reminder: you can self-rec and promote your works in this comm too.

If you're leaving a rec for a fanwork, you can include some/all of the following info:
Title: Author/artist: Fandom: Characters/ship: Rating: (is it NSFW?) Content warnings: If there's any content warnings that aren't tagged on the work itself but you think would be helpful to anyone clicking through, please try to include them here too.

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I've been meaning to edit my sticky intro post and finally got around to doing that. I figured during the Snowflake Challenge would be a good time to do a bit of housekeeping with there likely being an influx of people visiting my blog. It's mostly the same info in a different format, but I also added my Storygraph link there. Not sure if anyone here uses it that much, but that's the place to go if you're interested in stalking the BL I read lol. I haven't been reading much else lately. 

I haven't picked up any games these past few days (other than Genshin) in favor of writing or trying to do adulting tasks. I've been feeling a weird mix of anxious and lethargic over the past week. I'm probably a bit depressed since I don't have much reason to be outside on my days off. My brain prefers to be busy, I think. Things will change when spring semester starts, which I'm also nervous about. My last community college class is at an unfamiliar campus, so I need to take a trip down to it sometime before my class starts to find where the classrooms even are. I'd rather not make myself panic trying to find the right room on day one. 

Also, I get my tattoo tomorrow so I'm mentally preparing myself to be in pain for a couple hours straight. It will be smaller than my previous ones so I'm hoping I don't get tattoo flu this time. Getting the tattoo will probably feel cathartic though. Body mods always give me a mental health boost because they're a special interest of mine.

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