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smallhobbit featured this they'd seen around on a couple of journals
Your Name in Landsat
Go to the site, type in a name of your choosing and click 'enter'. It will generate satellite images that appear to spell out the name. You can click 'enter' again for a different set of images and then download the image as a png with the button next to the 'enter' button.

This is mine - click for full size

I'm rarely at Tumblr these days but sometimes I dip in to read some GYWO promotions, occasionally look for fandom gifs, or, mostly, to read posts and reblog to my writeblr queue.
Today I saw this post and thought I'd share given how many Stargate fans seem to be around judging from how often it came up in the Snowflake challenge :)

link: https://www.tumblr.com/douglasbradburyverne/742252975622340608/a-stargate-themed-float-at-a-carnival-celebration
The post has a short video clip of a Stargate themed float at a carnival (tag says mardi gras). It has a ramp leading up to a stargate with rotating inner symbol ring, and the rear has a pyramid with rotating upper tip.

edited compiled screengrab:

"A Spectral Analysis of Asexuality" is a poem by ysabetwordsmith looking at symbolism behind the colours of the asexual flag.

House sitting is done but now I'm behind again. I will try and get back to the sunshine-challenge at some point. I've also been doing some other sorting and tidying on the pc including updating youtube playlists (this is a bigger task than expected because it's been literal years since I did any housekeeping at youtube)

Find Missing Video:

Couple of tips for finding a deleted video on youtube - if you've got a long list of fave songs for example and one now says "deleted video" and you don't recall what it was.
1) the waybackmachine, easily accessible via archive.org (choose 'web sites' not metadata from the dropdown menu). Plug the url in and see if there's a stored copy. You probably won't be able to get the video itself but you might get the title and be able to source a replacement vid for your playlist.
2) if that doesn't work, this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uQknYRrd-Y "Recover the title of deleted Youtube videos" has another idea. Namely, take just the number section of the missing vid (I'll use the vid I'm reccing below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rn-45LY-Gs for example) and paste into google search "1rn-45LY-Gs"
You might get an archived mention of the video, someone reccing it on a forum, etc.
From the comments of the 'how to' vid, came another tip: if the 'all' default results of that search doesn't have the result you want, try the image option. Sometimes you'll get a thumbnail that will remind you what vid the url belonged to.

Hope that's helpful to someone :)

Vid Rec:

One of the vids I found in my massive 'watch later' vid for your amusement, "Avengers Pokémon Rap!" an Infinity War character list, Pokémon Rap style.

Check out the Fansplaining Shipping Survey. It takes 10-15 minutes and has some ticky/radio button options along with more open-ended questions about you define shipping, and how, if you ship, it impacts on your fandom experience.

I admit the "what are your current ships" always throws me because I have so many so I listed a few and added a note about that, same for the "past ships" most I don't write for currently but most of them I would still consider reading/writing for.
Worst question was the "when did you hear the word 'ship'" because I had to google the X-files start date and holy shit...1993!

I've posted #writingwednesday to the writing blogs and scheduled next week's entry where possible. I'll grab all the links later. As they're both 3 sentence fics I'll probably do a round up post here later.

The reason for scheduling next week's entry is that, all going to plan, I'll be away next week :)

Hope everyone is having a good week so far!

I want to try and do more signal boosting. I always mention communities when I've signed up for or completed something with them, from allbingo to unconventionalcourtship and sometimes signal boost/promote other communities, but I'll try and do even more to help visibility.
If we're going to sustain the uptick in activity and make DW more successful as a community based endeavour, we need to be able to find our people and share our interests! One of the many things Tumblr does badly is the lack of communities, which as one post mentioned "following people instead of joining communities based on interests has negative emotional and social implications"; on DW we join communities for shared activities and when we follow individuals it is because we are compatible with that person in some way and we treat them as friends not as "random person who reblogs other people's content".

I'll start with some writing communities because a lot of us here are writers or want to get into writing more.

It is the LAST DAY to pledge to join getyourwordsout for 2019 a community I highly recommend. There's no punitive measures if you don't meet your goal so set it as high or low as you want, choose from wordcount or days-spent-writing and get the shiny spreadsheet and access to a community of writers all striving to put down words this year.

Some non-bingo writing communities (not an exhaustive list!)

dailyprompt
fandomweekly weekly 1k or less fic challenge, fandom and original
fffc flash fiction Friday
fic_promptly comment fic multi-fandom
ficlet_zone monthly multi-fandom fic writing
thedailywriter
writingfrenzy

For wordcounts of specific length:
semidrabbles: 50 words
drabble_zone 100 words (and 200 word double drabbles)
sesquidrabbles: 150 words
doubledrabbles: 200 words
tripledrabbles: 300 words

thewritersherald is a great place to find and promote communities and events for writers.

Writing prompts:

luthien has a drabble challenge with 30 prompts here,
liquidtears would like more fic with shower scenes not necessarily smutty, just showering. As someone who loves shower scenes I approve!


Icons
And in the spirit of doing new things/returning to old practices, I entered some icons at iconthat (I'll make a post of all challenge icons when I have a few and the various deadlines have passed.) The current theme is Affection.
There's also fandom10in30, icons10in20, and a not challenge community, icontalking whose sticky post has a list of active iconmaking communities and communities that welcome icons/have challenges for them.

Others

onthedisc a Terry Pratchett community!

I've joined lands_of_magic a landcomm/challenge community now open to all fandoms. Next round begins in February so you've plenty of time to sign up.

Dreamwidth Starter Kit has a ton of resources helpful for people making the switch to DW from LJ or indeed first time journal users. Sections include LIVEJOURNAL TO DREAMWIDTH with articles on moving, How to use DW, Why DW, Guide to access filters and much more, CUSTOMIZATIONS ON THE DESIGN FRONT - Making your journal look pretty, ACCESSIBILITY CONCERNS, OPENID, and more.

The Big LJ/DW/IJ/etc Community Directory lists fandom specific and non-fandom specific communities, their LJ/IJ names and the mirror site (or closest equivalent) at DW.

Day 7

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
I'm going to choose a couple of things from my Renaissance shows.
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Skipping around the challenge days again to Day 10
In your own space, post a rec for fannish and/or creative resources and spaces.

I'm currently attempting to write a Regency AU. There are reasons I prefer to write fantasy romance, where I can gloss over details and this AU is reminding me of them. Words like wanker, insults like snot-nosed and nouns like picnic are all too modern. The verb "to picnic" is recorded even later.

There are thankfully resources that can help.
One of my favourites for all sorts of "when did this word first become commonly used" is Online Etymology Dictionary
http://etymonline.com/index.php which gives the low down on the history of a ton of words and phrases. Highly recommended for all writers and lovers of language.

Specifically I've come across
Regency Glossary http://sharonlathanauthor.com/regency-glossary/ which is helpful for readers of Regency works as well as those wanting to write about the period
and
You Can't Say That https://www.prismnet.com/~dierdorf/nono.html which features an extensive list of anachronistic words and phrases the writer has encountered in historical books. Don't use these!

This post was originally posted to my wordpress blog.


(base image from barn images)

Post-NaNoWriMo there can be a sense of completion but don't be fooled. That first draft is a great achievement but the novel is not done.
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