Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

sed 's/`/`%60`/g;s/[\]/`%5C`/g;s/%[0-9A-F]\{2\}/`&`/g' | tr '`' '\n' | sed '/^%[0-9A-F]\{2\}$/!s/%/`%25`/' | tr '`' '\n' | awk '$0!~/%/{printf("%s",$0)}/%/{sub("%","0x");printf("\\%04o",$0)}' | xargs -0 printf '%b'

it’s 2024 and zelda fics are still showing up in my pokémon feed because they’re tagged with “Sonia (mentioned)”

§01. “Something your favorite character would like”

Do I have a favourite character? I don’t really participate in character‐driven fandom.

(Actually, most of my favourite characters are probably fandom O·C’s.)

The answer is probably tea, regardless.

§02. “Something that makes you laugh”

“GUM!!!”

§03. “A fandom place you would like to visit”

There are very few fictional settings I would prefer over our real‐life one, but the setting of ‘Questionable Content’ probably ranks up there.

§04. “A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet”

I first learned about a number of comix artists in like 2014–2016 because they would post fanart on twitter or tumblr. Now I have their art on my walls or comix on my shelves! They all seem like cool people and I’d be happy to meet any of them in person.

§05. “Something you find comforting”

We have lots of quilts that my mom made :) .

§06. “Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood”

I have so much pokémon‐branded stuff, altho if anything I am ⁜more⁜ of a fan now than I was as a kid.

§07. “A piece of clothing you love”

Shirts that I stole (were given) from my girlfriend.

§08. “A book or song with a color in the title”

<https://janicekwan.bandcamp.com/track/azure-blue>="“Azure Blue” by Janice Kwan."

§09. “Something only someone in your fandom would understand”

<https://jellyfish-link.tumblr.com/post/651601268886880256/a-true-lesbian-classic>="I’ll just leave this here."

#SnowflakeChallenge

Permalink: <https://status.ladys.computer/urn:uuid:018d04a3-ad70-79a4-baa5-12a6b18f230c>

@noracodes the important question is “what kind of search”? doing context-unaware plaintext matches against fulltext indexes is not the only way of searching, and not even a particularly good way for trained users when other mechanisms are available

i don’t know what tech c·e·o’s are thinking. i don’t care either. why are u telling me

type of person who claims to know what tech c·e·o’s are thinking but then claims not to have tech c·e·o brain

Follow links below to find out about emoji

« In the last year and a half, we’ve been focused on making a pretty dramatic shift at Mozilla — to make it about not just more than the browser but also more than our kind of activist personality and build out a kind of portfolio » lmao they really said that huh

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/whats-next-for-mozilla/

if you have written a parser for yaml 1.2 please reply and tell me if it is easier or harder than x·m·l

“how hard could it be to write a yaml parser? pretty hard right?”

I’m Lady; in fannish spaces I go by a couple of names, predominantly :⁠—

• J’Li, jellyfish_link: Most of my older fannish writing is under this name. It’s technically a pun on Marrus orthocanna, a species of pelagic siphonophore, which is to say a “jellyfish” made up of linked organisms. But it’s also a reference to Metriods and The Legend of Zelda.

• Autumn Leaf, Hojarasca, 红叶 Hongye: I use these aliases when I’m writing Pokémon fanfiction, and sometimes in other fannish spaces as well. They all ultimately derive from the default name for a girl player character in Pokémon FireRed Version (“Leaf”).

As the above description implies, I spend a lot of time in Nintendo fandoms. My first attempt at writing fanfic was in middle school with ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ (dating myself here), and I’ve generally thought way too much about Zelda as a franchise. Lately however I haven’t done much which is fannish in an obvious and direct sense, because I’ve been spending all of my time working on technical/infrastructural things re: hosting fannish materials on the internet. I’m a strong believer in fannish decentralization and don’t like the impact that A·O·3 and social media have had on fandom. Professionally, I work in library technology, and I think there are a lot of tools and lessons from that space which fandom could adopt if people were willing to take the problems of digital fannish curation seriously.

#SnowflakeChallenge

Permalink: <https://status.ladys.computer/urn:uuid:018cec94-25aa-7ceb-8a1d-f658ad72a95f>

@Rozzychan i am a programmer!

there's an easy and hard answer to “federated fanworks” as a concept; the hard task (building an activitypub service like mastodon) is definitely a bigger task than any one person could ever take on…

… but i think there are simpler technologies like RSS which fandom could be leveraging more. there are old standards like Open Archives Initiative’s ResourceSync which maybe merit another look. there are also ways of doing things with activitystreams but not full activitypub, like the Notify project being developed by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, which fandom could maybe leverage.

i think it's a real problem that fandom talks about archives and curation and preservation but doesn't use or contribute to any of the technologies used professionally in libraries or archives or digital preservation. why not? we're all trying to solve a lot of the same fundamental problems here

before we moved in together my partner and i had a conversation where we basically both said “i don’t know how you manage to do so much all the time” and then basically both responded “what do you mean i am like, barely functional” and the thing is we were basically both right