#mailing lists

[cleartastemakertheorist]

THIS. My old floppy disks full of JRock-Fanfics got lost somewhere along the way but oh, the good times.

the first actual computer i wrote fanfic on ran from MS-DOS. it was the early 1990s -- by 1995 we had another computer and AOL, but I'd inherited the old MS-DOS one, cause I wrote on it. There wasn't much else you could do on that guy otherwise.

I wrote in Word Perfect (shut UP) and saved it to floppy disks and shared it through a few fandom-specific websites and a webmail / webring.

Feeling old tonight but genuinely y'all literally have no idea.

[adobe-outdesign]

This may be the greatest thing I've ever read.

Something something House of Leaves.jpg

[abalonetea]

thoughts on author mailing lists and what you like them to contain? for research!

[timespanner]

Do you know how to subscribe to 1) John's and/or 2) Tall Tales' mailing list? Internet searches in the relevant places returned nothing.

You may subscribe to John Finnemore's mailing list here (relevant post from his blog). As for Tall Tales, I reckon your best bet would be to email them at talltalesnight at gmail and enquire directly (and don't forget to check their website here).

[sleepy-bebby]

There’s a scientific journal called “Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List”.

In 2005, computer scientists David Mazières and Eddie Kohler created this highly profane ten-page paper as a joke, to send in replying to unwanted conference invitations. It literally just contains that seven-word phrase over and over, along with a nice flow chart and scatter-plot graph.

An Australian computer scientist named Peter Vamplew sent it to the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology in response to spam from the journal. Apparently, he thought the editors might simply open and read it.

Instead, they automatically accepted the paper — with an anonymous reviewer rating it as “excellent” — and requested a fee of $150. While this incident is pretty hilarious, it’s a sign of a bigger problem in science publishing. This journal is one of many online-only, for-profit operations that take advantage of inexperienced researchers under pressure to publish their work in any outlet that seems superficially legitimate.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Back in 2017 I signed up for one of the Cards Against Humanity sillies and did their Cards Against Humanity Saves America. Basically they were like fuck Tr*mp and his border wall and used the funds from the campaign to buy land and to make all 150,000 contributors part owners of said land across the US/Mexico border.

It was fun and silly and I got a little certificate.

Today I got an email that Elon Musk illegally annexed that land for SpaceX and that CAH are suing him over it. So possibly I’ll get like $100 if they manage to win a lawsuit and stick it to Musk. It’s like even more bang for my original buck.

[homeownersmarketingservices]

https://www.bizmakersamerica.org/blog/how-mailing-lists-for-marketing-can-boost-your-business-growth

[ariella-writes-spice]

LET IT RAIN Coming to KU April 2024

Don’t miss my April 1st newsletter for a peek at LET IT RAIN, my spicy contemporary romance novelette coming to Kindle Unlimited this April.  To read the first chapter of LET IT RAIN join my mailing list by March 3`1st. Join the fun Grant writing wasn’t part of Cassie Jameson’s pro-bono marketing contract with the nonprofit JoCo Water Project. But they all but guaranteed her cooperation when…

[morganbritton132]

I’ve seen fics where Eddie sees Steve post-season 2, all sad and pathetic after his fall down the social ladder, and then Hellfire adopted him. They’re perfect. No notes. Ten of out ten. I will read every single one of them.

However.

It is very funny if Steve adopts the Hellfire Club as his new friend group. They have no choice in the matter.

The only good thing going on in his life right now is that Dustin has decided that he’s cool. Steve doesn’t want that to change so he’s going to have to learn a few things because he never knows what the hell Dustin is talking about.

So, “You guys know nerd shit, right?”

Hellfire blink at him.

“You do. Good,” Steve continues, pointing out the Starfleet ensigna on Grant’s jacket. He sits in Eddie’s seat like, “Have you heard of this board game called Demons and Dragons?”

They blink at him again and share looks with each other that say that this is a hell of a day for Eddie to be absent. Jeff is the only one brave enough to say, “It’s uh…it’s Dungeons and Dragons.”

“Oh,” Steve says, flipping his notebook open and writing that down. “Sweet. What else?”

Eddie comes back to school two days later still a little stuffy from his cold to find Steve “The Hair” Harrington in his seat, talking to his friends, making plans to watch Star Wars that weekend.

He’s just like, what the fuck.

[qwantzfeed]

Socrates himself famously said, "the uninteresting life is not worth living" shortly before he died.  Okay, he actually said "the UNEXAMINED life is not worth living" but I punched it up for him for free

[blackpearlblast]

five days until the state of georgia is scheduled to execute willie pye

[canisalbus]

Hey, so, at the risk of being viewed as a filthy fucking degenerate, when do we see your tastelessly cropped art? I uh... wanna see a priest getting his ass torn to shreds... and I'm not sure if I'm ashamed of that fact...

I'm flattered you asked, but at the time I just can't say for sure. Twitter's downfall kind of paralyzed my willpower to share nsfw art publicly, not that I was particularly active on that front to begin with. The system I had there worked well for me, but now the whole place is circling the drain and I'm trying to find a replacement.

Bsky allows mature content which is great, and their filtering system seems to work well, but they don't have the option to make your account private (and from what I've heard they don't intend to make that a feature). At the moment the idea of any random passerby getting to waltz in and witnessing a priest getting his ass torn to shreds instantly accessing my more risque (and usually deeply personal) works makes me somewhat uncomfortable. I'd like to have at least some semblance of control over who I let into that space, and an effective way to keep some others out.

[scribblescrabbledepartment]

fishes for the homos i mean homies

[ID: nine fish with collaged scales of different colored and patterned paper, each with glittery fins.]

[weaversweek]

Another dive into the eurovision_general mailing list.

As early as September 2000, there were people calling for Sertab to perform. Kingdom of Tea wrote,

Tarkan is no big number in Turkey. By no means they can be counted as Turkey's biggest stars. Have you ever heard of: Nilüfer, Sertab Erener, Leman Sam, Ibrahim Tatlises, Nalan????? These are just few names taht spring my mind in a second.

There was also praise for her version of "Private emotion" with Ricky Martin.

The news broke on 21 November 2002. Esen said,

Finally it's publicly known that Sertab Erener is going to represent Turkey in ESC2003. :-) YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! And the song will be composed by Sezen Aksu. I like her, but I don't believe that she can compose a song that is suitable for ESC (read: TELEVOTE) I find Sertab very very courageous. She is a diva of the Turkish pop, and she accepted to go to ESC, that requires courage, because it might as well turn out to be a huge disappointment...

The song came out in March. A few naysayers said "Turkish song-by-numbers, 1/10." Everyone else said "This has to be a contender for the title! Its catchy, ethinc enough for the Eurovision Purists, well written, good lyrics ( in the main) and is good enough to get them rocking in the aisles in Riga and picking the phone up."

Rehearsals went well. "The sound of the song was perfect and her stage performance excellent."

The rest is history.

In 2005, the mailing list ran "Celebrate!", an exhaustive process to determine the best Eurovision entries of the first 50 years. "Every way that I can" advanced to the top 12 in its group of 70, but fell in the final to "Je n'ai que mon ame" (France Télévisions, 2001).

Eurovision 2003 - Number 4 - Sertab Erener - "Everyway That I Can"

This is the highest a Eurovision winner has been in my lists for a while. If there's one thing Eurovision has missed for the past four or five years, it's winner that was a hit. Sertab Erener and Türkiye provided that in 2003. Everyway That I Can came out of nowhere on the night to spring a surprise (and last minute) win, then went on to be a hit all around Europe throughout the summer.

Sertab herself was already a star in Türkiye, having had several number 1 singles and five albums, several of which were also big hits. TRT had decided to go with an internal selection in 2003 having had several years of mid-table results. While never really being in danger of relegation, TRT wanted better. Picking Sertab was an opportunity too big to miss, so she and her song written by herself and her long-time song-writing partner Demir Demirkan (former guitarist with Anatolian thrash metal band Mezarkabul).

Türkiye was a country that had stuck by its native language entirely, even when the language rule had been removed, they stayed true to Turkish. It was announced that the song would be entirely in English, there were complaints. But TRT stuck to their guns. Everyway That I Can is a dramatic, contemporary pop song with a Turkish rhythms and instrumental grace notes incorporated into something thoroughly modern.

It's stuffed full of drama, both in terms of the lyrical need for a desperate no-holds barred seduction and in terms of the progression of the song from verse to chorus to the semi-rapped Spice Girly bridge while here dancers treat Sertab as a pink-wrapped maypole. There are plenty of opportunities for belly-dancing and hipsway. It's astonishing how well packaged the entire song is. It is everything you could wish for in a Eurovision winner.

The scoring sequence with Türkiye creeping up the board and pulling a win out of the bag in the final two votes was astonishing and looked like it came as miraculous shock to the Turkish delegation. Their joy at winning is evident during one of the most happily celebratory reprises the Eurovision stage has seen. Türikye had finally got their first win and Sertab would forever be remembered not just in Türkiye but across Europe.

It wasn't the first time she'd tried to enter Eurovision. She'd finished third at Şarkı Yarışması 1989 and sixth in 1990. After that her career took her to other places, but 2003 came along just at the perfect moment for her. Since then she's cemented her position in the Turkish musical world, releasing album after album and at least forty singles in total. She sings pop, traditional Turkish music, jazz and has found inspiration in the voice of Barbara Streisand.

Here she is singing Olsun with the İzmir Big Band in 2018.

[sodaneko]

i wanna be caught in a love triangle with them sooo badly you have no idea

[essektheylyss]

Everything about the og Chastity's Nook has aged like wine. The pointed aesthetic. Tusk Love. Travis with half of his face in his shirt as Liam is ribbing Matt over having forced him to prep this place. Persuasion check for forbidden historical smut. Iva's terrible, heavy-handed unfinished manuscript. Knowing that in seven years the past and future love interests of the biggest asshole in the group, who only showed up to the smut shop looking for spell scrolls hidden among the porn, are going to have a tense showdown in the back room. Chef's kiss.