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fresne999 · 1 year ago

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To return to this topic, and for a record for how the project is going.

I am down to the final story. Which being a Choose Your Own Adventure story for Frenchie is currently scoped out to be 96 chapters long. So it won't be fast. Also, when I realized that's what I wanted to do for the last story, it meant Frenchie's story went from 21 points to 34 points story to write. Also, I originally estimated that Zheng's story was about 13 points, but when I wrote it it turned out to be more of a 21 point story. i.e., roughly the same size as Izzy's story, and that's even before I go back and fix all the TBDs and add what folks are doing while talking.

Now I need to rescope the project to see if my original timeline is still reasonable.

That means, I take my handy chart where I track progress and change the points for Frenchie and Zheng's stories. The chart now looks like this for all the stories.

BTW: Having this many stories means I can bounce around each day, making progress somewhere on something.

Now, before I adjusted my points, the line chart showing what progress needed to happen looked like this with the goal being complete 621 points of story creation in 75 days (less the 176 I'd already done when I started tracking).

Sadly, this chart now out of date.

What I now do is (because I have no interest in figuring out what my actual 21 point progress has been writing Zheng's story, is do a bit of a reset today.

By the way, the way you build the chart above is by filling in a table that looks like the table below every day showing progress. I've set up confiditional formatting on the amounts in the Build column to go from dark pink if I complete 0-2 points, light pink if 3-4, light green if 5-7, and dark green if 8+. And thus I get a little visual reward for making my goals.

For everything up to yesterday, when I thought Zheng's story was going to be a lot shorter, I use the original build rate of 5.9 needed points a day for the Ideal Get Done column.

As of today to fill out column's B # I nee to get done, I take the new goal - yesterday's projected pts / # days left. i.e., (665-225)/33. This give me my new needed build rate of 7.25. I would say yikes. But I know it's actually fine, because my average build rate over the last week has been 8 points a day, not including today's wonky adjustment #. Plus, I have a little bit of slack given one week I did *a lot* of writing.

So it's reasonable for me to project that I can still finish writing this huge project within the projected time. Posting, that's a different beast. If my build rate were different, then I would know I can't possibly finish by the projected date, and would need to adjust something. Mostly likely extend my projected completion date, because I don't really have time to do more writing/editing each day.

Anyways, I adjust the # of points in row 43 to the new amount I've completed given Zheng's story is now worth more points. i.e., I didn't complete 16 points today, I'm just not bothering to figure out what my actual progress was over the last week and a half of writing.

This results in a new chart that looks like this. The uptick in both today's points and the bend in the Ideal Get Done is too slight to really see, but it's there.

Now on to... actually I'm going to take a break. On to the new points build tomorrow. If you've stumbled on this, hopefully this is a useful example in how to do this kind of project management planning.

For the Story is Long and Takes a Long Time

Every now and then I see a post float across my dash about younger folks (my lawn is a field of local plants and and drip watered, please enjoy) wanting an algorithm for AO3 or only wanting longer fic, or blah, blah. Not sure how much of that is pervasive and not folks grumping at the sky.

But this is the grumping at the sky site, so whatever.

Ever wondered what the labor involved in a long fic looks like? Wonder no longer, here's a line graph.

This represents the kind of sustained labor required to finish a maybe (I'm not done yet) 350k work.

It's not a single story. It's 18 stories from 18 POV that braid around similar (but not identical because people observe different things) events. It's OFMD modern AU.

Nothing is posted. I don't post unfinished stories. I learn too much while I write for that to ever work for me. Even if I have an outline.

Now you may wonder, how did I come up with graph? Probably not, but I'm going to explain anyway.

After working on and off on the project (the reason it doesn't start at zero) I decided to apply some techniques I use for project management. What I'm about to describe can be used for any type of complicated project.

Step 1

-Break the "project" down into milestones. 18 stories. I've also broken it down into 4 phases per story: 1) Write draft 1, 2) Edit, 3) Have you heard of 2nd edit? 4) Hopefully we're at Spag edit.

Step 2 -

Assign points to every milestone.

I use this sequence of #s*: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. Want to sound fancy. That's a Fibonacci Sequence. Now you know.

Using this numbering sequence keeps me from getting bogged down trying to decide if a big story is say 8 or 9 points if I were using a 1-10 sequence

The principle behind this kind of point assignment goes something like this. It's hard to look at Stede and know how tall he/the actor is. But if you look at Stede and Izzy standing together, I roughly know who is taller.

A - Or in this case, I guess the Stede story will be longer than Izzy's story. So Stede= 34, and Izzy=21.

B - Break down the phases of writing and assign them points.

3 Start writing. At the end of one week, figure out my points completed. Should be a % of the total possible points for that milestone/phase. My method involves a lot of formulas based on 20 years of project mangagement experience. You should just guess. Divide by 7. That's the "build" rate.

Divide the total number of points for the project by the build rate, that's the # of days it will probably take. That seem to long, establish an arbitrary date to finish and divide the number of points by that number of days and that's you're "Management Assigned an Arbitrary Date and I don't know if we can finish, but let's try" rate.

4 Keep writing and editing. Track as you go. Having a much smaller goal each day than "Finish it" to reach each day makes it easier to do. It's also easier than an arbitrary # of words a day, which, shrug, we're not Dickens. We're paid by the kudo, not the word.

Know how I know? I've been working on and off on this for 2 years. Here's what that (roughly) looks based on knowing how long I spent getting 4 of the stories thru writing and first edit by the time I got to March of this year. I file creation to last revision date, but not including the long periods in between writing, and knowing several times I had to remove huge amounts of writing. So, points went away. Sad sound.

That looks like this.

Brought to you by, I need to finish more points today, but am tired.

#our_flag_means_perspectives #project planning #writing techniques #figuring out how long a project will take

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fairybinie · 2 years ago

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pairings: choi beomgyu x gn!reader

genre: fluff, humor, angst, high school au (seniors), drama club, enemies to lovers, social media au + written chapters

synopsis: popular and menacingly wicked choi beomgyu has the entire senior class wrapped around his finger. the high school drama club has cherished y/n as their veteran for four years. to fulfill beomgyu’s graduation requirements, he must join y/n’s drama club despite his grudges. unbeknownst to everyone else, y/n and beomgyu have their history. they’ve kissed before (or more like y/n has bitten his lip to bleed) and beomgyu hasn’t lived it down ever since. y/n cannot stand this guy. they can make it through the entire year as the leads in their play, right?

warnings: profanity, mentions of kissing, beomgyu teasing y/n constantly, alcohol, will add more if needed.

featuring: the rest of txt, OC character, isa from stayc.

start date: march 13, 2023

end date: tbd

updates: monday, wednesday, friday

status: ongoing

notes: i told y’all beomgyu would get his own love story! i’m really nervous releasing this after my previous smau, but i’m excited nonetheless to share this with you all. thank you to @boba-beom especially for helping me plan this story and @iyeonjuni for the lovely header as always. i hope you all enjoy this smau and i cannot wait to start this new era <3

taglist (closed): @iyeonjuni @odxrilove @iuwon @ijhyo @cherr-y-eji @ameliesaysshoo @enhacolor @cherrybeomgyu @wccycc @hyukabean @strawberri-uyu @hyuntaena @feyregels @boba-beom @luvnhwa @tyunsion @ashxxgyu @bibinnieposts @laylasbunbunny @robinsluva @shiguresohmas @h00nerz @beomsbeanie @stepout-09-15 @ox1-lovesick @soobsdior @ifwtyun @peachy-yabbay @sunlightwoo @ttyunz @rikijackson04 @miyawwn @aintgeluh @baekhyunstruly @wxderingthoughts @moontyuns @soobpricity @hyeinszn @txtbrainrot @phenomenalgirl9 @fatoompie @stellz581 @bluebearybeom @extriella @1-800-ryujin @galaxyhalloes @tae-ology @dekusgirl @xavi-in-kpopland @obeymeharemowner @bailies-me

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profiles 1 / profiles 2 / act 1 / act 2 / act 3 / act 4 / act 5 / act 6 / act 7 / act 8 / act 9 / act 10 / act 11 / act 12 / act 13 / act 14 / act 15 / act 16 / act 17 / act 18 / act 19 / act 20 / act 21 / act 22 / act 23 / act 24 / act 25 / act 26 / act 27 / act 28 / act 29 / act 30 / act 31 / act 32 / act 33 / act 34 / act 35

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furious-rogue-stuff · 4 years ago

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Heat - Narcos Fan Fiction Series Chapter List

Pairing: Javier Peña x OFC | Javi x Querida

Disclaimer: Written in 2nd person narrative, you can safely assume our heroine and love/lust interest is a Latina, written by a Latina. Here's my philosophy on my writing, for further context.

Rating: Mature/Explicit 🔞

Series Summary: You don't expect to be pulled into a heated gravitation with Agent Javier Peña, and the more you both try to navigate your lives around each other, the clearer it becomes that your feelings go beyond the torrid desires you both are able to ignite in each other. Will the heat of your passions win out against the tribulations that threaten to pull you apart?

Read at AO3

Drabbles/Prompts inspired by Heat:

I Want You | Hot Water | Right and Wrong | Partners | Demanding

🧭Heat Floor-plans

🧭Heat OC Face Claims Lists:

Heat OC Face Claims: Work Mates

Heat OC Face Claims: Javi’s friends from Laredo

Heat OC Face Claims: Special People in Querida's Life

🆕 Heat - Narcos: Puerto Rico Season Javi

🎶An awesome reader made a Heat playlist on Spotify!

🔊Heat - The Playlist

✨Rationale and background into the meaning of Querida’s name

If you’d like to be added to the tag list, please let me know~!

*Moodboard image was assembled from several sources and made by yours truly. The OFC’s outfit/appearance is to portray a vibe of who she is and while representing my head-canon, please feel free to conjure what you wish.

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jakes-tummy · 4 years ago

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NOWHERE ELSE

MASTERLIST

Synopsis: Park Sunghoon has had girls falling at his feet since his first year of high school and has always used the excuse of having a girlfriend to turn them down. However, when one girl asks him to prove said girlfriend’s existence, you become entangled in the mess. So, Sunghoon asks you to be his fake girlfriend for a while, unknowing of the fact you also harbour feelings for him and wish you were more than a fake.

Genre: fake dating au, strangers to lovers?, social media au, angst, fluff, humour

Warnings: swearing, death threats ig, I'll add more when they come up

Starring: Enhypen, Chaeryeong and Yuna from Itzy, TXT, Hyeongjun from Cravity, Dongpyo from Mirae, Dia from PIXY, and Nahyun from Hot Issue

STARTED: 11/3/21

END: 1/14/22

STATUS: COMPLETED

UPDATES: tbd

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@liliansun @mykalon @acciomylove @c9tnoos @pixyseeun @lionessmane @blossomnct @kyleeanne @meiiiwa @luvrjn @abdiitcryy @mymeloem19 @navsnct @itzsora @raspberrygyus @xoxodinaryheroes @dear-dreamie @hibuki-chan @luvrseung @stoatwashere @prettywon @angel-hyuckie @erodemyedges @yizhoutv @missmadwoman @awkwardnesshabitat

Playlist: nowhere else -EDEN

Profiles:

La Familia | Hurricane Tortilla | Others

Teaser: ✨gifted✨

Extras: [Memes 1] [Memes 2]

Chapters:

1) prove it (written + sns)

2) explain yourself

3) lie of the century

4) until we graduate?

5) friday (written)

6) I blame sunghoon

7) today will suck

8) Rinko so pretty

9) party in the library

10) boo boo the fool

11) cry about it (written + sns)

12) something smells fishy

13) Mulan (written)

14) surprise me

15) moves like jagger

16) oh I'm so scared

17) new friend (written + sns)

18) cheating

19) what is this feeling

20) what goes on

21) skate date (written)

22) not like other guys

23) messy

24) flowers

25) flowers part two

26) K

27) i hate this

28) why are men

29) apology accepted

30) ice cream (written)

31) this is perfect

32) deactivate

33) just your pretty self

34) count your days (written + sns)

35) deserved

36) deep breaths

37) big brother is happy

38) I'm okay

39) take a nap (GONE WRONG!!) (Written)

40) sorry you're an antiromantic [END]

#sunghoon x reader #enhypen x reader #enhypen smau #nowhere else #enha sunghoon x reader #enhypen sunghoon x reader #park sunghoon x reader #sunghoon angst #sunghoon fluff #enhypen au #enhypen angst #enhypen fluff

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midori-laboratories · 2 years ago

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Frozen Ashes master list (Calendula Chronicles, Book 3)

The Code Veronica arc of the Calendula Chronicles.

Story synopsis: Albert Wesker molded his captive into the perfect, pliable bait for taking out Rockfort, and cracking open the Ashford family’s secrets. But who’s really in control, once chaos breaks out?

The stakes have never been higher for Marigold, but she may not be fast enough to save everyone.

Regarding Frozen Ashes and The Antarctica Incident (Q_Alias)

Frozen Ashes was written as the other side of Q_Alias' The Antarctica Incident. Marigold actively enters that story around chapter 23 27 (5-1 in their narrative), and moves out of it as an active participant at some point after chapter 30 35? (6-5 in their story) eventually. However, she's very active in the background of Q's narrative. We started to soft-merge our respective plots back in October 2022 plots, rather than a strict collaboration (like 1981). When I started writing, I set up a little timeline of events for reference, so I'll link when relevant events are happening at the same time in that story.

Frozen Ashes playlist

This is a rough list. After chapter 30, what I have in place is approximate. There may or may not be extra chapters or an extra section. Ha, YEP part 4 expanded into two separate parts already!

Chapter 1 will be posted March 21, 2023 and be update weekly on Tuesdays on AO3 (Blood in the Water and Homecoming Queens chapters will be Tues/Fridays.

Subscribe on AO3 for updates, or follow along on here!

Save Point chapters are interludes.

Chapter list:

Chapter 1: Sanguine Standard I (AO3)

Chapter 2: Sanguine Standard II (AO3)

Chapter 3: Sanguine Standard III (AO3)

Chapter 4: Sanguine Standard IV (AO3)

Chapter 5: Sanguine Standard V (AO3)

Chapter 6: Save Point: I The Matilda Murder (AO3)

Chapter 7: Blood In The Water I (AO3)

Chapter 8: Blood In The Water II (AO3)

Chapter 9: Blood In The Water III (AO3)

Chapter 10: Blood In The Water IV (AO3)

Chapter 11: Blood In The Water V (AO3)

Chapter 12: Save Point II: Course Correction (AO3)

Chapter 13: Homecoming Queens I (AO3)

Chapter 14: Homecoming Queens II (AO3)

Chapter 15: Homecoming Queens III (AO3)

Chapter 16: Homecoming Queens IV (AO3)

Chapter 17: Homecoming Queens V (AO3)

Chapter 18: Save Point III: Into the Abyss (AO3)

Chapter 19: The Dark Forest I (AO3)

Chapter 20: The Dark Forest II (AO3)

Chapter 21: The Dark Forest III (AO3)

Chapter 22: The Dark Forest IV (AO3)

Chapter 23: The Dark Forest V (AO3)

Chapter 24: Save Point IV: What Happened in Paris (AO3)

Chapter 25: Into the Inferno I (AO3)

Chapter 26: Into the Inferno II

Chapter 27: Into the Inferno III (AO3)

Chapter 28: Into the Inferno IV (AO3)

Chapter 29: Into the Inferno V (AO3)

Chapter 30: Save Point V: SNAFU (AO3)

Chapter 31: Day of Wrath I (AO3)

Chapter 32: Day of Wrath II (AO3)

Chapter 33: Day of Wrath III (AO3)

Chapter 34: Day of Wrath IV (AO3)

Chapter 35: Day of Wrath V (AO3)

Chapter 36: Save Point VI: No Good Deed (AO3)

Chapter 37: When Worlds Collide I (AO3)

Chapter 38: When Worlds Collide II (AO3)

Chapter 39: When Worlds Collide III (AO3)

Chapter 40: When Worlds Collide IV (AO3)

Chapter 41: When Worlds Collide V (AO3)

Chapter 42: Save Point VII: Bring Out Your Dead (AO3)

Chapter 43: Blood on the Snow I (AO3)

Chapter 44: Blood on the Snow II (AO3)

Chapter 45: Blood on the Snow III (AO3)

Chapter 46: Blood on the Snow IV (AO3)

Chapter 47: Blood on the Snow V (AO3)

Chapter 48: Save Point: [TBD] (AO3)

Chapter 49: Everything Ends I (AO3)

Chapter 50: Everything Ends II (AO3)

Chapter 51: Everything Ends III (AO3)

Chapter 52: Everything Ends IV (AO3)

Chapter 53: Everything Ends V (AO3)

Chapter 54: Save Point: [TBD] (AO3)

#frozen ashes calendula chronicles #frozen ashes #calendula chronicles #marigold ashford #albert wesker x oc #alexia ashford #alfred ashford

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sunnydaleherald · 4 years ago

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter - Sunday, August 1

Angel: ...and the scroll is just tipping from his fingertips, and his eyes lighting with fierce determination, and then whack! I chopped off the evil lawyer-beast's hand and he screamed and he screamed and then I left. Lorne: Well, you're just a regular Hans Christian Tarantino, aren't you?

~~Through The Looking Glass Pt. 2~~

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The Slayer, the Hunter and the guilt (SPN crossover, Faith, T) by Bl4ckHunter

Drabbles for Summer of Giles (Buffy/Giles and gen, various ratings) by will_conqueror1

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Second Chances (Spike/Angel, NR) by council-of-readers

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Farewell My Love, Remember Me Chapter 20 (Buffy/Angel, M) by Janis70

Slayer of Slayers Chapter 2 (Buffy/Angel, T) by TSPking1994

To Live In The World Chapter 3 (Faith/Buffy, M) by IvorySteel92

Athena Luthor Chapter 36 (Smallville crossover, Buffy/Clark Kent, NR) by Hermione2be

Resurrection Home Complete (Faith/Xander, G) by ffrindyddraig

Firestarter Chapter 4 (Teen Wolf crossover, Faith/Buffy, T) by anarchxst

Heartbreaker Chapter 19 (Faith/OFC, M) by taylorgirl6

Clandestine Chapter 12 (Spike/OFC, M) by MJtheSlayer7

The Curwenite Incident (Or: All Roads Lead to Sunnydale) Chapter 1 (Ethan/Giles, T) by 23Murasaki

Not Writ In The Stars Chapter 3 (Drusilla/Spike, M) by Coldest_Fire

Thirty-ish Days (and Thirty-ish Years) Chapter 3 (Buffy/Giles, T) by Dynapink

Noble Idiocy Chapter 3 (Buffy/Angel, E) by calenlily

The Tiger is Out Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Hannah

divine utterances, or the wisdom of time Chapter 1 (Avatar: The Last Airbender crossover, Dawn/Xander, M) by greyeyed_athene

all the times you bared your teeth (was always just a smile for me) Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, E) by alittlemoretime

The Sky Under My Skin Chapter 31 (Tara/Faith, T) by BuffyBot3000

Consequences and Truth Complete (Buffy & Giles, T) by pbjellius

You Can't Fight Fate - But You Can Probably Piss Him Off Chapter 13 (Batman crossover, Faith, NR) by Hermione2be

Through The Fire, Together Chapter 1 (SPN crossover, Buffy/Dean, NR) by DeathRaeBeam

The Circle of Scooby Chapter 1 (Future History crossover, Tara/Cordelia/Xander, T) by red_jacobson

Dinner For Two Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by sweetprincipale

If I loved you less Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, NC17) by MillennialCryBaby

A Little Night Chaos Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by the_big_bad

Wicked Magic Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG13) by tbd

Mavericks Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG13) by Vogon Poet

The Tiger is Out Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Cosmic Tuesdays

Bite Your Tongue Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, NC17) by hostile17

Sunlight On Your Face Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG13) by violettathepiratequeen

The Sphere Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, NC17) by Coraline

Young at Heart Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, NC17) by honeygirl51885

Raining Possibilities Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, NC17) by DarkVoid116

Something Old is New Again Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by yellowb

Payday Never Comes Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG13) by GillO

The Weight of a Dream Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Eurydice

Shot Through the Heart Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG13) by bookishy

Jail or Us, Us or Jail Chapter 1 (Stargate crossover, Faith, PG) by hermione2be

Bargain Chapter 29 (Spike/Xander, E) by immortal_kat

The Price Chapter 6 (Spike/Xander, E) by Katharina (immortal_kat / immortal_katharina99)

Coming Down The Mountain (LotR crossover, FR13) by Grundy

Where In The World Was Clint Barton – Option 34: Zneesy – adj. Frosty, Freezing (MCU crossover, Buffy/Spike, Buffy, 13+) by Beriaearwen

Buffy’s Evolution Chapter 1 (Iron Man crossover, Buffy, FR13) by

Origin Story of Shanna Brown Chapter 1 (Multiple crossovers, Buffy, FR18) by Cristina

Just About Time Chapter 1 (Multiple crossovers, Joyce, FR18) by acs

Death Is Buffy's Next Great Adventure Chapter 54 (HP crossover, Buffy/Tom Riddle, FR15) by Sharie

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jtl-fics · 7 months ago

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TBD Chapter 4 (1 -

Andrew Minyard has just signed on with the Atlanta Wolves so that he can support his twin and his twin's wife as they work on residency and get ready to welcome his nieces into the world. He may not give a shit about Exy, but it does pay well.

And Atlanta is paying him well enough to ignore the awkward tension of having to play with one of his college teammates again. Neil Josten has only gotten more interesting since the last time Andrew saw him when he'd graduated from Palmetto State.

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afteriwake · 6 years ago

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So since I am closing down fic commissions (effective 9/20/19), I’m going to make two seperate posts: one for the finished commissions, so they can still be found, and one for outstanding commissions, fo me to use as a checklist. I’m going to remove the individual pages from linking, but these will both be linked on the Graphics/Coding Commissions page for people to find.

unfinished fic commissions for @chitarra10

Untitled Fic (1K to 2K one-shot; Elementary; Jamie Moriarty)

Untitled Song Inspired Fic (1.5K to 2K one-shot; Cabin Pressure; Martin-centric)

Untitled Song Inspired Fic (1.5K to 2K one-shot; Elementary; Sherlock & Joan)

Inside A Genius’s Brain (3K to 4K one-shot; Sherlock; currently at one chapter; Lestrade & Sherlock primarily)

unfinished fic commissions for @greenskyoverme

Untitled Random Fics (∞ worth of one-shots; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series, Sherlock, Elementary + possible other fandoms; characters and/or pairings TBD)

Academy Days (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 14 stories; Spock/Uhura, Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, Christine, OMCs)

And Never Left Your Side (25K+ one-shot; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 3 chapters; gen with heavy focus on Kirk, Spock, Bones, and Chekov)

Heads Will Roll (10K+ one-shot; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 1 chapter; Spock-centric)

It’s More Dangerous To Lose Than Win (10K+ one-shot; Elementary; currently at 1 chapter; Sherlock, Joan, other characters and pairings TBD)

Life’s Lessons (15 part series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 1 story; Kirk/Spock and OMCs/OFCs)

Mended, Blended & Found (trilogy; currently at 1 story; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series/Star Trek Discovery; Spock/Uhura, Pike, McCoy, Sarek, OMCs)

Sometimes Fate Intervenes (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 2 stories; Sulu/Ben)

Spies vs Spy (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series/Marvel Cinematic Universe; currently at 1 story; Khan, Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Daisy)

Super Secret Spies & Stuff (10K+ one-shot; currently at 1 chapter; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; Kirk/Spock)

The Further Voyages Of The Starship Enterprise (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 7 stories; Spock/Uhura, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Chekov, Sulu, Carol)

The Hidden Royal Prince (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 1 story; Kirk/Spock, Uhura/Chapel, Scotty, Bones, Amanda)

The Little Vulcan (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 1 story; Spock/Uhura, Kirk, other characters/pairings TBD)

The Paths We Take, Glittering And Entwined (15 part series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; currently at 1 story; Kirk/Spock)

To Boldly Observe And Solve Crimes (Among Other Things) (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series/X-Files Fusion; currently at 2 stories; eventual Kirk/Spock, Marcus, other characters/pairings TBD)

Whatever Remains (series; Star Trek: Alternate Original Series/Sherlock fusion; currently at 1 story; Khan, Kirk, Sulu)

unfinished fic commissions for @strangelock221b

Untitled Random Fics (∞ worth of one-shots; Sherlock, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries + possible other fandoms; characters and/or pairings TBD - written for strangelock221b)

Untitled Random Fics (17 one-shots incorporated into the Bones McCoy, Private Investigator series; Sherlock/Star Trek: Alternate Original Series; McCoy/Molly, other characters and or/pairings TBD - written for strangelock221b)

unfinished fic commissions for @whclocked

Untitled Random Fics (34 one-shots; fandoms, characters and or/pairings TBD)

Cocaine Blues (Reimagined) (One-shot; Sherlock/Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries fusion; currently at 1 chapter; Molly, Sally, other characters TBD)

unfinished fic series commissioned by assorted peeps

Untitled “John Lives Through His Own Personal Groundhog Day” Fics (4 500 word one-shots; Sherlock; characters and/or pairings TBD - written for mizjoely)

Black Sheep (series; currently at 3 stories; Sherlock; eventual Sherlock/Molly, not legit Tom/Molly, John/Mary, Mr. & Mrs. Holmes, hints of Mycroft/Anthea, fancast Tom Hiddleston as third Holmes brother - written for anonymous donor who requested I write what I choose and did not have time for)

Love Is Like (series; currently at 27 stories; Sherlock; Sherlock/Molly, John/Mary - written for starlight-falls - has NSFW stories)

Our Hearts Are One (40 part series; currently at 1 story; Sherlock; Sherlock/Irene/Molly - written for equusgirl)

unfinished standalones commissioned by assorted peeps

Untitled Random Fics (50K words worth of fic; Sherlock; Sherlolly-centric - written for come2myrescue)

Untitled Sterek Fic (12K to 13K one-shot; Teen Wolf; Derek/Stiles; written for Felis Blue)

Untitled Fic (2K one-shot; Sherlock/Doctor Who; Eleventh Doctor, Molly with Lady Smallwood; written for katiebuttercup)

Untitled Fic (1K one-shot; fandoms, characters and or/pairings TBD - written for a-studyinsherlock)

Untitled Fic (2.6K one-shot; Sherlock/MCU; Stephen/Molly; written for welcometothelosingside)

A Heartbreaking Loss (25K one-shot; Sherlock; currently at 1 chapter; Sherlock/Molly - written for alengmae)

Children Of Light, Children Of Dark (25K+ one-shot; Sherlock; currently at 14 chapters; Sherlock/Molly, John/Mary, possible background Mycroft/Anthea - written for anonymous donor)

It Takes The Whole Of London (12K to 13K one-shot; Sherlock; currently at 5 chapters; Molly-centeric with appearances by other characters; written for Felis Blue)

Magic Words (One-shot; Star Wars; currently at 1 chapter; Finn/Rey with Poe, other characters and pairings TBD; written for posterofamyth)

Rectifying Past Mistakes (17K one-shot; Sherlock; currently at 6 chapters; Sherlock/Mary with Mycroft, Anthea, John and others TBD - written for melamungous)

To Throw Away The Map (60K one-shot; Sherlock; currently at 6 chapters; Sherlock/Molly and John/Mary; written for ceeyajh)

#wips #fic commissions #my stuff

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wolfliving · 6 years ago

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Thinking Through Interfaces, a syllabus

*That looks enlightening.

THINKING THROUGH INTERFACES

Co-taught by Zed Adams (Philosophy) and Shannon Mattern (Media Studies)

Tuesdays 4:00 - 5:50pm | 6 East 16th St #1003

Interfaces are everywhere and nowhere. They pervade our lives, mediating our interactions with one another, technology, and the world. But their very pervasiveness also makes them invisible. In this seminar, we expose the hidden lives of interfaces, illuminating not just what they are and how they work, but also how they shape our lives, for better and worse. We also discuss a number of pressing social and political issues, such as why we are quick to adopt some interfaces (e.g., smartphones and social media platforms), but reluctant to embrace others (e.g., new voting machines and Google Glass).

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RESOURCES

With a few exceptions, all readings will be made available on our class website, at http://www.wordsinspace.net/interfaces/2019/. We’ll provide everyone with a copy of Tom Mullaney’s The Chinese Typewriter and David Parisi’s Archaeologies of Touch.

SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS

WEEK 1: JANUARY 22: INTRODUCTIONS

What is an interface?

How are interfaces differentiated?

Can an interface become a part of our mind?

Do interfaces shape what we use them to do?

What are the limits of interfaces: what problems do they not help us solve?

WEEKS 2 AND 3: CONCEPTUALIZATION

WEEK 2: JANUARY 29: CONCEPTUALIZATION I

Nelson Goodman, “The Theory of Notation” (Chapter Four), Languages of Art (Hackett, 1976): 127-173.

Florian Cramer and Matthew Fuller, “Interface” in Software Studies, ed., Matthew Fuller (MIT Press, 2008): 149-53.

Johanna Drucker, “Interface and Interpretation” and “Designing Graphic Interpretation” in Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press, 2014): 138-97.

WEEK 3: FEBRUARY 5: CONCEPTUALIZATION II

Shannon Mattern, “Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard,” Places Journal (March 2015).

Shannon Mattern, “Things that Beep: A Brief History of Product Sound Design,” Avant (August 2018).

We encourage you to think, too, about how interfaces might embody different cultures and ideologies. Consider, for example, feminist interfaces or indigenous interfaces -- or interfaces that embody universal, accessible design. You'll find some relevant resources in the modules at the end of this syllabus, and we'll explore many of these themes as part of our case studies throughout the semester.

In-Class Workshop (second half of class): small-group interface critiques

Supplemental:

Christian Ulrich Andersen and Soren Bro Pold, eds., Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond the Buttons (Aarhus University Press, 2011).

Martijn de Waal, The City as Interface: How New Media Are Changing the City (nai010, 2014).

Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approach to Interface Theory,” Culture Machine 12 (2011).

Johanna Drucker, “Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 7:1 (2013).

Florian Hadler and Joachim Haupt, “Towards a Critique of Interfaces” in Interface Critique, eds., Florian Hadler and Joachim Haupt (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2016): 7-16.

John Haugeland, “Representational Genera” in Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind, ed. Haugeland (Harvard Univ Press, 1992): 171-206.

Branden Hookway, Interface (MIT Press, 2014)

Interface Critique (journal).

Steven Johnson, Interface Culture (Basic Books, 1999)

Matthew Katz, “Analog Representations and Their Users,” Synthese 193: 3 (June 2015): 851-871.

Kimon Keramidas, The Interface Experience - A User’s Guide (Bard Graduate Center, 2015).

Shannon Mattern, “Interfacing Urban Intelligence,” Places Journal (April 2014).

Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things (Basic Books, 2013).

Mitchell Whitelaw, “Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9:1 (2015).

Jeff Johnson, Designing with the Mind in Mind (Morgan Kauffmann, 2014).

WEEKS 4 AND 5: TYPEWRITER KEYBOARDS

Our first case study is the QWERTY keyboard. This case raises fundamental questions about why interfaces are adopted in the first place, the extent to which their original designs constrain how they are subsequently used, and how particular linguistic politics and epistemologies are embodied in our interfaces.

WEEK 4: FEBRUARY 12: KEYBOARDS & QWERTY

Andy Clark, Chapters One through Three, and Ten, Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again (MIT Press, 1998): 11-69 and 193-218.

S. J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, “The Fable of the Keys,” The Journal of Law & Economics 33:1 (1990): 1-25.

WEEK 5: FEBRUARY 19: OTHER KEYBOARDS

Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017): Chapter 1, 35-74; Chapter 4, 161-93; Chapter 6, 237-53 (up through “How Ancient China Missed…”; and Chapter 7, 283-8 (through “China’s First ‘Model Typist’”).

Kim Sterelny, “Minds: Extended or Scaffolded?” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9:4 (2010): 465-481.

See Marcin Wichary’s forthcoming book about the global history of keyboards, as well as his research newsletters.

4-5pm: Skype TBD

Supplemental:

Louise Barrett, Beyond the Brain (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Andy Clark and David Chalmers, “The Extended Mind,” Analysis 58:1 (1998): 7-19.

Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz (Stanford University Press, 1986).

Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Stanford University Press, 1999).

John Haugeland, “Mind Embodied and Embedded,” Having Thought (Harvard University Press, 1998): 207-237.

Richard Heersmink, "A taxonomy of cognitive artifacts: function, information, and categories." Review of philosophy and psychology 4.3 (2013): 465-481.

Richard Heersmink, "The Metaphysics of Cognitive Artefacts," Philosophical Explorations 19.1 (2016): 78-93.

Neil M. Kay, “Rerun the Tape of History and QWERTY Always Wins,” Research Policy 42:6-7 (2013): 1175-85.

Prince McLean, “Inside the Multitouch FingerWorks Tech in Apple’s Tablet,” Apple Insider (January 23, 2010).

Jan Noyes, “QWERTY - The Immoral Keyboard,” Computing & Control Engineering Journal 9:3 (1998): 117-22.

Kim Sterelny, The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (MIT Press, 2012).

Cassie Werber, “The Future of Typing Doesn’t Involve a Keyboard,” Quartz (November 23, 2018).

Darren Wershler-Henry, The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting (Cornell University Press, 2007).

WEEKS 6 AND 7: HAPTICS

WEEK 6: FEBRUARY 26: PUSHING BUTTONS

H. P. Grice, “Some Remarks About the Senses,” in Analytical Philosophy, First Series, ed. R. J. Butler (OUP Press, 1962): 248-268. Reprinted in F. MacPherson (ed), The Senses (OUP Press, 2011): 83-101.

Matthew Fulkerson, “Rethinking the Senses and Their Interactions: The Case for Sensory Pluralism,” Frontiers in Psychology (December 10, 2014).

Rachel Plotnick, “Setting the Stage,” in Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing (MIT Press, 2018): 3-16.

Rachel Plotnick, “Force, Flatness, and Touch Without Feeling: Thinking Historically About Haptics and Buttons,” New Media and Society 19:10 (2017): 1632-52.

WEEK 7: MARCH 5: HAPTICS II

David Parisi, Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing (University of Minnesota Press, 2017): Introduction, 1-40; Chapter 3, 151-212; and Chapter 4, 213-264.

4-5pm: Skype with Dave Parisi

Supplemental:

Sandy Isenstadt, “At the Flip of a Switch,” Places Journal (September 2018).

Mathias Fuchs, Moisés Mañas, and Georg Russegger, “Ludic Interfaces,” in Exploring Videogames: Culture, Design and Identity, eds., Nick Webber and Daniel Riha (Interdisciplinary-Net Press): 31-40.

Matthew Fulkerson, The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch (MIT Press, 2013).

Gerard Goggin, “Disability and Haptic Mobile Media,” New Media & Society 19:10 (2017): 1563-80.

Kim Knight, “Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Interfaces,” MLA Commons (2018).

Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone (Little, Brown, 2017).

Stephen Monteiro, The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender (MIT Press, 2017).

David Parisi, “Games Interfaces as Bodily Techniques,” Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education, ed. Richard Ferdig (IGI Global): 111-126.

David Parisi, Mark Paterson, and Jason Edward Arches, eds., “Haptic Media” Special Issue, New Media & Society 19:10 (October 2017).

Rachel Plotnick, “At the Interface: The Case of the Electric Push Button, 1880-1923,” Technology and Culture 53:4 (October 2012): 815-45.

MARCH 11 @ NOON

Share your final project and presentation proposal with Zed and Shannon. See “Assignments” for more detail.

WEEK 8: MARCH 12

Individual meetings to discuss presentations and final projects

MARCH 19: NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

WEEKS 9-10: VOICE

WEEK 9: MARCH 26: History of Vocal Interfaces (Zed away)

Mara Mills, “Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing,” Qui Parle 21:1 (Fall/Winter 2012): 107-49.

Danielle Van Jaarsveld and Winifred Poster, “Call Centers: Emotional Labor Over the Phone,” in Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work, ed. Alicia Grandey, Jim Diefendorff, and Deborah Rupp (LEA Press, 2012): 153-73.

Confirm the assigned text for your presentation: send to Shannon and Zed a complete Chicago-style citation and either a high-quality pdf or a link to the online resource before class today, so we can update our class website with everyone’s material.

WEEK 10: APRIL 2: Contemporary Vocal Interfaces

Adelheid Voshkul, “Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies,” Social Studies of Science 34:3 (2004).

Andrea L. Guzman, “Voices in and of the Machine: Source Orientation Toward Mobile Virtual Assistants,” Computers in Human Behavior (2018).

Halcyon M. Lawrence and Lauren Neefe, “When I Talk to Siri,” Flash Readings 4 (September 6, 2017) {podcast: 10:14}.

Halcyon M. Lawrence, “Inauthentically Speaking: Speech Technology, Accent Bias and Digital Imperialism,” SIGCIS, Computer History Museum, March 2017 {video: 1:26 > 17:16}

Lauren McCarthy, LAUREN. A human smart home intelligence (review press, too).

4-5pm: Skype with Halcyon M. Lawrence

Supplemental:

Meryl Alper, Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017).

Michel Chion, Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Duke, 2016).

Karin Bijsterveld, “Dissecting Sound: Speaker Identification at the Stasi and Sonic Ways of Knowing,” Hearing Modernity (2018).

Trevor Cox, Now You’re Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Counterpoint, 2018).

Brian Dumaine, “It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech,” Fortune (October 24, 2018).

Larry Greenemeier, “Alexa, How Do We Take Our Relationship to the Next Level?” Scientific American (April 26, 2018).

Jason Kincaid, “A Brief History of ASR,” descript (July 12, 2018).

Halcyon M. Lawrence, “Siri Disciplines,” in Your Computer is on Fire, eds., Marie Hicks, Ben Peters, Kavita Philips and Tom Mullaney (MIT Press, forthcoming 2019).

Halcyon Lawrence and Lauren Neefe, “Siri’s Progeny: Voice and the Future of Interaction Design,” Georgia Tech, Fall 2016.

Xiaochang Li and Mara Mills, “Vocal Features: From Voice Identification to Speech Recognition by Machine,” Technology and Culture (forthcoming 2019).

Luke Munn, “Alexa and the Intersectional Interface,” _Angles (June 2018).

Quynh N. Nguyen, Ahn Ta, and Victor Prybutok, “An Integrated Model of Voice-User Interface Continuance Intention: The Gender Effect,” International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (2018).

Winifred Poster, “Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing,” in digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies, eds., David Ribes and Janet Vertesi (Princeton University Press, forthcoming April 2019).

Winifred Poster, “The Virtual Receptionist with a Human Touch: Opposing Pressures of Digital Automation and Outsourcing in Interactive Services” in Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World, eds. Marion G. Crain, Winifred R. Poster, and Miriam A. Cherry (University of California Press, 2016): 87-111.

Thom Scott-Phillips, Speaking our Minds: Why Human Communication is Different, and How Language Evolved to Make it Special (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Craig S. Smith, “Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t,” New York Times (May 10, 2018).

Dave Tompkins, How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks (Stop Smiling Books, 2011).

Mickey Vallee, “Biometrics, Affect, Autoaffection and the Phenomenological Voice,” Subjectivity 11:2 (2018): 161-76.

Bruce N. Walker and Michael A. Nees, “Theory of Sonification” in The Sonification Handbook, eds. Thomas Hermann, Andy Hunt, and John G. Neuhoff (Logos Publishing, 2011).

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rannadylin · 8 years ago

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Time for a questionnaire meme

Tagged by @fangmich and it’s been a while since I did one of these so…why not!

Also I was just starting to type up my answers to these last night when a crazy thunderstorm hit and the power went out for over four hours. :-( Then this morning the internet was still out for a couple of hours after I got up, more aftereffects of the storm no doubt. So I might be tempting fate by again attempting to answer these but here we go anyway!

Rules: Answer these 92 statements and tag 20 people.

LAST:

1. Drink: Durance’s tea blend, Magran’s Fire! (Yesterday it was Eder’s Sun God Cider and it would have also been Kana’s Rauatai Sweet Pie but I am almost out of that because it’s so good. I have a reorder of it coming today, if the tracking info is correct…) 2. Phone call: Frontier support to report my internet being out. :-( (Fortunately I got a very nice customer service lady who took care of everything more swiftly than expected, and hey, internet’s back now!) 3. Text message: to my mother telling her I might be visiting her today if the internet didn’t come back on… 4. Song you listened to: Technically the Pillars of Eternity soundtrack while playing the game yesterday, but if we’re not counting that…my local radio station does this thing they call Bluegrass Wednesday where they play I Saw the Light to wake us all up on Wednesday mornings and that was going on while I drove to the grocery store. This week they played two versions and asked callers to vote – David Crowder which they usually use, and the original Hank Williams Sr version. 5. Time you cried: Probably at church? I tear up a lot at certain songs. Although usually not when I’m one of the ones playing them, so it would be one of the Sundays that the youth group worship team led the songs instead of Team Pastor’s Family (i.e. my mom on piano, my sister on drums, me on flute, plus an organist and some singers unrelated to us, plus my dad, the pastor, usually singing also).

HAVE YOU:

6. Dated someone twice: I have not really dated someone once unless we count going steady in junior high and when you’re too young to actually go out somewhere with the boyfriend, I’m not counting it… 7. Kissed someone and regretted it: I’ve kissed no one, so, nope 8. Been cheated on: This is also beyond my experience 9. Lost someone special: Oh certainly. Two grandparents so far, and a few years ago a very dear friend who wasn’t a teacher, yet was a sort of teaching mentor to me in our state JCL (Latin club!). Here we are getting ready for the annual trip to JCL convention in a week (!!!) and it still hits me once in a while, when I see the state t-shirt from the last convention trip he was here for and so on. 10. Been depressed: I am fortunate to have not had to deal with clinical depression. Life has its ups and downs (getting diagnosed with diabetes five years ago was one of the lows for sure…) but I’ve never felt hopeless, stuck in a low that would never improve. Honestly my faith is a big part of this – God is my hope and comfort when life is overwhelming. 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: Alcohol, like dating, is beyond my experience. This is what life is when you grow up as a pastor’s kid with a pretty much lawful good alignment in RL. :-D

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS:

12-14: PURPLE AND GOLD! Well, that’s JCL colors, anyway. Purple is one of my favorites, also dark green, and…for a third…well I think I have more handknit socks in the blue range than anything? I am very mardi gras here.

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU:

15. Made new friends: Sure! Mind you, I don’t tend to form deep friendships very often but I do form firendly acquaintances pretty easily. I’ve made friends on tumblr and with some Latin teachers I met at the conference I went to last month. 16. Fallen out of love: Not really sure I’ve ever really fallen in; see above re: dating. Crushes and falling out of crushes, certainly. 17. Laughed until you cried: I’m sure I have? Probably at family gatherings. I have goofy relatives. 18. Found out someone was talking about you: Hello, I teach high schoolers? They are always talking about me. I usually assume there’s a base level of complaining about grades or discipline going on (some of which the offended student makes sure I can hear, yay), but I’ve also been pleasantly surprised by people (a fellow teacher as well as friends of current students) in the past year telling me they’ve heard good things about my teaching. (Current students’ friends who said so are taking my class next year, I think…Yay!) 19. Met someone who changed you: Sure. E.g. I’ve grown a lot more confident from hanging out with my very outgoing (and bossy :-D) best friend (and fellow teacher until we both left that school within the last few years… 20. Found out who your friends are: I am not at all sure what this is asking. 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: Nope, see above re: dating

GENERAL:

22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: I don’t generally make or accept friend requests unless I already know the person. Some are just acquaintances through work or the network of Latin teachers, or former students who were on trips to JCL convention with our group, etc. so I don’t often see them in person, but there’s only a handful I haven’t actually met at some point. 23. Do you have any pets: Alas, no, the apartment complex doesn’t allow pets. I had a cat at my last place but she went to live with my parents and she’s more my Dad’s pet than mine now. 24. Do you want to change your name: In true Anne Shirley fashion? :-) I used to be less content with my name than I am now. Now, I’m like whatever. 25. What did you do for your last Birthday: Taught? Probably? Was it even a weekday? 26. What time did you wake up: Around 7 today, eager to see if the power had come back on (it had!) and also the internet (it hadn’t!) 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: Finally asleep by then, I think, after hours of waiting for power to come back on. 28. Name something you can’t wait for: Deadfire (Gotta agree with you on this one, @fangmich!) 29. When was the last time you saw your mom: On the way home from family trip to see Grandma on Monday 30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: Not being diabetic would be swell! 31. What are you listening to right now: Silence 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Had a great student by that name years ago. 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: It was the lack of internet but now we’re good. Students interrupting class will ALWAYS get on my nerves though… 34. Most visited website: Definitely tumblr these days.

RANDOM INFO:

35. Mole/s: Nope 36. Mark/s: A few stray freckles? 37. Childhood dream: Teacher. Or writer. Went with the first, now I don’t have time to professionally pursue the second! 38. Hair color: Brown and ridiculously curly. Yes, curly is a color. 39. Long or short hair: Long 41. What do you like about yourself: I might actually sound pretty arrogant if I seriously started listing things. I’m just a “look on the bright side” sort of person and I like a lot of things about myself as an active choice. *shrug* Most of the things I’d list have to do with creativity – writing, knitting, fluting. 42. Piercings: None 43. Blood type: You know I should actually know this by now, huh? I know my most recent A1C (6.4, not bad for diabetic) but have no idea my blood type. 44. Nickname: Besides forms of my actual name? Well, students call me Magistra… (Latin for teacher) 45. Relationship status: Confirmed Old Maid :-) 46. Zodiac: Virgo 47. Pronouns: she/her (but actually I’m pretty fond of ipsa, and eadem gives me headaches as it does all Latin students…sorry sorry, I know this question is about gender but I see “pronouns” and I think of grammar and those chapters that throw all of the pronouns at the kids at once so we call it the Death By Pronouns unit...Look y’all, I’m female but also a grammarian. That’s right, my gender is Grammarian.) 48. Favorite TV Show: Don’t have an actual TV so I watch things on the Internet. Does Critical Role count? If not, I’ve also watched Doctor Who recently. 49. Tattoos: None 50. Right or left hand: Right 51. Surgery: Had a pilonidal cyst removed in my teens. 52. Hair dyed in different color: Never. I do not mess with my hair. The curls would take revenge. 53. Sport: Marching Band totally counts and apart from that I am the least sporty of humans. 55. Vacation: Would love to spend it in Italy more often (yay Latin teaching perks) if I can get enough students to go. Otherwise – JCL convention! And other school-related trips… 56. Pair of trainers: Skechers? Does that count?

MORE GENERAL:

57. Eating: Like right now? I…had a muffin and yogurt and strawberries for breakfast? Lunch is TBD. 58. Drinking: I am a water drinker (so I guess I don’t write poetry) but also, lots of tea! And recently I have started drinking coffee (gasp!) because Mom has been providing coffee & breakfast for our Sunday School class and I enjoyed the coffee that first Sunday so I guess she has corrupted me now. 59. I’m about to: Catch up on everything I missed (tumblr, the Deadfire Q&A, etc.) while the internet was out. 61. Waiting for: My Adagio tea order with the rest of my Pillars of Eternity tea samples and a reorder of Kana’s and Iselmyr’s delicious blends! 62. Want: A teaching salary that makes it more likely I could afford to actually retire someday? 63. Get married: Used to assume I would, but see above re: Confirmed Old Maid – I’m content with being single, these days. A potential spouse would have to be pretty awesome to outweigh how fond I’ve grown of my solitude. 64. Career: I’m content with classroom teaching, most of the time. Not really interested in administration. Doubtful I could make a living as a writer, especially with my insurance needs nowadays. In my first teaching job, I was certain I’d be there till I retired. Then they had budget cuts and I had to switch schools if I wanted (I did!) to keep teaching Latin. Second job was burnout waiting to happen – after five years I switched to my current school, and once again I could see myself retiring here. If, of course, my deadbeat pancreas and I can afford that.

WHICH IS BETTER:

65. Hugs or kisses: Hugs have a wider appeal, but see above re: dating/kissing status, so I’m not really one to speak to this 66. Lips or eyes: Eyes 67. Shorter or taller: Shorter, I guess, for I am short and am not really as amused by height differences as most of tumblr appears to be? 68. Older or younger: At my age I’m not sure it matters so much 70. Nice arms or nice stomach: WELL you know that post celebrating Aloth’s arms… 71. Sensitive or loud: Sensitive. Loud would totally fail to outweigh my fondness of solitude. Introvert here needs her quiet time, please. 72. Hook up or relationship: Relationship 73. Troublemaker or hesitant: Hesitant, I guess?

HAVE YOU EVER:

74. Kissed a Stranger: No 75. Drank hard liquor: No 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: In all my years of glasses…probably? Not that I recall? 77. Turned someone down: Yes 78. Sex on the first date: Wouldn’t if given the opportunity 79. Broken someone’s heart: Unlikely 80. Had your heart broken: My heart has generally avoided the risks that would lead to breaking, see above re: Old Maid 81. Been arrested: No 82. Cried when someone died: Of course 83. Fallen for a friend: …Temporarily? Never went anywhere

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

84. Yourself: To an extent – I mean, I know my limits. 85. Miracles: Absolutely 86. Love at first sight: Not my style but I’m sure it happens 87. Santa Claus: I like stories but I know they’re stories… 88. Kiss on the first date: Probably not

OTHER:

90. Current best friend name: Amanda! (Which is Latin for She Who Must Be Loved and it’s true) 91. Eye color: I’d like to say Grey but I think they’re more of greyish Blue. 92. Favorite movie: Star Wars. Or The Princess Bride. Or Lord of the Rings.

I’m going to just leave this with an open tag instead of naming anyone. If you want to answer these, go for it and tag me so I can get to know you better too!

#from the desk of ranna #memes

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