Day Thirty-three

Day 14: @the-wip-project

Do you have figures / creatures of folklore in your WIP? If not, can you think of something that would fit?

Hmmmmm … in my clexa wip, I have creatures that have mutated into mythic proportions due to nuclear radiation.

Slick!

“The next commander will protect you”

-I don’t want the next commander, I want you

(Clarke and Lexa, 3x07)

Clexaweek2019 Basics

Okay kru, Clexaweek2019 officially begins tomorrow so here’s a refresher on the Clexaweek basics!

THEMES:  Monday 02/25 - Useless Lesbian Tuesday 02/26 - No Strings Attached Wednesday 02/27 - Only One Bed Thursday 02/28 - Nipples Friday 03/01 - Tinder AU & Nerd/Popular Trope Saturday 03/02 - Enemies to Lovers Sunday 03/03 - Free Day

Use the tags #Clexaweek2019, #Day (_), and #(prompt). Make sure you put those first three tags in first because as we all know, tags and searching can be finicky. Feel free to use whatever other tags you want (#Clexa, #Clexa fic, #Clexa fanart, what have you), but just make sure to definitely list those three at the beginning. You can submit a link to me here, either directly to the work or to your tumblr post, and I will reblog it. If you post on ao3, add the work to the collection Clexaweek2019.

Please remember to leave a comment on a fic you read. Even something as simple as “ajfkdsajlfdk;sa” is very much appreciated. Kudos are nice, but comments are the real validation. Please, please, please leave a comment! Please remember to reblog and not just like posts on Tumblr. When people make art and moodboards etc, reblogging is how the post is spread and showed to more people. And feel free to comment on those too (and creators love stalking the tags to see what people say as well!). Letting a creator know what’s awesome about their work is what encourages them to continue creating, so please keep that in mind! We all support each other here! That being said, usually every year there’s at least one troll who posts a stupid (and terribly written) fic on purpose to try to get attention. If that happens, IGNORE it. Don’t give it hits, don’t comment on it, nothing. Report it if the tags are incorrect, but otherwise ao3 can’t do much, so don’t give the troll any attention. Our fandom is so big and awesome that new works will flood the tag anyway so yeah, just let those terrible works fade into obscurity. 

At the end of Clexaweek, I will make a masterlist of all the content created. My fandom wife @clexabookmarks also makes lists of the new fics. If you notice we’ve missed a work just let us know! It can be so chaotic running this while working full time so it’s easy for some works to slip through the cracks. Just hit us up and we’ll add it in!

If you have any questions about Clexaweek, ask here. If you want me to give you some prompts, you can hit up my ask box or you can peruse my tagged list of Clexa prompts. If you would like to view previous Clexaweek Events, they can be found here: Clexaweek2017, Clexaweek2018. There are also Clexaweek collections on ao3.

HAVE FUN! :D Can’t wait to see what you all come up with! I’ve missed you all, kru. Welcome home.

Day fifty-one

of @the-wip-project‘s challenge

I’m actually very curious to read the other answers to this question.

Q51: Do you use tools for plotting and what are they?

A51: It’s not a tool, per se, but a method:

“Katytastic's 3 Act/ 9 Block/ 27 Chapter Outling Method!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3eodLF_Uo

Need to set up a pi hole! Reblogging for reference

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

Clexa fanfic shit I’m up to...

So, just to check in with all y’all!

I’ve started a follow-up to my canon divergent “Grounded” (you can find the first giant-ass installment, titled “Grounded,” at AO3). Not sure when I’ll start posting or when it’ll be done, but holy hell, this is gonna be FUN.

Also, the Clexa AU “bang shui” is done, ICYMI (also at AO3), and I did decide to do a follow-up to that one, but I’m taking a bit of a break first.

However, as I said at the end of “bang shui” in the notes, I am writing a one-shot that I’ll probably have done in the next month or so (and if you’ve read “bang shui”, you know EXACTLY what this one-shot/smut-shot is all about…lolol).

ALSO, I have ANOTHER Clexa AU in the works that I’ll probably be able to start posting in the next couple of months or so. In that one, Clarke and Lexa are actresses. And that’s all I’m saying. MUAH HA HAHA!!!!

Just wanted to let everyone know what’s going on. Please ask me anything. I love hearing from people. XX!

Pi

Gorgeous detail!

LEGO Orphan Black

My wife would love this card!

~giveaway~

last one for the day 😮‍💨 this MPP portrait is up for grabs!

rules:

be 18+ because I’ll be asking for your mailing address if you win

open internationally

1 reblog = 1 entry, likes don’t count as an entry!

I will pull for the winner on Feb 12 😁