Dec. 13th, 2010

beatrice_otter: Aim high--you may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off. (Aim High)
I need a beta for a story who knows Puerto Rican-American culture, as most of my story is taking place inside a Puerto Rican household in New York.  Since I know very little about either Puerto Ricans or New York, this is somewhat nervewracking for me.
beatrice_otter: Brother Cadfael (Brother Cadfael)
[personal profile] nextian has written not one but two awesome filks about "The Lone Centurion" (i.e. Rory Williams during The Big Bang, the season finale of Doctor Who).  They are both awesome and she's got a great voice and I love the pseudo-scholarly analysis of the two songs that she includes.

If you're into Dorothy Sayers, particularly the Peter Wimsey mysteries, [livejournal.com profile] antisoppist has written a great Harriet/Bunter story, which you should go read--I have only a passing acquaintance with Wimsey, and it made sense to me, and I hope she writes a sequel because it's just begging for it.

AO3 explains why they've been so slow and what they're doing to correct it in the future.  Basically, it's running [archiveofourown.org profile] yuletide plus several other decent-sized holiday ficathons at the same time; the data from this is telling them how they need to scale up/streamline their operation because they can see where the bottlenecks are at peak load.  But they can't do the big stuff until after the challenges are over because slow is better than breaking things in the middle of Yuletide.  Yes, it's a hassle, but it's a fixable hassle; the old Yuletide archive was creakier back when Yuletide was much smaller, and it couldn't be scaled up.

Also, how did I now know that Mandy Patinkin played Inigo Montoya?

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