Just found a great episode on 20,000 Hz, a favorite podcast of mine.
SUBTITLES ON: WHY IS MOVIE DIALOGUE SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
Answer at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
access_fandom, a comm I co-mod where we talk about making sure the full fandom experience works for all of us, no matter how our bodyminds work. Like many DW comms, it hosts useful knowledge going back a while, and is always ready to be revived.
I always enjoy the wide variety of postcards which appear regularly from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fflo. Tuesday, fflo posted about the "Best Wrong Answers" to LearnedLeague. These are a series of punchline-worthy responses to Jeopardy!-style questions. For example:
In photography, the overall brightness of an image is determined by the "exposure triangle" of aperture, shutter speed, and a third factor which is a measure of the sensitivity of the camera's sensor (or the film) to light. This third factor is known as what?
- REMEMBERING TO TAKE THE LENS CAP OFF
Even though I got online before the WWW, I’d never heard of LearnedLeague, which is a very dedicated group of trivia fiends. Here’s what I found:
Like any tight-knit community, there’s a ton of jargon. Participants are called LLamas (the double L matching Learned League). Membership is by invite only, though there is some public content at
LearnedLeague.com
Some of the world-readable "Best Worst Answer" tallies follow the URL pattern
https://learnedleague.com/hist/awards/100.php
Where 100 references the season—I had some fun plugging in random numbers.
From season 97:
A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986) continue the story first told by author Madeleine L'Engle in what 1962 novel?
- 3 REASONS TO HAVE HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE
Public, unofficial Learned League groups on Reddit and Facebook. More fun to be had from grazing the #BestWrongAnswers tag on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bestwronganswers
There are hundreds of folks posting about their lives, their likes, their dreams, their fandoms thanks to the low-key snowflake_challenge. It's a no-pressure event: participating at their own rates, in their own journals, the challengers (or is that the snowflakes) link back to the comm so you can roll around in lovely fannish feelings!
The Master Post summarizes the challenges and links to all players.
ysabetwordsmith re fan community on DWysabetwordsmith is being the change we need on (re)building fandom communities
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13268075.html
2200 words covering many ways to challenge yourself and encourage others including
context is Tumblr hiding keywords to get Apple's approval on its iOS app.
Is happening now at melannen's journal:
Detailed review, followed by speculation on what D.G. did that was so horrible?
rydra_wong summarizes: He who smelt it, dealt it
Two streets away from us is this mid-1940s detached two-story house with bay window and one-car garage. Wooden siding is painted flat green, decorative shutters are lighter green-gray, yellow-gray limestone veneer on first floor.
Good news: the brutal cold has passed.
Bad news: it’s warm enough for the snow to get dirty.
Who knows: did my blog layout inspire these folks to repaint their house, or did their house inspire my blog layout?
How’s by you? What inspires your DW layout? Is your snow getting dirty or all melted?
skygiants hosted a playlist exchange, in aid of exposing all of us to new music:
https://skygiants.dreamwidth.org/608692.html
Where folks offered thematic prompts and other folks delivered playlists (mostly on YouTube, some on Spotify).
Eighty-some ingenious combinations!
My SJW eyes snagged on oracne’s prompt "rise up for change" compiled by walkthegale.
Fifteen of the 16 songs were new to me. Jim Moray’s "Sounds of Earth" elegizes the golden platter carried on Voyager and now I’m weeping with hope for a better future and sorrow for the fragility of humans.
There's lots of delicious content floating around my d-roll and I don't think I'm gonna get caught up before spring.
( whine )
I look forward to reading as I can.
It's often been said (even by me) that the Corgi phenotype is so strong that when Corgis create mixed breed dogs, they look like "Corgis in costumes."
I'm delighted to report there's a Reddit sub devoted entirely to pictures of these costumed wonders: no matter whether the outgroup dog is a chihuahua or a husky, the dog has a long body, short legs, and a definite attitude.
https://reddit.com/r/incorgnito
No login required to admire
If you saw a cornstarch slurry in science class -- often called "oobleck" -- you've experienced a "non-Newtonian liquid." That's a substance which changes its structure based on pressure. A local industrial pump manufacturer does a lovely job explaining the varieties:
https://blog.craneengineering.net/what-are-newtonian-and-non-newtonian-fluids
I found this after rabbit-holing for a post on gluten-free gravy.
https://gluten-free.dreamwidth.org/55497.html
Nursing Clio continues to deliver accessible historical perspective on the social impacts of medicine, in this case, Black nurses during the US Vietnam war:
[Elizabeth Allen]’s motivation for joining the war effort came from the same deep well of solidarity within the Black community that produced the anti-War activism of Angela Davis and Malcolm X. Allen expanded on her ideological justification for volunteering: “It’s not for me to decide as to the rightness or the wrongness of the war, my decision was what was the best possible care I could give.”
Subscribe to
nursingclio_feed
china_shop, who I met oh so long ago in due South fandom before Dreamwidth, came up with a rousing fannish pub-quiz style game — you can play on your next Zoom call!
https://fictional-fans.dreamwidth.org/72400.html
skygiants muses about the fanfic trope "forced to work together" and the optimistic hope that humans can love each other just for that.
https://skygiants.dreamwidth.org/602008.html
fail_fandomanon is an anon community where hundreds of posts and comments appear daily. I visit the 6-year-old Dreamwidth edition maybe yearly. Its purpose and culture is mysterious to me. Here's a Fanlore attempt to describe it https://fanlore.org/wiki/Failfandom_anon
Enter erinptah, who must read closely to gather these non-wanky, in fact, intriguing discussions under the fail-fandomanon tag:
https://erinptah.dreamwidth.org/tag/fail-fandomanon
fancake is an open themed fanwork rec community. Follow the excellent organization of tags by theme or fandom, and it's a great place to make baby's first rec post.
siderea asks "So are there 'canonical' SF movies that are romances?" and gets more than 50 answers
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1476828.html
muccamuk provides some history as to how people found friends on LJ, then transferred them to DW, and why "finding friends on DW" is a lot harder for newbies than it is for those of us who have been here all along.
Pillowfort issues
kalloway gathers info from Twitter and fail_fandomanon documenting Pillowfort's willingness to ban a user over their TOS violation before Pillowfort published the relevant TOS
Who-what-where-when in https://kalloway.dreamwidth.org/1628277.html
jamethiel discusses Why I Won't Be Doing Fandom on Pillowfort https://jamethiel.dreamwidth.org/397510.html
melannen in general is just great—her December posting meme has been delicious.
https://melannen.dreamwidth.org/tag/december+meme
Let's Read A Scientific Paper: Is Social Media Bad For You? is a coherent step-by-step deconstruction of a recent psychology study which has generated a bunch of headlines. From her summary: ( learn about the results that could have been with a link )
It's been fun watching lots of new folks come over in the past few days.
I've been following the "tumblr purge" activity via the tag cloud at DW's Latest Things page
https://www.dreamwidth.org/latest?tag=tumblr+purge
Some tasty breadcrumbs:
An index to ![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
denise's important points in the ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_news announcement
https://ilyena-sylph.dreamwidth.org/266612.html
Lots of FAQs answered.
umadoshi gathers tips for using DW and pondering on alternatives
I wrote these questions!
Do you like to reply to every comment in your journal?
I definitely try to, since the primary purpose of my journal is participating in the world. I like s-l-o-w conversations, which is why DW is the platform for me.
What type of post gets the most/least responses in your journal?
Polls! If you want traffic, post a poll (but then you need a paid account to do it). Second are “droll knows much” questions, especially when well phrased.
Media reviews get the least responses.
What do you do when a new person first comments in your journal?
I jump to their profile, see what we have in common. When there’s an overlap, I’ll mention it in my reply and follow them. When there isn’t an overlap, I’ll thank them for commenting.
When you’re reading someone else’s journal, do you read every comment before adding your own?
When there are fewer than 25 comments, yes. If there are more, I’ll skim the top level ones before putting in my two cents.
When is “too late” to reply to an entry?
NEVER! I back-read new folks all the time–I’ve piped up on six year old posts.
s-l-o-w conversations for the win
You can play at your own journal or at thethefridayfiveilanarama is such a talented writer. Enjoy these haikus for celebrities who've died:wild_irises has turned it into a meme!jadelennoxlightgetsin is hosting a Disability Friending Meme at her journal. Check it out if you're so inclined. (Non-disabled allies are welcome.)
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