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laliandraI'm like, well, I don't have anything much to say to LJ, and yet I want to update. Huh. And then I remembered that, this being my journal and all, I can do as I wish!
Here is a random list of lists of things!
1." In Things I spend Too Much Time On The Internet Doing"
I have google analytics and I find it compulsively fascinating. Did y'all know that if you have a paid LJ account you can set up google analytics on it? Because I didn't until my corner of Inception fandom all seemed to discover it at once. It's SO COOL, OH MY GOD. There is stuff I'm not surprised by (that the entry that gets most hits is Say I'm The Only Bee In Your Bonnet, for example) but there is a lot of stuff I have discovered.
a) That the disparity between the number of people who read a fic and the number of people who comment is even bigger than I thought. I mean, I'm awful at commenting so I can't talk. It's so cool knowing that lots of people are reading my stories, though. I extend my blanket affection to you, lurkers, seeing as I can't thank you in a comment reply. Just to give you an idea of what I mean, SITOBIYB, which I wrote FOUR MONTHS AGO, HOLY CRAP, still got 89 pageviews last week. No comments!
Which is sort of related to
b) How much traffic I owe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookshop and pyrimidine . Reccing really works, you guys. Also <3DELCIOUS<3
c) Live search is terrible. I mean, I already had my suspicions about this but really. One of the things that you can do with google analytics is see what search terms people used to get to your journal. Oh, the hilarity! But yes, all the people wo stumble here searching for things completely unrelated to my journal or things that have been mentioned once (Rhys Ifans, anyone?) have all come from Live Search. I mean, one person landed up here after just searching the word "meme". I MEAN WHAT. I don't even know how many pages you'd have to go through on google before you got to me from that. My keyword searches are not anywhere near as terrible and amazing ascherrybina 's though ("rimming the pink sock" is a personal favourite) but they do amuse me. Also, one person searched for "laliandra" but clicked straight away from this journal. As far as I can tell, I made this name up and I'm the only one out here. So. What were they looking for?
d) I can spend about ten minutes looking at the really in depth statistics before I get really freaked out about how GOOGLE SEES ALL. O_O.
2. In "Delightful Things My Friends From The Internet Have Brought Me This Week"
Twitter Hashtag of the Week - #fishpile - referring to the mass tackle glompingsnugglehug affection of the marmalade_fish . There is always a #fishpile going on. The mood and location may change, but the pile is perpetual. Mass second place tomcollinknight and her Darren Criss tags of WIN.
Text Message of the Week - "Do you know where the Charlie Brooker RPF is?" That was the whole thing! Best. Ever.
Unintentional IM Typo of The Week -shiningartifact for "hunky-dorky" . I plan to use this ALL THE TIME. So adorable!
Best Email Subject Line - "lol porn"
3. In "Things My Dad brought me because he is going to Sout Africa indefinitely"
a) His old laptop which is about a hundred times faster than mine and I am very fond of already. It is the same make as my beloved but o so broken Precious, so I already know my way around and it means I can have all my things in one place \o/ The only issue is that the "h" key sometimes doesn't work so I see a lot of "te"s in my future.
b) Food that my Granny and Great Aunt won't eat because they are diabetic: 2 boxes of chocolates, 2 boxes of biscuits, half a packet of mini eggs, a candy cane, a sherbet lollipop.
c) A selection of bead necklaces and scarves from Granny because I once asked her if she had any in the charity shop that she works in and now she appears to hoard every one that they get. I am okay with this, especially because I've got a fabulous multicoloured ribbon and bead necklace and a bottle green pashmina, among other things. There are a couple that I am not so fond of so if anyone is after a thin scarf or bright string of beads, let me know.
d) My old collection of paper dolls. I'm not really sure what to do with them but they are so pretty, OMG. PAPER DOLLS FOREVER.
4. In "Seriously people, JFGI"
YOU GUYS, PODFIC IS AMAZING. IF YOU WANT TO FIND SOME, GOOGLE THE WORD "PODFIC", CLICK ON THE ~FIRST LINK, PROFIT. If you want recs, ask! Otherwise *points upwards*
5. In "Things I Didn't Expect To Write This Week"
1000 words of comment fic about beaches and people expressing affection by throwing things at each other. Well. I possibly should have seen the last one coming.
473 words of the fic I've been writing for the last year-and-a-bit.
So, there we are! How are you guys? Well? How are tricks? Tricky?
Here is a random list of lists of things!
1." In Things I spend Too Much Time On The Internet Doing"
I have google analytics and I find it compulsively fascinating. Did y'all know that if you have a paid LJ account you can set up google analytics on it? Because I didn't until my corner of Inception fandom all seemed to discover it at once. It's SO COOL, OH MY GOD. There is stuff I'm not surprised by (that the entry that gets most hits is Say I'm The Only Bee In Your Bonnet, for example) but there is a lot of stuff I have discovered.
a) That the disparity between the number of people who read a fic and the number of people who comment is even bigger than I thought. I mean, I'm awful at commenting so I can't talk. It's so cool knowing that lots of people are reading my stories, though. I extend my blanket affection to you, lurkers, seeing as I can't thank you in a comment reply. Just to give you an idea of what I mean, SITOBIYB, which I wrote FOUR MONTHS AGO, HOLY CRAP, still got 89 pageviews last week. No comments!
Which is sort of related to
b) How much traffic I owe
bookshop and pyrimidine . Reccing really works, you guys. Also <3DELCIOUS<3c) Live search is terrible. I mean, I already had my suspicions about this but really. One of the things that you can do with google analytics is see what search terms people used to get to your journal. Oh, the hilarity! But yes, all the people wo stumble here searching for things completely unrelated to my journal or things that have been mentioned once (Rhys Ifans, anyone?) have all come from Live Search. I mean, one person landed up here after just searching the word "meme". I MEAN WHAT. I don't even know how many pages you'd have to go through on google before you got to me from that. My keyword searches are not anywhere near as terrible and amazing as
cherrybina 's though ("rimming the pink sock" is a personal favourite) but they do amuse me. Also, one person searched for "laliandra" but clicked straight away from this journal. As far as I can tell, I made this name up and I'm the only one out here. So. What were they looking for?d) I can spend about ten minutes looking at the really in depth statistics before I get really freaked out about how GOOGLE SEES ALL. O_O.
2. In "Delightful Things My Friends From The Internet Have Brought Me This Week"
Twitter Hashtag of the Week - #fishpile - referring to the mass tackle glompingsnugglehug affection of the marmalade_fish . There is always a #fishpile going on. The mood and location may change, but the pile is perpetual. Mass second place to
mcollinknight and her Darren Criss tags of WIN.Text Message of the Week - "Do you know where the Charlie Brooker RPF is?" That was the whole thing! Best. Ever.
Unintentional IM Typo of The Week -
shiningartifact for "hunky-dorky" . I plan to use this ALL THE TIME. So adorable! Best Email Subject Line - "lol porn"
3. In "Things My Dad brought me because he is going to Sout Africa indefinitely"
a) His old laptop which is about a hundred times faster than mine and I am very fond of already. It is the same make as my beloved but o so broken Precious, so I already know my way around and it means I can have all my things in one place \o/ The only issue is that the "h" key sometimes doesn't work so I see a lot of "te"s in my future.
b) Food that my Granny and Great Aunt won't eat because they are diabetic: 2 boxes of chocolates, 2 boxes of biscuits, half a packet of mini eggs, a candy cane, a sherbet lollipop.
c) A selection of bead necklaces and scarves from Granny because I once asked her if she had any in the charity shop that she works in and now she appears to hoard every one that they get. I am okay with this, especially because I've got a fabulous multicoloured ribbon and bead necklace and a bottle green pashmina, among other things. There are a couple that I am not so fond of so if anyone is after a thin scarf or bright string of beads, let me know.
d) My old collection of paper dolls. I'm not really sure what to do with them but they are so pretty, OMG. PAPER DOLLS FOREVER.
4. In "Seriously people, JFGI"
YOU GUYS, PODFIC IS AMAZING. IF YOU WANT TO FIND SOME, GOOGLE THE WORD "PODFIC", CLICK ON THE ~FIRST LINK, PROFIT. If you want recs, ask! Otherwise *points upwards*
5. In "Things I Didn't Expect To Write This Week"
1000 words of comment fic about beaches and people expressing affection by throwing things at each other. Well. I possibly should have seen the last one coming.
473 words of the fic I've been writing for the last year-and-a-bit.
So, there we are! How are you guys? Well? How are tricks? Tricky?
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Date: 2011-02-05 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 07:58 pm (UTC)*hands out cookies*
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Date: 2011-02-05 09:55 pm (UTC)>.>
Man, I still cannot figure out google analytics. I will try to poke it again sometime, as it looks fascinating. *dubiously nudges technology with stick*
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Date: 2011-02-07 08:00 pm (UTC)O.o
Did you sign up to it? I can walk you through it sometime if you like. I assume, like me, you would like to be a hopeless narcissist!
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Date: 2011-02-06 01:24 am (UTC)Did you know the answer? Because I totally know the answer to that.
(And, one day, if I ever get around to doing more than thinking about it, I'm going to write the epic Sixth Form AU where Charlie and David very slowly fall in love and it is amazing and heartachey and Stephen Fry is the headmaster and other older comedians are the teachers and honestly I should really just start writing it and see what happens.)
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Date: 2011-02-07 08:01 pm (UTC)But maybe you should suggest the Good Stuff, just in case.
(Yes, yes you should :D)
I BRING GREETINGS FROM VIETNAM
Date: 2011-02-06 02:46 pm (UTC)I TOO DON'T UNDERSTAND GOOGLE ANALYTICS. You shall have to explain it to me one day over skype then!
I want pics of that ribbon and bead necklace! Sounds v. fab~
<333! AH MISS YOUUUUUUU
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
Date: 2011-02-07 08:05 pm (UTC)Heh, that is excellent. I only really like beer if it is the fruit variety. Omnom, strawberry beer.
IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE, ACTUALLY. I love it because I am a hopeless narcissist, as you know, and also find the map of where people in are in the world completely fascinating.
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Date: 2011-02-07 04:42 pm (UTC)The only issue is that the "h" key sometimes doesn't work so I see a lot of "te"s in my future.
You already missed out an "h" in South Africa :P ^_^
And now I really wish I had a paid account, because Google analytics sounds fascinating and scary and so many awesome all at once. Is this a bad thing to think? ^_^"
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Date: 2011-02-07 08:09 pm (UTC)Oh man. I now read like I'm doing a bad French accent *g*
I love my paid account. Like, a lot. Editing comments is such a godsend, as is being able to track threads and entries. Google analytics is indeed all of those things! I have to admit the keyword searches are a favourite, but there is also a map of countries that people have viewed my journal in and it's amaaaazing. So many places!
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Date: 2011-02-08 06:04 pm (UTC)#yourewelcome #theonlythingidontlikeabouthashtagsisthattherearenoapostrophes #itmakesmesad #andimworriedthattwitterinterloperswillthinkicannotspell #ohwell ...#happybirthdaydarren?
You mean most people *don't* express affection by throwing things at each other? *ponders past relationships* Whoops :P
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Date: 2011-02-08 06:47 pm (UTC)Speaking of Regency, have you seen this?
#seriously #moreuniforms #arewesurehesreal #alsoyesthatannoysmetoo #epeciallywerevswere #anditsvsits #iguessthatswhatactualtwittermessagesarefor
SO I HEAR. I did not think it was a motif, but apparently it is. I mean, sure, it's not that literary, but gdi, it is reoccurring!
ETA: I AM SORRY FOR ALL THE HTML FAIL. I USUALLY PREVIEW BUT I WAS LIKE, NO, I GOT THIS. D:
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Date: 2011-02-08 07:17 pm (UTC)yes, I have seen that before, but I really, really, *really* do not get tired of it :DDD WHY U NO PLAY DARCY, DARREN.
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Date: 2011-02-08 07:34 pm (UTC)WELL THAT IS A THOUGHT.
CRAVAAAAAAAAAAATS. MAKE HIM WEAR CRAVAAAAAAAAAAATS.
Where is that picture from? I just came upon it, randomly.
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Date: 2011-02-08 07:51 pm (UTC)I like this one as well (WAISTCOAT???? I LIKE WAISTCOATS. IT COULD JUST BE A VEST BUT I AM KIND OF DISTRACTED BY HIS HANDS
harry/draco?):HOWEVER.
LESS IS MORE, DARREN. LESS. IS. MORE.
(I feel like the biggest perv in the history of ever for having that picture, even though IN MY DEFENSE IT IS EVERYWHERE ALL OVER THE INTERNET, but I still kind of feel like I need to say a rosary or check over my shoulder or go back in time to see this onstage or something.)
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Date: 2011-02-08 08:25 pm (UTC)I think it is a waistcoat because it is silk (or at least a different material) at the back and that is how they tend to be made. And NGHHH, agreed. Oh, formalwear, my not so secret kink.
And where is THAT from? Oh god. My kingdom for a timeturner! My Dad is staying and was like, Lal, who are you perving at now. His tone was curious, but not surprised...
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Date: 2011-02-08 08:33 pm (UTC)HIS ARMS THO. THAT SHIRT IS VERY, UHM. FLATTERING. GET IT, DRACO. GET IT.
I don't know, some play in college. I'm sure the title was mentioned somewhere and the play probably had some kind of plot or something but that honestly was not what I was paying attention to. Apparently more than that came off (OH COLLEGE PLAYS), but obvs there are no pictures.
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Date: 2011-02-08 11:24 pm (UTC)WAS DRACO LIZZIE? BECAUSE THAT ~ROCKS~. MY FRIEND USED TO CLAIM THAT GUYS HAD "GUITARIST ARMS". SHE MAY HAVE HAD A POINT.
Come on internet, get on this. Nothing stays buried forever online! That is why we have it.
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Date: 2011-02-08 11:52 pm (UTC)I think that picture might be from an entirely different play? But IDK. At least we know she can put on the accent, so it makes sense, lolol. This is now my headcannon. She would make a bitchin' Lizzie. (My BFF once told me that Jane reminded her of me... I think she meant that the actress had a lot of the same mannerisms, but she said it was the whole character. Just if you needed another detail to fill in your headcannon on me, lol. I thought I would say that.)
I'm sure they're buried somewhere in the bowels of tumblr, lol. IDK if you ever read Astolat's Kradam zombiepocalypse fic where the fangirls find stuff in the footage, but fandom is so insane at finding shit. I'm not the first to say this, and I'm fully aware of its flippancy, but I swear if fandom + mothers teamed up we could find bin laden and all the land mines that there are in like 2 weeks, easy.
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Date: 2011-02-09 11:20 pm (UTC)I am going to choose to believe that it was the same play. Because that would be awesome. Have all the cast just made out with each other at some point?
You mean the BBC version or the new one? You are very lovely, it's true, but I would definitely call you more of a Lizzie :)
Lady, I linked you to that fic. But yes, I truly believe that too. The power of the internet is vast, and the capacity that fangirls have to trawl through endless posts about nothing to find something is even greater! You want a thing? Sure, we'll find that, rip it, gif it, put it in all formats and post it on many platforms. DONE.
Also, my friend Kara is running http://podklb.livejournal.com/10914.html this and I thought you might be interested? I know it's short notice. But there are some amaaazing ficlets. Lots of West Wing ones! Feel free to say no <3
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Date: 2011-02-09 11:36 pm (UTC)Have you seen Me And My Dick? Ron and Ginny (and Cho/Voldemort) make out in that one, lolol. I was alternately like OH MY GOD THAT'S YOUR SISTER, STOP IT and JOE YOU SHOULD MAKE OUT WITH QUIRREL NOW PLEASE. Also, even outside of plays, they are theatre majors, so I'm willing to bet that yes, they have all made out with each other at some point (I am familiar with Theatre Majors. As a breed, they are generally Handsy, Outgoing, Prone to Making Situations Awkward At All Costs, Good At Pretending Nothing Happened later, and tend to have Extremely Fluid Sexualities).
Not really, IRL I am Less Sassy Than I Appear. Correct me if I am wrong, but Jane is the Shy Golden Retriever Who Loves Everybody, right?
Oh. Right. I HAVE READ SO MANY FICS, THEY ALL SORT OF BLUR. WELL IT WAS AWESOME ANYWAYS SO THANK YOU IN RETROSPECT.
Ahhhhh that sounds so awesome! I have a Chaucer essay to write, and this weekend is full of roommates' birthdays and visiting hometown girls, but I shall investigate it tomorrow evening. *strokes non-existent goatee* *laments the fact that Reading Week is in two weeks*
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Date: 2011-02-08 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-08 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-08 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-08 08:29 pm (UTC)your icon is perfect for this
Date: 2011-02-08 08:36 pm (UTC)its keyword is "in~your~endo"
Date: 2011-02-08 11:34 pm (UTC)Re: its keyword is "in~your~endo"
Date: 2011-02-09 12:07 am (UTC)Re: its keyword is "in~your~endo"
Date: 2011-02-09 11:22 pm (UTC)are we using all of our punny icons now?
Date: 2011-02-09 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 02:49 am (UTC)ALSO YOUR TAG THREAD LOLOL WHAT YOU LADIES <33
PS DAPPER BLAINE NEVER GETS OLD! "QUITE EMPHATICALLY", INDEED :DD
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Date: 2011-02-11 03:58 pm (UTC)My brain is being a bit squishy at the moment because I am horrendously tired from my weekend in Nottingham, so I shall not try and comment on the rest but just say I lvoe you masses and your life is awesomely amusing. XD
#fishpile
LOVE!
xxxxx
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Date: 2011-05-31 06:08 am (UTC)don't you mean "adorKable"??? *waits for cricket to stop cringing* awww c'moooon!! i can't be THE ONLY ONE who thought that!!!
*dashes off to read comments*
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Date: 2011-05-31 06:17 am (UTC)