I enjoyed many of the Festivids, but the reason you should watch Propagation is to be recruited to Threshold, a short-lived but really neat sf alien invasion show where the aliens keep winning. Stars Carla Gugino, Peter Dinklage, and Brent Spiner, along with a very handsome military man with a mysterious backstory that sadly never got explored. Go, watch, then watch more!

Also, I don’t know if this Life vid works as a recruiter vid because the ways it employs canon to match with the lyrics are so good; watch it and find out!

( urban fantasy, sf Islam )

You know, if I ever catch up with article revisions etc., I might finish a story.

Today in crowdsourcing: (1) Test the AO3’s revisions, which we hope and expect will mean performance improvements! (2) And/or transcribe historic menus so they can be searched!

( Yoshinaga, Lord, Butcher, Kilborn & Crouch )

Google’s antisocial behavior.  Also a post about Google’s Real Name Theater, like Security Theater, and then there’s danah boyd’s excellent explanation that no, Facebook isn’t a real name service either.  As I understand it, if a Google+ name violation determination works “right,” you can still use Reader to read but not to share/etc., which is not as bad as losing access to Reader entirely, but it doesn’t seem like the process is glitch-free even on its own terms. I have a bunch of old pictures on Picasa connected to my Blogger blog, which means that even though I downloaded them for backup a suspension could still screw me up. I certainly did not realize that signing up for Google+ put my other services at risk, and I think I have to leave before I’m kicked out. In a few short weeks Google has managed to burn through my rather substantial goodwill for it.

Covert Affairs: ( Non-plot related spoilers for last night )

Pretty Little Liars: ( Have only seen first 15 minutes; please don't spoil me! )

( Tanya Huff, Megan Whalen Turner )

I now have a Google+ at Rivka T and at my pro name; feel free to add me there or not.

Blurbs gone wrong--Thanks for these nightmares, LibraryThing:

( I would not even make rachelmanija review this )

( Brust, Sanderson, Star Trek novelization )

I'm not sure I've ever totally lost respect for a person I previously thought was rational, if someone with whom I disagreed, in the course of reading one comment thread. (The problem may have been my initial assessment, however.) I gotta say, by comparison to the general blogosphere, the parts of LJ/DW where I hang out are filled with rainbows and puppies. And respectful if sometimes sharp dialogue. So, you know, thanks!

( Fiction: Patricia Briggs and a thriller by Blake Crouch )

Podfic of Skin Deep, my SV genderswap Clark/Lex story!

I very much enjoyed this article in which the authors engage in a classic debate: TVD v. SPN. Sample: “I'll take 145 years of brotherly brooding and angst over the apocalypse any day (I mean, Stefan basically turned Damon into a vampire! How do you compete with... Crap, nevermind).”

( short stories, images of impending death )