zvi likes tv

cottoncandy_bingo card Haven't written anything since last Yuletide, so I'm hoping that these prompts aimed at fluff, schmoop, sap, the comfort-y side of hurt/comfort, and other warm and fuzzy happy things will be a kick in the pants.

1) Sleep
5) Second half of femslash10
6) help_pakistan meta
9) remixduello remix planning
9.6) remixduello remix writing
10) 3_ships planning/coding
13) Sleep

eid_ka_chand (festival celebrating Muslim characters!) and daysofawesome (festival celebrating Jewish characters) are ramping up and starting respectively. To get you in the mood for Eid Ka Chand, you may want to listen to Revealing Ramadan, which is a public radio production featuring Muslems, mostly but not entirely American, about their Ramadan experiences. It's a very happy show, but Ramadan is a fasting practice, so you may not want to listen if you have food issues.

Fandom helps people: help_pakistan Has anyone ever offered meta for one of these charity auctions? I can write meta.

remixduello: 36 people have signed up so far! I did a fandom round up about 10 people ago, but I'm pretty sure we've expanded further into the approved list of fandoms.

Whee!

The Creative Process illustrated (h/t dira)

Festibility! from access_fandom. I don't currently see any characters I want to write, but I'll keep checking back, as people keep thinking of more.

realwomenfest. RPF counterpart to Awesome Ladies' Ficathon. (Although, AFAICT, Awesome Ladies' allows RPF, so…I don't know? I just want someone to write me Allison Iraheta femslash.

AV Club Q&A Fighting with Loved Ones Over Art (h/t monkeysee_feed, I think)

PREMIERES THAT ARE RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS
Tonight at 9, Eureka
Tonight at 10, Haven
Tomorrow (limited theatrical release) The Kids Are All Right
Monday at 9, The Closer
Monday at 10, Rizzoli & Isles
Tuesday at 9, White Collar
Tuesday at 10, Covert Affairs
Wednesday at 10, Psych (Attn people manually setting recording devices, supersized to run over 6 minutes!)
July 24, BBCAmerica debut of Being Human Series 2

I watched ABC Family's Huge, both the premiere and episode 2, and I like them, but not nearly enough to compete with The Closer. Huge is much closer to the sort of television show I would expect from ABC Family (than Pretty Little Liars): sweet, a wee bit didactic, a smidge too transparent with its heartstring pulling. On the other hand, I may try to keep up with it online. I'm enjoying Nikki Blonski as Will, and seeing Gina Torres in the role of an uncertain person is interesting, too. (I really want more definition of Becca/Raven Goodwin [black, very shy, but a lot braver than I would have expected] and Chloe/Ashley Holliday [Latina, very stylish, seems to have ruled the social last year but now displaced in favor of Amber], who seem like potentially interesting characters, but are neglected in favor of Amber [who is actually sort of interesting as a girl who has been ¿neglected, ignored? and is now The It Girl, except for this terrible crush on the male fitness instructor] and Ian, who's just this boring white dude.) If you like high school students, or fat people who are treated as characters instead of The Fat One, this may be relevant to your interests. But it's definitely not appointment TV.

i am human and i need to be loved victoria p. This sort of strikes me as railing against human nature? I mean, yeah, arguments would be more productive if people slowed down and read closely and made nuance-y statements instead of staking out positions and fiercely defending them, but, uh, (a) it's a really normal way to talk about things (b) I'm a lot less defeatist on the question of whether or not, because that's the most visible way of talking, it's drowning out people doing the consideration and thinking she's looking for (c) I'm not convinced that all of these discussions have compromise positions to get to. (Also, the way victoria's interacting with people in the comments who don't particularly agree with her on the tragic state of our discourse is somewhat ironic.)

I'm not doing a "proper" panel write-up, but I did re-create my notes for the Care and Feeding of Your Thing-a-thon panel. If you have more questions that weren't answered there, or if the notes make you think about something, feel free to ask in comments.

They are sort of focused on exchange challenges, because (a) that's the type I like the best and (b) most of the problems for other types of challenges come up in exchange challenges.

One thing I didn't mention in the notes, because it came up in the panel, not my notes.

If you're running a kinkmeme, you should get every single comment to the meme e-mailed to you, so you can reconstruct what happened if something goes wrong, and keep monitoring the meme as it goes forward.

Also, if something blows up, whether it's unfunny_business or fandom_wank, the reaction should be:

1. Amend/explicate/correct in the same place as the initial problem
2. Freezing comments is better than deleting/screening already public comments
3. Screening future comments (and making clear rules for what gets unscreened) is a better way to slow discussion down than disallowing all comments.