spoiler cut code

Does anybody remember how to do those new spoiler cuts (not the [cut-text=""] ones, the new ones that work internally in a comment or after another cut)? I stupidly didn't bookmark the information, and now I can't find it and it doesn't seem to be in the FAQs. I though it had been announced on an official DreamWidth journal but I can't find any such thing.

Answered now, thank you!

5 more questions

Another 5 questions, this time from delphi.

1. How did you discover Our Flag Means Death, and was there a moment when you knew this would end up being something you'd feel fannish about?

( Answer under the cut, with OFMD S1 spoilers )

2. Is there something you'd really love to see in season 2 of OFMD (or in fic if you don't want to speculate about next season)?

( Answer under the cut, with OFMD S1 spoilers )

3. What's one place - a landmark, a restaurant, a neighbourhood - that you'd recommend to anyone visiting a city or town you've been to?

( Long answer under the cut )

4. Is there a genre or trope you've wanted to try your hand at writing but haven't yet?

( Answer under the cut )

5. Do you hold any strong/contentious food opinions?

( Answer under the cut )

Well, that was long.

If you'd like 5 questions from me, just drop a comment.

By the way, I am very spoiler-averse, so if you comment about OFMD, please avoid S2 spoilers. Speculation is fine so long as it's not based on spoilers. Thanks!

trans and NB community

Just a heads-up to everybody that transandnonbinary is reviving after some years of quiet. I'm an admin there, though to be honest I had completely forgotten about it and it's virgosplaining who has taken the initiative to start it up again.

These are not good times for NB and trans folks, either online or in the wider world. transandnonbinary is a community by and for us, where we can talk about our issues and share our joys and fears without being piled on by fascists.

Cis allies are welcome too.

return of the fannish Frankenmeme

I started this ages ago, then skipped a day because there was a question that bored me, and then forgot to start back up again. But lately, I feel like talking about fandom.

6. What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.

I was probably in Buffyverse the longest as an active participant, reading and writing fic; it was also my first fandom. I never thought I'd lose interest, but I did. I'd written a lot, exploring most of what I wanted to explore, and I also experienced my first few rounds of fandom drama and got stung by that (not entirely unmerited), and so in the end I left without much of a backward glance.

I tend to be serially monogamous with my fandoms. Occasionally there's overlap, or I get into a very broadly defined fandom (like Doctor Who with its two TV series and its multiple book series and its audiobooks, or what I called the World Wars Megafandom, which was a lot of war-related texts with no other connection), but usually I obsess about one canon for a while and then move on. There are old fandoms that I think of fondly, and I might even read a fic or watch a vid if I happened upon one, but I'm unlikely to create in this fandoms ever again.

I know this will happen someday with OFMD and I'm already sad about it, because I love the show so much. (Please, S2, don't fuck it up.)


Full list of questions is ( under the cut )