Who needs filters? I have my magazine!

[amanuensis1]

So I'm reading my friendslist and my own personal spoiler shield is this: I have a magazine in one hand and I'm holding it over the left side of the page as I scroll, allowing the username and pic on each post to be visible on the right. And if I trust the user (and think they're likely to have something interesting to say), then I pull back the magazine and look at the entry. My high-tech is pastede on yay.

Now I'm starting to see things about spoiler spamming to communities. Users like ixchelmala have given us a method to filter out all communities by adding "/?show=p" at the end of your friendslist url (It looks like this: " www.livejournal.com/username/friends/?show=p " ), but I think I'll just call a halt on running my friendslist for now. I'll catch up all the way back on Saturday night or Sunday morning, but I already have 87 open browser windows on which I could catch up and should--eight parts of cluegirl's Umbra Nihil, fabularasa's SG:A ficlet, glockgal's gorgeous interest meme art. Gawd, I haven't even looked at anything on Big Bang, Baby. I'm really behind. (As usual.) So, if anyone wants my attention to something, email or leave a comment.

Oh! I haven't even thought about what I'm going to wear to the release. Probably nothing special. Hmm. Well, I could re-think that. If you see a female at your bookstore dressed in a long blue gown and blue-and-bronze striped socks, masquerading as Rowena Ravenclaw, that might be me. ^_^

Comments

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Hee, there we go with the perception again. Everyone knows what House we are, right? I think of myself as Ravenclaw with Hufflepuff undertones. I'm as guilty of getting lost in the theory with disregard to the practical as the worst academician, but I'm Hufflepuff enough that I can turn that off and come up with a "good enough" solution, while resolutely chanting "The good is the enemy of the Best" to appease my Ravenclaw instincts.

She's Slytherin, and she sees in your writing a willingness to face the other side of the mirror, the anti-hero, the ulterior motive. As she does. Looking away from the shiny-kid side, as it were.

But she also mentioned (as she said above) that while your writing showed a Slytherin mindset, she thought that you, yourself, away from LJ and fandom, were probably more Hufflepuff, given your encouragement of new writers (me included!) your sense of the benefits of working toward co-operative success versus simple BNF solo fame, your pattern of promoting others and supporting the group.

So that's what we were thinking -- I thought Ravenpuff; she thought Slytherpuff.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

See, I don't feel proud of my Slytherin qualities; ambition and self-interest and "if they don't see my laziness then it doesn't exist"--euuch. Which doesn't mean they aren't there. I would resist being labeled Slytherin but I know I've got some of their traits.