whenever I hear...

"...it's not a real fandom until there's a bakery/coffee shop AU," I consider punching myself in the face, in hopes of turning back the tsunami of annoyance that instantly washes over me.

So this is a Things That Annoy Me Irrationally post.

- While I've been banging the "JUST READ BETTER COMICS" drum for ages, I still hate that guy. I hate the drum circles of smug indie comics readers, and angry ex-Big Two comics readers, and their "Stop complaining. Start doing. All you have to do is not give Marvel and DC your money," simplicity so much. Fuck off with your kumbaya-easy solutions to a complex problem that you don't understand.

- "Get a job, you hippies." I become a veritable inferno of rage, but am also overtaken by helpless lulz. It's complicated, and strangely physically draining. HIPPIES ARE OVER. OVER, YOU IGNORANT SON OF A NEWT. GET SOME NEW LINES. READ A BOOK. EAT SOME QUINOA. FUCK OFF.

- Slow walkers who are walking slowly solely because they're distracted by their smartphones. Pffftwitch.

of all the posts, this is my favourite:

Skud: Github, transparency, and the OTW Archive project. Code, organizational culture, and in the comments, the problem with finding volunteers (hey, it might be your process). So far my favourite post on the OTW/AO3 situation.

And this bit from Stewardess: Who first knew the mobile skins were broken? The site users. And how did the site developers know it was broken? Through support, who heard it from the users.

Support knows the impact of change better than anyone. "Hey, did you know mobile skins are entirely broken?" And support should know "And hey did you know approximately 20%* of site visitors use mobile browsers, so that means get on this now." And it's support who confirms "Yes, the fix worked, the site users are okay now." It is support who tells development "Hey, good job, you are done."

Support works for the users; everyone else works for support.

*nod nod*

The op and commenters do a stellar job of laying out the hows of running and developing the archive (and similar projects), and how things could be done differently.

last post of the day, I swear

I'm catching up on blog and school work, and so I'm spamming the shit out of everyone on my various accounts. Sorry about that, really. Anyway!

A thing I forgot to bring up previously: Gosh, that Castiel. He sure does die a lot. You know who else dies and comes back a lot? Jean Grey. That's right, host of the Phoenix Force. Ate a planet, beat the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. So Castiel. MAYBE HE IS ACTUALLY A PHOENIX HOST!?

Someone needs to do art of this. Manip, sketch, something. I NEED IT IN MY LIFE. Although, I'm not sure why. Regardless.


We can declare this my LJ birthday, if that will help. (I just checked, there's no way to tell what the creation date of my old journal was). That would make me ten years LJ-old, if you were at all curious.