3 things: writing, wrath, and water
Oct. 25th, 2012 03:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfalling1. I put in some more work on that Jade/Dave/Terezi crossdressing fic I have been stalled on -- it's now at 6,600 words and we are about to see Dave in his slinky red dress for the first time, after having seen Jade put on her own dress and help Terezi tie the tie of her three-piece suit.
I am not sure how a fic that was intended to be basically PWP porn turned into a thing with so much buildup and also clothing descriptions -- not to mention the whole "Jade shaves Dave's legs while Terezi kibitzes" scene and thoughts on Dave's insecurities and the role of humor in his relationships with girls -- but oh well, at least I'm getting somewhere again. Even if it is mostly descriptions of clothes. (So weird.)
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2. In other news, ff.net proves as inscrutable and capricious as ever. One admin shared my interpretation of the content rules and deleted two reviews from Critics United members. Now another admin (a different one? the same one in a different mood? there is no way to know!) has apparently taken the exact opposite stand and deleted my story.
I intend to write another letter to ff.net support, both in protest and to reiterate my request for a clarification of the wording of the rule. But that will have to wait until tomorrow evening, when I am less screamingly annoyed at the inconsistency and the lack of any operational transparency whatsoever.
Grrr.
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3. On Tuesday, it rained in Ithaca. It rained all day long, from before 8am to after 7pm, steadily and without any surcease. Which would normally be fine... except that there is something wrong with the drain on the roof of the building in which the smoke shop is located. It clogged once before and the resulting leak literally disintegrated one of our ceiling tiles, but we were told the leak had been fixed.
Maybe that particular leak was fixed. But the underlying problem -- the drain clog -- remained. And so Tuesday afternoon BW discovered that the ceiling was leaking again. We put out buckets and also an empty magazine tote (which was the only thing large enough to cover the necessary floor space to catch all the drips), called maintenance, and moved a neighboring ceiling tile so it wouldn't disintegrate like the previous one.
Maintenance duly arrived, investigated, and told us there was an entire foot of standing water on the roof. They promptly began pumping it off, but they were unable to unclog the drain. The obstruction turned the drain snake into a corkscrewed pretzel, and even the big industrial snake didn't do much. The maintenance guys couldn't try attacking the clog from beneath either, because that would've required opening the drain pipe in the basement, at which point removing the clog would have sent something like 300 gallons of water exploding into their faces in under five seconds. (Gravity and water pressure are not forces you want to mess with!)
Anyway, they were able to pump the roof mostly clear by the time the rain finally let up, and they promised to return on Wednesday to remove the clog. I was not at work so I don't know the outcome, but I certainly hope they were successful!
Such are the trials of working in an old building. *sigh*
I am not sure how a fic that was intended to be basically PWP porn turned into a thing with so much buildup and also clothing descriptions -- not to mention the whole "Jade shaves Dave's legs while Terezi kibitzes" scene and thoughts on Dave's insecurities and the role of humor in his relationships with girls -- but oh well, at least I'm getting somewhere again. Even if it is mostly descriptions of clothes. (So weird.)
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2. In other news, ff.net proves as inscrutable and capricious as ever. One admin shared my interpretation of the content rules and deleted two reviews from Critics United members. Now another admin (a different one? the same one in a different mood? there is no way to know!) has apparently taken the exact opposite stand and deleted my story.
I intend to write another letter to ff.net support, both in protest and to reiterate my request for a clarification of the wording of the rule. But that will have to wait until tomorrow evening, when I am less screamingly annoyed at the inconsistency and the lack of any operational transparency whatsoever.
Grrr.
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3. On Tuesday, it rained in Ithaca. It rained all day long, from before 8am to after 7pm, steadily and without any surcease. Which would normally be fine... except that there is something wrong with the drain on the roof of the building in which the smoke shop is located. It clogged once before and the resulting leak literally disintegrated one of our ceiling tiles, but we were told the leak had been fixed.
Maybe that particular leak was fixed. But the underlying problem -- the drain clog -- remained. And so Tuesday afternoon BW discovered that the ceiling was leaking again. We put out buckets and also an empty magazine tote (which was the only thing large enough to cover the necessary floor space to catch all the drips), called maintenance, and moved a neighboring ceiling tile so it wouldn't disintegrate like the previous one.
Maintenance duly arrived, investigated, and told us there was an entire foot of standing water on the roof. They promptly began pumping it off, but they were unable to unclog the drain. The obstruction turned the drain snake into a corkscrewed pretzel, and even the big industrial snake didn't do much. The maintenance guys couldn't try attacking the clog from beneath either, because that would've required opening the drain pipe in the basement, at which point removing the clog would have sent something like 300 gallons of water exploding into their faces in under five seconds. (Gravity and water pressure are not forces you want to mess with!)
Anyway, they were able to pump the roof mostly clear by the time the rain finally let up, and they promised to return on Wednesday to remove the clog. I was not at work so I don't know the outcome, but I certainly hope they were successful!
Such are the trials of working in an old building. *sigh*
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Date: 2012-10-25 03:54 pm (UTC)I shall think un-clogged thoughts for your roof drain! Man, I'm glad I live in an area that doesn't believe in flat roofs.
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Date: 2012-10-26 03:40 am (UTC)I post on ff.net because I've been posting there since 2003, when I started branching out from being a Harry Potter only reader into a multifandom reader -- ff.net is still the biggest site in a LOT of fandoms, and if you find some authors you like, that can help sort through the pile of inevitable Sturgeon's Law byproducts and even the decently-written stuff that just isn't to one's personal tastes for whatever reason. But I have no great emotional attachment to the site. (Pit of Voles, after all!) It's just a convenient way to reach a lot of potential readers who may not even know that other fanfiction sites exist.
I would therefore not be heartbroken if my account were suddenly deleted on account of trolls. Beyond flamingly pissed off, sure, but not heartbroken.
...Actually I should probably take this as an impetus to start crossposting all my older stories to AO3. Which is not anything like a perfect archive either, but is at least much more sensible about content restrictions.
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Date: 2012-10-25 06:47 pm (UTC)Ugh. Not the outcome I was hoping for! I guess they don't understand their own badly worded rules, huh?
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