Grey Bard's Journal

9:38PM - Marvel Comics 616 mini-zine, join the fun!

Anyone want to be in a zine? Like a Marvel 616 comic?

Holli is going to a zine fair - a fair for homemade zines about everything from music to feminism - and is planning to bring some DIY style zines about fannish and fanfiction topics. Traditionally, fanfiction zines are large, 8 1/2 x 11 books made as beautifully as possible, whereas these would be made using a photocopier and priced super cheap. More on this at the dreamwidth comm diyfanzines. Anyway, I decided to make one myself.

Talking to ficcers over the last year, the Avengers movie has really increased interest in Marvel comics. Maybe enough for a zine! Are you or anyone you know interested?

What am I looking for? Fic, fan art, short one or two page fan comics and assorted fannish things (fake in-universe ads and articles, fake secret diaries, texts from last issue - I mean last night... Whatever you can imagine.)  So basically, conveniently for you, something super short!
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Contributors get a free copy of the zine, the zine will be published at cost, not for profit and a DIY print it and staple it yourself version will go up online.

If you're interested, let me know! Comment, pm me or email me at fitzrose@ email.msn.com

9:41PM - Fic: "Propinquity for Wolves" (Person of Interest (TV), Companion to Wolves) Gen, Rated PG

Propinquity for Wolves (1269 words) by Grey_Bard
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Person of Interest (TV), Iskryne Series - Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Bear (Person of Interest), Harold Finch, John Reese

Summary: "Only about three packs in the world throw wolves like this. The funny thing is, those packs? They only teach them Dutch." Yes, John thinks, you deserve a better pack than this.

Crossover Fandom Note: This is a fusion crossover with A Companion to Wolves. Basically, some people bond with large psychic wolves. That's all you need to know.

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Also available on AO3 here. Written for the Psychic Wolves for Lupercalia fest.

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11:59PM - Happy New Year! Kiva Poll

All the people I know and have fun with in fandom and on the internet definitely make my life a better place, every year. So I'm giving you a gift, sort of.

I'm making a loan in your name - that is, the name of my f-list and co. - at Kiva.org. Kiva is a microfinance site that lends small but needed amounts of money to people and small businesses working to get themselves out of poverty. And you can pick what specific business you want to help! (Look, they explain it better than I can here.)

Anyway, so now through the morning of January 2nd, comment here with your vote of who you'd like me to make a loan to. (Yes, even if you're reading this and not on my friends or access list.)

Vote for a continent

- The Americas
- Africa
- The Middle East
- Asia
- Europe
- Assorted islands

and a field of business

- Agriculture
- Food
- Transport
- Retail
- Construction

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4:23PM - Choose your own adventure time!

So I accidentally ended up writing the first scene of an original fantasy short story and, er. Stalled out on where to go next.

I thought up three questions and a bunch of possible options, formatted out multiple choice style, and now I'm curious which options people would find most interesting. And where your minds go on what could happen next.

SO! Here's your chance! YOU tell me what to write and why!

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2:31AM - Public Service Announcement - Delicious now reveals your full name

You, like me, may have a fannish delicious.com account that you've stopped using very much. If so, and if you care about your anonymity, go check it.

Right now.

They're revealing everyone's full name on their account. If you were dumb enough to give them your real one (like me), you might want to change it.

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4:01PM - Dear Yuletide Author

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Okay, first off, don't panic! It's not that I'm really asking you for bizarre moresomes, it's just that there are several specific characters I would like you to pick from. Okay? Cool. I'm very okay with optional details being optional. Frankly, I'm fairly omnivorous. If you write it, I suspect I'll like it.

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The Fandoms:

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Sincerely,

Grey Bard

Hooray for post-dating! What with deadlines and, uh, possible future last-minute edits.

ETA: I've added my actual prompts and made this visible on friendslists, becase apparently that's a thing people want.


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10:23AM - State of the Grey Bard - Storm Edition

So while MoselleGreen is snug in her bed - with proper internet! I am elsewhere with my parents who I was visiting over the weekend. And yes, we lost power, but thankfully not for the ten days originally predicted.

Work is closed and without power, so there's no real need for me to stuggle back to Brooklyn right away while the subways are totally down, but internet I don't have.

(What, is this a post from a ghost? No, I just had to go out and internet forage. I may be able to get and send email from my phone at home, but that's about it.)

How are the rest of you?

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10:24PM - Supervillianous Resumes

So in my "real" life, one of the things I do for money is write resumes using ridiculous corporate-speak. (I can write them without the ludicrous corporate speak, you understand, this is just what my parent company prefers.)

Some of the adjectives and fancy footwork is so ludicrously overblown that it frankly reminds me of supervillains. Which got me thinking that supervillain resumes would be pretty funny.

So. What supervillains do you think would have hilarious resumes? And whose resumes would you enjoy reading?

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1:05PM - Want to go to New York Comic Con for free? LET ME KNOW!

Do you want to go to Comic Con? I can help you with this!

Tickets are getting hard to find for the con, but I definitely have spots for anyone who can come work this Thursday and/or Friday during the day or evening. (The floor is open until 9 p.m.) I may have a few spots open throughout the weekend for people to attend for free, as well. 

You do need to be willing to spend a few hours* staffing my employer's booth. (It's a reputable national book review magazine.) Interested? Comment, email (fitzrose @ email.msn.com) or PM ASAP!

*A few hours each day you attend. I can't give you a pass for a day you don't work.

11:45PM - Free to good home - iHome Ipod speaker / radio

Does anyone want an older iHome ipod speaker/radio/clock? As a set of ipod speakers, it works beautifully. However, the alarm function is broken, the radio tends to be a bit staticy, and it can play but can't charge the newer models of ipod.

If any of you are interested you can have it for free if I see you in person, and for the price of shipping if I don't. Comment if you want it, no, I don't need to know you.

Posted because my roommate mosellegreen just gave me a very nice clock radio with a functioning alarm that she dug out of storage, and it's ridiculous to waste the old one. You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( comments)

11:47AM - THOR 2 news I actually give a damn about

You guys, you guys, we're getting more Darcy!

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12:13AM - Hawkeye dialogue analysis, transcript and audio file for The Avengers (2012)

Collected here are Clint 's most important lines of dialogue from the movie, as an aid to writers who want to write him. At less than 10% of the runtime of the movie, this counts as fair use for educational purposes. Also included as a bonus at the end of the transcript and dialogue file are Clint's few lines from Thor, since they are both short and extremely important to a certain sector of Avengers fandom.

I had thought I was through with creating and analyzing dialogue files and transcripts, but I was beta-reading a Clint fic, and saw the need.

Analysis: 

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In fact, he has an easy to miss but definite tendency toward phrasing things for subtle dramatic effect which recurs again and again. Often this is punctuated and emphasized by stage business with his bow and/or arrows. I find it likely that this tendency might carry over to other objects that happen to be in his hands which aren't his bow and arrows, but that is speculation.

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And now, for your own analysis and convenience...

The Transcript:

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The Audio File:

For your listening convenience, here's an audio file of his dialogue from the movies. The sound quality isn't perfect, but was cleaned up as much as possible.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4j1xto

Previous Avengers Dialogue Analysis posts:

Black Widow dialogue analysis, transcript and audio file for The Avengers (2012)

Bruce Banner/The Hulk dialogue analysis, transcript and audio file for The Avengers (2012)

Captain America dialogue analysis, transcript and audio file for Captain America (2011)

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2:33AM - Labyrinth Vid: Labyrinth... As Sung By Tom Jones (Jareth/Himself)

Vid Title: Labyrinth... As Sung By Tom Jones
Song:Do Ya Think I'm Sexy by Tom Jones
Artist: Tom Jones
Vidders: Grey Bard & Eva Kenieva
Fandom: Labyrinth
Genre: Humor
Pairings Jareth/Sarah, Jareth/Muppets, Jareth/Himself
Summary: The Jareth Song
Warnings: Jareth.

Notes: Special effects assistance and vid betaing fromjmtorres , who taught me all I know. Further viewing and advice from elspethdixon , seanchai and franzeska. I am a proud member of The House of Torres vidding group. Proudly presented for its world premiere at Club Vivid at Vividcon 2012!

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Download links: 

 http://belladonna.org/Songvids/LabyrinthAsSungByTomJoneslarge.mp4 24 mb mp4 file
and http://belladonna.org/Songvids/LabyrinthAsSungByTomJonessmall.mp4 10 mb mp4 file

Streaming video:
https://vimeo.com/47347047 Password protected on Vimeo. (The password is jareth.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-gpSW-6xs
 

Previous Vids:
For Your Entertainment - Supernatural (The Trickster Gabriel) here
Like it or Not - Primeval (Helen Cutter) here

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4:28PM - So if I were to write lesbian "original" fic short stories for the ebook market...

Which ones would you want to read?

So far, I'm very tempted to write the epic love story of AlwaysFemale! Captain America and AlwaysAnOutLesbian Black Widow who is conveniently from a different Soviet Bloc country, with slightly different hair. (I'm so stealthy. No one could possibly see through that! Well, still, good enough to keep Disney off my tail.)

Also, I really want to femslash Always A Woman Batman with uh. Somebody. Open to suggestions! (Always a woman but otherwise completely and totally with no differences 100% Batman, just with a different name.)

And, okay, Female!Doctor Not!DoctorWho fic femslashed with LesbianLeela, only not as creepy as Fourth Doctor and not as doooomed totally dooooomed as canonical Doctor/Anyone due to, I dunno, being the same species or something.

So, basically, that sort of totally self-indulgent, not written as actual fic so I can be as ridiculous and self-indulgent and ignoring anything I don't feel like as I want without shame idea.

Any of these particularly appeal? Any suggestions for other ideas you'd want to read?

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9:57PM - Fellow fan in town, who's up for a night out? Or in. Or something.

JMTorres, my fannish friend, vid mentor, and sometime co-ficcer - an enthusiastic fan of both Avengers and Star Trek - is in town from Arizona. Anyone want to show her a warm New York welcome by going out to dinner or something with us tomorrow night? (Friday, July 6) You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth ( comments)

5:12PM - Adopt DJ, The World's Friendliest Cat!

Do you live in, or somewhere vaguely near, New York City? Would you like a young, super-friendly, cat? Do you know anyone who does?

Someone abandoned an extremely friendly pet (not fera at all) stray near the apartment I share with mosellegreen. DJ (that's the cat's name, according to our neighbors) introduced herself to us immediately, demanding petting. We started feeding her, and a couple days ago took her in for her shots and to be neutered. DJ doesn't want to go back outside, she wants to be a pet again and get petted every day.

Sadly, mosellegreen already has two adorable cats, and they refuse to share.

DJ is the friendliest cat in the world - if you walk in the door, she'll throw herself at you for petting. She has all her shots and has been de-fleaed, even if she's still a little skinny. She's 100% house trained, likes other cats and is a good mouser.

DJ is black and white tuxedo cat, has gorgeous true golden eyes and is tiny, only a foot long, not counting tail. Her age is estimated at six months to a year, but most likely she's about eight months old. According to the vet who neutered her, she appears perfectly healthy if still a bit too thin.

We would love to keep her, but we already have two cats and they don't like to share. DJ needs a good, loving home. Come and meet DJ! Let us know if you're interested!

If you aren't looking for a cat, but you know people who might be, please let them know! (If ever there was a time for a signal boost, this is it.)

Here's a youtube video of DJ being adorable.

 

 

 ETA: I just wanted to let anyone who comes across this post know that we found DJ a wonderful home, all thanks to fannish networking.

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12:57AM - Captain America dialogue analysis, transcript and audio file for Captain America (2011)

Because I love Steve Rogers very, very much, because I'm a dialogue obsessive and because I found him frustratingly hard to write, last year, after Captain America: The First Avenger came out, I made an audio dialogue file of all his most important lines. I think you've guessed by now that it wasn't to be my last.

Collected here are Steve's most important lines of dialogue from Captain America: The First Avenger, as an aid to writers who want to write him. At less than 10% of the runtime of the movie, this counts as fair use for educational purposes.

This post was created with the transcription aid of yunafire

Analysis:

Because Steve Rogers, even before the serum, never hesitates to tell anyone what he thinks, it's easy to miss the fact that he doesn't actually talk very much. He always makes his opinions known and he's happy to talk with friends, but he doesn't need as many words to do it. Captain America has fewer lines in his own movie than Black Widow has in The Avengers.

Because of this, and because it shows him in a wider variety of moods and contexts than The Avengers, I've decided to transcribe and analyze his dialogue in Captain America: The First Avenger instead of The Avengers.

Steve tends to speak in short, slightly choppy phrases and sentences, and is prone to dropping unnecessary words, particularly at the beginning of sentences. (Not always, but generally.) See: "You start running, they'll never let you stop. You stand up, push back. Can't say no forever, right?" and "Got hit, couldn't shake it." Much of the humor and emotional content of his speech is carried entirely by tone of voice, which, while not wildly dramatic, is extremely expressive. His joking tone is wry when he's feeling down, sly when he isn't and usually self-deprecating either way.

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And now, for your own analysis and convenience...

The Transcript:

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The Audio File:

For your listening convenience, here's an audio file of his dialogue from the movie. The sound quality isn't perfect, but was cleaned up as much as possible. This file was created for my own use last year, shortly after the movie came out and is slightly less complete when it comes to short, extraneous dialogue.

http://anonym.to/?http://www.sendspace.com/file/8h76pe

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12:12AM - Bruce Banner/The Hulk dialogue analysis, transcript and audio file for The Avengers (2012)

Collected here are Bruce 's most important lines of dialogue from the movie, as an aid to writers who want to write him. At less than 10% of the runtime of the movie, this counts as fair use for educational purposes.

This post was created with the transcription aid of yunafire yunafire</lj>and at her request.

Analysis:

Bruce Banner frequently uses incomplete sentences, although they aren't always short. He sometimes phrases things in subtly unconventional but evocative ways.

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Banner's tone of voice often borders on the apologetic. He phrases sentences as questions. He frequently pauses and uses hesitation words such as uh, ah, and um, and often punctuates his speech with short, quiet, and sometimes self-deprecating laughs. These can be read as diffidence, hesitation or pauses for thought and careful speech. Arguably, Bruce Banner's habitual speech patterns can be read as intentionally and calculatedly non-threatening.

The other side of this is that Banner is capable of deliberate and subtle intimidation. In his first scene with Black Widow, his pauses and tone of voice become insinuating and menacing.

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And now, for your own analysis and convenience...

The Transcript:

 

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The Audio File:

For your listening convenience, here's an audio file of his English dialogue from the movie. The sound quality isn't perfect, but was cleaned up as much as possible.
http://anonym.to/?http://www.sendspace.com/file/4tpog0

 

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11:14PM - Want me to write you fic? Natasha story ideas wanted.

Some of you may have noticed that I like Black Widow a lot.

Sadly, the times when I feel like writing aren't always the times when I'm overflowing with fic ideas. So hey, if any of you have any Avengers Movieverse Black Widow fic ideas (crossovers and AUs welcome), ideally ones that aren't romance, torture or pure angst, I'd love to hear it! I can't promise anything, but there's a chance I'll write it.

Any length or complexity from two word prompts to two paragraph "here, take my story idea off of my hands" situations are a-okay.

Humor is a plus, but not required.
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6:37AM - Con.Txt goers: Fannish Comic Book Library, yea or nay?

At past Con.txts I've set up an ad hoc lending library of comics and manga of fannish interest with my own books and the kind help of other fans who contributed comics on loan or babysat the books.

If I did it again, is this something any of you would be interested in reading books from? Or should I just have a pile of Marvel books at my Avengers party?

Answer honestly, no point in going to all that trouble if no one's going to read the comics anyway. Poll answers and comments both welcome.

Poll #1845604 I am going to Con.Txt
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 1

I want to read