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Holy shit, Hannah Montana has the gift of prophecy!

banesidhe replied to your photo “Some of the other Lego Advent Calendar prizes – the train was day one,...”

Lol omg Sam you spoiled me for today’s!! ( so far the train and house are my favorites)

Aw no, sorry about that! Well, you still get the pleasure of building it at least. I will try to post in the evening when I post them from now on. 

The train and the house are totally the best so far. I like the fireplace but it was tough to get the flames to stay. 

ameliahcrowley replied to your photo “Some of the other Lego Advent Calendar prizes – the train was day one,...”

I think you got the best calendar: we have the Star Wars one and the figures are pretty good, but the models require a little squinting (and a good knowledge of cartoons I do not watch) to be recognisable.

I was wondering if I wouldn’t have liked another calendar better because this one seemed a little cheesy, but honestly it’s been SO MUCH FUN so far, and I definitely wouldn’t have understood the Star Wars one as well. I’m really enjoying building these little miniatures and admiring the thought that went into them. It must be a huge challenge to come up with something so evocative using the least possible bricks. 

turtledisc replied to your photo “Some of the other Lego Advent Calendar prizes – the train was day one,...”

Most Lego sets have an extra couple of pieces - it's usually the smaller pieces that they think most people will lose at some point

keevacaereni replied to your photo “Some of the other Lego Advent Calendar prizes – the train was day one,...”

They actually have extra pieces because the machines in the warehouse sort them by weight and they round up, essentially.

Looking through this amazing list of items...

Me: Aha! So you *do* want Derren Brown's mysterious travelling trunk!

My lovely wife: I only said "no taxidermy", I didn't say "no strange items from the magician's house"!

Pillowfort feels to me a little like Tumblr and Facebook had a baby that was the best part of both of them -- it takes a little figuring out to navigate but once you do it’s pretty easy to use. It’s an essentially Tumblr interface, just with added bells and whistles in some places. 

There are some downsides -- it doesn’t currently have an app, though it’s relatively mobile-friendly. It’s not as flexible in terms of how you can design a post and what you can upload as Tumblr is, but that’ll change with time and with more users. Basically it’s like...training-wheels tumblr. It’s a pretty good site and I think it will only get better. 

It does have threaded comments, which is awesome for people who miss those from the LJ days, but there are some downsides to that too. So far, what I’ve seen is that way more people choose to make a comment and not reblog. This has two problems: 

1. If you’re commenting rather than reblogging then the post isn’t going to gain traction in the same way it otherwise might and fewer people will see it. Posts don’t circulate nearly as widely, at least in my experience, so if you’re not going to one specific person’s blog you may never see what they’re posting, even if it’s shit you want to see. There are advantages to the ability of a post to go viral. Mind you, this may be the product of a lot of early PF adopters being huge fans of threaded comments from the LJ days and so more inclined not to reblog, and with a younger/more tumblr-trained crowd incoming that could change. But there is a strong social pressure, if you CAN comment and get a response you’ll actually see, to comment rather than reblog and “spam” other peoples’ dashes. 

2. With threaded comments, a lot of the discussion gets siloed off into little threads in the post, rather than being visible to everyone. That CAN be a good thing, but traditionally it has also made dogpiling much easier, because you don’t have to be an asshole to someone on your OWN blog -- you can be an asshole in comments where only other people, also coming to the thread to be assholes, can see you. There’s a reason fandom_wank wasn’t a thing anymore once fandom mostly moved to tumblr -- it’s because there’s no cohesive way to document a wank on tumblr, whereas with threaded comments it’s alllllll laid out. 

pansy: do you keep your blog a secret to people you know personally?

nnnnnnnot really? like. a) a lot of people i follow on here are people i know/have met in real life, and b) lot of people in my real life know i have a blog, and if they want my writing i usually link them to my ao3 or my short fiction side blog, just because it’s a little more professional, but i don’t really keep this one a secret. i’m of the mindset that if you want to know, just ask.

rose: which of your works is your favorite? why?

uuuuuuggggghhhhhh of course you give me the sophie’s choice question :P

but! i am still inordinately fond of a lot of my old tgwtg fics (sometimes, the line walks you, living in twilight, and all the joe/stacey stuff in particular), and even if if kills me, the 30,000 word percy weasley-post-deathly hallows epic that took me literally five years to write, and i am always going to be very, very proud of somebody loves you, rosie schulman, because that was honestly one of the best, truest things i’ve ever written, and i love it.

anemone: how old were you when you first started writing?

I have a 3rd cousin Sarah, who is a year older than me, that I have a… I don’t even want to call it a “relationship,” because at this point we don’t know each other well enough to even qualify it as a “relationship,” but whatever acquaintancehood we do have is weird and tenuous, at best.

She and I got lumped together a lot because she was the only girl in our family who was close to my age, and we had sleepovers at her house, which meant I always came home smelling like cigarette smoke because her mom, aunt, and grandmother (who all lived in the same house) smoked like it was going out of style. We parted ways I think around 10, and when she went off to middle/high school she got kind of weird - like, weirder than our family usually was. She and another cousin used to make fun of me for not knowing stuff, usually what weird sexual terms meant, and then she went into the army and I didn’t see her for a long time. When I saw her again at my grandmother’s funeral, the first thing she said to me, after literally almost a decade of not speaking, was “My wife is a bitch and she’s cheating on me,” and when she invited herself to the clearing out of my grandmother’s house the next day, she tried to bring a friend, and then spent the whole time we were there grilling another cousin on all the best places she could score good weed while she was out in our part of town.

She and her wife - who have made up, I guess? IDK, the whole thing was bananas - have also adopted their foster son, who is only 8 years younger than Sarah. This foster son has a kid. She is a grandma at 29, and posts about in on Facebook all the time. I have blocked her on Facebook, thank God.