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Due to having recently read a_t_rain's story the other day, I looked up John Heminges' name online and noticed that the Wikipedia entry gave his birth year as 1556, which would have made him thirty-two when he married Rebecca Knell who was sixteen at the time. Startled, I looked at some of the other dates given in the article: that birthdate would also have made him thirty-one at the time he qualified as a freeman of the Grocers' Company, even though he's described as having served a nine-year apprenticeship beginning age twelve.

Checking the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online got a birth year of 1566, which made way more sense, so I went into Wikipedia editing and fixed it (it actually had 1566 already in the header code, the typo was only in a few places).

A recurring comment I’ve seen online in the past year or two is the complaint about links that ostensibly go to news articles, which then turn out to be videos. It’s one I can agree with (it takes at least twice as long to watch a video as it would have to read an article— even more so if there are ad breaks), and I’ve wondered if it’s a generational thing— I’ve long since noticed that most people under thirty would sooner text than speak on their phones (another one I agree with). At least one of those complaining about the videos thought it might be due to PR firms erroneously taking the popularity of YouTube, TikTok, etc., to mean young people want all information in the form of videos.

OTOH, “people monologuing about their opinions” does seem to be a widespread YouTube genre, and there must be somebody watching. So maybe it’s more that I tend to follow people on platforms like Tumblr or Dreamwidth, and particularly those whose posts I enjoy; and therefore I’ve been selecting for the text-adept?

Not leaving Tumblr for the moment, but starting to look for good places to back up my stuff. My main tumblr, mooncustafer, is really just me reblogging stuff that amuses me, with the occasional crosspost from here; I can do without it if necessary.

My original fiction tumblr, blessmybuttons, is mainly text posts, but in case some of the images of Rubens, etc., strike the algorithms as too racy, I’ve decided to back up the chapters on AO3 as they do have an Original Works tag. I’ve already put up the entirety of Silenus/The Amateurs there; I’ll put up That Befall Preposterously in the next day or so. I suppose I might even be able to tag the latter as a Midsummer Night’s Dream fusion.

I’m less sure what to do with ennals as it’s all photos of my artwork, therefore both image-heavy and the thing most likely to get flagged due to the presence of nude studies from my OCAD days.

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browngirl at "Hymn to the Internet"

I probably shouldn't post more than a poem a day, but when Tigerliliy sent me this one she titled the email as I have titled this post, and she wasn't wrong. ( Read more... )

Realized this morning that the thing which annoys me about Facebook isn't the layout or whatever people are currently complaining about; it's being unable to speak to anyone I haven't friended - I keep coming across discussion threads I can see because I'm friends with one of the commenters, but can't join because I'm not a friend of the original poster. I suppose this limits trolling*, but it feels rather like I'm in one of those jokes about being unable to speak to someone because we haven't been introduced.....

* to be fair, the comment I wanted to post might have qualified as trolling - the conversation had already segued from "lamenting the proliferation of Che Guevera T-shirts" to "Damn kids these days wear Misfits T-shirts without knowing who the Misfits were." Given that example, I wanted to suggest that fans of 1940s adventure serials might make the same complaint about Misfits fans wearing the image of The Crimson Ghost.

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