cleolinda: (galadriel tonner)
Okay. Secret Life. The entry coding is done, but I am still working on pictures, because honestly, some of these are hard to set up (and still look believable), and I'm having to choose just two or three of the simpler ones to pull off. However, at least one of the pictures is unspeakably epic and I think you will enjoy it.

Meanwhile, the read-through is properly updated--even the briefest mentions from the early days now have entries For Your Convenience. You will probably want to revisit Shelf to the Future and A Very Shelfy Christmas I, if nothing else, because the next entry is the second part of Christmas, because yes, I am nine months behind. This does, however, allow me to tell the story in past tense now, which may make the narrative a bit--richer?--so we will just deal with it.

However, one of the problems with the nine-month lag is that a number of y'all have only just joined us this year, and thus you have not the slightest idea what I am talking about. The Secret Life of Dolls is the saga of my doll collection, their shenanigans, and their beleaguered owner (me). It even has its own TV Tropes page. ("Guilty Pleasures: Oh god is it this. A soap opera played by dolls. Multiple primary characters are from Twilight. And this male troper CAN'T STOP READING IT.") There are also, however, a large number of Lord of the Rings dolls, an Elizabeth Swann, an Anna Valerious, a Lyra and a Serafina, two Ellowynes, and I am still probably forgetting someone. We are also now up to three new characters who will be appearing as soon as I can bring them in--one of them was supposed to debut last August, but the Compocalypse happened, etc. One of the three, however, will not be a main character, and I expect will only make a few minor appearances, or otherwise--well, let's just say it would be counter-productive to my goal of doing more with the original group of dolls.

What I would like to ask of y'all, however, is to explain in the comments, if you would, to the newer people why they would want to read it. Because I've had a number of people tell me they just skipped the doll entries on purpose, because, you know... dolls... but eventually broke down and started reading, and discovered that it wasn't what they expected. Which is why I need y'all to explain this (if you would), because it's not something you can really take my word for. I feel really conceited asking you to do this, but I sound completely delusional when I try to explain it. So.

Meanwhile:

YOU GUYS

NOEL CRUZ FIXED THE ALICE DOLL

THIS IS WHAT ALICE WAS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE, OKAY omg )


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Stiiiiiilll worrrrrking on New Moooooon. To that end, does anyone have a still/screencap of that really ridiculous, blatant fanservice moment when Jacob takes off his shirt to, like, dab at Bella's head? I mean the exact moment when he takes it off, you know the shot. It's an illustrated Fifteen Minutes, and the more on-the-nose the picture is, the better the punchline will work, and I only have shots from later in the scene. I just really don't want to Google for it, you know? The internets scare me.

(I'm wrestling with the last few problem scenes and trying to go back and polish the finished ones while I rack my brain for something interesting. It's running long--well, by "long" I mean "the standard 5000 words that most of the older ones are," but Twilight has kind of taken the place of the Harry Potter fandom in terms of OMG YOU LEFT OUT MY FAVORITE PARRRRRRT complaints. Within the stuff I felt compelled to include, I'm trying to tighten as much as possible. Also, the coding on this one has been a bitch because I tried to get fancy with a text effect. Fnarr.)


(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

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Sigh

Nov. 25th, 2009 06:41 pm
cleolinda: (lolcat)
Ran a low fever today, because apparently we are still on this. I'm spinning my wheels on New Moon between cough syrup-induced comas and not getting anything done. Outstanding. And tomorrow being Happy Eating Day, I doubt I'll get much else done then, either. God, I want my life back.

Hm. Well, I think what we need is some cute. If you are in the Homewood/Birmingham (AL) area, there is a three-month-old puppy at our vet's who is in need of a home. They have dubbed him "Snoopy," but obviously he could be renamed:







Also, here is Sam home fresh from his bath this morning:




Now to decide if I want to pass out again or not.



(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

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Halp!

Nov. 22nd, 2009 06:43 pm
cleolinda: (Default)
Okay, problem: I am trying to move music from my computer to the iPhone (and vice versa, now that I think about it), and I'm not finding a way to do so without just doing a blanket sync. The problem with this is that I have music on the phone that I don't want to get wiped and would, in fact, like to transfer to the computer, but I also have music on the computer that I'd like to move to the phone. (Moving recently purchased music was not a problem. We are talking about music that iTunes does not recognize as purchased because it wasn't purchased from them.)

The thing is, I have moved music both ways before on the other computer, so I'm confused because I'm not seeing similar options on my setup. The help section did mention something about only being able to do whatever on one computer--if that's the problem, is there a way to, I don't know, "revoke" the doingness from the other computer and tell iTunes that Lizzie is the one computer my phone needs to sync with?

(OMG WHY IS THIS SO HARD)


ETA: YAY! EphPod/CopyTrans turned out to be a snap.


(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

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Oct. 4th, 2009 09:37 am
cleolinda: (Default)
Okay, so: please recommend me some kind of free software to convert a Word document to a PDF file. I went to download.com and got the most highly-rated one, Foxit Reader, but then it turned out that you'd have to pay for the Creator part, and even if you just used the free evaluation version it would put a watermark on each page of your PDF and I'm sorry, I'm not selling that, that's just tacky. I would keep browsing the listings, but I'd rather ask y'all than go through the download-hate it-uninstall process umpteen more times. So. All I want is something to turn my heavily-footnoted Word document into a PDF file that will preserve the hypertext links and aforementioned footnoting. Gah.

What with all the formatting headaches, I'm probably not going to be ready to go by Monday. But we're still talking about the home stretch, rather than a month from now.

Also, while it's going to be as simple and unfancy as possible, because at $5 for 125 pages and 460+ notes (sample footnote), I think you can handle that, I have decided that the title page will say,


THE ANNOTATED MOVIES IN FIFTEEN MINUTES1

1wizards



I'm just easily amused at this point, I think.


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cleolinda: (twilight3)
I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I AM VEXED

YES I KNOW THAT THE LITTLEST ALICE IS FOR SALE

THIS ALICE DOES NOT PLEASE ME

WHERE IS MY ALICE IN THE SUPERCUTE GREY DRESS




I DO NOT WANT THIS HULKING NEW MOON BOW-TIED ALICE

I DON'T EVEN THINK HER ARMS FREAKIN' BEND

WHY DO YOU TORMENT ME, NECA



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