burlap, the blues, and birds

[transposable_element]

So, I missed the email that said that I have to get some burlap or brown cloth to complete the tule (yes, tule, not tulle) skirt that Filia made for "simulation day" at her school (they are simulating a day in the life of the Ohlone Indians). They have been researching the Ohlone for a couple of months. Her school has simulations every year, different ones for each grade. Last year she had Old Palo Alto (circa 1900); next year will be Colonial America; the year after that will be Goldrush.

Simulation is on Friday, so I have plenty of time, but I'm confused about exactly what I'm supposed to do to the skirt. The burlap is just to make it modest, since the Ohlone didn't cover the same parts of their bodies that we do. She's going to have a tattoo painted on her, but luckily not by me.


Meanwhile, I'm feeling pretty blue the last few days, for no obvious reason. Things that might cheer me up include:

good news
gratuitous praise
cute, whimsical, or beautiful images
silly jokes


There are a pair of Hooded Orioles nesting in the palm tree in our front yard. I see them more often in back of the house, because that's where the big windows are. I don't know if they're still building their nest and are in our back yard for nesting materials, or if they're finding food here. I haven't been able to get any pictures of them, but the male is a bright yellow-orange while the female is drabber, but still very pretty.

Comments

[rthstewart]

Meeting you in and through the Narnia fandom has been a awesome thing this year. Also, I bet you have enough stories to qualify to do remix?
http://remixers-lounge.livejournal.com/113838.html It's a really fun pan fandom exchange.

[transposable_element]

Aww. Thank you.

I was thinking about the fic exchange a few weeks ago, and I'm qualified to do remix for both Narnia and Swallows and Amazons. But I find fic exchange rules kind of baffling; maybe they're simpler than they seem. I should take another look!

[rthstewart]

The best way to figure out remix is to look first at what you've written. If, in a single fandom, e.g., Narnia, you can sign up if you've written at least five (5) stories of 500 words or more OR at least seven (7) stories of 100 words or more in a single fandom. You can use combinations of 500 and 100 word stories to reach a final total of 7 stories. So you qualify if you have 4 stories between 100 and 500 words and three stories of 500 or more words in a fandom. You then sign up, requesting that someone remix one of your stories in that fandom (except any WIPs and you can designate a "safe story). And you then offer to write in up to 5 fandoms that you feel comfortable with. Assuming you sign up in Narnia, you then have to offer to write at least in Narnia and if you are comfortable with writing in other fandoms, you identify them, too.

If you look at these two pages, it should help:
Summary of requests (fandoms offered for remix) and what people have offered to write in http://archiveofourown.org/collections/remix2015/signups/summary
Summary of sign ups http://archiveofourown.org/collections/remix2015/requests

The first, requests summary is important because it indicates where there is a mismatch between requests and offers, that's bad as it means someone has stories offered for remix in the fandom but no one to write them. Narnia is fine -- with, so far, 5 people offering stories for remix and 10 people willing to write.

If you look at my AO3 you'll see a couple of remixed stories so you can get a feel for what it's like. Hope that helps!!

[rthstewart]

And I am sorry you've been down. It's hard and sometimes it all just sucks.

[transposable_element]

Thanks. I'm doing a bit better this morning. Really, mainly what I need is to get off my ass and do some things I've been putting off!