29 tweets for 2012-4-2

[azurelunatic]

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Monday, 0204: dear Google+: I'm not sure what you interpreted as a command to play audio ads at me, but that noise emanated from your tab. #fuckyou
• Monday, 0234: I suspect that troll movie titles are intended to make me laugh upon recognition, but the coughing is perhaps overkill.
• Monday, 0323: @tiferet93 What would you say if I wound up with the ao3 alias "azureTelepath"? :-P
• Monday, 0333: @trixieleitz ooo, nice. Practically speaking, it would be handy to hook text message notifications into the phone's buzzer...
• Monday, 0335: Nice quiet day. Did get to call BFF; wished him a happy April Fool's Day, then told him it was the 32nd of March. ;)
• Monday, 0949: @backthatelfup IT IS. Thank goodness for modern medicine, esp. psychiatry.
• Monday, 1002: RT @starkcissistic: Bruce Wayne and I were laughing how we seem to be the only entrepreneurs throughout the USA who pay taxes.
• Monday, 1006: I love living in the future. I just did a task that used to require office from bed.
• Monday, 1009: @mamajoan I saw a commercial about Star Wars Kinect while watching MythBusters last night. So if it's a hoax, it's well-funded.
• Monday, 1012: RT @fj: Memories triggered by GirlsAroundMe: after Saddam, militias used http://www.gay.com/ to find Iraqi homosexuals and torture them ...
• Monday, 1012: RT @fj: I could modify GirlsAroundMe to make it a Fag Hunting tool in minutes, even if orientation is not disclosed on profile.
• Monday, 1012: RT @fj: (Just infer Friends / Likes). & Zuckerberg doesn't get why some don't just hide info, but have to lie. (Not saying Str8 -> M ...
• Monday, 1015: @kittystryker I have not had penetrative sex with another person since 2004; I think my last shared pleasure was '08.
• Monday, 1030: I am glad I am not the only one who was made queasy by the NYT piece about parents self-publishing kids' work. http://maureenjohnsonbooks.tumblr.com/post/20351564879/so-i-read-a-piece-in-the-new-york-times
• Monday, 1032: @kitchenmage Oh, good, my laptop needed that coffee...
• Monday, 1058: http://i.imgur.com/vPGd3.png *actual, out-loud cackling of more than 3 seconds* #xkcd #alaskan
• Monday, 1133: RT@oakandsage I agree that self-publishing isn't "being published" but not that kids' poetry isn't publishable. Kids' poetry contests exist.
• Monday, 1134: @jai_dit @oakandsage I think a large part of it is that people know what to do with school-published kids' poetry collections etc.
• Monday, 1137: @jai_dit @oakandsage @maureenjohnson Kids' poetry contests are similarly Known - decent for a kid, but no one expects Shakespeare.
• Monday, 1138: @loopylisa93 *nod* As I was saying over there, it's a thing that people know what is and what to do about: mild praise, encourage growth.
• Monday, 1141: @loopylisa93 Basically if local news didn't go "ooo precocious author" and do a story spun like that, it would likely be a non-event.
• Monday, 1142: @loopylisa93 @oakandsage Poetry contest books involve some of the expense of self-publishing, with some of the selectiveness of publishing.
• Monday, 1236: I think as online self-publishing (ebook, POD) becomes more of a thing, news will start learning how to treat stories about kids doing that.
• Monday, 1933: My heart is full of neither love nor forgiveness right now. - At 11th Hour, Georgia Passes “Women as Livestock” Bill http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/03/31/at-11th-hour-georgia-passes-women-as-livestock-bill/
• Monday, 2022: RT @amalnahurriyeh: hey @azurelunatic : would you like to see a video of BEES BEING POURED?!?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AKl1gL8_7c&feature=youtu.be
• Monday, 2147: If my co-workers are not allowed to use a siege engine to get the attention of Facebook, I am probably not allowed either. *sigh*
• Monday, 2154: @druidsfire Alas! If only! *pines dramatically*
• Monday, 2254: @flyingthesky @spibsy http://t.co/Q51AsALl #azzislikereili #wellsortof #atleastthelinkspart
• Monday, 2315: @flyingthesky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bw2X1oq_js&feature=relmfu

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Comments

[krait]

Monday, 0234: I suspect that troll movie titles are intended to make me laugh upon recognition, but the coughing is perhaps overkill.

Can I ask what the title was?

I'm so bad at human movies that I rarely recognise their Troll analogues, so all my humour comes from the sheer length of the titles and how much fun it is to see two hour of plot crammed into a sentence. :D

What would you say if I wound up with the ao3 alias "azureTelepath"?

You're the first person I've seen admit they've thought about what their trolling handle would be; I admit to great relief because I have spent hours working on what mine might be! *relieved* I should have known better than to doubt, Homestuck fandom; I'm sorry.

[azurelunatic]

In Which Two Trolls, An Indigo And A Maroon, Are Fated To Meet And Be Culled Together On A Starship Doomed To Strike An Asteroid On Its Maiden Voyage (etc). A flushed cinematic masterpiece with hints of a flip to moirallegiance at the end. Heartbreaking and inspirational. His all-time favorite.

Two Lowly Secretacticians In A Flushed Relationship Reveal Their True Identities As Undercover Laughsassins When Each Is Hired To Cull The Other, Featuring A Flip From Red To Black Romance, Extreme Hive Demolition And Several Shootouts. One of the funniest movies in the entire romantic comedy genre.

I am pretty sure that is Titanic and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, though I have not seen the latter. I would have shared beverage with screen had I been drinking.


The next time you're reading Homestuck fic on AO3, take a look at the names in the Kudos section. There will probably be several with a weird two-word-ish name, possibly with a lowercase first word. Not all of them will start with TAGC, but many are very clearly trolling handles.

[krait]

A-ha, yes, that does sound like Titanic (I'm embarrassed I didn't get it right away!) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (which I have not seen, either)!

I now wish for greater film savvy so that I could work troll titles into fics. :D

take a look at the names in the Kudos section

Aha. I tend to skim the Kudos names because there are just so many, but you're right, I bet they're full of troll handles. :D Now I just need to figure out what mine would be!