annathecrow @annathecrow@fandom.ink

Apparently TikTok made sea shanties a thing now. Awesome! Because I'm a sea shanty nerd, I decided to make an "explainer". If you're new to sea shanties, or just want some recs, follow the thread!

#seashanty #seashanties #wellerman

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AAAAHHH I LOVE THIS:

https://everynoise.com/

(a "tag cloud" of every??? music genre with a sample that plays when clicked, and artist info in the tooltip)

I had a week off and I used some of that time to finish a #bookbinding project started and abandoned 2 years ago.

A6 format, blank, basic printer paper, hand-sewn, case-bound, the covers are book cloth and a reused paper bag I got at a confectionery shop in Berlin.

Guess who just created a npm.js account for the express purpose of trying to publish a package named "ř"!

...nope, it doesn't work.

First defense is `npm init`, which won't accept the name with the complaint that "name can only contain URL-friendly characters" (hey, that's not right! Unicode in URLs is valid now!)

Even if you modify `package.json` manually, `npm init` fails with `npm ERR! Invalid name: "ř"`.

...and now you know!

losely related: last night I dreamed that a colleague (Czech, most likely doesn't know Cyrillic at all) used the letter "и" ("i") in the name of a new npm package his team released, and I angrily explained to him why that is a terrible idea "even though unicode allows it".

Which... it doesn't? I THINK??? It's not in the docs and oooh, I broke npm when I searched for it: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%D0%B8

Thinks my brain comes up with, ffs.

Every time I try reading hand-written Cyrillic cursive I feel like someone took an egg beater to my brain. It LOOKS like I should be able to read it, but it makes no sense to me.

I can read print Cyrillic, and I can decipher printed italics when I try hard enough, but written cursive? Ohhhhh no. Nope. No can do.

I have a huge respect for anyone who had to learn English from a language with a different writing system. Talk about playing on hard-mode...

ahhhh the pain of a missed joke potential!

Someone did a funny video edit about "if Star Wars was Shakespeare", and while it's sort of funny with the "hath"s and the wordiness IT'S NOT IN IAMBIC PENTAMETER! That could have been so much funnier! Even if it was bad... heck, ESPECIALLY if it was bad!

Argh! I can't write poetry but I'm TEMPTED.

guess who has two hands and just spent half a day writing a ficlet that will never see the light of day, because it's set AFTER THE SEQUEL TO HER UNFINISHED FIC????

*raises her hand tiredly*

(It's just so iddy, tho. Couldn't help myself.)

I will read ALL THE BOOKS!

(15 minutes each, less if it's boring and up to 30 if I'm vibing. Or more. Who knows!)

#draftshaming

I usually treat TikTok as a faraway land from whence interesting goods come but I never plan to visit, but today I actually opened the site for real to watch all bdylanhollis' series of cooking videos, and... A+ CHOICE OMG, I laughed as a hyena the whole time.

(https://www.tiktok.com/@bdylanhollis if you want to partake)

I'm gonna miss the big stuck boat. So simple, so dumb, so funny. Nobody got hurt. We didn't care if it was someone's fault, or whose. Had a straightforward solution. Truly, the exact opposite of the current global situation.

Bye bye, Ever Given. You made my life brighter for a week.

Update: instead of doing LITERALLY ANYTHING on that todo list, I have written another essay.

"I Don't Love It, And I Hate That" -- https://archiveofourown.org/works/30301953

Me: I have so much to do today! Long list! Gotta hustle!

Also me: *spends four hours writing a personal essay about a TV show*

"On Not Loving the Thing: Consuming Media You Do Not Enjoy"
-- https://archiveofourown.org/works/30298500

(heck yes I'm promoting myself, gotta try for some of that sweet sweet social validation to pay for those four hours...)