What is the point of Twissy?

According to the BBC News website, the winning ticket e-mails will be posted tonight at 23:00 GMT (00:00 BST). So keep your eyes peeled! :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta…

Some more details, as per the updated FAQ on the Ahmet Ertegun site:

If you accidentally registered twice, don't worry; only your duplicate application will be deleted and not both, as initially feared.

If you're successful and require disabled access, details will be supplied to you in the e-mail.

If you are successful, you'll have 72 hours in which to pay for your tickets.

Tickets that are not purchased within 72 hours will go into a second ballot, with names chosen from the remaining people on the list.


Finally: Wishing all of you the very, very best of luck tonight, and thank you for joining this community! It's been a fairly stressful couple of weeks for everyone and with a bit of luck, at least a handful of people in the vast online Zep fandom may have something to celebrate soon.

All the best.

RIP John Henry Bonham, 1948-1980




You will never be forgotten.

I've put together a community for the upcoming Zeppelin gig at the 02 Arena. If you'd like to join - and I'd love it if you did - clicky-clicky here:

zeppelin_02

Thanks!

The rumoured one-off Led Zeppelin reunion seems to be going ahead. They're supposed to be playing at the 02 Arena this November (not sure about the date).

I don't think this is a fluke either.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/musi…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma…

According to the Premier Talent ticket agency, it's going to be officially announced soon. *chews nails down to the quick*

So we know about the upheavals on LJ. I was on a Strikethrough community yesterday and a poster observed that there's a distinct "first they came for the chan writers, but I thought chan was icky so I did nothing" air about the whole thing. That's what I'm concerned about, too. It almost seems as if the powers-that-be are starting at the top, with the squickiest kinks and genres, and working their way down a list.

My two main fandoms - Led Zeppelin and From Eroica With Love - are fairly small and obscure compared with, say, HP, most manga/anime fandoms or even contemporary band slash, so it may be possible to fly under the radar for a while. That said, it's becoming clearer and clearer that slashers - any adult fanficcers, in fact - don't really figure in LJ's Grand Scheme of Things, whatever that scheme may be. In the future, we can expect to be tolerated at best.

There are alternatives - GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal - and I currently have mirror accounts at both of them. They're okay, but not ideal - neither sparks that absolute feeling of rightness that LJ had in the early days, the themes aren't the best and there's already talk of GJ deleting journals. I don't think they're fen-run, either, which is always a risk.

So fen-run and fen-welcoming is the way to go. Journalfen is, but the proximity to Fandom Wank might unsettle some people, and you need codes to join.

By chance, I found out about a new, planned fen-run journal tool called www.scribblit.com which sounds great and looks pretty good. It's not up and running yet so I'm trying not to get too excited, but it does seem as if the creator has fandom and fen's best interests at heart. S/he's already taking community reservations, so if you know any comm mods, please pass on the news.

I got this nifty icon (created by twocorpses)from the Scribblit community. You can too!

Here's the link:

www.livejournal.com/community/scribblit

http://scribblit.livejournal.com

Person whose name begins with 'N' - GAHILOVEYOUSOMUCH


Longish Potterpost coming tomorrow, I hope.

oh noes there's gonna be a wankapocalypse when I wake up (hee, good)

At least it'll be more entertaining than the book.

*back to aim convo with mprice*

Okay, I caved. *glares at esda* :P

I found a link to a list of spoilers. And NO-ONE appears to be contradicting them, which I assume must mean they're from a genuine leaked copy.

And if even HALF that stuff is true, then ... shit.

Shitshit, and thrice SHIT.

The half of the world that doesn't know yet is gonna EXPLODE tomorrow.

HP fandom, it was nice knowing you. (Well, sometimes, anyway.)

*sulkiness*

Tonight I'm going to a party at my local branch of Borders, to celebrate the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, before it goes on sale at midnight. Hopefully there'll be enough wine and nibbles to keep the grown-ups happy but if not, I've got a fantastic Italian rose wine - Brachatti d'Acqui-Alasia - waiting for me when I get back.

I've deliberately gone out of my way to avoid all the HP messageboards in the run up to the release, not because I think anyone's going to post spoilers (that book will STAY in the deep-freeze until it's ready to come out, mark my words) but because the feeling of things coming to an end always makes me sad (unless said thing is, of course, unpleasant) and the messageboards and LJs and soforth will be soaked in this feeling right now.

So I'm not going to speculate on what I think is going to happen. Yes, I thought Half Blood Prince jumped the shark, but I'll be queuing up at midnight along with half of the rest of the world, to buy a book that will ultimately end up pleasing me on some level, even if that means griping at the character assasinations, seething at the ships or moaning at the message/plot/ending whatever.

So cheers, Harry Potter. If you survive, that is. I think you will, but if you do, do us a favour and dump Ginny-Sue for Luna. Ta.

To my fellow Eroica fen in the UK, US and everywhere else that celebrates on the 25th - have a very Merry Christmas! And for those who don't celebrate Christmas - have a happy and peaceful holiday season!

Love Riothouse xx