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That's a nice song, too, all about a (potentially metaphorical?) tune that every generation sings. It's not the one I was thinking of (I'll link it in a moment), but considering the lyric translates to "we sing it, and it sounds so beautiful"... very nice association. I'm glad to have it.

The one I was thinking of is called "Sprayz ich mir", a title which I never remember. This is an old (80s) live recording of the Klezmatics; I've heard recordings I liked a tiny bit better, but, well, this has the lyrics in both Yiddish transliteration and a German translation in the description. (And it's not a bad recording; I just prefer a slightly more dynamic version.) Anyway, here it is: https://youtu.be/arXl62cl720

And ooh, infinite pizza! That sounds great. Does it ever switch toppings, or does it stick with what's on it?

~Z

PS: it's going to take me a couple of tries too--I hesitated a moment before typing the right name at the top, and just now I tried to sign off as ~DF. I think the change is a good one, though. I feel more comfortable, like it suits me better now than DawnFire does. I think I came up with the name at thirteen or so--the first email address I had that uses it has its oldest bit of communication time-stamped to early January 2008. On the other hand, I could have been using it earlier...I certainly may have been using Brightshadow earlier, because I know I used that first. So it's entirely possible my friend and I came up with those names when I was as young as 12 (she's a few years younger, which has always been easy to forget--she's this wonderful person with very similar reading tastes to me and this sort of vaguely ageless quality, I always felt. I mean, I knew she was younger than I was, but I never really felt it until we were in different levels of schooling. And even then, it was mainly just a shock to the system--'good heavens, she's not in high school yet!' or 'yeah, so this is what university is like...' Anyway. She's great--always has been, likely always will be--and I need to stop rambling and wake up a little more. זינגן∆ (=∆Zingen. I amuse myself :D)

The two are muttering between themselves and until one scowls, curses and then steps forward. "Greetings He Who Speaks Across Doors. I am Udouk Goldtank and this is my half-brother Gikur Ironfeet, I must ask are you under any sort of curse?"

Totally. I'm very much an Asian guy. I just disappeared because of a tech accident, which made me get reborn as a Jewish baby girl... :P

The second N is currently catching *me* out, actually, but without it the phrase is complete nonsense. Or, well, actually Zingemir is basically misspelled German mashed together with Yiddish that doesn't fit with it--singen in German is to sing, ich singe ought to be "I sing" unless the verb is a very unlikely irregular, and then we get mir, which is the Yiddish equivalent of wir, meaning 'we'... Basically, that would be a mess. I'm gonna keep that N.

I'll accept Zing or Zingen or Zingemir or Dawn (from people who were already calling me Dawn). Maybe even Z. I'm sure there are other things. I would, however, like to suggest that whenever I make an okay joke someone replies with "Zing!" :P

~Z

PS: what are you talking about, I totally have mercy. You need it when you have a casual army of polar bears and don't want people thinking you're a tyrant.

Seriously, that N in the middle is going to catch me out every time.

How about Zigzag?

Or if you insist on correct spelling: Zing the Merciless!

...

... wait.

OMUGUH. Are you actually Xing, vanished founder of FFN?! I bet you are.

hS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFaWwyZ5nm0


Thank you, though, 'cause that's a good song!

Also, nice change. Probably will take me a couple of tries, but now... I'm gonna treat you as a reborn-bie! Have a slice of Infinite Pizza

I know I don't post actual stories very frequently, but some RP like I've seen in the olden days on LJ would be super cool.

—doctorlit

(Because, seriously, that'd just be messy. Or maybe it wouldn't. No, it probably would. I'll leave it for now, anyway.)

So! Hi. You know me (or may have seen me around) as DawnFire. As of...about ten days from now, I'll have been a Boarder for four (4!) years. And I've been using this screen name since I was fourteen (though I came up with the name earlier) and, well, I've been feeling for maybe a year on and off that it no longer suits me. And now... I've finally come up with an alternative. *evil laughter*

...okay, scratch the evil laughter. It's just making me think that my fourteen-year-old self would've actually written "mwahahahahaha!!" or something. (I was Dark Side. We had brownies. It was a thing. Some of you probably remember it, actually. Any Light Siders here? Chocolate chip cookies? Share your stories! After all, this post is turning into a trip down memory lane before continuing forward.)

The names:

DawnFire comes from the Warriors series (the one about cats) by Erin Hunter (a pen name for three women in combination, unless there are more or fewer of them now. The series is still ongoing, but I stopped reading it a while ago). One day, my friend and I--she was also into the series--made up two names: Brightshadow and Dawnfire. She was actually Dawnfire. In the end, I've used both names online, with Fire capitalized because I liked the way it looked and because it stands out. Turns out there are a lot of Dawnfires out there.

Zingenmir brings the list of Yiddish Boarder names up to two, if I'm not mistaken (the other is Neshomeh). It literally means 'we sing', or 'we are singing'; I've been doing a lot of singing these past few years, especially in Yiddish (with which I've also been otherwise involved since starting university). It has the added bonus of reminding me of a song I like, which has a similar lyric in the chorus. It's pronounced "ZING-gehn-meer", with a hard G on the 'gehn.'

If anyone wants to keep nicknaming me "Dawn", I'm fine with that. I associate good things with that nickname. Officially, though, I'm now Zingenmir (Zing? Uh...yeah, I've got nothing else, except for a rough translation into Sindarin that takes 'mir' to mean 'jewel' rather than 'we'). I'll probably try out different signatures until I find something I like.

Updating the Wiki will happen...soon. I hope. We'll see. I've already set up a Dreamwidth journal under this name (zingenmir.dreamwidth.org), and ported everything from my dawnfire360 LiveJournal to there; I'm in the process of finally setting up a separate journal for Deleterius archiving (it's up under deleterius.dreamwidth.org, but the posts are waiting in the queue and then I have to delete the non-Deleterius stuff...give it another day or two before it looks right). If you have anything you've saved from Deleterius that you'd like archived, let me know. If you have no clue what Deleterius even is/was, there's an article on the Wiki you can check out! :)

And on that note...Happy 2017! Let's all have a really great year.

~Zingenmir

Also, this is great. Yay archiving!

Speaking of which, I'm going to try making a separate journal for the Deleterius stuff. I'd been thinking about it before, and now seems like a good time. I'm just wondering whether I'd need to do another import or if I can move them directly from my personal Dreamwidth journal... It might be less frustrating to just copy and paste, if it comes down to that.

I'm also very open to getting some help with putting up the material I was sent. It's been slow going, since, uh, full-time student who was doing two degrees until this summer. If anyone's interested in helping let me know; it'll probably be another few years until everything's even close to being up, otherwise.

~DF

Increased traffic and so on.

An interesting thing to do is to search 'PPC' under 'interest'. There are... I'm going to estimate about eight results, from what I remember. No clue how many of them are currently in use--I didn't look too closely at the names except to notice that Kippur is the first result and Lily Winterwood is on there--but it's cool to be reminded that there are other Boarders on there already.

And why yes, yes you do rather need a Dreamwidth account to import content to :) It tends to help.

~DF

I already have a couple of character journals over there, from when July tried to get us RPing at PPCHQ. I'd like to use them more; it's just real low on the priorities list with so few people over there to notice if I do. {= ) And, as noted below, I'm moving my own journal, just cuz.

~Neshomeh

And yeah, it's pretty easy—once you realize you first have to create a Dreamwidth account to import content to. That took me a few minutes of futzing around.

The queue stands at 5 comments, 254 entries.

I imagine many people are going to be doing this in the near future.

~Neshomeh

Nathonea passed the community over to her when she left (hence the whole El-Jheycom Underground thing over Plortwards). We'll look into it.

Speaking of which... are there enough people with an interest in LJ+Dreamwidth that we could actually revitalise the community? At least as a list of people's journals. On Dreamwidth, I'm assuming, though DW makes it easy to cross-post back to LJ. Anyone?

hS

...that all you need is love the username and password. I don't have a comm to try moving, but the FAQ said it works the same way as moving a journal. If hS has the password, it should be doable. Might take a bit of time for everything to transfer once you've requested it--my posts aren't there yet and it's been maybe eight hours or so--but it does move pretty much everything, and you don't have to babysit it or do more than choose what you want imported and click okay at the beginning. It also shows you the queue; for reference, I'm moving 20 posts and 7 comments, and when I requested it the queue was at 118 posts and 2 comments. Everything else was at 0, and so my tags and so on transferred in about two seconds. It's fast once it gets to you.

Anyway. It's easy, and sounds worth it, as well as doable, if hS has the password.

~DF

I know hS is a moderator... I wonder if that's a high enough access level. It would be nice to know all that data is somewhere safe and also still useable, if we wanted to use it.

~Neshomeh

(Also, fellow Das Sporking reader! Hi!)

Since a nice chunk of my PPC stuff, as well as what's up of the Deleterius material I'd been archiving, is on LJ because I was feeling nostalgic when I chose my posting method 4-ish years ago, I'm now in the process of moving to Dreamwidth. Their most recent news post actually addresses the LJ thing, the site seems pretty easy to use so far, and I read through their mission statement, etc and Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and while I could certainly be missing something, all of it places them in a pretty good light. Also? It uses very similar code to LJ and apparently has no ads or something like that. I know some people here have been using it for a lot longer than an hour or two, so I'll leave it to them to provide more about their experience if they want to.

The move over, I can tell you, is extremely easy, because you can import pretty much everything. Including comments, tags, and profile data. The only downside is that your request gets placed in a queue, so moving some things (entries and the attached comments for me) can take hours or, apparently, up to a day. I haven't checked this morning whether it's done yet, but I can say that everything else I imported came over very smoothly. So that, and the somewhat cleaner UI, are already points in Dreamwidth's favor.

Anyway. That's my two cents: it looks good, and moving over from LJ (oh, you can also move a community if you want to, and it works the same way) is pretty easy, if potentially time consuming. I'll be updating my links once I've got everything set up.

~DF

On account of this Board not having posts falling off the end yet—and I'm pretty sure we have a while to go before that starts? >_>

—doctorlit has to prioritize somehow

She was far better than your boring living goats.

And I won't have anyone dissing my fathers. Leggy and Gwaihir love me!

hS

He commanded Shaban to go stand in the room the party had started in and scream if he was being brutally murdered. Again. And fight back, of course. He'd have to go stitch him back up later, but for now, that should do. He stepped into the room, and said, "We are indeed, but if straits are this dire, perhaps we could make a detour in and aid you in escaping from this place." Davug followed and stood behind him, but was ready to thrust him out of danger and defend him if he was given any reason to.

There's a really easy way that anyone can help. If you have a few minutes, take a look at the Complete List of PPC Fiction and scan over a section for LiveJournal links. You can also look here (I think, assuming anyone can use the external links search) for more obscure links. Then go to Archive.is and check to see whether its PPC content is saved (lower text bar). If so, great! If not, enter a post's URL in the upper text bar to back it up.

When checking for saved posts, make sure to put an asterisk at the end of the URL (e.g. http://firebird766.livejournal.com* ) to make sure the archive looks for all URLs starting with that prefix, and not that specific URL only. Otherwise you'll miss things.

A note: It's probably a good idea to only back up PPC stuff. People put personal stuff on their journals, too, and that's no business of ours. Be considerate, and don't just blanket-save the whole journal, even if it means putting in a bit more time looking for PPC tags and whatnot.

A lot of this has actually been done already, which is awesome, but it doesn't hurt to check again. {= )

The PPC Archivists' Society thanks you for your contribution!

~Neshomeh

I just went to the Das Sporking site and this was posted -



http://das-sporking.livejournal.com/1334667.html

Hope that you have a fun time here .