Two affectionate cats and Chief Inspector Japp standing up on his tiptoes

I haven't been to Knypplinge since Tuesday, but Google's AI has still been hard at work all week automatically generating animations from my pictures of the pets:



I particularly enjoy how jerky and frenetic and weird the kitties' makeout session has become here, when in reality it's hard to imagine anything more languid than a pair of cats making out in a sunbeam.

We tried to buy a dresser from a lady on the Finnish equivalent of Craigslist earlier this week but forgot that dressers become lighter when you remove the drawers and prematurely concluded we couldn't lift it. Possibly the stress was getting to us. Suspended in limbo waiting less than a month for your lease to run out when you don't have a space you can move your shit into yet is not the most conducive place to be for general keeping-it-togetherness, however. There's not much more packing or moving that we can really do at this point either, so. Knitting... baking? (I already packed the electric mixer.)

Maybe we'll just continue to go with pet photos.

Signal Boost: Re: Good Omens Fandom Tag Decision (AO3)

fail_fandomanon posted: FFA DW Post 1115

Nope, I think the problem is that if they exclude the book tag, it will also now filter out every show fic tagged with "All media types", because the all media tag is synned to the book tag.

And as stated elsewhere, a lot of people seem to be assuming that the "Good Omens - NG & TP" tag is a top-level tag.

There are 3633 Works in Good Omens (TV)
2564 are also tagged with Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett because no one actually seems to know that said tag is the book tag.

So basically you end up filtering out 70% of the fic.

Thanks to aethel pointing it out in a comment thread on Ithiliana's meta roundup post, this morning I learned that the fandom tag I'd been using to browse Good Omens which I thought was the parent tag to include both book and tv fandoms, "Good Omens - All Media Types", actually... isn't. The parent tag, that is.

There isn't a parent tag currently that includes both but instead "All Media Types" has been made into simply a synonym of the "Good Omens - Gaiman & Pratchett" tag (nominally the book tag, but it doesn't have the word 'book' in it so is being used freely by new fans too), so anybody who has only tagged their fandom as "Good Omens (TV)" wouldn't show up there, and furthermore if you ticked 'exclude crossovers' (as I usually do to eliminate the all-too-common Supernatural crossovers), it will filter out everything that's got both the show tag and the Gaiman & Pratchett/All Media Types tag.

For me this means I need to include crossovers in my search, and though there isn't a meta tag, I usually browse by pairing anyway, and the pairing tags will still include all the fandom tags.

2 anecdotes about obvious things we failed to think of

waxjism wrote in the post Our house, in which we are still not living, that "We're killing it on Finnish Craigslist". (Also about said obvious things we forgot.)

(We are having good experiences in general on the Finnish equivalent of Craigslist too, as well as forgetting obvious facts. And as a side benefit, whenever the Finnish Craigslist equivalent comes up I get Weird Al's Craigslist playing in my head.)

The things we failed to think of were the previously mentioned fact that the drawers of a dresser can be removed for transport and also that putting the shower upstairs with the bedrooms, and the washing machine downstairs with the public spaces, would make more sense than the other way around. She totally made it into anecdata, though.

We were there today and only ripped off a little bit of wallpaper - they had taken down 3/5 downstairs radiators that we're gonna need to paper and paint behind, but for the most part, our continued progress towards being able to live in the rooms in question is simply dependent on the contractors in charge of plumbing and building.