Scribbles and Bits

Sneak: Sorry for the delay on this! The holiday and our shoulder slowed me down, but all our comics on healthymultiplicity.com should now be up and working again! And now I get to finally tell you about what I ORIGINALLY wanted to tell y'all about before I managed to accidentally delete everything...

Phosphor of hungryghosts wrote up some snazzy code that allows you to cross-reference multiple pluralstories tags at the same time! So now the Pluralstories Tag Page exists! This should make things easier for mobile users, and just anybody who doesn't want to kludge together chunks of Dreamwidth URL! Thank you, Phosphor! :D

I am truly floored that we apparently never uploaded this anywhere, but it was the winner of this month's fan poll, so we have uploaded...

Made of NOODLES!: 2016. Oh no! Sneak's arms are made of NOODLES! Very silly. 1 page. Script here.

EDIT: Solution in progress! Thanks, friends!

Sneak: Soooo, it turns out my clever solution to the plural tagging problem by batch-renaming them as "1+" means that I can no longer get the "AND" command working to cross-reference multiple 1+ tags. It seems that adding the + sign (or any symbol that isn't a letter or number) changes the 1+ tag URL from pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/tag/plural:blahblahblah to pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/?tag=1%2B:blahblahblah. The OR command still seems to work (apparently it's the default if you just list the comments, as shown with https://pluralstories.dreamwidth.org/?tag=1%2B:relationships:romantic,1%2B:creator+speaks+from+experience,price:free ) but...

That... is a major problem. Like, I know kludging together the tag URLs for cross-referencing is really hard on mobile in general, but at least it wasn't IMPOSSIBLE. The whole reason I wanted to set it up this way was so people could cross-reference multiple tags at once and make sure they only got things that pinged ALL the correct tags!

I am also not sure how to FIX it. Like, batch renaming the tag to "plural" again has the same problems as before. Numbers get boosted up the ranks, but >1 just broke things completely, and any other number choice would be totally arbitrary.

The only other solution I can think of is to figure out a "1+" synonym that ranks alphabetically between "about" and "access," which is... I don't know any. (And "access" also doesn't come with any synonyms I can think of easily to give more wiggle room.)

Nooooooo. I tried too hard to be clever and reap my folly. T_T

Sneak: I have gone through pluralstories and added back-up links to everything I could, and sent requests to a few people about rehosting their work, because two more things have been deleted off the Internet and now, as far as I know, only my local hard drive copies remain! From here on out, every new submission I get, I'm going to try and have a back-up link at the start when feasible. -_-

I also changed the "access:deleted" tag to "access:lost media" to describe works that are partially lost (like parts of Silverwolf, the Princess and the System, and Gemini) and added "access:online" for works that can be found on the Internet.

I am so tired. Is dinner and sleep time now.

Cohost is going down, which means I've gone through the pluralstories catalog and put up back-up links of every entry originally hosted there.

The only entry I haven't done yet is Loony, by Sapphic Slob, which, being an adults-only erotic comic, is behind an "adults only" click-through that the Wayback Machine cannot bypass. I have sent a message to Saph asking if she has it uploaded anywhere, and if not, if we may have permission to rehost it. (EDIT: backed up! All set!)

I'm really glad I have gotten into the habit of making local copies of everything as I go through! Maybe I should just get in the habit of making Wayback Machine links for every catalog entry it's relevant for, as I go... just to make sure.

Sneak: pluralstories has been a humble success! I've succeeded at all my goals: I have a creator name under each letter of the alphabet, and I have more stories cataloged than the old Multiple Personality and Dissociation Booklist! (We have about 180 stories in it now!) I've also managed to make local copies of most of the work that's feasible to. There has been a quiet but steady little trickle of people submitting really cool things that I never would've known about myself, stuff that delightfully pushes the boundaries of what a "plural story" can be, and nobody has tried to use it to be mean!

I need to do some tag trimming, I know. I'm planning on axing the format tags completely, since I doubt anyone really uses or needs them, and I also plan to rename the whole plural tag family as >1 or 1+ so they'll be at the top of the tag list, since I bet that's what people care about most! Those 1+ tags need streamlining as well, they're a bit overgrown.

Still, I feel really proud of how my little project has grown over two years! I know it's gotten me to learn about fun multi media that I never would've known about otherwise, and I hope it helps other people find fun things too! Linkrot is a shame, but it's my hope that my archiving work will keep them from completely disappearing, as so many tiny subcultural self-published works tend to do! So far, we have only lost one story to linkrot, as far as I know!

Also oh my gosh I am so glad I lifted the "must be submitted by a plural" rule, singlets have contributed some really amazing works to the catalog! :D

Sneak: We will post about these again as the time nears!

Saturday, February 11, 7:00 pm, we will be presenting about the logistics and empowerment of getting consensually sterilized for the Pleasure Pie Reproductive Justice Salon, an abortion fundraiser! It is raising funds for five different abortion funds. It will take place at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA. Suggested donation: $15-50

On Thursday, March 16th, 12:25-1:25, we will be reprising our All Narrators are Unreliable presentation for Hilary Chute's Graphic Medicine course at Northeastern! You can read the text-and-image version here!

Also, like Biff, I decided to change my icon to art someone else made for me, in this case, hungryghosts ! :D I like it!

Sneak: Look what I got in the mail today! After years of wanting, I got thedc's Autonomancy tarot!

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Sneak: We got pleasantly surprised by Dreamwidth friends bringing us fancy chocolate! Thank you, friend! :D nomnomnom. There was a dark bar, a milk bar, and a pumpkin coconut pie chai bar. So good! We shared it with friend over dinner.

Sales went well! We will probably still run a loss this weekend, due to hotel costs, but we are having a good time!

We also bought some stuff:

• Little Brain's Guide to Post-Concussion Syndrome, by B. Erin Cole.
• The Santoro School's Handbook for Making Better Comics, by Frank Santoro and Kurt Ankeny. (Been meaning to grab this one for years; it's higher-level than Scott McCloud's books, going into limited color and geometry, panel rhythm and such. Not a book to start with.)
• A Great Mouse Detective Sketch Zine, by Yeon Kyung (Charlotte) Cha.
• A sticker by Esther Imas of a punk Santa Muerte (at least, I assume it's her judging by the bridal veil) wielding a torch and flicking someone off with the text TOO GOTH TO LIVE, TOO PUNK TO DIE
• A one-pager about Moon Knight and DID for @pluralstories

See y'all tomorrow! Comments remain locked to access-list till Tuesday, when we return!

Sneak: I found out that thedc has made an index of all their stories on Reddit, and Ronin Ellis and One Fox Faraday's horror serial The Book of Autonomancy has a multi protagonist! I know what I'll be reading for a while!

EDIT from Mori: Read all 24 chapters in one sitting even though it's now 2 AM. I can't remember the last time I read something on the Internet that I couldn't put down. Holy shit that was GREAT.