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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2009-11-16 09:58 pm
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An Archive of Our Own, and soccer

If you're interested in getting an invite to the multifandom Archive of Our Own, you can sign up to be sent one; just go to the site and click on "SIGN UP NOW". I did that yesterday, and they said I was in a queue and might get my invite by 20 November. However I got it today. :-) I haven't loaded up any fiction yet, and I do think the Hip Deep archive is a better and much easier place to find B7 fiction. However this will be a good place for me to post my non-B7 stuff, to find fanfic in other fandoms, and to provide another backup for my stories on my site and Hip Deep. It seems to have some very nice features like being able to save drafts, bookmarks, reading history, and subscriptions.

In other news, our soccer team (we have to say "soccer" here because "football" means rugby) has made it into the World Cup for the second time. Yay! :-D

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! I look forward to an England / New Zealand final. :)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Go on, laugh! ;-) We're just pleased to be in it. I remember going to one of the games last time, my first live game. No, wait. That was rugby with my grandfather, and very cool because it was so novel. I feel differently about thugby now.

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm laughing at the idea of England being in the final very nearly as much as New Zealand being in it.

They used to say that football was a game for gentlemen played by oafs, while rugby was a game for oafs played by gentlemen. Sadly nowadays it seems to be a game for oafs played by oafs. Not that I've ever been very interested in - or even really understood - rugby.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
We do both seem to play well, then suddenly collapse under pressure. :-(

That is so true. I like that. I avoid rugby both as a game I dislike, and because it's pushed so much here.