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Aug. 11th, 2023 04:41 am* I've joined a local writer's group. It only meets monthly but it appears... really good so far? We'll see how this goes.
* Writer's Strike has passed day 100. Here's hoping the studios crack soon.
* With movies and shows coming slower for a while due to this, I am finally tackling a long post I've been meaning to make for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
transmediaclub I am doing a write up of Alexander James Adams. It's super frustrating because a LOT of the resources that I'd like to use just don't exist online anymore. He's been a nationally touring musician on the con / geek / ren fest / celtic circuit since... uh... since... at least early 90s? I *think* late 80s? Not even the Norwescon website will just tell me how often he's performed there or when the first official performance, as opposed to filk circle, one was. That kind of info used to be easy to look up! Anyway, it's going to take me a minute to find a way to be all 'this person is a huge deal actually but got weirdly forgotten due to the name change and also his label went under so he couldn't sell or perform his 12 albums of original content for years' Though, overall, it's now 20 albums of orig solo content, 4 with bands and also he was involved in making some of the recording of music from Mercedes Lackey books. Mercedes used to write the songs that were mentioned in her books and put them at the end, and they were made into albums.
Also, we didn't have the term deadname back then. Their old name just became forbidden to say, with no goddam explanation, in a lot of spaces offline and online. Yeah, without context, image being yelled at because someone asked who your fave musician is and you're told you are going to be banned if you ever say that name again... without context that is very alarming! I think that happening around the same time the label went bankrupt was a lot. Massive name recognition in several scenes and over a dozen albums being sold at events across the country to suddenly none of that.
So yeah, the post is going to be a project.
* Writer's Strike has passed day 100. Here's hoping the studios crack soon.
* With movies and shows coming slower for a while due to this, I am finally tackling a long post I've been meaning to make for
transmediaclub I am doing a write up of Alexander James Adams. It's super frustrating because a LOT of the resources that I'd like to use just don't exist online anymore. He's been a nationally touring musician on the con / geek / ren fest / celtic circuit since... uh... since... at least early 90s? I *think* late 80s? Not even the Norwescon website will just tell me how often he's performed there or when the first official performance, as opposed to filk circle, one was. That kind of info used to be easy to look up! Anyway, it's going to take me a minute to find a way to be all 'this person is a huge deal actually but got weirdly forgotten due to the name change and also his label went under so he couldn't sell or perform his 12 albums of original content for years' Though, overall, it's now 20 albums of orig solo content, 4 with bands and also he was involved in making some of the recording of music from Mercedes Lackey books. Mercedes used to write the songs that were mentioned in her books and put them at the end, and they were made into albums. Also, we didn't have the term deadname back then. Their old name just became forbidden to say, with no goddam explanation, in a lot of spaces offline and online. Yeah, without context, image being yelled at because someone asked who your fave musician is and you're told you are going to be banned if you ever say that name again... without context that is very alarming! I think that happening around the same time the label went bankrupt was a lot. Massive name recognition in several scenes and over a dozen albums being sold at events across the country to suddenly none of that.
So yeah, the post is going to be a project.
