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[the_rck]

I'm trying the lighter brace this morning. I already have a problem with it-- Bending my foot as I walk hurts. That is, in fact, the main thing that hurts when I walk. This brace is great at supporting my ankle but does nothing at all for my foot. I'm also finding that, as I sit at my laptop, I tend to rest my toes on the floor and lift my heels which, of course, bends my foot in a way that hurts. I can't do that when I'm wearing the boot. I don't know. I'll probably be back to the boot later in the day and be glad of it, even if it is uncomfortable, too.

Scott had to work late last night. We weren't expecting it, but one of the guys on second shift had a family emergency (his mother was in an accident) and couldn't come in. On the plus side, Scott working late got him out of working today or tomorrow, so there's that.

I managed to cut up the chicken so that Cordelia and I could put it on salad greens for dinner. There was enough left for Scott to have some, too, when he finally got home. Cordelia didn't complain nearly as much as she usually does. She was unhappy, earlier in the day, when I wouldn't let her eat any of the burger buns. I pointed out that Scott will probably make turkey burgers again this week and that one package of ground turkey generally makes four burgers. That's exactly how many buns we have left, so I want to save them.

I've been thinking about metanews policies. We pretty much always ask for permission before we link anything on LJ, DW, or AO3 (the exception is an LJ or DW account that is clearly identified as an author's professional journal. Even then, we'd probably ask. The only reason this exception came up is that we wanted to link to a post with comments turned off that was written by an author who had blocked PMs). We don't ask permission for Tumblr (I'm not even sure how we could) or blogs. Most people say yes, but some people do say no or don't respond at all. If we get no response, we hold the potential link for two weeks and then delete it because we figure that a silence that long is meant to be a no.

I do think that LJ and DW, for most people, have a certain expectation of a relatively small audience, so I think asking permission makes sense. I'm always a little sad when someone says no, but I can understand not wanting a sudden influx of strangers. I'm not so convinced that we should ask about things posted unlocked on AO3-- That's a very public forum and doesn't come with the same expectation of a controlled audience that LJ and DW do. Of course, we haven't done anything with AO3 since the first week of March because the person who was doing that had to quit. I just didn't feel like I had the time to pick that one up, too.

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[kalloway]

Years ago, one of the fandom-newsletter-y sites linked a public post of mine that I'd rashly written and intended more for my f-list and what I ended up with was a confusing wankstorm because I had no idea why all these strangers were yelling at me. Then someone finally said it had been linked and yeaaah...

However, anything I post publicly is public and that incident taught me that no matter how much I think I'm shouting at the sky, there may well be people around listening. So now for every public post I make, I expect and invite in exactly that - the public.

[the_rck]

Does that mean I should put you on the metanews blanket permission list? We don't link to locked entries if we realize they're locked, so it would just be for public posts.

I did put aside the url of your post about enjoying fandom as something to ask you about linking later when I'm logged in to the metanewsmods account.

[kalloway]

Sure. Like I said, any of my public posts are fair game for commentary. I might not write the most meta-y stuff, but if anything looks good to link, feel free.