Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 56: ...we need the writers.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Feb 12, 2008 7:05:35 am PST #8978 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Thanks! But it's really not that great of a picture. So....I dunno. And the whole set has gotten waaaaayyy more hits than normal.

I suspect it is the angelic looking blond boy with curls, and they're combing the set to find more pictures of him. Just to put the paranoia up front. He's the choirboy type which has a certain fanbase out there. Sorry. People suck.


sarameg - Feb 12, 2008 7:05:54 am PST #8979 of 10001

It's a very legit reason. Hell, I may have called in unwashed one day when that and a bunch other minor crap just all piled up at once.


lisah - Feb 12, 2008 7:10:48 am PST #8980 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I suspect it is the angelic looking blond boy with curls, and they're combing the set to find more pictures of him. Just to put the paranoia up front. He's the choirboy type which has a certain fanbase out there. Sorry. People suck.

ick. But how did they find it???


DavidS - Feb 12, 2008 7:16:16 am PST #8981 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

ick. But how did they find it???

Is it tagged as "family pictures"? Might be some random combing turns it up and then somebody posts the link to an interested group.

That's how it would work with the toe pictures which aren't labeled "here you go foot fetishists!" Maybe they hit on "pedicure" and when they find a winner they post it to their li'l fetish group/mailing list whatever.


§ ita § - Feb 12, 2008 7:18:04 am PST #8982 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Flickr has an interestingness algorithm with which they rank all the pictures. If your pic rates high, you appear on their Explore Interesting page, and lots of people have the opportunity to click on them.

I'm not that bothered by click throughs (although the pic in which I mention Spock has now shot to the top, beating out my Kenya pictures, which is just not right. It's an exceedingly mundane picture), but favourites can creep me out. A pic of my sister was favourited by someone who had sister in his (I guess) username, and his other favourites were all of pretty sisters. I banned him right quick. Another picture of my sister just got favourited, and by looking at his favourites it seems he really likes Princess Margaret. He's good. No need to defend against him.


DavidS - Feb 12, 2008 7:25:41 am PST #8983 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Fwiw, lisah, from what (very little) I know of the interest in choirboy/Little Lord Fauntleroy types, they mostly want to be a pretty little angelboy. It's on the forced feminization spectrum along with the wild and wacky world of Petticoat Punishment. Here's an even more apt example. Not Work Safe


lisah - Feb 12, 2008 7:27:28 am PST #8984 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Is it tagged as "family pictures"?
No! Just with the first names. The photo does have 'butler' in the title so maybe it's butler fetishists who are into it!

Flickr has an interestingness algorithm with which they rank all the pictures. If your pic rates high, you appear on their Explore Interesting page, and lots of people have the opportunity to click on them.

Yeah, this picture wasn't on the Explore page.

Anyway, I made it viewable by friends and family only. Which kind of sucks because a lot of people who I'd want to be able to see it (like, say, my brother) aren't on flickr.

I'm not that bothered by click throughs

I wouldn't be if it was a picture of me or a picture of my band or something. But because it's kids it freaks me out a little.


lisah - Feb 12, 2008 7:28:23 am PST #8985 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

from what (very little) I know of the interest in choirboy/Little Lord Fauntleroy types, they mostly want to be a pretty little angelboy.

People are very odd, aren't they?


Emily - Feb 12, 2008 7:28:37 am PST #8986 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Not Work Safe

I appreciate the warning. But I'm so curious!


msbelle - Feb 12, 2008 7:30:43 am PST #8987 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

People are very odd, aren't they?

you've met people right?