Week wrap-up: Nov. 17
Here's what I've been looking at online this week!
I have been unbelievably busy with work for the last few weeks, and I spent the last week with a very frustrating head cold, so I didn't read much. Therefore: enjoy some YouTube videos and videogame walkthrough sites and shit. This is my low-effort online self. Handle me at my worst or perish.
Riding New Orleans's St. Charles and Canal Streetcar's Lines - Miles in Transit
The last time I was in New Orleans, I was under the age of 10. Some of my family used to live in that city, and their property was enormous enough to completely define the boundary of my experience there. I have a lot of memories of the interior of that house, but none of the city.
Watching this video made me want to visit there again! Miles and his friend Jackson ride a 100 year old streetcar on the oldest streetcar system in the world. Views out the windows at 3 AM are nonexistent, but the ride is captured pretty viscerally. (It is extremely bumpy and loud.)
Zeldadungeon dot net
Zeldadungeon.net is the best Zelda walkthrough site on the internet. I should know - I have been playing a lot of old Zelda games recently. It is certainly a website I've looked at several times this week (though I'm trying not to) and I find it more useful than any of the other places online you can find Zelda walkthroughs for the older games - mostly because of its well-labeled table of contents for each game, its specific walkthroughs for the versions of the game I have access to, and its good mobile formatting. Zelda dungeon dot net! I'm shilling for them!!
Fanfic - The Pudding
Dante drew my attention to this extremely interactive article about fanfic on The Pudding. It's an interesting mix of novel data drawn from AO3 - stuff I've never seen before, with really specific and fascinating observations about the prevalence of certain kinds of ships within different fanfiction domains - with a lot of stuff you've certainly heard before if you've ever read any culture writing about fanfic.
I do not read or write fanfiction, but I do like learning about it, partially because so many people in this field are into it, and I have to know about what my friends are exposed to. This is a particularly good overview of the topic!