Well, go me

I might have mentioned that the gallery is moving at the end of this month. We need to buy new fixtures for the space, but K said we'd have to put it off while we got the framing done. Yesterday I was driving downtown to pick up something, and noticed our big department store (there for 130 years) was closing. Everything was pretty picked over with the exception of fittings. So I called K and said 'hey did you know' and he replied, yeah, we saw that, but we weren't gonna check it out cos everything would look department-storey. But I knew that parts of the building were at least from the 50's so I said I would go down today and take a look see.

I found a 3 foot by almost 8 foot tall set of shelves (and a foot deep) in wrought iron with five pale green frosted glass shelves and took a picture on my phone and sent it to K, gave dimensions and said, hey, this is $250. Later on K called back and said, you still there? how many do they have? I said two pair, and he said that we'd like both of them, could owner give info over phone and pick up on Monday. (The couldn't hold without full payment) and by the way, could they knock it down to $400? I asked salesgal for a discount and she said, $350. Yay! So I got the number, paid for the shelves (and got them to add three extra glass shelves for free- what else will they do with them nice to have a spare if one breaks) and then D can get them on Monday. Win-Win.

So sometimes hunches pay off, and while I'm working, I can look at those nice shelves and say, hey, I got those. :D

General Fandom Stuff

I get annoyed when i see the PBS show on fanart and fanfiction reblogged to kudos from the fandom audience who don't seem to be bothered that the show only interviewed male fanwriters and artists, (even when a female fanartist's work was featured, they didn't speak with her) and didn't point out a majority of the art it displayed was by women - no credits for work shown at the end - only after a shit ton of complaints, did the producer make a 2nd episode with women's involvement. (but the first episode is still blogged the most) FAIL FAIL and still FAIL.

Trying to police fans at conventions, (is like herding cats) here is my take on it. You pay for a ticket, you get to ask whatever you want, however, that doesn't mean you will win the approval of the audience. It doesn't matter how much you love that ship, or how much you have invested in the show, no one topic or ship gets special snowflake treatment. Do you want approval from fellow fans? Or do you want the answer to your question (if the actor wants to address it?) Sometimes you don't get both.

Fanart and fanfiction have gone mainstream, to the point where these arenas now launch careers - what used to be an underground community now appears as a topic on mainstream entertainment shows, if you create the art, and write the fic, expect that your stuff might be picked up and spread around (without your permission) on (example) the Graham Norton Show. You can't make something and put it out on the internet and expect it to stay under the radar any longer. So you have the choice to keep it secret or publish and at least not damn yourself, you had fun.