a few brief thoughts on projects to come

[meretricula]

yes, yes, I swear, when I get time I will update the recs and do some more mini-spams for the I ♥ Barcelona post. other projects though.

stickmarionette and I had a brief discussion about this on Twitter earlier today (prompted by another fabulous update to guede_mazaka's vampire AU, btw, and if you're not reading it you don't know what you're missing), but is anyone out there still pining over a pairing so old-school that fandom newbies have never even heard of it? because oh god, Hierro/Guardiola. WHERE IS IT GIVE IT TO ME. CAN FERNANDO COME COACH MADRID NOW WE ARE IN SORE NEED OF HIS BEAUTY AND CLASSINESS IN LA LIGA. now, obviously we have a slight bias here (Figo/Guardiola? Raul/Guardiola? Cruyff/Guardiola? have you noticed a theme yet?) but we can't be the only ones with such a nagging, largely-unfulfilled passion, right? would anyone be interested in some sort of "old-school pairings" ficathon? (after I'm done with exams, natch.) just polling right now, but who knows, maybe something will come out of it. even if it's just me and Lee yelling "FINISH THAT FIGO/GUARDIOLA FIC RIGHT THE FUCK NOW" at each other on twitter for the next six months, haha.

also, and this is a project I have been contemplating for a long while now, I want to index footballers' tweets on delicious so that they don't get lost once they're beyond the timeline's recall. I can't believe nobody's ever done this in RPF before - twitter is such an amazing resource of how people really interact with each other (not the ones runs by interns, obviously, and in this case I'm thinking more of the kids, who haven't yet learned the art of discretion, but Puyi, Cesc and Pique are a great example of twitter revealing a lot about personal relationships) and I certainly use it as such! it would be a massive undertaking, but I don't know, I think I could manage to go through the primary Barça accounts, and maybe the Athletic Bilbao ones, given a week or so with nothing better to do. think about it. all the tweets by footballers that mention other players. links saved, tweets translated and everything tagged by relevant player. it would be beautiful. or maybe that's my OCD / librarian-fu talking. anyway, just putting it out there. it could be a joint project! if a bunch of people got together and agreed to each index for a few of their favorite players that they already follow on twitter, it wouldn't even be all that hard.

ok back to writing my dissertation now. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE OTHER-ING OF THE BELOVED. THIS IS THE KEY I HAVE BEEN MISSING. SUCK IT, PROPERTIUS, I'M ONTO YOU.

Comments

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

if you need the tag, you can create it, btw! I'm not going to be able to do much on this for a while, so if you want to, go ahead. :)

and yes, definitely tag cross-fandom interaction! with non-players, I'm kind of torn... I mean, Carlota is sort of a fandom figure in her own right by now, and it would break my heart to leave out her participation in the #arbolpique saga. (lmao I wonder if we'll get specialized enough to use the hashtags?) idk enough to judge about Nagore or Caroline - do they tweet players other than their husbands? that might be the tipping point... Pique tweets Malena Costa and Puyi tweets Shakira, for example.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

chugging along like a freight train here. jesus, arbeloa, way to be chatty. like, so many tweets the timeline eventually cuts off mid-July.

duly noted! I would hate to leave Carlota out, too, obviously. Nagore chats with a couple of the RM guys sometimes, that's how I know she even has twitter in the first place.

and SORRY, another question: what about tweets mentioning players that don't have twitter, or at least not yet? I guess that's probably a matter of individual judgment?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

haha my only advice is to start at the earliest possible point, so at least he doesn't chat the far end into nonexistence before you get there. XD my main motivation for getting this going now is that so many of the baby footballers just got twitter recently and I want to document everything before it vanishes, ngl.

then yes to Nagore, no to Caroline I guess? (tag nonplayer:nagore.aranburu maybe?) Nagore is so fierce, man. does she tweet in Basque? Xabi doesn't follow any of the Athletic boys, that makes me sad. =/ I can't understand a word of it when they start using a zillion 'x's but it warms my heart that they apparently speak it with each other!

eh, use your judgment. if it seems like actual interaction rather than just a flyby mention and you want to tag it, go ahead. (part of the reason why delicious is so awesome for this is that you can filter it to show two tags at once, i.e. a full history of conversations, and that's why I'm a little hesitant on tagging purely one-sided tweets, but it probably won't hurt so long as the tagger doesn't mind the extra effort.)