This and that

1) Tierra del Fuego is pretty great! Dad had contacts at the university, so we spent the first night at a barbecue with (among others) a bunch of Canadians who were there to study beavers. This amused me muchly. Also, one of them had done field work on Ellesmere Island. *goes green with envy*

The next day, a really nice Argentinian post-doc in plant ecology took us out on a drive, and we geeked out about plants together. Strangely, Tierra del Fuego looks a bit like southern Sweden, only with more mountains? I mean, there's deciduous forest here--I expected it to look much more harsh. Photos to follow, I promise...

2) Am reccing on crack_van this month; my first recs are here. I've also finally imported the delicious due south crack van account to Pinboard. I'm going to fix up the tags a little (I'm so glad they have tag bundles!) and bookmark the backlog, and then post on the noticeboard about it.

3) I'm hosting a Skype chat for alternate_ds_c6d on Sunday at 7 pm GMT. Do feel free to show up even if you're not sure you're going to do anything for the challenge! : )

4) Have cut down on my tag wrangling a bit--I'd been one of the wranglers for the Tolkien fandoms, but I dropped The Hobbit. It only made sense, since it's now a big fandom and I'm not in it at all. The rest of the Tolkien fandoms are not nearly as high traffic, and also there's a clear cultural difference in that they don't have the same Tumblr-style tags that Hobbit fandom does. If you're wondering what else I wrangle, it's due South, a lot of C6D fandoms, Generation Kill, Aubrey-Maturin, and lots of low-traffic rarelit fandoms. Feel free to ask if you have any tag-related questions about any of them!