kurenai_tenka

Other than incentivise me to post, what has lj done to its interface now? =|

I like that they did it quietly without telling anyone though, shhh, they'll never notice....

Wow, I've had about 10 different spam comments on the same post in the last two days, what the hell?

Just watch this post now get the same treatment. XP

Edit: Currently messing with my layout... so it may look... um... off, for a while.

So under duress of self imposed peer pressure, I might change my lj layout (and my profile, but that's a personal thing). See, I need to edit my layout anyway (badly), but I do like how obnoxiously pink it is, though I do worry about other people's ease of reading (silly considering that most people read in their flist and I'm the one that sees it when reading MY flist.)

As for my profile, I need to reconcile that I want my colourbars, but one of the layouts I like would be bent out of shape by them, and the other one (which doesn't have a white background) makes them look ugly. Ho-hum.


Anyway! Does anyone have any links for good layout makers? I've found a few, but it's not as easy as I might have expected.

So a couple of things, one being that... well you know that chronic photo posting lateness I suffer from? Yeah that. Well actually this time I didn't do that bad. I slaved over the pics and had them all edited and uploaded within a month.

And then I just didn't get round to making a post with them in. Oops. So expect that in the next 20mins, but with a warning here as I'm going to try the automated way of posting, as the method I used last time made me want to die. And I'll annotate after posting, so may be some editing going on (not to mention that I won't be posting either of the shoots I did in there entirety, so the couple I do post will have to be added manually :) ). These pics should feature adelaide_rain, winged_dark_elf, caffeinatedguy, darktwinkle, jenniekitty, dark_persian, Simon, Stephen, and misc cosplayers.


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In other news, I was just reminded that I have half-price paid account coupons. Which means a year of lj for $10. If you want them, comment (anyone can comment, I have loads.) :)

I'll go back to not bothering peoples f-list's again soon. XD



Tsubasa


Uwaaaaa XD The last page of the newest chapter made me jump out of my skin! XD I kinda shrieked and then started laughing. XD Fucking creepy.

( TRC 154 spoiler I guess. Also big picture, and scary. XD )





In other news;



Seems to be still on though. Looks like a lot of the sites deleted were genuine peadophile sites anyway, so that shows some shoddy work on lj's part that they survived so long anyway.
The only fandom that seems to have been targeted atm is the HP fandom. And lots of incest comms are down too. (also, a comm for the discussion of the 'Lolita' novel.

On the first page of my f-list, nearly every entry was talking about this...D=

So, I'm joining the complaint line. Most people know about this (since everyone's ranting about it), so I thought I'd add.


So, everybody's complaining about this new site www.fanlib.com, which is apparently intending to make money off fanfiction, and put fanfiction into media attention. One of the people who run the site started a big convo/fight with people at some HP comm or other, in which he completely dodged the profit making question.

Now, lots of people have mentioned the whole 'n00b' factor of the whole thing, and elitism of current fans wanting to keep it secular...certainly not commercialising it and making it 'mainstream'. After all, many people relish in having an obscure hobby.

But they may well not succeed. Most of the people who (in high school or otherwise) called anime/sci-fi/comic fans etc. freaks/geeks aren't going to have any interest in jumping ship, just because of a bad attempt to make it mainstream 'cool'.

Here's an example of what to expect:




Now, I have joked 'don't they realise that in fandom we like skinny boys surrounded in pink?' But really, using muscular man to advertise fanfiction? Ehum. Next it'll be motorcycles and Paris Hilton lookalikes.

Also, it should be noted that you can import your fics from ff.net, which has been noted to be a major security flaw. Also, the concept to register pen-names so no-one claims them (and maybe posts people's own fics without their permission). Of course, it's been pointed out that this will only encourage the site and their sponsors/potential funders.

I've seen at least 2 people who think all this could be good. I've seen about 200 who disagree. That's not counting the pages upon pages of comments I've decided not to add (due to not paying attention).



And that's my own summary of what I know so far. I guess overall- oh dear.