Fanart, Fanfiction and Fangirling

OMG, I was going through old LJ layouts and look what I found!

( Blast from the past )

With the header picture link still working and everything! This is a clear sign I must use this layout, at least until the DÄ gigs in May! XD

I did it. I imported all my LJ entries on Dreamwidth. I will still be using LJ as my primary journal, but seeing how many problems that site has had lately (even last night, ffs), having a back-up makes me feel a little less worried. This is my first crossposted entry. Yay?

It feels weird using DW after all this time on LJ (this year will be exactly 10 years I've been on Livejournal). My paid account expires in September and I really don't know if I'm going to renew it. I read somewhere that paid accounts will be changed, something about paying only for the options you use and if that's the case I'll only pay for extra icon space, because that's the only service I use. That and the custom mood theme. But, just in case, I started deleting a few icons, the old ones I don't use anymore. As for the rest, well, we'll see.

Well, thank you for messing up most of my albums LJ. Especially the one I used the most, which disappeared along with a few others. Now I will have to waste HOURS to try and find all the pics you scattered all over the other albums. Not to mention all the preview pictures are gone (can you even have preview pics with the new scrapbook?)

Also, having sub-galleries was a very useful feature, having a "Concerts" folder containing subfolders for the specific concerts was very neat. And of course you went and deleted that, so now I have 50+ folders all over the place.

No, really, well done LJ, well done.

And I'm not even complaining about the 28 pictures that got lost in the process, it feels like a tiny loss compared to the rest of this mess.

...and then LJ exploded.

So, the recent comments page drama. LJ has gone through a lot of changes in the years I've used the site and I got used to all of them. If I have to be honest, I quite like the new comments box design. I don't mind not having a subject line because I hardly ever used it, but I can see how that will be a problem for kink-memes and comment-fics in general: people have developed a way of prompting/writing/posting based on a certain site structure, only for said structure to change, apparently without a reason.

Personally, what I really don't like is the disappearance of the "Preview" button, because I get quite OCD when I post comments and I have to check and double check them, even if I don't use html but just plain text. And the visual way of choosing icons is confusing. The idea of seeing the icons is nice, but having them in alphabetical order would've been better. Or at least not shifting order depending on which one you last used. While I wait and see how things evolve, I'm using a custom comment page. Which I don't really like, but it will do.

People are saying they'll leave Livejournal and switch to Dreamwidth. I've been using LJ since 2003: I started my blogging adventure on Deadjournal, because you still needed invite codes to create a Livejournal account back then, I cross-posted on both sites for a while once I got an LJ-code, but when my friends on DJ stopped posting, I abandoned the site: I had no reason to keep checking DJ and it wasn't worth keeping 2 identical blogs. I don't want to do the same thing again. Livejournal is my happy little fannish playground, where I write, I post fanart and I interact with people with whom I share the same fannish obsessions. I will leave only if my whole flist leaves.

But after reading this I became a little paranoid and since you can create a DW account without an invite code this week (and that can't be a coincidence, right?), I got myself one just in case. I'm gothikmaus over there too. Hopefully that page will stay nice and empty. But you never know.

Isn't my new mood theme the sweetest thing ever? >_< Found at cute_moodthemes.

It's finally sunny again. If I can manage to make my inner teenage fangirl shut up, everything will be fine. (Stop being a hopeless romantic sap, you silly girl!)

The other day Gabe (you know who I'm talking about), told me that someone proposed to him to become a professional gigolo once. Enough said.

I finally made a new layout. It pretty much reflects my current mood.

And a meme stolen from schwimmerin.

01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

I found it quite hard to think of a word for her, the first things that come to my mind when I think of friends are images and sounds and smells and shared memories, but rarely words. I'm weird.

PS My throat is sore. D:

9:15 AM: I turn on my laptop, all happy because there's very little to do at work these days and I have all the time I need to write more fic, and check my email. 23 unread LJ comments. What the fuck, people!? XD

Anyway, a few months back I heard a quote from a book ("La fine è il mio inizio", by Tiziano Terzani), it was about discovering cities not through tourist guides, but reading old books in which the story takes place there, and for some reason that reminded of Farin. I wanted to find the quote and send it to him once he starts getting emails again (probably in a couple of days, when DÄ go on tour for the festival shows), but I can't find it anywhere! And it's too late to actually read the book and find those lines on my own, it's almost 500 pages long, I'm far too lazy to do it before I leave on Sunday. Me and my damn procrastinating. Oh well, I'll just read it when I'm back from Prag, find the quote I need and send it to him next autumn, he'll surely be receiving emails during his solo tour.