Maru's Mun Journal

Dreamwidth seems to have finally 'fixed' the icon thing. Teja now has a paid account, Urq will follow shortly as I need the iconnage for the slendyplot; I would most likely have bought him an account anyway as I'll want some scary pictures...

I'll make a new 'Everybody' icon as well (see this post) -- if one of the usual suspects want one for their accounts, please tell me so as I'll be doing them anyway on Wednesday, which is a public holiday here.-

On DW, I'm yakalskovich as well, so feel free to add me if you move.

As registration is open until the end of the month, I'll just make my emergency character journals* over there on Boxing Day, when my sister and her fambly are gone to see their in-laws. I don't know what´s got into LJ to treat their paying customers like that, (ab)using their admin privileges to counter their protest and get-outs, but it seems they're totally mis-estimating their customer base.

At that point, I'll install the workaround on my character journals as well so OOMs are still fun while we are over here/if we stay over here.

But until then, I'll be busy keeping little Jón's hands off my computer, and doing much online stuff will be hard, and family time more important.


* I'll be taking Teja, Urquhart, Lorenzo, Margolotta and Tamara, if we move. The rest I don't really need all that urgently, much as I do like them.

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Internet love letter to a blogger.

Warning: the blog itself is EXTREMELY NSFW, text-wise!

OMG I hate that new header banner!! How do they manage it? Each header banner is worse than the one before, each header banner means days of cumbersome slowness while they change it when really it should be just one change in the central CSS file; and for the sake of little baby hedgehogs (and other veiled expletives), what is that esoteric wurly-burly on that banner supposed to mean??

When I first saw this, I thought 'Well, hee hee'; then I thought, 'Hey wait, saphyria and alchemistseraph  live there as well, and if anybody says they deserve tornadoes, I'll be up with an axe against them.

A related discussion erupted all over my corner of tumblr, with one lady especially chiming in again and again.

Now I wonder whether it might be the other way round: religious people are more likely to live/stay where there are tornadoes around because they believe God will preserve them, put them in the place where they ought to be, or generally are less driven to leave the place where they've got roots?

Basically, the Bible Belt is the Bible Belt because the non-bible-thumpers, statistically speaking, are more likely to move away out of reach of the tornadoes, and thus leave a significant percentage of religious people in those places?

But so not posting this whacky theory that on tumblr for the next round of general slammage. Tumblr can be so awfully earnest.

I finally took a deep breath and started a Fat Acceptance blog in German.

I already got referrers from Twitter. Let's see where this leads...

Special thanks to saphyria for the user name I am using over there...

I think this is the modern digital-photographic equivalent of what conscientious restorers of museum objects have been done for decades: when you put a Greek vase or a medieval garment back together for display, you use some contrastingly neutral material for the parts that are missing, plain grey linen among all the tyrian-purple-and-gold, or some white clay for the parts of the delicate red-figures vase that remains missing. If broken statues have hands, but not arms, they get steel bars or thin pieces of concrete.

This is what you do when you want to photoshop the background out from a candid picture of a celebrity and make a point of how honest you are, and that you're not 'shopping' the picture: you roughly outline the real object of the picture, then invert the selection and blur the rest. Roughly enough to leave that odd halo-like margin of in-focus background, but still well enough to focus solely on what you want to show.

I must admit it looks odd, but I guess we'll get used to it.-



Of course, Christina Hendricks looks stunning as always. And if this new principle gives me an excuse to repost the picture of her which I found it on, all the better...


[[From here]]

I won a bag, and now it arrived.

I got it for posting 'Innocents' Song' by 'Show Of Hands' to a virtual Christmas party on the blog of the Lady who used to run boocompany.com last December, but it took me this long to realise I had won...

**facepalm**

But it's a wonderful bag, made of lorry tarpaulin and safety belt material, big and solid. You could fill it with books or vinyls, and it wouldn't creak. And no, Lucifer didn't suddenly shrink, the bag really is that big.-

Sorry, links are in German.

I now have three virtual snowflakes! silveraspen  and athousanderrors  gave me one each, too!

Erm, where does one get them? Not on the virtual gift page, at least.-