ProCon Latte - Firefox Add On.
I tried it yesterday but I must have been really tired, because I didn't think things through and ended up uninstalling it. But today, staring at it again, my brain clicked in.
- Download and install.
- Restart Browser
- Go to Main Filter
- Click Enable Explicit Material
- Click on Edit List
- Delete all the blocked words.
- Delete all the blocked sites.
- Go down to FILTER ACTIVITY and choose Blocked Sites
- Go back up to Blocked Sites and add in all the URL's of everyone in Racefail you'd rather not accidentally click a link for ever, ever, again.
- PS: There is no need to add a * wildcard.
- Press Apply.
- Watch them all vanish from your internet experience.
__________I tried it just now and I can still load livejournal proper on Firefox, I just can't load those pages. And I don't have to worry about having more than 6 or 14 sites as per the other filter content add ons available. And it feels so damn good - especially considering that minutes before I clicked on a link and ended up a greyworm's LJ, having forgotten for a moment just wtf that spectacular human!fail was. I only remembered while I was reading and going WTFF??!! Now? No more worries about stumbling into something that will raise my blood pressure. *hugs to ![[info] - personal](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) quivo who offered a possible script* - Please don't bother yourself unless it's something you'd like to offer everyone who'd prefer NOT the pages to load with a warning, instead of them not loading at all. Now I just have to figure out a way to have a handy-dandy portable, easily updatable list of Fail!Authors for whenever I'm looking at books. JJot will only work online. Maybe a list in my phone?
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Can you use adblock plus to kill actual websites? Ban them from your browser somehow? Does anyone know of anything one can use to killfile a site?
I would like to make my time on the internet a little less filled with the racist and stupid. I find that every time a race discussion comes around, there's enough of a set of people to call them a crowd or a group who simply have to post about :
a) How they're afraid to get involved because they'll be beaten by the privilege stick for being afraid of being beaten by the privilege stick (called on their shit).
b) How they hope all the people pointing out the racist thoughts are actually also doing something meaningful with their lives, because this is all so pathetic.
c) How all this hooha political correctness is going to result in blander and more boring books where no one writes anything interesting for fear of offending someone.
d) How they're staying away from the wankfest/flamewar/dogpile (cause OMG people are so angry, it's totally flaming)
Everytime a race discussion happens, these comments come out. And I'd like to keep track of who's saying them for the first time out loud/in public and who's said them before, so I can just strike them off my internets.
Come on folks, this has to exist, surely the racists have some version and we can use it to our own ends. I'm tired of the stupid people and if I can't actually shove them in a rocket and send them to WTF land, I'd like to get them off my visual internets. When I do a search or click a link, I want a banner to come up 'THIS LEADS TO HONKEYSHINES' so I can go 'ok then' and move on.
Killfiling in comments does not have the same level of satisfaction as obliterating someone off your internets. And sometimes killfile doesn't even work on some sites.
So suggestions? Ideas? Scripts? Programs? I will spend cash money on a program that would let me do this. I am effing tired of the whiney, pale asses with their racist, white privilege, clueless blathering and self-centeredness. I would also like to killfile off my internets a whole bunch of self congratulatory middle class white feminists who make me want to choke a bitch or not be female because I want nothing in common with them.
I want to ban white privilege fellatio requests off my net time.
I cannot be the only one.
So do I need netnanny or something and then I get to personalize it per website? Is there a Firefox Add On? Do I need effing Firefox (the buggy) 3?
Help me spare my blood pressure and my urges to stab honeky in the neck. Help keep me from straight up hating on some Pale Asses.
Thank you in advance.
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I can rattle off reccs of Anime people might want to watch, but yet I don't manage to get reviews up in spite of absolutely adoring some series or being surprised by others. Maybe I'm just not a review person? I have no idea. But it saddens me a little because I watch myself get all excited to recommend something to someone and break down the reasons why I enjoyed a thing, and realize that that it's a little joy I'm not otherwise giving myself unless someone happens to have an open recc post asking for things to watch/read.
I do not yet know the solution to this. But at least I've identified that there's something I want to fix.
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There was a flurry of posts over on LJ in APRIL (I will look for more links later) all about whether or not iJay was viable for the long haul. ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) squeaky actually went and replied to Synecdochic's entry, detailing his expertise, work and programming history and that he is indeed thinking ahead.
A few days later, Scribblit got transferred to Staff_Kit and then became Inksome.
I was a bit teed-off at the pokes to Insanejournal. It felt to me like people on LJ, who aren't here and aren't interacting daily and weekly with squeaky and had decided not to move, had no business spreading doubt about the service. I realize that's my personal opinion and that it was very much a reaction of "But you don't even live in my neighbourhood! Stop talking crap about it!".
But now I'm on the other side. The moment Inksome became Inksome, it felt to me more like a hobbysite than a current or future business. And I realize part of that is, once I got my early contributor account, things kept messing up over there, so I never uploaded icons and I stopped crossposting and haven't done much of anything with the account. I was waiting for things to settle. I haven't made a home there, and suddenly the community organizer / development planning company changed hands and I was left all 'WTF?'
The people who have put down roots in that neighbourhood no doubt feel comfortable there and don't have the questions I do about whether or not Inksome will be able to handle things in the long haul. They've developed relationships with each other and with the people who'll become the new staff.
I understand that.
And yet it does squat all for making me feel better about using the journal. All the changing hands reminds me of LJ. The fact that the original organizer/creator loss interest and enthusiasm, reminds me of Brad. And the possibility of another Greatestjournal - something invested in that then goes belly up a few years later, LOOMS like a fricking GIANT.
I know that GJ gave what it could while it could and that's not something to turn my nose up at. I made friends on GJ. I met people on GJ that either led me to people, or on their own have ended up becoming integral parts of my life. But Livejournal's FUCKWITTERY cost me a home. I had my LJ longer than I had and maintained my website. I had my lj longer and consistently than any other part of my online life since I came online in 1996. I know what a home online feels like. And now suddenly, LJ's asshattedness means that I need to have a city-home and country-home and a beach-home, so no matter what, there's a place for me to rest my head and breathe online.
So I understand my need to have a strong sense of stability before I commit content.
What I don't understand is what integral bit do I think is missing from Inksome that I don't feel comfortable making it one of my homes. Cause if I knew, I'd send email to the person in charge and suggest they do something so others who feel like I do would feel more welcome/soothed/SOMETHING.
But I don't know what's missing. I just feel like something is. And it's frustrating.
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There is a community on iJay right now, named Kristallnacht.
It's a Harry Potter RPG GAME.
Their info says they're well aware of what the name means and that for their game, an AU wherein Grindlewald won, they find it appropriate.
Maybe this is just a kneejerk reaction on my part. But right now I'm amazed at my ability to string words together. Because I feel something between utter sadness and knife's edge rage.
They have images all over of broken glass.
I...
I am personally upset. Just me. Just by myself. And I can't even begin to describe why, because it's all a visceral gut thing. It's odd. K*** doesn't affect me. But this particular K word seriously does.
ETA 2 things:1) I did not expect this to hit metafandom. When I'm upset, I journal. Finding out about this made me upset. 2) kdorian, who did find it, promoted on ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) asylum_promo on May 2nd, had a conversation with them here and offered to pay for rename tokens. They declined. I have the page saved. Son of Edit: The link was put up so the conversation could be seen. Twas never my intention for folk to go over to that comm and complain. Don't ask me what I figured would happen. This is beyond me being upset now. Though for those who've seen the comm name because they have the promo asylum friended and who feel a need to say something now, because seeing me upset helped them find a voice - I'm not pointing fingers at you or saying anything about you. Cause finding a voice is important. Cousin of Edit: Me a little more coherent. Aunt of Edit: I was going to suggest people complain on the FAQ page of the comm, then decided against it. They didn't know they promoted their game on the Day of Remembrance and well, I don't know. I'm feeling odd sympathies alongside my upset and anger. However, some of you found it anyway. I... Thank you. I was writing about being upset when I first wrote this post, and feeling crushed and being in tears. Thank you, sincerely for speaking up and out, for being angry and for KNOWING that intent means nothing when it comes to having hurt someone. Thank you. Parole Officer of Edit: The FAQ page no longer has any comments. They were either erased, screened or the whole post turned to disallow comments. I only have a webcap up to about 5:38pm, EST - seperis. I didn't go back and keep updating the cap because I didn't think they'd take that step to making this WORSE. Erasing the voices doesn't silence them. It just makes people take broader actions - while screaming louder. Sad Momma of Edit: So the name's been changed. it took the whole damn day and who knows how many people for something to happen, that some humane thinking would have avoided. Ban_set remains my friend. I started off hurt, confused but somewhat sympathetic. I ended the day, stone cold pissed off, STILL hurt, and hoping never to meet them face to face or my shoe might meet their heads. 9:52pm - They've changed their images.
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The icon situation is settled. I've left the posts up as a record for myself. But have disallowed or privatised comments and removed links to the individual per their request. I don't want to lock them because they're a good look at not thinking about the other side, assumptions and confusion. Even if I won't put up the resolution conversations as they are private, I think someone else experiencing the same situation can get the gist of how I was thinking and what I did and what happened.
Which is also the point of this post. I'd never before considered that linking back could be seen as a Red Letter of Shame / Accusation. I'd always thought of it as citing the source. Which is perhaps impersonal when individuals, private journal space and feelings are involved. Or rather when private topics are involved; identity + icons are private.
I've also never before thought about how my open journal policy might appear to others; strangers who don't know me or don't have the chance to read my userinfo to see what this journal is to me.
I am glad, however, that I was able to stop and think about the other side of things. And I'm glad I went with my gut and wrote an apology. I'm glad I could walk the walk and that I remembered that despite one's intentions or ignorance when someone's feelings are hurt - that's the important thing. And lucky for me, the individual involved thought that about my feelings too. :)
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I can log into im clients. I can log into ijay using Segmaic. But I can't get my browser to work? WTF?
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No one's called to say my mother's left the country. I begin to feel hoodwinked. I called her two days in a row to see how she was doing / if she'd made her flight etc.
I'm currently in the middle of a flare. It's dawned on me that's why even making toast has seemed so difficult and why I wake up with the covers strewn everywhere and it feels exhausting to disentangle myself and throw them off.
Wrists, shoulders, neck, back/spine, jaw, knees, hips, ankles.
I can feel the time to find a new apt counting down in my head. I can feel myself struggling not to panic or get angry at myself because I know I can motivate myself. If I currently can't even think about leaving the house when it's this important - it can only be fore pain.
I don't know why it's so hard o admit that pain slows me down.
My best friend, I have no word proper for it, is currently in shock/crisis. She's being too hard on herself in how she relates to her schoolwork. She's not accepting grief can mess with the mind - or at least not accepting when it comes to her classes.
Woke up to see a stream of thoughts from her wherein while I was asleep, she hit a dark place.
No one ever came to paint the whole in the ceiling on Friday.
Ow.
ETA: Beloved Friend pointed this out to me last night. She remembered my littles. Most people hardly remember my littles. Looking at the site right now, I'm so sad I can't so something as simple to comfort her.
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Whoo Hoo!
My physical home may be craptastic, and other words, but my online home is full of the Whoo and the Hoo!
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I have a tracfone. I have 10 days to buy new service time and possibly minutes. I have a double minutes for life card and an extra battery (and technically a new phone - thanks to that mix up where I thought a phone was dead when I simply hadn't turned it on.)
Why am I so hesitant to code in the double minutes for life on my old phone, which I like and is comfortable?
My latest excuse is that it fell on Friday and now it's a little scratched in some places.
I could, I suppose call and try and get my old number transfered to the new phone - except I don't like how the new phone feels in my had - same model, different finish. It feels cheaper somehow.
Even if my phone dies and my double minutes for life doesn't last long - I got a good price for a second battery. And yet... I'm hesitant.
Anyone have a clue why I'm so paranoid?
In other news: It appears the time has come for me to add a friending policy to my general journal information. Wow, that fact is so weird. I'd had the same flist for almost 4 yrs. Now I'm here and people ask me that question. It's so weird.
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| eSupport, eFamily, eFriends - it all equals love. |
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Just finished reading my mail.
*hugs flist tightly*
Thank You.
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Will the library thing users on my flist please tell me why you like it?
Does it have a demo?
Do you not find the site confusing and too full of extraneous text?
is it not overly busy with all the links and communities and the seeming pressure to talk and be social?
ETA: *headdesk*
So I tell myself stop being stubborn and go use Goggle Book Search since I do enjoy it so -
And really I do, cause I can make my thoughts on the book whatever I like and the when you click on the book you get other people's reviews - which might be more in depth than what I want to say about the thing. I love that part.
WHAT I DO NOT LOVE IS ADDING BOOKS TO MY LIBRARY ONLY TO DOUBLE CHECK AND FIND THEM GONE!
Adding 1 book to 32 books should not bring me down to 28.
Crap, fuck, damn.
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There is a douche-bag, a cockroach sucking, maggot masturbating, baby hitting, mouth frothing piece of shit eater individual, who has been plagiarizing a dead woman's words.
Meet livejournal user boyan_fraser, His journal is all flocked up now, but click here for links to saved pages and screencaps of him humping on livejournal user Thamiris' dead body and moving her ecorpse around to do his bidding.
Yes, that's right, it's more than just a case of some asswipe snot encrusted illiterate stealing someone else's fic. This piece of bacterium filled sperm wastage lifted journal entries and surfed comments so he could copy and paste and seem erudite.
Ecorpse molestation and manipulation.
Stealing a dead woman's words and her record of her life in order to make himself seem popular, witty and academic.
Stealing a dead woman's words and re-using her words on the very medium where her popularity flamed! It's not like he did this on GJ or ijay (though I suggest we all keep a sharp look out), he did this on LIVEJOURNAL, where Thamiris has a permanent account to preserve her memory for her friends and fans.
Even the name of his journal is copied. Thamiris' Glossolalia - Bryan's Glossolalia.
Unfortunately Livejournal is claiming only a family member can actively pursue charges of plagiarism against Bryan and Thamiris kept her fannish life and her real life rather separate. But I think there has to be something people can do, somehow.
I only interacted with Thamiris very briefly when I first came into fandom and onto livejournal, but my memories of her while occasionally filled with slight annoyance are also of a certain level of awe and the smack in the face realization that there were people geeky like me; they existed, they thought too much about things.
I shocked into being unable to describe how I feel. I really wish I could prevent the breathing smegma from connecting to the internet at all. He had the audacity to describe himself as a want-to-be-writer ; no wait, that's not audacity, that's truth. He is a wannabe. Real writers write, regardless of accolades or a following. Real writers don't need to copy and paste someone else's every thought (profile, journal entries, comments, fic) in order to interact in the world.
ETA: There needs to be a way to organize an online shunning.
ETA: I take it back, I want him off the net all together - He claims to have received special instructions that he can't share with anyone from Thamiris herself. Yes, that's right folks, he's a special friend no one has ever heard of - and he was supposed to be copying her words without credit, according to said special instructions.
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So I've looked and looked and looked for a good book thing as Goodreads just seems so bloody annoying.
I've checked out:
Chainreading.com - It seems a wasteland. Not a lot of people, and what's there kind of empty headed. Or maybe I was just disappointed after having the tab up for so long, hoping it'd be the one once I got time to look at it.
Reader2.com - I used to use regularly, but it's not easy enough to use, or easily organized.
http://www.revish.com/ - Wants to force you to write a review of a certain length.
Bibliophil.org - Seems very plain, and how ever do you organize? There's no tour.
There are several that collect more than books, also movie dvd's, cd's, your action figure collection. But they seem like far too much. I appreciate the movies and the cd's, I guess. It'd be good to keep track of them. But I don't want to be overwhelmed.
Shelfcentered.com
Squirl.info - (stamp collections, books and more)
MediaChest.com - 0_o
But a lot of them only reference Amazon.com for information. Some of the books and music I like can't be found on Amazon.com.
http://lib.rario.us/ - And they're just empty and stark and dark and well, I don't like them.
Gurulib.com seems like it could be personalized somewhat. But I really don't like the how things come up when they're listed in a collection. And it seems oddly impersonal.
( What I Want )
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Friends, Romans, Countrywomen,
Lend me your ears. I come to discuss Insanejournal and to praise it.
Permanent Accounts $35 Dec 3 to Dec 10.
Year Paid Service $15 Dec 3 to Dec 10.
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I am now seriously peering at my budget. Squeaky has stated that iJay's been around for 6 yrs and he's never been in any talks to sell it.
Personally I think the man keeps watching livejournal, shaking his head and going 'More money for me'. And I don't blame him.
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Just once I wish something would happen on livejournal, that I hear about from someone still on livejournal, that made me go "oooh cool."
Yeah, I'm done freaking out now. (OMG LIVEJOURNAL UNPLUGGED. BRAIN DEAD) But I'm not done being wary of what's going to happen to my friends still over there.
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The LiveJournal Advisory Board will publish and update on a regular basis a clear a set of aims and values. This will address such vital community issues as privacy, security, taste and decency*. It will also provide a forum to consider any relevant legal, political or religious concerns*. It will also focus on access issues including usability, technology, interoperability, open source, social graph, and more. The LJ Advisory Board will also take responsibility for overseeing all ongoing charitable work;
(*My Emphasis)
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Brad's back and people are hell of excited about that. But he's on an Advisory Board. Yeah he understands how LJ works; writer wise, community wise. But what kind of power are people really thinking he'll have?
And what about the fact that SUP basically just bought Russia's Free Press; because that's apparently how ZheZhe (livejournal) is seen over there. Blogging equals free speech.
I realize that with laws passed against critisizing the war in Iraq, things in the US doesn't seem much different anymore, but they are. Sliding towards a point isn't living in it.
The flagging option, coming just before the announcement and the consistent lack of TOS policy term definitions just make me go 'Wah?"
So I want to believe that El-jay's been bought by a company that knows what it is and how to use it. I want to believe that 6Apart squeezed LJ for all the money they could, not really caring about how to even utilize what it'd bought other than as a cow to stamp ads on - and that 6Apart has now moved on and El-Jay will be ok.
But I can't. Yeah yeah, I posted all shocked and OMG and caps. But when has 6apart ever done anything in regards to livejournal that was well thought out, appropriate and even 50% accepted. And then there's the fact that Stewardess called it! She effing called the Unidentified Financial Opportunity.
What about the reasonable theories other people had or even just their analysis of who and what livejournal and its users are? What about all the ways to do wrong they listed that 6apart continued to do?
And then there's feeling like not only could 6apart not admit livejournal was an experiment and they had no clue about the difference between a social networking blogging forum vs regular blogging - it feels like they never tried. They copied a few ideas onto Vox and that made Vox users happy, so they tried to give livejournal what they gave Vox and then ended up ignoring the userbase like someone who was never meant to be a parent, ignoring a crying child.
Just... there was nothing there that said 'We want to take care of you, consumers.'
I keep thinking about how Livjournal is (?, was?) filled with independent thinkers. If people wanted not to create and enjoy community, they'd be else where. If they wanted random polls and popularity contests, they'd be on Myspace. If they wanted to be spoonfed ideas on what to writer about and how to write it and how to even use their journal (wysiwyg editors for simple html commands) then they'd be on VOX.
I couldn't and can't imagine how they could look at a product created by a geek, originally supported by geeks, that for the most part embraces and utilized geeky options - tiny little art pictures for your icons are GEEKY! - and not think, this is a niche market, let us do some niche market things.
And now here's SUP. And the whole thing is badly handled from the beginning. People are raw from the flags. Sexual abuse survivors are edgy. People who write realistic slices of their lives are edgy. The whole vagueness behind the concept of 'adult concepts' has people on edge. The fact that journals tagged adult content or adult concepts have RSS/ATOM feeds that can't be found, has people edgy. And then there's this.
I'm paranoid enough to wonder if there is no rss glitch and that by self labelling as adult concepts (which is most things in live that don't involve pre-school and Barney) you are meant to be shutting down anyone else's access to your 'objectionable content'. Either they get a journal to read it, or they don't read it.
Anyway, I'm all thought and talked out now. I want chocolate and something interesting to watch for an hour or so. And yeah, I need to figure out where I'm staying and buying the most journals.
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I just likely overwhelmed lj's Viridian5 with links she most likely has already re: Disability Lawyers, Help, SSI, etc. I'm just so worried for her and angry for her. And it all spilled out with me looking things up online. with frantic prayer.
I'm not really sure any of those links would help. I mean she has the internet too. But I just didn't know what to do. I never imagined that side-effects from freaking BRAIN SURGERY would get turned down for SSI.
And all I have to offer is five minutes of gogglefu, as I try to finish stuff I've got delayed too due to not feeling well, being out of it, feeling depressed, trying to handle/manage pain.
Unfairness is terrifying.
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I want to write in Seeking Avalon.
I want to write about how a love for comics led me to animation.
I want to write about how focusing solely on superhero comics, as much as I love them, had caused me to lose squee.
I want to write about trying to split myself in twain, and discovering I-don't-bend-that-way.
I want to write about how muck I like the bright coloured inked art of comics and cartoons, anime and manga.
I want to write about how I'm at a place to start looking for names; artists, colourists, writers, publishers, etc.
I want to write about where the Big Two can look to for ideas about superheroines without hiring Jodi effing-never-did-a-scifi-thing-before-in-her-life Picout and thus messing up Wonder Woman (her series).
( This is going to be long. )
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After using yahoo mail for so many years, I'm now looking at using an alternative because of this.
2007 seems to be the year for net businesses I have used for years to reveal the assier side of themselves.
But having used yahoo for years, I can tell this will be a troublesome thing to convert, because there are so many other accounts that use that account for email, I'm not sure I could find them all.
Solution = Email Fwding?
*sighs* Sometimes my conscience writes checks the rest of me has to scrape "life" pennies to cover.
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Dear Flist,
Would someone be so kind as to explain Torrent to me?
I would like to seed Junni Kokki.
I would like to get: Power Rangers The Album: A Rock Opera
I would like to get: Power Rangers In Space
I would like to get: Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.
Also I've heard things, about comics.
Please note that I have honestly tried reading information regarding uTorrent. But it made no sense. I kept having the feeling they were starting from an assumed point of knowledge. And my assumed point of knowledge was/is lacking, very lacking. It's lacking like a month and a half ago when I didn't know what a 20 sided die was for. Like seriously lacking. Lacking as in the opposite of my love of Jason David Frank, which can only be measured in Kitawatts. That is, the unit of measurement that denotes how much Kita0610 loves Vincent Kartheiser / James Marsters and David Boreanaz. (Which can now be referred to as Willowatts, as in how much Willow (me) loves Jason David Frank, aka Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers)
PS: Zvi aka Witchqueen can attest to my eardrum bursting, gonna start a fight for mocking squee and burning, enduring love.
PPS: Ten years from now someone is going to ask their parent where the term Flist Kenobi came from and boy isn't that going to be an interesting intersectionality of pop culture conversation.
Son of PS & PPS: My Fav Power Rangers (in order of love) Tommy, TJ, Andros, Adam, Carlos, "Ashley & Cassie", Karone.
Karone as Andromeda made my second favourite villain. The first being, of course, Tommy.
"Ashley & Cassie" are combined because I love them as a friendship pair. Especially because they'd have conversations that had nothing to do with boys and everything to do with their friendship.
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Last night a budding African-American thriller-mystery-vigilante writer asked me about maintaining a web presence and I totally wanted to point her to livejournal as easier and prettier than myspace with possible embedding into a main website and how Youtube Video Blogs, among other things, could help maintain a presence and active promotion of her books without her having to drag herself all over the country for book signings. Girl was so tired and messed up she had to ask if she was in Baltimore.
I felt stuck that I couldn't mention lj and how there are other writers on there, like Holly Black and Robin McKinley and Greg Rucka and I know I'm missing others. Diane Duane!
They might not be PoC writers, but still, hey, writers, and lj would make it relatively easy to create a community for African American Writers, be they genre based or just all about how you write genre but then get put in the African American Writer's shelf where no one white is likely to just stumble across you and go 'hey, I like this, this is cool, ooh, black'
Anyway I have her info and she's got mine and we'll coordinate at some point (I'm in no shape to go out to her next book signing tonight) but grr arrgh, man. GRRR arrgh. It made me think one more time about how Livejournal has not seemed to have thought about the fact that they already carved their niche market and it's not emo teenagers -
IT'S EMO TEENAGERS WHO LIKE TO WRITE.
It's feminists who like to write.
It's mothers who like to write.
It's comic book readers (male and female) who like to write.
It's erotica artists and erotica artisans who like to write.
Livejournal was never about a popularity contests and putting as much junk on your page as could fit - at least not to me. It was this amazing community dominate place where writers amateur and professional interacted, discussing their day to day and their work/joy of the profession/calling.
I know writers and editors and people who create Blog Carnivals or start e-publishing houses and I know them all from Livejournal.
Does 6Apart really not have anyone in PR who realizes this? WRITERS are on livejournal, heck Jim Butcher doesn't seem to have updated since LJ pulled their wtf ever (though he does update that thing sporadically) WRITERS mean WRITER_FANS, getting a journal in order to communicate just like regular people with their favourite AUTHORS. WRITERS, READERS, why aren't they teaming up with Goodreads or Amazon or something like that?
I mean it's so obviously simple!
Then again, one could say that about the reason the WGA is striking. Writers want bread to feed their family during those many, many months they can end up out of work because, y'know, FOX canceled yet another good thing.
*sighs* I need to get over my bitterness if I'm going to be remotely helpful to this author should we actually connect again. Long live WordPress, I guess. But it's still sad like whoa.
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Dear Neopets,
POT is the name of a kitchen utensil. SEX is not a bad word. Neither is GAY - it also means happy and bright.
No love,
Me.
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