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January 1st, 2020 12:00 pm NOTICE: [ ] I no longer use this journal for CDJ purposes. I only keep it so I can access icon journals and post the occasional notice. If you want my real CDJ, it's over on LiveJournal at terpsichory. :D

February 22nd, 2012 9:52 am [ ] There's a browser widget that allows for rapid swapping of IJ accounts, right? There used to be one for GJ, back in the day, and I believe they were all modeled after one that's been around on LJ since forever. If anyone has links/details for the IJ one, could you pass them my way? Thanks in advance! 4

November 2nd, 2010 11:09 am GO VOTE. [ ] For my American friends: You can find your voting location by texting "WHERE" to 30644. You can also visit http://onyourballot8.vote411.org/ to find what'll be on your ballot, so that you can know in advance and research candidates. (Factual data on candidates is also available there, along with where to find your voting location, what the voter requirements are, a spot where you can register to vote, etc, etc.)

October 21st, 2010 8:09 am I am a huge sucker for animated movies, so... [ ] ( Snip. ) TL;DR -- 139/200 = 70%. I probably saw more of the anime, but it all kind of blurs together in my head after awhile. Also I feel bad now that I haven't seen those two Ghibli movies.

October 19th, 2010 12:33 pm I feel like I've got TV whiplash, here. [ ] I know y'all are a bunch of Mad Men fans, so I figured I'd cross-post this here! I've only just started watching last week, but have marathoned my way through all of S1 and most of S2, and I am really confused. In S1, Don was a selfish, compartmentalized, borderline sociopathic dude who was constantly managing a hundred and one lies at any given time (only some of which were to clients), carrying on emotional affairs, and patronizing his wife. He likes his reputation and isn't afraid of being a complete asshole. He's cut-throat in business -- he doesn't actually care about clients so long as they bring in money, and he doesn't really care about any other employees besides maybe Roger Sterling, who is his friend and mentor. Betty was meek, repressed, empathetic, gullible, never said a bad word about anybody even if it killed her, could turn any negative into a positive (no matter how insipid), was easy to push around, and lived for her kids. She was a loving, caretaking mother, and really obviously did not approve of domestic violence. In S2, all of a sudden Betty is shrill, petty, hypercritical, alienated from her kids and trying to bully Don into spanking them, more concerned with horseback riding (??? and this is apparently a longtime passion of hers? since when?) than with her role as a wife and mother, constantly seeing everything in a negative light, and picks fight with Don all the time by giving him lip. Don's having rape-fantasy sex with some trashy alcoholic comedian's wife, is somehow offended that he's got a reputation with the ladies, and is offended that people think he might not be a paragon of virtue. He's now got a ~sympathetic past~ (instead of an obscure past in which he couldn't see that his step-mother was good to him and then proved his sociopathic tendencies by stealing his army superior's identity and letting his family think he was dead, as it was presented in S1), is the loving, involved father, is the good parent, and is super loyal to his clients and colleagues. For no reason I can possibly fathom (if I consider his S1 self, anyway), he tracked Peggy down to visit her in the hospital and is now her mentor. Etc. And there was no transition between the two. It's like the show got completely different writers over the gap between seasons or something and the new ones didn't bother to actually watch S1, though obviously that's not the case. From what I've been reading of everybody's posts RE the latest season finale, Don is A Decent Guy And A Good Father while Betty Is A Selfish Harpy are the current portrayals, but until I started S2 yesterday, I couldn't figure out where the hell that was coming from. And I guess now I know. But it definitely came out of nowhere all of a sudden with the start of S2, and it seems so schizophrenic and disconnected with the events of S1 that I can't really approve. I suppose I'll get used to it if they stay consistent after this, but I still hope they at least dialed it back a little in the episodes to follow, because right now it's really heavy-handed and the blatant mischaracterization is driving me up the wall. Yikes. Does anybody else remember noticing this at the time, or did the gap between seasons (in which people have time to forget) do a pretty good job of hiding it? 6

August 13th, 2010 11:08 am Q: [ ] Do any of you guys know of a good panfandom game? Or even a mediocre one? There's me and about six friends who don't have the time for a really serious RP commitment at multiple games, but still want to play old favourite characters to relax, so a nice little panfandom place where we can have them all in one spot seems like the way to go. I'm hoping for something that doesn't involve "everyone is stuck together in an ever-expanding apartment building hyuk hyuk", and where making sense of the game info doesn't require sifting through 30 jumbled, conflicting, out of date entries on external journals. It doesn't have to be on IJ, but that would be preferable. I've tried looking on a few advertising communities, but everything I've seen seems to be a) dead, b) using the above premise that we hate, or c) a mess so bad we can't even figure out how to apply, which is just bad news bears all around. 4

May 21st, 2010 9:55 pm [ ] I seem to recall at one point that some icon maker or other had a collection of androgynous and genderbending PBs. I just can't remember what icon maker it was! Does anyone recall?

May 6th, 2010 4:15 am This sounds like fun! [ ] Voice meme: We all have different voices and accents and it's always fun to hear what other people sound like. Comment with something you want me to say, a question you want me to answer, a song you want me to sing, and I'll make a voice post/upload it/get around it fucking somehow in the next couple of days for you to hear. It can be anything- serious, goofy, or something you know will make my accent come out.

February 9th, 2010 7:38 am [ ] So um. I'm venturing back into RP stuff. I figure, LF is being run by a good friend, one of my favourite people (WHO I HOPE WILL COME VISIT AGAIN SOON, WE NEED MOAR BROWNIE SHENANIGANS), so it's a good spot. And holy motherfucking holds, batman. Anybody interested in wacky sex shop hijinks? I mean, it's San Fran. Gay girl running a sex toy store where you can have dildo lightsaber battles is probably not that uncommon, but still, zat's da plan. Your character... could... take a class in how to tie people up? Or in the proper care of vibrating boyfriend substitutes? They can come to monthly meetings for the erotica book group! IDK, IDK. There might also be a geeky coroner happening. And a librarian (but not a Librarian). I haven't decided yet. 2

January 20th, 2010 4:03 pm Text message donation drive for Haiti. [ ] Those of you who follow my Twitter will have seen that last week the American Red Cross began a text message donation drive, in which texting "HAITI" to 90999 would donate $10 (charged to your phone bill) to the relief efforts in Haiti. Since this initiative was set up on Jan 13th, the US has raised TWENTY-ONE MILLION DOLLARS. I was really upset that they didn't have a Canadian number available at the time, but now I have good news: We Canadians can now text-donate $5 to the relief efforts in Haiti via either the Salvation Army or the Canadian Red Cross. Your preference! For the Red Cross, text "REDCROSS" to 30333. For the Salvation Army, text "HAITI" to 45678. (And yes, don't worry, your Red Cross texts are going to the Haiti fund regardless of the fact that you're texting "REDCROSS" instead of "HAITI". It was set up specifically for the Haiti initiatives this morning.) For me, this method is the best way. I don't have to have the money on hand right now -- instead I can pay it off my phone bill, which I get at the end of every month, same as when I get paid -- and I don't have to go through the pain of taking ten days to transfer money to my PayPal account from my bank account and then incur MORE fees (for converting currency) to give a PayPal donation to the Red Cross. It's easy, it takes five seconds, you get a confirmation text back, and it's not charging me over and above to do this. (Because if it's going to, I want those to be Red Cross administration fees or something, not my bank's or PayPal's.) So there you go. It's your choice to donate, but now you have a great option if you choose to.

January 8th, 2010 10:59 am Might as well try to make use of the things. [ ] For those of you with accounts over on LJ: Anybody with a Basic or Plus account want $10 off a paid account? I've got 13 coupons left to give away. Has to be used by the end of the month. 7

September 24th, 2009 8:43 pm HALP. [ ] I need PB help! This is a rare event, so I'm hoping y'all will be interested. ;) What I need is a guy who's blonde, well-muscled, broad on shoulder and face, with a strong jaw, and an open and friendly look. Simple guy, down-home country boy, easy-going and down-to-earth. Late twenties, early thirties. Like a blonde Brandon Routh or Tom Welling. Or Mike Vogel the way he looks now, or maybe just a touch older (as opposed to the way he looked a few years ago, which is when most of his icons are from). I love Chris Pratt, but he looks just a little too young, and most of the (few) icons of him are even younger since they're from Everwood. I've also been considering Chris Pine, like circa Just My Luck, where he's a lot less manic and cracky and cocky, but he's wearing glasses in half the movie and that's a bit hard to work around. I am also considering Ryan Reynolds, but haven't yet had a chance to track down icons circa a few years ago. Suggestions? :D (PS: People who I have considered but who look like jerks: Paul Walker, Ryan Phillippe, Kellan Lutz.) 12

August 18th, 2009 11:08 pm :O [ ] Someone needs to icon Famke Janssen in the first two X-Men movies. I can't believe there aren't any sets of her from there yet! 8

August 6th, 2009 9:25 pm [ ] My IJ notifs suddenly stopped coming in last night. Anyone else not getting theirs? 3

May 15th, 2009 9:42 pm [ ] Squeaky fixed the comment rot! 1

May 10th, 2009 1:15 am For Max this time. [ ] Same as the other day! Quick soundtrack pimp in case anyone's interested. (Note for anyone who knew the version of Max, then called Maxi, from Evo back in the day seven years ago: This is not quite the girl you knew. This one is an older, revamped version where her attitude actually came from somewhere, mostly because the old version's life was boring and I was going through the darker end of my "exorcise your demons through your writing" phase. You may find that you enjoy the soundtrack anyway.)

May 7th, 2009 3:35 am More character soundtracks. [ ] A quick pimp in case anyone from over here is interested. It is, after all, free music. 2

May 2nd, 2009 2:23 am Wolverine movie! [ ] Okay, so it appears that different theatres got different post-credit clips? Like, not the mid-credit clip with [SPOILER] dutifully walking until his feet bleed, but the OTHER one, the one at the very end. PLEASE COMPARE NOTES? I'm curious to know how many end-clips are out there and what they were! I'm sure it will be all over the internet in a week or so, but still. Rose (unintendedmuse) and I just saw it earlier tonight. Our clip was ( full of spoilers under the cut! ) 25

April 18th, 2009 8:43 am [ ] Nat (b8g8) made me put up Chavi's soundtrack again and do cover art for it. I'm really quite pleased with the way it turned out and the songs are fun, so feel free to click below and go take a look:

April 12th, 2009 7:39 pm [Meme] Alternate PBs! [ ] The meme: You give me any character or characters that I have played (past or present) and I will give you 1-3 links or images of alternate Played-Bys for the character. I might even explain the choice(s). There is a partial list of previous characters here. Not on that list are: Older!Jean, ZT!Mystique, ZT!Rachel, HB!Jo, HB!Anna, PT!Cecelia, PT!Bethany, PT!Sara Nolan, WC!Dagger, WC!Karolina Dean, and probably at least one more I'm completely forgetting. This is the problem with being halfway through character directory reconstruction. ;) (cross-posted @ terpsichory) 2

March 25th, 2009 1:48 pm [ ] Who is in control of my transforms username and could I please have it back? It got deleted for inactivity, so I know it hasn't been used in at least the last year, and I can't log into it or retrieve the password with my e-mail address, which means it's one I lent out, and I would really like to keep it around for my own future use. So if you're got it, please contact me!

March 20th, 2009 5:26 am Good grief! [ ] Sweet jesus. Aren't there ANY high-quality photos of Grace Park that don't involve her taking her goddamn clothes off?! 6

February 11th, 2009 3:47 pm PLZ HELP. [ ] Hey dudes! I need your help. Way back in the day at Grimmingly, I wrote a survival guide on how to deal with a game of epic size proportions and am told that it got passed around a lot. I think it was called "A Newbie's Guide to Surviving at Grimmingly" or something like that. I no longer have a copy -- between Hotmail's then-tiny storage limit and two hard drive failures over the last two years, any hope of something like that surviving through on my end died in a blaze of unglory -- but I'm hoping that maybe one of you might. Like I said, I know it got passed around and edited for use in other humungo games, so chances are it's got to exist SOMEWHERE, right? I've already tried the Way Back Machine and Google, but sadly GJ blocked robots for spam prevention so the main comm, cinderellic, never got indexed properly. If you or someone you know has a copy kicking around, please send it my way! And in case it gives you moar incentive: I'm trying to track it down as a favour for Julie and the other Neopolis mod peoples at their request. EDIT: GJ has actually removed all the data. It is no longer available unless it was already cached. Crap. 14

January 27th, 2009 10:22 pm Change of venue! [ ] Because of how much random downtime IJ's been having over the last two months, I moved my CDJ over to LJ. It's at terpsichory, but you are not at all required to friend it. I'll still be reading this f-list about as often as I always was (maybe once a week), but most of my apps and game-related posts will be over there. 2

January 19th, 2009 6:31 pm Hmm. [ ] I have the urge to make a really crazy painter somewhere. The kind of artist who wanders around the house in a flannel shirt and panties, covered in oil paint, because why get dressed when you're alone and plan to spend all day dragging paint cans around to work on that brand new, deliciously blank 6ft by 9ft canvas you just had delivered? The kind of artist who makes herself a sandwich and then forgets the other half of it next to a her tins of turpentine and by the time she finds it again, it's turned funny colours, and she doesn't even realize that if it weren't for all the paint and chemicals she would have noticed the smell. The kind of artist who forgets to pay her bills until the electricity gets turned off and then mostly she's just pissed because goddammit, she needed to put her palettes through the dishwasher, and now she's going to have to do it by hand, and she HATES washing things. The kind of artist who has messy paint-covered sex on her couch and doesn't really think about it twice until somebody comes over and can tell what those body prints were doing and gets grossed out about it (maybe a brother who shows up to harass her about looking after herself and handles her bills for her even though it drives her nuts?) so to be perverse, she sells the entire couch as an installation piece and calls it something like, "Infidelities 4-8, with palm-prints from 12." The kind of artist who, if she were ever attacked in her home, would take back control of what was done to her by spraying sealing glue all over the part of the hardwood that has blood and broken glass on it, cutting it out of the floor, nailing the boards together at the back, and then selling it at an art gallery for a few thousand dollars. And every sane person would think, "YOU CUT OPEN A MASSIVE HOLE IN YOUR FLOOR?" but she'd just be like, "Whatever. Fuck it. Just walk around." Not clinically nuts, I don't think, but definitely off at ninety degrees from the rest of the world and only gets away with being so incredibly self-absorbed and self-indulgent because she makes a hell of a lot of money off her work. It would be fun to play someone that utterly infuriating. I just wouldn't know where to put her, really. 10

January 9th, 2009 8:30 am PB issues. [ ] So I was going to use Amber Heard, because I found a set of her looking really natural and nice, and I knew wikicon had a bunch of entries for her. Then I actually went looking through those entries and discovered that 90% of the Amber Heard icons out there are from press shots and photoshoots, so not only is she always doing that exact same smile in every one but it looks like she put her makeup on with a shovel and would rip your face off with her teeth if you so much as scuffed her fabulous wardrobe. We are talking some mega heinous bitch vibes, here, and that just does not work at all for my character. What I need: Early twenties, slim on both face and build, long hair, Caucasian (but any hair colour; I don't care), pleasant-looking (definitely soft around the edges, personality-wise), fairly mellow and reserved (as in ixnay on the ZOMG OFF THE WALL LULZ EXPRESSIONS!!!), kinda delicate, and in expensive clothing if at all possible. In my head, she looks like the kind of girl whose face you should be slapping on a magazine cover. Like buckets o' pretty. Won-the-gene-pool-lottery kind of pretty. "I hated you in high school" kind of pretty. The problem: The entire female cast of Gossip Girl is taken. Everybody from Privileged makes spoiled-rich-ditz-in-spazz-mode faces. Alexis Bledel, Keira Knightley, Emilie de Ravin, Alona Tal, and Evan Rachel Wood are taken. Elisabeth Harnois was my back-up choice but she's now been held. I can find plenty of late-20s-to-early-30s adults who have the right look and quiet confidence, but not younger than that. Rachel Nichols would be perfect but there are next to no icons of her. Sigh. Help? 11

January 8th, 2009 7:31 pm Oh, the crazy world of celebrities and celeb-stalking! [ ] So Kristen Stewart, Nikki Reed, and Robert Pattinson have Twitter accounts. ~Secret~ Twitter accounts. This article in Co-Ed Magazine on celeb hotties happened to give out the girls' account names. Kristen flipped out and locked hers, and now I'm watching Nikki do the same. And I quote: "are you serious? our names are really random how the fuck did the find us? how do you 'protect your entrys'?" Whether the Co-Ed piece was the first article to out them or not, I don't know, but considering they've had their accounts for... barely a month now, it looks like, and they've only got a few hundred followers, I'm guessing it probably was. Two days is just enough time to get flooded with "Soandso is now following you on Twitter" messages and flip out about it. If it had happened earlier, it seems likely that the panic would have happened earlier too. So anyway. I imagine that Nikki's will also wind up locked within the next few minutes, and whether or not Rob locks his, I have no idea. I don't particularly care -- I'm not really the following celebrities type, but puja linked me to the article, so I clicked around out of curiosity -- but I have to admit that watching the spazz has been entertaining. I mean, if you're a celebrity and you want your stuff to stay private, either don't put your real name on it or lock it so that random strangers can't access it. Preferably both. If you leave it public and make it really obvious who you are, inevitably someone is going to find it. I mean... This is the internet. This is what's it's good at. And while I definitely feel that North America's obsession with celebrities is scary levels of unhealthy and there's no respect at all for basic personal boundaries, defying all common sense for dealing with it means that you don't really have anybody to blame but yourself if your private shit winds up in the media. Poor kids. I would Direct Message them with the article link, so they'd at least know where it came from, if I could. I tried to, in fact, but discovered that unfortunately you can't DM anyone who isn't following you. 9

December 11th, 2008 7:03 pm [Hell's Bells] Jo's profile. [ ] ( there I go jumping before the gunshot has gone off )

December 10th, 2008 3:00 pm Yikes. [ ] Wow. IJ has almost no S2 layouts, and I can't port my own custom ones over from IJ because they don't have Smooth Sailing or Flexible Squares. Shit. 1

December 9th, 2008 6:30 pm [Icons] Comic book banners. (35) [ ] These can be used above character profiles, on userinfo pages, etc. Since it seems even Marvel's colourists indulge in the crack (Magma in molten green? Noriko with pinky-purple electricity? What are you ON?), several of these have been seriously modified, which means I will have to go cut a bitch if I find them ganked without credit. That said: I have about fifty more images that I have yet to touch -- Bobby, Rogue, Scott, Storm, Kurt, Mystique, Nico from Runaways, Spidey, Black Cat, Wonder Woman, Ultimate!Vision (now with more boobs), etc -- so if people want more splash images and/or headers made, I can do so. comic book banners. ( 35 images. ) 19

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