Off the Cliff

lj, if you want me to leave, just say 'I'd prefer you went to another blogging service.' You needn't keep dropping these hints.

( More smuggery )

( Burn it with fire )

Dear lj. Dear bloody lj. I wondered why I was suddenly getting absurd amounts of spam again and all of it in multiples. Well, it's that (lj username)@livejournal.com address they give you. They gave their sponsors access to it et voilà.

So to circumvent it, go to admin console and enter
set no_mail_alias 1
This does not stop comment notification, apparently, but I shall hope it stops my spam.

Plotting the story Thursday on a happy cicada singing afternoon with a warm sun, I decided to have a typhoon hit Tokyo to bring about some necessary action. Today as I write it is typhooning, in its civil TO fashion, out the windows. Most helpful of the elements. Helps me get the feeling right.

(I wanted to call it pathetic fallacy but of course it's not. And I was quite old before I realized the pathetic part wasn't an opprobrious dismissal. '(sneer) What a pathetic fallacy!')

(And shall I mention how I loathe lj's browse function for user pics, which I always click by accident? The little x that should banish it at once doesn't work and I have to select and enter before it goes away. Why don't they give a list of tags instead?)

ETA: See. This is why I don't want to stop reading fanficrants. Umlaut. I'm enchanted. I want to write umlaut. I just can't think of any canonically gay characters to write it with and any females to pair them with. Maybe I'll just go back to trying some of those narrative tricks the Chinese writers do in their fics, the ones that paleaswater keeps talking about.

OK. I need an alternative to lj. I don't want to see the stupid fugly navigation strip that they slapped on my lj today. I disenabled it in my own preferences- do not show it in mine, do not show it in others. But evidently unless an lj owner has disenabled it in their own options, I'm going to see the stupid fugly navigation strip. So to a bunch of lj-community owners- disenable the fugly navigation strip please.

Of course this is a good way of breaking the fanficrants habit. But it'll only drive me to the journalfen wank communities aka The Sheep Look Up, and the pickings there are much much worse. No really- they are.

Flipping lj has logged me out five times this evening. Screw them.

I was thinking about that panel with Goujun writing his memoirs or whatever they are, and the scar through his eye. Why does post-Apocalypse Goujun only have one eye? And then the obvious answer occurred to me. No, *not* 'somebody took it out with a sword.' Not at all. It's so that he can be a clever historical reference. If you have a dragon (I learned this from Shibata Ami) he must be a one-eyed dragon. What am I talking about? Google 'dokugan ryu' and you'll find out.

Happy birthday, shiny_monkey. Next year in Toronto south-western Ontario someplace.
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The thing I like about Pumpkin Eloquent is that it displays readably at whatever resolution I use (unless someone uploads a horking big graphic, usually from a quizilla test.) Most other styles, for whatever reason, don't: they slop off the page unless I up the resolution to something that gives me headaches like, say, 800x600. ^^;; Sunshiny I say this is all to the good since it stops me procrastinating by reading other people's f-lists- all that scrolling back and forth gets tiresome, however fascinating the discussions may be.

mikeneko however has a twist in her new layout. Scrolling down doesn't just make the text move upwards. As it moves upwards it reassembles itself at each scroll. tpod has this problem feature as well, and I've wondered why it happens. I can't see anything in the coding that would do it. Anybody know?