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My active journal is the one you're looking at. My active blog is

erinptah (Humanist + Humorist on Wordpress). Locked personal posts are found here on DW; weekly roundups of all the fanworks I've posted around the Internet are on Wordpress. All other content is mirrored between both.

But I'm A Cat Person is a webcomic about magical shifting battle monsters and the humans who are just trying to get on with their lives. Updates M-W-F, with periodic contests and freebies mixed in. Check it out. And don't miss the archives of And Shine Heaven Now, the world's second-most-popular Hellsing-related comic.

Other places I update regularly are

ptahrrific (fanfiction and mixes), sailorptah@dA ([fan]art), and F@#k Yeah, Iambic Pentameter @ tumblr (rhymes, memes, and miscellaneous reblogs). You can keep up with all of the above via Facebook as well.

Megaupload, the Hong Kong-based site I've been using for large-file storage (including fanmixes and fanvids), is down. The US government has messed with their DNS info, meaning the URL no longer works, and while theoretically it's still accessible by IP address, that's given me nothing but timeout errors.

Several people involved with running and promoting the website have been arrested in New Zealand, to be extradited to the US. It's still not entirely clear how solid the charges are with respect to (a) US law and (b) our extradition treaty with NZ.

Anonymous has lost no time in firing back, hacking involved sites (from the Department of Justice to the RIAA) right and left.

Here's a pretty good breakdown of the case as it stands, and this FFA thread is keeping tabs on new updates as they hit. Will probably be out-of-date within the next eight hours, but I'm going to be offline for much of the weekend. If you're reading this from The Future, do hit up Google to see what's happened since.

And for anyone who wants to complain that this, like PIPA or SOPA, is part of the Epic Battle between good moral people and Those Darn Pirates, let me drop a few timely links: PIPA co-sponsors and supporters violating copyright on the Internet and the author of SOPA violating copyright on the Internet.

Import of the Sweet Blossoms theme on Wordpress.

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Title: Sweet Blossoms
Credit to:

sailorptah
Base style: Tabula Rasa
Type: Full layout in CSS
Best resolution: 1024x768+
Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome
Features: customizable, fixed width, 2 columns

/********************DO NOT REMOVE THIS********************
Sweet Blossoms (Wordpress import) by sailorptah
Theme: Tabula Rasa
Original: http://theme.wordpress.com/retired/sweet-blossoms/
Layouts: http://sailorptah.dreamwidth.org/tag/layouts
*************************************************************/
H1, H2, H3 {
    margin: .25em 0;
    padding: .25em 0;
}

img {
    border: none;
}

hr {
    display: none;
}
.entry-content hr,
.comment-content hr {
    display: block;
    margin: 1em 10%;
}

body {
    font-size: 100%;
    padding: 0;
    background-color: #DA4A74;
    background-image:url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/sweet-blossoms/images/bgstrip.gif);
    background-repeat:repeat-x;
    background-position: 0px 45px;
    
}

html body {
    margin-left: 0em;
    margin-right: 0em;
}

a { color:#dc2b8f; }
a:visited { color:#dc2b8f; }
a:hover { color:#ca32b7; }
a:active { color:#ca32b7; }

q { font-style: italic; }

.two-columns-right #content {
    border-right: 15em solid transparent;
}
.column-right #content {
    min-width: 15em; /* prevents sidebar overlap of entry, when entry becomes narrower than sidebar */
}

#canvas {
    width: 760px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    background-image:url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/sweet-blossoms/images/mainbg.gif);
    background-repeat:repeat-y;
}

#content-footer {
    height: 0;
    font-size: 0; /*to make IE happy*/
    clear: both;
}

#header, #footer {
    margin: 0;
    clear: both;
    padding: .5em;
}

#header {
    background-image:url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/sweet-blossoms/images/header.gif);
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    width:760px;
    height:230px;
    text-align:left;
    margin-top: -8px;
}

h1#title {
    display: none;
}

h2#subtitle  {
    display: none;
}
h2#pagetitle {
    width:300px;
    height:20px;
    padding:180px 0px 0px 150px;
    margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
    color:#c23095;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:16px;
    font-weight:bold;  
}

#footer {
    background: transparent;
    width: 350px;
    margin:-25px 0px 0px 6px;
    padding:0px 0px 20px 490px;
    color:#c23095;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:10px;
    font-weight:regular;
    color:#a93255;
}

#footer a {  }
#footer a:active {  }
#footer a:hover {  }
#footer a:visited {  }

#primary {
    float: left;
    width:100%;
    margin-right:-100%;
    margin-left: 0;
}

.one-column #primary { float: none; }

#primary > .inner:first-child {
    padding: 1em;
}

.two-columns-right #secondary {
    float: right;
    width: 140px;
    margin-right: -100px;
    margin-top: -50px;
}

#secondary > .inner:first-child {
    padding: 1em;
}

.two-columns-right #tertiary {
    clear: both;
}
.two-columns-right #tertiary .inner {
    margin-left: 75px;
    padding-top: 20px;
}
.two-columns-right #tertiary .module {
    float: left;
    width: 500px;
}
/* so that #tertiary won't overlay #secondary in IE7 */
}

#tertiary > .inner:first-child {
    padding: 1em;
}

.navigation ul {
    width: 350px;
    list-style: none;
    margin:-75px 0px 0px -10px;
    padding:0px 0px 0px 490px;
    color:#c23095;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:10px;
    font-weight:regular;
    color:#a93255;
}

.navigation a {
    color:#a93255;
}
.noentries {
    padding: 0 .5em;
}

/* entries */

.entry-wrapper {
    margin-left: 125px;
    margin-top: 15px;
    width: 305px;
    color:#a93255;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:11px;
}

.entry {
    background: transparent;
    
}

.entry .entry-title {
    background: #fff;
    padding: 10px;
    width: 305px;
    margin-left: -10px;
}

.entry .entry-title {
    font-style: normal;
}

.entry .header { 
    font-style: italic;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
}

.entry .entry-title, .entry .entry-title a {
    
}

.entry a {  }
.entry a:visited {  }
.entry a:hover {  }
.entry a:active {  }

/* To prevent overlapping when icon's on the left */
/* and list is the first thing in content */
.entry-content li,
.comment-content li {
    list-style-position: inside;
    }

.metadata ul {
    display: inline;
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: .5em;
    padding-left: 0;
}
.metadata li {
    margin-bottom: .5em;
}
.metadata.top-metadata ul {
    margin: 0;
}
.metadata.top-metadata {
    margin-bottom: 1em;
}

.tag ul {
    display: inline;
    list-style-position: inside;
    margin-left: .5em;
    padding-left: 0;
}

.inner .tag {
    padding-top: 10px;
    font-style: italic;
}

.tag ul li {
    display: inline;
    padding: .25em;
} /* same for month view */

ul.entry-management-links {
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
}
ul.entry-management-links li {
    display: inline;
    padding: 0 .25em;
}

ul.entry-interaction-links {
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    text-align: right;
}

.entry-interaction-links a {  }

ul.entry-interaction-links li {
    display: inline;
    padding: 0 .25em;
}

/* userpics */

.contents .userpic img {
    border: 3px solid white;
    width: auto;
    height: auto;
}

.contents .userpic a {
    float: right;
    margin-top: -15px;
    padding: 5px;
}

.module .userpic img {
    border: 3px solid white;
}

/* comments */

#comments {
    width: 305px;
    margin-left: 125px;
    color:#c23095;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:10px;
    font-weight:regular;
    color:#a93255;
}
#comments .userpic img {
    width: 50%;
    height: 50%;
    float: right;
    margin-top: -15px;
    padding: 0px;
    border: 2px solid white;
}

.comment-wrapper {
    padding: .5em 0;
}

.comment .comment-title, .comment .comment-title a {
    
}

.comment .comment-title {
    
}

.comment-title h4 {
    font-size: inherit;
    font-weight: inherit;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

ul.comment-management-links {
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    text-align: right;
}
ul.comment-management-links li {
    display: inline;
    padding: 0 .25em;
}

ul.comment-interaction-links {
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
}
ul.comment-interaction-links li {
    display: inline;
    padding: 0 .25em;
}

textarea#commenttext {
    width: 100%; /* fix for FF form width glitch */
}

/* archive */

table.month {
    margin: 0 auto;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.month td {
    height: 3.25em;
}
table.month td,
table.month th {
    border: 1px solid; /* ? */
    padding: 3px;
}
table.month td p {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 3px;
}

.month dl dt {
    font-weight: bold;
}
.month dl span.time {
    padding-right: .5em;
}
.month dl h3 {
    display: inline;
    font-size: medium;
}
.page-month .month .entry-poster {
    margin-right: .5em;
}
.month dl .tag ul {
    margin-top: 0;
}

/* icons */

.sorting-options ul {
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: 0;
}

.sorting-options ul li {
    display: inline;
}

.keywords ul {
    display: inline;
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: .5em;
    padding-left: 0;
}

.keywords ul li {
    display: inline;
    padding: .25em;
}

/* modules */

.module {
    background: transparent;
    margin-left: -5px;
    
}

.module a { text-decoration: none; }
.module a:visited {  }
.module a:hover {  }
.module a:active {  }

.module h2 {
    color:#9a2375;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:13px;
    font-style: italic;
    padding-top: 10px;
}

.module-content {
    color:#a93255;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:11px;    
}

.module-content ul {
    list-style: outside;
    padding-left: 0;
}
.module-content li {
    list-style: none;
    background-image:url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/sweet-blossoms/images/list.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 0px 1px;
    padding:0px 0px 0px 12px;
    margin:0px;
    color:#a93255;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:11px;
}

ul.userlite-interaction-links.icon-links {
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
}

ul.userlite-interaction-links.icon-links li {
    display: inline;
    padding: 0 .20em;
    background-position: -10px -10px;
}

ul.userlite-interaction-links.text-links {
    text-align: left;
}

.module-calendar .module-content {
    text-align: center;
}

.one-column .module-calendar .module-content {
    text-align: left;
}

.module-calendar table {
    margin: 0 auto;
}

.one-column .module-calendar table {
    margin: 0;
}

.module-calendar td {
    padding: 1px;
}
.module-calendar td a {
    display: block;
    padding: 2px;
}

.search-box {
    margin: .2em auto;
}

/* wrap long content, particularly openid usernames */
.module-pagesummary .ljuser {
    white-space: normal !important;
}
.module-pagesummary .module-content {
    word-wrap: break-word;
}
.module-credit dt, .module-credit dd {
    display: inline;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
.module-credit dt {
    font-weight: bold;
    margin-right: 0.5em;
}

.tags_cloud li, .module-tags_cloud li { display: inline;
    list-style-type: none; }

.module-syndicate .module-content {
    text-align: center;
}

.one-column .module-syndicate .module-content {
    text-align: left;
}

To use:

Go to Select Journal Style and set your theme to one of the Tabula Rasa styles: 2 columns, sidebar on the right.

Go to Customize Journal Style: Custom CSS, untick Use layout's stylesheet(s), and copy the contents of the above textarea into Use embedded CSS.

Save and enjoy!

* I have more layouts in mind, but am running out of journals to showcase them on. If you install this layout and are willing to let me use your journal as the new "Live Preview" link, please let me know!

Layout code modified from Just An Illusion by

fania at

mentahelada.
Art by Kohta Hirano from the Hellsing manga.
Color scheme and graphics by yours truly.

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Title: Gunshots & Ashes
Credit to:

mentahelada & Kohta Hirano
Base style: Transmogrified
Type: Full layout in CSS
Best resolution: 1024x768+
Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome
Features: customizable, fixed width, 2 columns

/********************DO NOT REMOVE THIS********************
Layout 002 [Just An Illusion] by Fania @ Mentahelada (mentahelada.dreamwidth.org)
Theme: Transmogrified
----------CREDITS:
Background: http://dryicons.com/free-graphics/preview/classy-card/
*************************************************************/

/*****BASICS*****/
* {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
/** {box-sizing:border-box; -moz-box-sizing:border-box; }*/
.ippu {font-size:11px;}
a{outline:none;}
a img{border:0;}
p, td {font-size:inherit;}
code, kbd, pre, tt {font-family:monospace;}
i, em{font-style:italic;}
::-moz-selection {background:#ccc;color:#fff;}
b, strong{font-weight:900;}	
blockquote {
	background:#1C20A8 url(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/int_ashen.png) top left repeat;
	border:1px solid #d4f0fe;
	margin:10px 0;
	padding:10px;
	width:80%;
	color:#fff;
	font:normal 100 1.3em "Arial Narrow", Arial;
	text-align:left;
	line-height:1.6em;	
}
h4{font-weight:900; font-size:1.4em; text-transform:uppercase;}
/*****BASIC LAYOUT*****/
body {
	background:#000 url(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/int_ashen.png) top left repeat;
	color:#fff;
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size:100%;
	line-height:103%;
}
#container {
	background:transparent url(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/int_silhouette.png) bottom right fixed no-repeat;
	margin:0 auto;
	width:100%;
	min-width:800px;
}
#wrap {
	/*padding:0 260px 0 10px;*/
	font-size:0.75em;
	margin:0 auto;
	width:800px;
}
#content {
	/*position:relative;*/
	width:100%;
	float:left;
	width:600px;}
/*****HEADER*****/
#header {
	background:#DDA44B;
	height:2px;
	overflow:auto;
}
#header h1, header h2 {display:none;}
/* section one = nav links */
.module-section-one {
	font-size:1em/*16px*/;
	text-align:center;
}
.module-section-one li {
	display:inline;
	list-style:none;
}
.module-section-one ul {
	background:#5C0C04;
	padding:17px;
	text-align:center;
}
.module-section-one li a {
	background:transparent;
	margin:10px;
	padding:5px;
	color:#fff;
	font-style:italic;
	text-decoration:none;
}
.module-section-one ul li a:hover, .module-section-one ul li.active a {
	background:#e9f7fe;
	color:#FFFF80;
}
/*****BY ALL MEANS SIDEBAR LOL*****/ 
.journal-name, .journal-website-name{display:none;}  
.module-section-two {
	/*position:relative;*/
	float:left;
	width:200px;
	/*margin-right:-250px;*/
}
.module-section-two .module {
	background:transparent;
	/*border:1px solid #d4f0fe;*/
	margin:10px 0 20px 20px;
}
.module-section-two h2 {
	background:transparent;
	margin-bottom:7px;
	padding:0.2em;	
	color:#FFC73F;	
	font-size:1.3em;
	font-style:italic;
	font-weight:100;
	text-align:left;				
}
.module-section-two h2 a, .module-section-two .module-header a {
	background:transparent;
	padding:0;
	color:#FFC73F;
	font-style:italic;
	font-weight:100;
	text-decoration:none;		
}
.module-section-two h2 a:hover, .module-section-two .module-header a:hover {color:#FFFF80;}
.module-userprofile{padding:5px 0;}
.module-userprofile h2, .module-userprofile p{display:none;}
.module-userprofile .userpic img {display:none;}
.module-userprofile .userpic {text-align:center;}
.module-userprofile ul {text-align:center; margin-top:20px;}
.module-userprofile li {display: inline; padding:7px; list-style:none;}
/**/
.module-calendar {text-align:center;}
.module-calendar table {width:90%; margin:0 auto; font-size:0.9166em;}
.module-calendar table th {color:#FFFF80; font-size:1.0909em; font-weight:100;}
.empty-day{background:#5C0C04; border:1px solid #d4f0fe; padding:2px;}
.entry-day{background:#FFFF80; border:1px solid #FFFF80; padding:2px;}
.entry-day a{color:#fff; text-decoration:none;}
.entry-day a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}
.entry-day:hover{background:#FFC73F; border:1px solid #FFC73F;}
/**/
.module-section-two ul {list-style-type:none;}
.module-typelist li.module-list-item a, .module-categories li.module-list-item a{
	background:#5C0C04;
	display:block;
	padding:5px 3px;
	margin-bottom:2px;
	color:#FFFF80;
	text-decoration:none;
}
.module-typelist li.module-list-item a:hover, .module-categories li.module-list-item a:hover{
	background:#DDA44B;
	color:#fff;
}
.module-pagesummary li.module-list-item, .module-categories_multilevel li.module-list-item{
	background:#5C0C04;
	padding:5px 3px;
	margin-bottom:2px;
}
.module-pagesummary li.module-list-item a, .module-categories_multilevel li.module-list-item a{color:#FFFF80; text-decoration:none;}
.module-pagesummary li.module-list-item a:hover, .module-categories_multilevel li.module-list-item a:hover{background:#DDA44B;color:#fff;}
.module-pagesummary li.module-list-item:hover, .module-categories_multilevel li.module-list-item:hover{background:#DDA44B;color:#fff;}
.module-syndicate{text-align:center;}
.module-categories_cloud a, .module-categories_multilevel a{padding:3px; color:#FFFF80; text-decoration:none;}
.module-categories_cloud a:hover{color:#fff;}
/*****ENTRY*****/
#content{padding-top:5px;}
a:hover{text-decoration:none;}
.navigation {
	background:transparent;
	padding:7px;
	color: #fff;
	font-size:0.9166em;
	font-style:italic;
	text-align:right;
	text-transform:lowercase;
}
.navigation ul {text-align:left;}
.navigation li {display:inline; padding:0 5px;}
.navigation li a{text-decoration:none;}
.navigation li a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}
.navigation .page-back a:before {
	content: "< ";
	font-size:1em;
	letter-spacing:0;
	vertical-align:baseline;
	padding-right: 1px;
}
.navigation .page-forward a:after {
	content: " >";
	font-size:1em;
	letter-spacing:0;
	vertical-align:baseline;
	padding-left:1px;
}
.entry, .comment, .text_noentries_day {
	border:1px solid #DDA44B;
	padding:10px;
	position:relative;
	margin-bottom:30px;
}
.entry .userpic img, .comment .userpic img {border:none; width:100px; height:auto;}
.entry .userpic a, .comment .userpic a {
	border:0;
	position:absolute;
	top:10px;
}
.entry p {margin-bottom: 20px;}
.entry .userpic img a, .comment .userpic img a {border:0;}
.entry .header, .comment .header{padding-left:110px;}
.entry-title, .comment-title {position:relative;}
.entry-title a, .comment-title a {text-decoration:none;}
.entry-content{margin-top:60px; min-height:100px;}
.comment-content{margin-top:50px; min-height:50px;}
#content > hr {display: none;}
.datetime {
	padding-top:1px;
	color:#999!important;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	font-size:0.9166em; 
	text-transform:uppercase;
}
.datetime a{color:#999!important; text-decoration:none;}
.datetime a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}
.entry-poster, .comment-poster{
	border-bottom:1px solid #DDA44B;
	display:block;
	margin-left:110px; 
	margin-bottom:10px;
	padding:3px; 
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	font-size:0.9166em; 
	text-transform:uppercase;
}
.poster-ip{float:left;margin-left:110px; }
.entry-wrapper-odd .entry, .comment-wrapper-odd .comment, .text_noentries_day {background:#5C0C04;}
.entry-wrapper-odd .userpic a, .comment-wrapper-odd .userpic a {background:#5C0C04;border:0;}
.entry-wrapper-odd .entry-title, .comment-wrapper-odd .comment-title{
	background:#5C0C04;
	color:#FFFF80;
	font-size:1.4em;
	font-style:italic;
	font-weight:100;
}
.entry-wrapper-odd .entry-title a, .comment-wrapper-odd .comment-title a {color: #FFFF80; letter-spacing:0.05em;}
.entry-wrapper-odd .entry-title a:hover, .comment-wrapper-odd .comment-title a:hover {color:#b9b9b9;}
.entry-wrapper-odd a, .comment-wrapper-odd a {color:#FFFF80;}
/**/
.entry-wrapper-even .entry, .comment-wrapper-even .comment{background:#5C0C04;}
.entry-wrapper-even .userpic a, .comment-wrapper-even .userpic a{background:#5C0C04;border:0;}
.entry-wrapper-even .entry-title, .comment-wrapper-even .comment-title{
	background:#5C0C04;
	color:#FFC73F;
	font-size:1.4em;
	font-style:italic;
	font-weight:100;
}
.entry-wrapper-even .entry-title a, .comment-wrapper-even .comment-title a {color:#FFC73F; letter-spacing:0.05em;}
.entry-wrapper-even .entry-title a:hover, .comment-wrapper-even .comment-title a:hover {color:#b9b9b9;}
a, .entry-wrapper-even a, .comment-wrapper-even a {color:#FFC73F;}
.entry .time, .entry .date {display: inline-block;}
.metadata{
	border-top:1px solid #DDA44B;
	margin:10px 0 3px;
	color:#999;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:0.9166em;
	font-weight:100; 
	text-align: left;
	text-transform:uppercase;
}
.tag{
	margin:10px 0 10px;
	color:#999;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:0.9166em;
	font-weight:100; 
	text-align: left;
	text-transform:uppercase;
}
.tag ul {display: inline;}
.tag li, .metadata li, .footer li {display: inline; list-style: none; margin-left:0!important;}
.tag li:before {content: ", ";}
.tag li:first-child:before {content: " ";}
.metadata a, .tag a, .metadata-label{font-weight:100; color:#999;}
.entry .metadata li {list-style: none;display: block;}
.entry ul li {
	list-style:square;
	margin-left:50px;
	padding-left:0px;
}
.entry ol li {
	list-style:decimal-leading-zero;
	margin-left:50px;
	padding-left:0px;
}
.entry .footer {border-top:1px solid #DDA44B; margin:10px 0 3px;}
.entry .footer .inner, .comment .footer .inner {text-align:left;}
.entry .footer a {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	font-size:0.9166em;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-transform:uppercase; 
	white-space: nowrap;}
.entry .footer hr {display: none;}

.entry-management-links, .entry-interaction-links, .comment-management-links, .comment-interaction-links {text-align:right; display:inline;}
.entry-management-links li, .entry-interaction-links li, .comment-management-links li, .comment-interaction-links li {display:inline; list-style:none; padding-right:15px;}
.entry-management-links li a:hover, .entry-interaction-links li a:hover, .comment-management-links li a:hover, .comment-interaction-links li a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
/*****FOOTER*****/   
.module-section-three {display:none;}
span#site-branding{display:none;}
.hfeed .navigation {}
.bottomcomment{padding-bottom:10px;}
/*****TAGS PAGE*****/ 
.page-tags #content{
	background:#5C0C04;
	margin-top:10px;
	padding:10px;
	width:580px!important;
}
.page-tags #content h2 {
	background:#5C0C04;
	color:#FFFF80;
	font-size:1.4em;
	font-style:italic;
	font-weight:100;
}
.page-tags #content ul{
	padding-top:20px;
}
.page-tags #content ul li{
	list-style:disc;
	margin-left:50px;
	padding-bottom:10px;
}
/*****CALENDAR PAGE*****/  
.page-archive .navigation ul{padding-top:20px;}
.page-archive .navigation ul li{padding:20px; font-size:1.3em;}
.month-wrapper, #archive-month dl {
	background:#5C0C04;
	border:1px solid #DDA44B;
	padding:10px 0;
	position:relative;
	margin: 20px 0px;
}
.page-archive .header{text-align:right;border-bottom:1px dotted #DDA44B;padding-right:10px;}
.month-wrapper h3 {
	background:#5C0C04;
	color:#FFC73F;
	font-size:1.4em;
	font-style:italic;
	font-weight:100;
}

.month table{width:90%; margin:0 auto; font-size:0.9166em;}
.month table th {
	vertical-align: text-top;
	padding: 5px;
	color:#FFFF80; 
	font-size:1.0909em; 
	font-weight:900; 
	line-height:2em;
	text-align:center;
}
.month caption {display: none;}
.month .day{background:#5C0C04; border:1px solid #DDA44B; padding:5px; line-height:2em; vertical-align:text-top; text-align:center;}
.day-has-entries{background:#FFC73F!important; border:1px solid #FFC73F; padding:2px;}
.month .day-has-entries {line-height:1em;}
.month .day-has-entries a{color:#fff; font-size:1.9em; text-decoration:none;}
.month .day-has-entries a:hover{color:#333; text-decoration:underline;}
.day-has-entries:hover{background:#ccc!important; border:1px solid #ccc;}
.day-has-entries p{margin:3px!important; text-align:right;}
/* IE only to line up the empty days neatly *+html .month .day span, *+html .month th span{vertical-align: 100%;}*/
.month .footer {width:90%; text-align:center; margin:10px auto;}
/*****REPLY PAGE, +COMMENTS, ++*****/  
.page-reply .entry-wrapper{margin-top:20px;}
#postform {background:#5C0C04; border:1px solid #DDA44B;margin:20px 0; padding:20px;}
#commenttext {width:90%;}
.text_noentries_day {margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;}
#archive-month dt {font-weight: bold;}
#archive-month .entry-title {font-size: 10pt;display: inline-block;padding-left: 5px;}
.poster-ip{color:#a8a8a8;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:0.9166em; text-transform:uppercase;}
#qrdiv table, #qrformdiv table, form #qrform{background:#5C0C04; border:1px solid #fff!important;}
/*****CONTEXTUAL POPUP****/
div.ContextualPopup img {border:0;}
div.ContextualPopup div.Inner {background:#fff!important; padding:5px;color:#fff!important; font-size:1em; font-weight:100!important;border:1px solid #FFC73F;}
div.ContextualPopup .Content {font-weight:100!important; margin-right:50px;}
div.ContextualPopup .Relation {font-size:1.2727em/*14px*/; font-weight:900!important;color:#FFFF80!important;}
div.ContextualPopup .Content .OnlineStatus {font-weight:100!important;}
div.ContextualPopup .Userpic {font-weight:100!important;}
div.ContextualPopup div.Inner a, div.ContextualPopup div.Inner a:link, div.ContextualPopup div.Inner a:visited {color:#FFC73F!important; font-weight:100; text-decoration:none!important; text-transform:none;}
div.ContextualPopup div.Inner a:hover{color:#FFFF80!important;font-weight:100;text-decoration:underline!important;}

To use:

Go to Select Journal Style and set your theme to one of the Transmogrified styles.

Go to Customize Journal Style: Custom CSS, untick Use layout's stylesheet(s), and copy the contents of the above textarea into Use embedded CSS.

Save and enjoy!

Layout code modified from the DW-modified Elegant Grunge layout by Alis Dee (

dee).
Color scheme and some graphics by yours truly.

Live preview | Screenshot

Title: Open Skies
Credit to: Mostly

dee, frankly.
Base style: Transmogrified
Type: Full layout in CSS
Best resolution: 1024x768+
Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome
Features: customizable, fixed width, 2 columns

/ * whee core2! */
* { box-sizing:border-box; -moz-box-sizing:border-box }

/************************************************************************
  STYLE:    Elegant Grunge [modified]
  LAYER:    Transmogrified
  AUTHOR:   Alis Dee (http://void-star.net)
  VERSION:  v1.0
  DATE:     10th May, 2009
  NOTES:    Based on the "Elegant Grunge" theme for WordPress:
            http://michael.tyson.id.au/wordpress/themes/elegant-grunge/
************************************************************************/
/* redefined html */
html {
  padding: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
  color: #5d5d5d;
  font-size: small;
  font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, sans-serif;
  background-repeat: repeat-y;
  background-position: center;
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/bkg-1.png");
  background-color: #6EA55F;
}
body {
  padding: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
}
a img {
  border-width: 0px;
}
a {
  color: #6EA55F;
  text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}
a:hover {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}

/* header stuff */
#container {
}
#header {
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-color: white;
  font-family: Cambria, Garamond, Georgia, serif;
  height: 199px;
}
#title {
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-position: center top;
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/skyheader.png");
  height: 199px;
  width: 100%;
}
h1 {
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-size: 200%;
  color: white;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
}
h1 a, h1 a:hover, h1 a:visited {
  color: white;
}
#title span {
  display: block;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  margin-left: 20px;
  width: 540px;
  padding-top: 20px;
}

.module-section-one {
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
  position: absolute;
  top: 20;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  margin-bottom: 0px;
  font-size: 120%;
  font-family: Cambria, Garamond, Georgia, serif;
  color: #6EA55F;
  border-top-color: #6DA8C1;
  border-top-style: dotted;
  border-top-width: 1px;
  border-bottom-color: #6DA8C1;
  border-bottom-style: dotted;
  border-bottom-width: 1px;
  background-color: #ffffff;
}
.module-section-one a {
  color: #6EA55F;
}
.module-section-one a:hover {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}
.module-section-one ul {
  text-align: center;
}
.module-section-one li {
  padding-right: 1em;
  padding-left: 1em;
  display: inline;
}

/* the two inner columns */
#wrap {
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  width: 760px;
  margin-top: 60px;
}

/* the main content */
#content {
  width: 510px;
  float: left;
  margin-top: 0px;
}
.entry {
}
.entry-wrapper .separator {
  clear: both;
}
.entry .datetime {
  display: block;
  padding-bottom: 0.7em;
  padding-right: 140px;
  margin-bottom: 0.5em;
  border-bottom-color: #c3c0ba;
  border-bottom-style: solid;
  border-bottom-width: 1px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: right;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  color: #838383;
  font-size: 80%;
}
.entry .datetime a, .entry .datetime a:hover, .entry .datetime a:visited {
  color: #838383;
}
.entry h3, #content h2, #archive-year h3, #archive-month dt {
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  margin-bottom: 0.2em;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  color: #6DA8C1;
  font-size: 160%;
  font-family: Cambria, Garamond, Georgia, serif;
}
.entry h3 a, .entry h3 a:hover, .entry h3 a:visited,
#archive-month dt a, #archive-month dt a:hover, #archive-month dt a:visited {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}
.entry .restrictions, .entry .access-filter {
  float: left;
}
.entry-poster {
  text-transform: lowercase;
  font-style: italic;
  font-size: 80%;
  color: #838383;
}
.entry-poster img {
  width: 1em;
  height: 1em;
}
.entry-content {
  margin-top: 1em;
  margin-left: 1em;
  line-height: 1.7;
}
.entry-content img {
  max-width: 80%;
}
.entry-content a {
  text-decoration: underline;
}
.entry-content ul li {
  list-style-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/li.png");
}
.entry-content hr {
  border: 0px;
  border-top-color: #c3c0ba;
  border-top-style: solid;
  border-top-width: 1px;
  margin-bottom: 2em;
  margin-top: 2em;
}
.entry-content small {
  font-size: 80%;
  color: #838383;
}
.entry-content h4 {
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  margin-bottom: 0em;
  border-bottom-color: #c3c0ba;
  border-bottom-style: solid;
  border-bottom-width: 1px;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  font-size: 100%;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-family: Cambria, Garamond, Georgia, serif;
  color: #6DA8C1;
}
.entry-content h5 {
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 1;
  margin-bottom: 0em;
  letter-spacing: 0.2em;
  font-size: 100%;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-family: Cambria, Garamond, Georgia, serif;
  color: #6DA8C1;
}
.entry-content blockquote {
  font-family: Cambria, Garamond, Georgia, serif;
}

.entry .userpic {
  display: block;
  margin-top: -2.3em;
  margin-bottom: 0.5em;
  margin-left: 0.5em;
  padding: 15px;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  float: right;
}
.no-userpic .userpic {
  display: none;
}
.no-userpic .datetime {
  padding-right: 0px;
}

.metadata ul {
  padding-left: 0px;
  margin-left: 0px;
}
.metadata li {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #838383;
  display: inline;
}
.metadata .metadata-item {
  font-size: 80%;
  display: block;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  margin-left: 0.6em;
  padding-left: 26px;
  margin-top: 1em;
  height: 16px;
}
.metadata li a {
  color: #838383;
}
.metadata li a:hover {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}
.metadata .metadata-label {
  display: none;
}
.metadata-item-mood {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/imood.png");
}
.metadata-item-music {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ipod.png");
}
.metadata-item-location {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ihome.png");
}
.metadata img {
  float: right;
}

.tag {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/itag.png");
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  margin-left: 0.6em;
  padding-left: 26px;
  margin-top: 1em;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
  height: 16px;
}
.tag-text {
  display: none;
}
.tag ul {
  display: inline;
  margin-right: 1em;
  padding-left: 0px;
}
.tag li {
  display: inline;
  padding-right: 1em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #838383;
  font-size: 80%;
}
.tag li a {
  color: #838383;
}
.tag li a:hover {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}

.entry-management-links, .entry-interaction-links {
  padding-left: 0px;
  margin-left: 0px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-size: 80%;
}
.entry-interaction-links {
  float: left;
}
.entry-management-links {
  float: right;
  clear: right;
}
.entry-management-links a, .entry-interaction-links a {
  color: #F8FAF7;
  width: 16px;
  height: 16px;
  display: block;
  float: left;
  font-size: 1px;
  margin-left: 8px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: center center;
}
.entry-management-links a:hover, .entry-interaction-links a:hover {
  color: #F8FAF7;
}
.entry-management-links li, .entry-interaction-links li {
  padding-left: 0px;
  margin-left: 0px;
  display: inline;
}

.link_prev a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/iprev.png");
}
.edit_entry a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/iedit.png");
}
.edit_tags a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/itagedit.png");
}
.mem_add a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/imem.png");
}
.tell_friend a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/itaf.png");
}
.watch_comments a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/inotifyon.png");
}
.entry-readlink a, .entry-read a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/iread.png");
}
.entry-permalink a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ilink.png");
}
.entry-replylink a, .entry-reply a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ireply.png");
}
.link_next a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/inext.png");
}
.entry-readlink a {
  font-size: 8pt;
  padding-right: 20px;
  background-position: right;
  width: auto;
}
.entry-readlink a {
  color: #838383;
}
.entry-readlink a:hover {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}

hr.above-entry-interaction-links {
 display: none;
}
hr.below-reply-container {
  visibility: hidden;
  margin-bottom: 2em;
  clear: left;
}
.bottomcomment {
  border-top-color: #c3c0ba;
  border-top-style: solid;
  border-top-width: 1px;
  margin-top: 2em;
}

/* comments stuff */
#comments {
}
.comment-wrapper {
  padding-top: 50px;
}
.comment-wrapper .userpic {
  float: right;
  margin-top: -4.7em;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  padding: 3px;
}
.comment-wrapper .userpic img {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}
.comment-wrapper .header .datetime {
  visibility: hidden;
}
.comment-wrapper .header .datetime span {
  display: block;
  visibility: visible;
  margin-top: -7.5em;
  padding-bottom: 0.7em;
  padding-right: 110px;
  margin-bottom: 3em;
  border-bottom-color: #c3c0ba;
  border-bottom-style: solid;
  border-bottom-width: 1px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: right;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  color: #838383;
  font-size: 80%;
}
.no-userpic .header .datetime span {
  padding-right: 0px;
}
.comment-title {
  margin-top: 0em;
  padding-top: 1em;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  color: #6DA8C1;
  font-size: 120%;
  font-family: Cambria, Garamond, Georgia, serif;
}
.comment-title a, .comment-title a:hover, .comment-title a:visited {
  color: #6DA8C1;
}
.comment-poster {
  visibility: hidden;
}
.comment-poster span {
  display: block;
  visibility: visible;
  margin-top: -1.2em;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
  margin-left: 0em;
  text-transform: lowercase;
  font-style: italic;
  font-size: 90%;
  color: #838383;
}
.comment-poster span img {
  width: 1em;
  height: 1em;
}
.comment-content {
  margin-left: 1em;
  line-height: 1.7;
  font-size: 90%;
}
.comment-content ul li {
  list-style-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/li.png");
}
.ljedittime {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: right;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  color: #838383;
  font-size: 80%;
}

div.screened {
  filter: alpha(opacity=50);
  opacity: 0.5;
  -moz-opacity: 0.5;
}
div.screened:hover {
  filter: alpha(opacity=100);
  opacity: 1;
  -moz-opacity: 1;
}

.multiform-checkbox {
  font-size: 80%;
  float: left;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #838383;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  padding-top: 1.3em;
}

.comment-management-links, .comment-interaction-links {
  float: right;
  padding-left: 0px;
  margin-left: 0px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-size: 80%;
}
.comment-management-links a:hover, .comment-interaction-links a:hover {
  color: #F8FAF7;
}
.comment-management-links li, .comment-interaction-links li {
  padding-left: 0px;
  margin-left: 0px;
  display: inline;
}
.comment-management-links a, .comment-interaction-links a, .comment-interaction-links li.frozen {
  color: #F8FAF7;
  width: 16px;
  height: 16px;
  display: block;
  float: left;
  font-size: 1px;
  margin-left: 8px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: center center;
}

.watch_thread a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/inotifyoff.png");
}
.unwatch_thread a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/inotifyon.png");
}
.reply a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ireply.png");
}
.thread a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ithread.png");
}
.parent a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/inotrent.png");
}
.expand a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/iexpand.png");
}
.delete_comment a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/idel.png");
}
.screen_comment a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ilighton.png");
}
.unscreen_comment a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ilightoff.png");
}
.freeze_thread a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ilockoff.png");
}
.unfreeze_thread a {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/ilockon.png");
}
.comment-interaction-links li.frozen {
  background-image: url("http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r102/sailorptah/layouts/inocom.png");
}

.partial {
  font-size: 80%;
  line-height: 1;
  margin-top: -3em;
  margin-bottom: -2em;
}
.partial .comment-title {
  display: inline;
  font-size: 130%;
}

.comment .separator-after {
  clear: right;
}

.comment-pages {
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 70%;
  letter-spacing: 0.2em;
  color: #838383;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  clear: both;
}
.comment-pages b {
  font-weight: normal;
}

/* the calendar pages */
#archive-year h3, #archive-month dt {
  border-bottom: 1px solid #c3c0ba;
  margin-bottom: 2em;
  padding-bottom: 0.5em;
}
#archive-year table caption {
  display: none;
}
#archive-year table {
  width: 80%;
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To use:

Go to Select Journal Style, make sure you have a Reading Page Title chosen, and set your theme to one of the Transmogrified styles.

Go to Customize Journal Style: Text and set Link text to read comments to 1 // #. Repeat with Link text to read comments on a friends view entry.

Go to Customize Journal Style: Custom CSS, untick Use layout's stylesheet(s), and copy the contents of the above textarea into Use embedded CSS.

Save and enjoy!

ETA: Code has been tweaked thanks to testing from

valiha (details in comments). New version Open Skies 1.1 is now in the textarea above.

* I have more layouts in mind, but am running out of journals to showcase them on. If you install this layout and are willing to let me use your journal as the new "Live Preview" link, please let me know!

How to talk about gender with first graders in a way that gets them thinking and not bullying.

Musings on fantasy armor versus female figures, as crafted by someone who actually makes armor.

A history of Chicago's underground abortion services in the years before Roe v. Wade.

A cryptographer takes a closer look at Biblical Greek and inadvertently discovers that Paul's only clear condemnation of homosexuality...was a mistranslation.

Debunking the myth that pre-colonial Africa had no homosexuality. With research!

The tensions faced by a mixed-race family.

How do you keep a language from dying out? Make it available to text in, as is being done with the Mande family of West African languages and hopefully plenty more to come.

Next time someone tells you they support traditional marriage, send them this link: records of Christian same-sex weddings from the 300s through the 1600s.

The bad news: The

femmeslash_bang draft deadline, as well as the artist/story matching period, were supposed to be weeks ago. The mods have gone MIA.

The good news: In spite of the amazing disappearing deadlines, my WIP is still making progress. I got on an unexpected writing spree the past couple of days (possibly because I have at least three other things to procrstinate on), and am up to 21,000 words -- over the Big Bang minimum, even though the plot will probably demand about 40K more before it's properly over.

I just have so many feelings about these characters, you guys. Madoka, she doesn't even realize it, but when the chips are down she's clever, and so much more resourceful than she gives herself credit for. Sayaka's crazy-brave, and I mean that exactly: she looks fearless because she's reckless, and laughs off dangerous situations to cover the fact that she's compelled to dive into them, for reasons she probably doesn't even consciously recognize. And Homura, tragic woobie of my heart. The version I'm writing is hanging by the thinnest of threads, and isn't going to get a break any time soon.

Working title is Persephone. The rhythm would be better if it were slightly longer, but all the variations I've thought of (Persephone's Wish? Persephone's Choice?) sound too simplistic, too obvious.

The related news: I'm also currently illustrating a story in

polybigbang, which is maybe the fifth Big Bang I've been an artist for. I've seen people get upset that the rhetoric around Big Bangs tends to favor writers -- "this is a challenge where I get free art as a reward for writing such a big long story," for instance, rather than something more balanced. And, yeah, I wouldn't begrudge anyone who's put off by that.

The thing is, when I sign up as an artist, the thought process is something like "this is a challenge where I get free art prompts for doing absolutely nothing!" If both writer and artist are approaching it as a way of using the other, it evens out in the end.

I do miss the prospect of being guaranteed art for Persephone, but I don't think I'll hold the story in reserve until another yuri-friendly Big Bang comes around. With all the cliffhangers, it's probably better suited to chapter-by-chapter posting anyway. ~~*fly hands, mad scientist laugh*~~

Every journal where I forward-dated a post to be an introduction now has to be updated...I always set them to 2012 XD

It's also high time to clear out all my remaining FFA links (although not nearly all my tabs) from last year. Ring in the new!

Professions roll call, in which people discuss how accurately their jobs are portrayed in fiction. The best subthread is from the archaeologist: "And yeah, pop culture totally gets that one right. You would not believe how many Nazis I have to punch just to get on site...."

Thoughts on the general fannish shift to anonmemes. There's the usual debate over whether dogpiling in social-justice drag is a common problem or overblown, plus a couple of other theories.

The other kind of fannish conversation it's hard to have non-anon: on the social dynamics of BNFdom and friendship.

More on Madoka.

Existential flame war rides again. And once more. And in shorter and more seasonal doses.

A discussion of fanmixes, longer than previous ones the meme has tried to raise up.

Replace a word or syllable in your favorite quote with "pants".

The latest

dw_news post has lots of information for people who just moved from a certain other journaling site, as well as exciting updates in general. This welcome-link pack by

rydra_wong has a shortlist of good official stuff to follow.

FFA thread with translation of LJ's comment announcement, with discussion. Though that's the main inspiration for the current wave of moves, it would be nice if people were more aware of recent security and staff issues, with similar reports going back years.

A tutorial for setting up LJ layouts with your DW account, made simple. Check out

dreamwidthlayouts for other pretty options.

For people still on LJ, if you want a simple replica of the old comment look (say, if you're running a kink meme): FFA has code that does it smoothly and prettily. XMen_FirstKink has worked out similar code as well. If anyone has recs for other such layouts, please leave links!

A joyous Yule, festive Christma-Hanu-Rama-Ka-Dona-Kwanzaa, and merry Joelmas to one and all!

Enjoy your vacations and pumpkin pie :D

Spending the holidays with the family, marathoning the box set of all the Harry Potter movies and being lightly mauled by Ziggy Stardust (that's the cat). Good times.

2011 First Lines Meme:

January: I've come to the conviction that nobody actually manufactures New Year's commemorative spectacles or paper hats. They spring forth fully formed once any given party is in full swing, in a kind of celebratory parthenogenesis.

February: Another round of poems - all in one thread this time. (One of them is seventeenth-century tentacle porn. In couplets. No, really.)

March: Continued from yesterday's post: the conclusion of the adventures of The Steamypuff Girls.

April: Anyone have recommendations for good sites where you can sell used books? (And hopefully DVDs, CDs, etcetera.)

May: For example: several anons from extremely small towns tl;dr about the experience of growing up there.

June: This is a topic I've been pondering a lot recently. It's probably a natural result of following a bunch of Issue-based fandom comms, rec lists, and fests...but honestly, what spurred the post was a bunch of summaries that looked intriguing and thoughtful, leading into fics that were just bad.

July: Just spent my evening finishing off the ebook for But I'm A Cat Person #1, then the rest of the night promoting it everywhere I can.

August: Back in the land of the Internet after almost a week of sporadic access. Computer is groaning under the weight of all the tabs I have open, poor thing.

September: I've applied to grad school for library science, starting in the spring semester of 2012.

October: FFA's reputation in other Internet spaces. Very through-a-glass-darkly. Thread was frozen over contentious discussion of triggering events on other communities, so do tread carefully.

November: The OTW is the topic of the moment, with Yuletide and board elections on the horizon; and I'm glad the meme is around, because now that

metafandom is dead I have no good source for roundups of this stuff.

December: (To the tune of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
God Rest Ye, Unitarians

Will do the same meme for

ptahrrific soonish.

Two things:

1) The mods of

femmeslash_bang appear to have evaporated. I brought 15,000 words to this ball and have no one to tango with.

On the other hand, maybe this is for the best. I'll have time to give the plot the thorough attention it deserves, and be able to space out the posting rather than dumping tens of thousands of words on the fandom all at once.

2) Due to a misreading of the rules, it turns out my most recent (and final) set of

hc_bingo fills was not in fact a complete set. A quick reshuffling turned it into 4/5 of an ordinary straight line bingo...but now I have to come up with a "heat stroke" fill, and finish it within the next ten days.

So, um. Requests, anyone?

ETA: Struck-out links are from the post that got accidentally deleted. RIP.

Filing off the serial numbers from your fanfic. Also, General writing tips.

The last of the AO3 discussion, at least until Yuletide panic kicks into high gear. Issues with anime, manga, and other Eastern fandoms, tied in to the broader issues of tag organization and general outreach. Someone raises a wish that they would coordinate with the recovery project for the A Sailor Moon Romance archive. (Yes, please!) Also, yet another round of tagging system complaints.

Texts from the past will have attitudes from the past: with examples, and griping about people who have trouble with the premise. On the flip side, speculating about what present-day media will be remembered centuries from now.

Ask the expert anons! turns into a grab-bag of fascinating information on various jobs and experiences.

A thread about classism gets wonderfully international. Singapore! Germany! New Zealand! Argentina! And more! ~~For a less fraught topic that circles the globe, check third-person pronouns in different languages.~~

Fandom terms that need to exist. One topic that seems rife with that sort of issue: how to classify shippy fics with trans/genderqueer character(s).

Femslash discussion (and complaining). Includes some Kim/Shego idfic recs that propelled me into finally watching Kim Possible.

Poetry! There are still regular poetry threads, and I'm not linking them all, but this one stands out, as one anon is digging through old isses of Amazing Stories and Asimov for offbeat SF/F gems.

The day they powered up the great machine,
Somebody asked it if there were a god:
It hummed and with synthovoice serene,
"I was about to ask you that. How odd."

Two of the missing old-school Doctor Who episodes have been found! It's like an early Christmas present.

A four-part discussion with Terry Pratchett and Dr. Jacqueline Simpson on folklore.

Daily Show writer Jo Miller talks to Darbi Worley and TDS co-creator Lizz Winnstead talk about being a "comedy writer and known possessor of a vagina." This came out shortly after the infamous Jezebel article, and I'm surprised it didn't make the rounds at the time. It goes into more detail about the inner workings of TDS, in general and as they relate to gender and sexism, than pretty much anything else I've seen since. And it's certainly the longest discussion from people who can bring the authority of their own experiences to the table.

Video of Kaoru Mori doing sketches, including Emma and Amiru (Otoyomegatari). I marvel at this woman's ability to pick up a marker and just go. No sketching, no guidelines, just perfectly proportioned curves with every stroke. Watching the characters take shape is just beautiful.

A massive collection of vintage comics! From the 1900s through about the '40s (so beware occasional racist caricatures). I recognized a few from various anthologies I've bought; the rest are new, ranging from banal to gorgeous to clever to just plain weird.

Some highlights: Betsy Bouncer and Her Doll is brutally bizarre. Lucy And Sophie Say Goodbye has only one joke, but could just as easily have been titled Lucy And Sophie Make Out. Dear Little Katy is unnervingly chibi-esque slapstick. There's only a tiny slice of Flapper Fanny; the cute sisterly dynamics make me want a whole lot more.

"Pretty Girl" strips: Betty, Carrie.

Ella Cinders, a charming jazz-era soap opera that starts as a modernized (for its day) Cinderella story and takes on a life of its own. I tore through the entirety of what was there, full of the sort of ups-and-downs and melodrama that Little Orphan Annie perfected; the strip continued for several decades after.

I'm still reading through these, and will link more good ones as I find them!

femmeslash_bang

Have I mentioned that I'm doing this Big Bang yet? I've done art for a bunch of others, but this is my first as a writer. Madoka Magica fic, featuring Homura/Madoka and Madoka/Sayaka, covering the full course of a timeline. It's already the longest non-fake-news thing I've written since my middle school Sailor Moon epics.

So, okay, here's where things stand. Drafts are due on the 10th, with a minimum of 15,000 words. (Final minimum count is 20K.) Not every scene has to be written at this stage, but the ones that aren't have to be summarized. Which is good, because there's no way I'm going to have the whole plot written out in the next two days.

It's a strange way to work. Normally I only outline in my head, and the story that finally appears tends to have a very different climax from the imagined one. Issues I hadn't considered during the idle thinking-over become evident when the scenes are actually written out, leading to new last-minute twists and more conflicts coming to a head toward the end more often than not. (For all that, the denouement of these fics usually works exactly like I had imagined. Except maybe that it feels more earned, after a much more action-packed climax.)

I currently have 14,800 words of story. Which sounds like a respectable achievement compared to the word count requirements, except that it covers less than a quarter of the plot.

The other day I finished writing up the outline of the unwritten three-quarters, which is 2400 words all by itself. Even here, just translating the loose mental summary into a concrete verbal summary, new elements (like an appearance by Kyoko, who I hadn't realized was going to fit in at all) cropped up along the way.

On the plus side: hooray, I'm ahead of the technical requirements on the draft deadline! And I have no worries about choking on the final deadline at the last minute due to lack of ideas.

On the minus side: most of what I have written out is the more mundane/introductory scenes. All the really flashy and dramatic ones (i.e. the ones most appealing to an illustrator) are summarized...and thus subject to change between now and the final draft. Especially the climactic ones. So I don't actually know if this is adequate for art purposes. Which is the point of the draft deadline in the first place.

Aaaaaargh.

Final deadline is February 10. Gonna be a couple months of flailing ahead.

Facebook History of the World! Mostly the Western world, but very funny about it.

Religion jokes via Facebook. Shark Jesus died for your fins.

25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names. A few I did actually know, and a bunch I didn't.

So You Want to be a Manga-ka, as written by someone in the industry.

Jack Chick parody pamphlet based on the Cthulu Mythos.

Slime molds are weird.

A map of the languages people tweet in. Shiny!

Presidential candidates explained through D&D character sheets.

10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children: “I wanna really really really wanna zig a zig ahh,” has a meaning, and all true nineties kids know it, but we must never share it.

Also: Lisa Frank is not the name of a woman, it is the name of a movement, a culture, a way of living. It is a theory, a concept, a belief in something greater than yourself. It is the belief that all girls are entitled to dolphins covered with rainbows, jewel-encrusted frogs, and unicorns in acid-trip colors hugging each other. This is my childhood, you guys.

(To the tune of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
God Rest Ye, Unitarians

Gods rest ye, Unitarians, let nothing you dismay
Remember there's no evidence there was a Christmas Day
When Christ was born is just not known, no matter what they say

O, tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact
O, tidings of reason and fact!

Our current Christmas customs come from Persia and from Greece
From solstice celebrations of the ancient Middle East
This whole darn Christmas spiel is just another pagan feast

O, tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact
O, tidings of reason and fact!

There was no star of Bethlehem, there was no angels' song
There couldn't have been wise men for the trip would take too long
The stories in the Bible are historically wrong

O, tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact
O, tidings of reason and fact!

***

(To the tune of Jesus Christ Is Risen Today)
Jesus Christ May or May Not Have Risen Today
set for Pretty Yellow Flower Day

Jesus Christ may or may not have risen today
Alleluia
Whether or not he did is pretty difficult to say
Alleluia
Let's discuss all sides of the issue thoroughly
Alleluia
We can take a vote! And then we'll see
Alleluia

***

More Unitarian jokes. Features some absolute gems; check them out.

What do you get when you cross a Unitarian Universalist with a Jehovah's Witness?

Someone who knocks on your door for no apparent reason.

As if you needed another reason, supporting equality for queer people can help solve the housing crisis: Gay neighbors raise the property values in non-homophobic neighborhoods.

The sexist abuses faced by female (and feminist) bloggers, and a roundup of examples, organized by theme and then alphabetized. It's making news, as it should.

In honor of trans kids: a commentary on some of the violence that's not making the news, despite being far deadlier than some of the issues that have finally gotten the attention they deserve.

Anti-gay issues with the Salvation Army. As the holiday season approaches, find somewhere else to donate.

Third-gender option on Australian passports. Slight sideeyeing at the implication that trans people who identify as M or F will have to register as X anyway, but it's a start.

Media history: how TV shows with women kissing went from groundbreaking to fanservice.

Not crossposting this one, but do read: Today (or yesterday, depending on how you count it) marks the end of And Shine Heaven Now.

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What is this "too geeky" you speak of?

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Megaupload news.

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Transmogrified: Gunshots & Ashes

DW Layout (Transmogrified): Open Skies

Historical same-sex weddings, fantasy female armor, texting in West African languages, and more

Big Bangs and MadoMagi

Archaeology, anon memes, apocalypses, and pants

Welcome, new DW users! Have some Useful Things.

AKA: Happy Holidays

End-of-year magic

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Some videos of holiday charm

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PMMM Big Bang status report!

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