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Mar. 30th, 2009 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirDurant Avenue, on the Feast of St. John Climacus
In an unproductive slump at the moment, so I decided to make a post pointing out that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
imaginarybeasts' latest issue, Carnivale, is out.
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worldserpent has a poll up about getting a Dreamwidth account, since Open Beta launches at the end of April. I think I've pretty much made up my mind to move there; hopefully I'll get an invite code and then upgrade to a paid account in November (which is when my last payment to LJ expires). The only question is what to do about my remaining LiveJournal. To import or not to import? To cross-post or not to cross-post? I think I probably will cross-post, since I don't think many on the friends list plan to move (feel free to tell me otherwise!), and perhaps that will negate the need to import previous entries. I do think that at some point I want to go back and lock down entries that are information-deficient (e.g. those early entries back in 2002 and 2003 when I had whole posts devoted just to online quiz results, for which most of the graphics don't even show up correctly anymore). However, I also said a few years ago that I would one day finish systematically tagging all my previous entries and haven't gotten around to that yet, so who knows if I'll ever face the daunting task of sifting through 1015 entries?
(Only 1015 entries over the course of 6.67 years? Well, I suppose I do tend to write long entries and almost never post more than once a day.)
I have a fun idea forblind_go, but I need to limit the premise so it will end up being self-contained and make some decisions about how many characters to include. Anyone willing to discuss it with me over email? Not asking for a beta but for someone willing to listen to me ramble and to tell me when something is boring. It will have to be over email since I can't really talk productively about writing over chat.
Have also been brainstorming in an attempt to write something for the next issue ofimaginarybeasts. Steve said I should write about technocrats of the future who build a New Jerusalem exactly according to specifications of the book of Revelations and have it descend to earth on a giant revolving platform--the story would be about the aftermath and how Things Go Wrong. Really, I just think it's a shame that Steve has no interest in writing fiction because he's obviously 1000x better suited to coming up with plot than I am. (I probably won't use his idea because it requires too much research, but I want to read this story. >_>)
Has anyone watched the Glass Mask J-drama? I watched the first series via streaming video last week and adored it. The links to the sequel are broken, alas.
Yours &c.
Post-script: Ah, I meant to add that my Yuletide Santa wrote a sequel to my Yuletide gift, In the God's Hands: Conquests New.
In an unproductive slump at the moment, so I decided to make a post pointing out that
imaginarybeasts' latest issue, Carnivale, is out.worldserpent has a poll up about getting a Dreamwidth account, since Open Beta launches at the end of April. I think I've pretty much made up my mind to move there; hopefully I'll get an invite code and then upgrade to a paid account in November (which is when my last payment to LJ expires). The only question is what to do about my remaining LiveJournal. To import or not to import? To cross-post or not to cross-post? I think I probably will cross-post, since I don't think many on the friends list plan to move (feel free to tell me otherwise!), and perhaps that will negate the need to import previous entries. I do think that at some point I want to go back and lock down entries that are information-deficient (e.g. those early entries back in 2002 and 2003 when I had whole posts devoted just to online quiz results, for which most of the graphics don't even show up correctly anymore). However, I also said a few years ago that I would one day finish systematically tagging all my previous entries and haven't gotten around to that yet, so who knows if I'll ever face the daunting task of sifting through 1015 entries?(Only 1015 entries over the course of 6.67 years? Well, I suppose I do tend to write long entries and almost never post more than once a day.)
I have a fun idea for
blind_go, but I need to limit the premise so it will end up being self-contained and make some decisions about how many characters to include. Anyone willing to discuss it with me over email? Not asking for a beta but for someone willing to listen to me ramble and to tell me when something is boring. It will have to be over email since I can't really talk productively about writing over chat. Have also been brainstorming in an attempt to write something for the next issue of
imaginarybeasts. Steve said I should write about technocrats of the future who build a New Jerusalem exactly according to specifications of the book of Revelations and have it descend to earth on a giant revolving platform--the story would be about the aftermath and how Things Go Wrong. Really, I just think it's a shame that Steve has no interest in writing fiction because he's obviously 1000x better suited to coming up with plot than I am. (I probably won't use his idea because it requires too much research, but I want to read this story. >_>)Has anyone watched the Glass Mask J-drama? I watched the first series via streaming video last week and adored it. The links to the sequel are broken, alas.
Yours &c.
Post-script: Ah, I meant to add that my Yuletide Santa wrote a sequel to my Yuletide gift, In the God's Hands: Conquests New.
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Date: 2009-03-31 03:27 am (UTC)Like I said before, this is the longest running blog that I have kept, so the chances that I would be moving is slim. It would probably only happens if ALL of my flist suddenly decide to nove away but it will be tough seeing that not all of you will probably end up at the same place.
But I've learnt my lesson from LJ and staked my claims on my preferred username over at IJ, GJ and whatever else sites out there. And it would be an unfamiliar username as I only use this username here on LJ.
So would I move? Not probably, but once it opens to public, I may sign up for my preferred username there as back up
re: Glass Mask
I always mean to see it but never got around to. Streaming is slow for me so I might as well d/l the original eps T__T
erm have you tried this site (http://www.tv-links.cc/asian/glass-mask-2.htm) or this (http://www.dramacrazy.net/v/japanese-drama/glass-mask-2/)?
Disclaimer: I've never tested these sites ^__^
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Date: 2009-03-31 03:35 am (UTC)Ah, thanks for the links! (The second site has broken links, but the first one doesn't. Hurrah!) I really liked Glass Mask 1, but then again, I'm such a fan of the manga series that my opinion is biased.
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:14 am (UTC)There's a discount for paid service during the first six months, though, so if you buy a yearly account during that period you might end up saving.
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Date: 2009-03-31 05:28 am (UTC)I am a bit raging at Paypal since they validated my account but then wouldn't allow me to use it ...
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Date: 2009-03-31 05:43 am (UTC)However, the staff seems to be answering questions in the comments of this post, so I think asking there might work?
http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2421.html
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