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★ I had nothing to do today! Except pick up some Halloweeny things to wear to tomorrow's clinical, as my instructor was adamant that showing up without appropriately festive attire would be a horrifying breach of fun. My Arakune costume is still in the works (so unfortunately, barring a miracle, he won't be ready for this Halloween) and even if it was finished it would be pretty impractical. So I have taken the lazy route and bought a witch hat, a tiny stuffed black cat to stick on my shoulder, and an extremely cheap glowing pumpkin charm bracelet. I have no idea what I will say if anyone asks what I'm supposed to be.
★ LJ has put its new friends page into open beta, which by LJ standards means 'expect this to be adopted with little to no bug fixes in about a month's time.' I remember one of the comments in an old DW news post off-handedly mentioning that LJ didn't want to be like Facebook, they'd rather be like Tumblr, and the new flist/ability to promote posts seems to bear that out.
★ But wait, there's more! Apparently, paid accounts will be phased out completely next year. That's the most telling upcoming change, personally; it's pretty clear that at this point LJ doesn't see its paying users as necessary to its continued survival.
★ I signed up for National Blog Posting Month again. WILL I ACTUALLY POST ALL 30 DAYS THIS YEAR?! I dunno. Every single time I've missed a day, it has been for the stupidest, most preventable reasons, so it's likely that I'll do the same this year too...but maybe I'll buck the trend of accidentally falling asleep at 9pm and waking up at 1am. At least NaBloPoMo gives me a reason to post about my overwhelming video game ~feelings.
★ LJ has put its new friends page into open beta, which by LJ standards means 'expect this to be adopted with little to no bug fixes in about a month's time.' I remember one of the comments in an old DW news post off-handedly mentioning that LJ didn't want to be like Facebook, they'd rather be like Tumblr, and the new flist/ability to promote posts seems to bear that out.
★ But wait, there's more! Apparently, paid accounts will be phased out completely next year. That's the most telling upcoming change, personally; it's pretty clear that at this point LJ doesn't see its paying users as necessary to its continued survival.
★ I signed up for National Blog Posting Month again. WILL I ACTUALLY POST ALL 30 DAYS THIS YEAR?! I dunno. Every single time I've missed a day, it has been for the stupidest, most preventable reasons, so it's likely that I'll do the same this year too...but maybe I'll buck the trend of accidentally falling asleep at 9pm and waking up at 1am. At least NaBloPoMo gives me a reason to post about my overwhelming video game ~feelings.
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Date: 2012-11-01 03:34 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-02 12:58 am (UTC)From:Honestly, if Avengers fandom wasn't so big over there I'd have no reason to visit LJ at all.
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Date: 2012-11-02 03:19 am (UTC)From:I'm in it for the small handful of people who haven't yet abandoned the place. It's a dwindling number, though.