allfireburns: Emily Prentiss, grinning over her shoulder. (legitimate questions)
So. LJ is being an ass about gender. Again. I can't find a link for it, at the moment, but suffice to day that "it's personal" is not the same as "unspecified", and obviously LJ completely failed to grasp why people were upset in the first place. And on top of that, LJ's ads can now give you some nasty malware, and if you don't have AdBlock or something similar on your browser, you should definitely install it now.

And once again, I have a ton of Dreamwidth invites going spare, if anyone needs one and doesn't have one. If you needed any more reasons to head over there, here's an awesome list for you. I really just wish I could drag fandom over there, and while I understand all the reasons it's not that easy (I imagine being able to port whole comms over would help a lot), it's frustrating that all of my online social circle is on LJ when Dreamwidth is so much nicer and, you know, not an ass to its users. And it won't infect your computer with malware. Just saying.

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I posted my 100th Whoniverse fic today. (I know this because I like numbers and keep obsessive track of certain things.) This makes me very happy. It also freaks me out, because I have double that many RENTfics, and how was I ever that productive?

I also signed up for the [livejournal.com profile] who_like_giants ficathon yesterday. I know I'm going to hate myself for this in a couple weeks, but it's 1000 words, and mine is due March 23. I can totally do that. I was going to write a fic about Ida Scott, but, uh... the disc with The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit on it HATES LIFE, so I decided not to commit to that in case I can't review those episodes. So instead... chances are I'm going to write something with Torchwood One or Torchwood Four.

This would be a lot easier if I'd ever made notes on my Torchwood Four when I actually remembered who they all were.

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This is just to reaffirm my hatred of my landlord and desire to set him on fire. Our heater doesn't work and hasn't for weeks. He knows this, said last month he'd get us a replacement part and fix it, and the temporary heater he gave us doesn't blow air, so the heat just rises and hovers around the ceiling, where it does us no good. It's been below or around zero degrees for the past few days, and I can't feel my toes. I wish to do violence.

I swear I don't mind winter. I actually like winter a lot. But not when it comes into my house.
allfireburns: Emily Prentiss, grinning over her shoulder. (Default)
I keep meaning to make an actual post, but... keep getting sidetracked.

So this is just a post to say that I have backed up my LJ on Dreamwidth - it's [personal profile] allfireburns, just like here - and will be crossposting from there from now on. You'll still see posts on this journal, and you can comment either here or there, but between LJ's recent genderfail and their frankly idiotic "holiday promotion", I feel safer having a backup and a different home base for my journal.

(Re: LJ's genderfail: Yes, they did roll back those intended changes. However, I do not believe it was a mistake, as LJ would like you to believe, and the fact that their "apology" took the tone of "we're sorry some evil person is misleading you by READING THE CODE WE PUT IN THE CHANGELOG" rather pisses me off.

Re: LJ's "holiday promotion": this and this sum up my feelings on the matter. Anything else I could say would rapidly devolve into something like "FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU ARE YOU STUPID?" in LJ's general direction.)

If anyone would like a Dreamwidth account and doesn't have one, I have 10 invite codes available and can always request more. Just ask. And if anyone has a Dreamwidth account they'd like me to be subscribing to over there (with allfireburns - I've already got a few of you on my writing journal, [personal profile] mortalcity), let me know! (By the way, Dreamwidth has no holiday promotion, but ETA: Dreamwidth does have a holiday promotion, and their paid accounts have 100 icons and are $35 - the same amount as an LJ paid account + extra userpics. And if you really want, there is the option to upgrade to 250 userpics. I love Dreamwidth.)

...I swear I'll be making an actual entry at some point. Man, I suck at this journalling thing lately.

EDIT: Someone on DW pointed out that they do have a holiday promotion (see above). God, if it weren't for most of my friends and all the comms I love being on LJ, I would camp out at DW and never leave.