Arrant Nonsense

Well, the trip to Colorado is off. The HubbyMom is ill, whether from the topical chemo she's applying to the incipient skin cancer on her nose (we live in the future!) or from a bug going around, she's not sure. But that works out for this week, anyway--now I don't have to worry about Boy's Scout Thing or cancelling the meeting with my Writing Buddy.

I've got my first pinch and my midpoint for the Glam Ben story. You know, Larry Correia said "I don't write horror because I don't write victim fiction." And there's a lot to be said for that. I frequently use Ben as either a punching bag or a damsel in distress (which I've hung a lampshade on, more than once), but he also kicks ass and takes names. Eventually.

I'm not sure how I do that in this one. And that's driving me a little crazy. I have a sort of rescue plan in place, but the boy is strapped to a table with a needle in his hand and an aconite drip, experiencing the requisite (for him) flashbacks and panic attacks. Last time this happened to him, he died. He's going to be pretty useless.

Maybe I'll have them escape from the blood bank by the skin of their teeth and then have to go back and burn it down. Something. Because I'm like Larry. I don't actually like writing victims.

I got crit on Angry Bitter Angel from my Awesome RP Partner, which I will be incorporating in short order. Once I hear back from my Writing Buddy on Zombunnies, I'll incorporate those changes, and it'll be ready for subbing pretty quick, I think.

And anyone who's using Photobucket for a custom mood theme may have noticed that it went kerflooey. This is because Photobucket is being just as frelling stoopid as LJ is this month and incorporating unpopular changes that have their userbase looking for alternatives in droves. Whee. I fixed mine via the method espoused by the lovely and effulgent gorengal: To fix, you need to go to the edit moodtheme screen under customize journal appearance. See the beginning of the URLs that say http://s...? You need to replace every 's' with an 'i'. Took me ten minutes and was a pain, but I've got my mood back. THANKS, PHOTOBUCKET.

New mood theme.

I went poking around LJ yesterday looking for something RDJ or Iron Man-related, and the one created by lidi filled the bill quite nicely.

Although I'd like to find one that uses Robert's characters from his movies as well. The lovely and effulgent pensive1 has one that someone created using photoshoots and candids that's pretty shiny too.

I should make a KKBB mood theme. That would rock so very hard. Alas, I think I've only got screencaps from the last third of the movie. Maybe I'll go poking around looking for the rest. Sometime.

Because I don't have enough to do.

In other news, I may be sick. I've got a scratchy thing going in my throat, and standing up while the Hubby cut my hair this morning proved to be...problematic. I do not like getting dizzy like that.

I kind of hate this paragraph. Show, don't tell, right? And there's a whole lotta tellin' here.

Also, OOC. "I don't talk about it. Please don't ask." I don't see not!Harry opening up to not!Harmony like this, the first time he's seen her in five or so years. And honestly? I don't see her asking him about it either. They both know how close he just now was to eating his gun. Making him relive the horror that he went through Over There would be...counterproductive. At least.

So...yeah. *excises entire 'graph* Of course, now I have to figure out what to replace it with.

In other news, I'm thinking about going to a Plus Account so I can have more icons. Six just...isn't enough. Today I had perfect occasion (in answer to a now-deleted comment--GEE, WONDER WHY THEY DELETED THEIR COMMENT. I'm glad I quoted the relevant part) to use the "urge to bitchslap...rising" one I made last night, and couldn't because I don't have enough spaces.

So. I puts it to you, mah LJ peeps. Ads: Annoying, or not? Or do you have Firefox and thus don't care, like me? Why, yes, I have recently downloaded the Awesomeness that is Firefox and am kicking myself for not doing it years ago. And because of this, I'm just about to the point where I could live with ads, if I could get the extra icon spaces. But, lo, I am considerate, and don't wish to inflict the ads on my friends.

On the other hand, I've used LJ for a good many years now without contributing financially to it in any way, and I feel somewhat guilty about it. So...I don't even know.

Of course, I could just bite the damn bullet and blow the $20 on a Paid Account. Because, really.

ETA: I have "upgraded" to a Plus Account. I can haz moar iconz!

You know those freakin' annoying SNAP things you get by hovering over a link for a half a second? You can disable it in LJ in your Viewing Options page by scrolling down to "Graphic Previews" and unchecking the box. And you can disable it for all websites by clicking on the little gear in the upper right-hand corner and selecting the "disable for all websites" option.

HALLELUJAH. Gads, I hated that "feature."