Okay LJ, WTF r u doing?

This comment thing is just ridiculous. I mean yeah, my personal LJ happens to be S2, so commenting in it is fine, but since it's been rather dead lately most of my commenting goes on in communities, and they are getting rather fucked over in the change. Which is not fun at all.

I know some people are heading over Dreamwidth way. Technically I have an account there, but I only ever use it for commenting on other people's accounts. If you're heading over there for good - or will be crossposting and want comments there, give me a shout and I'll add you.

*sigh*

Giving the backlash this is getting, I rather wonder what "changes" we are going to get in the next 24 hours.

Here, have some distracting trailers for blockbuster movies to look forward to.

There's The Dark Knight Rises, for all your broody Bat needs. And explosions. And Selina Kyle's awesome wardrobe, which I want.

And then there's The Hobbit (Part 1) featuring New Zealand Middle Earth, Hobbits and vast amounts of Dwarves. There will be so many Dwarf fangirls when this movie comes out.

Also, if you want something other than trailers, there's X-Men with Googly Eyes. Enjoy never being able to take Magneto seriously again.

This is what happens when I have to go without LJ for a while: I build up a backlog of random things I have found on the internet for the purpose of killing time. *sigh*

Enjoy the fruits of your DDOS induced downage, LJ.

- Myths Retold. I saw this described as "A ff.net badfic author rewriting fairytales and classic myths", but I think it's closer to a drunk teenager trying to explain the plot of movies, also seen while drunk.
- Homolust challenge generator. It's like "Together, THEY FIGHT CRIME", only instead of fight crime, they have gay sex. Hey, if you need ideas for weird yaoi AUs.
Plus it occasional provides weirdly close to canon ideas. A criminal is fucked by a innocent terrorist leader in a park. They are star-crossed lovers. It must involve celibacy and masochism. Uh huh...
- If Harry Potter was an anime. Fanart which I know some of you guys have seen already, but remains nifty (and reminds me of my wish that HP had been adapated as a multi-series animated show. You know it could have been cool.)
- Ooh Mister Ikuhara! Some commentary on Penguindrum, in Kate Beaton form.
- Cat Versus Human. A webcomic about being a cat lady. I miss having cats.
- Queen Mother Adventures. Another webcomic, this time about the Queen Mum. Go back to the start for all the gin and corgi related crack.
- Those news animators from Taiwan made their own Dark Knight Rises trailer. With all the gratuitous Nolan film references you could ever want.
- New OK GO video! This one has kaleidoscope dancing, which is rather trippy. And if you have Chrome, you can make interactive messages with it (...It'll make sense when you see the video).
- An Impression doing Shakespeare in the style of assorted celebrities. I think Simon Cowell made me laugh the most.
- An Orchestral version of NyanCat. To borrow one of the YouTube comments, it's like the Internet's national anthem.

Oh, and Pottermore will be, for the next week, taking sign-ups for their beta. Guess who has already registered? :D:D

Though they don't allow you to pick your own usernames for security reasons, so you have to take one from a list they provide. MidnightRook15, anyone? LOL at the chess theme.

Okay, is Livejournal being excessively slow for other people, or have the recent storms and weather and whatnot fucked up some of the internet connections in the Melbourne vicinity, or some horrid combination of the two? Or something else entirely.

Because jeez, I got bored and decided to try and upload some new icons, and it's taken me freaking forever. Stupid icons page, taking ages to load on me.

Ah well, at least I have come out the other side with some icons like this wonder. Yes, I've wanted an Old Spice Guy icon for so long.

...In other news, as of tomorrow I apparently have one week until classes start up again. This is a mildly terrifying thought. Especially since I can't get the goddamn new timetable system to work properly. They should have stuck with alloc8, I could work it.

Otherwise, hey you guys, you know who Maru is, right? Cat, kind of chunky, likes to jump in boxes.

I have just discovered there exists such a thing as Maru fanfic.

How can you go past a fic with lines like the following:

I am Maru, and I can fit into a cardboard box one third my size.

So, is it just me or is there something going on with LJ notifications? Because mine seem to be all over the place at the moment - some arrive as normal, and some are delayed for hours. I was going to say some don't arrive at it, but it did in fact arrive just then.

I'm sending a grumpy face in your direction, people in charge.

Yesterday's jabbing went fine - so long as I remember not to sleep on that arm, anyway. Then I got to wander around Carlton for a bit. You know, there is a clothing shop on Rathdowne Street, and the shop assistant (owner, maybe?) brought her white Persian cat to work. It was sitting there in the front window, watching people go by. I'm not entirely sure how happy she was when I spent more time in the shop looking at the cat then the clothes, though...

I also bought some second hand books, which may end up being airport reading for me - a couple of fantasy ones, including the first Temeraire book, and Lolita in case I felt literary.

Tomorrow, I'll be spending the afternoon with Mum and The Sister - and my aunt, who is currently in Australia, and who I shall be seeing for the first time since I was about 10. Which I'm sure will be interesting.Witness our epic struggle to find new bookshelves for my sister's apartment!

Anyway, I was looking around Etsy earlier, and since I know there are a few people on my flist who seem to buy all sorts of fabulous stuff from that site - got any sellers you particularly recommend? I'm vaguely in the mood for materialism.

...or at least it will be when i can figure out how to capitalise things.

Yay ljing from my new phone!

You know, this whole absence of comment notifications is starting to get... irksome. I keep losing track of conversations I am having. (Sorry again, to anyone I haven't replied to anywhere).

Could you please fix it already, LiveJournal peoples! Gah.

...But I think I have my computer mostly sorted out now. I think. Unless something else happens

So, I now has a Twitter.

And it actually works when I text it things and everything.

And thus people can bear witness to my exciting and wonderful Egypt trip, via the tweets of the day.

Feel free to let me know if you also have a Twitter, so we can do the friending thing. Or whatever it is called in Twitterland.

That said, um, I may need assistance on getting the Twitter to feed to my LJ. Because that way even people who aren't on twitter can hear about me looking at the Pyramids.

You can tell a true friend by the fact that when you have a break-up - even if it's just with a fandom - they will be there to offer chocolate and movie marathons. Even in person. At your bedroom door. At 2:30 in the morning.

...Yeah, it's a strange strange life I live in.

Speaking of which, I find it vaguely ironic that the post in which I mention I get less comments for non-Doctor Who posts happens to get more comments that the rest of my posts for the last month combined.

That's fandom for you, I suppose.

And as if this post wasn't absurd enough, I bring you an amusing YouTube video from the tinyteddyqueen files, featuring the Count of Sesame Street fame.

And in conclusion, I need to get some sleep. My attempts last night ended up with an Epic Failure on that account.

So, I've worked out what the hell happened to my comment notifications: Somehow LiveJournal ended up on my Blocked List. Haven't the faintest idea how that happened, but it is fixed now. I think. I need someone to comment so I can check. ;)

In other technological news, my iPod is now actually half full. Yes, that 80 gig iPod I got late last year. That's a whole lotta music...

And to add something actually, you know, important to this post: I won't be posting my normal Torchwood episode review tomorrow. Or any other TV review type discussy thing, unless they are brief. That is because I have actual, genuine, Real Life commitments that require being away from the computer for Thursday and Friday.

However (and this is relevent to those of you at Melb Uni. Or even just those in Melbourne), said commitments are to be helping out CHAS and other Second Floor type clubs' tables during O-Week.

So, if you want to come see me, say howdy be introduced to my remote control Dalek or whatever, check out the concrete lawns at Melbourne Uni between 12 and 4 tomorrow, and I should be somewhere around the CHAS table (It shouldn't be hard to find, lots of yellow and all that). If I'm not there, I won't be far away, so send me a text or something.

Like I said, this applies to both Melbourne Uni people whom I shall shamelessly pressure into joing CHAS or just other Melbourne types I know online.

...It's vaguely unnerving to consider, but I'm almost one of the Old School Second Floor people now. That's freaky.

I has a paid account.

As a result of this, I has 30 free icon spaces.

(All ready for tomorrow's Who, I suppose. And possibly forthcoming fannish events like a certain seventh book Wanksplosion)

Other things what I has (or had last night):

- Two rather fun folk-punk bands listened to.
- Several drinks. (Well, almost 4)
- One goth club visited.
- Three drunk guys hitting on me (and fa11ing_away)
- Zero guys who had a chance hitting on me
- No sleep.
- No food in my cupboards.

And back onto fandom again, but, well, the fact the Doctor Who finale is tomorrow really has people on edge, doesn't it?