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Hi Live Journal (Live Journal? Really? That's how the site wants to spell itself? I'd always thought, like probably 90% of users, that it's Livejournal or LiveJournal or even good old plain old LJ, but whatevs).

Lots of things have been going on for me, and thus there has been a fair amount of change. Some of the simpler ones:

1. No more Twitter feed straight to LJ (as you could probably tell by the subject line of this post)

Yes. Hopefully, unless I fucked it up, I unsubscribed from Twittinesis. Why'd I do that? Because I now have an LJ RSS feed for my Tumblog. How I got that will be explained a little later, as it's not quite as simple but it's so damn clever it makes my teeth hurt. And yes, I do say so myself.

So yeah. If you've ever been curious about Tumblr, or want to know the awesome things I look at all day when I should be working (they really are awesome and inspiring), but can't be bothered to cart your ass off to a different website, this feed is for you:

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2. No more all-lowercase funtime extravaganza (if I can help it, and as you also probably noticed if you pay attention to that sort of thing)

And why this? I dunno. I work at a job now, I suppose, where I need to converse in normal-speak, and I also rp a fair amount of time (I log into my rp journal faaaaar far more than I ever do this thing), where if i typed like this all the time people would probably throw me out and then i'd be sad and say fuck you lj. So that's sort of prompted a habitual switch from "no caps" to "sometimes caps". But also? It just really seems to annoy some people. Enough that I was beginning to get the feeling some of them would actually refuse to read what I read at all. Yes, this is capitulating to snobbery and to the status quo in some sense, but I think it's more important to make friends at this juncture than to stubbornly stand by some half-assed philosophy I basically made up when I was 18 and typing nonsense into Microsoft Word and realizing it was correcting all of my lowercase "i"s for me. Oh the nerve of that program.

3. In addition to my Tumblr feed, say hello to my new art blog feed.

hieratic_art is the RSS feed to hieratic, my new WordPress blog, which replaces my old B2evo blog that recently got shat upon by spammers. I won't be updating my Livejournal regularly with art, because I still don't find it highly reliable. Plus, I'd also like to keep my whining and my art at least a little separate. Just makes things less embarrassing.

4. I may actually start writing here again.

I'm pretty busy, so we'll see how it goes, but I have felt the urge now and again to jot down some thoughts that have seemed inappropriate for hieratic (so very unprofessional), Tumblr (too many shallow connections), Facebook (family members), or Twitter (too restrictive).

We'll see, LJ. We'll see.

Now you may be asking yourselves (probably not, but maybe one of you is asking yourself this-- I've got to have faith), "Why all the RSS feeds, Freyja? And HOW?"

It's true this account is unpaid. And likely will remain forever. I just haven't seen the need to get a paid account just to get some extra icon space (why bother if I never post?) or to make a few feeds (that's what friends are for, yes?). But I'd been thinking for a while that it would have been nice to have some extra icons for my rp journal.

This might strike you as odd; wouldn't 15 be plenty? How many expressions can one person have? This might strike you as odd unless you'd ever actually roleplayed, written out a tag (think of it as the next line or two in an ongoing story, for those unfamiliar with the terminology), and then spent the next few minutes trying to find an icon that fit it at all. Or found yourself using the same one over and over and over. Pretty boring. Bottom line: I quickly found that 15 faces is not nearly enough for the character I play. But on the other hand, I'm a cheapskate. I wasn't going to shell out money to a website so I could have extra icons; that's not even a tangible commodity and I'm always skirting broke lately as is.

That's why the vgift charity drive for Haiti last Thursday-Saturday was so appealing. During that period of time Live Journal pledged to donate all proceeds from vgift sales to a couple of organizations providing relief in Haiti. I'd been wanting to donate anyway but had not found the time.

Also. Incidentally, did you know that for every $10 you receive in vgifts from someone within two weeks, your journal also gets credited two months of paid time (hey, I don't make these rules up)?

I think you may be able to guess what I did at this point. So my rp journal now has 60 silly vgifts, 35 icon slots, and a year of paid time. And the Haiti relief effort has $60 of my monies. And LJ has none. Tee hee.

Well, that's my story. If any of you are still reading, kudos and hello!