My Thoughts on Boldthrough Panic

[mimi_sardinia]

I feel I need to clear my head a little on the subject of the whole StrikeBoldthrough fiasco.

Now I understand all the ire at what LJ is doing - hell I share it as much as my apathetic attitude to life and the world in general allows me. I feel my fandom interests are somewhat under threat by proxy because my No. 1 OTP shares some resemblance to the much debated Snarry picture that got ponderosa suspended. Laguna/Squall? An approximately 42-year-old man and a 17-year-old (who are also considered by most of the fandom to be father and son, but that's secondary).

I think that would mean that any who share my shipping preferences aught to be very wary.

Now I don't think I will ever be able to leave LJ. As many others have opined, if Fandom migrates, it will fracture between those heading for JF, those heading for GJ, those heading for IJ and those staying on LJ, and one of my major fandoms seems at the moment to be rather unaffected by StrikeBoldthrough so the likelihood it will shift seems less than likely. Since that is the fandom I am reading the most fanfic in at the moment, I'll be sticking to LJ for it's sake.

The problem comes with that as to how I am going to carry on with my own LJ affiliation. The part of me that is peeved by StrikeBoldthrough doesn't want to pony up the money to renew my journal. That, I'm sure, many folks understand. The thing is, there's also a part of me that, in knowing I'll probably stay here, doesn't really want to lose the extras that are part of being a Paid journal. So between the meta posts I have been reading that have been all "LJ are a pack of bastards!" and those saying "Fleeing is not the answer!" I keep seesawing between whether I will or won't pay it up, but I need to decide soon, I'm due to run out halfway through September.

But despite whatever conclusion I come to concerning the Paid status of my LJ, I am fully intending on getting a permanent account over on IJ. The price they are offering them for over there is definitely within my wherewithal to pay - according to XE.com it is equal to $46.63 AUD - and I don't have issues with the whole insanity theme there (hey, the online identity I used prior to this one I defined as meaning "mad perverted idiot" and the common shortening of that was the "idiot" part).


So, what am I to do about LJ? I still don't know, and I'll likely not be sure which way I'll go until the money is available for me to assign in whichever direction I chose. But I hope no one thinks badly of me if I do decide to keep a Paid journal here.

Comments

[dame_grise]

It just makes it all seem more like home to me.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That it does.

Oh and I just looked at my Majin Baka GJ - it is the same as majinbakahentai. Some time I may go change both to the Rift colours.

A thought on colouring journals? Pick two colours and do everything in shades of those two colours. More than two and you suffer eyesore.

[dame_grise]

I stick to blue and whichever shows up against it, black or white, preference to white on dark backgrounds if there's a choice.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

So do I. All my journals tend towards very light text on very dark background - like a shade of yellow that's almost white on a shade of blue that's almost black, or a very very pale pink on an almost black shade of red.

The problem is, I don't know how many people have a chart that they can get colour codes for those sorts of shades - I at least retain a copy of the Sevilian rainbow text generator, but I don't know if it's still downloadable on Sevspace.