Journal - "A List of Awesome."

[leskuh]

Kind of a random update today, but whatever.

1) I don't think I'm switching over to Dreamwidth. I'll probably get an account there, but I know how I am and I don't usually jump sites unless I have a really good reason to, and I've never really had any major problems with LJ. The friend system doesn't bother me, I love the default layout (this is important to me!), and there's still so much here that I don't really feel the need to bail out. I do think I'll start backing up my journal at DW though. That way I can jump ship if LJ explodes or something.

2) I'm thinking about taking simsecret off my watch list, because I'm at the point where I just don't give a damn about it. Not that I ever really did, but yeah. I just don't care anymore.

3) How can one girl be so amazing? Seriously, Jennette McCurdy is Fucking Awesome. Why can't I be her? Or, at the very least, why can't I have her HAAAAAAIR? Her one flaw is that I can never spell her name correctly on the first try. I go Jeanette and then Jenette. :\

4) I'm taking a break from DA. Also, Tendra asked me to help out with the big Season Six HA! thing and... I kind of think I'm gonna turn her down. I don't really want the responsibility of arranging things. I just want someone to hand me a script and say 'draw this please'. :\

5) I think I sort of decided in my head that I'm not even going to attempt to write the next chapter of Trying until I'm home for the summer. So that's what's going on with that. Whatever, I'm finicky.

6) I kind of want to do some big write up on various thoughts about Angela/Lilith and Lila/Helga/Gloria. But it would be a very long and very pointless rambling of sorts and who would really want to read that? Mostly I just want to kind of work out why people need to villify Angela/Lila and try and understand why I like Angela, but am very wary of Lila. IDK.

7) I um, I think I want to start up Ternion again. Only I've been thinking about just doing sketch versions of the chapters? Kind of like how alexds3/alexds1 originally did with The Meek. Do the sketchy version and then when I've got a good idea of where things are going and I'm a few chapters in, start reworking everything? The major difference will be that a) I do not draw as well as alexds3 and b) my handwriting don't make no sense so things might be much less coherent. OH WELL. I miss doing things just for me. I love fandom and all that, but I really do want to put something out there that's all me - all pulled from my brain. And these Ternion folks have been beating on my head for the past ummm... three years, I think?

Anyway, I made a journal for said sketch comic and updated it with the already finished pages. And really, ten pages is nothing to scoff at. It's just... well I never even got to the actual plot of the whole thing. :\

Check it out, join, watch, etc! ternion_comic

Comments

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

JENNETTE IS A GODDESS. I'm so embarrassed that I fangirl a 16-year-old this hard.

I would like to read your thoughts on Lila!

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

It's not fair that she can do all of these super awesome things even though she's four years younger than me. :(

My thoughts on Lila will probably make absolutely no sense, because I do not quite understand them myself! Basically she makes me nervous and on edge and I DON'T KNOW WHY. The show builds her up as 'perfect', but she really isn't. I think that I think that she's somewhat aware of herself and the 'perfect' thing and she uses it. I think she's a lot smarter and deeper than she acts a lot of the time.

[13066301.livejournal.com]

I've never had SimSecret on my watch list, because one, it's a pretty shitty place as of now, and two--butthurt galore. Now, it's just worse. I think those bird secrets some weeks ago were the worst.

I'd love to see those random thoughts on Angela/Lilith!

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I started watching it because there was actually a secret about stuff that I drew once. I think there were maybe two other secrets about me since then? Oh three! There was one about my drawing, two about how I am SUPER FUCKING AWESOME (obviously made by geniuses who know just how rad I am) and one about the sexy that is Strange/Josh/Me. But yeah, I don't even understand half the secrets and all the recent wank is just dumb and I think there's now like three different secret comms? LAAAAAAME. I just don't even care anymore.

They are very random thoughts indeed! It has to do with comparing Angela/Lilith to Lila/Helga and why we love the Hell-girls and hate/villify the 'perfect' ones. I dunno.

[heron-advocate.livejournal.com]

TERNION!

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[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I feel the same!

Really, I miss it. I had fun doing it and then got burnt out really quickly. I'm horrible at scheduling. If I could shorten the process I think I'd be much more willing to actually do the comic all fancy-like because I AM SO LAZY.

[meoryn.livejournal.com]

Having a back up journal is a good idea, particularly with all the gorgeous stuff you have here.

Simsecret? Is that community still around? The last time I looked at it (and that was a while ago), it just seemed filled with endless drama that seemed a little over the top

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I have a good chunk of everything here saved in LJ-book format on my desktop, but it'd be nice to have a duplicate site too.

Haha, it really is just senseless drama and I honestly don't understand/care about most of it. It's maybe going to break off into a bunch of different comms, because the mods keep on fucking around with rules and don't really seem to have a standard or what they'll allow or won't allow and have a tendency to get bitchy when critiqued. Sometimes the bitchiness is warranted and sometimes it isn't. I dunno. The main point is that I think it's all dumb. I like the silly/fluffy secrets about the game itself or about people in the comms that I like, but there's too much cruelty.

[meoryn.livejournal.com]

Even though I will be getting a dreamwidth journal, I'd still check back here from time to time. I have a very small reading list so it's not going to be that hard for me to keep track of journals I want to read. Right now, I keep track of a few journals over at both blogspot and wordpress so "where" I am doesn't really matter as I read outside of whatever journal service I use at any given time.

Unfortunately, for some people, the internet makes them think it gives them the right to be utter assholes so they spew out their bad side to communities like that and what happens is a mass effect of assholery. It's such a negative community though. I don't know if it was always like that. I mean, I've read Post Secret over at blogspot and I find that much more enjoyable and more constructive for the secret makers.

[kristinkat.livejournal.com]

I never really got all the wank about SimSecret....I'd occasionally go there when I was bored and just be like "DUDES ITS A FRAKING GAME. CALM DOWN."

But I love to read random ramblings!

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I don't really understand most of the wank anyway. My main contribution there is like: "GODDAMN I AM AWESOME." and "PHI IS SEXY I LOVE HER."

I do not know if I will ever actually sit down and actually write the whole anglea/lilith/etc. thing, but maybe!

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that girl that you linked to (but I'm not surprised at that, lol) but if long hair is what you're after, I have but one word: Nexxus. I've been using Nexxus products for over uhhhh... tuhwenty... years and I can't say enough good things about them. I especially love the Therappe shampoo and the Humectress and Keraphix conditioners. <3

I really feel this is the beginning of the end of Simsecret. Which is fine... I think it had its heyday and it's probably time for it to go. Of course if anyone decides to start up a similar comm I'd be willing to join and participate. :)

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I am actually surprised that you never heard of her. She plays the sidekick (Sam) on Nickelodeon's iCarly which is pretty popular right now. I think it might even be beating Hannah Montana? Anyway, SHE'S SIXTEEN AND COOLER THAN ME.

Yeah, I love how long it is and those awesome curls. My hair is really thick and really wavy/unruly so I don't let it get too long, but I looooove long hair. When I was little, my hair was down to my butt. I shall have to look into Nexxus products.......

I feel the same. I think there's already two other comms that have gone up already? And like, I don't really feel like watching three different comms in order to follow along with the secrets. If Simsecret can pull it together, I'll keep watching, but I dunno. I just think it's all gonna get spread out and eventually just die. Whatever. *shrugs*

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

Oooh I'd love to read Angela/Lilith ramblings.

And yeah, simsecret is a bit weird, but I'm involved waay too much for my liking.

Also, got Dreamwidth ages ago ;) way ahead of you girl. I'm not leaving, but I like having different sites for different things, you know? Like I kind of like that I have very little personal stuff on LJ, but I wouldn't like to switch journals (I did it for a while and it frustrates me because I'm always logged into the wrong one and things).

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Lol, it's nothing terribly exciting. Just kind of looking at what's 'perfect' and why I actually like Angela best and why Lilith is generally more popular.

I've no idea what's going to happen this next week. Will the comm be able to pull it together or is everything going to break off into multiple other SS sites?

XD Yeah, I've been checking up on it here and there, but haven't actually played around with the openID. It definitely looks pretty cool and fandom-friendly is always good, but I HAAAAAAAATE jumping sites. And I'm really very satisfied with LJ to do what I want it to. The somewhat wonky friends system really doesn't bother me.

I had a personal journal, but I recently decided to abandon it. It was a bit too personal sometimes and towards the end I was only using it to bitch and I didn't like that. Now, I just have this one, which is basically supposed to be for fic/art so I'm sort of forced to stop myself when I want to be catty/bitchy.

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

I don't really prefer either Angela or Lilith. I mean, I think they're both just people. Lilith is probably more popular because people identify with her more, but I don't really think that she's ZOMG awesome or anything because she's just a person. And I think maybe Angela doesn't understand her so much because she doesn't have the ANGST but that doesn't make her a bad person, as such.

I have no idea what's happening with the comm. I'm hoping it doesn't disintegrate into a million pieces but I have a feeling it might, somewhat.

Yeah, I don't think I'll leave either. I like LJ far too much, and people always tend to come back here anyway. Various fandoms and things went to other places and then returned and I'm guessing something similar will happen here. I'll get a proper account just to follow Strange's story though.

Yeah, my old journal was full of angst and fail. Kind of glad I'm too lazy to sign into it anymore because it means that I write about how sad I am less, and instead focus on other things, like reading Sims stories :D.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much there with simsecret too. It's sort of addictive, but this last week was just a letdown, and maybe all the drama has finally worn out its welcome.

I think Angela is villified because she's been given such a position of privilege in her life, while her identical twin has grown up so badly. People can't help but resent that, and I find it hard to believe that she's all that perfect (which, of course, makes her more sympathetic too). In the whole Bible mythology, it's easier to relate to Lilith than it is to Eve too. Who doesn't want to root for the woman with a mind of her own?

I'm glad you'll be focussing on Ternion. I'm quite interested in it, and I'm going to add your comm.

I'm also not sure about Dreamwidth, the more I think about it. I do like a lot of the things that make it distinct from livejournal, but there is the whole thing about the mass amount of people here too. I'll switch if it's really cross-compatible, but maybe only then.

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's addictive, but I honestly don't even get half the secrets and the fact that it might be splitting into other comms is just... a waste of effort to follow. Also, I think people are less likely to make secrets about a person if they know that person isn't reading anyway?

I can DEFINITELY see why people would like Lilith more. She is more relatable, I think. But I find Angela more fascinating? Like, does she know her own power as the 'perfect' girl? Does she have to work to stay there or is it just a position she's been gifted with? And I find it interesting that they didn't name her Eve.

I'd really love to pick it up again. It's my baby and the characters are probably my most favorite original cast that I've created.

I think Dreamwidth is a super great idea and if it comes to the point that most of the people I watch have switched, then I'll probably jump for good too. But I really am just fond of LJ and until I have a REALLY good reason to leave, I'll probably just hang here.

If I were you I'd definitely wait to jump ship until after your paid account runs out here.

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(ugh i have two finals in the morning and i don't wanna take 'em. *whines* )

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

If I were you I'd definitely wait to jump ship until after your paid account runs out here.

Yeah, that's the plan. By "jump ship" I mean set up shop over there, but not necessarily shut down my livejournal. I'd want to buy an account for the images (granted that they'd even have the same amount and all that), but I don't want to be paying for two at the same time.

That sucks (about the finals). Good luck with them! *sends good vibes*

Also, do you like this scarf with this yarn (The Moss colour)? <3

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. I should really look into DW more with the open ID, because I've got a lot of questions about how it all works, but I think I'll just wait another week or so to really do it.

I think I'll do fine, but the good vibes are definitely awesome!

I do! I really like the Moss color. So purty! <33

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

If you sign up for OpenID, you get an invite code when it opens on April 30. It's pretty easy. You just use your username.livejournal.com.

I'm changing my mind on the pattern now... but that's the yarn for sure. I've had it for ages (picked it up on sale at Michael's a while back). It's silk and bamboo. Pretty cool, huh?