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stewardess: Nostalgia: LiveJournal’s Greatest Fuck-Ups.:

Great list of idiotic behavior by the people running LJ

stewardess: Circle the one that doesn’t belong: (Porn) (Hardcore) (Bondage) (Faeries):

Apparently fanfiction doesn’t show up as a popular interest any more. Hmmm.

azurelunatic: Signs you might not be from LJ originally (some of LJ’s rules, both social and not-so-social):

Interesting reading on social behavior and LJ.

ciaan: One editor’s primer on how she chooses links for the SV Ledger:

An editor’s look at choosing links

r_becca: newslettering complaints and stuff:

Really interesting discussion on newsletters and the types of stuff they cover

lyras: Hitting the headlines:

Even more interesting discussion

ziasudra_fic: Ramblings about newslettering:

More newsletter thinky!

murklins: Newslettering in a Post-Strikethrough World:

Since the Inuyasha fandom has a fifteen year old girl as the main character and a six year old girl as one of the supporting characters, we can run into issues of pedophilia and underage porn. TF? Well, lots of smut involving a 16 year old boy (or is he seventeen?) involving cars, older men or girls.

GLUTTONY
Thick, sugared and bloated with sweetness. Dark chocolate, vanilla, buttercream, and hops with pralines, hazelnut, toffee and caramel.

MMM. The dark chocolate was very evident and lordy it was sweet. I think it would be wonderful diluted down just a tad to cologne strength. The coffee came through and gave it a bitter tang, but rather nice, like a coffee shop.

HURRICANE
The Dark Side of Air: a high pitched, tangy, clear scent — light China rain deepened by murky vetivert.

I was so disappointed. I was looking forward to this one since I’m an Air sign and it was like crisp plus smoke. Gag. I did the alcohol trick and even washed my wrist to get rid of the smell. I liked the crisp part but the vetiver made me think of smoke and made me do a D: face.

(also, check out the layout y’all!  I was in a spring mood)

UNDERTOW
The Dark Side of Water: clean and purifying, yet menacing — lotus and juniper with a hint of mint. A scent dragged up from the depths to the Stygian shore.

Definitely minty.  Had a slight whiff of cough syrup at first, and the lotus sweetened up the mint and juniper which gives it the clean smell. 

It went ick on me. I got a headache from the overweening sweet. >.< I used hand sanitizer to remove most of the oil. It may be better mixed with water and alcohol to lighten the scent.

Got my package from the lovely people at BPAL.  Had 16 imps in the box.

First One: Moon Rose
The description from the site:

A crisp, pale, almost translucent rose dusted by moonflower and midnight dew.

It is a very pretty scent on me! I really like it and when it dried down, oh my! :)  Very light and pretty, and no reactions. I tend towards florals, marine scents and crisp scents.

Links to the reviews!

1. Hurricane
2. Undertow
3. Moon Rose
4. Eos
5. Eve
6. Hi’iaka
7. Nyx
8. Nuit
9. Obatala
10. Thalia
11. Persephone
12. Yemaya
13. Black Rose
14. Aizen-Myoo
15. Gluttony
16. Ave Maria Gratia Plena

He came in the mail today to pester Ratchet.  He is one sexy little car. ;)  Pictures will be up tonight after I finish my errands.  Also note to self, find a Jazz icon.

ETA: Pictures!

Ratchet was very accommodating with being a prop for Jazz.

Figured it out: Forgot to snap his roof in place. Whoops.

Ratchet also liked the dandelion. Gave him fond memories.

I has Rescue Ratchet [Movie Ratchet repaint in G1 colors].  He’s a stubborn cuss to transform and pictures will be forthcoming.

Okay. update: Found the directions and he wasn’t nearly as stubborn as before. Either that or I just had more practice (three times!) - that sounds so dirty

Was off of work today and all I did was go to a meeting (got paid an hour fifteen for it) and do an estimate for Dad. Cooked supper, and played with robots. All in all a nice day.

*goes to work on the SJT*

ETA: I think I’m going for repaints of the movie toys: I just bought the G1 repaint of Jazz. Next up an Offroad [blue] Ironhide and Stealth Bumblebee [Black with yellow stripes] and a Night-Watch Prime.

I just bought 12 imps from BPAL. 

Hurricane, Undertow, Moon Rose, Eos, Eve, Hi’iaka , Nyx, Nuit, Obatala, Thalia, Persephone, Yemaya for those interested.

>.< 

I shall be fragrant in a few weeks. ;)  And y’all can add me to the list of BPAL lovers.  I shall post notes on how they work whenever they arrive.

Wasn’t very creative with the arrangement but I have quite a few Beast wars TFs in the picture. I have identified Megatron, Tigerhawk, Optimus Maximal, Depthcharge, Rattrap, and Blackarachnia. Any others y’all want closeups of, let me know and I’ll get them out since I know where I put them now.

Dragon Megatron

The Party (I tried to get them all in but Blackarachnia got cut out)

Charlie!

Will have #95 of the SJT and #52 of the Cybertronian up tonight.  Links have been gathered and are ready for formatting and posting.

Started del.icio.us accounts for both newsletters and will be adding links from my bookmarks as time permits.

For reference: sengokujidaitimes and the.cybertronian are the accounts.  Did admin work and fiddling in the watch journal accounts.  Dropped springkink from the watch lists and added comms.  Will be doing a fandom overview for the InuYasha fandom for try_this_fic as well as TF and FF12.

Read and rec some fic for try_this_fic.

List Times!
Penance: HumanTF Wheeljack/Ratchet, Robot!Ratchet fic
Beta: I have a GDocs file and will be taking the printout to read at work tonight and tomorrow
Plotbunnies: CSI/TF crossover.  Ratchet goes undercover in Miami to investigate reports of strange goings on in the Everglades.
Crush, The Wedding Night (for Nikkie), Lucky Charms (due March 17), Stars Beyond, technoPHILIA

technoPHILIA

1. Backstory for Catherine
2. The Early Days
3. Rise to Internet Stardom
4. ???