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So apparently, Dreamwidth has been around for ten years. There is an equivalent stats meme that has been going around my reading list. Meanwhile, Livejournal has been around for twenty years this year based on another meme making the rounds. Since I’ve pretty much utterly abandoned my LJ and haven't cross-posted to it since 2017, I won’t be doing that one.

So happy anniversary, Dreamwidth! My anniversary here isn’t until next month.

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Created on 2009-05-02 20:32:12 (#222683), last updated 2019-03-23 (3 weeks ago)
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I came up with a few potential usernames for the Gothic Horror/Romance group in addition to a couple that were suggested, so you get a poll.

Created on 2009-05-02 20:32:12 (#222683), last updated 2017-04-17 (1 day ago)
9,902 comments received, 1,622 comments posted
6,750 Journal Entries, 646 Tags, 344 Memories, 261 Icons

So it would be a bit less than 2 weeks before my own Dreamwidth anniversary. I didn’t miss it, since I apparently created my account almost a month after almost everyone else I’ve seen doing this meme.

Before you delete your Livejournal account, if you plan to do so? Or even just if you’re planning to stay, and don’t plan to delete it, you may desire to claim your Open ID account anyway. It’s one of the many links in the Dreamwidth Starter Kit that bisharp made, but I thought I’d do a separate post on the topic, just in case anyone missed it.

As an example, back when I did it, I simply typed in calliopes-pen.livejournal.com and calliopes-pen.insanejournal.com.

Once you’ve done that, older comments that you made that were imported from both Livejournal and Insanejournal immediately become linked to your Dreamwidth account. So calliopes-pen.insanejournal.com becomes calliopes_pen in whatever journal, and goes straight here when clicked on. A user icon will then appear beside it, just as it once did wherever the comment originated.

(Expect it to take a while longer to import your journals, too, if you haven’t seen that update already. It’s still going quite admirably as it tries to bring over big_damn_quests. As of this moment, it’s 1614 others waiting in the queue, after a day. I’m amused, more than anything. I’m just glad the site hasn’t broken from the strain.)

*People have discovered that if you disable Javascript, you disable the message that appears and won’t go away until you agree to the new TOS. You can do this by using Ghostery or uBlock Origin or Noscript. At which point, while you can’t make a new post or comment or cross-post without agreeing, you can still delete your journal over there if that’s what you personally feel is right for you. Found via justhuman: rosefox shows the steps for getting it to go away with uBlock Origin.

*The full English translation of the Russian version of the new TOS.

*If you make the transition and change your username, there’s always this post at 2017revival: Want to find an old LJ friend? Linking DW and LJ identities. lj_refugees is another place to go if you just joined, as is getting_started.

*How to move to Dreamwidth and like it.

*From rahirah: How to redirect comments on a crosspost.

*I was trying to determine if I should import anything I was maintainer of long ago. big_damn_quests is seriously long since dead. Would anyone be averse to me importing it on over to Dreamwidth, just for archival purposes? It’s been dead for 10 years as of this year, and I’ve moved away from the Firefly fandom.

*I just completed saving all the inactive icons in the x_meggan journal. Over 70 of those.

*Tomorrow I’ll get started on slowly adding what was in Livejournal’s scrapbook to Dreamwidth’s service, and then slowly go through and try to correct broken links as I delete them from the Livejournal side.

*Long ago, I roleplayed Willow from Buffy, under the name strega_willow. I’ve just saved all the inactive icons there, and I’m thinking of importing it over to Dreamwidth, too. That will only happen if I decide any of it’s worth keeping after I go through and read it. If it isn't, then I'll delete that journal.

*If I haven’t added someone on the Dreamwidth side yet, please let me know in the comments and I will do it.

Edit: As of 1:40 PM, I finished going through the entirety of Scrapbook, and deleted anything I would never need again. It was time for cleaning out the assorted junk that had accumulated anyway. As stated earlier, whatever is left will be hosted on Dreamwidth soon.

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Spin magazine ceases print publication, shocking almost no one.

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Original Slimer maquette gets restored.

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New Year’s Eve: Tales From The Crypt Marathon With Cryptkeeper Hosting.

Great E-Mail Threads: The JLA Do Secret Santa.

Mattel Announces An Adam West Batman Toy Line.

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Diagnosing the Home Alone burglars’ injuries: A professional weighs in.

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The 10 best TV episodes of 2012.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #398.

DC Promotes Bob Harras, Hank Kanalz.

The Walking Dead Renewed For Fourth Season As Problems Persist…

Ask Chris #133: The Best Christmas Movie Ever.

Happy Holidays From Deadpool.

Top 20 Horror Christmas Movies.

Original Storyboards From Blade Runner

DC Nation, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Young Justice Teaser Videos Released.

Mission Log Podcast #20: Episode 20—Court Martial.

Movie Issues Podcast: The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Schlock Treatment 104: Power Rangers/Fat Albert Christmas Specials.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 70: Gremlins (1984) Commentary

Retroist Podcast, Episode 127—Christmas Commercials II

Ars Technicast, Episode 17: Deconstructing The Hobbit.

Now Playing Podcast: Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991).

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Scientists Resurrect 500 Million Year Old Gene Inside Modern Organism. So many horror movies start this way.

NVIDIA Hacked, Usernames and E-Mails Stolen.

Deleted account purge in progress at Dreamwidth.

Happy Friday the 13th!

Dimestore Dames spotlights Ororo Munroe/Storm.

From Neil Gaiman himself: A new Sandman miniseries will be released in 2013.

DC reveals Before Watchmen variants by Steranko, Rude, Pope, more.

Frankenweenie Poster. Frankenweenie trailer released at Comic Con.

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The Asylum Is Prepping To Release Its First Theatrical Film.

The trailer for Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great And Powerful.

Trekkies Guide To San Diego Comic Con 2012.

Interview: Mike and Denise Okuda on Star Trek: TNG Blu-Ray Season 1.

Contents of Indiana Jones Quadrilogy Bonus Disc Revealed.

Mythbusters’ Adam Savage spent the day wandering Comic Con while disguised as a Nazgul.

Teen Wolf Renewed for an Extended Season 3.

Psych Comic Con Panel: Boss previews 2-hour musical episode.

Karen Gillan will be in Oculus.

Official Plot Blurb For Robocop Remake.

Hearse Converted Into Ecto-1.

IDW Ghostbusters Monthly Comic #14, Ghostbusters 100 Pack Spooktacular, The Real Ghostbusters Omnibus Solicitations.

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Todd Williams joins The Vampire Diaries.

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The Giant Lego Creations of Comic Con.

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The Fourth Clip From The Dark Knight Rises.

Back To The Future Hoverboard Cake.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 255: Lucio Fulci.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Crash And Burn (1990).

Film Sack Podcast #123: Night of the Comet (1984).

Comic Book Club Podcast: Geoff Johns and Eliza Skinner.

Lucasfilm and Nerdist will team up for a lightsaber relay race before San Diego Comic Con, with profits going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Doctor Who will begin shooting the newest season on February 20th.

Time Out Chicago interviews Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy.

Behind the scenes of Curse of the Fatal Death: Part 1. Part 2.

The AV Club discusses crushes on fictional characters.

NBC has pushed production of its Mockingbird Lane pilot back to June for some retooling.

A French poster advertising Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Tor discusses Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

The producers of the V remake are bringing back Space: 1999—it will be called Space: 2099.

Cyborg costume made from old Apple computers.

mockingbird is hosting Galentine’s Day 2012. My thread.

Elegant Brown, in the Dusty Foot style has won the poll, and I’ve just switched my Dreamwidth layout over to that. I copied everything regarding my previous style into a Word document, so I can easily switch back to those exact settings if there’s a problem with this one. I'll be looking for any issues that need fixing--so far, that's primarily been changing the number of posts per page from 20 back to 30.

The Firm moves to Saturday nights, while Awake takes its original timeslot.

Watch the opening scene from The Woman In Black.

Jane Levy is now in talks to play the female Ash for the remake of The Evil Dead.

A rare watercolor of Calvin and Hobbes is up for auction.

Here’s Alex Kingston on The Graham Norton Show.

Max Landis’ The Death And Return of Superman—somehow, he got Mandy Moore to play Lois, and Elijah Wood as the Cyborg Superman, with Simon Pegg and Ron Howard popping in for cameos.

William Shatner reacts to the death of the Priceline Negotiator.

Lindsey Sterling’s Lord of the Rings Violin Medley.

At dark_fest, they’ve posted the prompts, categorized by fandom. A-F. G-M. N-S. T-Z. Any Fandom. The prompt claiming post.

Doctor Who Friending Meme

Io9 remembers High Spirits. I loved that movie, Peter O’Toole was great in it, along with a then relatively unknown Liam Neeson.

The Greatest X-Men Crossover And Mash-Up Art.

10 Batman Webcomic Parodies (Occasionally) Better Than The Real Thing.

New images from The Amazing Spider-Man.

A question to my friends list, both on DW and LJ: When I cross-post, it just leaves the link to where it is located on the other site. However, I’ve seen other people have it set to tell how many comments there are, on each end. How do I do that?

Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Trent Reznor, and other creators have released an open letter to Washington regarding SOPA.

Dreamwidth is against SOPA/PIPA.

Jennifer de Guzman is moving over to Image.

The history of the DC logo, as seen through 70 years of internet comments.

Concept art for the Godzilla reboot.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Black Alice.

The US version of a modern day Sherlock Holmes series now has the greenlight.

Steven Moffat talks about Sherlock with Radio Times, and says he’s read all the theories and speculation. A video interview is here. If you haven’t watched the finale, don’t click the links.

The History of Donna Troy Explained.

Everything You Need To Know About Babylon 5.

Gotham By Gaslight, and the steampunk Batman game that never was.

Starship Enterprise Mailbox.

Syfy renews Paranormal Witness for a second season.

The Dark Knight Rises trailer gets an analysis from Io9. Also, here’s the trailer on Youtube.

Stay Puft Snowman.

Preview clip for the season finale (The Sword In The Stone, Part 2) of Merlin.

Doctor Who Timeline Infographic.

Bruce Campbell will be in Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great And Powerful after all.

First trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Looks great, but I won’t be going to see it.

Love Post 2011.

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From Cracked: The 11 Most Unintentionally Creepy Christmas Ornaments. And there’s also The 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Superhero Reinventions. The Punisher as an angel? Really?

More Sherlock (season 2) trailers.

Dreamwidth is allowing account creation without an invite code for the rest of the year. If anyone wants to find me over there, my username is the same there as it is here. I just don’t cross-post all that often, save when LJ’s down. When it comes to LJ’s alterations, the larger font style will take some getting used to. I rarely used subject lines in comments, outside of Yuletide, certain memes, and the occasional auction. I can see the icon selection bit being a problem for those on dial-up. The part where you can make everything go to unthreaded at the same time is good. I like the bit where it tells what comments are new since you last visited.

ETA: The tags being moved to the bottom of the page will also take some getting used to.

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The Evil Dead remake gets a release date: April 12, 2013.

Lionsgate is planning to remake American Psycho.

Dreamwidth will be completely down for maintenance (servers being physically carried elsewhere, hopefully not dropped) for a few hours on December 13th.

Lost Girl was renewed for a third season on Showcase.

The poster for The Amazing Spider-Man.

A new poster for The Dark Knight Rises.

Trailer for the next episode (The Sword In the Stone Part 1) of Merlin.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Mariko Yashida (Sunfire from Exiles).

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10 Ridiculously Rare Action Figure Exclusives From Around The World. I think I had The Blank from Dick Tracy. It was either thrown out or melted in the attic. Mom agrees, and says I also had the watch.

China has banned anything time travel related, because they believe it is somehow disrespectful. What it’s disrespectful to, I have no idea. Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was both Back to the Future, and Doctor Who.

John Barrowman discusses Torchwood: Miracle Day with Access Hollywood.

BBC America takes another behind the scenes look at Doctor Who—this includes a brief clip of the season premiere.

The Geek Zodiac. My sign appears to be The Astronaut, since I was born in 1981.

Anyone know if there’s a way to alter the coding of my journal layout however it needs to be done, so that I can then use it in S2 and stick it on my Dreamwidth journal? All I’ve ever used is S1--the layout involves Generator, so I’ll need some way around that. I don't believe amavel_bel made a version of it for S2 when she made this one a few years back.

I still have 8 7 Dreamwidth invites left, if anyone would like one.