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As a lot of others are doing, given the whole situation with the Livejournal password breach, I am systematically going through and revoking access to journals that either were never posted in, or a person was last seen so many years ago that they probably aren’t ever coming back. If I have accidentally removed your access, or you’re usually a lurker and think I might mistakenly do so, just let me know and I’ll either fix things, or make certain I don't remove you.

I’ve needed to do this for a few years, really. Some haven’t been seen in a decade by the look of it; so many from long ago when I still wrote Doctor Who fanfic.

It seems that some journals are being considered spammers for linking to any sites outside of Livejournal, and being deleted.. So if this is all true, and will become a regular thing when someone links outside of the site, then I may consider putting a halt to cross-posting to Livejournal altogether. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments over in that entry, so that I might see what develops. Currently, it's a wait and see/learn more situation.

Given that I link to things outside of Livejournal, it’s quite likely that I would be suspended for mistakenly being a spammer if an errant spambot script got hold of my journal; each cross-post is technically a link to outside of Livejournal, even if you don’t factor in linking to fanfic posted to Ao3 or wherever else I collect links from.

Kudos to

meridian_rose for mentioning this, as it was the first I had heard of it.

I periodically import any comments from the Livejournal side (and now that the influx of new people importing has slowed a bit, it only takes about 5-20 minutes to complete an import as of this writing) so that nothing will be lost if my Livejournal happens to fall under some vague thing that all ends with a deletion, temporary or otherwise.

To those who prefer commenting on the LJ side: Should anything happen to my journal, you can easily find me and add me on Dreamwidth if you have an account there and haven’t already. Same username, even if you don’t have access to a cross-post link.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/1007085.html

All comments have imported successfully for

librarian_films and

relation_ships as of half an hour ago. I discovered and cleaned up one case of Russian spam in the form of a truly massive wall of text in a comment of the latter from about a year ago, which went unnoticed (but screened, even following the import) until now.

As planned, both communities were deleted from the Livejournal side once I made certain that everything was in order. Following input in favor of not going that route, I plan to leave

big_damn_quests in both places. It's safely backed up here on Dreamwidth, should anything worse remove it over there.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/1002455.html

All journal entries have been successfully imported for

librarian_films as of a few minutes ago. It doesn't look like anything accidentally appeared multiple times. Once the comments have made the journey, then I’ll delete the group on Livejournal, as promised.

Edit: As of a moment ago, the same status holds true for

relation_ships as well.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/1002028.html

I just removed a rather large chunk of groups from the friends list over on the Livejournal side. There are quite a few that haven’t had any activity since 2012 or earlier. A few that are dead I’ll keep for now, so I can go through and save whatever posts I feel like I wouldn’t want to lose. As is to be expected from me at this point, it’s a few ancient Dracula groups and one for Gothic horror literature.

Edit: Oh, and since the import is completed on the Dreamwidth side, is anyone not in favor of me deleting

big_damn_quests from Livejournal? Everything is safely backed up.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/1001823.html

Looking through the two other Livejournal communities that I am considered owner of, I decided that I would be bringing them to Dreamwidth as well, so that nothing is lost. Importing has begun on both groups.

relation_ships is now on Dreamwidth as

relation_ships.

librarian_films is on Dreamwidth as

librarian_films.

relation_ships was almost completely dead by the time I took over, so that will be for archival purposes only, just as

big_damn_quests technically seems to be.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/1001521.html

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.)

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/1000707.html

I have successfully transferred all images in the Livejournal Scrapbook over to Dreamwidth for the ice storm post from 2009, and switched out all the accompanying links there, and for the Livejournal side, before deleting the images in the Scrapbook.

I noticed that it had a duplicate entry. My first thought was that it was caused back when I first imported everything years ago, but no. It's that way on the Livejournal side as well, so it's an old Livejournal hiccup that occurred at some point. As there were no comments to that Livejournal hiccup, I deleted it on both sides to prevent further issues.

Edit: Oh, and for those interested:

bisharp has made a Dreamwidth Starter Kit, for those that are making the move from Livejournal to Dreamwidth, and need tutorials, customizations, groups for obtaining assistance, and an assortment of other things.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/1000192.html

Perhaps it’s due to the comments being screened, but I didn’t receive the notifications for the love meme. I happened to glance in, and just saw them. Thank you (each of you will see my thanks over there, too, when those comments are unscreened) so much for the kind words and hearts,

alexseanchai,

azurelunatic, and

elistaire. They are truly greatly appreciated.

I was looking through the payment history tab on Livejournal to see just how long I’ve had my Permanent Account over there...and how long I’ve been on LJ as a whole. My account was created on November 10th, 2003, so I’ve been there for nearly 14 years. I obtained the Permanent Account in June of 2005. I renamed my journal in October of that same year.

Back then, my username was faith_of_borg; when I began to gradually move away from my interests in both Buffy and Star Trek, I wanted a username that I wouldn’t really drift away from liking. I didn’t want one that focused on one particular fandom, just in case I jumped ship. I always enjoyed mythology, and eventually picked what I have these days.

As of right now, it’s looking like I will definitely be bringing big_damn_quests over to Dreamwidth. 8 votes in favor, 0 against. I remember what it was like when Greatestjournal disappeared before I could think to save a lot of fannish history in groups I enjoyed. Hence my whole ‘do it while there’s still time’ mentality for archiving.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/999839.html

All car related images (for the new one, and what happened to the old one) have now been removed from Livejournal’s Scrapbook, placed into Dreamwidth’s image hosting, and then all corresponding links were then edited to direct to the correct location. The banner and book cover for Wrap The Cloak Of Night Around His Shoulders are hosted on Photobucket, so I don’t need to do any editing to that story.

The only thing left is to save, move, and alter the links for everything about the ice storm of 2009, and I’ll be done. I'll do that later.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/999523.html

On the Livejournal side of things, I deleted the Tara banner I use over there, while I was cleaning up the Livejournal Scrapbook. This has the added benefit that everyone should be able to see the top post over there, as it's no longer covered by it (nothing I ever did to fix it ever worked anyway when it came to resizing, while it was always fine on Insanejournal).

This also has the added benefit that if anyone has posted and it was at the top of the Friends page, now I can actually see it.

Meanwhile, I deleted around five or so ancient role-playing journals over on Livejournal that I didn't see the need to keep. I salvaged the icons from a few beforehand--like the one for Cordelia that I'm using for this post, on the Dreamwidth side.

The journals I didn't delete I'm putting serious thought into importing, for archival purposes.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/999105.html

*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.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/998777.html

In regards to Livejournal not allowing people onto the site (or even allowing cross-posting until you agree--so yeah, I agreed so I could do that) unless they agree to the new terms and conditions: If you don’t want to remain on Livejournal, and are reading this from there, you can always find me on Dreamwidth under this same username.

Feel free to add me if you're only just going over to the Dreamwidth side, if you haven’t already. I know there are people that still prefer commenting on the Livejournal side, so I will continue to cross-post for now.

I choose not to panic. I will not delete my journal.

I respect the decision to get out of there and delete your journal, if you’ve made that one. I also understand why some don’t want to go. If things get even sketchier, or particular restrictions go into effect that don't allow particular topics over there, then I might do only Dreamwidth posting at that point. I will warn everyone in advance should that time come.

There are far too many things I might need again that are located on Livejournal at this moment, like access to particular groups that are locked, the LJ Memories, and their Scrapbook.

Everything I have posted to my Livejournal is backed up on Dreamwidth as a result of cross-posting and importing. All of my icons are backed up on Dreamwidth--I have more on Dreamwidth than I do on the Livejournal side. Thanks to the import function, almost all (well, I’m about to do yet another import, so that’ll be all shortly) comments from over there are backed up on Dreamwidth. And thanks to that function, my fanfic and cross-posting thereof is backed up on Dreamwidth (and Ao3, and wherever else).

I have the old stuff from the 2009 ice storm and a few other things (like at least one image of one of my late cats that I stumbled across in there, which I have yet to move) currently hosted on Livejournal’s Scrapbook that I might try to save elsewhere.

So in summary: This is basically the same thing I said back in December, really. At least I'm consistent?

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/998499.html

For all those that have heard vague mumblings about people leaving Livejournal but don’t yet know the reasoning, there’s a great explanation for what’s going on as a result of Livejournal moving their servers to Russia.

( As I was asked not to link back to the post, but merely copy/paste, you can now read what was originally linked to beneath the cut following an edit. Outside of the cut is my reaction. )

Now that you’ve read that, I will state that while I have always preferred to post on Dreamwidth for my own personal and technical reasons, I will not stop cross-posting to Livejournal so long as there’s at least one person on my friends list who chooses to remain there, and wishes to read or comment that way. As I also use that journal for reading and commenting out of character at X-Project in discussion posts, and for reading other groups (like the Yuletide mod entries) far and wide, I will not delete my personal account on Livejournal.

Should anything of that nature change, I’ll be certain to let people know first thing.

My journal was imported to Dreamwidth back when I first started using it. All the icons (save what I haven’t uploaded on the LJ side) are the same. Pretty sure if I deleted it, the only thing to be affected would be whatever I have hosted on LJ Scrapbook. Which would mostly be what’s in the tag for Winter Devastation of 2009, the layout for my LJ (which I don’t use on Dreamwidth), and various unsorted things that have accumulated over the years.

[Quick edit for those interested, upon the request of needled_ink_1975 on 4/4/17: Dreamwidth now has image hosting. So if that lack was what put you off from crossing over, there you go.]
Whatever is actually important can be transferred to another hosting location.

Should anyone prefer to post to Dreamwidth and not want to post to their Livejournal anymore, just let me know and I’ll remove you from the Livejournal side to make things tidier. I tend to read comments and posts on both sides, though, even if I don’t say all that much.

Edit: The text of this post has been slightly altered, so that the warning is copy/pasted, rather than linked to. My reaction remains the same.

Edit 2: Altered again on 4/4/17, to include a clarification on image hosting. It's in bold, so you should find it easily.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/986576.html

I have noticed an issue with my layout on the Livejournal side of things. After the latest round of upgrades, (presumably, because it was fine until a couple months back, so I assume it was that—I didn’t touch anything to cause this) now I have too much space before you hit the banner. As a result of this, my banner now overlaps the most recent post.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this? If you’re on the Dreamwidth side of things, just follow the cross-post link and go to my journal. You’ll see what I mean. SeanDC confirmed that he sees it, too, along with an extra blue bar.

As a result of this, since it’s on the friends page side of things, too—I just have to guess if the top comment is an rss feed that I follow over on Dreamwidth, or if it’s a post by someone somewhere. If I see it at all.

If it is an issue with S1 and I need to switch to S2, I would hope to get the style to something similar to what I have on Dreamwidth.

ETA: Oh, here’s how it should normally look (as you can see, using my long-abandoned Insanejournal as an example).

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/966770.html

If you don’t care for the new layout on Livejournal and you haven’t already found the way back, here’s how you can change it back to the old style. Massive kudos go out to

sallymn for finding it.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/948700.html

In the last few days, I have had four spam comments from anonymous journals hit my most recent Livejournal posts. Annoying, but they are being cleaned up within a couple hours of them being posted. Thankfully, I always have it screened for comments if it's someone that hasn't friended me or if it's an anonymous post. It seems to be simply random gibberish.

Edit: And there's another one, to this very entry on LJ as of 10:15 AM. Deleted that one, too.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/947931.html

I appear to be finished with my fanfic, and it's now off to the first person to beta read it. 14,647 words. Given a couple things that go on in the course of it all, I'll probably be rating it R.

Also, is anyone else having trouble with LJ? I can log in finally, but I haven't been able to get any further than the main page for the last two or three days. It's only LJ, and no other site--it's that way in IE, Chrome, and Firefox, so it's likely something to do with the cluster I'm on.

When I try to cross-post, looks like Dreamwidth fails to connect until the third try. So definitely an issue on LJ's part.

Oh, and without spoiling anyone who may not have seen it--loved the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who when it aired on Saturday.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/937693.html

For anyone out there that has yet to do their nominations for Yuletide, or can’t think of something, please consider adding Fright Night (1985), Ghostbusters, or Night of the Comet (1984). If that last one doesn’t turn up this year, I’ll try to remember to add it next year. (I’ll be rewatching The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995) in the next few minutes, and will decide if I want to nominate the corniness of that one next year.)

I’ve finally gotten around to watching the first episode of Sleepy Hollow. I think I like it, so I’ll give the next episode a shot. I’ll try watching the new version of The Tomorrow People, as well as (because I watched four seasons of The Vampire Diaries in one month, under the mistaken impression they were eligible for Yuletide until I rechecked the ineligible list, and I might as well put it to some use) The Originals, when they premiere. Mostly so I’ll know if I want to write for either of those for Yuletide.

Also, is anyone else having a problem where you cannot see comments (aside from the notation telling the number of comments there should be, as well as page numbers) on LJ at all, when you’re using Internet Explorer? I finally thought to switch to my portable version of Firefox, and I can see the comments over there. I assume it was just another upgrade from LJ’s end that caused this, since nothing else is affected. It started three days ago.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/933522.html

Livejournal Status Update: possible slowness and access problems. If LJ is down and you’re reading from my cross-post on Dreamwidth,

meridian_rose has copied the text of the post here.

Yuletide 2012 Statistics Post.

This is what the Lizard could have looked like in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies.

Behold an Alien facehugger made entirely out of animal bones.

The Phil Coulson Memorial Awards: Comics Alliance’s Best Comics of 2012, Part 5.

Handmade Doctor Who Gallifreyan Collar.

Doctor Who Christmas special ratings surge.

Amazing Spider-Man #700 Steve Ditko Cover Breaks $1200 On eBay.

Japanese Poster For The Cabin In The Woods.

Crash Course: Dario Argento.

Trailers From Hell: Larry Karaszewski on What's The Matter With Helen.

Looking Forward, Looking Back: Creators weigh in on 2012 and 2013, Part 2.

J.M. DeMatteis on the Supernatural DCU and Phantom Stranger.

P:R Redesign: Denis Medri’s Fantasy Deadpool

Interview: Gregg Hurwitz & Ethan Van Sciver on Batman: The Dark Knight.

Stan Lee's Real Life Hobbit One Ring

Oz: The Great And Powerful—Two New Teaser Trailers.

After Elton interviews Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath.

The Evil Dead Wedding Cake.

Has The Roster For The Justice League Movie Been Revealed?

Is Scream 5 The New Ghostbusters 3?

5 Unfinished Comic Series We Want To Come Back.

10 Book Series So Addictive, You Never Want Them To End.

Geekfest Rants, Episode 121: Reboots, Remakes, and Reimaginings.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Johnny Guitar (1954)

Comic Issues #99: Geek Resolution.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/899257.html

Livejournal has informed me that the Paid Account has expired completely in the

x_meggan journal, despite my attempt to renew it with the tokens. I can’t afford to renew it without those, so I might just delete the now inactive icons when I have the time.

The local news has a gallery of how things look around here. According to them, someone made a snow bear, snow squirrel, and snow woman with spare high heels (the last of which I saw on the news, it was on the side of I-24). I haven’t found evidence of those first two yet, but here’s an ice sculpture of a Love Bug.

We're due for a bit more sleet with snow mixed in tomorrow.