Haha, I have no idea how that happened, mate. How it got so long, I mean. Even reading over, it doesn't look like that much to me, even though it tookup so many comment parts. It doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of substance in what I was saying. Well, that's just how it is, I suppose! At any rate, I'm glad it made you happy.
... That picture. Oh. My. God. Congratulations, you managed to make Norway look like a man (a hot one, at that). So many people fail at making him look like a guy - it's the same problem as with Finland, really. (I see your white-text flailing, and I say, don't worry about it. Looks fine to me. I imagine getting the hang of a tablet is difficult - you seem to be doing pretty well, at any rate!)
You're right that it's a period that isn't explored in fandom a lot. Come to think of it, even when it comes to certain characters that you'd expect to have lots of stuff written with them dealing with that period, you don't see it. Take Canada fic, for example - he's a very popular character, and you'd expect a ton of stuff dealing with the War of 1812, but I haven't really run into a lot of that, nor anything that deals with the Riel Rebellion either (though that was more mid-1800s, hmm). Really, it's kind of surprising.
how awesome it would be if someone got around to writing it Workin' on it, darlin'. I actually wrote a whole page of it today! -- Though most of it just involved Denmark being a jackass. But, er, at least I was working on it. I've had such a hard time motivating myself to write, but I think it's slowly coming back. This is good! Now, if only I could get the will to edit the two kink meme drafts and five anonmeme drabbles that have been sitting around for over a month, I'd definitely be in business.
I saw the write-or-die thing, and I love the idea, but unfortunately for me I can only write well when I'm doing it by hand. I can't write on a computer at all. I need to be able to scratch things out, and use arrows and there's something about physically seeing the pages that really helps me out. I might try the write-or-die thing for when I'm typing up fic, though. Usually I get distracted and it takes me about fifty million years to type something up (this may be an exaggeration).
I'm glad LJ is working for you again. <3 Most of the things I do online nowadays are LJ related. In previous years I had online games that I'd play as well, but not as much any more. In fact... now that I think of it, except for Wiki research and geeking out while reading medieval blogs, pretty much the entirety of what I do when I'm on the internet is LJ. I don't know where I'd be without it. Been on this site since 2002, and I really can't imagine not having it.
Now, when it comes to computers, in my defence I wasn't the one who bought this thing. If I had, it likely wouldn't have had Vista, and it likely wouldn't have been a Dell. Sigh. Though thus far I haven't really had any problems with the system not working. Mostly my issue has been not knowing how to do stuff. ...Well. Except for this whole battery thing, which I still haven't gotten around to fixing.
3.1 was... wow, that was so long ago. It's hard to remember. I recall that going back to using 3.1 (on an old computer) after using Windows 95 for a while was really jarring. The windows for various folders were always open; you didn't open them yourself, they stayed on the desktop like that. There wasn't a start-bar. If I closed the windows I didn't know how to get it back. To be honest, I've always been more comfortable with DOS than with Windows 3.1; DOS is a pain in the ass, but as long as I knew the commands to run my games, I was good. Easy-peasy.
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... That picture. Oh. My. God. Congratulations, you managed to make Norway look like a man (a hot one, at that). So many people fail at making him look like a guy - it's the same problem as with Finland, really. (I see your white-text flailing, and I say, don't worry about it. Looks fine to me. I imagine getting the hang of a tablet is difficult - you seem to be doing pretty well, at any rate!)
You're right that it's a period that isn't explored in fandom a lot. Come to think of it, even when it comes to certain characters that you'd expect to have lots of stuff written with them dealing with that period, you don't see it. Take Canada fic, for example - he's a very popular character, and you'd expect a ton of stuff dealing with the War of 1812, but I haven't really run into a lot of that, nor anything that deals with the Riel Rebellion either (though that was more mid-1800s, hmm). Really, it's kind of surprising.
how awesome it would be if someone got around to writing it
Workin' on it, darlin'. I actually wrote a whole page of it today! -- Though most of it just involved Denmark being a jackass. But, er, at least I was working on it. I've had such a hard time motivating myself to write, but I think it's slowly coming back. This is good! Now, if only I could get the will to edit the two kink meme drafts and five anonmeme drabbles that have been sitting around for over a month, I'd definitely be in business.
I saw the write-or-die thing, and I love the idea, but unfortunately for me I can only write well when I'm doing it by hand. I can't write on a computer at all. I need to be able to scratch things out, and use arrows and there's something about physically seeing the pages that really helps me out. I might try the write-or-die thing for when I'm typing up fic, though. Usually I get distracted and it takes me about fifty million years to type something up (this may be an exaggeration).
I'm glad LJ is working for you again. <3 Most of the things I do online nowadays are LJ related. In previous years I had online games that I'd play as well, but not as much any more. In fact... now that I think of it, except for Wiki research and geeking out while reading medieval blogs, pretty much the entirety of what I do when I'm on the internet is LJ. I don't know where I'd be without it. Been on this site since 2002, and I really can't imagine not having it.
Now, when it comes to computers, in my defence I wasn't the one who bought this thing. If I had, it likely wouldn't have had Vista, and it likely wouldn't have been a Dell. Sigh. Though thus far I haven't really had any problems with the system not working. Mostly my issue has been not knowing how to do stuff. ...Well. Except for this whole battery thing, which I still haven't gotten around to fixing.
3.1 was... wow, that was so long ago. It's hard to remember. I recall that going back to using 3.1 (on an old computer) after using Windows 95 for a while was really jarring. The windows for various folders were always open; you didn't open them yourself, they stayed on the desktop like that. There wasn't a start-bar. If I closed the windows I didn't know how to get it back. To be honest, I've always been more comfortable with DOS than with Windows 3.1; DOS is a pain in the ass, but as long as I knew the commands to run my games, I was good. Easy-peasy.