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Moving on to art - pencil crayons are wonderful; I love how much detail a person can get in with them. I didn't really think about them much until I started stalking Tracy Butler's work back in '99 and saw the amazing things she could do with colour pencil. I started trying to imitate that and, ehhhh, I didn't really come close, but I managed to get pretty good at it I think. Watercolours are another thing I do like to use, though I'm not too great at it.

Photoshop is all right (though I've never actually used it for my stuff, when I did draw; I've always used Paint Shop Pro) but I really don't like colouring electronically at all. It takes much longer for me to do, and it never turns out the way I want it to, and somehow my real-life colouring always looks better. And I used to get a lot of people who, when commenting to me, would act as if Photoshop was "better" than real media, when it... really isn't. Gehhh. I don't know, I guess I'm just really biased toward the tangible. Though I guess it doesn't really matter much any more, because I don't draw any more (I actually hate drawing... no matter what I do, I never like the way it looks. I love colouring, hate drawing. I wish I could just colour other people's work forevarrrr).

Back to fic. CLEARLY variety is not a good thing! GASP what are you thinking~ But nah, you already know I agree with you. More England and Canada interacting would be a very good thing, I agree. Considering how many Canadians (and Canada-fans) there are in the fandom, you'd think there would be more stuff with Canada and England than there is. Ah, well. I do like France with Canada too, and there is a nice chunk of that, sooo... at least I have that. (Though now that I think of it, there might be more Fr&Can than Eng&Can because of all the US/UK stuff... sigh)

Denmaaaark~ Yeah, I duno how I feel about him. Sometimes I find myself loving him, sometimes I'm more "meh" toward him. It flip-flops. Evidently, I just can't decide. Maybe I need to read more fic or something. But anyway, the over-the-top part is definitely fun. I wish there was more canon, argh... Anyway, voice, no I don't think you mentioned it before. But I'm glad you liked it! I actually try to base his way of speaking on a southern Albertan accent, hah. And when I write Sweden, I aim for northern Albertan. It's easier to get a voice when I can think of something that I've actually heard before.

Now, Dreamwidth - the name makes me imagine some kind of photohosting site or something, because the "width" part makes me think of bandwidth. "Unlimited bandwidth! The host of your dreams! 8D" You're right that it doesn't really sound like a journalsite at all. Sigh. But anyway. Facebook/Myspace, I don't know. I mean, yes, the photo uploads and multi-person PMs are good sometimes but like... there's no text. The status updates people make are inane, and the messages people leave are equally inane, and -- oh, I don't know. I just plain don't like it. Maybe I'm just used to stuff with more detail/thought put into communication. I can see how a person would spend hours on LJ, but I absolutely cannot see how someone (such as my colleagues at the department) could spend hours on Facebook.

Argh. Computers. You know what my mum did today? Phoned me an expected me to play tech support, then got all pissy when I didn't know how to fix it. What the fuck, man. And this wasn't something where "unplug it then plug it in again" would apply. Maybe if I was there I could poke around and figure it out (I doubt it) but over the phone? No way. Why the hell is it that people always expect me to know what I'm doing? THIS REALLY SUCKS.