Man, I am wiped out and I don't even know why. I wonder if it's because I'm out of iron tablets. I'll have to stop at GNC tomorrow and stock up. Well, my allergies aren't doing me any favors either, but still.


( Anyway. One more screencap recap of Supernatural S2, or maybe one more after this, I don't know. This one is of 'Playthings'. )

Oh my god. How am I supposed to deal with the brooding perfection that is Richard Armitage in North and South?

I am *swooning* on the sofa over here.

SWOONING.

So Pine wanted SPN screencap recaps, and I'd been thinking about doing one or two anyway. I feel sort of weird recapping something most of my friends list has probably already seen, but I guess that's what I get for not watching stuff until it's been out on DVD forever. Anyway, just in case you haven't, here are screencaps from the "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" episode.

( There are a lot of Angela's Ashes jokes to be made here, I just couldn't quite pin them down. )

Need ideas for same-sex wedding gift-giving? Not anymore...

ETA: Oh dear god, make it stop The male moose knuckle in its natural habitat...

Development Goals and Basic Accounts

Last week we updated our development goals for 2008. Generally we noted a number of cool enhancements and investments to LiveJournal that we are working on, including improved search, usability, and site development.

We also wanted to let you know how we hope to accomplish all these things, and how we plan on paying for them. In order to accomplish our stated goals for this year and beyond, we need to increase the revenue gained from both groups of LiveJournal accounts: paid subscription accounts and ad-supported accounts.

As of August 28th, all users will be able to choose to downgrade their account to Basic through their Manage Account page. Additionally, we will start showing advertising to visitors who are not logged in to LiveJournal when they are looking at Basic Account journals and communities.

Basic Account users themselves will not see ads on any Basic journal or community while they are logged in to their account. If you want more information about this, take a look at our new post on lj_2008 where we outline our reasoning.

Indian Flash Fiction Contest

In other news, we are excited to tell you we've launched "Quick Tales" LiveJournal's first initiative for users in India, in celebration of India Independence day, August 15th. "Quick Tales" is a flash fiction writing contest in which we're partnering with Caferati.com, one of India's largest online literary communites. The contest's winners will receive some great prizes and it is open to anyone with a mailing address in India. We hope that users with an interest in Indian writing or just India will watch LiveJournal's india_writing community. That's where the finalists and winners will be announced, so keep an eye on it towards the end of September! If you're in India then enter the contest - if your story is slick and quick (under 500 words) then you could be the lucky winner!

Meanwhile, back at LiveJournal Inc.

We have updated and redesigned our corporate site. The goal of the redesign was twofold: first, to update the look and feel (Dystopia users will appreciate it!); second, we want to provide a destination for prospective employees, partners, and members of the press where they can access important information about the company. Kudos to our design team.

So I was at Best Buy yesterday and found out that Supernatural S2 was on sale for twenty bucks. So I bought it - a little reluctantly, having been warned by you lot that the intolerable Winchester daddy issues are even more intolerable in S2 (you were right, and also, Dean cries a hell of a lot for a guy who's so determinedly macho). I start watching it, and what's the second goddamned episode about?

CLOWNS.

FUCK YOU, ERIC KRIPKE. THERE ARE THINGS IN THIS WORLD TOO HORRIBLE TO BE MADE INTO ENTERTAINMENT.

I'm on the third disc now. So far - Ash, Andy, Ava, and the Crossroads Demon: ♥; Gordon: heinous person, awesome character; Jo and Ellen: annoying and tiresome, and I can't quite put my finger on why. I think Ash and Andy should team up and fight evil with the power of sheer dorkiness. Also, I keep thinking Sam's hair can't possibly get worse and then it does.

I still like the stand-alone episodes the best, though. The overarching plotline bores me.

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More to come, eventually. Sorry, working 2 1/2 jobs is sort of slowly killing my brain. Whatever brain that I had.

Smoochers!!

Hi, we're in Rotterdam, Netherlands for about six hours on Saturday. Anyone been before? Tell us what in the City of Architecture we should be seeing! Bonus points if you've been on a walking tour and can recommend one.

Gosh it's fun being a Euro-weekend-traveller. I think ter369 would approve <333333333 but it's going to be very very hard to be faced with not sending her a postcard :(