No, I didn't get shotUnrelatedly, my attitude toward Livejournal has softened a little. The advertisements still annoy me tremendously, and I plan to keep all my useful writing on the Dreamwidth account. However, I won't delete the LJ posts, and I will post mundane updates giving the details of my life on both journals, when I resume writing them ( Read more... )

Several years ago, I bought a full account on Livejournal, intending to renew it steadily. Then the site started showing ads, and although my paid account prevented those ads from showing up on my journal, I was annoyed enough to decide against renewing the account. Considering the importance I place on what I write here, I can't stomach the fact ( Read more... )

Across the street from my grandmother's shop there once lived a kind old woman named Nora. During that span of my life (roughly my early years in grade school) my mother worked a second job as a costume designer for a Dallas theatre, so she would often use my grandmother's sewing machines, tables, and supplies of fabric, with me along to spend my ( Read more... )

Part of a conversation with Cube about identity and insanity....I don't have a character, much less one for each species. So I describe the identification as a set of affiliations, implying some degree of loyalty to humanity's present understanding of the two species. That understanding includes the literature tied to the animals (though tied ( Read more... )