alisanne

OMG you guys, it's good to be back!

So in case you missed it, I was offline for about 2 weeks while my computer was in the Apple Shoppe to have its swollen battery replaced.

Apparently when laptop batteries swell they can explode? Who knew? *wibbles*

( Fortunately, mine didn't... )
TL:DR, I was computer-less for an unexpectedly long time. :((
Alas, there was no writing, although there was Seeker's Notes and Pinterest to console me. ;)

A special thank you to dreamy_dragon73 for the LJ nudge, to lilyseyes for posting my edition of the sshp_prophet for me this week, and to torino10154 for posting 2 weeks worth of snarry100 prompts as well as last week's snape100 and dracoharry100's prompts for me. You all rock! ♥

OH! And special smooches for mrs_sweetpeach and digthewriter for the Valentine's cards! Muah!

Right, so what have I missed?
*chinhands*
Tell me everything, bbs. ♥

I know this is early since it's been less than a month since I returned from my last Harry Potter convention, but 2019 is shaping up to be a major convention year.

So far I'm contemplating FOUR conventions. (!!!)

1. Misticon: I'm definitely attending. I already have early-bird con tickets and room reservations. *g*

2. Leakycon - Boston: I'm planning to go. titti will hopefully be successful in her efforts to get tickets since they can go fast. Plus, Boston in October will be perfect weather. :)

3. Potterversecon: I wasn't sure they'd throw this one again since apparently attendance was lower this year than last, but they made it sound like they planned to, so it's on the potential list.

4. LEVIOSA 2019! lilyseyes just sent me a link to their site. The best part of the last Leviosa was that a lot of online fans were there. If it's like that again, I'm totally going since cons for me are all about the people. Although 4 cons in one year is...wow.

And there could be other ones, I have no idea.

Guess I know how I'm spending my vacation days next year. :)

Welcome to my new monthly game, Haiku!Tag.
As evilly enabled suggested by shaddyr and smallhobbit, here’s the plan.

I’ll post a prompt word, and my own haiku, and you guys write your own based on the word or you can continue mine, whatever you like, in the comments.
And when we’re done, we can post it all at poetic_hp.

That work?

And since this is all new, I’m open to suggestions.
If we wanna try other poetic forms, I’m up for that, too, just LMK. <3

Right, so, February Haiku!tag prompt is Valentine

( Valentine Haiku )

As a reminder: A Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry following a specific pattern consisting of seventeen syllables in total, divided into three lines of five, seven, and five.

Not to panic anyone, but dreamy_dragon73 brought this post to my attention, and reading it makes me concerned that the LJ TOS is more far reaching than any of us imagined. I'm especially perturbed by the bit talking about them being authorized to modify/add images/amend content without notification. :/
Given that possibility, I'm contemplating no longer xposting my stuff to LJ at all. *sigh*
Any thoughts?

Okay, show of hands.

Who else feels like this should be Friday?
It's been like this all week. Yesterday felt like Thursday, and Tuesday felt like Wednesday.
In Slashchat with torino10154 we've been talking about how this feels like it should be the end of the week, and right afterward capitu posted saying the very same thing.

And this isn't only fandom people. I've had several people in my office say the same thing.
So WTF is going on?

*contemplates theories*
Are we fighting the programming?
Are we about to wake up and find we're in a dystopian world? Oh, wait...
What the hell, people?

I have no words this morning.

Just...WTF, America? WTAF?

Okay, so after hearing at Leviosa all about how we should be posting on Tumblr and there are fun people there etc., I tried to post a link to my most recent drabble there, but I can't make HTML work.
Help?

So I have been clinging to the old header bar on my LJ for as long as possible, despite LJ's attempts to make me switch to their new system. Today I noticed the header has changed to their default, as has the posting interface. It's quite aggravating.
Anyway, does anyone know how I can get my old header back? Or am I just screwed? :/

Solved! Thank you, digthewriter! Mwah! <3

Okay, so for anyone else who loves really awful shark movies, they're making another Sharknado!