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Just what it says on the tin. I loathe it with a passion when websites designed with variable width (meaning they stretch in order to adjust to your screen resolution and monitor size) get changed and the width becomes fixed. Because it's a given that it'll be a horribly narrow layout with a ton of blank space just to make room for 'ad spaces' or whatever fucking excuse is used.

FF.net is the latest to go this route. I've managed to find a script that overrides their own display style, though.

From



to



Here's the script, for all those interested.

Also, a note to all web developers. Widescreen monitors are becoming cheaper and thus more accessible as well. So why the fuck are you taking back widescreen support on the web, instead of enhancing it?

So! LJ's decided to do something decent for a change and start a Support Planned Parenthood campaign. I might not live in the US, but that doesn't mean I don't admire them. They do good work, especially for the underserved and underprivileged, when it comes to reproductive healthcare.

But lo and behold, the 'you're all baby murderers!' brigade didn't hesitate to show up. At first I was inclined to laugh and the ridiculousness of it all, but then I started losing my temper -- especially since I lived under the 'utopia' they're imagining (banning abortion! Adoptions as a viable alternative, nothing can go wrong with an over-crowded, under-funded foster care system! Preferably limiting birth control as well, when it comes to the fringe elements).

So I made a comment to cut through all of the bullshit, because nothing beats first-hand experience with a system that treated women like walking incubators. Reposting it here, because I need to fucking vent.

Also keeping it public, so all of the sheltered residents of Western democracies can learn what control over one's reproductive life by someone else entails.

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Now that I finally have a bit of free time on my hands (and it's not all tied up into playing Skyrim, because I need a new video card), I wanted to write a detailed entry about what's been happening in my life lately...

Then I saw that the community owner apparently deleted gx_icons. What on earth is up with that?

Anyway, I'll ask now -- is there any sort of replacement community in the works or should I got about making one? Even with all my wandering far and wide, I remain emotionally attached to this one show.

I know, I haven't posted here in forever. Before everyone tars and feathers me, I'll say that work has been murdering me.

I'll make a more coherent post later, when my mind will be in working order. Meanwhile, here's a silly little something I've been working on. Disjointed stream-of-consciousness narrative FTW.

Disclaimer: All characters and settings portrayed in this work of fiction belong to Nobuhiro Watsuki, VIZ Media, Shueisha. I'm merely fooling around with the characters and will put them back with as little wear and tear as possible.
Collection Title: .blossoms and shadows
Chapter Title: .phoenix on a dusty road
Character(s): Himura Kenshin, Yukishiro Tomoe
Rating: T (PG-13). Rating may go up in later chapters.
Prompt: fc_smorgasbord prompt .81 –- unguarded touch.
Author's Note: All of these chapters are set within the confines of the Blossoms and Shadows universe, within the canon of Rurouni Kenshin. What if the feared hitokiri Battousai, the wise, kindhearted wanderer and the lost, grieving child had been a woman, in those times of war and sweeping change?

.phoenix on a dusty road

I'm going to keep this short and simple.....

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Stupid sexy swordsman!!!

...Yes, I got snared by Rurouni Kenshin, badly, A full decade after pretty much everyone else. Call it a mixture of hype aversion and unwillingness to deal with a series that appeared similar to Inuyasha.

Oh, how wrong I was on both counts!

Also, Himura Kenshin is making me seriously question my sexuality.