kylecassidy, one of our LJ Reps, just posted this, and since there was some kerfluffling on my flist about it, I thought I'd repost it here:

Hey folks,
Yesterday I got an email from a user saying there was a rumor that LJ was intending to make specifying gender on one's profile mandatory. Obviously there are various reasons why people either might not want that information known, or don't fit into one of the two categories commonly seen in such questions.

I wrote to LJ immediately asking about the rumor and advising that this wasn't a good idea without user input.

This morning I heard back with the Official Word and I'd be happy if you'd repost this or link to it to spread the news:

1) There are NO plans to make users specify gender in their profiles. The current options are "male/female/unspecified", this will remain.

2) The rumor started because on the current LJ BETA version (being tested now by some users) a programming error made the field mandatory, the same programming also broke profile editing. Users reported the bug to LJ and they are fixing the code along with other bugs people are discovering.

3) There will be a note with more details from the Customer Care team in the future.

4) That's all.

Thanks to everyone who emailed to let me know about this. If there are other questions or comments, please feel free to add them here and I'll pass everything along. I'm still working with LJ on the big status report but they're busy with the final software rollout for 2009, we'll have a meeting after that.

Your LJ user rep,

Kyle


So there you go.

I need to write tonight. Someone, if you see me tonight, ask me if I'm writing, and if I'm not, tell me to. Thanks. Appreciated.

From eugenetapdance :

Comment and I will comment back with a picture of the fictional character that most reminds me of you. Then post the same in your journal.

I have five adorable Owls in Sweaters holiday cards left. If anyone would like to receive one, DM me or email me at midori.no.mizu@gmail.com with the appropriate information.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY gekidasa!!

I sent you cake. :O

This weekend I planned to start my wm_secretsanta fic. That didn't happen, but I did catch up on Glee and White Collar. I feel accomplished, and now a meme:



These are my playlists. Pick one, and I'll pick a song off of it that reminds me of you. I should caution you that choosing "Ibiza" pretty much guarantees hilarious results.

I have just realized that I have a grand total of 10 movies in my netflix queue and absolutely no idea what else to rent. I normally fill the queue will tv shows but, eh, not in the mood for that much prolonged tv viewing. So flist, I turn to you. This is what we've got on tap:

1. The Incredible Hulk
2. Wet Hot American Summer
3. Little Children
4. Me and You and Everyone We Know
5. Match Point
6. Purple Violets
7. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
8. The Reckoning
9. The Saint
10. Wilde

Halp? Suggestions? I am a wuss and can't really take horror.

( More information than you could have possibly wished to know )

No, I am not explaining that mood selection.

So last night was the night I actually did something with my vacation, and I went into New York to see the Broadhurst's production of Hamlet. With Jude Law in the title role. It was awesome, an incredible production, and if tickets weren't $116.50 for the "cheap seats," I might even consider going again. These were the points that stuck out, though:

• Jude Law is bendier than I expected. No, I didn't expect to come to that conclusion while viewing Hamlet either.


• Horatio needs to wear black leather in all productions of the show.


• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Wear Skinny Jeans.


• Hamlet and Horatio were really damn slashy. More than the original text would indicate, really.

Today's exciting plans: go get my new glasses once my headache finally dissipates. Write Versus. Finish the sex scene glasspyramids and I started last night and hadn't finished by 4 am.

Last night glasspyramids and I had a transcontinental viewing of The Ultimate Watchmen, which, besides being awesome, was a three-hour exercise in:

1. Exclaiming how hot Dan is - seriously, I don't know how I didn't realize how gorgeous he is until the movie was nearly over the last time. Maybe I was just caught up in the experience.

2. Exclaiming how pretty Adrian is. Really. Matthew Goode is, of course, damned gorgeous, and in general I prefer is dark hair, but there's something about the blond hair. It adds an ethereal quality, and shoots him straight into outright beautiful.

3. Wondering how the hell we missed all the VeidtOwl hints the first time around. This might shock people, considering that we've been writing the pairing since April, but when we first started what became Among the Trees we were expecting something platonic, Dan perhaps forgiving Adrian, yes, but the two of them just being friends. When it went straight into romance, we were both kind of surprised. But it's all there: Hugging. Lingering looks. Dan's disbelief that Adrian could really be doing this until they're there in Karnak and he's faced with the irrefutable truth.

Other interesting observations: while I still didn't like Rorschach (and I won't dwell on this, because I know that some people on my flist do), I found it interesting that I had a lot more empathy this time around for the Comedian, who I didn't like at all when I first watched the movie. I think it's because he owns his flaws. He has no illusions about being a terrific guy; he's not, and knows it. In a way, I respect that.

The most heartbreaking scenes for me are still Hollis's death, and the moment when Dan and Laurie leave Karnak, leaving Adrian alone and isolated in his trashed fortress. That look between all three of them - but especially the way Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode play it - is full of anger and regret and sorrow, and there's a stoic loneliness in the way Adrian watches them go.

( Cut for truly excessive whining )

*sighs and goes to make dinner*

It's November 10th, which happens to be Neil Gaiman's, my mother's, and kagenokaji's birthday, and also the day UPS brings me Watchmen Ultimate. Here's hoping that the day is awesome for everyone.

And now a meme from eugenetapdance

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

So today, other than trooping to the mall to get my eyes checked and fitted with contacts for the first time in a decade, I have done...nothing. Or rather, I have downloaded Poladroid and spent the day Polaroidizing vacation photos, a picture of tornadorex and one fairly terrible self-portrait.

( Those are behind the cut )

That there meme that everyone else is doing:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

February 2008 - current
Drabbles of the Recent-ish Variety
Among the Trees
Other VeidtOwl stuff that I may have forgotten to put on the fic journal

I am deeply ashamed of my lack of fannish organization.

I'd like to encourage my flist to sign up for wm_secretsanta. Because otherwise I'm doomed to getting OwlBlot for Christmas, and you wouldn't do that to me, would you? Of course you wouldn't.

So sign up here.

*smiles angelically*

Five drabbles for your birthday.

( Watchmen, VeidtOwl, pre-Keene. One Night. )

( Versus, Bastian/Elisha, Sleeping With Ghosts. )

( Dark-Hunter AU, Aimee/Spawn, Uninvited. )

( Versus/Spooks Crossover, Ellie/Tom, Nights in White Satin. )

( Versus, Tim/Josh, Thanksgiving. )

According to Verizon, my internet connection is "intermittent." (The amount of No Shit in that statement is staggering, truly.) Therefore, after a full week of this and a replacement modem that does the same thing, and plugging it into every outlet within reach of the dsl cable, they're finally sending out a technician.

In theory.

Between 8am and 8pm.

Again - in theory.

Somehow I suspect I'll be calling Comcast next week.


In any case, I'll be sitting at home all day today. Maybe I'll actually watch the movies that Netflix sent me a week ago. Or write something. glasspyramids and I are supposed to outline Versus for NaNoWriMo today, but that may be slightly difficult if the internet is being an ass.

Maybe James McAvoy in my icon will glare it into submission.

Uh, about two hours late. I'm a terrible person. Here, have pictures of your boyfriend!

( If I must save your flists, I must )
Doesn't he just look like he remembered your birthday?



And he's clearly got PLANS.



Oh, come on, Eli. He's not fussing, but you'll hurt his feelings if you don't let him celebrate! Look at those eyes!



Other birthday wishes are, of course, welcomed.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present The Karnak Network:



Yes, quite.

Bubastis = iPod Touch
Ozymandias = MacBook

It's really a good thing I have eugenetapdance to remind me of these things.

( Both of these Jim Carroll poems are entitled Poem, as are most of the poems in Void Of Course. )