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extemporanea

linkery, wabbage

May 28, 2007 10:18

I should be marking third-year essays on vampires. Instead, I'm cruising the internet looking for distraction, a technique doomed to success. This follows an entire weekend spent reading highly eroticised Spike/Buffy fanfic. I plead extenuating circumstances. Term has just ended, and I have a cold.

Iain Banks talks about his new Culture novel. ( Read more... )

linkery, hee, academia, books, wabbity wab wab

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wolverine_nun May 28 2007, 14:20:45 UTC

Eh. Preferred the old look.

extemporanea May 28 2007, 14:52:06 UTC

but I'm bored with the old look! I like aspects of this, but it's too cluttered, and I have not much room to fiddle with this template. Meh.

anonymous May 28 2007, 16:59:45 UTC

Oh I'm liking it now. Alas, I can't for the life of me come up with anything more specific and constructive than that, but... yeah, pretty. And tidy. And nice and wide again, yay!

scroob

wolverine_nun May 28 2007, 18:18:02 UTC

Nice!

wolverine_nun May 29 2007, 05:46:15 UTC

Ok, it's changed *again*. Blue is good too. Liked the red brocadey stuff more, I think. Really like the different sized tags :)

Hmm first_fallen May 28 2007, 20:06:14 UTC

Erm, I like the wide angle. Not so easy to read, though. Maybe I'm just used to where everything was on the old page. Also, links don't show up. Really dark maroon/brown is not very different from black. Also also, grey/white on black not very eye-friendly. Also also also, the squares seems somewhat adrift on the background, they don't seem to form a coherent wholeness. It's a bit, you know, _modern_.

Re: Hmm extemporanea May 29 2007, 08:18:25 UTC

aargh! the colour is not really dark maroon brown on my home monitor, it's a sort of rich purple. Which looks, I admit, like a really dark brown on this monitor on campus. It also looks crap. Will sort when I get home, this computer is refusing to let me fiddle with the LJ colour settings. Am I frustrated? oh, yes.

Um, where's the grey/white on black? There should be white on dark blue and white on purple in the header and the comment footers, but not anywhere else, I agree that it's not eye-friendly for large blocks of text.

Re: Hmm first_fallen May 29 2007, 11:07:06 UTC

Blue? Purple? I'm getting a marooney stripe on the top, the rest of the background is black. Maybe my screen is a goth-screen. Well, it _is_ a Philips :P. Phleep mentioned the velvety-red brocade stuff. Pity I missed it.

schedule5 May 28 2007, 20:35:01 UTC

The crushed-velvet looking background I like a lot. Mmmmm

The Chaucer is so far over my head - even if I grow like Topsy, I'm not going to get it....

extemporanea May 29 2007, 08:57:45 UTC

Glad you like the velvet, I do too, although it's not very good on this monitor... sigh.

The Chaucer is not about Chaucer so much, it's about Judith Butler, who's currently an incredibly fashionable feminist theorist who deals with gender and performativity (gender roles are self-consciously performed constructs rather than innate qualities). I've just spent a month wrestling her into my Carter chapter; she's applied to the Pardoner's Tale particularly because it's highly susceptible to a queer theory reading. The essay block quote bit is beautifully dual, being about both the fashionability and density of Butler, and about student essay writing short cuts.