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KSena

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This is KSena

Usually a friendly sort. Be nice to me, and I am nice to you. Here I ramble on about me, life, work and fandoms. I am a fan of Robin of Sherwood, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy: the Vampire Slayer, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tokio Hotel and Sons of Anarchy. I don't apologize for anything I write here. This is my mind. And you entered it. Welcome.

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Even if I'd planned to collect all vids at the bottom of this post, I'll actually start with one. The LiveJournal vid. I really like it, I gotta say. It brings up a lot of what I enjoy with LiveJournal and what might draw new users in. Will it help? I have NO idea. Only time will tell, I suppose. Meantime - Cute vid!

What is LiveJournal? )

Onwards with some links!

I found this little article really interesting. I like makeup quite a great deal, and I do lean towards the gothic look (but no black lipstift! HORROR!). And this article shows so clearly how different we are approched depending how we look and what makeup we wear. It was a very VERY interesting read!

I dressed as a goth, a party girl, and a manic pixie dream girl - Here's how my friends, partner, and OKCupid reacted

This is cute to the point one might need a kleenex... Especially if you have kids, no matter what age. I LOVE it though!

21 Photos That Depict True Modern Fatherhood

Currently creating a new LARP-character, since it's not clear if my current one is going to survive the current shit she ended up in. ;-) Anway, so I figured out a shopping list. A LARP-friend is going to sew a cancan skirt for me. And then I want the corset below and a pendant from the site below. It would ROCK! Good thing I get paid soon....

Pinstriped corset in plus-size from Orchard Corset

Natural Magics pendants

Now this Tumblr... I have in a tab at all times. Because it speaks the TRUTH my friends! THE TRUTH about librarian work!!!

Librarian Problems

If you haven't tried HabtiRPg yet, you seriously need to. Especially if like roleplaying games and computer games. Just saying.

HabitRPG

If you've ever been in a fandom you'll know EXACTLY what this woman is talking about. The fact that this horror-story takes place in the Twilight fandom with EL James and around the fanfic that later is published under the name... 50 Shades of Grey... It just makes A WHOLE lot better! Reading this I had a very wicked grin permantly plastered on my face.

To Much Wank to Name

You a comic-fan? You've read any Calvin & Hobbes comics? (Who hasn't?) Then you need to read this. No, I'm not kidding. You NEED to read this. Bring the tissues.

In the final minutes of his life, Calvin has one last talk with Hobbes

Keeping on the subject. If you're new here, you might not know it since I don't write that much about, but... I'm a DIEHARD Xena-fan, a Xenaite, and have been for YEARS! Add to that that I've been watching Disney-movies since I was a kid. So this really tickled me! :-D Ah yes, them baby blues...

Cool art Disney-style: Xena WarriorPrincess

More vids! This put a HUGE smile on my face! Talk about a party on that wedding! :-D

An EPIC SURPRISE: AN AMAZING Choreographed Wedding Dance )

And science trying to explain one of lives great mysteries...

Why Are Babies So Cute? )

There endth the sharing post for today... I'll get back on writing a 'proper' post shortly. ;-)

This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
This sharing post is long LOOONG overdue! *lol* I've had these links waiting in tags for a long time, and well... Now there's a lot of tabs. ;-)

Enjoy!

Got a link for this blogg, Megan Kerr from my RP-friend, and damn WHAT A WOMAN! BIG, sexy and beautiful! And with a lot of attitude to boot. I LOVE IT! Also, she has this swimsuit special, and I think I just found the swimsuit I want. Dammit for being so expensive though! :-P

Meagan Kerr's Swimsuit Special!

Just two posts under that tag currently, but apparently there's supposed to be three of them eventually. :-)

The swimsuit I want:



Now how sexy is that? And how sexy is that woman?!?! o.O I want! But damn if the prize for that bikini ain't a lot!

Talking about big sexy women... I stumbled upon this community [livejournal.com profile] fatshionista, a size-positive community... and feel COMPLETELY in love! GEEZES! Talk about fierce women! o.O I have asked to join and are still waiting to be approved. Damn. I see a lot of selfies in the future. To bad I have such boring clothes. *lol* Although, I will admit the pants I bought the other day are pretty cool...

Anyway!

Found this as well, and I damn well nearly cried. o.O How amazing is this? Everyone is beautiful It just depends on who is looking and how...

Powerful Video Of People With Disabilities Reacting To Mannequins Of Themselves Will Make You Cry And Smile At The Same Time

I do follow the book-blog Forever Young Adult, and they do a lot of fun reviews of books written for young adults. There's a lot of great humor in their reviews, and they are very LGBT-positive! :-D Win-win in my book. ;-)

And they posted a review of a book that sounds really interesting.. About a trans-sexual youth. Called Freakboy and written by Kristen Elizabeth Clark. Definitely sounds interesting... Check out the review HERE:

Male? Female? Other? - FreakBoy. Kristen Elizabeth Clark takes on the forgotten T in LGBT.

Randomly, have a seriously cute gif before we continue:



I am not on Tumbler often, but when I do I do run into some gems...

Like this one. I really love Disney movies, Hunchback of Notre Dame one of them. And I LOVE the song Hellfire in said movie, surprisingly sexual considering it's Disney... It's sung by a man... Now what if we genderbend it... :-) It does sound REALLY cool sung by a woman to. There's some fanart there as well with Frollo as a woman. ;-)

Sweet Poofin singing Hellfire from Hunchback of Notre Dame

More music! I am a HUGE fan of the musical artist Fred Johansson... He has one of dark heavy voices that crawl into your soul, I swear... And when such a singer takes on a song like Poor Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas... it can only be magical. :-) This makes me shiver every single time i listen to it. :-D

Fred Johansson singing Poor Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas

I have had the pleasure of hearing him live as Javert in Les Miserables more than a year ago. I still remember it. :-)

Another thing I found on Tumblr was this about how sometimes history proves to be really damn kickass! :-D

A fake eye made out of gold? That was USED? Pre-history time officially kicks ass...

I saw created a prompt around that...

To get you even more into the Christmas-spirit, maybe this might help? The company WestJet sure gave their costumers one HELL of a Christmas surprise! :-D All cred to that company, seriously! The look on those travelers who got their Christmas-surprises are absolutely priceless! SO AWESOME!

WestJet Christmas Surprise Will Make You Believe in Santa

Then there's this. I have no idea where the clips are from or if it was just made for that song, but gawd damn, talk about feel good feeling all over! :-D

Husbands - Unconditionally )

Even Joss Whedon makes an apparence! That made me lol, to be honest! Kinda awesome! :-D

Something else that made me lol was this:

Americans Try To Place European Countries On A Map

Not saying I can place all the states in the US on the map, but I do know where the country is and what countries that boarders the US. :-)

Then there's the ever awesome James Marsters (the vampire Spike from the tv-show Buffy, for those that don't know) talking about what makes vampires cool... and his favorite vampire-actors.

James Marsters on cool vampires )

Funny how iPhones and the company Apple is raised to the skies as the greatest thing ever... This... was eyeopening:

Dirty secrets Apple doesn't want you to know...

Some I knew, but... not all. :-P

Then I found out about the To This Day Project... and was amazed. Look at this video. The art, so amazing... so touching. And it's all true. Everything said in this...

To this day... )

Now for something more uplifting... I found this vid-series on YouTube, that had the goth in me cheer! :-D A series of short movies about... the adult Wednesday Addams... *lol* I'll just let you think about that one a little, and then point you the view to all the episodes. They all a theme, like... job-interview, apartment hunt, a date... *lol* Amazing! I highly recommend checking them out!

Adult Wednesday Addams by Melissa Hunter

I thought they were fun anyway... :-)

More fun, me and [livejournal.com profile] peting73 did a Quiz/meme/test today. :-) It was a lot of fun, and the combo we ended up as made me lol. X-D

Which Game of Thrones character are you?

[livejournal.com profile] peting73 ended up:

Robb Stark:

You’re the King of the North! Loyal, handsome, and brave. You also hate weddings.


Me? Well...

Khal Drogo:

Though you want people to be scared of you, you’re a giant softie at heart. You’re also dead.


How awesome ain't that? Damn Martin for killing off Drogo though...

Let's stay in the fantasy-genre for just a sec and kill some minds with a mindfuck. I know there are fans of them dwarfs out there...

Dwarfs fucking with your mind under here... )

Mind officially fucked...

Talk about fucking... To those that are of age or just sexually active... We've all been there. X-D I swear!

The 6 Best AND WORST Ways to Have Sex

So very very true...

And this LARP/RP-blogg on Tumblr made me grin. How cute aren't these two cosplayers cosplaying Dean and Castiel of Supernatural? I'd say they do a pretty good job to!

This is the story of Dean and Cas... and sometimes Sam

To those thinking LJ is the spawn of Satan destroying fandoms and stopping LGBT stories and such here on LJ? I'd suggest you read this:

Staff setting the record straight about LGBT, Russia etc...

Randomly vikings vs Pirates... Because vikings rule! :-D

Vikings vs Pirates )

Talking of pirates.. HOW could I, an old PotC-fangirl... miss this? Black Sails a series about pirates that the channel Starz will start airing in January... I can not WAIT to get my hands on this! PIRATES! YES! WOHOO!

Black Sails trailer... )

Now THAT... looks really promising. :-D

And if you managed to get through all that? All the props to you. :-)

Now I am going to bed and to stress about the fact it's almost Christmas... ARGH!

This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
I survived New Years Eve. :-) Much MUCH more calmer then Christmas. So much in fact I almost feel asleep during the day/afternoon. *lol*

Me and [livejournal.com profile] peting73 has this tradition of sorts every New Years Eve... He cooks the most epic dinner he can think of (usually three or four courses) and then we watch some nerde series of movies... all day long. It is awesome! [livejournal.com profile] spicehobbit has a standing invitation if she wants to, and this year she joined us, since she has a weakness for the bad guy in the movies we watched this year...

We managed to watch ALL OF THE STAR WARS MOVIES IN ONE DAY! o.O INSANITY! With a baby! And managed to give her a bath and help [livejournal.com profile] peting73 in the kitchen to! ROCK ON! Or maybe I should say nerd on... X-D *lol*

It was so much fun! [livejournal.com profile] peting73 is a serious Star Wars nerd... he has once corrected the official website. X-D And [livejournal.com profile] spicehobbit is just a huge Darth Vadar fangirl. :-D So we amused ourselves with figuring out the biggest plotholes in the story.

According to me, the biggest plothole, that actually spans all six movies... is this one: Since Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader can use the Force and later on can sense Luke... How come he couldn't sense the kids when Padme was pregnant? And how come he doesn't know they are two? And how come he can't sense Leia... MAYOR PLOTHOLE THERE!!! *lol* *takes a truck and drives right through it*

So, that was the plothole that I annoyed myself the most over during New Years. :-) [livejournal.com profile] peting73 and [livejournal.com profile] spicehobbit had their own plotholes, so the discussions ran high, when we didn't almost fall asleep here and there... X-D

Alexandra sorta behaved. She just didn't wanna sleep! o.O We didn't get her to sleep until close to 11pm... A lil late there, baby girl! I think it was the fireworks that bothered her a little... In Sweden you are not allowed, by law, to use fireworks within cities or villages... anywhere within their limits. But no one cares about that, so there were plenty fireworks outside the whole evening pretty much.

I didn't mention it in my huge ass Christmas post, but I did actually got a fanfic-christmas-gift as well. :-) My lovely partner in crime and all around awesome prose-person... [livejournal.com profile] snowstormskies... She asked me some time ago where I stored all the prompts that I share all over the place every time there is a prompt-post. So, I made a G-doc and showed all my prompts. And she took one, an old one that I tried to do something with myself, but it never worked... she ran with it... and she created magic, HOLY FUCK... o.O She is Miss Wordy, so it turned kinda long... and I don't know if she'll share it or write more on it... But me? I am FLOORED! FLOORED! One hell of a gift, that...

And for the record, I actually found a Lethal Weapon fanfic... :-) Quite well written, no slash (yet) and a WIP, but still... Not bad at all. There is a few in the pit (no surprise there), and I dared read one. And was happyily surprised. :-) That doesn't happen often! :-D New Alliances. Fun times with odd fanfic!

And lastly, some fun stuff I found surfing the net. :-D

I saw these gifs of Craig Mabitt and his daughter on Tumblr: Parenting - you are doing it right! And got curious to where they came from... So I went to find the YouTube clips, and promptly died from the awesome! They are very short, so very much worth your time!

Metal kid rocks with dad! Craig and Lea One + Two! )

That girl is having the time of her LIFE headbanging and playing air-guitar with her dad! It is SO AWESOME!!! :-D I hope I can do that with Alexandra to one day. :-D

Right, so... Now for something VERY MUCH NSFW!!! BE WARNED!

You're ready? OK. Right.

I found THIS that had me go, WTF? and then I had to watch... and after that [livejournal.com profile] peting73 was a very lucky man... because I of course checked out the vids... and having a thing for women as well did not do me any good at all... or it did... depending on how you see it... :-P

Women reading books... and getting off... )

The first and second woman are really my favorites. Not only are they gawd damn gorgeous, but they really do try and their facial expressions and... Yeah. Love them. So awesome.

Just make sure you are alone or have headphones on when watching. Just saying... *cough*

This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
Alright. Most of you know I am pretty zen about any changes done to LJ, right? So far I haven't had any problems at all with the changes done so far.

But now... I do.

I mean, I am LJ to journal... to write and read and comment and such... to actually have an interaction with people, yeah?

I do have a Tumblr to, but that is just for looking at pictures, because there you just CAN'T interact with people. At all. I don't like the layout of Tumblr at all. Neither how it works...

But now? You can have people REBLOG your posts... just like on Tumblr. If you pay for it. And the reblogger apparently gets LJ tokens... from you. (WTF?)

Oh, and now, as you saw on my post below.... they will fuck up how you read your f-list.

Now, as I said. I've been pretty zen with most changes, some of them I even liked! (Comments and Scrapbook...)

But you DO NOT fuck around with my f-list! I spend all the little time I have on the computer on my f-list... I have tweaked how I read it so it fits me...

This is the first time I am actually pissed off at LJ. :-/

LJ is LJ and Tumblr is Tumblr.

*sad and pissed*
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] twissie at LiveJournal
So, after nearly a decade at this site, LJ finally does something that makes me actually rage. No popcorn and laughing as the masses storm to news posts complaining, this time I'm actually worried.

A while back I was invited to help out with BETA testing new LJ services (I got this invite via [livejournal.com profile] lj_releases).

They have just announced BETA testing of a new friendslist.

LJ is planning on redoing everyone's friendslists in the style of the new comment page and update page. They want to copy tumblr and make your friendslist into a dashboard-like system page (infinite scrolling and all). It's also been renamed to "feed" (this I don't mind too much, though). In fact the whole dashboard idea with infinite scrolling wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that everyone will be locked to one specific layout. The system style comment pages are bad enough, but now I'll have to strain my eyes reading my flist? That defeats the purpose of this entire site. The font, use of whitespace, oversized boxes and UI elements ... all contribute to making the page difficult to read, on a site where all you do is read. Aaaah. Even just the possibility of adjusting the font (style and size) would make this suggestion easier to swallow, but it's still not something I'd want for my journal. It would not improve my LJ experience in any way (in fact it would most likely make my daily LJ activities more time consuming).

Now, I wasn't able to make the BETA page display my own friendslist, so I apologise to the random users who are featured in the screenshot, but to give everyone an idea, the below image shows you what your friendslist probably will look like in a couple of months.


(Click for big)


I never switched over from Dystopia, so that adds to the weirdness. You're going to have to picture this with the standard LiveJournal drop down navigation + no blue sidebar to the left. Click the screenshots for bigger versions.

Top of page with links to journal, archive, profile


Example of text heavy post as displayed on friendslist


New buttons to the right replace the navigation strip. One tab for filters


One tab for Archive/Calendar, you can filter your feed to display posts from one specific date. These buttons follow along as you scroll down the page (infinite scrolling).



All friendslists will look the same.

Snippet from the locked post at [livejournal.com profile] lj_releases:
The friends page has been redesigned as a system page for all users, and is now available for Beta testers. There is a link at the top of your friends page allowing you to switch between the new and old versions, and will later go into public beta testing. You can switch back and forth between both versions throughout beta testing.

I wish I had a public link for you to leave comments at, but the best option is probably just to leave comments on the newest public entry at [livejournal.com profile] lj_releases.

You can also see the proposed changes for yourself by enabling the BETA on your own journal (instructions from [livejournal.com profile] ruljautonews):
It's trivially easy to test beta features.
1) Go to [livejournal.com profile] lj_ru_beta and request to join.
2) Wait to get confirmation that you've been accepted into the community (this could take a few hours.)
3) Go to this page and choose Go To under Beta.
4) That's it, you're now testing the beta release. All site-scheme pages should now display a big "BETA BETA BETA BETA BETA BETA" in yellow letters across the top.
5) You could make comments in the [livejournal.com profile] lj_ru_beta post, but if you do please keep this in mind: the majority of commenters there don't speak English and if they do it's not their primary language. Machine translation of Russian is lousy. "My hovercraft is full of eels" lousy. While you can engage in basic dialogue and get a feel for what the other person is saying, don't get too hung up on anyone's phrasing.

You can easily switch back to the old version.

Make sure you let LJ know what you think of these proposed changes, I can't be the only one who thinks this is a horrible idea.

ETA: It's nice to see that I'm not the only one worried about the proposed changes, but please direct your feedback through the proper channels. This is a private journal, I have no affiliation with LJ. Please also be respectful when addressing the LJ staff. They are just doing their jobs. Thanks!

ETA2: Russian news post about the BETA test: http://lj-ru-beta.livejournal.com/7013.html

ETA3: Added more screenshots.

ETA4: Additional info at [livejournal.com profile] ruljautonews: http://ruljautonews.livejournal.com/27964.html

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