raloria

Hey! I'm back!
So sorry for the long silence of over 2 months. *sigh* It was NOT intentional at all.
Life, y'all. It's a crazy mess!

But I'm not going to let it stop me. Last week, I updated the look of this journal for Fall.
Very orangey, I know. LOL

And now...to hopefully get myself regularly posting here - I'm unofficially joining in on NaBloPoMo2024. I didn't fill out the form to officially join-in...I'm just doing this for all of you (and myself). Do I promise I'm going to post every day of November? I'll try, but I make no guarantees.

Feel free to join me, if you like. Check out the link below for more information.


#NaBloPoMo2024

BTW, the above image is not mine. It was on the email from iHanna: https://www.ihanna.nu/ .

In other news...I'm about to start my "usual" annual re-watch of Gilmore Girls. I normally would've started a month ago, but again...that darned "real life" getting in my way! Anyway, I was wondering if anyone wanted to join me in my re-watch? We wouldn't watch the episodes together (because scheduling is hard!) but we would agree to converse together (through email, messaging, whatever) about our thoughts of each episode plus post thoughts to our journals. It would be nice to watch 1 or 2 episodes per week. I'd like to start this coming Monday, Nov. 4th. Anyone up for it?

Yes, I'm still here.
Sorry for the long silence! RL just keeps taking over. Grrr!

Wow! Eighteen years here on LJ. It all began with SPN, of course: first lurking around and then finally starting my account, then joining communities and connecting with people. Ah, the good old days! I do miss them. So thankful that some of you are still around.

I updated the look of my journal a bit for the summer. :)

Been thinking about doing another SPN Name That Cap Challenge.
Anyone remember that? It's been 2 years. Anyone up to playing?

With Walker (sadly) ending, I hope to have a little more time on my hands for posting here.
It'll also give me a chance to resume capping SPN episodes again for fangasm.
I desperately want to FINALLY get back to updating/overhauling things over at spn_locations, too!
Need to resume posting Soldier Boy caps over at paradisi-pictura as well.

So there's plenty to do...just need to get back into the habit of being here.

Alright, it was actually yesterday (Saturday), but I was busy and LJ was down. Thought I'd mark the anniversary anyway.





Completely forgot that back for the first challenge I'd post 2 caps to guess on! But then back in 2007, we only had 2 seasons of caps to work with! LOL

Anyway, I'd like to thank anyone who ever played in the challenge over the years. After all, your participation is what makes the whole thing work. :)

Not sure when I'll have another SPN Name That Cap Challenge, but I hope to.

Success!!!

FINALLY got hurtwinchesters imported to DW. I honestly thought it was never going to work. I lost count of how many times I tried it.

Also moved over spnconcatalog and an old secondary LJ account I had. Phew!

This leaves positively_spn. Gah! I still don't know what to do about it.

Found this nice little guide to those of us trying to navigate the differences between LJ & DW:
A guide to Dreamwidth for LiveJournal users

Still posting to both accounts.

With LJ's near future in jeopardy, I'm going to be posting to this journal again. All posts from now on will be on both sites...until we have some idea of LJ's fate.

I've already found and have added some of you to my "Circle" as Dreamwidth calls Friends. I hope you'll follow me back here. Don't wanna lose contact with my LJ buddies!

It's going to be an interesting next few days as we see what happens.

Hi all!

Finally took some time to re-do the look of my journal: replacing the Xmas stuff for more...Feb/Valentine's Day stuff. Yeah, I know Valentine's Day was today, but I wanted a look that wasn't winter, but not quite spring yet either. So this is somewhere in between IMO.

I'm also planning on answering all of your comments from this year. Yeah, finally.
I do NOT want a repeat of last year where I didn't end up replying back to anyone. My apologies about that.
This year I'm going to do better!

Edit: Ok, I didn't get to replying to comments tonight, but I will do it tomorrow.

2nd Edit: Done! Ok, the only post I haven't replied to comments on is the Dreamwidth Poll one, but that's because I'm currently having keyboard issues (specifically the middle row of letters) and trying to make long replies using the Mac's Keyboard Viewer is kind of a pain. So I'll get to replying to those Dreamwidth comments...another way.

Hello...long time, no hear, I know.

I realize that in the past several months my LJ posts have dropped off a bit. My schedule is such right now, that I often don't even get online Wednesday or Thursday nights anymore. My Just 'Cause posts are not the daily thing they used to be. Sadly, I don't see this changing anytime soon.

However, I have been taking steps to increase my posts a bit.

SPN may be over, but I've got a TON of things left to post for it. If you knew the number of misc. videos alone that need to be capped....yikes!

And then there's capping the episodes themselves, which I've never been able to complete. Well, I'm a completionist and I fully intend to cap every SPN episode. And only a few seasons of SPN have been fully capped (10, 13, 15). So there's a lot to do.

Fortunately, I'm providing the caps for Fangasm on Twitter as she's currently doing a big SPN rewatch and reviewing each episode on her website. We didn't hook up right away, but I started capping for her with the end of Season 1. She's currently about in the middle of Season 2. So for me, this is a great way to get the episodes capped and help out a fellow fan. Btw, I'm also sharing my Walker caps with Lynn and the folks at WinchesterFamilyBusiness.com for all of their reviews.

I know what you're thinking...we haven't seen any of these episode cap posts (outside of Walker).
I hope to start posting them real soon!

See, I realized something was holding me back from posting the SPN episode caps, which is actually kind of silly. I'd been making a fanart piece for my cap posts, with the name & # of the episode and all that. Problem is, these take time to make. Time that I don't have in abundance anymore. Again, the completionist in me says I should continue the tradition....but the realist in me is saying, "The hell with that!". My cap posts don't NEED fanart "headers" or whatever you wanna call them. All I need is a sample cap outside of the cut and it'll be fine ('cause we're all attracted to pretty & a post without something visual is just plain boring!). So instead of letting a little thing like a perfect post header getting in the way of posting things...I'm going to make it easier on myself and thus share things with you all a bit faster. Better for everyone! ;)

Since I jumped on board Livejournal. Hard to believe it's been that long.
I sort of feel like one of the "Old Guard" that's still here, keeping the dwindling SPN fandom going.

To those who have stuck around all these years, I can't thank you enough. Thank you for being my friends and putting up with me through all the ups and downs. I know that while I'm still posting here on LJ, I'm not really talking a lot around here and for that I'm sorry. I want to do better, but life has been so screwy that it can be hard to find the energy and time needed to be on here as I should. All I can say is that I want to improve and hopefully I will.

Having a hard time figuring out which Misc. Cap sets to tackle & post next so....I thought I'd ask all of you!
Obviously, these will all be shared, but I'm curious what you want first. Plus, there's many more videos to cap after all of these are done!

Note: The VanCon 2018 caps are from my own video of the start of the panel. ;)





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