PLEASE DON’T SHOOT THE BLOGGER.

Um, well, hi gang. *shuffles feet nervously*

You know how you all hate not being able to comment here and how it freaks you out that you can’t receive replies and email notifs etc etc?

Well, I decided to screw that. So I am moving my wordpress to notquiteroyal.net/bookshop. (Please come with me AND I’LL TELL YOU WHY):

- COMMENT THREADING!

- IT IS AWESOME. Customizable with a drop-down navigation menu, and I have CSS’d the hell out of it so there.

- COMMENT THREADING.

So, um, yes.

So long, Vesperholly. Hello, website!

uh. please come? ♥

so tonight i’ll sing a song for all my friends

ways in which i am cheating my livejournal ban:
- continuing to use semagic to write entries in because it’s endlessly better than a browser script of any variety
- answering people when they ask stupid questions on rackets, it’s like i just can’t stop myself even though i handed the group over to Wonapalei and company. :/
- uploading pictures to my picture account, because Semagic makes that easier than anything else on earth. And someone told me it would just be depriving LJ of bandwidth because I’d only be hotlinking from other sites anyway.
- RSS feeding ljs even though this is still confusing and scary, and even though commenting is out.

I think I forced myself to leave LJ because I needed a disconnect and I wanted one. And now I have one. It is making me restless and fidgety. To say that I am feeling avoidant is a major, major understatement – I have 59 unanswered emails in my inbox and at least 3 communit – no, 4 – fandom projects i’m deliberately hiding from.

This all looks, on the surface, like so much immaturity and emotional distress. I know that. But it’s not. It’s turbulence, rather – a change happening inside me for once rather than being done to me. At some point this will all straighten itself out and I will know where to go from here, and what I want.

In the meantime, PICSPAM .

you were sleeping next to me – i might as well have been alone

my life is so hard.

stupid gifs for stupid people

can i backdate this? skladfs i should probably backdate this.

i like tribbles! do you like tribbles?

moving in

hey, my first update!!!

To everybody who asked about having trouble with LJ syndicating this as an RSS feed, I think that might be fixed. You can try it again. Or not.

I am trying to determine whether using the Sage extension to aggregate LJ posts from my friends would be cheating. It would not be actively using LJ, but a passive use just the same. :/ Since I’m going to be required to go to LJ in the near future anyway just to relocate posts and sort and organize, settling for not actively linking or using the site may be the best I can hope to do. :/

If anyone has been leery of wordpress – come on in, the water’s fine!

Here are things I like about it so far:

Look out, Indiana Jones! Here comes Vesper Holly!

Hi.

My name is Aja. I’m a writer and a fanfic author, and a completely silly human being. Hello to everyone from Livejournal, pilgrims and visitors alike. <3

the image header is taken from a piece called ‘Mr. Wumple Cannot Play Tennis,’ bye Rye Bread at DeviantArt.

please do not let your eyes deceive you. what you see on these pages is most inaccurate. i am not a star trek fan. really.

there. that’s better.

Perhaps I could describe what I’m feeling right now as “sudden heat.”

I want to tell you all a story.

note: this story originally published on livejournal on June 19, 2007.
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Bloomington, Indiana, is a hotbed of liberalism surrounded by rural struggles and conservative values in the Southeastern region of Indiana, two hours north of Louisville. If you are a gay man or woman, it is a Midwestern Mecca: Bloomington is one of the most gay-friendly cities, statistically, culturally, and economically, in the entire country. A city full of progressives, it prides itself on its pursuit of equality.

In Bloomington in 1999, a man named Won-Joon Yoon was ruthlessly gunned down outside the Korean United Methodist Church by a white supremacist in a horrific shooting spree that began in Chicago and ended with a total of 2 men dead and 9 others wounded, all from minority groups.

After that, black and white signs reading “Bloomington United in Diversity” on one side and “No hate! Not in our yards, Not in Our Town, Anywhere!” on the other went up all over the city like flags of mourning.

Yoon’s death spurred a subsequent push by Bloomington and minority groups across the state to enact hate crime legislation in the state of Indiana -

- legislation which has never been passed.

Opponents of Indiana’s proposed hate crime legislation wrote, “This bill represents an attempt to give special protection to homosexuals and cross dressers by stating that a crime against them is to be treated with more severity than a crime against a senior citizen, a child or a pregnant mom..”

As of 2007, Indiana remains one of only five states in the country with no laws whatsoever against hate crimes.