No kidding.

[hermionesviolin]

Today is the one-year anniversary of my having a LiveJournal (thanks to athene).

I was going to write some long essay on the dynamics of my LiveJournaling but decided against it. I am a big fan of TruePenny’s manifesto, though:

This is my mantra: I am writing these posts on the tails of an armada of kites--dragonflies and cranes and glorious dragons--and letting the kites go. If someone else finds one of my kites, reads the post, and enjoys it, that's fantastic. If they send a kite back to me, that's even better. But the point is not the answer; the point is sending the kites in the first place. (In other words, the LJ is not a popularity contest. I will not obsess about it.)

Pursuant to this conceptualization, I am making myself three promises.

1. I will not dumb myself down or apologize for being smart.

2. I will not be embarrassed or defensive about liking something which other people think is a piece of shit, or vice versa.

3. I will choose what I want to write about but I will not censor myself. My vocabulary can range across as many registers as it damn well pleases. I will not be afraid to say what I think.

Also, i want color schemes for the people on my friendslist. Oblige me?

Comments

[trijinx.livejournal.com]

Black on light yellow or orange.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

First off : *ahem* "Haaaaaapppyyyy L-J tooo youuuuuu...."

Secondly: A big hell yeah to your promises.

Thirdly: I use burgundy with white lettering for myself on my friends list.

[lilithchilde.livejournal.com]

Mmmm . . . make me white text on black, or black on the bluest purple available. (Please. ^_^)

S'a cool manifesto.

Y'know, I've had this LJ since October, 2001. Yeek. (And, I've had an LJ since spring or summer that year. . . the first one got deleted, it's a long story.)

[quasisonic.livejournal.com]

Happy LJ anniversary! ^_^ I like the promises, good stuff there.

oh and colors? I like blues or blue with yellow, something along those lines :)

[marginaliana]

yee haw!

Yellow on dark grey for me. Just because I felt like something different, even though I'll never see it.