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I enjoyed Star Wars a lot more before online trolls ruined it. (That goes for pro Disney and anti Disney fans who have to make trolling comments.)

bright-eyes

4 years ago

There was a certain springy feel to the air this morning when I took Max out. Might be able to resume tidying up the garden again, soon.

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

Today, we have the annual Doomsday Clock announcement. I expect it to be grim.

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bright-eyes 4 years ago

It is hard to hear what they have to say, but they are truthful about it, unlike the politicians who try to sugar coat everything so they can continue to act in their own benefit, or that of their friends in the companies that make profit from ruining the planet and people's lives.

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

Among the first werewolf novels I read were the trilogy by Alice Borchardt. Unlike all the other werewolf books, they were more of an historical fantasy/horror (a little bit like Juliet Marillier's Celtic/druidry inspired novels, without the 'horror' aspect. When they were published, there wasn't even an urban fantasy genre as they were put in the general fiction categories. She also started writing an Arthurian

bright-eyes 4 years ago

trilogy but only finished two of the books before she passed away. I don't know if I should list her werewolf books or not as they don't quite fit the urban fantasy definition.

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4 years ago

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

Been extremely cold for the past couple of days, but at least it's making people stay at home (finally!) When I took Max out, it resembled an ice age apocalypse film.

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

It seems we've had a very industrious spider spinning webs over night in the living room.

bright-eyes

4 years ago

I've started doing cross stitch again. One of the good things about this winter, is that we have had less gloomy days and I started a subscription for WOCS as I'd been without a regular mag for a while. (Stopped getting them regularly because I couldn't go out shopping.) It's time for some spring projects.

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

Another rainy, windy day...

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

I've started reading Small Favour on the computer. It does save your place (I did wonder about that...) but I can't maintain my concentration on it as well as I can with a print book.

bright-eyes updated Dead Winter's Night (Formally Bright Eyes)

4 years ago

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bright-eyes updated Dead Winter's Night (Formally Bright Eyes)

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

I have found digital versions of Small Favour and Turncoat that I can borrow. (Will put the link up to the library), but I hate reading on screen, especially long stories so I don't know how far I'll get into it. They have to preserve copyright, I suppose, so digital books aren't as comfortable to read as you'd like them to be.

bright-eyes

4 years ago

One of the most irritating things about the lockdown I've found is that you can't replace stuff you need replacing if they get broken, etc, ether because nothing is in stock, they won't deliver it, you can't go out to get it or /if/ you can get it, you have to get it from some credit catalogue company and end up owing them more for things that should have been cheap.

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bright-eyes 4 years ago

There were nemes on facebook in March/April where folks had used the the time off work to do up their house because they didn't have time to do it before. Because of this problem, every home will end up looking like a shack.

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

One of the things about the old web (at least, that period of time when forums were THE THING, instead of social media like facebook, twitter, myspace, etc...), it was a lot easier to make friends over the internet because the forums created a social /and/ creative place to be. On the right forums you could share your webpages, post your creations and discuss things. It did help that the forums were usually based

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bright-eyes 4 years ago

around a subject (say, pets) or a fandom (like Star Wars, which would sometimes also attract other fandoms in similar genres.) It's harder now to find those communities. Social media at best has created a monoculture, and at worst a place for trolls and bullies to get upset

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bright-eyes 4 years ago

because you aren't 'the same' as they.

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

I decided to change the index page because I thought that people won't know about the other mini sites. When I made the account, I was quite active on my paid domain and hosting but it was getting full, so I decided to make Bright Eyes here (and to try the host out.) Since then, I got fed up of the paid site always getting the service interrupted and since moving here, I've become more productive at making content

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bright-eyes 4 years ago

again because I no longer got distracted with fancy packages like wordpress, mybb, simple machines, etc. There is more than just Bright Eyes here, though if the home page only goes to that, it is easy for people to miss things. I hope to move all the movable stuff here eventually and drop the paid hosting altogether. (Of course, if this starts getting full, I'll become a supporter here. I just don't have the money

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bright-eyes 4 years ago

to pay two hosting companies. Neocities' dashboard is also much simpler to use.

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bright-eyes

4 years ago

Bright Eyes isn't gone - I'm just making a new index page to better reflect the content of the site.

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