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You ever get upset about something absolutely trivial?

And know you are upset over something dumb?

And *still* have no say over being upset over it? >__<

And then you get angry at yourself for being upset?

Yeah. It's a day like that. :/

So, I went looking for a new background for my twitter page. Nothing. I couldn't find a damn thing I wanted. So, randomly, I sent an @tweetygotback message, asking if they took requests. And they responded in the affirmative. And then asked me for a picture for inspiration. O_O

HOLY CRAP!

Tweety Got Back is now officially my favoritest ever.

Anyway. This post is not entirely about how awesome they are. (And they are.) It's mostly about throwing all the links I find to images in one place because they asked for a link and I need about seven to try and get across the idea I had. I wanted something gothic, but more in the sense of atmosphere rather than showing off someone wearing "goth" clothing or showcasing those images of mostly naked females. More in the sense of Victorian architecture and fog and shadowed trees. Something like that. (Some other twitter background place has Twilight listed under the "gothic" category. No. Just - no. REALLY, just *NO*. I'm not even Goth and I'm offended by that. I'm just saying.)

Anyway. That's the explanation for the following set of random links. (=
Also, I have found I am really damn picky about my Gothic. REALLY picky.

Shadowy Trees
More Shadowy Trees
Foggy Trees
Some Good Architecture
Atmospherey
Outside Ruins

Okay, now that I've completely overwhelmed them, I think I will go see if they have a "donate" button or something....

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Edit: Holy crap. I had to put this message down before it got buried on twitter....
From tweetygotback: You rock, @erynies! Thanks for the kind words & detailed request. It will be helpful when we start to design your dream theme!

WoW. Could they be any more awesome?


I think not. (;

Effective immediately and for the foreseeable future, I have had to disable new registrations to my blog.

I'm getting nothing but spammers and it's grossing me out. I'm sorry if you were a legitimate person who wanted to be part of my "in" crowd. )=

If you would like to be registered to my blog, email me and I'll set you up myself, then you can log in and change your password. I'm really sorry.

Stupid spammers.>__<

|:<

Hello out there internets! HELLO!

Poe here. With a challenge for May. Post to your blog during the month of May.
I know, I know, there's a Ning thing for that, but - you know, a little friendly competition between friends never hurts.
Why? Because Colin and I decided we wanted to post more to our blogs and we figured if we were striving toward a goal, we'd get into the habit.
However, we don't want it to be all "crammy" and come up with a bunch of crappy "here I am!" posts. (I know how you hate those, Daniel.)
We want it to be about posting stuff you want to talk about to your blog.

Here are the rules:
1. Post 2 or 3 times a week.
2. Aim to have at least 10 by the end of the month.

Seriously. Those are the rules. Colin and I were originally just going to do it between us, but I thought it might be more fun to open it up to the rest of our readers. (My reader, his readers. (; )

Heck. We even discussed - a prize.

Are you in? I'm in! Colin's in.
Comment here if you want to be in.
I'll make a big list. (Oooo. Colin! Look! Blog reading! We can read the blogs of people competing with us! :D )

The list and my number of posts will get stickied at the top. Or thrown in the sidebar. Whichever is less distracting.

Let's go!