Before & After & Inbetween

IT's extremely quiet here by now.
Of the blogs I follow, there were zero posts in the last quarter of a year.
A few communities still have weekly posts, but sadly none of the interesting ones.
I may have to spend more time looking for new ones...

Editing my private website to reflect the changes in prefered social networks proved to be even more of a slog. The software I use for it has made some changes for "easier use", which now prevents me from using different footers on different parts of the site - but I have black (general content) and white (stories) pages, and having a black footer on a white page (or vice versa) looks ugly! I may end up having to redo the whole thing once I come up with an efficient way to do it.

For quite some time now, I played with the thought of obtaining a permanent account as an easily updated extension of my website. For Works-In-Progress, general infos, updates, and all the tiny things for which updating the full-fledged html-site is just a tad too tedious to be worth it. However, both - LJ's price tags and the recent events here - convinced me not to consider upgrading my LJ account for that.
Thanks to solo____'s help, I now have a permanently padded cell at InsaneJournal (already decorated with fics). ;)

However, I won't stop using my spot here in the foreseeable future (if I don't get TOSsed, that is) and I'll also continue maintaining an account at greatestjournal as backup archive.

Fandom appears rather restless right now and I wonder if / where it will move in the end. So far, Insanejournal proved to be a welcoming (if quiet) spot (with a more recommendable TOS than Greatestjournal imho. [gah, I read way too many of those in the last half year!]).
We'll see where it all ends.

Finally updated the Galaxy Rangers section of my website with a Hall of Fame to present two things I received as gifts and am very proud of: the badge pin and a Cuddle-me Goose. Aren't they beautiful?