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So, a while back [personal profile] galaxysoup and I were reminiscing about the horrors of classic fannish website design. Remember when Geocities was a thing and disclaimer pages made you hunt for the second comma in the thirteenth line? Remember purple text on black background, blinking gifs and flashing text, cheesy ornamental buttons, weird graphics and crazy fonts?

Well, as it turns out, I still have evidence of some of my transgressions. Here they are, for your amusement! Pictures under the cut!  )

Sooo… what do you think?
Poll #21797 Times were different, MacLeod. I was different.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27


But why?

View Answers

You Too Can Learn HTML
4 (14.8%)

X-Files Versus Readability
5 (18.5%)

The Red and the Black Archive
5 (18.5%)

Quoth the Raven
1 (3.7%)

Eroica Overload
4 (14.8%)

Art Nouveau Green
6 (22.2%)

All of the above!
8 (29.6%)

OMG. WHY.
1 (3.7%)

None of the above!
0 (0.0%)

NO SHAME.
22 (81.5%)

Spar….kles?
3 (11.1%)

SPARKLES!!
16 (59.3%)



Do you have any early website crimes to share? Show us the evidence!!
rheasilvia: (Default)
Via [personal profile] darkangel_0410, the best reason for tumblr I have yet encountered: A blog devoted to serious and thoughtful reviews of dick pics as erotic art.

In the words of critiquing your dick pics with love's creator, it is:

a blog with a simple, self-explanatory premise: men (and other people with penises) send me pictures of their dicks, and I critique them with love. “With love” refers to my policy of being neutral about the size of someone’s dick and refusing to shame sender’s bodies, but it’s not about being saccharine or coddling: I don’t mince my words when someone sends me a thoughtless, lazy shot (although I do still try to be somewhat encouraging and constructive).

If you were wondering, common mistakes of the dick pic genre include "the log" (the erroneous assumption that size is all that matters), bad lighting, cluttered backgrounds, and coldness.

I would never have thought dick pics could be so interesting a subject, but they are. There is a lot of vulnerability, self-consciousness and insecurity at play here, too, and all in all it's a rather more complex and interesting matter than I would have thought, had I ever previously given the matter a second's thought.

In this article, the reviewer explains how the blog got started, what it is all about, and what she learned from it.

And here is an excellent interview with the dick pic reviewer in which she also reflects on the dearth of vag pics.

Not safe for work, obviously!

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Jul. 10th, 2011 01:00 pm
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If anyone else is on Google+: I have just joined as Rhea Silvia. Nothing there to see yet, but I hear it may become the next big thing on the Web 2.0!*

* Of course, I have joined lots of other new services before this that were going to become The Next Big Thing... I like to cover my bases. Let's see what happens this time! ;-)

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