Emerald Star is back at http://ko.fated.nu/jupiter!!

It's about 80% where I want it to be, but I was going crazy keeping it on my harddrive!

A brief list of changes:
- One layout for the whole shrine. I'm trying it out in the interest of time and effort. I'm not married to the idea, so if you really feel that it detracts, please let me know! The one-layout-per-page deal was embedded in the shrine's identity, but hopefully now the content has been moved to the forefront.
- Complete rearrangement of sections. There are now four main sections, and subsections are more clearly listed.
- Separated articles into Information and Readables sections based on their truthfulness and aim.
- All articles have been spell-checked, and most have been rewritten.
- A few new articles, and new ideas for future articles.
- New media!
- Addition of link buttons from amassment!

So I've been promising my Sailorjupiter shrine for days now, but a sudden surge inspiration pushed me to my Eagle shrine instead. I plugged away for a few hours this afternoon and redesigned, recoded, and semi-rewrote the entire thing. So here you go!


HTTP://KO.FATED.NU/EAGLE/

I am so ready to get my collective back! I really plan on making a check-list and just hitting things off one-by-one.

Woohoo!

In a rare surge of productivity, I have coded most of my Sailorjupiter shrine with its new layout and stylesheet. What needs to be done now is rewriting. But it's almost here. Almost.

Gosh, I'm really sucking at this whole LJ thing. I haven't posted since before graduation, I've made a grand total of five icons for bssm_speedmix for April and May combined, I haven't written anything for sm_monthly, and I'm really behind on reading my flist.

The good news is no homework, so more time to waste on LJ and sites after work.

Anyway, I graduated with both degrees! It was a narrow escape because of a missing credit, but the curriculum committee pulled through for me just in time. I'm all set for grad school, too. My sister and I went apartment hunting a few days after graduation. So until move-in I'll be making bagels and watching obscene amounts of The O.C. and Roswell.

And working on sites. I have a layout for Emerald Star, but I can't seem to get the CSS just right. I'm finally finishing a few articles for Ace of Hearts, and when that's done I'll work on Crimson Mysteria. Then relaunching the entire collective. It will happen. It will.

I'm thinking about cutting bangs. It's been a while, so I've forgotten how much they drove me crazy. It might be time for another go. Really, I just want to look like Mischa Barton (but not quite so skinny). Maybe I'll post some hair pictures. Maybe.

So I figure I've been in the Dark Ages long enough. I really want to learn PHP. Does anyone know of a good tutorial?

Here are all the icons I made for the March 2009 challenge at bssm_speedmix. Icons that placed in the final voting are noted at the bottom. Please comment if you take one and link back to silkaura! I'd also appreciate it if you wouldn't alter them or direct link to them. Thanks!

( Theme: Provided Pairings )

There is now a placeholder page up at http://ko.fated.nu/, so if you'd like to go ahead and change your links, that would be great. It's spring break, so I plan on having everything up by the end of this week.

I need to kick the procrastination habit, and LJ is way too distracting. No posting or reading for the next week.

Here are all the icons I made for the February 2009 challenge at bssm_speedmix. Icons that place in the final voting are noted at the bottom. Please comment if you take one and link back to silkaura! I'd also appreciate it if you wouldn't alter them or direct link to them. Thanks!

( Theme: Dark Kingdom Arc )

What's a good FTP program? Free, as always, is preferred.

I'M BACK! The virus is gone (but, unfortunately, so is everything else that was on my computer). I'll try for a real update later this afternoon.

I'm getting together with a good friend of mine to wipe and re-install Windows this weekend, but I wanted to let you all know that I FOUND THE SOURCE OF THE VIRUS. I apparently contracted it from FateBack, MY OWN HOSTING SITE! Which means I will be looking for a new home for all my websites soon. I am super disappointed because I really thought I'd found a place to keep things for good, and I can't pay for webhosting.

Anyway, please be wary if you feel the urge to visit my sites. I will hopefully be back by Monday.

Two days ago I discovered that there are five viruses on my computer, two of which are rootkits. A good computer-nerd friend of mine said that there's nothing I can do but completely wipe my system and start from scratch.

So now I find myself trying to salvage as much as can be salvaged before I lose everything. This may take a while, and I'm weary of using the internet while things are so unstable. I'm going to disappear for a bit while I get this all sorted out.

I'll see you on the other side.

Ah! Almost too late, but...

Love Box


I'm sorry I've reverted back into my lurking ways as of late. I've been spending a lot of time in Photoshop with layouts and icons, and I've been really bad about replying to posts/comments. This weekend I resolve to correct that (I mean, it's not like I have a date or anything -_-).

Love you all!

I was looking through Cowboy Bebop icons, and I want to shrine Spike Spiegel SO BAD! Holla if you love that series as much as I do!

I feel like I can't pick up a new project until I finish my old ones, though. I really hate the condition that Emerald Star is in right now, but I just can't make myself work on it. The thought of a full revamp (which is what it needs) is just so overwhelming.

I think I'm going to start personal posts over at swallowthelake and keep this as a website/icon/fanmix/fiction journal. (Really just because I don't want to have to move everything over to a new account.) But that won't happen until I get motivated enough to change the stylesheet. Oh, laziness! Why now?

I had a weird dream the other night that I hung out with iluwen, antinostalgic, and dark_branwen in this old tree house, which is weird because I've never met any of my LJ friends. And I'm worried that now I sound like a horrible stalker. Well, shit.

It's really hot in this room. And this post is all over the place in terms of content.

I know it's been plugged a lot, but "Her Morning Elegance" by Oren Lavie is one of the most inventive videos I've seen lately. And I really love his vocals. And he's kind of hot in that scruffy/indie way. :)

First day back and I'm already swamped. Well, getting there, anyways. I had French, counterpoint, and yoga today. My French professor is super cute! She's a petite little woman who's just as sweet as she can be. I've heard she's really understanding about full course loads, too, so that's a plus. I wasn't really looking forward to counterpoint, but it seems like it could be pretty interesting. I know the professor really well (I've had three theory classes and private lessons with him already), and he's good at making the coursework seem appealing. We're studying Palestrina through Schoenberg, which he said is a pretty non-traditional look at the subject, too. Yoga might be my sanity this semester. It felt so good to stretch and breathe and not be stressed for an hour.

My grant project is due Friday afternoon, but I think I'm going to go ahead and sleep now and wake up early tomorrow morning. I feel my grammar beginning to go.

This is the sweetest thing I've ever heard.

Spring semester starts on Wednesday. :(

Title: Resolution
Author: Kotono (silkaura)
Theme: Resolution
Genre: Adult
Version: Manga
Rating: NC-17

( Venus enjoys his courtship by day, completely oblivious to her lover's nightly passions with the butterfly princess. )

I have to say, this is the weirdest pairing I have ever written, and I am not exactly sure how I managed it. I have a strange fascination with the betrayed senshi of the Stars season, which sucks because they do not play active roles in the story (their names are mentioned and only one--Sailor Coronis--is even pictured). What can I say? I like a challenge.

IN OTHER NEWS: I have decided to split my creative journal from my personal journal, and I have already created a new account. The problem is, I cannot decide which name to use for sites/fiction/icons and which to use for personal. Your choices are silkaura (the old faithful) and swallowthelake. (I'm kind of leaning towards personal for the latter, but I can't be sure.) Opinions in the comments, please! :)

Took the exam for my study/travel this past Wednesday, so I'm pretty much done with winter term. One more paper, then spring term starts February 4. So what have I been doing with my time?

Well, friends, I discovered the amazingness that is TheWB.com, and I've been watching a hella lotta The O.C. and Roswell. I've been so nostalgic for teen drama, recently, I just can't help myself. And I am so in love with Ryan Atwood. And Mischa Barton is so flippin' gorgeous.