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The tenth anniversary of my LiveJournal is on August 19!!!


To celebrate, August 2017 is Matt1993 Nostalgia Month! (Okay, so that would also be an accurate description of basically any month from October 2015 to July 2017... but for August 2017, it's an even MORE accurate description!)

When I joined LJ nearly ten years ago, I never thought I'd be still on it for this long - especially given how I kept going on hiatuses from it until February 2009. I also never thought so many things would have changed since then, or that I'd be posting about so many new things since then.

I keep wondering what basically everything I've posted to LJ in 2009-2017 would look like to my 14-year-old or 15-year-old self (i.e. from the era when I wasn't that active on LJ and didn't think I ever would be).


Well, now that question will be sort of answered, because:

1. I'm changing my journal style back to Blue Gray (which is what I think I was using at first and had left as for... I'm not even sure how long; probably until early 2009 but MAYBE earlier) for a month, then will change it to Pale Yellows again at the end of the month. Though I'm leaving the journal title and subtitle as is because I don't remember what those were back in 2007 - and I decided that if I'm keeping those as is, I'll also leave in other anachronistic references such as the comment text being "# Doom 2 bad guys will come out of my ears"/"Rob Morrow to you!" :)

2. As those of you who've known me since 2009 know, five of my oldest userpics used to look different until I updated them late that year (and I don't think I had any userpics at all before 2009). Well, I'm temporarily changing those five userpics back to what they looked like in 2009!

( Back to the good old days! (I can't believe 2009 is “the good old days”...) )

3. And why stop there? If my newer userpics had also existed prior to November 2009 or so, some of them likely would've looked different back then, too - so I've taken what I call the "Super Mario Maker approach" because I'm a dork and retroactively created "older" versions of eleven more userpics, and am temporarily changing them "back" to these versions for the month!

What would my journal and some of my comments have looked like if...
- that brief era when I played D&D had been at least a few months earlier
- I'd started watching The X-Files before 2010
- I'd had my first /crazymegavideo/ dream before 2010
- the Forbidden Comment Threads had happened at least a couple of years earlier, resulting in 2009 being during the four years or so of depression and angst they caused me
- and so on
...and therefore some of my userpics about these had been made when I was 15 instead of 16-22?

Let's find out!!

( Draconian userpic poink! )

It was fun using my 2008-2009 drawing/spriting styles once again in 2016-2017! Even if the old-style versions of the 7:97 and /crazymegavideo/ userpics don't sync up as well with the regular versions as I thought they would. :)

4. And, as if making ancient in-jokes look even more ancient wasn't anachronistic enough already, I'm even applying the same temporary changes to my DreamWidth account! This includes the same userpic changes, and... okay, not the SAME layout changes, because LJ and DW have different default layouts. Still, I figure if DreamWidth had existed in 2007 and I'd had an account on it back then, I probably would've used its default layout for nearly two years like I did on LJ, so I'm temporarily using that layout (Neutral Good) for a month. :)


(Before I actually make any of these changes, though, I'm going to make sure both the LJ and DW versions of this entry look okay - so my journals may or may not still be yellow when you see this.)


I've got some more ideas for celebratory posts as well, so stay tuned! :D

As I've mentioned a while back, I plan on replacing some of my userpics with more legible versions. (even though I've procrastinated that for probably at least a year now...)

Since I knew that doing that will cause me to lose track of what order I added my userpics, I kept a list of my userpics in my profile in order added - but I'm starting to run out of room on my profile now, so I moved it here and reformatted it into a table that hopefully looks better than the old layout.

Note that this excludes the following:
- Old versions of these userpics
- Alternate versions of some of these that I made to protest SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/etc. a few years ago

( Here they are! )

Finally got to finish this list!

← 2011 2013 →

What I got for Christmas:

- Wii U from Mom & Dad
- Wii U games: New Super Mario Bros. U & Nintendo Land from Mom, and Scribblenauts Unlimited from ellaina02.
- Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (3DS version) from pathvain_aelien
- xkcd stuff from Mom:
> Self-Description, Flowchart, and Compiling shirts
> mousepad
> xkcd: volume 0
- My annual Garfield calendar from Mom
- Paid account extension from Mom and renewed add-on userpics from ellaina02. Notice that I finally took down my blackout userpics from the WCIT-12 protest and started using userpics other than the one blackout userpic that didn't become inactive again!
- Assorted candy from Mom
- Mario pajama pants from Jake
- Pocketknife from my grandfather, and $50 from him and his wife

What I gave for Christmas:

- I got Dad a 10-in-1 survivalist tool
- I got Mom a Patricia Cornwell book: The Bone Bed
- I got Jake some tea from Adagio: earl grey, mango oolong, and... I don't remember the other one
- I got pathvain_aelien two books: Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy and The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown
- I got my grandpa and his wife an Olive* Garden gift card
- I got Nace an iTunes gift card

*I still haven't made any comics for Lightning Made of Owls, and I already typed "Oliver" instead of "Olive" by accident at first?

Wii wish U...um...had a good reason to repost this entry?

Taste the Rainbow
If you could taste color, what would your favorite color taste like?

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Macaroni & cheese!

You can repost this entry and not be a painbow

Well, I managed to procrastinate the remaining notes and outline for my research paper until tomorrow again, which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't due the day after that. I also have to write a college scholarship essay by next Monday, and even though it's due after my research paper is, I have to write it first because it's supposedly more important.

Two quizzes:

You Are a Blue M&M

You are an affable and likable person. You are a natural people-pleaser. You change your mind constantly. Everything ends up sounding good to you. You like to keep your options open, but your mind isn't muddled. You're a very clear thinker. You love people, and you're an optimist about everyone you meet. Friendship is important to you.

How am I an optimist?

You Are a Newspaper

You enjoy order and structure. You don't like it when things change much from day to day. You are primarily concerned with the present. You don't like to speculate about the future. You are straightforward and honest. You pride yourself on being easy to read. You are a people person. You wish you could connect with every single person in the world.

I actually find newspapers hard to read. Hard to read without making a mess of papers everywhere, that is. I also REALLY like speculating on the future, if my use of the word "apocalypse" in this entry's subject line is any indication.

In what ways has reposting shaped your life?

Forever young
If cryogenics became a real, affordable option (i.e., if you could freeze your body until aging and illnesses were better understood), would you consider it? If so, do you fear you'd miss out on the wisdom that comes with growing old and dying?

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cryogenics

Um, I think "cry"-ogenics are affordable already. All you have to do is take candy from a little kid. (Not that I'd do that sort of thing. Just saying it's affordable.)

Stupid Writer's Block.

EDIT: Wait. That's actually the CORRECT spelling?! There goes my joke. :(

Freeze this post into your journal

Sweet Tooth
What is your favorite holiday-specific candy or treat?

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Candy hearts. They tasty!

RPST 2 UR JRNL