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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

3 days ago, my mom found 7 binders' worth of the notes from back when I was in therapy! It's really interesting to look through it and see how far I've come. Some observations I've found so far that surprise me:

- I apparently used to get the letters C and S, P and Q, U and M, and G and J mixed up a lot despite still becoming able to read before kindergarten, and also despite my obsession with the letter Q around first grade. Plus, in my grapheme→color synesthesia, most of those letters are completely different colors (C S P Q U M G J), and I never confused Q and G even though their colors are the closest out of any of these, so I must not have had it back then.
- I seemingly used to not like ketchup, as when the therapists were teaching me about choices, they'd ask me whether I wanted a certain food that I liked or a certain food that I hated, and the food I "hated" would sometimes be ketchup.
- I was actually better at pretend play than I remember - in fact, I bet my 3-year-old self just might be better at D&D dialogue than I am today :)

While rereading the notes, I also like to put my iTunes on shuffle, and when a song that isn't from Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, or Super Mario World (i.e., a song I first heard after age 3) comes up, I try to get an idea of how my 3-year-old self would feel if he time-travelled to when I first heard it by pretending that I'm 3 years old but born in 2008 instead of 1993 and that my "future" self will first hear the song 15 years after I actually first heard it. (example: with the exception of "Sand in My Shoes", I first heard each song from Dido's Life for Rent in 2007, which in 1996 was 11 years in the future, so I tell myself that I'll hear it for the first time in 2022) :)

Qoct to yomr gomrnal!

5,330 words in Moya's Space Log now. And still no Stars. If the D&D-style boards I've been making take a while to play through with only four enemies, imagine how long bosses and Cosmic Clone missions (which I will actually have to use the boards for) will take!

Current progress towards word count goal:


Current progress towards end of story:


Current progress towards end of story plus retroactive artwork:
(The clear part of this status bar has a width of 797 pixels ;) )

←Part 6 Part 8→
( Moya's Space Log, part 7 )

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Note: I was originally going to have Team Brennario members always restart at the checkpoint flag regardless of whether or not they all died at once, but then I realized that in some galaxies, anyone that dies would end up dying over and over until the other three commit suicide, so I had to change it to the New Super Mario Bros. Wii way (i.e. they end up in bubbles). That's why Mario never told Enya & Moya the part about the bubbles until just now.

*pathvain_aelien told me about a time that her foot got stuck in a hole in the couch while she was playing NSMBW with Stephen, and she said, "My foot's stuck. I'm bubbling." :D

I've been straining to come up with a new profile name ever since I decided that "Christmas Modifier: +2" is a kinda lame profile name when it's not Christmas, and I finally have one:

MOM: Did you finish your computer assignment?
ME: Computer sonnet?

So my new profile name is Computer Sonnet. Yay!

ABBAABBACDECDE

Yesterday, my only homework was 25 math problems, but it took me 3 hours and 30 minutes to do it all. That comes out to 8 minutes and 24 seconds per problem. Then I got to see the one LJ comment I had recieved that day before I played Dungeons & Dragons & Autism with pathvain_aelien and Stephen, taking up the rest of my free time.

Today, I had 14 math problems and 23 anatomy problems (37 in all) and finished them in 5 hours and 15 minutes, which is even worse - 8 minutes and 30 30/37 seconds per problem. My bedtime is in only 8 minutes. :(

I'm getting WAY worse at focusing. (Not saying that I was ever any good at focusing, by the way.) :(

*sigh*

Repost just before bedtime

[notdndcharacter]CRANTHER[/notdndcharacter]-LOAD OF HOMEWORK.

Of course, I have been having other [notdndcharacter]Cranther[/notdndcharacter]-loads of homework recently, but I have been getting a few easy days here and there, and this wasn't one.

Fortunately, I get to take a break right now.

Take a break too by reposting