Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

I'm against SOPA for all of the same reasons that the Gods of Being Able to Voice Opinions Better than Matt1993 (e.g. LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Google, Randall Munroe, Ryan North...) are - and this is coming from a guy who usually doesn't comment on anything controversial because he either becomes depressed about what side to be on or posts about an occurrence of a number like 206 in a news article or something rather than actually discussing the issue.

In fact, until SOPA is rejected, I'm going to do a clever take on the blackouts that Wikipedia, Wikia, xkcd and Dinosaur Comics (and any other websites I don't know about yet) have done - I'll blackout as many of my userpics (well, not really blackout - I'm not sure how to describe it, so just look at the userpic on this entry) as I can before the 24th (or whenever SOPA is rejected, or - if we're too unlucky for that - SOPA is repealed after becoming law). To keep this from turning out like my attempt at replacing userpics with PSL-styled variations (i.e., not getting to finish soon enough), I'm gonna upload each one as soon as I make it. Dunno how many I'll be able to replace before the impending apocalypse the Senate begins voting on it, though...

EDIT: These are even more difficult to make than I thought! I only got four finished today, but trust me, you don't need to see 112 shadowed userpics containing somewhere from 5 to 109 SOPA jokes to see my (and LJ's, and Wikipedia's, and Google's...) point. According to Google, the White House didn't even need one. I'm still gonna make more, though!

And yes, I know my LJ isn't well-known enough for this to have much of an impact, but I'm putting the idea out there for anyone else who wants to try it.

*It's too different from our universe for it to be parallel :P

Be a DMCAbow and not a SOPAbow

I started worrying that the reason I haven't gotten very many comments lately could be because most of you have filtered me on your friends pages due to all of my Moya's Space Log and userpic poll posts taking up a lot of space on them. So I made two custom friends groups - "Moya's Space Log Readers" and "Userpic Voters". "Moya's Space Log Readers" consists of those who have commented on Moya's Space Log - pathvain_aelien and rovanda - while "Userpic Voters" is empty because no one has voted yet. So if you want to read MSL and/or vote for the userpics you want me to have, just tell me and I'll add you to the group(s)!

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it, by the way :)

Filter friends page

It's hard to believe, but I'm actually planning on participating in NaNoWriMo this year (albeit the Youth Writing Project version, where my word count will only be 25,000 words).

Remember back when I got Super Mario Galaxy 2 and a Moya CD for my birthday and commented on how it felt weird to mention Mario and Moya in the same *deep breath* sentence, this was not the case with Mario and Enya? That made me wonder what it would be like if Mario, Luigi, Enya, and Moya all worked together in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Moya questioned Mario logic while Enya simply accepted it. pathvain_aelien was going to write me a drabble for my birthday, and I suggested this as an idea for it. However, since it would be difficult to write this as just a drabble, I eventually decided to write it on my own as a full-length story for NNWM (why is it NaNoWriMo when NNWM is even shorter?). I sure hope I can still sign up after October and that I'm allowed to add drawings later (I doubt I'll be able to make all of the drawings I want in 30 days).

Also, does anyone who's done NNWM know if I can post my story to my LJ? I'm pretty sure it's allowed, but I wanna make sure.

Now for the funny picture. In Government we had to look up things about elections in our state, such as the requirements for voting, etc. I found this funny picture on one of the pages that I found my information from:



Is there one Grand Star?