Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

(music tag should be: "Kid Icarus: Uprising soundtrack - The War's End (if you see scary/apocalyptic video game music in the music tag, that usually means I'm worried about something. But sometimes it doesn't.)")

Apparently I just posted one of the most popular entries on LJ. Which I guess is pretty easy to do if I'm one of the only people still posting to LJ at all...

So, hi new people! Sorry for all the inside jokes that would've made much more sense^{[citation needed]} if you'd been here 7 or 8 years ago. Before you go asking me what "HWHD" or "WTCN" or whatever means, visit my FAQ and glossary of Matt1993isms (taking into account that the former is fairly up-to-date but the latter was last updated in 2011).

Anyway, onto the important stuff:

I THINK I read all of your comments. I know why people are moving to DreamWidth (well, NOW I know, but until now I'd heard a lot of seemingly different reasons and wasn't sure which, if any, were accurate), and I agree that it would be a good idea for me to create a backup journal on DreamWidth (or maybe another site) because who knows how long LJ will be around and how long anyone else will be on LJ at the rate things are going.

But at the same time, LiveJournal has been one of my favorite hobbies, if not my #1 favorite hobby, for over a third of my life (I'm 23, turning 24 in July, and have been active since February 2009 when I was 15½). So I am NOT going to leave LJ entirely. There is no way I can - it's just too much of a part of who I am, and I really hope that one day it goes back to the way it was.

I've finally decided that my plan is to have a LiveJournal AND a DreamWidth (or a LiveJournal AND an account on some other journal site). In fact, I would start creating my backup account RIGHT NOW if it weren't for the fact that I need to decide what site to backup my LJ to.

I'm going to need a site that has most, if not all, of the features that I use on LiveJournal - I want to make my DreamWidth (or whatever) similar enough to my LJ that it will be REALLY easy for me to adjust to using both.

This means I want to find a site with:
- A way to make TWO accounts. I've been wanting to make a separate journal on LJ for dreams for a long time - now that THIS just happened, when I finally get around to making a LJ dream journal, I'd want to have a backup of that on DreamWidth or whatever as well.
- The ability to use at least 116 userpics, because that's how many "regular" userpics I have right now. (I'd VERY strongly prefer the limit be significantly more than 116, though.)
- A way to make a profile and interests list similar to what LJ has.
- A friends page.
- A way to automatically backup my old entries and the comments on them to the new journal - with the mood, music, location, repost buttons, images, videos, tags, timestamps, friends-only status, custom friends groups, and probably something else I forgot intact. (A lot of you said DreamWidth lets you import entries and comments with most of these intact.) Or, at the very least, I need it to be possible to manually add whichever of these things would not automatically be transferred. (cactus_rs, you said that I'd lose images and videos - you don't mean that images and videos can't be used at all in entries on DW, do you? :( Though I guess I could just have the videos be replaced with the URLs for them if I have to...)
- A way to upload images similar to ScrapBook - and with them having the same privacy settings as entries.
- A way to have comments be screened.
- A way to make the journal style similar to the one I'm using here. By this I just mean I don't want it to be TOO drastically different - I think any yellow layout would work. And this only applies to my journal - other pages on whatever site I backup my LJ to don't have to look anything like LJ in terms of design as long as the features I need are there.
- Probably something else I forgot. I'll edit this entry if I remember anything else.

How many of these features does DreamWidth have? Does another site have more of these features? Am I making any sense whatsoever? (I've been misunderstood a lot before. I REALLY hope that doesn't happen here...)

Yep - I created my LJ account on August 19, 2007. Sad how the anniversary of LJ should happen to be the day after I accidentally deleted a lot of LJ-related stuff, though... in fact, I was so busy after that happened, I didn't get to finish this post until the day after the anniversary of my LJ. :(

I also wanted to include LJ comment stats (which I said I'd do every three months starting on the fourth anniversary, but ended up deciding to just do once every year), but since this post is already late, I'll post them later.

( First line of my first entry on or after the 19th of every month )

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EDIT ON MAY 12, 2018: THIS IS THE OLD VERSION OF MY GLOSSARY... or at least the oldest version that was a sticky entry rather than on my profile, anyway. THE NEW GLOSSARY IS... nowhere, yet, but I'm going to FINALLY get around to updating this glossary for the first time in years after I'm done fixing all my entries on both LJ and DW.

I made this sticky entry in 2011, but then I didn't update it much after that and left it outdated for nearly SEVEN YEARS - long enough that I decide I might as well preserve the old version of the glossary, but make it no longer sticky in favor of a NEW sticky entry with the updated glossary.

Everything below this point is as the entry originally appeared, except I got rid of the lj-like buttons. The former subject line was simply "Glossary of Matt1993isms".

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I finally got around to updating this glossary and moving it to a sticky post so that it wouldn't clutter up my profile and I could have LJ-cuts to jump to certain sections!

Although the whole point of these multiple LJ-cuts is for ease of navigation (i.e. if I reference a Matt1993ism in the definition of a Matt1993ism in a different section, I'd link to the proper section), I haven't had the time to actually go through and add all these links, so stay tuned for that. I also thought about adding artwork for certain entries *cough*/crazymegavideo/*cough*, so stay tuned for that too. :)

As I said in the old glossary, if you spot a Matt1993ism I used that I haven't defined here, or if FoxReplace messes up the "pucker up because it's time for lunch" entry again, etc., please let me know :)

EDIT: Added some more Matt1993isms and tags, but still need to add the links and artwork. I'm also pretty sure there was another Matt1993ism that I still forgot to add...

( /-7 ) ( A ) ( B ) ( Ca-Ch ) ( Co-Cr ) ( D-E ) ( F-G ) ( H ) ( I-K ) ( L-M ) ( N ) ( O ) ( Pi-Pro ) ( Prt-Pu ) ( Q-R ) ( S-T ) ( U-W ) ( Y ) ( Abbreviations )

Too bad I don't have a Matt1993ism that has to do with reposting

Okay then?

(Okay then?)²

EDIT ON NOVEMBER 19, 2017: Aw, the second one seems to be gone now :( The question was "How tall is Apocalypse?" and the answer was something like "it is 100 meters and ur an idiot". If I remembered it right. Which, now that the apocalypse has happened for real as far as I'm concerned, means there's about 23.71 days in a meter apparently. :P

Is this repost button a sign of the apocalypse?

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This is how tired I am - I had a whole post complaining about today's homework written and I forgot to post it! D'OH!

 

ME: I'm gonna take a snack now.

WTCN? Who says "take a snack"? I think the fact that school starts for me Thursday must have bribbled on my nain like the binner alley dus.

Well, due to some hole in the fabric of space and time, I passed the essay portion of the COMPASS. Hole in the fabric of space and time, you and I are gonna get along just fine!

Also, since I just now found out about this survey:

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name:	Matt Aaron
Birthday:	July 14, 1993
Birthplace:	Fort Worth
Current Location:	Fort Worth
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	5'10" last time I checked.
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Right
Your Heritage:	I don't really remember, but I think I am part German.
The Shoes You Wore Today:	Athletic Works
Your Weakness:	Essays
Your Fears:	Essays
Your Perfect Pizza:	Pepperoni. Only kind of pizza I like.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	Not to say anything that I wind up regretting later in life
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	I don't really know what my MOST overused phrase is, but the only phrases I overuse are backwards music-related phrases.
Thoughts First Waking Up:	ANOTHER school day?!
Your Best Physical Feature:	The mustache I've been having to shave and will eventually let grow
Your Bedtime:	10:30 PM
Your Most Missed Memory:	Every summer I ever had
Pepsi or Coke:	Water
MacDonalds or Burger King:	MacDonalds. Except I spell it "McDonalds". Does that make me weird?
Single or Group Dates:	I've only been on single dates
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	Water
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee:	Can I use a lifeline?
Do you Smoke:	Definitely no. I'm only 15 anyway.
Do you Swear:	Holy whole hand dealer no, but I use backwards music-related substitutes a whole cattle-notin' lot.
Do you Sing:	Sometimes, but not often
Do you Shower Daily:	Not daily. About 5 days a week.
Have you Been in Love:	*sigh* Yes.
Do you want to go to College:	Yes
Do you want to get Married:	Very yes
Do you belive in yourself:	No, I don't "be live" in myself
Do you get Motion Sickness:	No
Do you think you are Attractive:	I'd be more attractive if I could keep my mustache.
Are you a Health Freak:	No, but I have freaky health.
Do you get along with your Parents:	Sometimes.
Do you like Thunderstorms:	No, they remind me of the power going out, which reminds me of my computer not working, which reminds me of TORTURE!!!
Do you play an Instrument:	I used to play the piano, but I'm out of practice.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	No, I'm only 15.
In the past month have you Smoked:	No, I'm only 15.
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	No, I'm-- Why do I even bother?
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	No, not in the past month.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	No, I rarely go to malls.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	No, I don't eat the boxes.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	Ew no.
In the past month have you been on Stage:	I help out with Face to Face concerts, so technically yeah, sort of.
In the past month have you been Dumped:	No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	Why would I go skinny dipping in the winter? I don't skinny dip anyway.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	No, why would I?
Ever been Drunk:	No
Ever been called a Tease:	I don't know what that would mean, so no.
Ever been Beaten up:	Yes, in second grade. And maybe other grades around that time, I don't remember.
Ever Shoplifted:	Nah.
How do you want to Die:	I want to die while listening to backwards music.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	A computer or a math.
What country would you most like to Visit:	I dunno. Probably England or Ireland.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color:
Favourite Hair Color:
Short or Long Hair:
Height:
Weight:
Best Clothing Style:
Number of Drugs I have taken:
Number of CDs I own:
Number of Piercings:
Number of Tattoos:
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	10⁵⁷
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

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