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R.I.P. Blog Pics

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:51:44 GMT

It's been just over seventeen years since I first signed up to LiveJournal. Shortly after, I learned how to embed images from a third-party hosting site. Photobucket served me well for years, but in recent times it's got a lot more difficult – you may have noticed the watermark on the wallpaper if you visit my blog proper – and now that I've finally had the time to go through and pull down all the images I want to keep, I'm shutting my Photobucket account for good.

This isn't going to make a massive difference for new posts here – I've been 'hosting' new blog pics on Tumblr since 2012 – but the archive will cease to be illustrated. Gradually I'm putting my library up on Ko-Fi, but it's going to take a while, as it's just about the lowest priority thing on my plate these days. Someday Tumblr will bite the dust. Hopefully by then no one will want to see my old scrawlings. Fanart is so much better these days anyway. Let the kids take over, they're all right.

I've had to pay a bit just to access my Photobucket account to get the stuff off, so it'll remain up until the end of the month. If there's something you particularly want to save, go find it now and do so. Remember February is only 28 days.

Thanks for the memories!

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Tumblr:

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:20:17 GMT

This is why I should always be steadily stocked with work, at work:

tealin.tumblr.com

I am not – repeat NOT – abandoning this blog. Or the other one. Just ... diversifying. Those of you on Tumblr, feel free to follow; those not, you're not missing anything.

... Well, aside from an endless stream of clips I've recorded off Radio 4, because I hoard radio like little old ladies hoard bits of string, and if anyone had told me how easy it was to share audio clips on Tumblr I would have signed up years ago ... but I will try to link them here as well.

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We Are Twirlynoodle, and We're Here to Make Money and Sell Out and Stuff!

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:34:56 GMT

Yesterday I was contacted by Fandango about offering Harry Potter movie ticket presales through my website.

This isn't the first time I've been approached by a company for Potter-related merchandise tie-ins, and my first reaction was the same as it has been in the past, namely 'Bah! I am no corporate stooge! Begone with ye!' But while I felt confident in my role as arbiter of taste by depriving my audience of life-sized Potter movie wall decals, movie tickets are another thing ... and while I make a comfortable wage at my day job and don't need the promised commission fees, someone could probably use them.

Now, I don't know how much I'm likely to make off this, or how it is to be paid, or if it only counts for Potter ticket presales, but I thought I might get involved and send whatever profits come of it to flood relief in Pakistan. But I wanted to check with the people who actually use my site* before I went ahead with anything.

Would you tolerate a potentially flashy and ugly banner on my site for a good cause?

Would you actually use the service?

Please leave a comment and let me know ...

*I use it, but mostly as an online drawing library ... it is remarkably handy.

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What I Did With My Long Weekend

Mon, 31 May 2010 19:21:14 GMT

I know many people thought it would never happen, but ...

I updated my website.
There's a page now for all the Worst Journey stuff, just in time for CENTENARY FEVER! (I jest.) The Discworld and assorted Harry Potter pages have had the stuff I've drawn in the last two years distributed to their respective homes, and everything else has been tossed in the junk drawer of Utter Miscellany. Please let me know if anything's broken or misspelled ...

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