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Comment on Surprise! by Morgandria

Morgandria — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:25:15 +0000

This is more manageable. Thanks.

Comment on A Revised Otherkin FAQ by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:50:01 +0000

Fixed.

Comment on Surprise! by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:03:27 +0000

How does this look instead? I tried to go with less saturated colors and darker text, though I might still need to change the link color… let me know what you think.

Comment on A Revised Otherkin FAQ by Arethinn

Arethinn — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:01:29 +0000

I’m not sure if “Annual California Based Gather in September” is quite accurate as it seems optimistic (in 2010 I thought it was finally annual as we’d had one two years in a row, but then there was the having to cancel 2011…), but it’s probably reasonable to remove the “on hiatus” disclaimer on MythiCalia for this year.

Comment on Surprise! by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:04:04 +0000

Changes are being plotted, mostly trying to decide if I’m going to stick to a green theme with different saturation and different colored links, or change to a light blue theme as long as I’m changing things…

Comment on Surprise! by Arethinn

Arethinn — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:00:36 +0000

The light green is pretty bright. I find it less immediately fatiguing than the orangish on dark, but I dunno how long I could stare at this color either.

Comment on Surprise! by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:12:18 +0000

That’s great information to have, though. I tried to get feedback on my last site design from folks with visual impairments before, but nobody really spoke up.

Let me play around with it a bit more and see what I can do to make the site more friendly…

Comment on Surprise! by Morgandria

Morgandria — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:07:59 +0000

I do better with darker backgrounds and light text, or less saturated background colours and clear dark text. The green here is really bright on my screen, and the medium blue link colour is enough of a contrast that it floats on top of the background for me.

It’s probably only an issue for people like me who have visual impairments, and/or suffer from migraines triggered by eyestrain and lighting conditions.

Comment on Surprise! by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:55:59 +0000

Really? Hmm, I thought the lighter theme would be better for that. Any suggestions?

Comment on Surprise! by Morgandria

Morgandria — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:50:52 +0000

I am having a really hard time with the colours in this scheme; I can’t browse the site for long without getting some serious eyestrain. But that’s just me.

Comment on Surprise! by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:40:00 +0000

Minor additional change. The old banner just wasn’t working.

Comment on Angelkin by Scorpion

Scorpion — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:48:14 +0000

All these rules seem reasonable to me.

-Audra

Comment on A Revised Otherkin FAQ by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:15:02 +0000

Ok, I’ll adjust the FAQ accordingly in both cases. Thanks for the update!

Comment on A Revised Otherkin FAQ by Arethinn

Arethinn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:26:54 +0000

Feywood is very likely defunct and I’d recommend removing it from a FAQ which goes to some effort to describe currently live resources. (My current thought on it was that it was an experiment that didn’t really pan out.)

MythiCalia is at the very least on indefinite hiatus. It’s probably worth leaving in as I would like for interested parties to be able to find it (if people exist, it would be un-hiatused), but with a disclaimer to that effect.

Comment on Kin to the Other by Otherkin Writings Directory | Beyond Awakening

Otherkin Writings Directory | Beyond Awakening — Sun, 08 May 2011 04:34:41 +0000

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Comment on An Aloryan Glossary by Liryen

Liryen — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:17:45 +0000

“Sadly, it’s really hard to tell without a far more complete picture of the language. They could be words meaning the same thing from different languages, or they could be synonyms within the same language. And even within a single language they could have etymological origins in different languages.”

– I think that this is probably very likely.

Incidentally, the first word that struck a chord in me on the Elenari language list was Clarash (where it was listed as “Aloryen”, IIRC). Unfortunately, even with a longer list of words used in Alorya, I can’t be completely sure that I spoke (and was presumably) Aloryan.

But for what it’s worth, a few years ago I did seem to remember one phrase of language. It was “Ha Da”, a sort of command or exclamation that felt akin to “stop, shut up.” Long A sounds, with the d in “Da” slightly softer than the English pronunciation.

It may not have been anything. And I don’t know that I’m Aloryan myself (though I’m beginning to suspect it). But it’s an interesting wordlist. Extremely interesting.

Comment on Field Guide to Otherkin: Survey Responses by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Heh, for me this wasn’t a new response.. it’s the one I sent her in 2005, I just decided to make it public now rather than keeping it in a friends-locked journal entry on LJ. But replying to it doesn’t make you a derp… she’s probably hanging onto them in case she ever writes an updated second edition or a further book on the subject. It wouldn’t surprise me if she’s still getting quite a few.

Comment on Field Guide to Otherkin: Survey Responses by Rua

Rua — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:49:57 +0000

Good to see that someone else replied to the survey… now I don’t feel like such a derp. I wonder what Lupa is doing with these new responses…

Comment on Awakening (Dragon) by Jarandhel Dreamsinger

Jarandhel Dreamsinger — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:45:49 +0000

Thanks. I tried to put it down in words as close to the way it came to me as possible.

Comment on Awakening (Dragon) by Liryen

Liryen — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:28:59 +0000

My subconscious could be deceiving me because of Eragon, but I had a dream a year or two ago where I was riding a blue dragon, as part of a job as like a mediator or a counselor or something like that. Now I wonder if I was remembering…

Great post.