Okay.

[taffimai]

Those damn animated sidebars? Are not cool if you are posting fic. I absolutely cannot concentrate on reading if there are little animated graphics all down the side of the page. Ugh.

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly. There are a lot of SPN writers who use them. It drives me batty

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

We need to start boycotting them. Post a comment saying, "I would have read your story but I couldn't deal with the sensory overload."

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I suppose in a way I am boycotting them, because 9 times out of 10 I hit the back button without reading at all.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Ah, but they do not know that you are boycotting them. Silent boycotts? Not effective.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

True. Although most (in SPN anyway) don't seem the type to care.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

That's why you should abandon those ingrates and come back to us!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm still in TW fandom. Jack will always have a big place in my heart. Just broadening my horizons a bit.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like that. I love you no matter what fandom you're in.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

No, no, you were fine, TW's just a little errmm, wank-filled for me as a fandom. The Pro-Jack/Ianto vs the anti-J/I, the Gwen shippers, the Gwen haters, etc etc etc.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

It's odd, I don't see much of that but everyone I know talks about The Wank. I have to wonder if I'm missing a major community on my flist or just oblivious.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I find it bleeds through to the stories I've tried to read- extremely harsh and oocness from one character or another due to the author's opinions

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yeah, I've seen that. I just roll my eyes and take the story for what it's worth. But I can see why it would be too much.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Since I have no ship I find I notice it a LOT.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Probably helps that my ship is my OT3. Very little wank with those three.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Cute icon!

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Thank you! They are totally my fannish happy place. Rose is so beautiful and provides such a good balance and Nine is my Doctor and Jack is -- well, Jack is Jack.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Jack is Jack

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Solution! frogmajick rocks.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I do that sometimes, it's just annoying to do too often

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

Add this:

?style=mine

after the .html in the url of the fic you're reading and it'll take you to the default comment page for lj OR to your journal style. I'm too lazy to look up in the faq how to make it do it automatically, but that's how I have mine set up.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I found the automatic setting! It's under Journal, Viewing Options.

Thanks so much!

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

No problem! As much as I like the animated images, they make me motion sick if they're moving while I'm trying to read, so I get exactly what you're saying.

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

frogmajick got to it before I did. One thing I've considered is leaving my feedback but starting out with

Thank god for ?style=mine because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to read your fic due to the eye-bleeding *insert graphics offense*

I haven't yet, but maybe someday...;-)