I don't get it.

[eliyes]

This will never cease to confuse me: why would someone post something for others to read, somewhere that invites feedback and, hey, isn't even friends-locked -- with a medium-ish lavender-grey background with slightly darker lavender-grey text? This makes it unreadable! This defeats the purpose! Why post it at all?

And, I mean, this isn't a case of the eye-blinding colours -- they're neutral, even pretty -- I'm just squinting so hard I can't see the words. My crow's feet are getting crow's feet. Thank God for whatever genius made it so that most journals can be relatively easily switched to the style I use on my own as long as I'm logged in.

If this sounds like you, well, smarten up -- but I assure you that nobody who has ever given me the slightest indication that they read my journal is the inspiration for this post. No, I got to this particular post in a fairly convoluted way, involving two and a half days of sliding around the net, from a few comms I'm on to their friends-lists, to posts on said list, to links in the comments of said posts, to memory pages of the commentators, to links from the memories pages to fic-rec posts, etc. etc.

Possibly the binge-reading is in part affecting my squinting, especially as I've also been doing it with books when not at the computer, but dammit, it was difficult to read. :<

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Comments

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

If I ever come across something like that, I just 'select all' and read it that way. White on blue is distinctly easier than PURPLE ON PURPLE OH GOD WHY. DDD:

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

You can do this think where you just add ?style=mine to the end of most URLs in LJ and it will switch to the way your journal looks.

This doesn't always work, because some people with almost-black-blue backgrounds with white squiggles and fluorescent French Green text are fucking bastards who have coded their journal to not let you do that. *seethe* At which point I should try the "select all" thing but I'm usually to mad to actually read it. (FOR THE LOVE OF CHEESE, WHY?! Fluorescent French Green! DDD:)

I used to just copy and paste entire damned epic fics into a document reader prog, but not so much these days. Probably because I don't intend to print it all, I could kill a forest with my SGA fic bookmarks alone, seriously. It's past 30 page downs now.