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

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I suppose they might have had some background image that it would have shown up against that has since gotten fried. Or they are just an idiot with no idea that if you want someone to read your stuff, you make it so that they can SEE it.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

The way the page is set up, I highly doubt it (there's a white background behind the lavender text bg, which is logically where such an image would go). I have been to webpages that had an image go wonky in the way you describe. Hell, I had one, once. (Back in the hoary mists of time and my phase of building character shrines to Ranma½ characters. *coughs delicately*) I finally got the image behind the text to work, but I never did get the thing to stop making the spacer bars out of my header image...