Gina
Posting Personal Information On The Internet
Oct 5, 2007
I'm not talking about your home phone or address, or any of that good stuff, as most people have enough sense to NOT do that. There's other personal stuff that shouldn't be posted, or if posted, one should be selective about it.
One's psychological abnormalities, such as autism, schitzophrenia, or others, should not be broadcasted, especially if they are used as an excuse for bad behaviour or weird fears. The reason is people can use this personal information as ammunition in flame wars. The same goes for fetishes, unless they are some of the accepted variety such as leather clothes, lingerie, or handcuffs, or in my case, one of my milder interests - watching bugs eat other bugs.
Another thing that is bad to post is your feelings towards someone who is posting something he or she finds funny about you. If you react badly to someone trolling or posting about you, it will get a whole lot worse the more you squirm, scream, cry, and protest the way you are being treated. This again creates more ammo, and the situation will go from bad to worse.
The proper course of action is to be selective with whom you share your interests. Get to know someone, and maybe post a little about your personal life in public, but keep your weirder personal information private, or share it with only the people you trust.
If you have already posted personal information and the like online, then the best course of action is to keep a low profile unless you know how to act. Don't cause trouble, don't interfere with people, don't do stupid things. And for crying out loud, treat your friends and others you chat with the way you would want to be treated. Don't threaten them if they sign off unannounced or have other reasons they can't chat with you, and don't spam their emails or profile pages with creepy weird comments, because that will give you the opposite of what you want, and you will be branded as a pariah if it gets bad enough.
See, I have gone down that road, and I have noticed someone else here(not on my friends list and whos name I am not mentioning to prevent drama) who is still going down that same road, and has shown no sign of improving. I've known her for some time and it saddens me to see her go through this, so I felt the need to post this as a warning to her and others.
In most cases, keep your personal information private and only share it with those you have known for awhile, and treat others online and offline the way you want to be treated. Think about how your actions will affect others, as they have feelings too. Think about others, before yourself.
Remember this, and your stay on the internet will likely be very enjoyable.
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Back
Oct 4, 2007
Been busy with some other things for awhile, mostly work, art, moderating an LJ community, and trying to make a decent-sounding instrumental.
I've noticed recently that in Dance Dance Revolution, often the dance steps conform with the melody at later levels, and often make some good drum beats in Tuareg. This should make it a bit easier to conquer certain songs like the Expert level of 'bag' which is a hecka fun song to dance to. My taste in music is very ecclectic, and it includes bagpipes,
Right now I have a song idea which is based on a character from the first Cube movie, the character Rennes. Rennes gets sprayed by some powerful acid and ends up dying horribly, with a hole in his head. A big one. The scene was hard for me to watch since one of my phobias is of being burnt and eaten by acid.
I'm also working on some designs and my human anatomy, which still isn't that great. Might post some fanart, but only family-friendly since this page is supposed to be more or less viewable by all ages.
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Colour Combinations
Jul 9, 2007
Often only a few colours are needed to make a good picture. Some of the popular combinations are complementary, which is two colours on the opposite sides of the colour wheel, triad - three colours equidistant on the wheel, tetrad - basically two sets of complementaries that make either a perfect square or rectangle shape, and split complementary - a colour put together with two colours exactly on either side of its complementary.
There are other schemes of course, including the diad which uses colours which are two colours apart on the wheel. Lisa Frank uses that sort of scheme often, with the main colours being red-violet, blue-violet, and blue-green in some form.
Each colour scheme can evoke a different mood depending on the colours, shades, tints, and tones used. Experiment and see how much you can do with a limited selection of colours.
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I'm Not Sorry.
Jul 4, 2007
Looking back a few years, it's amazing how much I've changed. There are things I have done that I regret, drama that I could've prevented. But I'm not sorry.
I'm not sorry for who I was, for trying to be friendly, for trying to show some people that there is still an upside even when they're in the midst of drama. I'm not sorry for offending certain people, for pissing them off, for 'rubbing salt in their wounds'. I'm not sorry for trying to convince someone that she had it good, that the moderator who gave her a month-suspension was very nice compared to the ones who banned me from that same site for life, for much less than what she wrote in her blog on that site, when she was naming that moderator in public.
I'm not sorry for some other things I've said; only that someone was a blabbermouth and that I had slagged off someone who was innocent and had tried to keep out of the drama as much as she could. Nor am I sorry for my past social gaffs online. I was growing up. Anyone growing up and learning is going to make mistakes. So I'm not sorry.
I regret some - no - lots of things I have done, but they are part of me. If I had done them differently I would've become too soft or too mean today. Everything I've done makes me who and what I am. There's no need to be sorry about it; just to learn from it.
Nowadays, if someone did even half of what certain people did, calling me a 'dog' or what have you, or suddenly walking out on me without any kind of warning that something was wrong or I was upsetting them, I wouldn't have taken it. I would've sent them a hearty 'F--- YOU!' and then forgot about them. Life's too short to fret and whine about stupid crap like that. There are so many other fish in the sea, and many other potential friends on and offline.
And there will always be people who will be offended by what I say or believe in, or my behaviour. I'm starting to stop caring about that, because there is no way to please everyone all the time. Everyone will have something negative to say about something I do, and if I change, they might just say I'm doing it because I believe them or because they're getting to me. I would rather just please myself and a few others who like me for who I am, and don't try to make me change.
I've had it with guilt, with the need for everyone's approval, so the albatross comes off now.
I'm not sorry.
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