魔法少女プリティジューリャ

So, I finally created a Dreamwidth... I didn't make the jump from LJ back in 2010~2011 with everyone else due to life circumstances (which I wasn't blogging about at all at the time either). I withdrew from the world, and I'm only just barely starting to catch up with things now.

I was reading back through my old LJ, and thought to myself: "This Foxgrrl person is really awesome! I wonder whatever happened to her..." (Yeah, I know what happened...)

In other news, I had another biopsy yesterday, and anxiously await the results. I'm not supposed to exercise or lift object for at least a week. I'm not actually feeling any pain at all, and I'm not sure if that's just because it's not above the constant background level of pain that I have.

I should upload some usericons and stuff...

Ok, everyone stop arguing about the word tranny and who gets to apply what labels on whom. I don't want to hear any more. Forget that I said anything.

I'm guessing by Release #46 or something else from lj_releases that there was an undocumented change to the behavior of certain tags. I thought it was with <lj-cut>, but after some experimentation that wasn't it. Anyway, as a consequence of this change, my photo posts are now broken (that is to say, they will appear as empty posts).
Update: It was the <iframe> tag which broke; which LJ never supported anyway, but I relied upon LJ stripping it out for an elaborate hack which makes the outside of an <lj-cut> disappear when you view the inside of the cut. (It's a very clever piece of HTML origami I figured out.)

As an alternative, <div style='text-align: left; font-size:0; line-height:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;'> seems to work. So I've fixed my most recent post. (But not older stuff yet.)

My paid Livejournal account expires tomorrow. The only paid feature that I really ever use is the poll feature.

[Poll #1124055]

Two more questions:

1. Are the following images too big, too small, or just right?
2. Do these two blocks of photos look exactly the same in your friends page style?

In my LJ style, the photos with hyperlinks anchored to them, appear with green borders. But otherwise they are laid out in the same number of columns and rows.

Because expanding the LJ-Cuts changes the style you're viewing this under to my [foxgrrl] default style. Click on this link to view this post in your own style:

http://foxgrrl.livejournal.com/55689.html?style=mine

Update 1:

I tweeked the HTML a bit, now it should look the same, except that the vertical line spacing is a bit different. (I'll deal with that later&hellip) Hopefully now it should wrap — that's the important part.

Update 2:

I found to problem with the borders; It was rather obvious in hindsight. Setting border=0 on the IMG tags did the trick. I'd been trying to set the border with style="border:0" and stuff on the <A> tags.

( Photos without hyperlinks ) ( Photos with hyperlinks )

Since everyone now knows that I'm trans*, there's really no point in locking these posts anymore. So, now you get to see all of the drama you've been missing.

I went to the dermatologist last night, for another round of hair removal. Supposedly, the amount of pain decreases after the first session…
No, it doesn't.
Perhaps it was the lack of sleep, or my cold returning, but my pain tolerance was lower than I had expected. At the end of the session I had noticed that my eyes had been watering quite unexpectedly. I refused to cry in the doctor's office, and I held my composure (mostly) while driving home.

When I got to my room, I sat on the bed with Nyah, and cried and sobbed for an hour or two as she held me. With the exception of dv_girl, no one had ever been there for me when I was crying. [And then I took a shower and fell asleep.]

There is something about those moments, when crying, that are linked together by their own thread. My mind returns clearly to all of the painful memories that I have blocked out during my normal daily life. Every other event in my life that has brought me to tears, that I thought I had forgotten about.