Hello, after more than a year. And very probably goodbye. Or close to goodbye.
Those of you on my f'list, or who otherwise know me and who still check in to LJ, know that I haven't been here since June of 2022, when I got tired of having to manually repost what I originally wrote over on Dreamwidth. At that point, the cosmically petty stupidity of LJ's attitude toward crossposting was too much for me to bother with.
About 8 days ago, LJ alerted me to the fact that my professional package account was set to expire within days; I'd go back to a free account at that point, it helpfully warned.
And there it was, the thing that I've been going back and forth on for the past couple of years. Do I even want to have a free account here?
Well, yeah, probably, if only because I'd like to keep an eye on a community that I once co-administered. (It had to do with TWoP and Dr. Who recaps ... it was long ago, and the wench is dead, but it's a bit of personal history I don't want to completely abandon.)
But I won't be posting* here anymore, and I wanted to let you - the few of you who aren't already on Dreamwidth and on my f'list there, and more importantly, the few of you who might care in the least about my posts - know.
I know at least one person I like who stays on LJ for very good reasons based on ties with the Motherland. I know another person who's always been here and hasn't, as far as I know, been over on Dreamwidth at all.
I'm going to make a very arrogant request, one you can feel free to ignore. You can also tell me to fuck right off, but here it is: if you'd like to check in on me, why not get a free Dreamwidth account? That way, you can see whatever folderol I might be putting out there, whether it's fic, political tirades, personal thoughts, whatever might interest you. And I'd love to see you over there.
I'll probably repost this over the next three days, to ensure that anyone who might have interest in what I'm saying here has a better chance of seeing it.
So, yes ... up to y'all, but I won't be posting* here anymore.
*I may check in on other peoples' posts here, but I have to be honest; I haven't done that in the past year, and I probably won't be very apt to do it in future. And with that, I've shown myself to be a bad online friend, who shouldn't be surprised if other people figure I deserve the same treatment. Sigh.
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How to Use Google Drive as a 3rd Party Image Hosting Platform
So back when the horrid surprise of Photobucket’s greedapalooza was still fresh, a lot of people were looking for third party hosting alternatives. Someone out there had a really helpful list of potentials, but for various reasons, none of them suited me. I wondered whether I could make use of Google Photos as a third party platform.
As it happened, I couldn’t. Google had very recently ended its image hosting capabilities — unfortunate timing, that — but I did some poking about and found that there’s a work-around that lets you still use Google Drive as a third party platform. At least one person (hi, azriona!) was interested, so this is my attempt to tell people how to use this process.
I’m including a link to the YouTube video that taught me how to do this, which you might prefer to following my step-by-step. Here 'tis: https://youtu.be/zhwYRPImH9E.
( PreliminariesCollapse ) So you have your Google account and you’re ready to start.
Choose an image to upload, possibly from your own newly-created “Fuck Photobucket” file on your hard drive. Upload it to Google Drive. If you’re using Chrome, you’ll do it thusly (and if you’re using Firefox, Safari, or whatever, it will probably be fairly similar.) Click on Google Drive. Once you’re in drive, click on New, which is near the top left. You should get a drop down menu that includes “File Upload.” Hit it, and pretty soon your picture will appear in your drive. I put all my uploaded pics in one Drive folder for ease of access, along with my Permalinks record, so everything’s in the same place.
Now you want to adjust the picture’s “share” settings, so that it’s “Public on the Web.” How to do that? Your trusty right click button. Don’t open the picture; just right click on the thumbnail/description in the Drive list. When you do, you’ll see a bunch of options.
Open the “Share” option. A window should open up. Pay attention only to “Advanced.” Click “Advanced.”
You’ll get a different window. Look for “Who Has Access.” It will probably be set at “Private — Only You Can Access.” You’ll want to change that, so hit “Change.”
You’ll get three options. The one you want is “On — Public on the Web.” Make sure that button is the one you hit, then hit “Save.”
You’ll then have a “Link to Share.” Copy that sucker, and head on over to gdurl.com.
The very first thing you’ll see once you go to that site is a spot that says “Paste a Public Google Drive URL etc.” Put your URL there, and hit “Create Permalink.” Go down a little farther on the page, and there, under “Standard URL” you will have your shiny new permalink. Copy that permalink, along with a description of what the pic/image is, to whatever document you’ll be using to keep the information.
Voila! You now have the code you need to embed your photo wherever you want to embed it! (If we’re talking LJ or Dreamwidth, you’ll have be able to insert it via the "insert/edit image" or "insert photo" icons. I do it in the rich text format.) And, because you’ve saved the permalink and a description in a file somewhere, you can use the same code again and again!
EDIT as of 22 April, 2019: It appears as if gdurl.com no longer provides the http://gdurl.com/ section of the code when it creates your permalink. Don't despair. Take the admittedly confusing very short piece of code you get when you hit "create permalink" - it'll be something like RbKx - and simply put in the http://gdurl.com/ in front. I'm not sure why gdurl is only providing the latter half of the URL,, nor can I guess whether this change will disappear and things will go back to what they were, but this is how to deal with it
( After the fact stuffCollapse ) So there you have my extremely wordy how-to. I hope it might be of help to someone.
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Most links to my multi-chapter stories will be to their Dreamwidth posts; links to stories prior to 2012 may go both to LJ and DW. Each multi-chapter Whoniverse story is also available at my Teaspoon and AO3 accounts.
This entry was originally posted at https://kaffyr.dreamwidth.org/3753…, where there are currently comments. You can comment there or here, but prefer to read over on DW. You can comment there using open ID if you don't have a DW account.
This year I decided I'd take part in snowflake_challenge, in part because I want to keep active in fandom, tell people how much I value them and, (probably more than) occasionally, talk about who I am and why I do what I do.
The first challenge asked me to introduce myself to people. So here goes, but I've put it under a cut because it goes on and on and on.
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Current Location:the home office
Current Music:Jackson Brown "That Girl Could Sing"
Hello, after more than a year. And very probably goodbye. Or close to goodbye.
Those of you on my f'list, or who otherwise know me and who still check in to LJ, know that I haven't been here since June of 2022, when I got tired of having to manually repost what I originally wrote over on Dreamwidth. At that point, the cosmically petty stupidity of LJ's attitude toward crossposting was too much for me to bother with.
A while back, LJ alerted me to the fact that my professional package account was set to expire within days; I'd go back to a free account at that point, it helpfully warned.
And there it was, the thing that I've been going back and forth on for the past couple of years. Do I even want to have a free account here?
Well, yeah, probably, if only because I'd like to keep an eye on a community that I once co-administered. (It had to do with TWoP and Dr. Who recaps ... it was long ago, and the wench is dead, but it's a bit of personal history I don't want to completely abandon.)
But I won't be posting* here anymore, and I wanted to let you - the few of you who aren't already on Dreamwidth and on my f'list there, and more importantly, the few of you who might care in the least about my posts - know.
I know at least one person I like who stays on LJ for very good reasons based on ties with the Motherland. I know another person who's always been here and hasn't, as far as I know, been over on Dreamwidth at all.
I'm going to make a very arrogant request, one you can feel free to ignore. You can also tell me to fuck right off, but here it is: if you'd like to check in on me, why not get a free Dreamwidth account? That way, you can see whatever folderol I might be putting out there, whether it's fic, political tirades, personal thoughts, whatever might interest you. And I'd love to see you over there.
I'll probably repost this over the next three days, to ensure that anyone who might have interest in what I'm saying here has a better chance of seeing it.
So, yes ... up to y'all, but I won't be posting* here anymore.
*I may check in on other peoples' posts here, but I have to be honest; I haven't done that in the past year, and I probably won't be very apt to do it in future. And with that, I've shown myself to be a bad online friend, who shouldn't be surprised if other people figure I deserve the same treatment. Sigh.
Finally, returning to better things than adulthood: I'm on my fifth, yes fifth, Arcane AU fic. I still can't get it out of my system. I'm also very close to finishing the novel (yes, I know I say that a lot, but at this point, we're close to the execution of one villain by our two protagonists, and the subsequent upending of their world's economic and political order. Sort of. I'm writing both at the same time, bouncing from one to the other. And I need to finish my 8,000-word-thus-far 13th Doctor massive crossover fic. Oh, and the original short story ...
Huh. A lot of writing to do. Also, editing the young gentleman's fic is still on the table.
There. Now you're caught up!
Wait, I successfully made cabbage rolls tonight, and I'm still making our bread, with varying degrees of success. So there's that as well.
My mother would have been 95 years old today. Although I miss her, I'm glad that, given the cognitive state she was in at the last, she didn't make it to this year. It would have been her body's birthday, but she would long since have left. Today, I choose to believe she's enjoying a bit of birthday cake with two of her best friends, Clara and Marion. Clara Jefferson's birthday was May 31, so these school chums will have at least a couple of birthdays to celebrate.
Happy Birthday, Mum. I was blessed to have you; so were many others. As much as I miss you, I'll say what I did at your funeral, back in 2013; you're out of pain, back in charge, and I'll see you when I get there.
On the other hand, I finished my fourth Arcane story, set in my fixit AU. I've done something almost 16,000 words in this alternate timeline. I suppose I ought to name the series something. Until I can find a name that isn't too horridly portentous, I'll resist the urge.
I also got some done on my original novel. So there's that.
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