I LOVE THIS DOLL.

Frappzilla posted a picture of her Customhouse Hyun on Rags to Resin [first photo on left], and, even though he has a more unified palette, he's worthy to stand next to Janvier Jett in his eyeball-assaulting glory. It's a thing of beauty. Janvier Jett approves:( Read more... )

Side note about journal maintenance

I've been fucking around behind the scenes for the past few weeks with my journal, mostly with tags. I currently have 464, and I'm trying to make them work effectively for me.

First, I've been consolidating duplicates. For example, I used to have tags for "mattel," "barbie," "kelly" and "monster high." All "barbie" and/or "kelly" and/or "monster high" posts received the "mattel" tag. Therefore, "mattel" was a redundant tag. Besides, I don't identify non-BJD dolls by their company anyway; I identify them by their product line. Thus I removed "mattel" and made sure that all posts about Mattel products were tagged with the product line.

Second, I've been subdividing highly used tags. The tag "feminism," for example, covers a wide range of topics having to do with sex and gender. I'd like to replace it with some tags like "misogyny," "gender presentation," "masculinity," "femininity," etc. Once a tag gets up to 253 uses [the current tally for "feminism"], it's not particularly helpful in finding anything. Eventually, I'd like to subdivide all the high-use tags into more manageable categories and delete the high-use ones.

Third, there are a lot of single-use tags reflecting entries that I don't go hunting for often. For example, the tag "esmie" points to a custom 1:6er I made, photoed and eventually disassembled, while "pierce" points to an idea for a doll that was never executed. There's gotta be a way to keep these entries findable [in case there's a time when I really do give a shit] without cluttering up my tag list with unimportant things.
 

 

Gooooooooooo me!!

After seven years of using online journals, I finally figured out the purpose of the "memories" function [i.e., to make custom lists of related entries]. I've therefore deleted many single tags and turned them into memories in their own categories. By doing this and also consolidating single-use tags [such as those referring to movies I've seen], I've now gotten down to 393 tags. I'd love to get down to 350, even 300, but that will require more labor-intensive work.

Okay, time to hit the hay.

After several hours of consolidating little-used tags, I'm down to 281 [compared to the 477 I had two days ago when I left LiveJournal], though this will surely increase when I subdivide the most-used tags into more specific categories. My eyes are getting blurry, however, so further back-end maintenance will have to wait.