Well, you all know this guy, right:



River Tam and I need someone to pick us up from where we are, and take us to where he is, so we can shut him up for a bit. We have a flawless plan. Please don't ask for details, because you don't want to know.

Would anyone be willing to give us a hand with this very worthy cause?

What do you know? I guess there is a such thing as too good to be true. You should always follow your instincts. Those won't let you down.

It's all a joke, isn't it? The ultimate cosmic joke. The real gift God left behind. Good, evil, right or wrong... it doesn't matter in the end. None of it matters. What you choose will never be what you really need. Why give us the capacity to decide our own actions if it only ends with our own gradual self-destruction?

I've made my choices. And this much is clear-- no one is ever going to lie to me again, and I will have revenge.

You can count on that.



[ooc: I'm canon-jumping Sylar to... right before 3x13. The next time he posts will probably be after 3x13, and then he'll just... hang out in that timespace for awhile.]

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GUYS WE HAVE EIGHTEEN SECRETS. First ten today, eight tomorrow, and no third day, unless y'all want to help out and make some more secrets. You know you do. You know you want to make us happy. Gogogogogogo!

Chocolate chip cookies and ramen, and never.

What about da rest of youse guys and gals on da community, what would youse all personally choose?

A few months ago someone from another world told me about a virus that causes all sorts of horrible things, like rotting flesh and decomposition. Can anyone here tell me more about that?

[OOC: I'm still technically on hiatus (... yeah, I know), so slow tags may be slow after a certain point. ALSO she's referring to some conversation she had with Birkin ages ago that I'm... too lazy to track down and link to. Yeah.]

If anyone is still worried about Minazuki Karen, she's fine.

As for the door, that has to do with my group. All I'll say is that we're all happy with a job well done.

HEY BRITISH PEOPLE. GO TO SLEEP. RIGHT NOW.

Thank you for your time.

I'll delete this when they go to bed, blame them for this spam.

I wish I could have met all of you on very different terms, but sadly my unveiling is on such a sad note.

I am aware that two nights back a man made a video of himself beheading a young woman. It is a deeply disturbing video that I am sorry we were unable to prevent. Sadly, the man has lost his mind and is terrorizing certain people for his own enjoyment and has now turned his attentions to terrorizing this community for added pleasure.

Information regarding this man is highly confidential. But I will guarantee that myself, and others, are taking care of him. I hope that his presence will soon be gone from this community. And I again apologize for the atrocity and would kindly thank others not to antagonize the man.


Now that the dreadful business is taken care, I would like to introduce myself as Empress Augusta Vradica of the New Human Empire. I regret to inform you I will not be able to take an entirely active role in your community, but will primarily be using it for monitoring the demon. But I am glad to see such a wide variety of people coexisting together in this community.

[[ ooc: So this is the Empress, who is using a 'separate', and untraceable, account. Her only icon will be this one too for less showing of Seth and more emphasis on the difference between the two 8) ]]

Unfortunately, I kinda saw this coming. I love playing Ada, but it's just really difficult for me to play her in DDD's case. I think being a secretive spy has something to do with that. 8> Right now, I'm character squatting with her, and you guys deserve more then that, especially the RE cast, because I know you guys are awesome and everything. <3

So while it kills me to do this-

friend remove crimsnbuttrfly

Maybe when I get the urge again, I'll bring her back. :3 Till then, feel free to notice she's not posting anymore/make a comment on it. I'll probably bring her in for fourth-walls or something in the future.

o/ HI BLEACH CAST.

I wonder if... we might use this post as a sort of co-ordination post? To be honest, I feel a bit lost with what everyone's up to and I almost feel like we're a bit fragmented? So I thought it'd be awesome if we might work out what's going on everywhere XD

For Aizen's part, he... basically wants Ggio dead :| and intends to send at least a few Arrancar after everyone else because he think y'all getting complacent. But I want to make this fit in, so. Help me out guys!

So this is what I figure happened: I got really drunk one day and the brat decided to play a practical joke on me. That might be why so many of you idiots (save for your lovely women, it's a pleasure) seem to know me, usually I wouldn't be caught dead with such filthy, disgusting people.

But, you have some very beautiful women; I guess I can grace you all with my presence. My name is Cross Marian, I hope to meet every single one of you (read: men are excluded from this, kids too).

Oh yeah, if you see these morons:

( baby pictures :D )

You never saw me here, got it? Except for Rinali because she's cute and it's unfortunate that she has to have such an overprotective brother.

[ooc; he's faking it 8| the idea is to mimic those guys that have "died" and then returned to the community. also P4 CAST, is it cool to assume that you guys got a new policeman?]

[Have Gin half lounging in his seat, tea and plate of sweets close by, just passing the time~ His hands aren't full visible, but if one could be seen, it might appear to be gently touching the tsuka (hilt) of his zanpakutou. Perhaps even fondly.]

It don' matter none who answers, but m' jus' wond'rin' if any o' ya got a word ya find yerself sayin' o'er an' o'er again. Could go so far as t' ev'n be yer favorite word.

[As he keeps speaking, his smile grows.]

M' jus' awful curious, cause some of ya jus' seem t' go ramblin' on an' on...~ Might as well have somethin' worth sayin', naa.

Now why doesn't anyone want to eat a Christmas cake after Christmas? It's still a perfectly good cake. Don't you all agree, that that's kind of wasteful~?

So... are videos of people tearing off other people's heads the norm for this community, or did I just get extremely unlucky?

Trucy, I'm really not sure you should be on here.

[[CAIN FREAKED HIM OUT LIKE WHOA.]]

Well, I've talked about it for months and months... I think since before Figaro was even born. And I've finally gone and done it.

I took them over to a shelter and we got ourselves a new family member.

( Picture )

Isn't he just perfect?
Now to decide on a name...

It's been a momentous 12 months here at LiveJournal. We crossed a capital T at Ten years young. And, like most precocious pubescents, we celebrated turning double digits by publishing our first book! Needless to say, we've experienced some major changes, both inside and out. Before we recap, we'd like to thank you for bearing with us as we've struggled through ungainly growth spurts, identity pangs, and, yes, the occasional blemish. We hope you'll continue to stand by us: We're gaining wisdom with maturity.

Stuff you liked

• Back in February, we placed a call for entries for our ten-year anniversary anthology in lj_turns10. In December (less than a year later!), we officially announced the publication of Live Journal: The First Decade. Featuring an inspired collection of writing, photographs, and artwork from the pages of LiveJournal history, the book has been selected by Blurb.com as a top staff pick! We are proud to have played host to so much talent over the years, and we thank our contributors for sharing their extraordinary work.
• We all love quirky surprises, but not when it comes to managing our account settings. This year we streamlined settings into one central account management area. No more sifting through FAQs to figure out how to control privacy settings, modify notifications, adjust mobile settings, or update contact information!
• Being users ourselves, we realize our own mothers couldn't find us on LiveJournal based on our usernames and userpics alone (*heaves heavy sigh of relief*). But since there are times when we actually want to be found, we created a search tool--Find Your Friends--to help locate people by email address (it's in the Friends drop-down menu).
• Spam counter-attack: The war against vicious malware and spambots reigns eternal, but we've been making serious inroads to ensure your online security. We've established new protocols, such as requiring email address validations. We've grown more savvy about ferreting out suspicious behavior. We've added features, like whitelisting, to help you protect your communities. Our valiant (i.e., overworked) spam avengers (a/k/a the LiveJournal ops team) are standing on red alert so you can sleep safely at night.
• After an intensive beta, we launched My Guests at the end of the year, which lets you see who's been hanging around your journal. A number of you have even discovered secret admirers (not all of whom are creepy)!
• Last, but by no means least, we want to thank our volunteers for providing invaluable support and feedback. Their Herculean efforts enable us to answer your questions more efficiently, identify spammers, reduce abuse, and deliver better features (through tireless testing). On behalf of the staff and the larger LiveJournal community, we are truly grateful for their diligence, intelligence, loyalty, and passion.

You got your fix

• We recently debugged a number of the oustanding issues with the rich text editor so your entries look great regardless of whether you know html. You can read more about text editors here.
• In response to user demand, we brought back international voice posting. Please note that this still needs more tweaking, and we are working on the one-minute cut-off issue. For more info on voice posting, read here.
• At long last, we revived TxtLJ with Verizon. For more info on TxtLJ, check out the FAQ.

Paid features you enjoyed

• In December, we introduced My Stats, which provides detailed data on who's been viewing your entries as well as statistics on commenting, RSS requests, friending history, and more. Despite a few early glitches, the response has been extremely favorable.
• This year, we launched and improved Notes (i.e., the feature formerly known as Alias), which lets you add private comments on friends and commenters (it's in the Profile drop-down menu). This way you won't be caught red-faced when you strain to remember details about that wonderful LiveJournal friend who sent you a birthday vGift. For more info, read the FAQ.
• When we first announced View friends pages by date, we thought it would be a quiet, minor enhancement. The rave reaction floored us, which made us all very happy. We gave it a fine tuning in February of 2009, so it's even better!
• How embarrassing! It appears pingbacks have gone back to the shop for service. We’ll keep you posted. We didn't know just much you liked pingbacks until it went in for service. It's back and, judging by your irritation when it wasn't available, this is good news. FYI, pingbacks send instant notifications (via screened comments) whenever someone links to one of your entries on LiveJournal. For more info, read this entry in paidmembers or check out the FAQ.

Mixed reviews

• The search is still on. Some of you have reported getting more comprehensive results for keyword searches using the new Yandex search engine and like the ability to search within content categories (like entries or comments). Others have not been satisfied with the relevancy of search results. Please be patient. We're still tweaking this product.
• This past December, we wanted to try out a new holiday promotion. Given the crap economy, we decided to offer our Paid/Permanent users a stack of $10 coupons to send to Basic/Plus users for paid account upgrades. We hoped you would like it. And some of you did, but many were disappointed that we didn't offer Give More as well. We want to thank you so much for letting us know. Your input will help us plan better in the future. Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users can continue to send out coupons through January 15th. Coupons can be redeemed through January 31, 2010.
• We were pretty excited about Your Journal Your Money, which allows Paid/Permanent users to earn extra cash by displaying Google ads to Basic/Plus and logged out users. A number of you tried it. Some of you really like it. Others, not so much. (Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users who do not participate in this program will not view ads on journals. Participants will see ads on their own journal, but won't see them on other journals unless they specifically opt in.) For additional details, visit here.
• We relaunched m.livejournal.com, our mobile app. While it offers a nicer UI and enhanced functionality, some of you think we can do better on load times. Like most of us, it's a work in progress. You can customize your mobile settings here. For more info, please read the FAQ.

Missing Inaction

• We shudder to bring up the neon purple elephant squatting on our heads, but, yes, we didn't give you those a la carte userpics. We've been making radical improvements to our backend in order to support them. But no excuses. We know you want them. We cringe every time you mention them. We're sorry we dropped the ball on this, and we promise to do our best to get them to you in 2010.

Stumbling points

• Back in early August, we experienced outages related to a series of DDoS attacks. We are proud to report that we were down a total of one hour over the course of a few days. We thank our heroic ops guys for getting us up sooner and more consistently than any of our less fortunate social networking friends. We apologize for leaving you temporarily stranded.
• A couple of months back, we offered a free, unrestricted vGift, which induced a snowflake cookie avalanche. This resulted in backed up/delayed notifications, which, in turn, led us to reboot systems, rendering scrapbooks unavailable. It took a while to shovel free. Apologies for the inconvenience. We learned a valuable lesson that should keep us calamity-free in the future (fingers crossed while knocking on wood).
• That darn Best Buy ad. First off, we're sorry about the audio auto-play (we got it turned off as quickly as possible). While it's true that we'll continue to show this type of ad to accounts that normally see them (never to Paid/Permanent accounts), we'll make sure the sound defaults to off moving forward. We promise to do our very best to keep ads to a minimum on LiveJournal, while keeping a roof over Frank's head.

Full steam ahead!

As we plunge headfirst into the next decade, we want to take a moment to look back and thank all of our employees, both past and present, who have worked so hard to create our unique and magical universe. We couldn't have made it this far without you: Your contributions brighten our path everyday. We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you. Whether you've been around for ten days or ten years, your humor, intelligence, talent, and creativity are what makes this the most vibrant global community on the Internet (the best place on the Web, in our humble opinion). Here's hoping that 2010 will be the greatest year yet! We thank you for joining us as we embark upon another glorious decade of LiveJournal history!

Tis a cold and bitter winter here in Walachia this season. There is so much snow, tis near impossible to travel the mountain passes.

How you fair this season in your own worlds?

Since I am on this website, I may as well ask everyone a question.

Tell, me, Jorgen Von Strangle, toughest Fairy in universe, who here has to maintain law and order in each of your worlds. For I am one to maintain order in my own.

And how is it you go maintaining this order?


^{(End result of Christmas Everyday, episode, guess who needed to write another Rule, and magically locked like always from Crocker :))}