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LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
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Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

FIC:

sea_schtick wrote Testing for siriusbinger
Remus is stuck on an essay. Sirius is stuck in slow motion. (Rated G)

planetgal471 wrote Early Morning Cold for yndigot
The heat's out in their first muggle flat. (Rated PG)

Rating: PG
Characters: R/S
Medium: Pencils
A/N: Well, this was drawn a few days ago for the beginning of rs_small_gifts! And it kind of fits with dogsunderfoot's fic, with the whole Sirius-is-so-Christmassy thing. Yesss. Okay. I expect you're all over at rs_small_gifts anyway but if you're not, go there! :o



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{1-12} Emma Watson
{13-24} Harry Potter 6
{25-35} Stock
{36-45} Lily Allen

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Strength in Weakness [HP]
Sirius Black/Remus Lupin; PG-15; 331 words
Remus is only as courageous as Sirius is lucky.

Telling On Us [HP]
Sirius Black/Remus Lupin; G; 122 words
Remus wants to come out, now he just needs to convince Sirius it will be ok.

Believe In Love [HP]
Sirius Black/Remus Lupin; PG; 380 words
When Remus keeps losing, what is left to believe in?

Hey you guys! *waves*
Just a little Draco/Hermione inspired manipulation I made out of boredom. ^_^

It's basically the same manip...but done in 2 ways. A wallpaper and a magazine cover.



( <~~~~Dramione Goodness Through Here~~~~> )

Hey everybody!

For Christmas gifts this year my bestie and I are doing fics. She has requested her pairing be Hermione/Tonks. Problem is, I've never even read a Hr/T fic and have no idea what their dynamic is. I mean alright, I can glean a few things from canon, but when it comes to passable plot and smut between these two lovely ladies, I'm at a loss. Does anybody have any fic suggestions?

Thanks!

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,