Poll time!
You know, there are some authors who never finish their WIPs. And I don't mean that they leave some of them unfinished - I never finished a couple of mines either but I did learn from my mistakes - but all of them. They start a multi-parter and after a couple of chapters, they drop it. And that's why, no matter how great their new idea might sound, I steer away from their fics altogether.
When reading fics, I don't usually use the ?style=mine command to make the other user's LJ look like mine. I mean, the various layouts are a part of the fun too. I use it only when the user's LJ is unreadable to me - I hate dark background with dark text or light background with light text. I have to squint to read it and that makes my eyes hurt.
But what about you?
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When reading fics, I don't usually use the ?style=mine command to make the other user's LJ look like mine. I mean, the various layouts are a part of the fun too. I use it only when the user's LJ is unreadable to me - I hate dark background with dark text or light background with light text. I have to squint to read it and that makes my eyes hurt.
But what about you?
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I still use LJ's Dystopia style, too. I have it set up so that I see that style when I'm reading/replying to comments.
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The other thing I like about using my own style (which is the default for Dystopia, with the blue left margin) is that I can better gauge how long a story will take me to read. Some journals that people have designed have very tiny areas for reading fic. Even short stories look long when they're posted in a tiny box.
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I don't mind colored text or background, what I do mind is for example black bg and dark violet text or white background and light blue text. That's just too hard on the eyes *squints*
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If you go here (http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/), you'll see Horizon, Vertigo and Lynx. They used to have Dystopia as an option, but they removed it.
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I hate reading stories that don't get finished, so I hardly EVER read WIPs.
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http://katikat.livejournal.com/?style=mine
You just simply add ?style=mine to the URL :)
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It's okay to put it anywhere on the URL? I might do it sometimes for those hard-to-read posts. ^____^
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And I am very guilty about the unfinished WiPs but I do plan to finish them if my muses and my free time ever get together.
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