It began in a small town, as stories often do. It was a quiet place for the most part, a town on the Lachlan River in NSW, Australia. The town was friendly as little towns ever are to strangers, but even so when they saw certain people.. well, they believed their reasoning for not liking them on sight was justified by the odd things that seemed to follow them.

You see, the good folks of Blackridge had the unfortunate delusion that magic, for better or worse, was nothing but fiction. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter-Is-A-God type fiction. So when things that could not be explained away by reason and science occurred, they blissfully ignored it. Because if they ignored it, who was to say it was real? Certainly no one else in the Western World could still believe in those children’s tales, could they?

So yes, they did notice Raina Tibbits when she moved into the old Williamson house just outside of the main area of town, but if you ask them they’ll deny it. Because she’s too strange for them to acknowledge her existence without admitting that perhaps those old stories aren’t as fictitious as they previously thought. And this is where we meet the lady of the hour, Miss Raina Tibbits. Or Ms, if you prefer - she never minded either way. But she’d prefer you just called her Raina.

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This is my new baby, I’d appreciate if you tried it and commented, even if you don’t like it. Also, C-M itself has a new layout and I’m reordering things again. (If you comment on Moondust, please actually comment on that site, it’d be appreciated, also. Tell your friends!

Things are getting moved around and such, so broken links may abound until I’m done, but hang in there. I seem to do this at least once a year anyway.  The art and stuff has been moved to a coppermine gallery so you can actually comment and stuff, some of the animated things thumbs look weird, but I assure you the normal image works dandy. Ignore the layout. Working on it, among other things.

I was thinking I might make the headers on the main site rotate though.. *ponders*

Oh and theres like, a ton of new avatars. Go! Look!

So, tada! Nice, clean site thanks to Ardamis.com.

As to what’s new, well for now I’m uploading the new icons, I’ve got some ideas about how I’m going to fix up the blends sections and such, I want them too look better. I think I’ll install lightbox again since I’ve learnt how to wrangle with it a bit better now.

Also, how about a little life update for those who don’t follow my blogs.

I’ve been doing various things over the last few months, notably a heck of a lot of RPing and research on some things. Marauders Life restarted just the other week and we’ve been at it. I love ML, though admittedly this is the third time we’ve restarted, and Sammy and I kind of managed to get Bellatrix and Rodolphus kicked out of Hogwarts within an all time record of three school days approximately. So much for going slow.

Those I get the distinct feeling some of the chaos was induced by the fact Sammy and I were finally talking on microphones and were plotting - therefore Krista and Jamie had no idea what so ever we were up to until it happened. It just so happened we blew up a few students and castle parts. Namely the great hall.

But a lot has been going on over there, it’s quite fun, actually.

I’ve also been keeping track of the dreaded Strikethrough 07. That wasn’t the most pleasant situation I’ve ever been unfortunate enough to watch, especially with company representatives openly mocking it’s user base. As a person who enjoyed livejournal enough to pay for an account since two months after I joined, I was utterly appalled, though I admit not too shocked as this was some time in from the beginning of the pissing contest. It is needless to say that I have moved, and may possibly just blog here, if I find any other sites lacking. Though I am quite enjoying greatest journal (which I was already a member of for ages anyways) and insane journal, though neither is exactly what I loved about LJ, and that makes me lonesome some, but you can’t win them all.

In other news my mother need to grow up. And she knows where this is, so:

MUM IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS UTTERLY IMMATURE TO REFUSE TO GO TO CHRISTMAS DINNER MERELY BECAUSE YOU DO NOT LIKE YOUR UNCLES WIFE. JONE IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO BE THE ONLY PERSON THERE AND FRANKLY I’M A WITCH, I DON’T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS ANYMORE PERSONALLY, AND I’M GOING WITHOUT COMPLAINING. PLEASE JUST GROW UP.

That said she’ll probably only notice this next July.

Uh yeah, it’s late. I need to go. I’ll finish with some more stuff soon, I promise. And also? Sometimes I upload without adding it here. it’s bad of me and I’m sorry.

P.S. Theres like 60 new Harry Potter Icons or so.

There are 37 Van Helsing icons that I’ve added and there might be more icons later, I’m working on a batch of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron ones, I hope everyone had a good holiday and has a Happy New Year

I’ll try to be around more, sorry about that.

Oh and it’s named ‘Everybody Else’s Girl’ and the lyric at the bottom ‘She’s been everybody ese’s girl, maybe someday she’ll be her own’ is from the Tori Amos song ‘Girl’ off her ‘Little Earthquakes’ Album.

Vundi would like to say the following for which I have no responsibility:
Me: I just made my site a layout
Vundi: THAT’S A GOOD WAY OF BEING DISTRACTING. LEMME SEE IT
Me: http://crowned-meadow.net/
Vundi: Hot.
Me: hehe
Vundi:
Me: Muhaha, I love my site.
Vundi: It’s SEXY and COOL and DISTRACTING.
Vundi: Y’know maybe it’s just me, but your site is very white.

ETA: Two posts in one night … wow…

ETA 2: This layout looks a bit funky in firefox, so viewing it in IE or Opera is reconmended. (preferably the latter )

Oh and sidebar is still hating me, kthnx. I have an new theme in the works.

Love you, Steph.

EDIT: Hmn, I forgot how much I adore pluggins ^^; Also, to tired to code layout tonight o.0

Going to bed, I think.. after I play with plugins, anyways. Ah I love yahoo smilies (you need javascript turned on to see them, I think.)

EDIT: Guh. Deleted post. *kicks wp*