Three Weeks: layouts

[branchandroot]

I like this one.

Day 8: What is your philosophy on journal layouts?

I have a couple different ones for different purposes.

1) You can have as eye burning a layout as you like, just as long as I am not required to read in it! I will even make layouts in colors I would never, ever use myself, because it's only fair really, but I don't want it inflicted on my retina when I go to read your stuff. This is a big reason I less-than-three Dreamwidth forever. That setting that lets me view all cuts and links in my own style? Brilliant.

2) The geometry of layouts I design will always be fairly simple and have a fair bit of elbow room between components. This is just me, that's what triggers my "yes, that looks good" response, so that's what I create.

3) What I, personally, like includes: black on white reading space! I am really not good with even lightly tinted reading backgrounds or text. This is a text journal, not a photo journal, I want to be able to read walls o' text easily. This does not, however, mean that the frames and backgrounds and sidebars can't be colored, because I actually prefer that; it sets off the text space nicely and makes the whole thing pretty.

If you infer by all this design-thought that I am currently in the middle of a bout of design-madness, you would be right. It's /way/ more fun than grading the stack of papers that's due to land on my desk tonight.

Comments

[annotated_em]

I think Tsuna pretty much has to be in English. It's not like the humanities are a real discipline, amirite? *grins*

And Lambo is their pet undergrad.

Tsuna and Gokudera commiserate a lot and Mukuro applies the stairs method to his grading and Hibari ignores them all because he doesn't have to worry about such nonsense and Ryouhei and Yamamoto are both kind of baffled by the whole thing.

[branchandroot]

This is perfect. Oh yes. And half Chrome's students think she's a sweet pushover and the other half are /terrified/ of her.

[annotated_em]

Well naturally. It couldn't be any other way with Chrome.

The arcobaleno are the faculty; Reborn is Tsuna's advisor and terrifies the everliving life out of him and Timoteo is, I dunno, a dean or something, and basically this would be deeply, deeply carthartic to write.

[branchandroot]

Yes, Timoteo is the dean of the graduate school. And it is possible that Byakuran is the Provost.

[annotated_em]

*howls* OH PERFECT.

Where are the Varia, I wonder?

[branchandroot]

Now that's a good question. *considers* Maybe they're Accounting? Or possibly just junior faculty, and Xanxus is bucking for tenure but hasn't gotten it yet.

[annotated_em]

They're in the Business school! They're MBAs!

Except Lussuria; he's in Theater.

[branchandroot]

Yes! *laughing*

[annotated_em]

And Kyouko's in CompSci and Haru does something incredibly esoteric over in Mathematics, and Dino is junior faculty working on his tenure portfolio in business, and trying really hard not to be distracted by Bianchi, who's junior faculty over in chemistry and just got her tenure, thanks.

[branchandroot]

*vastly entertained* It really all works out, doesn't it?

[annotated_em]

*eyes the foregoing* Quite a lot better than I would have thought, actually. Perhaps this needs to be a series of drabbles?

[branchandroot]

Yeah, that seems like the thing. It's a universe that stuff might happen in. Kind of like Tennis Sanctuary, really.

[annotated_em]

*snickering* Stuff, yeah, that's the ticket.

*eyes the muses* Chrome is already musing on student evaluations and Dino and Bianchi are lobbying for office sex. I think I may be doomed.

[theodosia21]

*sends carrots for the plot bunnies*

Ahaha, you give us the nicest things. *hearts*

[annotated_em]

And they probably all met because they had to serve on the same committee together or something, and Chrome and Mukuro maaaaaay be dating or may just be weird friends, no one quite knows.

[branchandroot]

Surely they were student senators for a year?

[annotated_em]

*cackling* By duress, in some all cases.