We switched to a different accessibility plugin for you. Please note the icon in the top left corner. If you need help reading our site, it contain’s a number of options.
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Also, those of you who have found the thing, please don’t tell other people about the thing, because we are still nailing the layout down. The rest of you, please don’t look for the thing.
lol
Don’t touch the red button
Groooot……
Exactly don’t eat that AMAZING fresh baked cookie!
LoL
Since my e-mail program requires me to forward them to myself on some sites, the change is extremely welcome. Thanks for the change and keep up the good work.
“The rest of you, please don’t look for the thing.”
Is this your first time meeting humans?????
I said please.
If the, “please” works at reinforcing our willpower, would you mind asking me to, “please lose weight”?????
Ditto!! ????
+1
+1 please don’t eat the Christmas Cake.
Bwhahaaa!
+1
Can you give a small hint?
And I for one am going to patiently wait for the thing to be announced even though I am going “Squee” in my head 🙂 … and its because you said please!!
OK now you know we are all going to look.
It’s like searching for presents. ????
Sure, that works. It works for me, anyway, because I’ve got chores to do and a good book for afterwards. Good luck with the rest of the population.
+1. Ditto from Titan and I. Grin. Have a great weekend.
+1
+1! ( just died laughing here )
+1
Me too!!!
Yes, exactly!
Awesome response
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Fastest way to make us wonder what “the thing” is and where we may find it: Asking us NOT to look for it… Because I’ve got no time to spare, otherwise my curiosity might have induced me to investigate more 😆 with or without “please” involved. (I would have felt guilty for ignoring the please, and I wouldn’t have shared my findings… but I would have looked) Anyways, I really can’t so I’ll wait patiently 🙂
You have given us a new unfinished toy… to play or not to play. Interesting thing to ponder on a lazy Saturday.
Immediately looks for the thing
+1
+1
But all stealthy like so I don’t get caught.
does it count if we look for the thing, but don’t touch it?
@Random you have more willpower than I.
Look but do not touch is nearly in the same category as “only one last chapter”.
@Random
You have more willpower than I.
Look but do not touch is in the same category with “only one more chapter”
you have more willpower than I.
Look but do not touch is in the same category as “only one more chapter”.
I’d count this as the white hat hacker approach.
(Maybe even “Or don’t touch it in an obvious or destructive way?” Possibly “Don’t touch it unless it’s really funny?” Standards are ill defined. I went into research.)
Don’t look for the thing. Don’t look for the thing. Don’t look for the thing.
I wanna look for the thing!!!!!!!!!!! Wahhhh
Sorry – what has been seen cannot be unseen.
But I will not touch.
No! No touch! Bad!
Will you let us know when you are through tweaking, please?
If you hadn’t said anything, the vast majority of us would have ignored the “thing” and never bothered it. Now we all want to know aaaall about it.
Yes, ma’am. Not touching…
The THING. Sounds like a classic horror movie. There was The Thing (1951, 1982 & 2011), The Thing from Another World (1951) and Zontar the Thing from Venus (1966)
But I won’t go searching for your Thing 🙂
Don’t forget the Adam’s family thing.
Okay, will not touch. Need to do Christmas stuff anyway. Good luck on the install.
You bring joy to my life. <3 Thank you!
+1
Found the thing – I needs to touch my pretty…… ????
Not looking for the Thing, but definitely pouting about it.
Ok, I will not look for the “thing”. However, you do know that the Horde may look for the thing we’re not suppose to look for. 😉
I think I’ll look for good movies to watch so I don’t have to look for the thing on here. 🙂
Lol. My interest is peeked about the thing but I won’t look for it! Too busy with a daredevil toddler anyways. I’m sneaking a moment with my phone while he is distracted with something. Good luck getting everything how you want it!
Now I really want to look for The Thing …
The readable font is great!
The Thing sounds like something that Dina would fuss over obtaining for a special guest at Gertrude Hunt.
I am suddenly obssessed with the concept of The Thing…and suddenly remembering Raphael’s gift to Andrea. Is THAT the Thing???
I noticed that in my phone, I have to set the options again when I go to another page, although it seems to remember them when I return to a page. Would it be easier for users if the website assumed the options should be applied to all the pages?
I don’t need any of them. I just like to test things.
Me playing with the new toy.
Weeee!!
I didn’t touch it!! But, but…..sigh…House Andrews says no touch…..sigh….I will go make more Christmas candy instead.
I’m reading this on a smartphone… the “thing that shall not be seen” is basically doing a booty dance in a fifth of my screen, lol. Sorry… I swear I didn’t look for it! It glomped me I swear! Lololololol!
I can see the Thing and am happy to report that the Thing works great on my tablet. Nifty upgrade.
Ohhhhh that’s just deep seated conflict. If it were anybody other than y’all asking please I would snort and go hunting but it’s you…. and ughhhhhhh. I wanna so bad. And I can’t. Or shouldn’t. Or whatever. I’m going to go distract myself w something shiny. Must. Not. Hunt.
I just want to say that everything you do is so beautiful, pretty and magical! You make me smile with the smallest of things. Have a great weekend, and hollydays and don’t work too hard and be blessed!
Ohhh! The thing! The thing! My favorite thing! You are the best!!!
Found the thing. All parts worked just right. Congrats! Thanks for continuing to try to make things better for us!
Thank you.
Ok, I went looking, I found it. I only did it to test the accessibility button. Really, uh huh, yup, I’m sticking to my story. Everything worked.
I am content with snippets and books. Thanks for those! No “things” needed. Merry Christmas!
ThAANK YOU. you aslways looking out for your readers. 🙂
What thing? ! 😉
L❤️VE the thing and it works great!
So where the website asks me “what are you looking for?” I can’t put “the Thing!”? Lol
but…but… okay, I won’t look for “The Thing”. However much I NEED to now. *pouts*
What’s the plugin called? My workplace sites could use it!
Thank you for an impromptu thing search. It was both cheering and distracting.
(…which I needed. I just found out that my baby brother* died very unexpectedly.
* Yes, the hate vlogger who had made threats against me and accused our older half sister of murdering our father** earlier this year. It’s complicated. We were really close when we were younger. I mean, eesh, he was 37.
** I suppose you could make this stuff up, but who would want to?)
I am so sorry to hear about your brother. We always wish things could have been better or at least could have more time to change things. Family drama happens …in every family.
Thank you.
This served as impetus for me to do what I’d been thinking about since both our fathers died in the last year, and reach out to the surviving cousin who also went to the same go to college out of middle school program I did. We had a really lovely conversation, and will be staying in touch, and I might be visiting with his younger brother if I make it to Portugal this summer. So, earlier episodes of family drama get to fade, anyway. (They were told not to speak to me after I took my father to court… though when we were all in the same city, we did stay in touch.)
My condolences on the loss of your brother. Hugs.
Thank you.
I’m sorry for your loss, even though complicated it is still hard, my thoughts are with you and the rest of your family.
Thank you. I am grateful once again for the incredible kith network… and really, for many of our blood in our generation as well. (Just contacted a dear friend, who promised to stand next to my sister and look imposing, so if she wants to wear black and interact with absolutely no one – as is the right of a first degree relative at a funeral, damn it – she can.* Heck, we can get her an honor guard if that’s what she wants.
…they’re a lot closer in age and there was a bunch of stuff they went through together after I left when I was fifteen. It’s hitting her pretty hard. She’s also just a much nicer person than I am, and it’s her first sibling death, while it’s my third. Gods, my family.)
* There’s a history of our mother going on extended tirades and blaming my sister for random things. I mean, a) not with a non-family audience and b) it’s not like I haven’t been the heavy before, but it’s not stress she needs.
I am so sorry. We tend to remember the baby brother part, not the hate vlogger part, when something like this happens. Please take care of yourself.
I wish I had access to more of his art from his elementary years and adolescence. He did a stop motion movie on the life of Mohammed when he was maybe twelve that was pretty amazing. (Including some troll figures filling out the armies in some pretty epic battle scenes, and visitation scenes that were pretty horror inspired…) He drew a bunch of books in elementary school that were pretty darkly hilarious.
(I was less taken by his later music, but his childhood best friend, who managed to remain on good terms with him until just a few years ago, loves it and can represent.) I just dropped him a note about maybe us putting together some kind of a wake.
So sorry, tylikcat! Hope the best for you and your family.
Thank you. I was venting here probably more than I should, while we were trying to reach the people who needed to be told before any kind of announcement was made. Now things are coming together, which is mostly good, though it’s super fun explaining to my mother that my sister and I put our feet down on inviting actual fascists to the memorial service…
It’s so incredibly hard to ignore.
Thanks for the accessibility tool. There are some things there that are helpful. I wish other web sites had them.
Accessibility tools are working quite well for me in Safari on my iPad, and are very much appreciated.
I can’t verify the effectiveness of the accessibility tool, but cool that it’s there.
My family has a long tradition of snooping during December to try and figure out what our gifts will be. Most of the fun is in trying to get caught but making it seem like you were trying not to get caught. Like, you have to wait until Mom ISN’T in the room before you shake the wrapped gifts under the tree, but then you have to make JUST enough noise to tip her off so she comes back in and indignantly chases you away from the tree.
…in other words, I found the Thing.
I can see the thing. Am guilty of a twitching finger, because it’s soooo tempting, but did NOT touch the thing! ????
As somebody else said so eloquently above ..” you bring joy to my life ” ????
I love the fact that the new accessibility tool has enough options for you to find one that fits your part needs. Only last week I snarled at (and then apologised to) one of our developers that “the website might be WCACG co pliant but my vision problems aren’t!
Of course I meant ‘particular needs’. Autocomplete sucks a lot of the time.
Veni, vidi, vici – I’m here, I see it, ???? and because you said, “Please,” I’m resisting it…so far. ????
Neurodiversity is swell. How very cool to have so many accessibility options. I played with them, and some made my brain hurt, but if it makes the site better for another person, cool! I ended up resetting it all & it made it all better for my brain. Cool thing to mess with!
Thank you, Ilona Andrews.
Setting aside “the thing” I really like the new icon and the options. Thank you!
Ok, now I didn’t know there was a thing, but since you’ve mentioned it, I really want to know what the thing is. OMG it’s killing me not knowing.
What thing????
Thing is, some things make us soooo curious, we want to do something about it. Is there anything to be done? No, to honor your wishes, I promise not to do a thing.
THE THING??!!!!!!????
(Head explodes)
Ilona has mastered the art of subtle trolling. And reverse psychology.
Long day at work then caught up on the blog…OMG!!! You guys are too funny!!!