Blogger what is this...?

I log in to make a new post about idk yet and BLOGGER HAS CHANGED ITS LAYOUT.
This is foreign to me.
I don't take change very well.
At least it's pretty, but it's so weeeeird.

I guess this post will be about what I think of Blogger's new user interface.

Upon opening the 'posts' page (or at least that's what I think it is...), I came face-to-face with a familar layout.

The format looks just like the format of the new Google Mail. (Lol oops I accidentally wrote Google Male there. What is going on.) I guess this is what happens since Google owns Blogger?

I think it's a bit plain but the simplicity is nice. Then again, I am used to Gmail since it's my email provider of choice, so navigating this might be easier for someone like me compared to someone who normally uses maybe Yahoo Mail or something? :'D

The homepage is excruciatingly simple.

There isn't as much... clutter as before? I don't want to call it clutter since most of the features on the old homepage were pretty necessary, but this one is waaaaay cleaner. I can't say whether I like it better or not. It's alright. It is pretty sleek but...

Lacking so much color. Nooooo. Be colorful. Please. I don't like it so boring-like! But then again, I guess when you choose specific colors, you can't really please everybody.

The posting page itself is probably what I like the best about it?

Now this I like, yeah. Clean and simple, so you can concentrate on what you're writing/thinking/typing instead of having any sort of distractions. Then again, it also looks more like a microsoft word doc, which may give one the implication of writing some sort of essay, which in turn may hinder the creative free write-whatever-you-want thought process. Not me, though, since I am used to writing blog posts... anywhere. (I used to write them in Notepad when I didn't have internet, to write my thoughts down and save them for later publishing.)

in short:


homepage
aesthetics: 5/10
functionality: 7/10

I'm the type of person who doesn't like useless links on webpages, so the fact that Blogger reduced it to everything except what most need (post, reading, settings), is nice.

overview (posts, settings, stats, etc.)
aesthetics: 7/10
functionality: 9/10

Again, I'm used to this sort of layout since I'm a gmail user, so navigating is not hard at all for me lol. Even so, I think access to everything is pretty awesomely easy.

posting page
aesthetics: 8/10
functionality: 10/10

Simple and cleaaaaaaaan is the way that you're making me feeeeel tonight, it's hard to let go--
[ no but seriously if you get the reference under the strike through, hit me up so I can geek with you. ]

conclusion: 
Pretty good update, blogger. While normally I hate interface updates (HI YOUTUBE), this one is pretty decent. I don't hate it, but I don't love it. But I don't dislike it.

Also I would like it more if there was more color, but I guess not.

P.S.
If you don't like the new interface, there's currently the option to change back to the old one:

Korra!

Legend of Korra is amazing.
For those who don't know, it's a somewhat continuation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
For those who don't know what that is, then nevermind. Don't read this. You likely won't understand it. D;


A water tribe girl named Korra is the new avatar!
And etc. Not gonna bother summarizing because if you're still reading this you should know what I'm talking about!


I say somewhat continuation because it's not the lives of our original gang. It's 70 years later, like 2 generations after. Aang's son Tenzin already has kiddies of his own! Jinora (eldest), Ikki (second girl), and Meelo (son). Jinora's my favorite of the three. I like mellow characters. ~ Though Meelo is a hoot.

From left to right: Jinora, Ikki, Meelo (the... kid biting his dad's head), Tenzin, Pama

The hour episode thing premiered this morning~! I've already seen it online though, since the creators put it up. But I watched it again because I wanted it ~HD~. It was as great as it was the first time, though I think I was gonna cry when *SPOILERS* Korra finally mastered ~being the leaf~ during the probending match. XD;

Amon and his henchies scare me, but they're supposed to. They are the bad guys after all. Though, I sense a more serious stuff with them. Like in ATLA, the bad guys were the firenation, and they weren't all that scary. They were just intimidating and fierce and such. But in LOK, the anti-bending guys seem......... really seriously scary. o__o; Hopefully younger viewers won't be scared. Derp. I might be. HRGH.

MAKO AND BOLIIIIN are great. I love them already. Amazing bending bros. Mako is my favorite because again, mellow characters, but Bolin is such a cutie!

Bolin, she can totally see/hear you, you know. Whispering ain't gonna change a thing.

MAKO APPRECIATION

Why am I always so drawn to firebenders when fire terrifies me?!

I am really hoping for some history on what happened with our original gang, though. I love them all too much to be forever wondering.

MORE SPOILERS --
Katara obviously married Aang and they had 3 kids. Eldest (Kya) is a waterbender, youngest is an airbender (Tenzin). The middle child (Bumi) apparently is a nonbender, but I always thought he was a waterbender too. So far, Tenzin is the only one of Aang/Katara's children to have shown up in the series. He is quite a prominent character too as he has to be Korra's airbending master.

Sokka is gone, as Katara says in episode 1. :( Sads everywhere. Katara also says "many" of her friends are gone, not all, which gives some hope that we may see others from the first series.

Suki was Sokka's lady. I wonder if they had a bunch of kids. Seems like the type of couple that would. XD For some reason, I have this feeling if anyone else is alive, it'll be Suki? I don't know why. It's just my feeling lol.

The great and mighty Toph has a confirmed daughter, Lin Bei Fong, who is head of the police force in Republic City. There is a statue of Toph there. Whether or not Toph is gone as well is unknown. (But seriously, she was the YOUNGEST. It makes the most sense for her to be alive!)

Also my sister thinks Lin Bei Fong also looks like Jet, so we're like lol THAT'S WEIRD. But if I recall, Jet died in the Earth book I think. So no possible father for Lin yet. It's not like Katara would let Jet near Toph anyway. XD

Azula's fate is unknown?? Was she imprisoned or what. I don't remember.

Zuko was firelord obvs, with Mai as his lady. Whether they had kids or not is still unknown. Mai seems sorta like the type who wouldn't want kids.

Ty Lee joined the Kyoshi Warriors in the Earth Kingdom... I want to know what happened to her the most, since she is/was my favorite character from ATLA! ;3; Especially in new Korra clips, some of the anti-benders are shown using Ty Lee's chi-blocking-bending-disabling style. Except of course, Ty Lee did it better & faster. She could disable bending in like 1 hit, and these anti-benders look like they're taking a couple hits to do it.

We'll see.

ALSO I AM. TOTALLY BUMMED KORRA EPISODES COME OUT ON SATURDAY MORNINGS, MAN.

THAT'S WHEN I GO TO CHURCH MOST DAYS.

LIFE'S NOT FAIR. :(

I have a headache now aghghhhh goodbye---------

P.S. For anyone interested, you can see a bunch of clips and extras here: http://korranation.tumblr.com/