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  <title>Houses of Dreamwidth</title>
  <subtitle>Houses of Dreamwidth</subtitle>
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    <name>Houses of Dreamwidth</name>
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  <updated>2009-05-03T02:23:25Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:227053:265</id>
    <author>
      <name>Katie S</name>
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    <title>You're probably wondering how we decided what the crests for the Houses look like...</title>
    <published>2009-05-03T02:04:16Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-03T02:23:25Z</updated>
    <dw:music>Belle &amp; Sebastian - If You Find Yourself Caught In Love</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>amused</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/144303/227053"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/144304/227053"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/144305/227053"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/144306/227053"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Bit&lt;/strong&gt; has a dragon because bit is also Figment, who is also a dragon in "some thing", according to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;azurelunatic&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Bugsy&lt;/strong&gt; has a ladybird because Bugsy tells us about bugs, and the ladybird is a cute bug that a bugphobic in channel could handle looking at :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of hEll&lt;/strong&gt; has a phoenix because hEll throws things back out at channel members, in a similar way to how phoenixes recreate themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Nagios&lt;/strong&gt; has a kitty because Nagios likes to bug &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://mark.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png' alt='[staff profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://mark.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;mark&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, just like kitties like to bug humans for attention ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit for these ideas goes to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://zarhooie.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://zarhooie.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;zarhooie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Explanation of the characteristics of the members of each House, and how to be sorted, is available on the &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://houses.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://houses.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;houses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; profile page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The colour schemes and shapes were decided on the fly by me (&lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://tajasel.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://tajasel.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;tajasel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) and I don't really have many explanations for them; they just seemed to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=houses&amp;ditemid=265" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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