(I wanted to call it pathetic fallacy but of course it's not. And I was quite old before I realized the pathetic part wasn't an opprobrious dismissal. '(sneer) What a pathetic fallacy!')
(And shall I mention how I loathe lj's browse function for user pics, which I always click by accident? The little x that should banish it at once doesn't work and I have to select and enter before it goes away. Why don't they give a list of tags instead?)