being the change i wish to see

[geddyqueer]

Every time something irritating or devastating happens to tumblr's architecture we all remind ourselves that dreamwidth exists and then make some moves to relocate here. And every time this happens I look at my empty dreamwidth reading page and say ohhhh I wish people actually blogged on here. Well, I remembered last night that I am people and I can blog on here, so here I am, blogging!

Almost twenty years ago (hurk) myspace started feeling passe, so I moved myself over to livejournal. I then had to make the switch from myspace-style status update type blogging to longform diary style entries. The greatest benefit tumblr has over any other space (besides the feeling of privacy that you get when you hang out on a platform that time and money forgot) is that you can knock out rapid-fire micro-blog posts and not feel like a dick for clogging up someone else's feed. That's just what tumblr is -- it's the feed-clogging site. It's a site where you get your feed clogged. Dreamwidth doesn't seem to have that energy (yet, at least). But I'm adaptable! I adapted to a new career this past year. I adapted to living in the high-altitude desert I find myself in. I adapted to Grundo's Cafe, the fan-built neopets mirror that ZZ turned me on to a few weeks ago. So maybe I'll find myself adapting to this, as well.

fandom stuff:

well, let's make a little fandom corner, shall we? here's my WIP list this spring:

• "Plato's allegory of the cave", also known as the fulcrum fic, a buck/tommy future fic set in my friend screamlet's ship of theseus universe. 
• "Field study of the stratigraphy of the Pasadena geologist", which my first Fandom Trumps Hate winner plucked out of my grab bag of ideas and wips; this is the buck/tommy geology professor AU.
• as yet untitled fic for RC, who was my second FTH winner. it'll be a buck/tommy fix-it.

what are you guys working on? will you all start blogging, too? 

Comments

[queermccoy]

does buck lick rocks in the geology au? i remember exactly two things from my college geology class: one is that things flood when they’re flat and it rains (obvious but more exciting with diagrams) and that sometimes you have to lick the rocks

[geddyqueer]

yes he does. it's kaolinite which is the mineral that is best identified by licking; don't do that though. sometimes in my mineralogy tests my professor would have to put Do Not Lick stickers on the samples, for things that were radioactive or poisonous...

[sleepnoises]

I would like to know about what's up with your Neopets on this big old world wide web of ours! I have been playing a lot of Destruct-o-Match.

[geddyqueer]

BasicMetabolicPanel is "delighted!" i am happy to report. We were training it on the drums and the trumpet for a while but it was too overeager in its practice and broke both instruments. I too have been destruct-o-matching! what a great game. I'm a little sad that sutek's tomb doesn't have the banger soundtrack that it did on neopets original flavor but that's fine, i can make it up in my head.

[sleepnoises]

Classic neopets experience of making it up in your head!!

[griefabyss]

I literally forgot I had one of these! I think people are also thinking about pillowfort, which I had one of a million years ago (I should try logging back into that sometime...)

What's Grundo's Cafe?

Also PLEASE feed clog. People forget about this place because everyone's too hesitant to run with the wind in their hair and so it feels boring and too formal/unsure. It's like buying a new planner and never using it.

I don't know how much I'll stick around here (depends on what happens with tumblr and everything in general) but I did used to live fully on livejournal so... I did it before. I could adjust to this!!!

[geddyqueer]

dreamwidth is fun when people use it and it feels like an empty barren road with a single tumbleweed in the distance when people don't!!

grundo's cafe requires an invite. if you miss neopets and want to play it again let me know and i'll send you one!!

[griefabyss]

Yes! I agree!!! Luckily this time it seems to be going better than 1 short shout into the wind. Last time I wasn't really as into the idea anyway, because I was not in the sharing mood and just wanted to kick fanfiction into the public eye and skedaddle back into silent reblogging. I'm a regular chatty cathy these days, for now :' )

This is so extremely tempting and I have to wonder if it's a good idea for me to add another gamefied website to my daily rounds of Being Online. Winter will by over by the end of April, you see

[hawkinslocal]

lmao I was also reflecting on how long ago my first LJ account was.... I was there, Gandalf.....

ty for being a trendsetter(TM)

[geddyqueer]

it's crazy, isn't it... my 18 year old coworker was born the year i deleted my myspace

[griefabyss]

jumping into this conversation to say... I looked up my old LJ and I had deleted it but there were still some instances on me on other blogs/communities that stayed and. Seeing the "[17 years ago]" timestamp the first time did something permanent to me (and then the timestamps got worse when I found older posts, but I could only get shocked once so they didn't do much to me)

17 YEARS AGO IS NOT A REAL NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It makes me wonder if I saved a log of my LJ before I deleted it (I'll have to go spelunking in my archives)... I'm very curious! Some of my old friend's blogs are still there and man. What a time.