being the change i wish to see
Mar. 17th, 2026 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geddyqueerEvery 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:
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.
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Date: 2026-03-17 10:38 pm (UTC)ty for being a trendsetter(TM)
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Date: 2026-03-18 01:24 pm (UTC)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.