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

[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