Welcome Tumblr Fen... (Updated Dec 17)
I made an account long time ago, basically to hold my name, but never really did anything beyond that. After Strike Through and Bold Through on LJ I just came here. And here I have stayed. With some AWOL's due mainly to health and family issues. Although I had (an still have) a perminant account of LJ, and cross post for those few who are still there (and do so primarily under a lock), I make my posts from DW, and I consider this my main base. I have always wanted it to become a continuation of the fandom I LOVED and grew up with on LJ.... So while I know that these periodic witchhunts and migrations in fandom are never fun, and you have my sympathies on suffering another, I hope you will stay HERE! I dont care where you go. I probably will stay here unless you find a place with better security features. But I sure won't be supporting them since they dont listen to users or really improve on things- even if you offer to basically do it for them. Someone suggested a community as a way to alllow any/all DW users access to posts, but I dont know how I feel about that yet. I dont know how I feel about posting much of anything to DW anymore. So If I decide to stop posting here, you can always find me via our personal website, http://www.Intertexius.com
Already got yourself an account? I'd like a paid account! NO I WOULDN'T!
But
bugland - bug actually would as they like lots of icons, and/or extra icon add ons. They say this actually is in part something that holds them back from posting - not haivng enough icons to express themselves and also, being afraid people won't read/reply (so please go friend them, especially if you remember them from LJ before going to Tumblr, and reintroduce yourself. That would really cheer them up.)
PS. 99% of this journal is locked.
I HATE having it locked, and only do so because of FanLore (the posts about this are public (also here) in hopes that through education, others can avoid the trauma I went through and in hopes that people eventually demand and enact change in how FanLore / AO3 / OTW are run.)
As I no longer volunteer at Fanlore, it is not likely that I will have much more to post about them, but who knows what may happen in the future. (ok, I mention Fanlore in a DW community post- but far down in the thread - mainly to explain how even a well meaning (let alone a malicious) person or group can use third party archival sites to scrape journals, and how that can then put you at risk, especially if you are of a minority group. If Fandom wants a "safe" place to discuss things like I remember and miss from LJ's early days, this issue must be addressed whether fandom stays here on DW (I hope), goes to another site, or makes something totally new. Anyway, please do take a look at the link becuase I explain in better detail the ramifications of fanlore's irresponsible actions, something I was too triggered to do (eg: digging up the archive examples) closer to when it all happened) I offer what I think is a fairly simple solution that can be added to DW or any other site- a choice inbetween making posts "Friends Only / Access list only" vs "public".... that is to have the option to allow ANY logged in DW user do a CAPTCH and then be able to read/reply to the post, but without making the post public and thus vulnerable to being added to an archive. I think this would make for an increase in quality and quantity of interactions, new friending opportunities and more learning about things outside our little 'bubble'. If you like the suggestion, please go there and let them know you would like to see the suggestion (or something like it) implimented. (Never mind, they dont even want to put it to a vote, they just veto'd it because "its not 100% safe" well NOTHING is 100% safe, not even any of the current 'locking' options for posts, but adding one more isnt OK because it would mislead people? Not 100% safe doesnt mean people wouldn't want it. It means we might know its not 100% safe but we are willing to settle for this as a better option than what we have already.IRONICALLY they suggested I create a Community to do exactly what I want the option of on my personal journal, to have 'posts that are locked to all DW users option' - but they dont worry or warn people that maybe Comms aren't 100% safe??? Please.
ANYWAY!
I begged Bugland to post more and bought them an account for icons so it'd be shitty of me to disappear now but I definitly wont be offering to code for DW like I was going to, or otherwise support / recoomend them... I'll just stay here for Bug and current DW users and any Fandom people that stay... what you are likely to find here, is my own flailing at finding some way to maintain a more regular posting schedual despite a shortage of spoons/energy due to disability, until I am eventually able to start reposting Snarry fanwork again; honestly, with ABP and a couple other WIPs (one of which we haven't even mentioned yet) I'm as impatient as some of you. It is frustrating and depressing beyong belief.
There may also be occassional photos of our pets- which include some amazing Service dogs, rats, an african grey paret, chickens, and uhm, sheep. Yes, that's right, they are a great substitute for a lawnmower :-)
I might comment that we updated a fanfic.
I may complain about my health (I am Autistic but what mostly gives be trouble day to day is EHlers Danlos Syndrome). My links are likely to be heavy on topics of WWII history (especially from the POV of those in, or from, the "bloodlands"), Random stuff I find interesting about animals (intellegence, evolution etc), Urban Farming, Genetics, The war on Chronic Pain Patients and their Doctors (aka the 'opioid epidemic'), LGBTI issues, Feminism, disability Topics, Computers and uhm, i dunno, probably lots of other stuff.
I may try doing a "what I'm reading" post now and then. But sometimes I just cant read when I want to because its too hard on my wrists to hold up a book (or a tablet, althoughI can't imagine reading a book on one of those, ugh)
If you want access to this journal and discusion in it, please INTRODUCE yourself on the pinned post, which in DW is here: https://alchemia.dreamwidth.org/248771.html I assume LJ users know how to find the pinned post themselves if they want access via that site instead, although I rarely use it.
Finally, If you are in desperate need of a place to host your Fanart I have server space I can partition out. I do ask a small yearly fee, and its totally barebones (IOW, you need something like Filezilla to upload or download your work (or rename it, move it to a different folder, etc). But once uploaded, you can then post it anyplace that allows you to embed images. This offer is only for fen who need a place for art colections that include NSFW material (although you can back up text files etc if you want,) no actual porn photography unless it is for your own personal art refrence and not shared. No Videos. No use of the space for archiving other fen's work of any kind. This is for your own artwork only. On DW you would insert the image by copying the URL to the little yellow square button in the Rich Text menu; or in the HTML option, you'd write it out like this: https://www.dreamwidth.org/inbox/compose?user=alchemia I would make a spiffy album type thing for uploading, deleting, croping etc- but I suspect there already is ,or soon will be, something else out there that has the money to scale larger and hire staff and provide support etc etc when I'm sick in bed, so I'll just leave it barebones for now. If, *surprise*, dozens of you want me hosting your art, I can probably put something together to make for web based uploading, album management, thumbnail creation, etc.
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