towards a return to livejournal
moldyluster said "I wish we had a forum--"
I propose a Great Return to these abandoned journals. Or new ones. Let's make new icons and update our interests and rediscover adolescence. See which of the entries we committed to Memories still exist out there. But also let's commit to writing more, for all our sakes, and to sharing secrets/ non-secrets again. To going the long way around to post pictures. Let's write the journal manifesto, like it's I need feminism. I need livejournal because...
... sometimes I want to write an entire thing, a story, with pictures even; not a micro-anything, just a journal entry.
... sometimes I want feedback on it. But I don't want that much feedback.
... sometimes I want to write things that just feel too unproductively whiny or worse way too optimistic for my actual journal and why does it feel like this is that one place it's still appropriate? (because I was 14, before.)
... you can't just Like something on LJ and move on, you have to say something or say nothing at all. And on the other side of that, that void of 0 comments or joy of 1 comment is different in quality from Likes or Hearts and maybe means 2% more.
... it's so 2003 and awful and the whole layout is still pretty bad, hard to navigate, and doesn't seem to have changed much. It's not something you can do on the go, really. It's not for phones. (Is there even an app for this?)
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The baby moves around and it feels like my ribs creak. I just finished eating a big mess of an orange, the kind Karl Pilkington would eat in the bath. I'm resting from resting. I do so little besides host the symbiote, but I am going to make dinner. Thinking. I'm thinking about making dinner. I'm definitely imagining it. Hello world, hello.
I propose a Great Return to these abandoned journals. Or new ones. Let's make new icons and update our interests and rediscover adolescence. See which of the entries we committed to Memories still exist out there. But also let's commit to writing more, for all our sakes, and to sharing secrets/ non-secrets again. To going the long way around to post pictures. Let's write the journal manifesto, like it's I need feminism. I need livejournal because...
... sometimes I want to write an entire thing, a story, with pictures even; not a micro-anything, just a journal entry.
... sometimes I want feedback on it. But I don't want that much feedback.
... sometimes I want to write things that just feel too unproductively whiny or worse way too optimistic for my actual journal and why does it feel like this is that one place it's still appropriate? (because I was 14, before.)
... you can't just Like something on LJ and move on, you have to say something or say nothing at all. And on the other side of that, that void of 0 comments or joy of 1 comment is different in quality from Likes or Hearts and maybe means 2% more.
... it's so 2003 and awful and the whole layout is still pretty bad, hard to navigate, and doesn't seem to have changed much. It's not something you can do on the go, really. It's not for phones. (Is there even an app for this?)
--
The baby moves around and it feels like my ribs creak. I just finished eating a big mess of an orange, the kind Karl Pilkington would eat in the bath. I'm resting from resting. I do so little besides host the symbiote, but I am going to make dinner. Thinking. I'm thinking about making dinner. I'm definitely imagining it. Hello world, hello.