A Return to LJ
It's been very, very quiet around here. I didn't think my move to tumblr would end up being so all-encompassing, but it has been - not because I prefer tumblr as a fannish platform to LJ (I still don't!) but because some of the people I interact with on tumblr have also become real-life, close friends.
That's not to say I don't still regret the fandom-wide shift to tumblr - even allowing for all sorts of xkit extensions it's STILL harder to have a conversation on tumblr than it ever was on LJ. And now with the new update and people scrambling to make that complicated xkit script just in order to have a reply function, I've realised even more that LJ is still more suited to in-depth conversation.
So, with the old "be the change you want to see in the world the internet" in mind, I've decided to try and revive my trusty old LJ. I hope that there are still people around here; I will be advertising this post on my tumblr, as I do suspect that there are people among my followers who, like me, sort of regret not having the same community on LJ we used to have, but who've stopped using it because there's no one left to talk to.
We'll see how it goes, yeah?
I owe my flist:
- a life update (work, house, hobbies, relationships)
- a fannish update (what have I been watching, reading, writing, loving?)
- a renewed dedication to actually reading people's posts on LJ and replying to them the way I used to
- a more specific focus for LJ: more extended fannish (or rl) thoughts posts that will be more thought-out and edited than anything I write on tumblr (because while I enjoy tumblr's idiom from a linguistic pov, I miss actually writing things out properly. I could do that for tumblr, too, but maybe it's a good thing to have a separate way of doing things for my LJ.)
So here we go. :-)
That's not to say I don't still regret the fandom-wide shift to tumblr - even allowing for all sorts of xkit extensions it's STILL harder to have a conversation on tumblr than it ever was on LJ. And now with the new update and people scrambling to make that complicated xkit script just in order to have a reply function, I've realised even more that LJ is still more suited to in-depth conversation.
So, with the old "be the change you want to see in the world the internet" in mind, I've decided to try and revive my trusty old LJ. I hope that there are still people around here; I will be advertising this post on my tumblr, as I do suspect that there are people among my followers who, like me, sort of regret not having the same community on LJ we used to have, but who've stopped using it because there's no one left to talk to.
We'll see how it goes, yeah?
I owe my flist:
- a life update (work, house, hobbies, relationships)
- a fannish update (what have I been watching, reading, writing, loving?)
- a renewed dedication to actually reading people's posts on LJ and replying to them the way I used to
- a more specific focus for LJ: more extended fannish (or rl) thoughts posts that will be more thought-out and edited than anything I write on tumblr (because while I enjoy tumblr's idiom from a linguistic pov, I miss actually writing things out properly. I could do that for tumblr, too, but maybe it's a good thing to have a separate way of doing things for my LJ.)
So here we go. :-)