is this the road that leads to flocking?
I just caught up on my flist, and there were a bunch of requests on SGA Storyfinders for things by 30toseoul, and I went and looked at her journal and she is gone.
I...well, you know, I don't know that chick at all - I liked her stories, I lurked her crazy antarctica pictures, now she's gone, and presumably I'll never reread her stuff (and I am a big re-reader. When busy and stressed - so lets say 99.8% of the time - I like to go back to stories I know) which sort of sucks, but is nothing like the heart attack I had when LTLJ deleted her journal, and I thought retrograde was gone forever (it's not - it's still up on her Watergate website.)
Which - fine - we're all people with our lives, and who knows why she (30toseoul) left. Certainly not me, who only ever lurked on her...but it still feels like a betrayal of some kind. Like, the stories were there, and I thought they would always be there, so I didn't copy them, and now they are gone.
Burn the library at Alexandria, why don't you!
Errr. Perhaps that's a bit of an over reaction.
Anyway - upon noticing the situation, I swore (SWORE!) that I would never take my stories down - not because I think so many people are gagging to hear about Ronon's Intimacy Issues, but because it seems shitty to me to rip the rug out from under even one person who thought they could check something out from the Jssangel Library O' Porn, and would be irked to find that they were wrong.
But then I realized that I basically stopped posting in this journal when RL and Journal Life threatened to connect too thoroughly...and I thought about how much I missed writing or chit-chatting here, and I wondered how I could get back to posting, without needing to be careful, and then I thought, "I know, I could friends lock my journal, and then no one who didn't know me would, um, know that I am me."
And then I realized that that is probably what happened to 30toseoul, and then I felt mean for judging. Which is too bad, because I love judging.
Anyway, I think that when I finish the project I am working on now, I will do two things. 1) copy all my stories to AO3, 2) sign up for a dreamwidth account.
Who knows what the future will hold, but regardless of what I do with this journal, my meager contributions to the world of fanfic will be left to linger on. And maybe I will migrate to DW.
Also, hello LJ. It's been several months. You're looking well. I strongly suspect my babysitter has an LJ and is reading/writing Wincest. I guess we should all take comfort in the idea that even when I am not at home, TJ is being raised by people who have their creative & pornographic priorities straight. And by "straight", I definitely don't mean "straight."
That is all.
I...well, you know, I don't know that chick at all - I liked her stories, I lurked her crazy antarctica pictures, now she's gone, and presumably I'll never reread her stuff (and I am a big re-reader. When busy and stressed - so lets say 99.8% of the time - I like to go back to stories I know) which sort of sucks, but is nothing like the heart attack I had when LTLJ deleted her journal, and I thought retrograde was gone forever (it's not - it's still up on her Watergate website.)
Which - fine - we're all people with our lives, and who knows why she (30toseoul) left. Certainly not me, who only ever lurked on her...but it still feels like a betrayal of some kind. Like, the stories were there, and I thought they would always be there, so I didn't copy them, and now they are gone.
Burn the library at Alexandria, why don't you!
Errr. Perhaps that's a bit of an over reaction.
Anyway - upon noticing the situation, I swore (SWORE!) that I would never take my stories down - not because I think so many people are gagging to hear about Ronon's Intimacy Issues, but because it seems shitty to me to rip the rug out from under even one person who thought they could check something out from the Jssangel Library O' Porn, and would be irked to find that they were wrong.
But then I realized that I basically stopped posting in this journal when RL and Journal Life threatened to connect too thoroughly...and I thought about how much I missed writing or chit-chatting here, and I wondered how I could get back to posting, without needing to be careful, and then I thought, "I know, I could friends lock my journal, and then no one who didn't know me would, um, know that I am me."
And then I realized that that is probably what happened to 30toseoul, and then I felt mean for judging. Which is too bad, because I love judging.
Anyway, I think that when I finish the project I am working on now, I will do two things. 1) copy all my stories to AO3, 2) sign up for a dreamwidth account.
Who knows what the future will hold, but regardless of what I do with this journal, my meager contributions to the world of fanfic will be left to linger on. And maybe I will migrate to DW.
Also, hello LJ. It's been several months. You're looking well. I strongly suspect my babysitter has an LJ and is reading/writing Wincest. I guess we should all take comfort in the idea that even when I am not at home, TJ is being raised by people who have their creative & pornographic priorities straight. And by "straight", I definitely don't mean "straight."
That is all.