Dept. of Closing Up Shop ...
... Either Partly, or Completely
Hello, after more than a year. And very probably goodbye. Or close to goodbye.
Those of you on my f'list, or who otherwise know me and who still check in to LJ, know that I haven't been here since June of 2022, when I got tired of having to manually repost what I originally wrote over on Dreamwidth. At that point, the cosmically petty stupidity of LJ's attitude toward crossposting was too much for me to bother with.
About 8 days ago, LJ alerted me to the fact that my professional package account was set to expire within days; I'd go back to a free account at that point, it helpfully warned.
And there it was, the thing that I've been going back and forth on for the past couple of years. Do I even want to have a free account here?
Well, yeah, probably, if only because I'd like to keep an eye on a community that I once co-administered. (It had to do with TWoP and Dr. Who recaps ... it was long ago, and the wench is dead, but it's a bit of personal history I don't want to completely abandon.)
But I won't be posting* here anymore, and I wanted to let you - the few of you who aren't already on Dreamwidth and on my f'list there, and more importantly, the few of you who might care in the least about my posts - know.
I know at least one person I like who stays on LJ for very good reasons based on ties with the Motherland. I know another person who's always been here and hasn't, as far as I know, been over on Dreamwidth at all.
I'm going to make a very arrogant request, one you can feel free to ignore. You can also tell me to fuck right off, but here it is: if you'd like to check in on me, why not get a free Dreamwidth account? That way, you can see whatever folderol I might be putting out there, whether it's fic, political tirades, personal thoughts, whatever might interest you. And I'd love to see you over there.
I'll probably repost this over the next three days, to ensure that anyone who might have interest in what I'm saying here has a better chance of seeing it.
So, yes ... up to y'all, but I won't be posting* here anymore.
*I may check in on other peoples' posts here, but I have to be honest; I haven't done that in the past year, and I probably won't be very apt to do it in future. And with that, I've shown myself to be a bad online friend, who shouldn't be surprised if other people figure I deserve the same treatment. Sigh.
Hello, after more than a year. And very probably goodbye. Or close to goodbye.
Those of you on my f'list, or who otherwise know me and who still check in to LJ, know that I haven't been here since June of 2022, when I got tired of having to manually repost what I originally wrote over on Dreamwidth. At that point, the cosmically petty stupidity of LJ's attitude toward crossposting was too much for me to bother with.
About 8 days ago, LJ alerted me to the fact that my professional package account was set to expire within days; I'd go back to a free account at that point, it helpfully warned.
And there it was, the thing that I've been going back and forth on for the past couple of years. Do I even want to have a free account here?
Well, yeah, probably, if only because I'd like to keep an eye on a community that I once co-administered. (It had to do with TWoP and Dr. Who recaps ... it was long ago, and the wench is dead, but it's a bit of personal history I don't want to completely abandon.)
But I won't be posting* here anymore, and I wanted to let you - the few of you who aren't already on Dreamwidth and on my f'list there, and more importantly, the few of you who might care in the least about my posts - know.
I know at least one person I like who stays on LJ for very good reasons based on ties with the Motherland. I know another person who's always been here and hasn't, as far as I know, been over on Dreamwidth at all.
I'm going to make a very arrogant request, one you can feel free to ignore. You can also tell me to fuck right off, but here it is: if you'd like to check in on me, why not get a free Dreamwidth account? That way, you can see whatever folderol I might be putting out there, whether it's fic, political tirades, personal thoughts, whatever might interest you. And I'd love to see you over there.
I'll probably repost this over the next three days, to ensure that anyone who might have interest in what I'm saying here has a better chance of seeing it.
So, yes ... up to y'all, but I won't be posting* here anymore.
*I may check in on other peoples' posts here, but I have to be honest; I haven't done that in the past year, and I probably won't be very apt to do it in future. And with that, I've shown myself to be a bad online friend, who shouldn't be surprised if other people figure I deserve the same treatment. Sigh.