you're gonna rattle the stars, you are

[marishna]

43: who was the last person you gazed at the stars with?Uh... I don't think I've ever done that with anyone PERIOD. I do love looking at the stars, though. The only constellation I can find with any assurance of accuracy is Orion's Belt. I can't find the North Star or either of the Dippers. Well, sometimes I can find one but I never know which

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[frelling_tralk]

that's not to say there wouldn't be another mass journal deletion spree like about 10 years ago or so. Anyone else remember that? When LJ cracked down hard on journals and communities there was a handful of complaints that they were inappropriate or something? I don't remember what all it was about, just that there were a fuckton of deletions and that it was the first time I remember fannish interests being targeted on a platform that had been a comfortable home.

Yep, in 2007 :nods: I remember that it was mostly underage Harry Potter fan art being targeted, and also Wincest from Supernatural. I *think* it was some religious group targeting LJ for whatever reason, sending in reports of do you know that this is on your website, and the previous owners just freaked out at the mere suggestion of incest and Pedophilia, deleting dozens of comms without warning. They did later backtrack once it was explained to them that it was all fictional and fair use, but it was too late for a lot of users by then, and that's what first started slowly driving fandom away from LJ :(

[marishna]

It's so strange to think about that now and how outraged everyone was. I can't say that in the entire time I've been on LJ that the administration has ever been supportive of its user base, even before it was bought by SUP. Six Apart wanted to monetize fandom, I think, and failed miserably.

What a ride!