Mishmash, but this turned out to be mostly about tags and "feels"
--The long weekend has me convinced it's Sunday. I think I've had to mentally correct myself a dozen times today. No big deal, as long as tomorrow I remember it's Tuesday and make it to my haircut appointment.
--LJ has been intermittently but far-too-frequently borked for me for the last several days. Patience with the site: waning even further. Cross-posting is still effortless enough to keep me from simply wandering off...when LJ accepts the damn cross-post. I think my two most recent posts both required going back and trying again multiple times before it worked, and they were a couple of days apart, not hours.
I still check my LJ flist fairly regularly, because I follow some communities and RSS feeds, but I think there're only four or five people posting there often at all (who aren't also posting on DW, I mean). And it's all people I really don't want to lose touch with, but UGH, LJ. Get it together, site.
For those who haven't seen/heard it already,
thingswithwings recorded a podfic of a list of all the AO3 tags that fall under "feels"*. Oh, fandom, I love you so. *_* (There is a "pack your bags we're going on a feels trip" tag. Of course there is. *^^*)
I love tags. I love using them on Dreamwidth so I can find things; I love using them for specificity on AO3; and I love using them on Tumblr for tag spirals and glee and, yes, feels. Looking at that list, it struck me that I don't think--and this is entirely a personal thing, not a criticism of people who do this--I'd ever use a "feels" tag on my own fanfic. I have intense feelings about what I write about, and what I write about is usually inspired by feelings I'd cheerfully refer to as "feels" on Tumblr, but...I guess I don't want to label something I've written with the way it makes me feel, maybe because I don't assume that's relevant to how people reading it respond...? I'm not sure. But anyway, that list makes me smile a lot.
*I don't remember--have I mentioned here this thing that went around on Tumblr a few months ago now? Someone was ranting about the fannish use of "feels" and said "THERE SHOULD NEVER BE AN 'S' ON THE WORD 'FEEL'", and someone else, without missing a beat, replied with "It feels to me like you haven't thought this through." Nicely done, stranger on Tumblr.
Someday I may try to pick apart what the factors are in whether I'm comfortable with (and sometimes enthusiastic about) a way language changes or whether I want to fight a change to the death. Frex, I loathe "impact" being used as a verb. I don't even know why, exactly, other than my fear that it leads to "impactful", which I hate with an irrational ferocity. (I mean, being as objective as I can about it, I still think "impactful" is a travesty and a pathetic excuse for a word. But I recognize that my feelings on it are blown out of proportion.) OTOH, I really enjoy the "feels" thing. It delights me, and it fills a useful niche. [see also: this meta post over at
mithen]
(I hit semantic satiation on all forms of "feel" just from writing this post. Hats off to
thingswithwings for reading that whole list aloud and still making it sound like a word all the way through.)
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/2013/08/05/feelings-about-feels.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
--LJ has been intermittently but far-too-frequently borked for me for the last several days. Patience with the site: waning even further. Cross-posting is still effortless enough to keep me from simply wandering off...when LJ accepts the damn cross-post. I think my two most recent posts both required going back and trying again multiple times before it worked, and they were a couple of days apart, not hours.
I still check my LJ flist fairly regularly, because I follow some communities and RSS feeds, but I think there're only four or five people posting there often at all (who aren't also posting on DW, I mean). And it's all people I really don't want to lose touch with, but UGH, LJ. Get it together, site.
For those who haven't seen/heard it already,
thingswithwings recorded a podfic of a list of all the AO3 tags that fall under "feels"*. Oh, fandom, I love you so. *_* (There is a "pack your bags we're going on a feels trip" tag. Of course there is. *^^*)
I love tags. I love using them on Dreamwidth so I can find things; I love using them for specificity on AO3; and I love using them on Tumblr for tag spirals and glee and, yes, feels. Looking at that list, it struck me that I don't think--and this is entirely a personal thing, not a criticism of people who do this--I'd ever use a "feels" tag on my own fanfic. I have intense feelings about what I write about, and what I write about is usually inspired by feelings I'd cheerfully refer to as "feels" on Tumblr, but...I guess I don't want to label something I've written with the way it makes me feel, maybe because I don't assume that's relevant to how people reading it respond...? I'm not sure. But anyway, that list makes me smile a lot.
*I don't remember--have I mentioned here this thing that went around on Tumblr a few months ago now? Someone was ranting about the fannish use of "feels" and said "THERE SHOULD NEVER BE AN 'S' ON THE WORD 'FEEL'", and someone else, without missing a beat, replied with "It feels to me like you haven't thought this through." Nicely done, stranger on Tumblr.
Someday I may try to pick apart what the factors are in whether I'm comfortable with (and sometimes enthusiastic about) a way language changes or whether I want to fight a change to the death. Frex, I loathe "impact" being used as a verb. I don't even know why, exactly, other than my fear that it leads to "impactful", which I hate with an irrational ferocity. (I mean, being as objective as I can about it, I still think "impactful" is a travesty and a pathetic excuse for a word. But I recognize that my feelings on it are blown out of proportion.) OTOH, I really enjoy the "feels" thing. It delights me, and it fills a useful niche. [see also: this meta post over at
mithen]
(I hit semantic satiation on all forms of "feel" just from writing this post. Hats off to
thingswithwings for reading that whole list aloud and still making it sound like a word all the way through.)
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/2013/08/05/feelings-about-feels.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: