But it's not necessary to follow them absolutely.
I normally start the year by posting a list of my most commented posts from the previous year, but, as I had noticed at the time, commenting seemed to be down considerably during 2016: I'm not sure if this was a general phenomenon, or a reflection upon the quality of my posts. The most commented ( Read more... )

And more from Mrs Humphrey:
No mansplaining, fellas! To be “talked down to” is always aggravating, especially when one feels a conviction that the person who is thus affably stooping for one’s benefit belongs in reality to a lower intellectual plane than one’s own.

Nor is a tone of faux-intimacy recommended: A very confidential tone is always used ( Read more... )

Number of posts during the year: 688. Number of comments received: 3623
Most commented-upon posts (as always, I don't know how this maps to 'most-read'): NB Rote (Sumwut) Sarkastykle (83)
Over-familiar historical characters (68)
This is a recurrent aaaaarghness (58)
What is reenactable and why, and by whom? (54)
What is the compliment saying? (50)
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I think it may actually be past the end of the canonical Three Weeks for Dreamwidth period, as I started late. However, I started, so I'll finish, and there will be one more post tomorrow to round out the 21 entries.
However, although I started with the intention stated in this post of posting a three sentence extract from an imaginary novel every ( Read more... )

Apparently it's that time again? To commit to posting some kind of content that is unique to DW, at least for the duration?
Have been thinking about this and what I might do, and it occurred to me that perhaps I could revive the idea of the now defunct (as far as I can tell) LJ community novelnovelbits:
Three consecutive sentences excerpted from a nonexistent ( Read more... )

I have been noting latterly that there are mournful threnodies over DW/LJ (also various over the decline/death of fandom/s) hither and yon.
I'm here.
This may be my long-time tendency to find something that suits me - it may not be perfect, but I could do a lot worse - and carry on sticking with it, which is why I have been living in the same flat ( Read more... )

Since this appears to be A Thing across my rlist: When you see this, make a post in your journal or in a community. It can be anything: a crosspost something you've posted on Tumblr, a few words about the last thing you read/watched, or just a "Hi, how is everyone?" Then go read your f-list and leave at least one comment.

And while people may well ( Read more... )

8,609 Journal Entries, 60,732 comments received, 8,012 comments posted.
Top posts for generating comments (though as per usual, viewing figures suggest this is not the whole picture):
'Because you not only bring your harp to the party, you insist on playing it' (89)
The strange recurrences of fashion in naming (79)
Manic Dream Pixie Mum? (62)
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I note that people are joining up, or begging for invites to, the new social network Ello, which is being marketed as the alternative to FaceBook after FB suddenly decided to crack down over the Real Name issue (sigh). (At the moment it looks pretty much like crickets and tumbleweeds over there, it's all stark mimimalism and white space, but what ( Read more... )

For some reason I tend to think it was 21st, and it was 20th, July when I first got onto LJ, 11 years ago (and yesterday got eaten by a migraine).

Both 'time flies when you're having fun' and 'that seems like a very long time', and certainly there has been a lot of water under many bridges since then.

And so many things that would not have happened ( Read more... )