I guess now is probably the best time to start backing shit up to Dreamwidth, given how offensive the existance of someone like me is to our new LJ overlords. Personally I like DW, it's open source, it's not full of empty communities and it's run by real people. Plus it still looks like the old LJ layout and I have a soft spot for any website that ( Read more... )

What's the deal with all the ghost town communities around LJ? Did people just stop caring about their interests when they joined back up during the revival? LJ comms are honestly my ideal way to interact with people online who have similar interests, and it bums me out that so many comms I was excited about (pinkhair, glitterwhores, angelic_voices) haven't had any action for years ( Read more... )

things i hate reading on the internet ( Read more... )

i want to change my name again. except i don't. what is this sudden sense of stability? is this what it's like to be sane? it's frustrating. i liked being so fluid (no you didn't quinn, it was terrifying and disorienting). i liked being able to be whoever i wanted to be (no you didn't, remember how scared you used to feel when you looked in the ( Read more... )

so i'm back to a smartphone. that lasted about 2 days. i literally cannot live without a cameraphone now, images have just become part of the way i communicate. i've always recorded things around me, mostly by writing them down, but the combination of having a cameraphone and studying film has changed the way i see and record the world around me. ( Read more... )

i'm thinking of changing my name again. i first changed it when i was 16, although due to red tape and beurocratic bullshit it didn't become my legal name till I was 20. i'm 24 now, and i feel like the name i picked when i was a desperate, frustrated teenager doesn't quite fit me anymore ( Read more... )

Lately I've been feeling fatigued by how constantly connected I am. I love the internet, I grew up on it, I used it to find other freaks like me and to cope in a world that actively hated me. I'm pretty sure that without it I'd be dead. But lately things have been different. I've fallen into the trap of using Facebook to numb the pain of loneliness ( Read more... )

I'm back!! Did you miss me ( Read more... )

A thought: I'm considering that some people get so iffy about pronouns because they've never had to really think about the way that they talk. Maybe it's an autistic thing or a cross-class thing, but I've constantly had to be mindful of my tone of voice, the words I use to express myself, even my accent. Over the course of my life the various ( Read more... )

Sometimes I forget that writing can be fun. Since the Orlando shooting my Facebook feed has been full of people's articles and opinions and think pieces and blog posts and screenshots and I'm just sick of it. Before that there was the gorilla thing, and everyone's opinions on that. There there's everything about both elections, US and Australian. ( Read more... )