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transferring from livejournal
Dec. 22nd, 2011 09:21 pmlet's see how this goes!
dreamwidth
May. 3rd, 2010 10:04 pmi have now started up a dreamwidth account.
after a very kind lj user offered to share their extra invite codes, i figured it wouldn't hurt to ask (even tho i'm a complete stranger) and they generously sent it to me straight away. thanks temporal_witch :)
i'll be messing about with it in the next couple of days and hopefully get a feel for things. then i'll decide how (and if) i'm going to actually proceed with it.
first awesome thing about dreamwidth: they have a "light style" link at the top of the page! i type ?format=light about a million and twelve times a day in livejournal, and a button like that would be crazy helpful!
first lame thing about dreamwidth: their layout themes suck ass. i'm sure if i got a paid account i would be able to do more, but i'm obviously not going to do that. so at the moment it's pretty ugly looking.
i'm sure i'll never become very proficient with it, especially considering how i'm still pretty crap at using livejournal half the time (even after four years), but i feel like there are A LOT of compelling reasons to support dreamwidth instead of livejournal.
after a very kind lj user offered to share their extra invite codes, i figured it wouldn't hurt to ask (even tho i'm a complete stranger) and they generously sent it to me straight away. thanks temporal_witch :)
i'll be messing about with it in the next couple of days and hopefully get a feel for things. then i'll decide how (and if) i'm going to actually proceed with it.
first awesome thing about dreamwidth: they have a "light style" link at the top of the page! i type ?format=light about a million and twelve times a day in livejournal, and a button like that would be crazy helpful!
first lame thing about dreamwidth: their layout themes suck ass. i'm sure if i got a paid account i would be able to do more, but i'm obviously not going to do that. so at the moment it's pretty ugly looking.
i'm sure i'll never become very proficient with it, especially considering how i'm still pretty crap at using livejournal half the time (even after four years), but i feel like there are A LOT of compelling reasons to support dreamwidth instead of livejournal.
stupid layout
Feb. 18th, 2010 09:59 pmi'm really annoyed that i had to change my background image. i don't like this new one as well :(
lurking lurker who lurks
May. 14th, 2009 08:51 pmso a well-known fanfic writer wrote an original story and self-published it. pretty fucking cool.
i've been a lurker on his lj for over a year (found him via tw fic of course - he's one of my absolute faves - brilliant). been following the whole process of editing and publishing of his book, but wasn't really interested in the story itself, and never read what he posted of it. once he was finished, i downloaded the pdf for free because... well because i could. and it was free. but again, i had no interest in actually reading it.
but last week our internet went down at work. and this hell flowed into this week as well. for lack of anything to do during my down times, i brought the pdf to work so that i at least had SOMEthing to read.
surprise? i LOVED it. besides the two twilight books i read, this is the first time in a long time that i have read an actual original piece of work. not harry potter, not doctor who, not torchwood. while reading it, i kept thinking to myself 'why have you stopped doing this? why don't you read actual books anymore?' i love reading, i love books, i always have. i really need to start doing that again. constantly reading only fandom related crap certainly isn't doing me any bit of good.
but tonight i actually FINISHED the book, and i remembered my problem. i hate it when books end. i just hate it. i get pulled into the story, and fall in love with the characters and settings, and then it just goes away. and almost never in a way that makes me feel done, or satisfied, or fully complete. and that makes me sad and depressed. pathetic, isn't it? yes :(
regardless, i so enjoyed the story, and so enjoy this guy's lj and life and process, that i decided to purchase the book itself. i feel like he's earned it. i read his story. i loved it. he should get compensation for the bit of happiness he created for me.
plus, i feel like i have been involved in this in some small way. which is really stupid because i SO haven't. but still... even tho i'm not one of the 2500, i'm sure i'm among lots of other lurkers out there like me, who feel like we've shared and taken part in something special.
i've been a lurker on his lj for over a year (found him via tw fic of course - he's one of my absolute faves - brilliant). been following the whole process of editing and publishing of his book, but wasn't really interested in the story itself, and never read what he posted of it. once he was finished, i downloaded the pdf for free because... well because i could. and it was free. but again, i had no interest in actually reading it.
but last week our internet went down at work. and this hell flowed into this week as well. for lack of anything to do during my down times, i brought the pdf to work so that i at least had SOMEthing to read.
surprise? i LOVED it. besides the two twilight books i read, this is the first time in a long time that i have read an actual original piece of work. not harry potter, not doctor who, not torchwood. while reading it, i kept thinking to myself 'why have you stopped doing this? why don't you read actual books anymore?' i love reading, i love books, i always have. i really need to start doing that again. constantly reading only fandom related crap certainly isn't doing me any bit of good.
but tonight i actually FINISHED the book, and i remembered my problem. i hate it when books end. i just hate it. i get pulled into the story, and fall in love with the characters and settings, and then it just goes away. and almost never in a way that makes me feel done, or satisfied, or fully complete. and that makes me sad and depressed. pathetic, isn't it? yes :(
regardless, i so enjoyed the story, and so enjoy this guy's lj and life and process, that i decided to purchase the book itself. i feel like he's earned it. i read his story. i loved it. he should get compensation for the bit of happiness he created for me.
plus, i feel like i have been involved in this in some small way. which is really stupid because i SO haven't. but still... even tho i'm not one of the 2500, i'm sure i'm among lots of other lurkers out there like me, who feel like we've shared and taken part in something special.
