>VERBOSE

I noticed it's been well over 3 months since I made a post here, so I'm just showing a sign of life. I haven't had much to post about here since I've basically dropped out of Harry Potter fandom for various reasons, was never particularly active in Doctor Who or Tolkien, and nobody knows about Takin' Over the Asylum or Monkey Island here... so really all I've been doing is occasionally adding to my TOtA art recs list for no real reason since no one looks at it anyway.

I'm on Mastodon now if you're into that kind of thing: https://blorbo.social/@arcanetrivia I have no idea at this point what is likely to be the majority sort of posts there, since I'm not likely to make any posts of my own (I never had a Twitter account because I just don't have a need for posting that kind of microblog stuff). Probably not as random and silly as my Tumblr, but likely there will be fandom-related stuff, which right now largely means Monkey Island. I don't know if any of my other interests like Paganism or woo stuff will show up.

Everyone's probably heard by now about how the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming -- that is, that LJ physically moved servers to Russia as of about 2 weeks ago -- but if not, here's a few relevant links:

http://siderea.livejournal.com/1330197.html
http://siderea.livejournal.com/1330106.html
http://rahirah.livejournal.com/695706.html (with more links to further reading)

As for me, I imported both my journals to Dreamwidth and started crossposting from here to LJ somewhere pushing seven years ago, so no change for me there, although I will be chuffed if people currently reading me on LJ decide to start reading me on DW instead. I don't have any immediate plans to delete my LJ entirely, or delete all its posts (frameacloud says ljsec still works for doing that task in bulk), or even to stop crossposting or turn off commenting on LJ for right now.

Browsing through my extant tags to see if I already had one along the lines of the "ponderings" I tagged my last post with, I turned up some amusing kinda nonstandard ones (vs. things like character names, ships, and genres), many of which I'd forgotten I'd used:

brb drooling, counting things ah-ah-ah, death by pun, dood i'm so blogging this, dude am i crazy or what (the lone post with this tag may be amusing to fans of interactive fiction), library blithering no one cares about, madness? this is fandom, moichandising!, now that's rather saucy innit, oh us crazy snapefen, overanalysis our speciality, pack-rat much?, plotless random imagery, punctuation please, ravenclaw madness, say what now?, show us your wits, sit in the corner and rust, unf unf unf, wish i'd thought of that, ye aulden days, you get to drink from the firehose!, your thoughts on yaoi

Unlike every other time this kind of thing happens, I appear to be one of the people currently affected by lost comment notifications. I turned LJ inbox notification back on so I can get them that way (normally I have that turned off and only get by email because I hate having one more damn thing to have to periodically clean out), but I may have missed something in the past few days or a week. If you've been waiting for a response from me on something and wondering why I'm ignoring you, please link me.

If anyone out there has been vaguely interested in creating a Dreamwidth account but not interested enough to bother to look at dw_codesharing to get a code:

...we're going to try a little experiment. For the week of February 21 - February 28, creating an account on Dreamwidth will not require an invite code. You'll be able to register an account without needing a code -- just by visiting the account creation page.

I've decided the task of trying to chase down all my posts with pictures and change their links to point to picture hosting on my website instead of on ScrapBook is just too big a task to bother. I figure most people aren't looking back far enough that they'd notice anyway, but since I am still alive (e.g. not abandoning LJ entirely or anything, just letting a paid account expire), if you should come across a broken image in one of my posts and would like to see what once was there (I know there are some visual gags in babb_chronicles, lolpotters, and summary posts here), I can possibly hack that for you.

I'll probably make a repost of a few icons that I don't now feel are utter crap, just to have them in an accessible spot.

I saw titti do this, so I thought it might possibly be helpful. My reading/posting habits:

LiveJournal

I still consider this my primary journal. It's the place I have the most friends and communities. I read it as often as possible given work and stuff, on the average once a day (if I let it go more than a couple of days the backlog gets too big). I post everything here (unless there's something that's LJ-specific like technical issues).

InsaneJournal

I read this on about the same schedule, although since I have about a third the number of friends and comms as on LJ, if time is of the essence it may get the short end of the time stick. I don't have any intention of leaving since there are some friends and a couple comms which, as far as I know, are only on IJ. I post everything there too (again, aside from IJ-specific stuff).

Dreamwidth

Is probably going to get inserted into my daily reading routine the same way, although it will take me a while to sort out who seems to be crossposting everything and therefore can be filtered out of my "need to read on this other site" list, and who, if anyone, has really migrated and needs to be "read [t]here". If you're still crossposting verbatim to LJ I will probably wind up reading you there instead. Once I am out of "setting up shop" mode (which so far has contained posts which are good examples of the "[site]-specific stuff" category) I will probably be crossposting there as well. Not sure yet if I want to try to import the back catalog. I think I've determined that the account as it stands will be primarily for fandom purposes, although there are some people from my starlightforest flist who are testing out the waters there and I'm not sure where that is going to fit into things, or whether I will want to create a separate account for that (joy).

JournalFen, Inksome, etc.

Is it not the case that anymore that JournalFen is closed to new accounts? Anyway, no intentions to create journals on these or Commiejournal (never heard of that before!) or Scribbld.


I don't particularly care where you read me or comment on my posts. I get the notifications anyway and can reply, so no big whoop. Please yourself.

Oh hey! Looks like the character list on FFN was updated to include a Lily E. as well as a Lily P. (granted, this might have happened any time in the last three months and I wouldn't have noticed.) Yay, my school-era Sev/Lily fics don't have to be with a slightly impossible person anymore!

Stuff about the mysterious random friendings by Russian-language journals. Apparently there is a rash of bots. See http://nympholept.livejournal.com/tag/russian+bots.