merripestin

Passively aggressively posting about there being something that I'm not posting about gives me the strength of will to bite my tongue really jolly hard.  Because I know better than to publicly and directly disagree with BNFs.  Because, really, its just people being Wrong On The Internet.  Because I can just ignore it.   Because fandom is a surprisingly nice place for something made of people.  So ignore it.  Okay.  Okay.  

 It finally occurred to me that instead of just thinking, "Hey, why does it seem half of livejournal has moved to dreamwidth and I'm left behind," I could, y'know, get a dreamwidth account.   And it has more icons!  and will autocrosspost to LJ too !!  How long has this been going on?

Of course, I've been a bit overwhelmed already by all the social media options, so adding another may not actually be good for me.   Mostly on twitter I complain about my attempts to podfic, and on tumblr I heart things and occasionally repost if I have a comment, and I use other platforms in my other personae (i.e. Employable And Not At All A Porn Writer Girl).  

What I love about the journaling platforms is that they do comments properly, which for most things makes a lot more sense to me than reblogging.  

On the other hand, the heart/like/+1/kudos thing is faboo for me because so often I just want to express, "I read this and it was cool and interesting but I don't really have a contribution."  Once I start writing words that are for somebody else, I get worried about them, even if it's just one sentence, and I end up redrafting and redrafting and it's completely absurd and then I give up.  It's horrendously embarrassing the number of comments I have spent fifteen minutes writing and then never actually left.   

So, trying this.  See how it goes.