“His stimming is beautiful. To get him to stop stimming would require intensive coercion that, even if successful, would likely result in irreparable psychological harm.”
Are you going to revive patelyne on dreamwidth until pillowfort revives, or do you have a new handle there?
I did log into dreamwidth earlier – after a password rescue because I couldn’t remember my login – so I *could* get back and post on there, but since it’s been five years I think everyone has given up on me. Possibly any posts I make there are worse than shouting into the void?
…I’m hoping Pillowfort is back up soon, but if not I will probably give dw another go though. If I do it will still be under the Patelyne account, I won’t make a new one.
(I suppose I could expand my twitter from the 50:50 politics shouting/hockey retweets it is currently too)
Well, there’d be you AND me, so we could shout across the void at each other!
I think there’s a very large subset of this site that saw that narrow slice of buff chest and immediately recognised Chris Evans, just after he’s done cookin’ in The First Avenger. I showed my partner, and she said it should have just been a gif of Hayley Atwell giving in to thirst and touching them impulsively, which, because we deserve it, made it into the movie.
Shout-out to my fellow Fandom Olds who lived through Strikethrough/Boldthrough on LJ and knew this day would eventually come here on Tumblr.com also
Especial shout-out to the heroes at AO3 who designed their whole operation knowing that every other platform fandom used would pull this bullshit sooner or later
here we go again dot com, fellow Fandom Olds who lived through the ff.net mass deletion
here’s the funny thing for me personally. I am not a Fandom Old, but I am an Internet Old. I started blogging when they were still arguing about whether that was a word we even wanted to use for it. I saw someone recommend Typepad today and had fucking flashbacks, because I remember people migrating away from Typepad in the middle 2000s. (why, I don’t entirely remember. I migrated off of the self-hosted version for my blog on my website when they started charging for that code)
and just, as a person who’s been blogging and whatever, I’ve had a Blogger blog, I think I did briefly have a Typepad, I had a LiveJournal, I had a Vox blog and if you are one of the 15 people who remember Vox (not the news site, the blogging service) then let us pour one out together. (that was my favorite honestly, and it lasted about 20 minutes)
I’ve also had a Flickr, a Delicious account, I used Foursquare. (wow Yahoo likes to Kill Some Stuff) I remember Twitter before the celebs and the Nazis.
I’m still mourning the demise of Google Reader. (Google, alternatively, likes to build some stuff, half-ass a lot of it, and then kill its own children)
Few things seem to be built to last or for the good of the people who use them. If you find one of those, cherish it.
(my short list: Pinboard, AO3, Metafilter, Ravelry. Dreamwidth seems to have its heart in the right place, but WOW it still looks like mid-2000s LJ.)
*SOBS* I miss Google Reader so fucking much holy shit. It was basically like having a tumblr dash you couldn’t reblog from, of all your blogs from all over the internet. I lost track of a lot of good blogs and webcomics when I lost Google Reader.
Another pinboard advocate here – if you were lucky enough to get a seed account, your small payment gave you one for life. Now it’s $11 a year, for no ads, no bullshit, just a simple, no frills, independently run site that allows you to curate the shit out of whatever links you like. Tagging is easy. If you want to see what it looks like, here’s my very out of date reclist – https://pinboard.in/u:iamshadow/
Shout-out to my fellow Fandom Olds who lived through Strikethrough/Boldthrough on LJ and knew this day would eventually come here on Tumblr.com also
Especial shout-out to the heroes at AO3 who designed their whole operation knowing that every other platform fandom used would pull this bullshit sooner or later
Don’t forget about Dreamwidth, peeps. I know it’s an older style of platform, but it’s free, fandom friendly and run, and it WORKS.
A directory of social media handles so people can find you on other sites. Once you fill out the form (none of the questions are required so in theory you can just hit “submit” without answering anything, but you can also just View Here) you will be able to access, but not edit, a spreadsheet of everyone’s handles across their social media.
As the disclaimer banner says, EVERYTHING you enter into this form is made public so you know, be careful. If you don’t want two of your handles linked…don’t put ‘em both in there.
I can’t think of a genuine reason this would be a bad idea but it’s a lot of data about people and their personal names that’s easily scrapeable so you know, if you can argue that this is a really bad idea for X reason, I’m willing to listen and delete as necessary.
I have added my stuff to this, and am happy for people to add me on DW or on Pillowfort whenever it’s back up, but please, folks, if your user name is different (or even just your icon) A REMINDER THAT I STRUGGLE WITH THAT, so message me with who you are/were and give me a chance of knowing, because, otherwise, I probably won’t make the connection.
I have also just created an instagram because so many of you are visual artists, so it’s i.am.shadow.21 because that was the only way to get anything resembling my handle for the last sixteen years. Tumblr “Find Me” Directory
knitting in the dark 