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moving in
Okay, here is a real first entry!
I decided not to import my entire LJ here, mostly because there is something vastly relieving about not having a journal that starts with my freshman year of high school (but instead the summer before my senior year of undergrad; I'm sure it will be just as embarrassing in a couple of years).
I'll be using this journal in basically the same way I used the LJ: fandom talk, real life talk, talking-with-people, &c. One of the nifty things about Dreamwidth, though, is the seriously wonderful access/subscription feature: not only does the loaded word 'friend' come into it nowhere, but it makes organising things a lot easier -- such as this thing I want to try where I'm going to more or less divide up the fandom talk and the real life talk. The idea of separate real life and fandom journals hurts both my head and soul, because there is probably no way I will ever be able to actually separate real life from the fannishly tinged, but I think I can probably at least get away with an unlocked-locked dichotomy. The unlocked content will therefore be reviews and meta and silly picspams and links and fic; the locked content will be all the real life stuff (at the moment, mostly job and grad school dithering). If you're just here for the fannish stuff, feel free to subscribe and lurk happily away; if you want to know me and my dithering real life ways, come say hi.
I know pretty much everyone subscribed to me right now is a refugee from my LJ flist -- so I'd love to take a headcount. LOOK A HEADCOUNT POLL.
If your content is mirrored from LJ, I will probably filter you off my default flist and read you over here instead; no matter what you are doing, if you are using Dreamwidth as a reading list in any way, feel free filter me off your default flist also and read me here instead.
I think that's all the housekeeping right now. Guys, isn't this place still shiny?
I decided not to import my entire LJ here, mostly because there is something vastly relieving about not having a journal that starts with my freshman year of high school (but instead the summer before my senior year of undergrad; I'm sure it will be just as embarrassing in a couple of years).
I'll be using this journal in basically the same way I used the LJ: fandom talk, real life talk, talking-with-people, &c. One of the nifty things about Dreamwidth, though, is the seriously wonderful access/subscription feature: not only does the loaded word 'friend' come into it nowhere, but it makes organising things a lot easier -- such as this thing I want to try where I'm going to more or less divide up the fandom talk and the real life talk. The idea of separate real life and fandom journals hurts both my head and soul, because there is probably no way I will ever be able to actually separate real life from the fannishly tinged, but I think I can probably at least get away with an unlocked-locked dichotomy. The unlocked content will therefore be reviews and meta and silly picspams and links and fic; the locked content will be all the real life stuff (at the moment, mostly job and grad school dithering). If you're just here for the fannish stuff, feel free to subscribe and lurk happily away; if you want to know me and my dithering real life ways, come say hi.
I know pretty much everyone subscribed to me right now is a refugee from my LJ flist -- so I'd love to take a headcount. LOOK A HEADCOUNT POLL.
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how are you using dreamwidth?
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as my primary journal (content mirrored from lj)
8 (36.4%)
as a secondary journal (content mirrored from lj)
3 (13.6%)
as my primary journal (with different content than lj)
6 (27.3%)
as a secondary journal (with different content than lj)
5 (22.7%)
not really at all -- I have no idea what I'm doing here yet
9 (40.9%)
as something else entirely, which I will explain in comments
0 (0.0%)
TICKY BOX
10 (45.5%)
If your content is mirrored from LJ, I will probably filter you off my default flist and read you over here instead; no matter what you are doing, if you are using Dreamwidth as a reading list in any way, feel free filter me off your default flist also and read me here instead.
I think that's all the housekeeping right now. Guys, isn't this place still shiny?
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What I would like best is to just use DW and bury my LJ under a volcano, where no one can find it again. Only, people's inertia thwarts me!
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I did that one time ... I don't think I want to do it more. Maybe I will just try to figure out who, among the people I really want to read my journal, does not have a DW and throw codes at their heads until they obey me. And then silently switch horses midstream! yes!
I'm glad you have made the switch pretty much 4 real, it is really comforting to me. AND I want to ask! Did you find out if it is easy to import just certain entries instead of your whole journal? Though I kind of think, what is the point, maybe I will go through my LJ and delete all the things I do not want anymore but still not import what's left ... oh who knows. this is a terrible thought cycle, it just goes around and around.
ummm also I'm going to bed! That is Europe time for you >:( Stupid Europe!
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I like this throwing-codes-at-people plan. IT IS A GOOD PLAN. I am less sure of the whole switching-horses-midstream part of it, though, because that sounds sort of dangerous.
And um I have NO IDEA how the importing deal works; I did not import anything at all for this journal, and I imported my entire fic journal and then got rid of a few entries I didn't like anymore. I think not importing and keeping the LJ whole but locked is probably sanest, but my sane might not be your sane.
Sleep well! <3