moving in

[aria]

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.

Poll #279

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

View Respondents

how are you using dreamwidth?

View Answers

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?

Comments

[wintercreek]

I have, confusingly, checked both of the "primary journal" boxes to indicate that things posted to LJ will be mirrors of DW posts, and that some things will only be posted to DW. Basically, this is the place to read me!

[aria]

It looks like you are basically doing what I am doing, then. \o/

[delight]

Mine is not 100% mirrored with LJ; there's some DW-exclusive content and some LJ-exclusive content, but ... very little LJ-exclusive content and lots more semianonymous DW-exclusive stuff.

[schiarire]

When the urge to post strikes me, the post goes where it wills! Sometimes that is LJ and sometimes DW. I was going to have a system but then I didn't. But I will! maybe! someday!

[anekdot]

HEEEEEELP I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING WITH THIS THING.

[aria]

I THINK YOU SHOULD WRITE LOTS OF AMAZINGLY THRILLING THINGS ABOUT YOUR LIFE OVER HERE.

IDK, honestly, but I am trying to get everyone over to Dreamwidth through sheer force of will because in some vague way it feels like the socially responsible thing to do.

[aria]

That is a terrifying system! although it is also one that I felt very tempted to use before I grit my teeth and decided to do the crossposting thing instead.

[anekdot]

*DIES* YES BUT THAT WOULD REQUIRE HAVING A THRILLING LIFE IN THE FIRST PLACE. I think it is that I would just feel sort of... redundant jumping over here to do "SARES' BORING LJ: THE SEQUEL!!!!" so I had vague ideas of somehow... doing something... different... in... some way, but this requires having ... interesting ... ideas.

[aria]

Oh well this is just "ARIA'S LJ: THE SEQUEL! NOW WITH PROBABLY DUE SOUTH RECAPS INSTEAD OF DOCTOR WHO ONES!!" which ... y'know, is probably mostly interesting to me? But uh tell me your ideas, even if you think they are boring ones!

[schiarire]

I can't crosspost ... that is about the only thing I know for sure. I think I would rather never post at all.

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!

[anekdot]

NO NO NO IT IS INTERESTING. It is just my weird neurosis that if I have a new journal plus username I should also do something new!!!! Or something. It r make sense in my head.

UM I had vague vague VAGUE ideas of doing, I don't know, unlocked history blog type stuff, and then your usual "sares freaking out about classes/talking about chorus AGAIN make her shut up" stuff locked. But this would necessitate me having interesting bloggy things to say???

pee ess did you see the mp3 I put up on LJ.

[aria]

Um, do what I am doing! Only instead of crossposting, make posts that say "THE POST YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS HERE" with a link to DW, and after people have stopped being inert, you can bury your LJ under a volcano! (I will look for a nice one & bury mine also eventually, I think.)

[aria]

No I think that is a good idea! Also I know you self-edit like mad but I bet you could do an interesting history blog even if it consists entirely of "SOVIET RUSSIA IS HILARIOUS: HERE IS WHY." Because I bet at least me & Emma & Ji would find it appropriately entertaining.

pee ess now I have seen it! I THINK I WILL GO DOWNLOAD IT NOW

[schiarire]

Volcanoes are the best! Except what if the horrible things you said in your youth are still legible in the ashes, augggh, auggggggh.

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!

[anekdot]

While this is clearly ALL LIES you make me happy in my pants soul. This is... probably what will end up happening then, after I finish running the gauntlet of FINALS aisjogdiojhesddf. (GOD I HATE MY ECON PROJECT SO MUCH isn't it awesome I'm taking ADVANCED MICRO next semester hahahaha oh my god.) THEN I CAN USE THE SUMMER TO MAKE TERRIBLE HISTORY JOKES ON THE INTARWEBS!!!

w00000000t.

[aria]

ONE DAY I WILL JUST PRIVATE-LOCK MY WHOLE LJ. If that is not volcano-y enough though I bet you could baleet it?

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

[delight]

I would really enjoy that too, if it counts for anything!

[aria]

This is my goal, ma'am! Especially if finals are eating you alive, which, OH GOD WHY ARE YOU STILL IN SCHOOL DO THEY WANT TO KILL YOU. On the other hand I guess it means they are giving you more time? which means ... slow murder instead of a quick death. Ahaha.

PLEASE USE YOUR SUMMER TO MAKE TERRIBLY HISTORY JOKES. THIS PLAN IS ARIA-APPROVED.

[anekdot]

UM WELL CLASS ONLY JUST ENDED ON FRIDAY? Perhaps Amherst is on a slightly different schedule? WHO KNOWS.

OKAY AWES I WILL KEEP THIS IN MIND.

(pee ess um does my solo sound like pure 100% not from concentrate crap? *hides*)

[anekdot]

It does, thank you! ^^;;

[aria]

Ohh okay I guess you guys are a week behind; you are in reading period now, da?

(oh yes it is horrible, no, you stupidface, it is awesome. <3 I mean, says she who knows nothing of music, but as always I really love your singing voice.)

[anekdot]

Well it is called reading period, but really it is just the weekend. ^^;; BUT YES. On the bright side, I am going home on Friday! although I guess this makes it worse because since the end is SO CLOSE I am having even more trouble focusing. OhmygodIcan'tdealwiththisI'mgoingtobeaCOLLEGESOPHOMOREwhattheflyingfuck.

(EEEEEEEEEEEEEE. You do not need to know anything about music to know whether or not I sounded like ass! SO I TAKE THIS COMPLIMENT TO HEART. *squees quietly*)

[spintheiryarns]

I'm crossposting most of my stuff, but for the most part I have a different group of people in my DW circle than on my LJ friendslist, so I'm still working out what goes where. Fic certainly won't be crossposted-- probably posted to LJ and then linked from DW. So it'll probably be approximately the same either way.

[aria]

Huh, a totally different group! This is a foreign concept to me.

By the way, nai_is_not has a DW now. :D

[spintheiryarns]

It's complicated :/ Basically I was in an off-LJ forum and we'd been too lazy to friend each other on LJ, but then DW happened and we all went OMG SHINY MUST MAKE ONE and everyone ran around friending everyone else.

Does she now! Good to know :D

[lysimache]

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).

Heh. I am going to import my LJ soon, when I move over here (have not yet done that, obviously), and in preparation, I'm finally going back and tagging all of my entries. And, oh, man, was I ridiculously little in 2000-2001. I didn't think so at the time; it was my first year of grad school, and I was so sure I was a grown-up, but looking back? Eeep! I was so incredibly *young*. I had no idea. (I also had no sense of boundaries and posted *way* too many things not-privately or not under flock.) I'm keeping all that with it while moving over here because I like having everything in the same place, but it sure is weird to read!

Also, once I get everything set up here, it will (I think) be my main journal, but I haven't done it yet, so I didn't want to check that in the poll, because for now LJ is still where I'm at.

[aria]

I was so incredibly *young*. I had no idea. (I also had no sense of boundaries and posted *way* too many things not-privately or not under flock.)

Heh. I think that's probably true of anyone starting an online journal, no matter their age; I'm completely bewildered about the sort of personal information stuff I posted out of flock at the age of fifteen. I think at least part of it was that I assumed no one would actually find my LJ, though? Maybe that's also part of it.

Looking forward to your migration. :D

[minkhollow]

I may or may not import my fic journal here. Or... make a comm for it, or... something. I don't know yet.

[roadrunner]

Yeah, no idea what I'm doing here, besides reading and commenting. It will be something new, though! I just don't know what yet.

[nextian]

If you want to continue to read about my daily life, don't filter me off on LJ just yet -- I haven't figured out how to work out the differences between my default filter on LJ and my access list on DW, and so locked or filtered posts are not always mirrored.

Also, other journal, blah blah blah.

[aria]

*salutes!* I think honestly at this point when I say "filter out" what I actually mean is "skim just in case," so we're probably good there.

More importantly, your icon is a thing of great beauty hilarity.

[everysecondtuesday]

I'm currently cross-posting everything, but eventually I'm going to switch to some DW-only entries. Anything locked will probably go over here only. Basically, I am still moving in, but obviously this is where I am settling down.

[feverbeats]

HEY ARIA HEY. I don't actually know what I'm doing with my DW yet. NO CLUE. I'm mirroring content for now, and you can feel free to comment on my DW, but I still don't know what I'm dong in the long run. WOE. :(

[aria]

I think in the long run everyone should move to DW! It isn't evil here and I would like it to be pan-fandom migration timez.

HOW IS YOUR SUMMER SO FAR.

[feverbeats]

Agreed! The thing is, I don't believe they will. I have trouble buying the idea that a mass migration will actually happen. People tend to be kind of set in their ways, and although DW is taking off more than I thought, I can't really see everyone moving house.

LAAAAZY. And already really dull, being at home. AND I NEED A JOB. What about you?

[aria]

IDK, a lot of my flist actually is moving. The communities might take some more work, but I don't really mind dividing time and being patient.

I NEED A JOB TOO, oh man. Good luck with that. <3 And, uh, today I have done some emailing-people-about jobs (\o/) and then ... spent all afternoon watching the due South pilot. ALL AFTERNOON. Seriously, I started at like ... 11:30, and I just finished it. I kept on getting all excited and stopping and taking notes and I'm still mildly appalled by how much of my life it just ate.

[feverbeats]

Fair enough! Mine isn't, so much, but I think that may have to do with the sort of people on our respective flists. I tend not to have so many people who are hooked into fannish politics, it seems like. And that's too bad! Because I like DW and eventually want to move here for good.

Oh man, I WANT TO SEE THOSE NOTES. :DDDDDDD

[aria]

O yes, awareness of/investment in fannish politics probably has a lot to do with it. And anyway I'm not trying to rush anyone because, seriously, this thing is still in beta. No hurry.

THAR BE A POST ALREADY. And it is even of the pilot so you have seen it and should know what I'm talking about. :D

[feverbeats]

:D!!! *goes to read*