being the change i wish to see

Mar. 17th, 2026 08:20 am
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Every time something irritating or devastating happens to tumblr's architecture we all remind ourselves that dreamwidth exists and then make some moves to relocate here. And every time this happens I look at my empty dreamwidth reading page and say ohhhh I wish people actually blogged on here. Well, I remembered last night that I am people and I can blog on here, so here I am, blogging!

Almost twenty years ago (hurk) myspace started feeling passe, so I moved myself over to livejournal. I then had to make the switch from myspace-style status update type blogging to longform diary style entries. The greatest benefit tumblr has over any other space (besides the feeling of privacy that you get when you hang out on a platform that time and money forgot) is that you can knock out rapid-fire micro-blog posts and not feel like a dick for clogging up someone else's feed. That's just what tumblr is -- it's the feed-clogging site. It's a site where you get your feed clogged. Dreamwidth doesn't seem to have that energy (yet, at least). But I'm adaptable! I adapted to a new career this past year. I adapted to living in the high-altitude desert I find myself in. I adapted to Grundo's Cafe, the fan-built neopets mirror that ZZ turned me on to a few weeks ago. So maybe I'll find myself adapting to this, as well.

fandom stuff:

well, let's make a little fandom corner, shall we? here's my WIP list this spring:
  • "Plato's allegory of the cave", also known as the fulcrum fic, a buck/tommy future fic set in my friend screamlet's ship of theseus universe. 
  • "Field study of the stratigraphy of the Pasadena geologist", which my first Fandom Trumps Hate winner plucked out of my grab bag of ideas and wips; this is the buck/tommy geology professor AU.
  • as yet untitled fic for RC, who was my second FTH winner. it'll be a buck/tommy fix-it.
what are you guys working on? will you all start blogging, too? 
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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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