ROLL CALL

[jade_sabre]

ALRIGHTY LJ

NOBODY IS POSTING (INCLUDING ME)

who actually still visits this site on a regular basis? And what, exactly, is that regular basis? This is just me being curious I'm not going to go anywhere and half of us are also Facebook friends but you know.

ALSO if you are not spending time here, are you spending it on another site, or are you too busy being consumed with ~*~real life~*~?

also I am trying to decide which project I should work on over this whole nine-month deployment thing. I am slowly getting more settled and accepting that This Is My Life ("yeah! I spent the majority of my first year of marriage apart from my husband! so much for 'alone time before having children'" mostly I jest but it is partially true sob) and so once I beat ME2 and then ME3 and Kaidan comes back and tells me he's sorry and he loves me and I can say IT'S OKAY, I LOVED YOU ALL ALONG much to Quark's disgust as that happens and I get on a schedule (studying Old English? Who has to study for a...language course...sob) I will be WRITING and I have to finish Godbaby fic

(snippet NO STEALING: The pounding grows quieter. I am afraid to look over the wall, and I do not know why. I have only ever spoken to Mother and to the elves. Mother taught me a greeting, but I do not know if the girl—if it is a girl—will understand me. And she is only one person, and Mother told me to find a town. I think that if I wait, she and the animals will go away. I am good at sitting still for hours, at hiding from the sight of those around me. I will wait.

The grass itches at my hands, but I do not move. The smell of the animals is strong and unpleasant, but I do not cough. The sun becomes brighter and brighter in the sky, and sweat drips into my eyes, and I barely blink. I am not here, I think. I think of nothing else.)

but also I want to work on a novel so that WP has something to read that is my fanfiction. Top choices are Goblin Novel (probably he would like it best, but it needs serious serious work because I wrote it during first semester senior year which was INSANE and Pictash spends a lot of time in a library doing research) and 2010 NaNo That Went Nowhere (the two main characters don't have names, also they are basically a younger version of Nevalle and Tanithar) (her name is either Theresa or Tabitha, but Tabitha is too close to Tanithar and I don't like the way Theresa looks, though I like the sound of it) (anyway it's my Generic Fantasy Novel in the same way that the Goblin Novel is my Subversion of the Generic Fantasy Novel). SUGGESTIONS WELCOME.

okay okay time to go eat lunch and borrow Quark's shower and pay my rent and get a library card WOOT.

♥

eta: MY UPSTAIRS NEIGHBOR IS WATCHING SLEEPING BEAUTY is it wrong to want to knock on their door and tell them how cool they are. (Actually I think they have small children, but still. This has made my early afternoon.)

Comments

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Same here. Maybe I'm behind the times, or something, because I always thought Tumblr was for pictures.

[jakia.livejournal.com]

Tumblr is weird because it's not something you really get into until you're into it, if that makes sense?

It's *not* the best website for communication. But it is the best website for getting a general sense of what everyone feels about something immediately/finding out new information/seeing pretty pictures/ego-boosting.

Here's how I started with tumblr: go to the main page, and you'll see you can enter a tag. I entered a tag for a fandom (glee!) a ship (klaine!) and a character I happen to like (blaine anderson!). Tags are...sort of like LJ communities, but not?

Like, picture this: every time someone makes a post on their own livejournal talking Glee, they tagged it. And when you click on that tag, you are seeing what everyone who has tagged Glee has to say about it. Which is a lot, and a little overwhelming, and a lot of it is crap. But then you notice one person has posted an opinion you really agree on, and you decide to check out their journal, and--what do you know!--you agree with them on a lot of things! So you decide to follow them so you can keep track of them and their posts, in the same way you would follow someone on LJ. So now whenever you open tumblr, you see whatever that person has posted, like you would on your friend's page.

Then you notice someone else on the tracked tag who draws fanart that you like, so you follow them. Then this other person writes really good fanfics, so you follow them. And this person is just quirky and you like their style, so you follow them.

And before you know it, you've stopped checking the tracked tags because you're following 100 people and they'll tell you everything you want to know anyway, so why bother wading through the crap? You've got other stuff to worry about.

(Following someone is a buttload less formal than friending someone on LJ. Most people follow/unfollow people without ever speaking to one another. It's more of a "Hey! I think you're interesting and would like to see what you're up to!" kind of thing. It's nice. I like it.)

(and communicating is...hard, but not impossible. Most people communicate via reblogs (which is like, "hey I like what you said here, so I'm going to post it on my own blog so everyone can see it!" thing) which can get...long, and hard to follow. But there are also asks (private messages) and other things more suited for private conversation, so it tends to work out in the end. Worst part of tumblr is that it feels like a popularity contest sometimes, because if someone has a lot of followers, their stuff will get reposted a million times whereas yours might never get seen. But it works in reverse, too: just because you don't have a lot of people following you doesn't mean they won't read your stuff! And people 'like' and reblog stuff all the time, so you'll look at something you've posted and go "WOAH 50 PEOPLE LIKED THIS!" and make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Does this make any sense?)

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I, too, had barely heard about Tumblr and thought it was photographs. And it sounds way more complex and time-consuming than I want to handle!