Oh, honey bunny! I am a mess and all over the place.
I think you mentioned how you were on a downward swing with fandom when everything went pear shaped, and I think that I hit that downward swing *because* everything went pear shaped. And I don't just mean the HP/LJ/6Apart stuff. IBARW coming up and the ever ongoing Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom, the miscegenation mess all brought me low all at once. I am ever ambivalent about my feelings towards LJ (I am typically in love with my FL, so it's not you guys) and fandom. And when I say fandom, I mean fandom at large, all fandoms everywhere. Because I am interested in my FL and because they are interested in varied, awesome things I get to run into interesting, fascinating, gorgeous, stupid, irritating, facepalming stuff all the time. And I love that. But I think I'm on the ready for a break.
Of course I probably won't take a break. Going through and tagging all my old entries I realized that I quit fandom and writing at least once or twice a year, and I mean it at the time, only to come right back. You guys probably couldn't pay me to go away. :)
The 6A thing makes me very leery about remaining on LJ because I don't like how they responded to customer concerns coupled with the unthinking, reactionary response to complaints. I don't know if that sounds right, but the way that journals are being suspended and deleted with no warning. I would think that they could at least offer the "offenders" the chance to remove the offensive content. They're also being very vague in terms of helping LJ'ers understand what could get their journals deleted and while I'm not worried that mine will fall victim to the panic button, there is NC-17 content here and I am writing, with plans to post, a Peter Pan fic that features Wendy/Hook.
Re-interpretation of the TOS by 6A doesn't help and now I'm rambling.
Anyway, everyone is talking about leaving and I decided I might as well do it now rather than later or I may never make the move. I'm comfortable here with all my peeps. We're splintering and there's no one direction that everyone is headed so I decided to make plans. I can always amend them if everyone ends up in one paritcular location.
Plus, there's a part of me that hopes all of this will be resolved somehow and then I won't feel the need to be rightously indignant and move.
Right now I plan to make IJ my primary journal. I have the same user name on InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal. I'll probably just post links to my IJ and GJ here. It's going to be lonely over there for a while, but well, it was lonely over here, too at first.
Okay, I totally just vented at you and that isn't what I intended to do.
I think a writer's group would be phenomenal. I would totally be up for that. I don't talk about my OG fic much because this journal is mostly a fandom place and I haven't written much original work that I'd want to share. Anyway, if you do a writer's goup let me know cause I am TOTALLY in. :)
The long and the short of it is that I WILL be posting. I will be running around and commenting. I'm a little burned out and despondent right now, I think because racism and stupidity so make me want to pull out my hair and go live on a mountain in the back of nowhere.
There aren't a lot of people who make me want to send them silly packages so I can't imagine that we'll lose contact. You're one of my girls, yo!! And knowing me, if I get bored and lonely enough on IJ, I'll be right back here.
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I think you mentioned how you were on a downward swing with fandom when everything went pear shaped, and I think that I hit that downward swing *because* everything went pear shaped. And I don't just mean the HP/LJ/6Apart stuff. IBARW coming up and the ever ongoing Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom, the miscegenation mess all brought me low all at once. I am ever ambivalent about my feelings towards LJ (I am typically in love with my FL, so it's not you guys) and fandom. And when I say fandom, I mean fandom at large, all fandoms everywhere. Because I am interested in my FL and because they are interested in varied, awesome things I get to run into interesting, fascinating, gorgeous, stupid, irritating, facepalming stuff all the time. And I love that. But I think I'm on the ready for a break.
Of course I probably won't take a break. Going through and tagging all my old entries I realized that I quit fandom and writing at least once or twice a year, and I mean it at the time, only to come right back. You guys probably couldn't pay me to go away. :)
The 6A thing makes me very leery about remaining on LJ because I don't like how they responded to customer concerns coupled with the unthinking, reactionary response to complaints. I don't know if that sounds right, but the way that journals are being suspended and deleted with no warning. I would think that they could at least offer the "offenders" the chance to remove the offensive content. They're also being very vague in terms of helping LJ'ers understand what could get their journals deleted and while I'm not worried that mine will fall victim to the panic button, there is NC-17 content here and I am writing, with plans to post, a Peter Pan fic that features Wendy/Hook.
Re-interpretation of the TOS by 6A doesn't help and now I'm rambling.
Anyway, everyone is talking about leaving and I decided I might as well do it now rather than later or I may never make the move. I'm comfortable here with all my peeps. We're splintering and there's no one direction that everyone is headed so I decided to make plans. I can always amend them if everyone ends up in one paritcular location.
Plus, there's a part of me that hopes all of this will be resolved somehow and then I won't feel the need to be rightously indignant and move.
Right now I plan to make IJ my primary journal. I have the same user name on InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal. I'll probably just post links to my IJ and GJ here. It's going to be lonely over there for a while, but well, it was lonely over here, too at first.
Okay, I totally just vented at you and that isn't what I intended to do.
I think a writer's group would be phenomenal. I would totally be up for that. I don't talk about my OG fic much because this journal is mostly a fandom place and I haven't written much original work that I'd want to share. Anyway, if you do a writer's goup let me know cause I am TOTALLY in. :)
The long and the short of it is that I WILL be posting. I will be running around and commenting. I'm a little burned out and despondent right now, I think because racism and stupidity so make me want to pull out my hair and go live on a mountain in the back of nowhere.
There aren't a lot of people who make me want to send them silly packages so I can't imagine that we'll lose contact. You're one of my girls, yo!! And knowing me, if I get bored and lonely enough on IJ, I'll be right back here.