"this problems gonna last more than the weekend"

[seraphcelene]

It seems that more and more of my FL is pretty serious about leaving and me not being one for long goodbyes, especially when the ship is sinking and the rats have already begun to swim to shore, I am prepping to mostly suspend my activity on LJ. diachrony starting to cross post at GJ and IJ, fodian's decision to quit cold turkey and tkp's decision to leave have all left a really bad taste here for me. I will definitly be checking my FL here to keep up because there are communities and people remaining, but I think that I've lost my enthusiasm, possibly for journal's altogether, for Livejournal for sure.

The 6A debacle is ridiculous and stupid, possibly made worse in light of Brad Fitzpatrick's leaving (and doesn't that look like abandoning a sinking ship) and I also read the post by insomnia and an insane amount of commentary and debate, plus the mess over "miscegenation". I am tired of online right now. Hear that internet?! You exhaust me! IBARW is coming up and the necessity of something like that makes me depressed.

So. What's the plan?

-- I will be trimming my FL down to the journals that I actually read on a regular basis.
-- I used LJ Archive to archive my LJ on my harddrive and as soon as I remember where I put the How To link, I'll move the archives over to GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal. From what I can tell IJ trumps GJ, so that looks like its going to be journal HQ for me.
-- I will be cross posting to GJ and IJ as soon as I download Semagic, but that probably won't happen til the weekend. Sooner only if I get other RL stuff done early.
-- Essential Imperfect will be updated with all fic. If anyone on my FL needs a place to host their fic permanently (tkp, I'm looking especially at you) let me know. I have plenty of room.
-- I finally opened up a delicious account to dump all my memories. The plan is to use that on a go forward.
-- I've submitted seraphcelene over at fandom 411 for anyone who wants to find me.

My LJ will remain open because there are people who are staying (thawrecka, samdonne, katherine_b, moireach, kormantic, to name a few) that I want to keep track of. I'm only assuming you guys are staying because I haven't heard otherwise. There's also a2zmom and chrisleeoctaves who's plans I don't know. I guess we're all playing the waiting game, waiting and seeing.

I've never been especially good at waiting. I'm more of a Get it Done kind of girl, so here I go to get it done.

Traffic here has never been wacky so I don't think the transition will be all that painful. I've always worked to keep my FL low because I just couldn't keep track of too many people (I think I'm in the 30 or 40 area). It's the end of an era, my friends. I always thought I'd just get bored with LJ. I assumed I'd slowly lose interest as I did with fanart and Waking Moments. What a surprise to discover that this is going out with such sound and fury. I'm a writer at heart, always have been, and LJ and fandom have been about a community of writers and readers and there's the difference to all my other fannish activity. You see, I'm still very much attached, but I decided about a year ago to do this on my terms and, well, these are now my terms.

With that thought, I need to re-submit my fic to BFA. I know it went down courtesy of hackers and most of my fic was lost. I'm also thinking of submitting the smaller fandom stuff over to The Glass Onion. Things like my Roswell fic, Farscape, the one End of the Affair thing, the Peter Pan when it's done (and it will be finished).

And that's me.

This is odd because maybe it looks like I'm just following the crowd, and in a way I am, but mostly it's because, as I said before, the energy here has comepletely changed. 6Apart has managed to make fandom feel totally unwelcome and I don't like the way that they've chosen to handle the situation. So, I'm out. Not totally. I'll be around. But I am out.

Maybe this is a good thing. While the rest of fandom is picking a place to hang their hats maybe I'll get some of that Original fic written. I've got two original shorts laid out that need writing and revising. I need to update everything over at Essential Imperfect (new layouts included and that takes time, ya'll, cause I'm trying to advance my CSS coding skillz, yo).

How odd. How terribly, terribly odd.

Comments

[thawrecka]

I'm definitely staying (though I also have a Wordpress blog if you want the link for that. I probably won't update it much).

I definitely support submitting your fic to archives. I still have such love for fic archives.

[seraphcelene]

I know! Last year was the first time I stopped submitting to archives because of the internet issue, but now I'm back on board. YAY!! Send me your Wordpress link. I expect to hear if you shift locales, but I'll still be checking my FL here, so I'll know what everyone's up to. I'm just not posting here anymore with any regularity.

[thawrecka]

Me at Wordpress. I'm not likely to shift locales but if I did I'd use beyond_lj to make sure people knew where I went.