clo_again: (monkton - where are we going)
I managed to remember my Dreamwidth password but I’ve forgotten how to navigate a blogging site in the decade plus of wading through memes on that hellbird app. I’ve tried Mastodon and it didn’t stick, and Instagram is okay but kind of a mess of sponsored posts, and sometimes I just want to yell into the void without having to photograph it first so… chances are this might be the Twitter replacement? Everything always circles back around to blogging.

I am very pleased to have multiple icon options back and to have this decade-old (two decades old?) work of art to appropriately sum up the sensation of watching yet another of your long-time social media homes get torn down by capitalism. I hope it’s nice when we get to the end of it.

The only downside is that I don’t have any image storage on LJ to utilise anymore so if I want to post cat pictures I’m going to have to work out some free picture storage. Sigh. Online upheaval is always so much admin.

edit: OH MY GOD there was a typo in that entry and I just…clicked the edit button and edited it out. In your face, Twitter.
clo_again: (Psych - Shawn/Jules)
Something like two and a half hours later, my "quick" header change is done to the point where I at least don't dislike so much that I'll want to change it tomorrow, even if the Photoshopping is spectacularly lazy. I couldn't find anything to change it to for ages, other than knowing I wanted something new; went with Andrew-Lee Potts on, well, a whim. And because I really enjoyed him in SyFy's Alice last week and he's got a pretty face on him, which is always fun to look at everytime I load LJ.

Also, did I mention he was excellent in Alice? The plot was definitely sketchy at times - lots of times -but he and Caterina Scorsone (Alice) made it work. Some (not all but definitely some) of the CGI was pretty nifty too. Worth a watch! I'm side-eyeing the DVD on Amazon right now.

~

So, as you can see one is not yet dead*, despite my complete lack of LJing lately. I keep thinking of things to post about like new Who and my [livejournal.com profile] kindoftrouble-inspired reaching-ridiculous-levels-now Psych obsession (yes, James Roday was totally a candidate for the header but I couldn't find pictures I liked and was too lazy to screencap) or the fact that my work contract has now been extended until the end of May (hurrah!)...only I mention them on Twitter and then forget. Twitter has done more to kill my LJ posting mojo than anything else and I apologise.

Not that I say anything really interesting on Twitter either! It's mostly cooing over whichever Psych ep I've been watching (recently) or talking about tennis (though not right now because it's clay season & I don't care) or LOLing at the royal wedding snark (yesterday). Stuff that's worth 140 characters but not an LJ post. Before Twitter, I probably would've made the LJ post regardless but now it all gets splurged over there and it may save LJ from my ramblings, but it stops me posting anything here either. Hhhmm. Maybe I should work on that.


Er. Anyway. I'm trying to get working on fic again after a whole month where I just haven't wanted to pick up a pen at all, and I owe [livejournal.com profile] jesse_kips many, many words by tomorrow which will get done and maybe at some point I can get some minificlets posted here. Maybe. There's handwritten scribbles everywhere but I'm still mid-writing-funk and can't decide if they're worth typing up.

...So that's pretty much what I've been doing since my last too-long-ago post? At least this one has writing instead of just pictures. I am around LJ still though; I read my flist every day and all my new fic recs still get added to my memories. So you know. I just need to work on the saying stuff regularly part. Which I will! And will say something interesting! Er. Or at least try (no promises). ^_^


*dear universe, no jinx intended, please move along.
clo_again: (Andy - Laugh)
Hugely amused by Twitter resetting everyone's followers/following counts to zero, mostly because I'm imagining the sheer level of outrage and mouth-frothing indignation that I'd be reading right now if LJ did the same thing to everyone's flists.

(I'll be less amused if I have to manually re-add all the people I follow because I follow about ninety people usually and I will space a lot of those if I have to go through one by one. Thankfully timelines are still showing normally and there's this article making the rounds so I'm pretty sure they're fixing something and it'll be fine.

Oh Twitter. Somewhere in your headquarters, someone is explaining right now that "Yes we had to fix this... but yeah okay, we did it for the lulz!")
clo_again: (Monkton - Where are we going?)
Twitter is broken. This should be an excellent reason to turn off the internet, get a cup of tea and actually write something.

...

*twitches*

*does NOT LOAD the addictive-like-crack Robot Unicorn Attack game*

*honest*


eta: OH! For everyone wondering about Captain Pretty returning to Primeval, he's been confirmed as coming back (there are other CASTING SPOILERS in that article so don't read if you want the new series' to be a complete surprise)

thought relating to said spoilers )
clo_again: (Paul McDermott - Help Me!)
Hm. I want to see Wil Anderson in Edinburgh. I need to know if he has any earlier shows going. In years past, I would've trawled the programme exhaustively, squinting at tiny print and crossing my fingers that I wouldn't miss what I was looking for, or that something would go on not programmised and I'd miss it.

These days I just go on Twitter and ask him direct. How times change. If he answers, of course, but hey there's only so much social change we can take at once.

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