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[ SECRET POST #4132 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4132 ⌋

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[Jay and Silent Bob]

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[Louisa May Alcott, An Old Fashioned Girl]

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[The Maze Runner, Thomas/Minho]

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[First Wave (Scifi Channel)]

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07. [SPOILERS for Black Panther]

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08. [WARNING for sexual abuse]

[The Fall Part 2: Unbound]

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Who here actually still uses Livejournal and/or Dreamwidth, outside of FS? Does anyone use it for fandom?

I use both. I do some fandom stuff on there, but not as much as I used to. Not enough fandom people around.

Nah, I never had a livejournal and I made a dreamwidth exclusively for f!s which I ditched a few years back.

I possibly would, but I'm only "internetting" by smartphone, so typing is a hassle.

I stopped using and crossposting to LJ when the TOS changed.

I use Dreamwidth for a number of fannish events (primarily watching for exchanges that need pinch hitters).

I try to update my journal semi-regularly and I do so because I want to keep in touch with some folks I met on a friending meme. I far prefer this to tumblr, but that is unfortunately where all the people are.

I ditched my LJ after the latest policy changes.

I'm on Livejournal, but I really miss the original energy it had. It's fine for what it is now, I just wish it were more fun. There isn't a lot of fun. It's like LJ died and went to the Medium Place.

I was on LJ for ten years and still am but a lot of my friends there are gone now and I miss them. When they changed hands I made a backup DW copy of everything (especially because my writing is very slashy) but I have had a very hard time making friends on DW because I don't have much fannish stuff in common with most of the people I've dealt with there. :(

I use my journal, mostly to keep track of my cosplay shit. sometimes I ramble, though, because my rambles are too long for plurk/discord/fb and I don't want anyone on fb to see them anyway. last thing I need is my mom commenting oddly on an entry about how I came to decide to reject religion.

I use mine mostly for exchange letters. I also have the occasional TV/book review but I keep that locked up for my eyes only.

I never had a DW account. I stopped using my LJ a couple of years back because I couldn't find anyone that shared my interests. It might be more accurate to say I couldn't find anyone who didn't outright hate my interests.

Also echoing the anon who said there was no fun there. It was really strange, but it got to where it seemed like having fun was actually looked down on? Unless it was in the carefully moderated and preordained way in which Things Had Always Been Done, with lots of rules and required consensus. It was stifling. Tumblr isn't the best platform, either, but I've had more fun there. It's easier to come and go as you please and do your own thing.

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I mostly use my DW to post private rambly posts.

Sometimes it's speculation/theory posts about something that I like to check back on to see how right or wrong I was, other-times bitchy rants about whatever's bugging me that day. So it's used for cathartic reasons mainly.

I use Dreamwidth to mirror my main blog.

I was really active in Sims2 stuff on LJ before that sort of shut down.

Edited 2018-04-28 00:48 (UTC)

Me. Post to DW/xpost to LJ, read on both. Daily.

I use Dreamwidth regularly. There are times where I don't use it for a few months, but it's served as a nice archive for things so I try to make a habit of it.

Fandom-wise, I mostly stick to RP circles. I moderate a couple of communities and make sure things run smoothly there. I think the only ACTIVE fan community I look after is

animeicons. Everything else is practically dead. I'm in the process of reviving a couple of dressing rooms with hopes of affiliating with other dressing rooms to kind of create a network of them in hopes of reviving some fandom based stuff here.

I no longer use my LiveJournals after the TOS changes. I imported everything to Dreamwidth as an archive, mass-deleted the entries, and keep some usernames for trading purposes.

I used to be active in fandom on LiveJournal. Modded two of the larger Naruto communities and maintained a ton of communities there, mostly icontests and icon sharing communities. With Photobucket nuking most of those icon posts though, I've decided to no longer keep up with them. LiveJournal recently deleted/purged a few of them for inactivity, but that's just how it is.

I use DW for RP stuff. I would absolutely use it for other fandom stuff if all the fandom wasn't on tumblr.

I do though I only post to DW and crosspost to LJ (or post to LJ only comms; I've been trying to use the DW versions where those now exist). I do find myself often just posting fic to AO3 and linking to it from my journals though because readership at LJ/DW has dropped off significantly.

Mine below.

A friend of mine from college kept posting politics I kept disagreeing with and eventually removed me, along with a few mutual friends.(Which surprised me, as most of our disagreement was civil. She claimed she was "tidying up."

It was pretty obvious to me she was just tired of those posts getting comments. I can't even really blame her. I think in college she held back her less liberal-college friendly opinions, and didn't realize how that wouldn't go well on social media. No hard feelings. Just a little obvious what really happened.