bahamute

Well. It's been a while, unfortunately. I wasn't as good at keeping up with this as I'd hoped I would be. But with the Great Tumblr Collapse of 2018 I felt like I should probably open this back up, since hey maybe it'll actually be active here again! I'd always felt kind of bad that I missed out on Livejournal's heyday due to being awkward and nervous.

But yeah, wow, Tumblr. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't actually happy when I heard about the NSFW ban, because that site is toxic, in my opinion, and online culture (for lack of a better word??) might actually get better with people being forced off. It was too much of a garbage fire to fix anyway, I think. So them making a choice that has a high likelihood of ending the site, or at least kicking out a decent chunk of the current userbase, is probably good for everyone in the end. Still, I'm almost impressed at how poorly they handled the whole thing, but what do you expect, I guess.

I really hope enough people come back to journaling, enough to make Dreamwidth more active again, because if the communities were just more active it would pretty much be perfect for me. I know there's also Pillowfort (although I have some concerns about the feasibility of their model as well as their TOS) and I know some other people are looking into making a new social network in the vein of AO3. I honestly hope they all succeed, because maybe if we had more options with different strengths that appealed to different people, there wouldn't be so much fighting? I know it's kind of a rose colored glasses thing but...I miss a lot of things about old online creative spaces. I hope we go back to that.

So yeah, really glad I quit Tumblr pretty much for good earlier this year. And glad to see people are still here!! Now to just keep myself here too, haha.

Well, guess it's time to start this thing up now. Not sure exactly what I'm gonna use it for but...its just nice to have at least some social media I'm not super anxious about using for fear of harassment. So that's nice.

I'm still so torn up about Writscrib though. I woke up this morning and for a second thought I'd just dreamt the whole thing but no such luck. I feel bad I didn't post more. It did wonders helping with my fear of creating things, but I didn't get enough confidence quick enough, it seems. Baby steps.

That said I'm glad I managed to add some refugees here. So many people use Tumblr and I just have such negative experiences, I don't think I can do it again. I've toyed with the idea of creating a community for us and to try and drag a few more over this way, but I don't know how communities work, so I guess I'll look into that later.

So yeah, I just wanted this not to be blank and maybe I'll get in the habit of using this. Hope to be seeing you around!