sophinisba | Since I'm sure everybody wants to see another post about this...

I sometimes get stuck in this rut where something happens that feels too huge for me to write about it, but then posting about other random stuff without acknowledging the huge thing also seems wrong, so then I just stop posting and I get very lonely. It's crazy! And it can happen just as easily for good things (last year's Houston moot, after which I didn't post for two weeks) as for bad (Fanlib, journal suspensions omg). So anyway.

Well, it is nice to see

pornish_pixies back without the strike through their name. The fandom and fiction journals that were suspended are being brought back. I love that

pornish_pixies replaced all their interests with "the internet's for porn" and are hosting a smutfest to celebrate their triumphant return. And I love that almost every time I refresh the profile at

fandom_counts, a few more fans have signed up. I love fandom!

I used to say I loved LJ too. And I'll still say it in the sense of loving my LJ friends and the community we have here. I also still love it as a mode of communication and a place to read and write fic. I came to fandom pretty recently and all my fannish activity has happened here, so I never get nostalgic for the days of zines or Yahoo groups or even archives. Until this week I was fairly happy having my fics archived here (with backups on my hard drive) and nowhere else. One of the reasons that I've always preferred LJ to the other popular places for posting hobbit fic is that my journal is my turf, so I can post whatever I want without worrying about whether the site maintainer approves of slash or NC-17 fic or MPREG or songfic (because I ♥ my songfics, I really do!).

This is also one of the reasons I haven't ever considered locking my fics on LJ. (Er, except for a few particular fics, but that's all about my insecurities as a writer, heh.) I could be wrong, but I believe Berkowitz's apology was sincere and that their suspending fiction journals was a (huge, stupid, and easily preventable) mistake, and I never felt like the content of my relatively tame journal was in danger. But if LiveJournal/Six Apart as a company ever were to go after erotic fiction intentionally, well then, fuck them, I'd leave rather leave than lock down any of the fic I have here.

I sure would hate to do that! I'm already dreading having to decide, come August, whether to renew my paid account. I'm angry at the company and don't want to give them any more of my money, despite the apologies. I don't trust them anymore. (But damn it! I would miss my userpics and my polls. Hell, I already miss my little interests!)

I'm very hopeful about the

fanarchive project and want to support and use it once it gets off the ground, but I'm wondering if I should be putting my fics somewhere else in the meantime. Not that I expect anything to happen to this journal, just that it's nice to have a backup, and I know some people prefer to read on archives.

Also, I can't get the ljArchive thing to work to save my journal on my own computer. I can download the program fine, but when I try to run it it says that it won't work because my computer doesn't have the .NET framework. And I'm supposed to be able to get that from Windows Updates or find the link from the ljArchive site, and it's probably something really obvious but I can't find it and I feel dumb. :( Help? Um, got the NET thing (thanks,

b_briarwood) but it still isn't working to archive the journal. Eh. Will try again tomorrow.

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so then I just stop posting and I get very lonely

Don't be lonely when we're here to snuggle and love you! Post anything, big or small, poke your head in and say "hi" or "lo" or "hobbits" or "I wish a bagel would appear in my hand right this minute". Yum.

*hugses*

Yum, bagels!

It feels good to get this off my chest. Now I have a post to make about school and... no fic to post at the moment, but maybe sometime soon.

*snuggles*

I can't get the archive thingy to work either -- it goes only so far, and no farther. I think the other Houston gals will be able to show us how to do it. :)

I just got it to work, yay! And unlike the online version, it is searchable, which is pretty neat. I hope someone can get it to work for you in Houston!

I hope you will stay with us, honey, and keep on writing and reading as always. Hopefully, things will be better for a while now.

*hugs* Oh, no worries, I don't intend to leave or to stop posting fic here. I do believe things will be all right here, but I'm still angry and I don't know if I'll be spending any more money on this account.

Go here: http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us
to windows update, select custom. when it finishes scanning, look for the .NET framework 2.0 and select to install.

Thank you, I will try that right now!

thanks for mentioning

fanarchive ... I've seen it mentioned but had forgotten to join.

I think it's a really good idea I want to keep up with it, even though a lot of the discussion in the comm is computer programming talk that goes completely over my head. At least I got to vote on the name! :D

Oh, LJ has apologized? That's good news. I had been a tad worried because I love my friends and fandoms here so much and moving to GJ seems so much of a bother.

I couldn't get the ljArchive thing to work either but I think that's just me being a total computer idiot.

*loves*

Yup, the CEO of Six Apart admitted that they screwed up, apologized, and said they would bring the journals back, and then they did! I still have some issues with his statement but it is better than I was expecting.

The link Breon gave me helped with the archive issue I had, but a new problem came up. They said to try again in an hour so I'm going to go read SGA slavefic and then try again tomorrow.

God, moving to GJ would suck so bad. :(

Please don't make yourself lonely! Because then selfishly I'll get bored because you're not around! So just make random drive-by posts about hobbits or something! *hugs* (I'm in a bad mood this morning omg)

I really appreciate seeing your posts ever day, Claudia. I'm glad you've convinced me to be more comfortable about it than I was when I started out. *hugs*

Yay for smutfests, and defending our smut! *raises giant stein of beer* HUZZAH!!!

Writing more porn and posting it all over the place is the perfect way to respond to this, if you ask me. *celebrates*

*gets spray paint and runs to

news*
:D

I was just about to email you, since I hadn't seen anything from you recently!

*hugs you warmly*

*hugs* Thanks for thinking of me! Apart from the drama and outrage over Fanlib and LJ I'm doing well. Sometimes there's just so much to say that I don't feel like I can say anything.

Looking forward to meeting you!! I just hope LJ has learned from their ("huge, stupid, and easily preventable") mistakes and things settle down again. I can certainly understand why writers are still nervous tho and find it hard to trust LJ again. But if those who write the fics I love have to move somewhere else I will follow you there!! *hugs*

I really don't think they meant for this to affect fiction journals and I doubt it'll happen again, but damn, did they go about things badly! As things are I have no plans to leave and I sure wouldn't want to, but this incident got me thinking that LJ as a company might change their policies at any time and, much as I love this space, fandom might have to migrate somewhere else in response. *clings*

Just one week till Houston! I can hardly believe it! I can't wait to meet you and everybody! Last year was such a great time.

Murder mysteries are the most popular mainstream genre of reading and yet most people that read them and write them are not murderers. What does lj not understand about this?

Seriously. And it's not like hurt/comfort fans actually want to see people get sick or hurt. That whole bit about "interests" meaning "I like/support x" is such b.s.!

Did you see

jaywalkingyay?

Oh, I write posts out all the time about deep thoughts or feelings or life's trials... and often delete them. Sometimes I'm in the moment and I so want to share, and then I'll re-read the post myself and realize that it might be too revealing, or too personal, or just plain too boring.

I love what LJ does for me, and I'm not going anywhere. However, it's very nice to have a backup plan.

Hee, I have posts that I typed up and never posted saved on my hard drive from two years ago. In this case it wasn't really that I was shy, more that... Everybody's been talking about the same thing, and lots of people have been more articulate then me, which makes me feel like just keeping quiet. But not saying anything when the issues are so important also doesn't feel right, if that makes any sense.

I need to give the archive thing another try. I'll do that now. ♥

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