Theveral Things for Thursday

[bironic]

Things That I Have:

- 600 words of a kink meme fic
- A reinforced understanding that I need to learn more than two kinds of story pacing

- Five pieces of art on the way from allposters.com to spruce up this bare-walled apartment
- Two dressers acquired from fellow building residents, neither of which is quite the right size
- Five new work shirts (double my previous total), a skirt and a black dress
- A much-needed haircut
- A weeping bank account

- Pictures from vacation to share
- A weird spate of dehydration
- A Vividcon post to write
- Farscape to catch up on before tomorrow's semi-monthly fangirl sci fi Friday
- New knowledge that Philip Glass is giving a talk next Thursday (Rosh Hashanah). Debating going.

- Thoughts about cross-posting and illusions of privacy. Namely, this: LiveJournal has just made it easier for people to repost content on other social media sites, but it has not made it possible. It was already possible. I try to trust people not to make my private content public, either manually or with a checkbox option; but from the day I started this journal, I've accepted that anything I put online, locked or not, is a risk. What concerns me is the vastly increased likelihood that someone who has linked their Twitter or Facebook account to their LJ will accidentally cross-post something they say to me in a locked post that has potentially identifying information in it. I have worked hard to keep my fannish identity and RL identity separate. If LJ or a rogue programmer doesn't create an option for users to disallow visitors from using the cross-posting option in the users' locked posts, I may be looking at the impetus that finally bumps me over to Dreamwidth. I've said since Dreamwidth launched that it would take either a stupendously dumb decision on LJ's part or a critical mass of friend-shifting to get me to move. Well, the mass is shifting toward critical. I just don't know yet if that platform will be as comfortable for me as this one, or if I will lose people in the migration; and I just paid for another year of LJ service.


'Snew with you?

Comments

[theninth.livejournal.com]

There's a couple of posts in my journal about the whole crossposting thing and ways to deal with it.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm sitting here procrastinating finishing up a batch of proofs for a "Critical Survey of Poetry" reference book. This particular batch was British poets beginning with S. (Shelley was in this batch, and I caught a mistake in a quotation from one of his poems. Guess the English Lit degree finally was good for something.)

The Dreamwidth/LJ issue is frustrating. I love LJ and am totally used to it. DW seems cool and I like a lot of the features, but the communities there aren't nearly as well developed as those on LJ. Maybe that will change if there's a mass exodus from LJ.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I did see them on yours and a couple of others'. So far, no solution to preventing others from inadvertently checking boxes on my LJ - fx, when viewing in style=mine.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the few holdouts not actually on Facebook and I don't have any idea what this is... oh, I see repost buttons now. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, that would suck if this option is on f-locked posts, which presumably it is. I really HATE the thought of moving to a new site though (what can I say, it took me forever to get off mailing lists, lol).

Vividcon report potential yay?

Did you do anything interesting with the hair? I don't think I've changed my hairstyle in years - it just gets longer and shorter although I am tentatively considering the idea of a fringe again. Or 'bangs', which just makes me go O.O every time I see it, because why? XD

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Yay, I look forward to your vividcon post!

Me, I've just sneaked under the wire with the femslash10 deadline, so I'm feeling both elated and exhausted about that.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Real life has been eating my brain.

I'm with you on the LJ-Facebook thing. As someone said elsewhere, it's like living in fire-prone country, being careful not to set off fires, and then having the city government decide to burn trash and set off fireworks and so on.

[topaz_eyes (from livejournal.com)]

Sharing and reposting content was always possible, but c&p requires a bit of thought and work compared to clicking on ticky boxes... :-\

I'm getting my DW home set up. It was always there, like an apartment in another city. Now it's like switching places.