[personal profile] jenett
Yikes! I had a sufficiently complex morning that I completely forgot about posting. Sorry!

Topic of the week
I've been seeing a number of discussions around Dreamwidth about different ways people use social media, different customs (and how sometimes those are formed as ways to deal with a particular site's features or bugs.)

How do you use your Dreamwidth account? Has that changed over time? What's important to you? What do you not care so much about? And while we're at it, do you have a favourite feature you don't think enough people know about?

Not interested in that? As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.

What I've been up to
Moving is exhausting! I got most of my kitchen unpacked last weekend, then fell over in a pit of exhaustion other than more or less keeping my head above water at work.


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Date: 2019-01-11 04:57 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Drawing of 13 floating in space outside the TARDIS. Her speech bubble is a heart. (DW: 13 Hearts Space)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
I originally got this account for fic, well the LJ account that turned into this account, but saw everyone was personal journaling. Looking back at old entries, I had a lot more day to day life stuff ten years ago. Now my DW is probably 80% fandom stuff like reviews, reactions, fic, linkspams, etc, so on.

I am mostly here to talk to people? I love having a really busy reading page with all kinds of people posting about their personal lives, their fandoms, meta, dorky shit they've done, whatever. It feels like such a community.

Date: 2019-01-11 05:10 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Nixon looking through binoculars. (BoB: Binos)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Oh, for feature I use A LOT that not everyone seems to know about. Obviously I try to subscribe to people or comms in my fandoms, but if I'm just looking for the latest chat about whatever, I use the content search function, which will look at all public posts (that haven't opted out), and find me people talking about thing I love! Mostly. If anyone IS talking about it.

Date: 2019-01-11 09:57 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Wanda walking away, surrounded by towering black trees, her red cloak bright. (Misc: Work Boots)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Yes! "When did I post that picture of a marmot"? (In ten years of picture posts.)

Very helpful!

Date: 2019-01-12 09:14 am (UTC)
yantantether: Ladybird (Default)
From: [personal profile] yantantether
...I had never used content search before. Thank you!

I've just found someone talking about my current slightly niche obsession and have bounced into their journal to say hello :D

Date: 2019-01-11 05:07 pm (UTC)
finch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] finch
I'm pretty much the opposite - when I came over here I was much more fandomy, especially in the realm of fanfic writing, and now it's almost all daily life and metaphysical pontificating. I think that has more to do with my life changing, though, because like you I love having a busy and varied reading page.

(also I love your icon!)

Date: 2019-01-11 09:58 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Thirteen wearing googles and holding up her new sonic and grinning. (DW: A Little More Sonic)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Thanks! I made it from one of the alt covers for 13's comic, and is totally sharable, if you want it.
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