A couple or three things

[soulstar]

I know, I know, I haven't posted here for a miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion years. I've been mentally stuck trying to decide whether DW or LJ should be my primary journal (or whether I should just crosspost everything). I have been posting on the blog at loopylou.co.uk though. I haven't been crossposting from the blog to DW & LJ, obviously, but there is now a feed account on DW (loopylou_feed ) as well as the one on LJ (loopylou_co_uk ). So just in case you want to read my blogging adventures, which are about things like knitting, spinning, bipolar disorder, and general life ramblings, then... well, there are many ways to do so. Or, I don't know, should I just crosspost directly to this journal after all? I've always felt like I should keep the two separate, but maybe that's a hangover from when I worked in an office? Hmm. Opinions welcome! Heh, if there's even anyone still reading this thing.

What I've been thinking of using this journal* for is more fandom-y stuff. And I'm afraid that means the stuff that I'm watching, so if there are people reading, I give fair warning: I'll quite likely be whiffling on about Sparklytrictly Come Dancing and Holby / Casualty and Merlin and Sherlock (still) and Dr Who and whatever else may catch my fancy. Also, I want to actually write up the book reviews that are in my head. Shall I put them here or on the blog? I don't know. Maybe that's something that works for both. As for which is my main journal between DW and LJ, well, my subscription has run out on DW, and I still have the big flist on LJ, but DW is nicer... I'll decide another time.

At the moment I am doing NaBloPoMo over on my blog, so I don't know if / when I'll be posting here again. But I really really am going to try. I miss being in touch with my flist! Although talking of that, I think I may need to chop it down quite a lot so that I can actually keep up with the reading. Sometimes I wonder how I used to manage. Oh yes, that's right: I signed up for LJ a decade ago. I was young. That explains it all!


* These journals: I'd be crossposting, assuming posting to DW from SeMagic will do that, because posting in the web editor on DW is driving me MAD(der). This is my fourth attempt today, and it's not like it's a problem with the editor itself. I just keep accidentally losing the bleeping thing. Don't ask. Anyway, I need to post from a non-web interface.

Comments

[soulstar]

I love that! Because then I can easily comment here. ;)

And I love *that*! You know what? I haven't crossposted really because I've been weirdly intimidated into a kind of "oh noes my flist is too big, they won't want to read my whifflings" feeling. So I just post on the blog, where hardly anyone ever comments, and it feels safer, somehow. Which makes no actual sense!!

So! I *am* going to be crossposting to here, definitely, every time, unless it's something website / blog specific. I may also crosspost to LJ, because it's silly of me to be thinking that way and I need to reclaim my journal as my space, not other people's. If they don't like me posting all over the place, they can unfollow me. I'm going to be doing some list pruning, too. Does that sound like a plan?

Ugh, whut? Did you manage to turn off automatic renewal? ... My paid account on LJ has finally run out, so they're not getting any more money from me. Feels good! *g*

I thought I had ages ago, but I think maybe it got switched back on when I bought a gift for someone? That's the only thing I can think of. I've deleted my credit card details from the thingy now, but anyway it'll be expired by the time the next renewal rolled around. And I won't be renewing by choice!

If it's only a handful of people, you could add a feed to your reading list here? Unless they only post locked entries...

I hadn't thought of that! Although it's not a few. Seems to be the majority of my flist! I think I need to post an LJ poll asking who else crossposts on DW, and start reading those people only on here to get a better idea of the balance. Because the trouble is, the people who I particularly want to read are the ones with locked posts that I would also particularly want to read. Erm.

I only go to LJ to read a very few communities. For most comms I've set up feeds on DW

I hadn't thought of that, either. I want to cut down on my comms anyway, so I might as well just do that. Again it'd only be the ones with locked posts that I'd need to stay subbed to, wouldn't it?

I LOOOOVE how you can set up filters by tags on your DW reading list.

You *can*? Woah, I have to look into that. Now I've got paid time again for a while, I really should try to take advantage of more than just the icons!!

I'll be working most of today. But maybe on Tuesday?

It's getting quite late now, so I guess you couldn't make it? I'll stay online a little longer (probably with a break for my shopping to be delivered! Yes, at this time of night.) Shall we reschedule? Hope you're not too exhausted from work, darling! Love yoooooou!

[noxie]

You know what? I haven't crossposted really because I've been weirdly intimidated into a kind of "oh noes my flist is too big, they won't want to read my whifflings" feeling.

Makes perfect sense to me! I've felt like that too sometimes. But I hope you'll be posting (and crossposting) more again. I've missed having you around here!

I want to cut down on my comms anyway, so I might as well just do that. Again it'd only be the ones with locked posts that I'd need to stay subbed to, wouldn't it?

Yes. That's exactly what I do too.

You *can*? Woah, I have to look into that. Now I've got paid time again for a while, I really should try to take advantage of more than just the icons!!

I didn't make use of it either until recently. This is so much better than setting up reading filters! I just told my default filter what kinds of tags of which people I wanted to read (or not) - no more feeling overwhelmed by too many posts.

Love yoooooou! :D