kat_lair: (BC - a bit of fry and laurie)
kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2013-06-09 05:06 pm

*taps LJ* - is this thing on?

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It’s been very quiet around LJ for a while (at least on my flist, where are all you people?) but, for me, the other social networking platforms just don’t fill the hole of blogging and interacting and talking with people and writing about things at length, like LJ does. So, in a concentrated effort to be a part of the solution, not the problem, I’m doing something inspired by the 100 Things Challenge (sadly, it doesn’t seem to be updating any more so I haven’t officially signed up).

*pause for collective snort of disbelief.

Yes, it’s true. No, I don’t know if I’ll ever finish it but that’s not really the point for me. The point is to have a reason for creating LJ content and to do the things that I have signed up to do. I’ve divided the 100 things into two groups, so I’m doing 50 books I've read with short reviews (including work-related academic books) and 50 recipes I’ve tried/created with comments. Doing both with only a few months' 'backlog' so everything is recent stuff, not something I read/cooked years ago.

I’ll be posting both in the groups of 5 as I finish the books/recipes so watch out for those under the relevant tags.


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Speaking of quiet LJ and creating content, I have two other ideas but I would like to know if anyone (read: YOU) would be interested in joining in and pimping them. Because otherwise I’ll be all sad and pathetic :(

Idea 1. Fandom-friendly friending meme, tentatively titled ‘Still LJ’ing!’ – I’ve seen a couple single-fandom ones going on and then I’ve seen some general ones, but a) I’m chronically multifandom and b) the latter sometimes appears to attract people who are vehemently anti-fandom, which makes me sad.

Idea 2. Anonymous porn meme – For people to talk about porn/erotica (fanfic, commercial fic, pics, art, clips, films etc.), e.g. likes, dislikes, turn-ons, turn-offs, recs, opinions, dirty jokes, serious commentary, requests, fills, random porny ficlets…

So… thoughts, comments, suggestions?

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[identity profile] frikatilhi.livejournal.com 2013-06-11 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel like I really want to post to LJ a lot - but then I try and have nothing to say. Where's the squee?? :p

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-06-12 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
You? Nothing to say? I find this hard to believe... :D

What are you squeeful about at the moment then? I'm having some squeeful (though also a bit conflicting) feelings about the new Star Trek movie, and upset that The New Normal got cancelled, and am starting a read-through of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (got to book 9 the first time around and then the years between volumes just became too much).

[identity profile] frikatilhi.livejournal.com 2013-06-12 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, I know right?? That's just the thing, though - I'm not really in any fandoms right now. I'm behind on pretty much every series I watch, and I'm not that fannish about them anyway, and people seem to be into stuff I'm not that into. Since I faded out of Adam fandom (still love him, not just active in fandom anymore) I haven't really found a replacement.

Of course, there are other stuff to talk about than fandom, I used to do that quite a lot. I think Tumblr and Twitter have made me lazy. :p
Edited 2013-06-12 08:36 (UTC)

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-06-13 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not hugely active in any fandoms either, except maybe Lewis by virtue of modding various challenges. Still, I don't ever really consider myself 'leaving fandom' and often return to write/read fic and do other fannish things in old fandoms.

You should definitely post about other non-fannish stuff too. I'm always interested in hearing what's going on in people's lives etc. I just can't really get on with Tumblr or Twitter, it's all too quick and fleeting to me somehow...

[identity profile] frikatilhi.livejournal.com 2013-06-13 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I never really feel like I've "left" fandom either, it's a way of life. :p

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-06-13 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well put. I always get so sad when some flister does the 'I've overgrown fandom/LJ, time to move on now, bye' post :(