*taps LJ* - is this thing on?

[kat_lair]

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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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Comments

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Excellent! If and when these ideas become reality I hope to see you there.

LJ is very quiet, I think maybe about 20% of my flist is posting still. Most people seem to have moved on. Hee, yes, I see you posting fic in fandom I know nothing about which is why I've been skipping them.

Drabble challenge... that sounds intriguing. What kind of challenge did you have in mind? I would totally join in :D

[beedekka]

What kind of challenge did you have in mind?

I don't know, really... Maybe we could make prompts that would work for all sorts of fandoms/characters and write and share one drabble each using that same prompt (e.g. inspired by a specific song, 'character wearing orange', 'Christmas 1987', etc... Or the same thing but instead of prompting, impose a restriction that has to be adhered to (I'm thinking stuff like 'present tense', 'dialogue only', that kind of thing).

What do you think?

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Iiiinteresting. I like the bit about a generic prompt fitting different fandoms. But how to organise the logistics? Like does someone just pick a prompt and then via posting the drabbles it would spread like a virus across flists?

[beedekka]

Ah, were you thinking of something more large scale? I guess it would just be a case of trying to spread a prompt and invite/encourage responses via journal, with the interest of seeing what different people come up with. Perhaps people could drop a link to their own responses into any comment they make on others, and thereby alert readers who follow the OP that they are participating? A bit of cross-journal traffic might come of it.

Whether LJ posting is even already too quiet to try this sort of thing, I don't know :o( I only have a handful of people on my list who actively post fic on their journals, and two of them are you and I, for example! Drabbles are quick, though...

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Your plan sounds good. I wasn't thinking anything too large scale, just wondered the logistics of making sure it would generate some cross-journal traffic like you said. I have some writers on my flist who might be press-ganged into participating :D Worth a try, I'd say, and if nothing else at least there would be a couple of awesome drabbles :D