A thought.

[hackthis_archive]

My issue with The Great Dreamwidth Migration Or Something Like It, is not that people are going, or not going. If you go, have at it, i've got an OpenID, I'll stop by -- if you stay, I'll see you around. It's not that I've been offered a code or haven't been offered a code. I do think there is something a little Supply and Demandish about it, in that the fewer codes there are the more people want them and the more it becomes almost a status symbol, and then other people want them because they see other people wanting them. But that's not my point either. I am neither pro-Dreamwidth nor picking up the pitchforks. I haven't done the homework, I haven't tested the application. It could be the best thing since the Notes App on my IPhone, I dunno. I am not making any call or pissing in somebody's sandbox.

The issue I have is that there seems to be this immense pressure, not from one person or even one direction, but just a overall press that 'Everyone Must Go!' like the house is going to burn down around us if we don't get out now. Like if you don't get out of LJ now you're going to be left behind, and that, to me, that's just not cool. That, to me, takes a lot of fun out of something that indeed might be great. But, you know, that's just my opinion.




And on a wholy unrelated Southland note: HOLY FUCKING COW, JOHN COOPER + REGINA KING FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN. *\o/*

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[boji.livejournal.com]

My opinion on dreamwidth - after I got an open ID code - was that all the cool kids (who knew each other in the fandom way back when) were moving house. And I hadn't decided what the hell I was going to do - never having been a cool kid in any fandom.

Then, tonight I got an invite code. And yes, I did migrate my LJ entries, comments and user icons (mind you, despite the gorgeous and damn easy to use migrate interface there are still a few beta-glitches) BUT I'm currently thinking of it as the fallback position to my IJ.

That account I got during strikethrough. Paid £30.00 for it and it's permanent. But I don't have objections to killing it if fandom jumps between here and dreamwidth. Instead of having an IJ & an LJ I'd have a DW & an LJ.

At least that's how I see it at the moment. Mind you, style coding still not where I want it and damn if I don't have to recode/url fix my fic-header post - for the third time.

What I really want is the archive of our own to come out of beta and become the primary home for my fanfic.

[boji.livejournal.com]

Yes. This is why I signed up tonight, so I'll always be Boji.
Glad to see that you're 'Bone' once again.

[mydocuments.livejournal.com]

I kind of maybe feel like a crochity old lady, but I've had my LJ for going on 7 years now. As much as LJ has pissed me off in the past, it's still my home. I've got an IJ, solely for backup (and the fact that they give you 100 freaking free userpics!) and I'll probably get a DW once I can haggle the code from someone on my flist. But unless DW absolutely explodes as the new place to be fannishly (and by that, I mean only GK and BoB fandoms,) then LJ is going to stay as my main home.

[nebt-het.livejournal.com]

I agree with you but I think, like most things, the reaction says more about the individual then the software. I am not that interested in going over to something that isn't even officially open yet whereas others just see the new shiny and have to have it now, especially when only some are able to go early. As for DW in general, I like the concept of it but I am not convinced it is needed. However I do like that there are multiple options. I have seen the big "leave LJ"- migration supposedly happen at least three times now and as far as I know most of the people are still here.

[wolkendunst.livejournal.com]

Cooper looked marvelous in the dark shirt!

And yes, you know I'm going to write it.

*nods sagely* It's inevitable, isn't it? :-) I can't wait to read it!

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Okay, I went to Hulu and watched the pilot and I may never recover.

*hides under blanket*

Of course there's no way for you to know this, but the first week we lived in Florida back in 1996, a six-year-old girl was abducted from our apartment complex -- the next building over, in fact -- as she sat on the curb in front of her apartment one sunny afternoon reading a book while her grandmother cooked dinner thirty feet away. We came home to find every TV van in a 100-mile radius camped on our front doorstep, and all the neighbors milling around talking in hushed tones. Several of them had their dogs with them -- a regular crew of dog-walkers who lived in the complex. You can see where this is going, right?

Yup. It turned out one of the men with a dog, one of the men standing around talking with his neighbors that night, and the day after, and the day after that, had pulled up in his Blazer, said to the little girl that he was going to McDonald's, and would she like to come with him and his dog and get a Happy Meal? She did, probably since she knew him and his dog from their daily walks. He did something he shouldn't have, she screamed, and he covered her mouth to keep her quiet, and, accidentally, he says, suffocated her. He took her body to a electric sub-station nearby, left her there, then went to a convenience store a mile away and used a pay phone to call 911 and say, "I left Jessica at the station." The 911 operator, of course, had no idea who Jessica was, or why they should care that she was at the station. It took the cops another eight hours to put together the pieces of the puzzle and find her body.

They eventually caught the guy (who lived with his mom in the complex) because they found one of Jessica's sneakers in a garbage bag in his closet. He blamed it on their cleaning woman, but eventually did get charged and convicted.

Mr. Bone wonders why I get so upset when he's in the back yard and our 7-year-old daughter is in the front yard, out of his sight. I know for a fact that if our neighbor who walks his dog ever came up and said to her, "I'm taking Bo up to the park for a walk. Want to come?" she would get in the car. Because she loves the dog, and she knows the man. The world is a very scary place sometimes for a parent of a little girl.

The "abandoned baby" trauma hit me in a different spot -- I'll save that for another day. ;)

Aside from all that? I love me some Regina King. I've never liked that squinty-eyed guy playing the detective whose wife thinks she's nothing like the other wives, but I like his partner. I like Tom Everett Scott, though I hope they give him more to do soon, and I miss his Saved persona. Is Cooper canonically gay? closeted canonically gay? is the actor gay? He was referenced on afterelton.com, but I'm only halfway through the baby episode and if they spell it out more than the bar scene at the end of the first ep, then I've missed it or I haven't gotten to it yet.

And now I'm shutting up. :)

[issaro.livejournal.com]

Like you, I don't really have any deep feelings for/against DW. I'm not sure that in a year it'll matter either way. Being fandom run/open source/etc doesn't pitfallproof make, I suppose. I'd rather just wait and see. The only thought I've really given to the whole thing is to randomly wonder if a year from now when I might want to move, if my familiar and loved usernames will be available still.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh, darling, I can see how that would be very traumatic indeed. I am sorry for that. *pets*

As for the rest of it, yes, Cooper is canonically gay, which pleases fans of Michael Cudlitz (like myself) to not end as he was in Band of Brothers and perhaps the bad ass to end all bad asses. It would be like if Alexander Skargard showed up on some network show and was gay. I don't know if he's closeted gay, but he's definitely canonically gay according to the creators of the series.

[stripedpetunia.livejournal.com]

The thing that intrigues me most about DW at this juncture (besides being friendly to OpenID so I do meander over there now and then to read things) is their pickier flist setup, with the subscribing and the access--something I have wished for inarticulately, in the back of my head, to appear on LJ.

That said, I ease my twitches about my flist's collective DW boner with mental reminders that it's not even in open beta for like another week and a half or something. There is plenty of time to take a wait-and-see approach as to whether this sticks or falls in with all the other LJ clones made popular by fandom wank in the past couple years.

Why yes hello I do sometimes lurk on your journal. :D

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

I still need to watch the rest of Mozambique.

I borrowed Band of Brothers...I have seen the first episode...I guess I should watch the rest?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I borrowed Band of Brothers...I have seen the first episode...I guess I should watch the rest?

Yes, it would help.

I still need to watch the rest of Mozambique.

This would help too. Just saying.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Two eps in and I've already started twitching, since I don't trust the producers not to go all The Wire on me and start killing off people I care about.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Uhhhh....we've been over this. I know we have.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

WHAT AREN'T YOU TELLING ME!?!?!?!??!?!

*shakes tiny fist*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Sweetheart, we have been over this plenty of times... I remember your LJ entries about BoB, and you being wary of watching it, and many of us walking you through it and I even linked you to the Wiki page, because you'd wanted to know in advance, so we told you... were you not listening?

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

OH! *smacks forehead*

I was talking about Southland, not Band of Brothers. Yes, I've got my cheat sheet for BoB so I know who kicks it.

It's Southland that I find myself bracing myself to watch -- I'm particularly worried about Janella.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

OH, DUDE! *kicks Bone in shin* Here I am all worried on your behalf!

Okay, yes, I am worried about her, that I do not deny. She is so ricking adorable... I told somebody else that what I really want is for the series to end in five years with her very first day at the academy.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

*thumbs-up*

I approve of that plan.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

*fist bumps*