You'd better not be leaving fandom, I have a package of art I'm sending out for you. I've been a terrible scatterbrain for months I'm so sorry for the wait! Seriously, I need a minder
I'd also be interested in helping out/taking on deeply_horrible if no one else steps up, it's a fabulous comm./fest and I'd love to see it go on and have a round two.
Dearest you are much too good! I promise I'm not leaving!
You are absolutely not a scatterbrain, at least no more than I am. :-D I am SO excited but you must promise to let me know how I can thank you, yes? I am fairly sure that what I sent you won't be enough. <3
Also, THANK YOU for your offer to step up and take on deeply_horrible. I'm suddenly hearing back from a lot of people on this, which is incredible but also overwhelming, but I will get back to you soon.
I am a very inconsistent Tumblr user, but I'd love to be friends there! I'm lelek over there, as well.
And please don't feel bad about not being on LJ much. I haven't posted to my journal since... January. Though I'll probably update today to make sure people know I haven't died. Admittedly, my distraction comes in the form of trying to finish my novel and (ideally) have it ready for publication by midsummer, which is much less trying than academia, but I completely understand being absent.
Yay! I have followed you. My tumblr habits are very strange and tend towards the surreal, so let me know if there is anything I should tag for saviour, etc.
You're writing a novel! That's AMAZING and totally justifies not being on LJ and I want to hear more. <3
Oh, the novel. It's in its third incarnation and I've realized that I need to change the title because it no longer fits. It isn't great literature or anything, just fantasy with gay characters (I refuse to call anything I write "queer lit" because that backs up the assumption that genre fiction is only about straight people) and some political intrigue. I have a lot of work left to do, but I'm meeting my daily writing target (at least 1,000 words), so presently things are looking up. :)
Hello, my dearest! It gave me a pang to read this, but it's not a surprise. I'm impressed that you've managed to stay actively involved in fandom as long as you have, considering the pressure you've been under. I miss you - not that you'd know it, because I, too, disappeared, and I'm just now standing up out of the rubble and brushing off fragments of debris in preparation for rejoining the online world. I have missed you, though, and I've been quietly worried about you
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Dearest, dearest, dearest, I've missed you so much, there are tears in my eyes just writing this.
Ach, d_h: I'm sad to leave it behind, for the concept is still very dear to me, but with things as they are right now I fear I could only act as the worst of mods. I want the transition to go smoothly, though, and I think a group of mods would be ideal. Duel especially has several plans, so I might try to initiate a conversation between all interested parties to create some kind of panel and come to some kind of consensus about how to run things in future. To have you there would be so wonderful -- I would be beyond the moon with happiness.
I'm sad to hear that so many are decamping! Tumblr is very flexible and experimental and quick, which has interesting effects that the Romantic in me loves, and I do think the platform serves me better right now than LJ, simply because of the flexibility, but LJ has a history and community and to lose that would be regrettable beyond my ability to say. When things go right on tumblr, they are like
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Alas, as you know I find tumblr and LJ to be the reverse in terms of motivation, so I shall just continue you to occasionally spam you with random email and like things you post to tumblr.
Not farewell, hopefully, dear one!! I just ... the LJ format is not working for me right now. It sucks up too much energy that I don't have, if that makes sense? Whereas tumblr always segways neatly into a regiment of -- oh I am panicking now about my inadequacies as a scholar so let's find a photograph relevant to the class readings, well that was remarkably calming, time to return to reading. But I do intend to come back to LJ at some point.
You don't spam me at all, quite the contrary! Where do you get such silly ideas, you. The photographs were beautiful and most welcome. My mind was too impoverished at the time to convey my delight in the terms I wanted to convey it in, if that makes sense. For which I must ask your considerable forgiveness. I have been running on three to four hours of daily sleep and have sort of not responded to most of my emails in weeks, but that is not an excuse, and I am deeply sorry.
Mm, I understand and would prefer that you did not use a medium that makes you so unhappy, there is no point after all. All I meant is that I, myself prefer lj as it sometimes enables me to break writing blocks whereas tumblr is useless for that and serves only to procrastinate on. As such, a farewell for here as I will not see you often. :)
Hmm. You do remember that I am not some horribly demanding professor? Replying with just a emotion is perfectly acceptable, I don't need, nor expect an essay on the finer points of what I probably wrote out in five seconds myself, or copied from a post I made in lj. Not that I expected replies at this point in semester. As you would have found anyway, I am more often than not behind with teaching starting up once more.
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I'd also be interested in helping out/taking on deeply_horrible if no one else steps up, it's a fabulous comm./fest and I'd love to see it go on and have a round two.
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You are absolutely not a scatterbrain, at least no more than I am. :-D I am SO excited but you must promise to let me know how I can thank you, yes? I am fairly sure that what I sent you won't be enough. <3
Also, THANK YOU for your offer to step up and take on deeply_horrible. I'm suddenly hearing back from a lot of people on this, which is incredible but also overwhelming, but I will get back to you soon.
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I miss you much, my dear. How are you holding up?!?
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And please don't feel bad about not being on LJ much. I haven't posted to my journal since... January. Though I'll probably update today to make sure people know I haven't died. Admittedly, my distraction comes in the form of trying to finish my novel and (ideally) have it ready for publication by midsummer, which is much less trying than academia, but I completely understand being absent.
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You're writing a novel! That's AMAZING and totally justifies not being on LJ and I want to hear more. <3
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Oh, the novel. It's in its third incarnation and I've realized that I need to change the title because it no longer fits. It isn't great literature or anything, just fantasy with gay characters (I refuse to call anything I write "queer lit" because that backs up the assumption that genre fiction is only about straight people) and some political intrigue. I have a lot of work left to do, but I'm meeting my daily writing target (at least 1,000 words), so presently things are looking up. :)
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1,000 words a day is a good target, one I wish I could maintain myself. I shall have to look up to you as a model.
Where do you think you'll publish it?
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Ach, d_h: I'm sad to leave it behind, for the concept is still very dear to me, but with things as they are right now I fear I could only act as the worst of mods. I want the transition to go smoothly, though, and I think a group of mods would be ideal. Duel especially has several plans, so I might try to initiate a conversation between all interested parties to create some kind of panel and come to some kind of consensus about how to run things in future. To have you there would be so wonderful -- I would be beyond the moon with happiness.
I'm sad to hear that so many are decamping! Tumblr is very flexible and experimental and quick, which has interesting effects that the Romantic in me loves, and I do think the platform serves me better right now than LJ, simply because of the flexibility, but LJ has a history and community and to lose that would be regrettable beyond my ability to say. When things go right on tumblr, they are like ( ... )
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From here at least.
Alas, as you know I find tumblr and LJ to be the reverse in terms of motivation, so I shall just continue you to occasionally spam you with random email and like things you post to tumblr.
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You don't spam me at all, quite the contrary! Where do you get such silly ideas, you. The photographs were beautiful and most welcome. My mind was too impoverished at the time to convey my delight in the terms I wanted to convey it in, if that makes sense. For which I must ask your considerable forgiveness. I have been running on three to four hours of daily sleep and have sort of not responded to most of my emails in weeks, but that is not an excuse, and I am deeply sorry.
*grovels*
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Hmm. You do remember that I am not some horribly demanding professor? Replying with just a emotion is perfectly acceptable, I don't need, nor expect an essay on the finer points of what I probably wrote out in five seconds myself, or copied from a post I made in lj. Not that I expected replies at this point in semester. As you would have found anyway, I am more often than not behind with teaching starting up once more.
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