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[elrhiarhodan]

Hello, 2025, I'd say you better be an improvement over 2024 but I don't hold out much hope...

I welcome everyone except the haters. This blog is not a place for those who want to bash and trash and otherwise be unpleasant. I generally avoid inflammatory political rhetoric, if just because if I wanted that, I'd be on FB. I used to post quite a bit of personal stuff, but lately, I've been playing my cards close to my vest and not sharing anything (for reasons...). If I do share and you do want to know what's going on in my life, it'll be locked for members of my circle. So subscribe to elrhiarhodan and do the clicky on the proper button. I'll likely add you back - unlike with tumblr where I almost never do.

My fannish interests are fairly narrow, and I am really very monofannish. Right now, I've fallen into my first megafandom, Star Wars. I'm really entirely ship-based in my creative interests - right now I'm writing a major Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan time-travel AU, which I publish weekly on Thursdays. The chapters are on AO3 but I post a concurrent meta (the old-fashioned DVD commentary) here along with the chapter post notification. As if right now, it's about 300k and will probably finish at 400-450k. I read a lot of everything from the prequels and original trilogy (I don't really care for the sequels and what they did to my beloveds.

My previous major fandoms are White Collar, and Seasons 1 & 2 of The Flash, and Kingsman. I've flirted with a bit of Marvel, some Sherlock, Morse'verse, a few other random fandoms in crossovers.

2025 will likely be a continuation of 2024, with weekly postings of my time-travel AU chapter notifications and the meta posts. And maybe an occasional something else if the mood strikes. I don't know. Right now, I'm feeling grim about everything.

Just so you know that I know, if you're going through the first years of my journal looking for old White Collar entries, there are a metric fuck-ton of duplicates. I used to replicate posts from here to LJ, and on several occasions, the linkage did something strange and ended up duplicating entries. Now I need to go through entry by entry and figure out which ones are duplicates (the ones without comments) and nuke them. It's tedious and not fun and I was prolific here for years, so it's not something that I can do in a few hours.


What else? I'm sure there's a lot to say but I can't think of it at the moment. Please don't be afraid to comment or reach out to me. I'm housebroken, I don't bite, and I love to make new friends. I'm a golden retriever, what can I say?


My own Golden Retriever, Brandy, circa 1981

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[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you! And I look forward to seeing yours.

I'd been using the cross-posting feature on DW since 2008 (I think) when LJ crapped the bed about something (getting sold to the Russians? Or did that happen before), so I've always been posting from DW, then importing back my comments and replies.

If you want to get your DW blog to have some of the Flexible Squares features from LJ, let me know. I can point you to tutorials for that - it's remarkably easy. And I've been having fun tweaking my CSS - it's amazing how much I've learned about encoding fonts in just an afternoon!

Let's keep signal boosting the benefits of DW to the heathens on Tumblr. The kiddies will go to Pillowfort (even the name makes me shudder), and the adults will come here. It's a little more work, but the benefits far outweigh the costs.

[bayliss]

It took me having Deadliest Catch Real Person Fan Fiction that was complete shit, BTW, plagiarized and then being impersonated to get a Dreamwidth account. Then me messaging Denise, who is a wonderful human person, about getting my handle so that i could finally go back to being bayliss over here. I've had the same name for well over 20 years online, it's nice to come back to it. :-)

I kinda knew that LJ was dying when Six-a-part bought it and then the russians bought it. so when Tumblr got bought I knew the end was nigh, but it lured us in to a false sense of security.

I chose the theme closest to the one I had over on LJ, TBH. I used to do the HTML Coding on the themes before they changed it all over to CSS and i never found a website, tutorial, or book that broke it down easy enough for my visual brain to understand. I seriously do not have the patience to sit for hours anymore tweaking my HTML code to make an image move four pixels to the left

I was learning HTML for building my website before Geocities and then Yahoo small Business shit the bed. Dude how fucking hard is it to keep a website that Has Images Hosted on it and being paid for Monthly up and running. I paid for it it should work, right especially when it had been up since 2004. *glares* No, Yahoo breaks the damn site and i find out when I go to upload some mother fucking images from a vacation I took only to see that None of my images and the website is not working.

I canceled the payments and the sent them a strongly worded email calling their website hosting service trash.

I have been trying to get my fandom Old friends to come back, but I think that most of my posts get buried under the influx of memes and random trash people are still throwing up and I do tend to follow youngins since they are the ones in the fandoms I am in.

I admit i will get a Pillowfort account and see what all the hoopla is about, but i think This site will be my primary blogging platform again. even if i only have two people to yell at over here. :-)

At least I'll have some posts to read other that DW News now. LOL

[elrhiarhodan]

I don't know how active she is, but a former WC fandom friend that got big into Hockey might be someone you'd be interested in knowing - sahiya, unless of course, you're fans of different players (I think she's deep in the Blackhawks fandom).

I'll get a Pillowfort account, too - just out of curiosity. I'd tried with WritScrib, but no one I knew was over there and of course, they'd failed in their funding and closed shop (which I didn't even know until yesterday).

I am a little anal retentive about the visuals, so yes, I'll spend hours trying to figure out why an image is four pixels off-center! In fact, I kind of did, today. :D

Denise is awesome, the kind of person you want running a blogging platform. Someone reachable, responsive and responsible. I'm kind of happy to be back.

[bayliss]

Oooohhh, well given I'm a Minnesota Wild fan and the Blackhawks are in our division... we may not get along... But I'll check them out.

I only have one person on the Blackhawks that I despise and that for his behavior off the ice.

But anyway, Its not like I'm not interested in Kingsman anymore, I am. It's just the same four people produce stuff (admittedly I strongly dislike ABO and MPreg and that's all that seems to be out there) and the dislike people have for Original female characters, wips that are not slash, and complete lack of feedback makes it hard to want to keep writing stuff, ya know. And i can only read so many Coffeeshop AU's and MeetCutes If you catch my drift. and seriously, If my heart ain't into writing the slash, I can't write it.

I would die for Denise after she gave me my account name back. Shit, I've paid for two years for a premium account and I will pay for it again next year. :-)

[elrhiarhodan]

We'll have to cordially differ on A/B/O and Mpreg (I've written both) - but that's okay, because different strokes for different folks.

I agree with you about the female OCs and even worse, the Reader-Insert fics. And yes, my heart isn't interested in writing if it's not slash. I can manage if it's poly, but the older I get, the more set in my ways I get. And I want to write and read slash, not het. I can read het in any off-the-shelf commerically published romance. I want my fan fiction slashy - doesn't have to be porn, but I want the principal relationship to be slash.

One of the things I noticed early on in the Kingsman fandom is the seriously lack of comments for feedback. Kudos are okay, but they are not concrete feedback, and that - above all else - is what I miss about publishing on a true blogging platform. AO3 is a gift, but I seriously hate kudos because they are the easy way out. And sadly, that's never going to change.

I will always pay for my DW account - been doing a paid account since I signed up and I've never, ever regretted the cost. Even when I was just using DW for posting to LJ. Contributing financially always made sense - it's just the right thing to do.

[bayliss]

See, I accept that people like it and write it, but I ain't gonna be rude and tell people they can't like it. My poor little Pea Brain won't and can't wrap it's little self around the whole A/B/O and MPreg. It's the logical side of my Brain,the side that wanted to be an Astrophysicist, just can't suspend it's belief. The Non-logical side was all "cool story" and "Come on can't you just suspend belief and like this for ten damn minutes".

I respect that and that is good, But what I hate is that those of us who don't primarily write slash get shoved in the back like we suck. I like reading it, I love reading it. I just have a very hard time writing it. I know logically i shouldn't, cause I have written it for other fandoms, but when it feels like you are being forced to do it because it's the only thing people WILL read, it kind of makes it hard.

I noticed comments going down the drain when I was writing Red Dwarf and Deadliest Catch fan fic. Shit, trying to get comments were like pulling teeth. I just figured, taking this from my Harry Potter and Gundam Wing days, no comment meant it sucked balls.

(When i say I'm a Fandom Old I mean a Fandom Old. Like I wrote X-files and Homicide: Life on the Streets Fan fic... back in 1994... all of that shit is gone now... Thank the Gods.)

I paid for my Live Journal, I can sure and hell pay for my Dreamwidth. that's how I look at it. besides they ain't gonna sell me to advertisers for money.