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2019 has not been a great fandom year for me so far--mostly-to-entirely to do with the new job and how it's been eating my entire life and energy but I miss fandom and this seems to be a large part of where it lives these days, so here I am.

I'm a little nervous about dreamwidth, mostly because I don't know the social protocols for this kind of long-form blogging platform, like, what constitutes over-sharing vs undersharing and when it is/isn't appropriate to comment on or react to someone else's post and in what ways, etc. But I'll try and give it a go. It'll be worth it to stay in touch with you lovely people. Also I do need a platform for writing updates, so....

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From:

muccamukk

I think the main sort of rule is "don't share locked content." After that, commenting on the main post with a comment related to content of said post is 100% desired. Commenting with random unrelated content might get blinked at. Talking to other people but not the OP of the post might get blinked at but lots of people think it's fine (people do it in my comments all the time).

If that's helpful.

From:

spikethemuffin

Quite so, exactly!

(Hi, Muccamukk! You may know me as Antrodemus in fannish circles.)

I should mention that my Dreamwidth/ Livejournal is currently a therapy substitute for me, Silks, and I can filter you out of the TMI stuff, if desired... I tend to let it all hang out. Pretty much the only reason I'm f-locked is the sad fact of "Creepers gonna creep," and I personally try to mention if I don't want things talked about elsewhere... but that's just me.

From:

whenasinsilks

oh, lord no, I have no problem with (and an undeniable degree of curiosity about) other people's TMI stuff; I just worry people might have a problem with any hypothetical TMI stuff from me (hello social anxiety my old friend)

and that seems like a very sensible rule of thumb!

From:

spikethemuffin

I feel like, if someone knows you through Stony circles, the odds are pretty good that they have both ugly-cried and had a no-hands orgasm from reading your work, and have no basis to complain...

But yeah. I had the social anxiety thing until it completely broke my capacity for shame, and now I come in like Zaphod Beeblebrox after a Mary Oliver binge-read. I'd like to say it's better this way, but I honestly don't know. Shrugs.