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[salixbabylon]

Well, I've always wondered and now, thanks for bitofaspaz, I know:


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How much are you worth in bed?

(As an interesting test, I took it again and said I was a guy. I'm worth $92/hr less with a cock. Odd.)

1) It's been over 6 months now and it seems like the fear-level is back down to green and no one's too freaked about LJ shutting them down anymore, now that it's been bought by those nice Russians. And Insane Journal seems like it caught on with the HP crowd, but not anyone else, and the other things like ScribLit are still in process.

Anyone have anything to say about this? I was dead set against giving LJ any more of my money, but now that there's no replacement and they seem to have backed off on the draconian TOS-crap... I don't wanna lose my icons and stuff.

2) You know what I've been thinking I like the best on LJ communities lately? The daily newsletters. I've stopped reading most communities and only check out the fics recced or listed on the newsletters, for both HP and SPN.

I think the VigOrli and RPS-in-general fandoms needed a newsletter. I might not have entirely stopped reading if someone had filtered through it all for me. There were just too many archives and communities and whatnot to keep up with it all.

3) I'm on season 2 of Supernatural, and am having the urge to re-watch eps to really make sure I don't miss anything. But I should probably just be plowing through them and get caught up, right? I think I have fear of being current and then having to wait a WHOLE WEEK to see what happens next.

I haven't been current with a tv program in ... God. Since the President's daughter was kidnapped on West Wing? Or maybe season 1 of Lost? I get impatient, and thanks to a massive backlog of shows to watch, I tend to just wait and do the whole season all at once. I'm all about immediate gratification here, people.

And yeah, that goes for in bed, too, just to round out the post. ;)

Comments

[causette.livejournal.com]

I have fear of being current and then having to wait a WHOLE WEEK to see what happens next.

ah yeah, but that's when you re-watch all the old episodes.

Again and again and again and again :P

And that way you'll be less likely to get spoiled if you hurry and catch up :D Like this awesome Sam icon I have... wouldn't it be fun if you knew what episode that was from and could laugh just seeing it because it reminds you just how funny that whole episode was :P hehe

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Good point. Once I'm caught up, then I'll fill my days with reviewing all the little details, finding more youtube clips, getting all the behind-the-scenes stuff... And I will now all the inside jokes and understand all the iconses and read all all all of the fics ever.

Oh, how I will wallow and frolic in the sexy SPN goodness until I explode into billions of tiny bits! :)

[sarka.livejournal.com]

I think the VigOrli and RPS-in-general fandoms needed a newsletter. I might not have entirely stopped reading if someone had filtered through it all for me. There were just too many archives and communities and whatnot to keep up with it all.

Oh crap. Clearly, I fail as a friend.

:S

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Hm... The community's been around since 2004 but only had 150 members? Clearly it never really caught on for some reason.

Ah well. Live and learn. :) I suspect the real reason it didn't catch on was because the infinte actor-slash possibilities don't lend themselves to a single comprehensive RPS fanlist. I mean , just my own "newsletter" would include actors from LOTR, Troy, POTC, Star Wars, SPN, bandslash, etc etc etc. Of course, the SPN one includes RPS and FPS, which might be the best way to go...

*babble*

[sarka.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have a lot of members, I know. The main thing about it is that it is still being updated. Last update was links to all LotRiPS-related stories that were posted last week.

[hammil77.livejournal.com]

Well I just bought a paid account. I don't think there's really much to worry about. After all, some HP people made themselves perfectly comfortable over on IJ but it's easy to tune IJ in to LJ. Although it's hard to say if LJ will make any more drastic changes but I don't know, it seems alright over all. Besides, most other fandoms don't fall under the rules they were putting in place and are firmly established here. Plus I can't live without my LJ Pics and userpics. :P

I love the newsletters that have been put in place. Like you I only check them for most things. Makes it so easy to catch everything. I'm not sure the VO fandom would benefit really. There's not much fic anymore to really catch and if there is you only need a few main communities to get it all. Perhaps if it hit a resurgence it could benefit.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I'm going to stay with the paid account, too. If they fuck up again, then no. LJ is still on probation with me. ;)

I don't think LOTRPS is going to seriously revive any time soon. It was more a "that would have been nice, three years ago" kind of thing. But As I noted in my comment above, RPS is too diverse for that to actually work, most likely. Ah well.