#livejournal

[atsa-writing]

I went from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth when DW was new. I bought a seed account (which I should really use, but I got my money's worth at the time I suppose).

It's based on LJ's code, the Dreamwidth Project went line through line (I won't pretend to understand any of it) and made some great improvements, like separating "friending" into "subscribing" and "granting access."

Also, NO ADS. And very customizable. I've got my current daydream fic going on DW at oh_what_can_it_mean. Between that and the even less ready-to-post stuff on Google Docs, it's at least posting my writing somewhere. It's unlikely anyone will ever read it (or if anyone has, they haven't commented), but at least I'm challenging myself to post at least once a month.

So it seems like some of you might be interested in learning more about Dreamwidth.

Listen, here's the thing: Dreamwidth is not slick. It is not fancy. Its base code was originally put together some two decades ago or more, and it looks like it. It can't do much with images and definitely not with video—like, I think there's some way to embed video, but I have no idea how to do it, and hosting it on Dreamwidth is, uh...

The point is! Dreamwidth is a lot different from Tumblr. It's closer to Tumblr than it is to Facebook or Instagram, but it's a lot more old-school internet than Tumblr is. And that means that, for anyone who wasn't on the internet some ten, fifteen years ago, there's probably going to be a steep learning curve. It can take more effort to post things there, and more effort to find your people, its image hosting capacity can charitably be described as both "limited" and "poorly organized", and overall it may still never be the kind of website where you, personally, will want to spend a lot of time or do a lot of things. Dreamwidth does not and will never have an app, for pretty much the same reasons as AO3.

But there is one thing I can guarantee, and that is that Dreamwidth is willing to fight for us and our rights. They're already doing so.

[spongebobssquarepants]

[oldinterneticons]

Top icons posted to @oldinterneticons in February 2025

[evadingreallife]

(By trope-specific i mean for example all the slash fics hosting websites, or the nsfw-only ones, etc)

[maniacalshen]

Remember how LiveJournal let you have several icons (or avatars or "pfps" as you might call them now)? And you'd carefully choose an icon to fit the subject matter, your tone, and the blog on which you were commenting or posting?

And it could make your argument look that much snarkier if you used a rude one? Or you could use it to add a multiplier to a joke?

And icons, alongside banners and wallpapers, were a whole genre of fanwork with its own design language, conventions, and norms, including carefully crediting people for them?

That was neat.

[d3molition-lov3rs]

modern day romance has nothing on whatever the fuck was going on on pete wentz's livejournal

[braxlrose]

this needs to be archived in american history

[mikeywayholdsurfavalbum]

Mikey Way is holding amazing new mexico sunset LiveJournal post by Pete Wentz!

Requested by: @roughbuddy!

[ao3demographicssurvey2024]

In the AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 - an unofficial demographics survey of 16,131 AO3 users - the most popular write-ins for fandom websites or apps were Amino, Quotev and Fanfiktion.de.

To see more analysis, including discussion of how well these results relate to fandom as a whole, please view the full results on AO3.

[ierofangz]

in the end it’s me and my secret private blog with no followers where i act like pete wentz on his livejournal circa 2005 against the world

[bisexualbaker]

You know what, let's do this.

I know there's a decent percentage of Fandom Old Guard who are over here these days, but it can't be all of us. I want to know how useful a comparison it would be.

Like to numbers, reblog to sample size.

[thefawnfallacy]

I know it’s generally in good fun when making jokes about how young fujoshi in the early 2000s-2010s talked about queer couples (i.e. “yuri couple, yaoi couple, i see no difference love is love” or “if you police people’s identities you are not yaoiful at all”) but if you look at it from the lens of acknowledging that this, for many of them, is their first time even realising being queer was an option, it’s a very interesting study in realising that this is an attempt at inclusion from the perspective of someone who may not have ever heard of things like gender identity or sexuality beyond “boy” and “girl”.

[oldinterneticons]

Top icons OVERALL posted to @oldinterneticons in 2024

[scratchmelikethat]

panic! at the disco, 16 june 2006

from this epic awesome picspam that has some epic awesome pics ive seen circulating around the fandom, not knowing where they originally came from! includes some pics of the hush sound too

disclaimer: brendon-heavy spam ahead..!!

[how-the-feathers-have-fallen]

Happy Petekey June 28th Amazing New Mexico Sunset to those who celebrate!!!