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I will try to do some longer intro post/get to know me thing soon, but in the mean time: hello! I am figuring this thing out as I go! It is strange leaving (or starting leave) tumblr. I am still a relative fandom newcomer, only getting into fandom around 2013-ish. This means that unlike a lot of people my age, tumblr (well, mostly AO3, but also tumblr) was my first fandom home. I never had an LJ, so I don't have any nostalgia for that era, and the style of fandom that lived there is still pretty unfamiliar to me. I know I am not alone in DW being new and different, rather than a familiar throwback, so it seems like now is as good a time as any to be a newbie here. I have heard so many war stories about Strikethrough for so long, that in a strange way, getting bucked by a platform like this feels like a fandom rite of passage.

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God, I just got war flashbacks to strikethrough. I think you're right tho, they really do feel like rites of passage!

Finally, something I will get to to recount the horrors of to the young'uns is 10 years time.

It will happen! And you'll sit there feeling ancient and tired, but moving is a bit easier every time you do it. I hope your first migration isn't too rough and you find it comfortable here.

It really is a rite of passage, because we keep using Yahoo platforms and Yahoo keeps going down in the flames of their own incompetence. Maybe this time we'll learn?

We learned a little last time, and most of the fic is safe this round, at least! Part of me is a little excited to see what comes of all this, but I don't have a lot of skin in the game. If I was a fanartist or sex worker, I imagine I would be a lot less excited.

That's a good point, the fic is safe! I'm not in a majorly affected camp either (except in the "the internet keeps getting less and less sexy friendly" sense) and I mostly just hope we all come back to dreamwidth.

That is very true and that trend is scary to me too. I just want to be a pervert in peace.

We all gotta go through this garbage at one (or two or three or four....) point at another! Sometimes a platform apocalypse is a nice shake-up tho and imo tumblr was LONG overdue for abolition as fandom's hub. I'm stoked to go back to lj-style, and you'll probably love it! It tends to be way more collaborative/supportive/engaging than tumblr-style, in my experience.

welcome back to web 1.0!!!

Hello! I'm going through new friends' journals! I see we have Buffy and Hannibal in common. Buffy was what dragged me on to LJ, and Hannibal is what dragged me on to Tumblr.

Though I was not around for Strikethrough. This is also my first time seeing a fannish platform ban things and implode.

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