Stuff

[beer_good_foamy]

Stuff the first: Banner, thanks to xlivvielockex! Oh, Marti, how I love thee.



Stuff the second: icon for still_grrr's "Bring Out Your Dead" month. Sappy, I know, but I think we've already established that I'm a bit of a softy sometimes.


Stuff the third: The big LJ emigration. I ain't goin' nowhere.

Over the past few weeks, a lot of people stood united. As someone who's fairly new to the whole thing, I found it incredibly moving. And while a mass exodus to greatestjournal or insanejournal or wallstreetjournal might look like a good idea on paper, it feels a bit like retreating and dividing strength to me - even IF most people were to emigrate to the same place with all flists, comms and links in place, which feels unlikely (and even if the new place didn't go the same way as LJ two years from now...)

So no more runnin'. Misbehave. Join fandom_counts. Join fan_investors. And, well, keep on keepin' on. To quote one of the many icons that's been making the rounds - "Fuck not with fandom, for fandom fucks back". Not off. Big business is here to stay and we're not getting out of its belly, but I kinda like the idea of us giving it salmonella now and then.

ETA: Such as china_shop's wonderfully pervy Making Up Is Hard To Do (LJ/Fandom, NC-17). Go read.

ETA 2: Or, for that matter, vampedvixen's The New Big Bad. Snicker.

/soapbox

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Last time everyone got uppity, over the adverts I think, a lot of GJs were created, mainly to reserve our user names there in case. Then they got very little posted in them until last week.

I honestly expect that the same thing is likely to happen this time around as well - especially as no-one that is in my circle of friends and friends' friends were actually affected - at least not this time!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

So far, I've seen one single person on my flist say they were leaving LJ for good. Which is too bad, but... If there's a migration, it'll end up with a few people on IJ and GJ and all us lazy bastards who can't be bothered staying at LJ, and that's... if not the death, then at least the severe illness of fandom. I'd like to think it would take a more substantial threat for that to happen.