Some announcements

[tarigwaemir]

Stanley Hall on the Feast of Our Lady of Ste. Olympias

I came to a decision over the past week that I'm no longer going to blog regularly here on my LiveJournal. Being the compulsive blogger that I am, it means that I am going to be blogging elsewhere. I thought about moving this entire journal wholesale, with its six years of records about my thoughts and experiences, but I think the hassle isn't worth it. Besides, my style of blogging has also changed with the years, and I think that I've finally come to a point where I want to compartmentalize my life a little.

This LiveJournal will continue to be a blog for any and all fandom activity: this means that I'll still post fanfiction and other fandom-related material here. I'll also be using it to moderate the communities I run, to sign up for any challenges, and of course, to comment on your journals.

At current count, I have the following other blogs that I will continue updating on a semi-regular basis:

- my reading blog, where I try to log and write about the books I read and repost old entries about books from this LiveJournal
- my science blog, where I try to keep track of papers I ought to read and bits of Unix/R/Perl code that I like to remember
- my new Tumblr, where I'm going to post the non-fandom material that I have posted here for the past six years

You can ask me for links to any of the above, if you're interested in following them; I'll reply with a screened comment. I don't particularly want them to link back here although I'm not going to go out of my way to obscure the connection. Though my range of pseudonyms is pretty small, so you could probably figure out where the blogs are eventually, without asking me, if you are observant enough.

I've been contemplating starting a separate real-life journal for quite a while now, and I thought about just creating another LJ, but in the end, I thought I wanted a clean break and a new blogging platform. LJ brings with it certain expectations and obligations that are entirely self-imposed but still restrictive, and I would like to stop feeling like I have to update my LJ. I also would like to move away from the obsessive recounting of my daily life that has mostly characterized my blogging for the past few years, and focus more on just generating interesting content that I want to record. (Hence, the Tumblr.)

Anyway, I'm not planning on retiring from fandom (just yet) although I suppose my focus will turn elsewhere, since I'll be busy with qualifying exams next semester. I'm mostly going to focus on bibliophages for the moment, although readerofasaph and I did decide to create a new community focused on challenges involving writing techniques. I've set it up here at ficcraft. We'll be starting up officially in January, but in the meantime, please join and link!

Yours &c.

Comments

[angelyrique.livejournal.com]

Why would anyone feel OBLIGATED to update their LJ? xP

Are you saying you're sick of my Arashi posts? ^__________________^ Hahahaha.

[ramble-corner.livejournal.com]

Can I request the links to your reading blog & Tumblr/Non-fandom blog?
I have always enjoyed reading your entries and will miss seeing them showing up

[ramble-corner.livejournal.com]

ETA: I'm sad to know you sometimes feel obligated to update when on LJ .
I know there are times when I don't update for weeks too because there was just nothing to post.

Good Luck ^__^

[troisroyaumes]

Oh, please don't worry. The sense of obligation is entirely my fault; I tend to stress myself out unnecessarily because I feel that my LJ ought to be "complete". If I were less neurotic, it wouldn't be a problem...

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Is your reading blog the same place it was? Anyway, I would like to read your tumblr.

[datenshi-blue.livejournal.com]

I definitely would like to read your tumblr too.

Will miss you around here, even though I'm not updating as much as before due to real life issues these days.

I'll definitely check your writing comm!

[murinae.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Wherever you go, leave me a link so I can follow? *G*

Sincerely, you are one of the best, warmest, and sweetest people I've ever "met" through LJ. Not to mention the smartest. *G* I don't say that a lot to just anyone, y'know.

I've always loved how you wrote the LJ in an epistolary format, and I'm going to miss that since it's so distinctive and so very you.

But I do understand the need to do what you need to do for yourself. *hug hug hug* And I'm glad you're not retiring from the fandom yet, but whatever you do, you got my support!!! You were one of my first LJ friends you know? But when ya gotta go ... *hug hug hug*

Hmmm, the new com looks interesting. *Eyes it* oooh, and very shiny. *G*

-muri

ps:Who's that guy in your icon? He's cute!

[fable.livejournal.com]

I'd like a link to your tumblr, please! And also, if you have a moment, could you tell me the benefits/drawbacks of a tumblr account, compared with lj? I've been thinking of getting a blog somewhere else, too, but haven't found the right platform yet.

[shoujo22.livejournal.com]

Although we don't chat much, I'd love to keep up with you here and there. Feel free to drop me the link to your newest blogging platform :)

[unrequitedangst.livejournal.com]

Aww, can I have links to the reading and science blogs? I'll miss you but good luck with graduate school and research! ♥

[qian.livejournal.com]

I'd like to read your Tumblr, if that is okay!

[emblem.livejournal.com]

Link me to them all~~~

Maybe this way we'll finally *actually* discuss science? XD

[sleepingfingers.livejournal.com]

I would like to follow both your science blog and your Tumblr. :)

Posting on LJ *does* carry with it certain expectations and obligations, most of which I don't mind, but some are rather restrictive. I've been feeling the urge to compartmentalize my posting as well, but reasoned that I don't really blog enough to effectively do it.

Best of luck, though!

[silvermuse89.livejournal.com]

May I have links to your other blogs? I have been awful at keeping up with LJ, but I do still want to read what you blog because it's so interesting.

Good luck on your quals!

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

Link me to them all please~

Aww, I love the way you post about your life though! Don't feel obligated to post :(

[lacewood]

Book blog (I used to have the link but uh, obviously lost it orz) and Tumblr? XD

Ficcraft looks interesting, but I seem to have fallen out of fanfic for the moment, so woe. I guess original fiction wouldn't be allowed?

[tsutanai.livejournal.com]

I'd like to ask for the links for all three if I may. XD

[love_archived]

If/when you do set up your new blog, I hope you will let us know. ^_^ (Me, at least? ^_^)

[troisroyaumes]

Heh, as I said in my post, the blogs already exist, and I don't plan on publicly linking them here. Let me know which ones you want links to and I'll reply in a screened comment.

[love_archived]

Oh--I got the impression you might start another blog for the more personal stuff, which was the one I really cared to read the most. ^_^ My bad. I'll come back and poke you when I get the whole RSS thing worked out.

ETA: I see the Tumblr is the one I should be interested in... but how does that work? Another f-locked thing?

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Would it be okay to request links to your reading blog and Tumblr space? We're not acquainted at all--I've enjoyed reading your public posts here, albeit as a lurker. I stopped by to see why the lj feed I was following hadn't had new posts in a while. (We do have at least one acquaintance in common, rilina.)

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Replying to screened comment: heh--the world is funny that way! I had no idea you were reading, either. Thanks for the links.

I will post eventually on Samguk yusa, yes, though I don't expect myself to achieve any sort of clarity. :)