Yay! Hello again :)

[galadhir]

Thanks, everyone, for reconnecting with me over here :) I strongly suggest using this as an opportunity to get rid of my Potboy account over here which has become nothing more than Tumblr spam. I literally don't even remember the name of the program I used to mirror my Tumblr to here, and without that I can't google for how to shut it down.

Someone mentioned, last night, that Livejournal was still around, so I went back to see what had become of it and was overwhelmed with nostalgia for a more innocent time.

Initially I was like 'why don't I just go back to LJ? I liked it there!' So I made a new LJ, but the moment I started uploading icons, I realized I was wondering if it was safe to upload icons with the queer flags, and that reminded me why I'd left in the first place.

So I thought I'd come here and see if I could get back into the habit of more longform posting again. Social media is becoming a nightmare corporate environment where everyone's outraged all the time. It seemed like a good idea to return to something (a) made by fans and (b) much lower pressure. It's extremely encouraging to know that you're all active enough here to have at least noticed the notification that I'd subscribed to you in this new form.

*Hugs*

Comments

Re: Heh!

[galadhir]

I was so delighted to find you here and still active! I do find Tumblr very addictive, but I missed you :) Are your fics mirrored over here? Should I go to LJ to read them?

I'm not too bad, thanks. Fatter, older and more aware of being queer, but none of those are bad things. I am suffering with a bit of writer's block, though, which is.

Re: Heh!

[vanilla_elf]

No, absolutely not bad things. :)

I hope your writer's block will soon pass, your stories were always a delight to read.

I post both here and on LJ; my fics are all hosted on AOOO. Posting fics is basically all I do, it's about the only fun thing I can do at the moment. I'm still working in the field of social psychiatry, so I have more work thanks to Corona, not less. I've faithfully returned to Tolkien's world, old friends are still the best and writing nonsense about Elves seems to work wonders for my sanity. :)

Re: Heh!

[galadhir]

Thank you! I should probably go back to Tolkien too, rather than trying to come up with more original fic. A bit of fanfic will probably shake something loose, and yeah, returning to an old fandom is just a really comforting thought in this really rather weird time. I hope you're looking after yourself too as well as everyone else!