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Aug. 4th, 2023 08:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superborb1. I had been reading my DW on a comfortable once a week schedule, which has been thrown into disarray by the introduction of my JE friends back onto DW, via a 30 day music meme. Will people actually do all 30 days of the meme? Who knows, but day 3 x a half dozen folks is an extra ?skip=20 already ahaha.
2. I was going back and reading my diary from college (which I apparently kept up until the beginning of grad school! I kind of thought I'd stopped midway through college...); it's not very interesting as it mostly contains who I talked to every day. At the end of college though, I already knew I'd miss the casual chats in dining halls and hallways and never be able to replicate that again; the diary really reinforced that. Even if I include fannish discord chats as casual chats, it's really... not the same... But it did bring to mind a few people I want to reach out to, which was nice!
3. Awh, I looked over my twitter list and DID lose complete contact with a few people who left before I got a forwarding address / didn't bother with a forwarding address. Though I think most are still in my extended someone-on-DW-still-talks-to-them circle. (But at the same time, how much good does a discord 1:1 PM do in terms of keeping in contact? Not much. I'm generally terrible at keeping 1:1 messages going. Maybe I should make more concerted effort to form group chats...)
4. I think my Tumblr foray is probably a failure. Useful for occasionally checking in on people, but even filtering out the 'so many gifs', it's difficult to sort between 'things interesting to me personally' and 'discourse, not expanding my knowledge' without way too much effort expended ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I have a Bluesky now, but unless there's vastly more uptake, my primary fannish socmed will remain Mastodon.)
5. Have been losing steam on the DCU fic reading, but now I feel completionist about an arbitrary level of surveying, which seems counterproductive. It's arbitrary to begin with! It'd never have been anywhere near a full survey! Self, this is silly.
2. I was going back and reading my diary from college (which I apparently kept up until the beginning of grad school! I kind of thought I'd stopped midway through college...); it's not very interesting as it mostly contains who I talked to every day. At the end of college though, I already knew I'd miss the casual chats in dining halls and hallways and never be able to replicate that again; the diary really reinforced that. Even if I include fannish discord chats as casual chats, it's really... not the same... But it did bring to mind a few people I want to reach out to, which was nice!
3. Awh, I looked over my twitter list and DID lose complete contact with a few people who left before I got a forwarding address / didn't bother with a forwarding address. Though I think most are still in my extended someone-on-DW-still-talks-to-them circle. (But at the same time, how much good does a discord 1:1 PM do in terms of keeping in contact? Not much. I'm generally terrible at keeping 1:1 messages going. Maybe I should make more concerted effort to form group chats...)
4. I think my Tumblr foray is probably a failure. Useful for occasionally checking in on people, but even filtering out the 'so many gifs', it's difficult to sort between 'things interesting to me personally' and 'discourse, not expanding my knowledge' without way too much effort expended ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I have a Bluesky now, but unless there's vastly more uptake, my primary fannish socmed will remain Mastodon.)
5. Have been losing steam on the DCU fic reading, but now I feel completionist about an arbitrary level of surveying, which seems counterproductive. It's arbitrary to begin with! It'd never have been anywhere near a full survey! Self, this is silly.
