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a heap of things; or, an introduction
Dec. 12th, 2018 07:14 pmFigured I should probably make an intro post before too long, so.
I'm LadyTemeraire, or LadyTem or Tems. Most of you probably know me from Tumblr, or elsewhere on social media. If you don't, welcome! I'm still figuring out this platform so please bear with me.
I was actually thinking of making a DW blog some time ago, before the latest Tumblr nonsense happened, so I guess this timing is somewhat fortuitous. Wish it wasn't on such a tight deadline though. I'm still really nervous about how the 17th is going to go down; there's a part of me that can't shake the feeling that everything's just going to disappear without warning, NSFW or no.
It's going to take some time to get used to this format. To get back in the habit of making original content, not just sharing what other people have made. Can't use a blog as a digital commonplace book if you can't share anything. God but I'm going to miss the ease of that; it's the difference between taping a piece of paper into a notebook, and having to copy the information into a notebook by hand. (I actually like the Italian word for commonplace book better - it's "zibaldone", which literally means "a heap of things", hence the title of the post.)
I'm going to miss tag novels and rambles. I think DW has a cut function - I know LJ did - but I liked that feeling of being able to add thoughts "under my breath" without feeling like I was horning in on someone else's post. Less of an issue when there's no reblogs, I suppose, but I still added those asides even on my original content.
I wonder if I'll still be able to use an "aesthetic" tagging system like I did on tumblr, or if I'll have to be more straightforward with my tags. I liked being able to use phrases or lyrics for character tags and poetic tags for certain themes.
Kind of want to copy-paste a whack of posts as a manual backup but I'm not sure that's kosher if they're not my own content. I've got a WP import running but their servers are hella overloaded, and I've got one of those python export things too, but idk. I feel like it can't hurt to have more backups, yanno?
Anyway. Enough maudlin rambles from me.
I'm LadyTemeraire, or LadyTem or Tems. Most of you probably know me from Tumblr, or elsewhere on social media. If you don't, welcome! I'm still figuring out this platform so please bear with me.
I was actually thinking of making a DW blog some time ago, before the latest Tumblr nonsense happened, so I guess this timing is somewhat fortuitous. Wish it wasn't on such a tight deadline though. I'm still really nervous about how the 17th is going to go down; there's a part of me that can't shake the feeling that everything's just going to disappear without warning, NSFW or no.
It's going to take some time to get used to this format. To get back in the habit of making original content, not just sharing what other people have made. Can't use a blog as a digital commonplace book if you can't share anything. God but I'm going to miss the ease of that; it's the difference between taping a piece of paper into a notebook, and having to copy the information into a notebook by hand. (I actually like the Italian word for commonplace book better - it's "zibaldone", which literally means "a heap of things", hence the title of the post.)
I'm going to miss tag novels and rambles. I think DW has a cut function - I know LJ did - but I liked that feeling of being able to add thoughts "under my breath" without feeling like I was horning in on someone else's post. Less of an issue when there's no reblogs, I suppose, but I still added those asides even on my original content.
I wonder if I'll still be able to use an "aesthetic" tagging system like I did on tumblr, or if I'll have to be more straightforward with my tags. I liked being able to use phrases or lyrics for character tags and poetic tags for certain themes.
Kind of want to copy-paste a whack of posts as a manual backup but I'm not sure that's kosher if they're not my own content. I've got a WP import running but their servers are hella overloaded, and I've got one of those python export things too, but idk. I feel like it can't hurt to have more backups, yanno?
Anyway. Enough maudlin rambles from me.
