Collected Mondo LJ-Deprivation Post (Cartman's Down Again)

[azurelunatic]

What would be really truly nifty...

...a page you could go to to not only check what cluster you're on, but what cluster anyone else is on. Like, someone's journal that you want to comment on, or a community you want to post in.

So that way, between that and the Status page, you can figure out when you can comment...

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To do today:

• Scrub down kitchen.


• Clean cat box.


• Dishes.


• Work out.


• Drain cat ear.


• Sweep.


• Tidy living room.


• Feed cats.


• Feed fish.


• Pursuade marxdarx to sort through that basket of his stuff (he said he'd do it yesterday) and/or convince him to allow someone else to do it for him. That's been in here, unsorted, a month. That's long enough.


• Sort more papers


• Read more


• Don't let the kids drive me nuts


• Pursuade marxdarx to mop the kitchen floor as scheduled

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Pondering on celebrity status...

shadesong is a celebrity. There are a jillion people who have her friended, and she has a jillion people friended back, and she has a fan club.

I have half a jillion people friended, half a jillion people have me friended, but I do not have a fan club.

But when shadesong had only half a jillion people in her friends list, she was already a celebrity. Not that she was really trying for it, which she wasn't; she just was one.

I am wondering what makes the difference. I'm probably not likely to seek out celebrity status, and I would likely be taken somewhat aback if I became one. But if I were to try to become a celebrity, what would I do differently?

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Replies from me are due in several places when Cartman comes back up: glamourbombs here, to elynne here, and to asrana here.

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There is a moral difference between making a vague, exasperated post about people you interact with, and making a specifically nasty, venomous discussion, right? Because I make many, many exasperated posts, but I try not to let things get into mud-slinging and hatefests. Then, most of the people I'd post an "ARRGH!" post about are either people I love despite it all, who I'd never hurt but about whom I must vent or explode, or people who ought not to ever ever see or hear about the post.

Think about all my posts about BJ. Those get very, very nasty, because I dislike BJ very, very much, despite our high school friendship.

I can't out-of-hand condemn people for making venty, nasty posts when I do it myself. I just try not to start fights. (And if I start them, I try to finish them.) garnetdagger is far more combative than I am, and she does indulge in nasty and hurtful language aimed at specific people. Does that make me a bad person?

Comments

[ex-cellino476.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered the same thing about people. What makes someone cool? How do you know when you have it and what it is? So, for fun, I started reading shadesong's journal from the beginning and I was shocked to see that her first posts were completely unanswered.

[azurelunatic]

I think it goes that way with many people. Only the newbies with friends already really get their first posts responded to much.

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[ex-cellino476.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's why I deleted all my past unanswered posts... j/k!