Oooooh, what a wonderful poem for this purpose. I may just steal that and park it in my sidebar...
Since New Year's I've been eliminating all the flisters I have on LJ who also post on DW, and weeding out the rest for those who are no longer posting, or out of all my fandoms; this is not just helpful to me in terms of evaluating "what exactly would I be staying for" but also a prelude to shutting down over there entirely, so. Good poem, if that's the conclusion I come to. (My feelings for Pern are an odd mix of early-discovery nostalgia and later-acquired squick/discomfort, but -- as a goodbye to a start in fandom? I can see it.)
On the other hand, I will probably keep my personal/RL journal on LJ forever, out of sheer inertia (both mine and that of the few friends I use it to keep in touch with -- it was hard enough getting them there, there's no way I could convince them all to move). As I post in it about twice a month, have about five people who read it, and am very content with the very basic free no-frills account, it probably might as well not even exist to LJ. (And thus is safe?)
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Since New Year's I've been eliminating all the flisters I have on LJ who also post on DW, and weeding out the rest for those who are no longer posting, or out of all my fandoms; this is not just helpful to me in terms of evaluating "what exactly would I be staying for" but also a prelude to shutting down over there entirely, so. Good poem, if that's the conclusion I come to. (My feelings for Pern are an odd mix of early-discovery nostalgia and later-acquired squick/discomfort, but -- as a goodbye to a start in fandom? I can see it.)
On the other hand, I will probably keep my personal/RL journal on LJ forever, out of sheer inertia (both mine and that of the few friends I use it to keep in touch with -- it was hard enough getting them there, there's no way I could convince them all to move). As I post in it about twice a month, have about five people who read it, and am very content with the very basic free no-frills account, it probably might as well not even exist to LJ. (And thus is safe?)