saxonvoter: Cartoon character with blonde hair and glasses, holding a cup of coffee. (Hamlet)
[personal profile] saxonvoter
Actually, just the fall.

I'm writing this as a sort of introduction in case people come across this journal and want to take a quick look at who I am and what I do.

I'm not a native user of LJ or DW, so you'll have to excuse me if I take my time learning how to use this website. I was on Tumblr for so long that it feels surreal to try to change platforms like this. I'm not outright deleting my Tumblr, but if things stay as they are, I predict that most of the fandom side of Tumblr will migrate either over here, or on some other sites like Twitter and Pillowfort. 

I'm a 25-years-old student of Japanese language from Finland, and fanfiction is my life.

I really liked Tumblr, despite the hellsite that it is. There was always something in need of a fix, but the dashboard, tagging and reblogging systems were simple to use and switching between main and blogs was easier than changing your socks.

What am I looking for in a new platform? On Tumblr, I mostly reblogged things I found interesting and funny. Occasionally I would create my own posts, whether that was about my personal life or fandom. I often posted updates of my fanfiction on there as well, along with snapshots or ideas of fanfics I wanted to write (or more often than not, wanted someone else to write so I wouldn't have to), so I'll definitely post some fic relate stuff here in the future. 

I know that Dreamwidth isn't the same as Tumblr, and I don't expect it to be. However, if Tumblr is really going down, I'd like to find new communities on here and other sites that will allow me to connect with similar people, to admire their art and writing, and of course, laugh at ridiculous memes. We can't forget the memes!

To help you decide whether my journal is interesting, I've devised a list.

My Top 5 Fandoms from the past year

1. Good Omens
2. The Witcher
3. Dragon Age
4. Hannibal
5. Doctor Who/Torchwood

On top of that, I'm into Animal Crossing: New Horizonz, Venom, Tolkien, various anime series such as FMA:B and Yuri On Ice. I also like Brooklyn 99, The Magnus Archives, Welcome to Nightvale, Kingsman, Avatar the Last Airbender, Teen Wolf, Marvel Cinematic Universe (mostly Tony, Steve or Bucky centric), Star Wars, Star Trek, Sherlock, Hamilton, Merlin, and Supernatural. However my activity in these fandoms varies a lot.

I'm also generally interested in literature, history, art and languages.  

About Commentings, Privacy and Linking

Please do comment. I welcome all kinds of comments from everyone, ranging from epic length to something as simple as "+1", "I like this", "YAAS" and so forth. And feel free to start up discussion threads with other commenters as well.

You're free to link all of my public posts as long as you carry no malicious purpose. Of course I appreciate if you let me know where you've linked my post, but I don't demand it. Don't quote, screenshot, link or otherwise share any private posts without my explicit permission.

+ Check out my Recommendations for New Users. It's a list of useful Dreamwidth related links which I update every now and then.

Date: Dec. 5th, 2018 16:45 (UTC)
tozka: title character sitting with a friend (Default)
From: [personal profile] tozka
Memes!! I honestly have no idea how we're going to spread memes on DW the same way they spread on Tumblr. I think without an easier image hosting solution, it'll be impossible. :(

Also, if you find any good communities for our mutual fandoms, please let me know! ;D There's a new one for Bagginshield if you're into the Hobbit: [community profile] bagginshield

Date: Dec. 5th, 2018 17:30 (UTC)
tozka: title character sitting with a friend (Default)
From: [personal profile] tozka
I think Imgur also has a thing where an image will be deleted after a certain time period if nobody views it/comments/something, so that's not a long-term solution, either. I've seen several fanartists move to Pixiv, but I've always had trouble using that site for browsing. I might've suggested Flickr for hosting, but a) don't know the NSFW policy and b) they've just changed their image limit to 1000 photos per account, which could signal more nasty upcoming changes contrary to user-friendliness.

Date: Dec. 16th, 2018 18:28 (UTC)
grayestofghosts: a sketch of a man reading a paper (radical edward)
From: [personal profile] grayestofghosts
I don't think it's correct that Imgur deletes images after a certain amount of time. From what I can find, Imgur changed over their policy to keep images forever in 2015 and I can't see any change to that policy since. I've used it for a couple years and it hasn't deleted anything I've uploaded to them yet. The main problem with Imgur is their form of compression, so if you want something like a banner to remain nice you should probably use Dreamwidth's hosting, but something where compression doesn't matter so much like a meme it should be fine.

Date: Dec. 6th, 2018 03:53 (UTC)
satsuma: a whole orange, a halved grapefruit, and two tangerine sections arranged into a still life (Default)
From: [personal profile] satsuma
If it's any consolation, Dreamwidth is looking onto expanding their image hosting so we might get more in the near future. But yeah, DW's built on like two decade old blogging architecture, so images are really not it's strong suite

Date: Dec. 6th, 2018 23:13 (UTC)
satsuma: a whole orange, a halved grapefruit, and two tangerine sections arranged into a still life (Default)
From: [personal profile] satsuma
Yeah I think a lot of dreamwidth’s current users are primarily text focused, but if tumblr keeps, ah, being mismanaged by verizon, that’ll probably change, so i’m hoping they’ll be able to work something out

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Antony. 25. Finnish. He/him. Artist, writer, eternal student.

Member of the homo sapiens sapiens. Or something.

Destroy capitalism, and eat the rich.

Elsewhere by [tumblr.com profile] saxonvoter, [tumblr.com profile] suddenly-qunari, [archiveofourown.org profile] Jiwa, [twitter.com profile] sirius_fannibal.

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