potofsoup

I've been feeling short on spoons -- trying to build up activity on DW, but simultaneously there's all this hubzilla and mastodon talk, while at the same time half of everyone has escaped to twitter or PF and then yelling about it in a variety of discords and slacks. All these platforms and all this effort is ... a lot. And at the same time, there's a frustrating sense of stagnation -- between the Great Scattering and the holidays, everything is in a holding pattern -- a lot of name squatting but not a lot of posting.

If you asked me yesterday, I would have said to fuck all this waiting -- choose a platform and start posting. Instead of waiting for activity, *be* the activity.

But today, I'm feeling a bit burnt out. Anyways, after whinging about it on Slack, I've decided that I'm gonna just chill the fuck down. Figuring out federated fandom is someone else's problem. I've always been overwhelmed by large chat groups, so why force myself to join them now? I'm just going to focus on DW and AO3. I'm going to scroll through my DW "reading page" and get to know old and new fandom folks better. I'm going to finish this dang MTH comic that I've been working on for far too long and then post it to AO3. I'm going to tidy up the DW comms for the fan events that I'm modding. Then maybe in a few months, I'll check in and see how the federated fandom stuff is going.

So I guess, in a way, I *am* choosing a platform. I just have to get over the fact that, by doing so, there will be content from other platforms that I won't be seeing. That's sad, but now that I think about it, that's not a new decision. There's always stuff that I'm missing out on, and That's Okay.

Hey.

So, 3 weeks ago, my account on tumblr got deleted with no explanation. I have written in support tickets and have not heard back, not even with an explanation. Nor do I expect to hear back. And just after I'd finished finding the bulk of my work and reblogging them onto potofsoup2@tumblr, and was contemplating posting new work there -- the Great Fuckening happens.

So. It's been a fun few weeks. I guess the good news is that I had a head start on mourning the loss of my tumblrs. (I keep remembering new things that I was a sole owner of and therefore lost, haha).

Anyway, hello again, DW. I'm actually kind of excited -- the main reason I'd gone to tumblr had been that my friends stopped posting here. If people move back, plus new friends that I made on tumblr -- my flist might be pretty active again!

Here is what I plan to do:

- I'll be posting new art here, and to AO3.
- Everything I post here will be public. Taking a page from tumblr, I have different accounts rather than a carefully moderated access list. My personal life blog remains

summercomfort, but I'll be following and commenting as potofsoup. All the names carry over from tumblr, so you should know where to find me. :)
- I'm also very interested in figuring out ways to use DW comms as a way to share art, so I plan to crosspost art to

stuckyfandom and

capfanart, with a link back to a post here for commenting.
- I know that DW favors hiding long posts behind cuts, but I'm going to push back on that a little bit: I'll be putting 1 image outside of the cut, and the rest behind.
- Since there's no reblogging, I'm going to try for periodic roundup posts of stuff that I find cool (AKA "gotta close all those tabs").

Making suggestions to DW:
Did you guys know that there's a

dw_suggestions? And that they'd previously discussed the possibility of adding reblog functionality?

Anyway, I plan to make some suggestion there once things settle down, and I hope others follow that community so that we can chime in when it's a feature that we're invested in! For example, I'd like to bring back the idea of reblogging, having a kudos feature, and some image handling suggestions. (foldered galleries might be nice, or putting AO3 on the list of hotlinkable sites for images < 1MB, or having the ability to buy more image hosting space.)

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Onward and upward

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