Disabling LJ crossposting

I should have done this a bajillion years ago, but: I won't be posting on LJ anymore. (Russian servers, etc.)

If you want to continue following me, my personal blog is at: http://summercomfort.dreamwidth.org .

Creative communities and moving forward

So I've had a good long think about community and art and my participation thereof since my angst the other day (thank you for all who replied). It's rare that a confluence of events really push you to think about internet presence, community participation, and creative endeavors, and the last few weeks has really been that.

The tl;dr of what crystallized the other day for me while I was driving to work*: I want to tell stories that matter to me, and I want to be part of communities centered around creating things. I should work towards those two things.

And now for the "Too long" part where I expound on some of the above:
( blah blah blah )

So -- what next?
- I'm going to spend some time today setting up my fandom accounts and communities on DW
- I'm going to be more explicit in communicating what I'm interested in as I interact
- Once those things are set up, I'm going to do more creating! I'm tired of all this angst and dislocation.

Tumblr had a lot of creative exuberance, often masquerading as shitposts and memes. I think that's the thing I'm going to miss the most. I'm wondering if tumblr can continue serving as that space, even as fandom moves elsewhere. (There's really no good option there -- at the moment, it looks to be either twitter or tumblr.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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* it was the Bush 41 memorial, so I'd turned off NPR -- I have a lot of respect for the dude, but very little tolerance for pomp and circumstance
** Also: I can *find* my audience. Sometimes I forget that I'm pretty firmly in the "adult" category now tat I'm 34. Surely I can muster enough adulting spoons to communicate with other adults.
*** Come to think of it, that's probably why I find it so much easier to talk to colleagues at work about lesson planning than about their spouses.
**** I hate it when people frame it like it's some other part of fandom that it's happening to. It is your friend with the secret sideblog. It is you, having either a pants-based or aesthetic-based response as you scroll through your dash.

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This is to hold myself accountable in the future, but -- since I'm going down to 80% next semester, I should use that time to:
- Draw more comics
- Make my "comics toolkit" a reality
- Look into whether I want to be a "small press"
- Designing comics curriculum so that it's arts-credit compliant so that I can make another run for it for the next school year
- Designing a fallback history elective
- Figure out a sustainable way for me to teach Chinese School