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I feel I need to clear my head a little on the subject of the whole StrikeBoldthrough fiasco.
Now I understand all the ire at what LJ is doing - hell I share it as much as my apathetic attitude to life and the world in general allows me. I feel my fandom interests are somewhat under threat by proxy because my No. 1 OTP shares some resemblance to the much debated Snarry picture that gotponderosa suspended. Laguna/Squall? An approximately 42-year-old man and a 17-year-old (who are also considered by most of the fandom to be father and son, but that's secondary).
I think that would mean that any who share my shipping preferences aught to be very wary.
Now I don't think I will ever be able to leave LJ. As many others have opined, if Fandom migrates, it will fracture between those heading for JF, those heading for GJ, those heading for IJ and those staying on LJ, and one of my major fandoms seems at the moment to be rather unaffected byStrikeBoldthrough so the likelihood it will shift seems less than likely. Since that is the fandom I am reading the most fanfic in at the moment, I'll be sticking to LJ for it's sake.
The problem comes with that as to how I am going to carry on with my own LJ affiliation. The part of me that is peeved byStrikeBoldthrough doesn't want to pony up the money to renew my journal. That, I'm sure, many folks understand. The thing is, there's also a part of me that, in knowing I'll probably stay here, doesn't really want to lose the extras that are part of being a Paid journal. So between the meta posts I have been reading that have been all "LJ are a pack of bastards!" and those saying "Fleeing is not the answer!" I keep seesawing between whether I will or won't pay it up, but I need to decide soon, I'm due to run out halfway through September.
But despite whatever conclusion I come to concerning the Paid status of my LJ, I am fully intending on getting a permanent account over on IJ. The price they are offering them for over there is definitely within my wherewithal to pay - according to XE.com it is equal to $46.63 AUD - and I don't have issues with the whole insanity theme there (hey, the online identity I used prior to this one I defined as meaning "mad perverted idiot" and the common shortening of that was the "idiot" part).
So, what am I to do about LJ? I still don't know, and I'll likely not be sure which way I'll go until the money is available for me to assign in whichever direction I chose. But I hope no one thinks badly of me if I do decide to keep a Paid journal here.
Now I understand all the ire at what LJ is doing - hell I share it as much as my apathetic attitude to life and the world in general allows me. I feel my fandom interests are somewhat under threat by proxy because my No. 1 OTP shares some resemblance to the much debated Snarry picture that got
I think that would mean that any who share my shipping preferences aught to be very wary.
Now I don't think I will ever be able to leave LJ. As many others have opined, if Fandom migrates, it will fracture between those heading for JF, those heading for GJ, those heading for IJ and those staying on LJ, and one of my major fandoms seems at the moment to be rather unaffected by
The problem comes with that as to how I am going to carry on with my own LJ affiliation. The part of me that is peeved by
But despite whatever conclusion I come to concerning the Paid status of my LJ, I am fully intending on getting a permanent account over on IJ. The price they are offering them for over there is definitely within my wherewithal to pay - according to XE.com it is equal to $46.63 AUD - and I don't have issues with the whole insanity theme there (hey, the online identity I used prior to this one I defined as meaning "mad perverted idiot" and the common shortening of that was the "idiot" part).
So, what am I to do about LJ? I still don't know, and I'll likely not be sure which way I'll go until the money is available for me to assign in whichever direction I chose. But I hope no one thinks badly of me if I do decide to keep a Paid journal here.
