My Thoughts on Boldthrough Panic

[mimi_sardinia]

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 got ponderosa 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 by StrikeBoldthrough 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 by StrikeBoldthrough 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.

Comments

[dame_grise]

I have no idea what to do myself. I am very much a creature of habit, and my primary fandoms aren't really in danger though a few people who are in other fandoms as well may go. I am backing things up at GJ, which takes a few braincells to make sure everything transfers okay.

Can anyone make a decent layout over there? So far mine looks like a dog barfed on the screen.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm doing the like - making backups on the other sites - that's just sensible (though I should get around to backing up majinbakahentai too).

If you mean GJ's standard styles? I know what you mean! Their default is a downright eyesore! My journal layout is hardly anything interesting (just a standard Generator coloured according to my colour schemes) but it's far easier on my eyes than GJ's default.

[dame_grise]

Aha! You are who I thought you were. I get so confused sometimes. Yeah, the default is heinous but the ones you can pick without customizing are awful, too.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm only just getting over the inclination to disassociate my current ID from my old one but I still have a tendency not to talk about it. It's partly because I've been in fandom wars under majinbakahentai that I used this journal as a sockpuppet to keep an eye on the other side when I first made a Mimi Fish journal, and the other reason is that I pretty-much totally moved to this journal when I shifted into the Final Fantasy fandom so there's little of relevance on Majin Baka to my current affiliations.

I know it's not popular with some people but at least all the journaling sites retain Generator as one of their base styles - it's the one I like. I just wish IJ had different viewing options for the in-post pages though, I don't like the yellow and grey layout.

[dame_grise]

I was just confused, and now I'm not confused, which is good. I'm not a big fan of generator, though I am playing with trying to customize component over there. I kind of 'brand' my personal journals (using the same background pic for my diaryland and lj and hopefully on gj too).

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I tend to brand too, with both background pics and colours, though I don't recall which colour scheme I used for my majinbakahentai GJ - the weird mix of blue, purple, black red and grey here on LJ or the red, red, red and black that matched the Rift before it went kaput with Dummy's restructure of Sevspace.

I do know at least that all my Mimi Sardinia accounts have the same blue and yellow as this account.

[dame_grise]

It just makes it all seem more like home to me.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That it does.

Oh and I just looked at my Majin Baka GJ - it is the same as majinbakahentai. Some time I may go change both to the Rift colours.

A thought on colouring journals? Pick two colours and do everything in shades of those two colours. More than two and you suffer eyesore.

[dame_grise]

I stick to blue and whichever shows up against it, black or white, preference to white on dark backgrounds if there's a choice.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

So do I. All my journals tend towards very light text on very dark background - like a shade of yellow that's almost white on a shade of blue that's almost black, or a very very pale pink on an almost black shade of red.

The problem is, I don't know how many people have a chart that they can get colour codes for those sorts of shades - I at least retain a copy of the Sevilian rainbow text generator, but I don't know if it's still downloadable on Sevspace.

[lunarwolf2002.livejournal.com]

I'm up at IJ, but that's usually where I'm posting stuff for my writing comms that I joined there, but if I do move I'll just use that for more too *nod* I'll back you up no matter what decision you make, Mimi!

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Anyone who ships in the FF fandom has pretty much reason to panic - most of the main characters as "underage" as defined by 6A - the only canon exception I can think of off the top of my head is Cloud and Tifa, who're 21 and 19 (iirc, Cloud's age wavers in my head, and I am wont to get it wrong, frequently. Bad fangirl!). Anyways, I was going to say, I'm playing FFX (I think you know that already, *g*) and the main canon ship in that? Both Yuna and Tidus are 17. Thus underage. It makes me angry because laws I have to abide by, even though they're not the ones of my country, and what 6A have been saying (when they're not contradicting themselves, that is) is making me feel like I'm doing something wrong. But the whole point of the above is to say that I know how you feel. And I can see exactly what you mean. (Oh, and the only reason I quoted canon relationships is because I don't really know about the non-canon, since I'm new to FF as an online fandom. As an offline fandom, not so much).

Also, I keep wavering about staying or going. I keep deciding I'm staying, and then some of the stuff that's written to deliberately wind people up (and some of it is, I'm sure you know that) makes me change my mind, if only for a few minutes. But I've decided I'm pretty much staying. And yeah, I'm really tempted to get a permanent account on IJ because it's dirt cheap (very much so, compared to LJ).

Um, I don't know if I've said much that's of any help or comfort (or even if it made any sense!), but I mostly just wanted to say something. Um. Yeah.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if anything under 18 is a bannable offense then there's a lot of fandoms that really should worry.

I don't think I'm at much threat personally, but I dislike how this has caused a whole atmosphere of fear in fandom.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if anything under 18 is a bannable offense then there's a lot of fandoms that really should worry.

*nods* This is why I'm afraid for some of my friends. And because some of them don't even know about it. And, also, my brain working too late, I realised I meant to say about other fandoms, too, but that I'd used FF because it's a mutual fandom for us both.

I don't think I'm a threat, either (and I hope you're not, I'm finding you a very likable person!). But yes, I don't like the fear and distrust it's stirred up, either.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

OH LJ. How can any of us just quit you?! ;_;

And I'm with you on the OTP fearage. I mean... I ship Larsa/Penelo. And while *I* don't think that's objectionable and I don't know who would either... well, who knows what the LJ team could find a hair up their bug about. But I do know I'd miss all the people I met through the service and am loath to give it up if only for that!