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sophus ([personal profile] sophus) wrote2018-12-21 01:55 pm

The Obligatory Introduction Post

Hello everyone! This is an introduction post! I'm Sophus, and if you know me it's probably from the Amentumblr RP, as that's the biggest public creative work I've made to date. I was the mun of [tumblr.com profile] artistic-arborealist, and additionally [tumblr.com profile] crinolinegumdrops, [tumblr.com profile] rivers-out-to-sea, [tumblr.com profile] cheerycheeryneverweary, and [tumblr.com profile] emptyworldsuntainted.

I can also be found on Discord, at Sophus#7079, on tumblr at [tumblr.com profile] sophus-b, and my Ao3 and FF.net usernames are [archiveofourown.org profile] Sophus and [fanfiction.net profile] sophusb respectively.

It looks like tumblr management was successful in torching their own property; a good third of the people whose blogs I read there have left for better managed sites, never to return. Thus, I'll be crossposting any original content I write both here and there until the hellsite’s corpse finishes cooling.

On the bright side, I like the look of the hierarchical tagging here! I'm still figuring it out, but it looks like going back and editing tags after the fact is actually functional here unlike the hellsite, so experimenting shouldn't be too painful.

Speaking of tagging, my undertstanding is that putting content warning in the tags on Dreamwidth is less than useless. Thus, I will put anything Ao3 would consider Archive Warning worthy behind a cut, and otherwise, I'll see if putting something like [content warning: [list of warnings]] in the text of relevant posts works with the existing filtering solutions.


The one thing I really miss here from the hellsite is the like button; it was nice to have a low spoons way to show my appreciation of someone's post without having to produce Actual Words.

I've anecdotally heard that some people are using comments with only "+1" and/or "<3" as a kludgy equivalent. I hope that does get picked up by the site culture here; I love positive feedback in any form, and I know many other people do too, so a solution that makes it easier to give positive feedback would be lovely.
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[personal profile] conuly 2018-12-24 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Since the Tumblr thingy disaster a lot of people are also posting simple polls that just have one option. But this requires a paid account, so it's not a cheap way to get likes.