The Obligatory Introduction Post

[sophus]

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 artistic-arborealist, and additionally crinolinegumdrops, rivers-out-to-sea, cheerycheeryneverweary, and emptyworldsuntainted.

I can also be found on Discord, at Sophus#7079, on tumblr at sophus-b, and my Ao3 and FF.net usernames are Sophus and 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.

Comments

[flaksesomlys]

(clearly <3 is the best like equivalent, as +1 means something completely different)

I do feel a little apprehensive about using <3 comments as much as I'd use likes? It feels more substantial to actually comment, so on posts of people I don't know very well I'm not feeling 100% sure I'm Allowed to. And maybe I should just get over myself and do it anyway until I exposure myself out of that feeling, because that's how you help make sure it becomes part of the site culture, but, What If A Near Stranger Finds Me Mildly Annoying That Would Be Horrible

[sophus]

I know exactly what you mean.

Me: What an excellent post, let me show appreciation!
Also me: But what if they hate appreciation
*anxiety intensifies*