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

[wolffyluna]

<3

[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

[flaksesomlys]

Also: <3

[sophus]

<3

[sophus]

:D

[brin_bellway]

I am tentatively planning to put every post with any content warnings on it behind a cut (in fact, I began enacting said plan this evening).

I am also thinking of adopting the "<3" method.

Is that a Nethack reference in your blog title?

[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*

[sophus]

Hm, I think that were I to do that, it would combine with my tendency to over-warn to leave upwards of 90% of my posts behind a cut.

<3

It is! :D

[brin_bellway]

Ah, fond childhood memories. (These days, I mostly play Crawl when I'm looking for a roguelike.)

(I've never technically won Nethack, but I do have a late-game extinctionist savefile lying around somewhere, and she's pretty much omnipotent at this point. I've won Crawl a few times, though.)

[conuly]

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.

[sophus]

Ooo, Dungeon Crawl, I've been meaning to try that out!

I've got a similar savefile sitting in one of my old backups-- it's not full extinctionist, but IIRC, at the time of saving I was in the middle of several hundred turns of meleeing Juiblex and Yeenoghu, waiting for them to finally summon Demogorgon, so that I could kill him 255 times via the ice chest full of cockatrice corpses I had hauled up a bunch of stairs.

The ice chest hauling was the most difficult part. :P

[sophus]

Oh yes, I've seen that a couple times so far! For those that have it, it looks like a easy, clean workaround.

[pseudonym_loving_magpie]

<3

norm of threading <3's is a good one, I think

[rusalkii]

<3