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A while ago I was inspired by Liz Barr of Escapist Routes to make a newsletter, since that seemed like a possibly effective way to deal with the increasing fracturing of my social media circle. And then I got really self conscious about posting to or mentioning it. BUT NOW HERE I AM.

The newsletter: Sqbr's Miscellany
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So what with everything happening at the AO3 (see synonymous) I thought it would be good to create dreamwidth crossposts of my AO3 works. And thus: square_bromides

Currently I've just posted my work with the oldest posting date, the cracky Stargate fancomic Mafdet Slayer of Serpents, which I'm still pretty happy with 14 years later. I don't have any set schedule in mind but will probably post in fits and bursts.

I have 216 works at sqbr, some of which are Very Long, so I don't know if I'll get around to archiving all of them, but the only way to start is by beginning!

The name is silly ('bromide' is an old fashioned word for a boring story) but there aren't a lot of relevant words starting with 'br', and once I saw the diagram of bromide crystals I couldn't not use it. Purple AND square!

I made a cooking sideblog, square_meals. I only have one recipe on it so far and we'll see if I actually use it, it's mostly for my own organisation and you're welcome to subscribe or not as suits you.

For anyone in need of new people to follow, friending_memes has posts with friending memes etc.

There's been recent rumblings on tumblr about people wanting to move to dreamwidth, which I think would be great!

Two nice guides to dreamwidth aimed at tumblr folk which cover most important things:

Here's a guide to how this all works on a cultural level

Disjointed Dreamwidth Tips (written by someone who wasn’t on LJ)

Some extra things:
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wychwood asked this time!
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Sometimes when I make a post I get a lot of nice but similar comments I really appreciate, but I have nothing interesting to say to in response beyond, like, "thanks". Thinking about a unique variation on "thanks" for each comment is a lot of mental work for little benefit, but a wall of identical replies, or no replies, might make people assume I didn't like their comment. Especially since sometimes I do happen to have something interesting to say to one or two comments in particular, but not all of them, which could make everyone else feel weird.

Or maybe people won't notice or care!

So! Help me find replying to comments less mentally tiring.



Please don't feel obliged to say you don't mind when what you mean is "It would make me feel a little bad, but I'd prefer that to you getting stressed". I just want to know what people prefer out of these two options so I can make an informed decision.

If other, please explain in the comments!

It ended very sharply since they made the discord read-only at local midnight (my lunch time, a few hours ago) I've joined a few related discords, though, and had a bunch of new people follow me who I am slowly checking out one by one (if I do this too quickly I just go UGH TOO HARD and never subscribe to anyone).

Anyway, the con was a lot of fun! *waves to everyone I saw there, and also anyone I didn't* I have one more panel to write up and then I'll do a panels post, but in the meantime here's some links I had opened in tabs and stuff.
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I use an IFFT script to crosspost from dreamwidth to tumblr. Recently a couple of my dreamwidth crossposts have not shown up on tumblr. The posts crossposted to livejournal, and show up in my dreamwidth's rss feed, so I don't think it's a dreamwidth issue. They were very run of the mill posts, and spaced out between posts that crossposted fine.

So it's probably IFFT or tumblr. Has anyone else been having crossposts etc vanish?

Since dreamwidth support STILL hasn't gotten back to me about the mod of the previous community vanishing, I decided it was easier to just make a new community. So I did!

And thus: otome_games !

I'm going to try and post semi-regularly, and thankfully someone with actual design skills volunteered to help out with the layout and as another mod. *waves to chrry*

The community are pretty chill, so hopefully moderating should be chill too.

Also, total side note, but I'm trying out a new dreamwidth feature that lets you link to other dreamwidth accounts by just typing a @ and then their username. It looks ok in the preview, sweet.