They build it up just to burn it back down

[sovay]

Hello, Dreamwidth.

Technically I have been here since 2013, but then LJ was home. It is no longer. I have not yet deleted my livejournal of the last thirteen years, but I expect to post to Dreamwidth only from now on. (I'll have to reword my Patreon.) It's a little disorienting. I don't usually spend so time on this side. Everything looks familiar, but not quite right. I'll have to get this journal looking more like itself. At the moment I just seem to feel very sad. I have never lost an online community before—much less one with as much emotional history as LJ—and it really does feel like a death or an exile. So much of my coming back to life was on LJ, my relationships with the people who are now my husband and my lover. It was the first place I was known as Sovay. I expected to stick with it until they turned out the lights, but instead somebody stole the lightbulbs and asked me to sign a confession I couldn't read to get them back. It might have been collateral damage to strong-arming someone else, but it was damage and done. I might be grieving that a while.

But in the meantime I'm here. So who's here with me? Sound off.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Thank you for saying you're grieving, because that is definitely what I'm feeling. I started to think to myself that I feel like a refugee, forced to flee to a place I never wanted to go--and then got mad at myself for the grandiose comparison. But even though it's grandiose, it's the best way to express how I feel.

After you told me how to import other icons, I started doing it, and I felt miserable. It's not the same. My history, the reality of how those icons came about, is all over at LJ. ... I'll still be here, and I'm grateful to have a community here, but I'm definitely grieving.

I had to quit writing this comment so I could go upload my aquaman-is-sad icon. *sigh*

[lemon_badgeress]

It may sound grandiose, but there is accuracy to it. Welcome. I'm sorry you were forced to come.

[asakiyume]

Thank you--now that I'm here, it's actually been quite welcoming <3

[sovay]

now that I'm here, it's actually been quite welcoming

Good!

[sovay]

I started to think to myself that I feel like a refugee, forced to flee to a place I never wanted to go--and then got mad at myself for the grandiose comparison. But even though it's grandiose, it's the best way to express how I feel.

You have made me wonder if Dreamwidth offers support for Russian-language users. I hope so.

My history, the reality of how those icons came about, is all over at LJ. ... I'll still be here, and I'm grateful to have a community here, but I'm definitely grieving.

Grieving happens. I hope Aquaman helps.

*hugs*

[sporky_rat]

Sort of? I am not entirely sure there are any native speakers who are helping with Support. There was a community started (I can't currently remember the name, but I'll do some digging) that was asking for help in case of translation needs.

[sporky_rat]

https://dw-translate.dreamwidth.org/ was the community I was thinking of.