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*bursts in the door and kicks up a huge cloud of dust*
If you are still active on Dreamwidth and seeing this for that reason and not because I talked about this on Twitter: Hello. I hope you're doing well! God this is weird.
I was checking to see what entries I had public on this account because if I do end up linking here on Twitter, then I feel weird having it be so immediately accessible for someone to click through to stuff I posted a decade ago, so I thought "let's use an incognito window to see what's public," amd the FIRST ENTRY I SAW was something I thought was supposed to be locked, and I became convinced that When I Locked Almost Everything On LJ Because Of That One Man With A Grudge Who Was Checking My Journal With An Unsettling Regularity, I had FORGOTTEN to do the same on Dreamwidth, and I'm sitting here like "oh my god all that stuff has been public on this account THE ENTIRE TIME" which was...not a huge deal, because my whole concern back when I locked everything was that this dude was going to FIND ME and clearly he did not. But still...an embarrassing oversight.
So I figured let's just buy a month of paid time so we can mass-edit the privacy setting on everything and get them all locked now. And then I was hemming and hawing about that because I really hate broken links, a piece of me dies every time I follow an old bookmark and it's to a locked/deleted entry, but I decided no just do it and you can unlock your greatest hits later/never. Take everything that's public and set it to friends only.
And then Dreamwidth was like "doing this will change the security settings for 19 entries, are you sure you want to proceed?" and I realized I'm an IDIOT, everything had the correct security settings from the beginning, and none of this needed to happen.
On a semi-related note it's interesting how the flow of my thoughts from brain to keyboard has changed over the last seven years, because ALL of the above felt to me like something that belonged in the tags of a Tumblr post, where it would have been a few sentences of director's commentary on an "I'm back?" post that was much shorter overall on account of the whole tangent about security levels not being in there. BUT THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS AND SO THE COMMENTARY BECAME THE POST.
God.
Anyway needlessly spending $3 on a month of paid time means I also have access to all my icon slots. This is good because before it was my most recent fifteen or something? And that wasn't the WORST thing because it was mostly YJ stuff but it was still very much a dilemma, because do I destroy the historical record represented by my existing icons so that I can use more current ones, or do I just carry on like it's 2014? A question I'll never need to answer.
All this to say that I have been tweeting to the void about video games a lot recently and I am absolutely going to continue to do that, but I would like to also journal into the void about them as well so I will be doing that here! I actually came here to talk about Oracle of Seasons but it felt too weird to just dive into it with no preamble so...this happened.
I was checking to see what entries I had public on this account because if I do end up linking here on Twitter, then I feel weird having it be so immediately accessible for someone to click through to stuff I posted a decade ago, so I thought "let's use an incognito window to see what's public," amd the FIRST ENTRY I SAW was something I thought was supposed to be locked, and I became convinced that When I Locked Almost Everything On LJ Because Of That One Man With A Grudge Who Was Checking My Journal With An Unsettling Regularity, I had FORGOTTEN to do the same on Dreamwidth, and I'm sitting here like "oh my god all that stuff has been public on this account THE ENTIRE TIME" which was...not a huge deal, because my whole concern back when I locked everything was that this dude was going to FIND ME and clearly he did not. But still...an embarrassing oversight.
So I figured let's just buy a month of paid time so we can mass-edit the privacy setting on everything and get them all locked now. And then I was hemming and hawing about that because I really hate broken links, a piece of me dies every time I follow an old bookmark and it's to a locked/deleted entry, but I decided no just do it and you can unlock your greatest hits later/never. Take everything that's public and set it to friends only.
And then Dreamwidth was like "doing this will change the security settings for 19 entries, are you sure you want to proceed?" and I realized I'm an IDIOT, everything had the correct security settings from the beginning, and none of this needed to happen.
On a semi-related note it's interesting how the flow of my thoughts from brain to keyboard has changed over the last seven years, because ALL of the above felt to me like something that belonged in the tags of a Tumblr post, where it would have been a few sentences of director's commentary on an "I'm back?" post that was much shorter overall on account of the whole tangent about security levels not being in there. BUT THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS AND SO THE COMMENTARY BECAME THE POST.
God.
Anyway needlessly spending $3 on a month of paid time means I also have access to all my icon slots. This is good because before it was my most recent fifteen or something? And that wasn't the WORST thing because it was mostly YJ stuff but it was still very much a dilemma, because do I destroy the historical record represented by my existing icons so that I can use more current ones, or do I just carry on like it's 2014? A question I'll never need to answer.
All this to say that I have been tweeting to the void about video games a lot recently and I am absolutely going to continue to do that, but I would like to also journal into the void about them as well so I will be doing that here! I actually came here to talk about Oracle of Seasons but it felt too weird to just dive into it with no preamble so...this happened.