get me off this crazy thing

What I want is a meme where you plug in your LJ name and it then spits out a "This is what your friend's list looks like!" type picture, or maybe "Do You Resemble Your Friend's List" type meme. This occured to me last week and this week, when on Wednesday my friend's list explodes into Torchwood posts and then on Thursday it explodes into SPN posts. ;)

Clearly I need to watch SPN, to counterweight the Torchwood/Who side of my flist. :D And before all of you jump on top of me saying YES and offering source, please wait till after April 7th when I'm human again?

(BTW, I love my friend's list. I peeked at the episode reactions to last night's SPN and loved you all EVEN MORE because you are all uber adorable in your Sam/Dean love. *hearts you guys*)


( Torchwood reactions to Adam and Reset. Nothing in depth. )

( And a specific Martha Jones/Whoverse question: )

Is it wrong that I keep slipping into a Chekovian accent each time I hear about this LJ/SUP acquisition?

My take, for what it's worth:

First reactions was: CHANGE BAD OMG, more for it seeming to come out of the blue (at least for ME, no matter it has apparently been in the works for a long time). My second reaction was still more negative than not, but a bit more tempered. This blog entry is useful in seeing how the different blogging sites/blogging companies stand in comparison to each other globally. The final graph shows 6A's popularity in Russia.

It makes perfect sense for a Russian company to want to buy LiveJournal, if it's that popular in Russia.(Friendster's popular in south-east Aisa? Who knew!)

The question is of course how will this affect me, and my friends, and my social interactions with all of you, all the people I love, the world, etc etc. Fandom lives on Livejournal, no matter the slow siphoning away to other LJ platform sites. I was amused by some of the comments on the LJ news comm that were all "Can't be worse than 6A!". heh. Of course it can, though. Or it can be better. Or the same.

I read the Wired article, which was interesting (and also a year old). I don't have any more information on SUP to come to any kind of conclusion about SUP's motivation, if it's purely a good business venture for them (which it is, no doubt) or some nefarious politico badness. If this were an episode of Alias or 24 we would know the answer! lol.

The company being Russian isn't a reason to bail, though. Russian companies have just as much right to play in the global market as any company anywhere; a company doing bad things to free speech either here or in Russia or anywhere is absolutely a reason to not give them any money, not to mention pulling up stakes and going elsewhere, but that stands for 6A just as much as for SUP, or our own dear government.

I'm not particularly sanguine about this acquisition, mostly because SUP is more an unknown entity than 6A was, and I have no more faith in SUP than any large company with money as it's goal. And it's hard to trust a company that's already been tagged as iffy and coming from a region with a reputation for corruption. But all in all I'm not going to jump ship just yet. However, I'm inclined to follow the herd, so, if my friends leave, then probably so will I eventually.

Incidentally, none of us want to hear it, but the internet is no longer free unspoiled territory -- it's a multi-gazillion dollar industry. It's less and less a good home for fandom. I know the OTW is working toward a goal in that regards, and I think all of us should seriously consider backing such a venture up. It's the way of the future.

This has actually motivated me to back up my journal, finally.

The lovely geekturnedvamp has gifted me with some paid LJ time. Thanks, babe! You're the best. :)

:::quickly adds all the icons she's got lying around:::

I have no new ones to dazzle you all with, but I shall trot out my Kirk Gaypants icon in honor of upcoming Vividcon.

Wahoo!

Rather late to the party, I finally gave my journal a title and subtitle. The title is Through the olive grove and the subtitle is Huye, luna, luna, luna. Both are from Federico Garcia Lorca's poem the Ballad of the Moon. English translation here.

Lorca is my poetical boyfriend at the moment, and I love this poem, a section of which I just currently made my email sig as well. Title and subtitle subject to change without notice. *g*

I didn't give a name to my friend's list. Maybe I'll come up with something later.

hafital is my user name because when it came down to it I couldn't deal with having a different name from my familiar fanfic pseud.

Late to the party, as usual. :) I'm finally back online at home, so figured now's as good a time as any to jump off a cliff. And jeez, seeing as I'm sitting here at 3:21am hemming and hawing over just this little bit of an intro for the last 20 minutes, I'm remembering why I was so resistant to getting one of these in the first place. Oh well, couldn't resist astolat's patient prodding forever, could I? :)

Hm, don't quite know how to drive this thing... prolly should friend some people or something.