Not a rant, a request
Sep. 5th, 2010 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffyllamaToday I caught myself rolling my eyes as I scrolled past someone enthusiastically promoting their latest OTP, and I hate that. I'm in no position to judge a complete stranger's reasons for choosing what interests them, and I don't like it when people want to tell everyone what they *should* be writing. I do, however, think it's good to question my own preferences and assumptions when I see people bring up neglected characters/pairings/genres or whatever.
So the questioning is what this is about, though it's about a use of words.
Spoons.
I don't like using the term myself, as it makes me feel labelled sick. (My brain, sometimes it makes no sense.) So maybe I notice it more, I don't know. I think it's great for its original purpose, and I like that people know what it means, and when I see people use it about themselves I assume they have a good reason to do so.
But if your post is along the lines of 'I did a full day of work and omg long hours and overtime too, ran a marathon at lunchtime, cured cancer in my coffee break, and astronaut training tonight was soooo tough and I was going to finish that fic update you're waiting for tonight but I'm sorry I have no spoons left'... then maybe consider that it might not be the most appropriate phrase to use.
Everything is relative, but really. You're allowed to be tired after all that. And needless to say, I'm jealous of the astronaut training. *g*
So the questioning is what this is about, though it's about a use of words.
Spoons.
I don't like using the term myself, as it makes me feel labelled sick. (My brain, sometimes it makes no sense.) So maybe I notice it more, I don't know. I think it's great for its original purpose, and I like that people know what it means, and when I see people use it about themselves I assume they have a good reason to do so.
But if your post is along the lines of 'I did a full day of work and omg long hours and overtime too, ran a marathon at lunchtime, cured cancer in my coffee break, and astronaut training tonight was soooo tough and I was going to finish that fic update you're waiting for tonight but I'm sorry I have no spoons left'... then maybe consider that it might not be the most appropriate phrase to use.
Everything is relative, but really. You're allowed to be tired after all that. And needless to say, I'm jealous of the astronaut training. *g*
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Date: 2010-09-06 01:05 am (UTC)I'm just being flaky about the whole thing, heh. So many people are cross-posting or have moved-but-not-really, it feels like my whole group of fandom and ex-fandom friends have one leg here and one leg there. I don't know what's going to end up happening with it all, though if LJ keeps pissing people off so royally, well, that'll be that eventually. :P
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Date: 2010-09-06 01:27 am (UTC)So basically, if you want to keep me friended here and remove me on LJ that's cool, but I'll keep you friended over there either way. I've discovered the crossposting feature after a bit of digging, but I'm going to use it to post to IJ automatically for now I think as I don't have as much motivation to manually post there as I do IJ.
If I stick with it over here, I manage to post regularly, and it's usable with the Lynx scheme long term (or they come up with another option that works for me) then I'll get the family to contribute to a paid account for Christmas. Then yay, crossposting heaven and no waffling *g*
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Date: 2010-09-06 01:28 am (UTC)