Another blast from the past:

 THE PYRAMID COLLECTION. I mean, pagan/gemstone jewelry stores used to be all over the place, but that isn't the case so much any more. And Hot Topic doesn't really sell goth clothing anymore, either. So this is basically like a cross between oldshool Hot Topic/Earthbound Trading Company. Whatever, my family has pretty much had a subscription to the paper catalog since the 1980s.

We come here today to mourn Livejournal.

 /pour 40.

Well, I finally did it. I pulled the trigger and nuked all my accounts from orbit. 

Everything, all my alts, were backed up here as of mid-January, anyway. I've had a paid account here since then as well. My main journal has been backed up here since 2009.

I was a latecomer to Livejournal. I joined in mid-2004, towards the end of the mass fandom migration from Yahoogroups to LJ. I've mostly used other social media services since 2012, but I always missed LJ as an outlet. Tumblr can be toxic at times, and I've come to the (very belated) realization that it's really geared more towards content sharing than interaction. Facebook feels just as toxic sometimes. I always hoped the LJ diaspora would end someday....but let's face it, LJ Strikethrough in 2007 was the beginning of the end, and we all knew it. It hung on for 10 more years, but the transport of the servers to Russia really was the final nail in the coffin.

So long, LJ. Thanks for the memories.

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