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flamingsword gave me some sourdough starter on Saturday (thanks!) I am using it today and will post pics of the finished product. I'm using the King Arthur Flour Rustic Sourdough Bread recipe.
- It's decided to be winter again in Texas for some weird reason.
- I'm adjusting to the new schedule finally, but I've had to take Benadryl to get to sleep and stay asleep most nights regardless.
- My brain is actively trying to kill me. Good thing I am good at dealing with intrusive thoughts. I'm not in danger or anything, just depressed and prone to anxiety.
- I think one of the things I miss the most about old LJ back in the day was the fact that it was basically one-stop shopping for all my fandoms. The Matrix was there. Harry Potter was there. Lord Of The Rings was there. Watchmen was there. Gorillaz was there. Star Wars was there.
Yes that stuff all eventually moved to Tumblr - but thanks to Tumblr's awful format and algorithms, it's very easy for fandoms that a person isn't even in to dominate someone's dashboard or timeline. This was how it was so easy to know what was going on in the SuperWhoLock, Homestuck (a fandom which I was at least trying to participate in at the time,) Onceler (yes it was for the Lorax movie - but come on, it was the Onceler fandom,) My Little Pony, Undertale, Steven Universe, and more recently, She Ra and Good Omens fandoms, without even being involved with them or consuming the media (hence all the "I've never watched this thing/read this thing, but I know everything about it through osmosis" memes) and for them to totally drown out and crowd out activity for so many other fandoms. On LJ, you had communities for fandoms. You went to those communities for those fandoms. It was good times. I miss that.
- MxO is one of my biggest coping mechanisms right now. There are regular weekly parties on the MxOEMU server now. When it first launched, the server (like the Matrix Online equivalent of the WoW private servers which used to exist in greater numbers until Blizzard cracked down on them) could only handle 13-15 characters online at any one time. We've at least gotten up to 20 or more players online during these past few weeks.
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flamingsword gave me some sourdough starter on Saturday (thanks!) I am using it today and will post pics of the finished product. I'm using the King Arthur Flour Rustic Sourdough Bread recipe.- It's decided to be winter again in Texas for some weird reason.
- I'm adjusting to the new schedule finally, but I've had to take Benadryl to get to sleep and stay asleep most nights regardless.
- My brain is actively trying to kill me. Good thing I am good at dealing with intrusive thoughts. I'm not in danger or anything, just depressed and prone to anxiety.
- I think one of the things I miss the most about old LJ back in the day was the fact that it was basically one-stop shopping for all my fandoms. The Matrix was there. Harry Potter was there. Lord Of The Rings was there. Watchmen was there. Gorillaz was there. Star Wars was there.
Yes that stuff all eventually moved to Tumblr - but thanks to Tumblr's awful format and algorithms, it's very easy for fandoms that a person isn't even in to dominate someone's dashboard or timeline. This was how it was so easy to know what was going on in the SuperWhoLock, Homestuck (a fandom which I was at least trying to participate in at the time,) Onceler (yes it was for the Lorax movie - but come on, it was the Onceler fandom,) My Little Pony, Undertale, Steven Universe, and more recently, She Ra and Good Omens fandoms, without even being involved with them or consuming the media (hence all the "I've never watched this thing/read this thing, but I know everything about it through osmosis" memes) and for them to totally drown out and crowd out activity for so many other fandoms. On LJ, you had communities for fandoms. You went to those communities for those fandoms. It was good times. I miss that.
- MxO is one of my biggest coping mechanisms right now. There are regular weekly parties on the MxOEMU server now. When it first launched, the server (like the Matrix Online equivalent of the WoW private servers which used to exist in greater numbers until Blizzard cracked down on them) could only handle 13-15 characters online at any one time. We've at least gotten up to 20 or more players online during these past few weeks.
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