Time sure flies when you're not having fun

[dragoness_e]

Wow, I haven't posted here since last July? Is that because LJ/DW is becoming less relevant, or because I have been depressed for a long spell. Six of one and half a dozen of the other, as they say. I have been posting on Minecraft Forum about mod works off and on, playing on The Wake, and not much else. I retreated from Tumblr because I stay up too late reading stuff that just gets me spun up and angry, and it's a terrible medium for communication. You can't do conversations worth a flip there, so I can't really talk about what pisses me off. Also the mob mentality there is really annoying--if you say something someone interprets crosswise as being rude about the Cause du Jour, you get a bunch of young idiots dog-piling you and telling you you're a horrible, terrible person who should just die. Oh wait, that's the entire internet.

Maybe if I just dumped all the 'follows' that brought up the Cause du Jour and kept only the Transformers pron & RP ones, I'd enjoy it more.

I haven't written anything except RP posts in ages, which is usually a sign that I'm not in good mental health. Right now I'm not in good physical health--got an inflamed tendon in my elbow, aka "tennis elbow", and wearing a wrist stabilizer (yes, you use it for the elbow condition too, as the tendon in question is pulled on by the muscles that make your hand grip tightly) makes it cumbersome and slow to type.

State of the Cynthia: I have tennis elbow, I'm working on Minecraft mods (slowly), I'm employed still, the spouse is in good shape after years of all kinds of not-fun hospital stuff, and I'd like a dog and some large cats. Also, someone needs to clean the fish tank, it's 3 weeks overdue and one arm is out commission.

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[centuriumdreams]

Oh man, I agree with you about Tumblr being kind of terrible for communication. There are features in LJ/IJ/DW that I sorely miss. And yeah, most of the old crowd seem to have swapped to Tumblr these days so DW is pretty quiet. I kinda missed the final big LJ exodus while busy trying to graduate from college, and when I got back to LJ fandom afterwards it kinda went something like this.

The dog-piling mentality is definitely not a problem isolated to Tumblr but it's part of the reason why I read more than I post pretty much everywhere these days. Maybe I've just learned to try and listen more than I speak, something I didn't used to care about very much as a youngster.

Internet hugs for the health stuff, I hope you feel better soon.