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So, RL is pretty shite at the moment. Things happening that I am powerless to do anything about which is just leaving me frustrated and upset. My emotions are all over the place at the moment. Twitter made me cry (Dean and Cas roleplay accounts fighting FFS) and then the news made me cry even harder (starving babies in Somalia). I'm just a bit of a mess.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, I suppose, depending on how you look at it) my coping mechanism is to retreat into fandom. It's probably not the healthiest way of dealing with my woes but it makes me happy and it's something I have some control over. For the first time in months I actually want to write fic, and a whole slew of plot bunnies hit me while I was joking around on Twitter last night.

I should hasten to add that many of my years in fandom were also when I was happy in RL so fandom is not entirely an escape mechanism. Just at the moment it is.

Brb writing Sassy.

Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

Originally posted by frelling_tralk at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

Originally posted by deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.

As I said last time, while it's frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:

"LiveJournal isn’t just a social network. It’s also a platform for organizing civic action. Dozens of network projects and groups mobilize people to solve specific problems — from defending the rights of political prisoners to saving endangered historic architecture in Moscow."

So while I know many are considering the move over to Dreamwidth and other such sites, supporting LJ is a way we can help support those who use it for more than a writing/roleplaying/social venue.


Also, as a FYI, LJ is giving paid users effected by the outage two weeks of paid time as compensation.

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Today's confusion comes in the form of Jensen Ackles being hot and talking with an English accent.

LOL! When I was tagging this I spotted a tag called 'Jensen Ackles is my life' and I was all o.O until I remembered it was from my sponsored blogathon.