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 I follow 1664 people on Tumblr, which polls I’ve seen go around would indicate is an unusually high number. It’s had a decade to accrue, and I see no reason to unfollow people who become inactive (though I do unfollow people who become annoying)

I’m quite enjoying the more active cultivation it takes to find people to interact with on here, and I’m striving to rise to the challenge. I’ve spent a lovely chunk of the evening listening to music and playing with the “random journal” button, then exploring reading pages when I run across someone whose taste seems similar to mine.

The general “comment before you subscribe” culture around here is unfamiliar but fun. I spend a lot of my time in internet fandom trying to convince others that unsolicited interactions are okay and even wanted, and it’s fun to run into a very different set of default social assumptions.
 

With that said, if there’s someone on here you’d think I’d vibe with, I’d love to hear about it in the comments! I’m getting plenty of mileage out of searching from my interests and checking out the people who comment in the communities I’m in, but human recs are unbeatable. Alternatively, who are your favorite people on here?

Fanfic Rec: in the shadows by Kieron_ODuibhir

I found this fic on Tumblr earlier, and it absolutely delights me.

In which Superman and the Justice League slowly come to the realization that Batman isn’t a real person, and Superman confronts him about it. The gimmick here is essentially that Bruce Wayne made Batman up, and now that Batman has outlived him, it’s up to him to figure out what to do with that. It’s tagged “a boy and his heroic nightmare entity”.

Read "in the shadows" on AO3 here. 12k, four chapters, complete.

As someone else put it in the tumblr notes, it's rare to see something new done with Batman. This is a refreshing take that nevertheless plays with many of the elements that make the character compelling.

( Ongoing journal maintenance stuff... )

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Dreamwidth To-Do List

• Jazz up this journal's style a bit (I've got a big hoard of tutorials at this point! Just need to play around with them!)
• Learn how to embed a Spotify playlist (I've seen it done! Presumably you can find or generate an embed code somewhere.)
• Put together an updated generic Dear Author letter for exchanges (I started working on this on Tumblr ages ago, but chronic illness fatigue kept me from finishing it for long enough that it's more practical to start a new draft)
• Migrate my fanfiction reclists over from Tumblr (This will be an Undertaking, but I love having things backed up)
• (Stretch goal, given the timeline) Finish and post my Summer of the 69 fill before the theme prompt changes.