#might cross-post to livejournal & dreamwidth later

[happyfunzies]

I’ve been blogging more on Dreamwidth and LiveJournal recently for more “professional” things, I suppose.

It’s certainly a new experience, for sure, and I hope I’m getting some things down. I’ve decided to only tag my stuff when I deem necessary since there’s ZERO point in trying to tag for things that won’t get seen in the first place. (I do tag NSFW & “inappropriate” posts, keep in mind — I’m just failing to see why I should tag casual posts ig (maybe ‘cuz I’m lazy).

Anyways, to keep y’all up-to-date, I’m currently attempting to draw more in Adobe Fresco & Photoshop! It’s a lot of fun once you get used to the software, I have to say. I wouldn’t recommend for beginners to use Photoshop, but Fresco could be good! Depends, I would say, because you’d have to be at a good understanding of general art programs to understand this. FireAlpaca has improved drastically, and I would argue that it’s extremely fit for beginners! It even has a Timelapse feature now!

[ssironstrange]

Tumblr alternatives

more keep popping up and i’m testing p much all of them so...

pillowfort So far, seems like the most promising. however, it has some SERIOUS lag. meaning they need to upgrade their bandwidth/servers, meaning they need some serious $ to do that. plus, it’s a fairly small team. slow going, but steady. it’s very promising. i really like the communities feature.

cumblr (registered but can’t get to my account yet) these guys are building from the ground up as fast as possible with what seems like a pretty small team. i’m still wary, as it seems kinda fishy but the results so far are actually good. i feel like this could have good potential but they’re building shit at breakneck speeds that it’s bound to be glitchy as fuck. we’ll see. they just opened for registration yesterday i think so i haven’t been able to do any testing.

tapblr just found this one today and i really like it. it will automatically import your tumblr blog if you register with your tumblr name! still very much a WIP right now. can’t tag or do anything more than text posts. but it’s very fast, user-friendly, and probably the most tumblr-like so far. i really like where this one is going.

waterfall another one i just found today. it’s very well put together and so far every feature seems to be available. the site itself still needs a serious facelift but aesthetics can wait for functionality. (very smart of them if you ask me. fuck how the site looks, thats the easy part to change later. make sure people can use it first.) you can resize pictures in your post, too! super nice. tbh this one is the most complete alternative to date. theres only a few features not available yet. i’m really surprised with this one and might just make it my main alternative if they keep up this amazing work.

xstumbl these guys seem to be in direct competition with cumblr. they used a tumblr clone site you can buy premade for like $80 which is just waiting for a lawsuit to happen. still loooooots of features to be impleminted and honestly i’m not holding my breath. once yahoo/verizon gets wind of a direct code rip they’re gonna slap them with a cease and desist and that’ll be the end of the site unless they have actual coders that can build something from scratch.

mastodon ended up being way too much work for me to bother with.

ghost, typepad, and posthaven are all pay to use.

newgrounds is just a fucking mess no thank you

pornhub is actually pretty awesome for a blogging/personal profile thing but until they can separate that feature from the porn site, no thanks. i like porn, just not enough to have to see it every day just to get to my blog.

dreamwidth is a bit more livejournal than tumblr

bdsmlr good fetish site, not so much for anything else

swarmr i haven’t tried but i’ve heard it’s dead. plus looking at it, they use stock backgrounds for their site. not a bad thing but... not a good one either.

scribnoto is another i haven’t tried nor have i heard anything about it. looks sorta like a cross between tumblr and discord.

[sorcyress]

State of the Social Media, 2017 Hi friends!! It's been a loooong time since I last checked in about this, and Russia has made an update Weirdly Relevant, so let's talk social media! I'm gonna post this everywhere I mention, except on Twitter where I'll just link it, because I do not hate my twitter friends that much. SO! I use social media! Let's talk about which and how. This is going to be a real-person post, which means long and rambling. I may make a tl;dr for Facebook. Livejournal:(KDSorceress) WELL OKAY FINE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. I WON'T USE THIS ANYMORE. Okay, no, realistically I have given up on online privacy *and* my Russian-speaking-friend who uses LJ doesn't seem to be bailing, but given that EVERYONE ELSE has pretty much finally bailed...it's time to drop it entirely, and that's a bummer. So I'm gonna turn off cross-posting (MASSIVE WINCE) and abandon the place I've updated at least once a month for the last 161 months1. That's over thirteen years, my livejournal is old enough to start its own livejournal. But it's okay because I'll be finally fully transitioning to... Dreamwidth:(Sorcyress Wooooo! Open-source! Community-controlled! Transparency and not randomly deleting journals and not run by a government that thinks Teh Gay is a major league problem and why was I on elljay in the first place? Anywho, DW is where I put long-style thoughts, and Real Serious Life Stuff! It's my (new) home. I have never given up on longform personal blogging, and I still love it more'n anything, and I want the rest of you to return to it. Meanwhile, you can also find Real Serious Life Stuff on... Twitter:(@Sorcyress) This is where I have been dumping my serious stuff in sortof the immediate, because...I...also don't have attention for longform blogging right now? Please see my eighty part tweet-saga on "does Kat have health insurance and/or medication for their ADHD this week?", which I have been performing 140 characters at a time for the last six months. Also, there's a *lot* of selfies. If you wanna see my face, you gotsta follow my tweets. Tumblr:(Sorcyress My Tumblr is an uncoordinated cesspit, and I mostly just reblog stuff that I theoretically want to follow up on later somehow, but then don't. I really should stop using Tumblr. You are welcome to follow me there, I provide no original content and very little original commentary, but you might still find my curation cool or useful or something. Meanwhile, on the offline side of the internet you have... Facebook:(Firstname Lastname, go ahead and ping me privately if you want it) Facebook is what I use to speak to lots of people at once --lots of "hey I need a thing from y'all" but also it's the place where my party ideas show up and invites and stuff. I also post a weirdly high amount of genderstuff, because I remain eternally thrilled that Facebook lets me set my gender accurately and my pronoun correctly. Anyways, because Facebook has my wallet name attached instead of my handle, I also behave all delicately and professionally and whatnot. This means I don't swear on my own page2, and don't link to my handle! Places I am no longer include: deviantART, Sluggy.net, any other forums...Iunno. The rest of the world I used to be on? Oh yeah, OKCupid, which isn't really social media and I never really used it, but I've pretty much wholly abandoned it. And that one bounty-hunter3 website that a certain subset of my friends list is thinking of, yes I still have an account, every few months I'll post a thing, but I hardly ever read or do anything else. Places I am not currently that you probably are: Instagram (I haven't gotten around to it), Pintrest (I fundamentally object to their screwing up of Google Image searches), Snapchat (Technically I have one, every few months I remember to look at my sister's timeline, but I do not "get" it like at all) Separate from social media, if you wanna get in touch with me, you can... Text me! After two decades of fundamentally hating telephones, I finally got a tiny-pocket-computer-that-incidentally-makes-phone-calls and I like it very much. I like getting random texts, and will do my best to respond, if whatever my job is allows it. IM me! I still looooove instant messanger, even though I'm not always the best at using it. When I am on the computer, I have access to GTalk and AIM (username on both: kdsorceress), when I'm on the phone, just GTalk. Call me? Please...um...I mean, I like having phone calls very rarely with a smallish subset of the People I Like, so please don't randomly call me for conversation without pinging me otherwise first? But if that's a thing you like, I mean, try pinging me and we'll see! Skype me! (Or Google Hangouts or whatever --the kleenex problem is coming for you, Skype.) I especially like utilizing this for the "I'ma work on cleaning my room and you work on cleaning your room" type stuff. Last big Skype chat I had, Tailsteak was inking or something, and I made a LEGO set! (my skype is Sorcyress, my google is kdsorceress) Email me! Oooo, I love getting emails! I am _absolutely terrible_ at replying to emails. You will not bother me if you send me reminder emails to reply to your email. Seriously. It is good for me! (kdsorceress at gmail dot com) Is there anything I'm missing? If you wish to get in touch with me on a social media I didn't specify, go ahead and email me at [insert appropriate email here]. Or leave a comment or whatever! Yay social media! ~Sor MOOP! 1: Except two, back in 2005 because I was being a petulant and sulky baby. 2: My grandfather objects, and again, I try to pretend that Facebook is professional even though I have it locked up pretty tight privacy wise. Of course, it's sFB, so those privacy settings could randomly change any day now. 3: I am very clever! Do you like how clever I am?