so in the hobbit when offered a cup of chamomile tea by dori, gandalf instead asks for wine; but when offered a glass of ‘the old winyards’ by bilbo in lotr, gandalf instead asks for tea. from this we can draw one of two conclusions:
a: hanging around thorin oakenshield was enough to turn gandalf to drink
or
b: getting to know a recklessly be-tooked bilbo baggins was enough to make gandalf reconsider his life and realise he needed to be the sensible and sober one
c: Gandalf is like a cat, and always wants the opposite of what he’s offered.
no you see hes right, the zeitgeist isn’t something that represents current sociopolitical trends, its a literal earth sized ghost that makes things communist
karl clarified this in one of his later writings, heres a scan:
hes friends with santa and the easter bunny and he visits earth to bring us communism and wave his mystical powers over human affairs!
just to be clear, I’m staying here as long as this site functions. I have 0 intentions of deleting this blog, I will go down with this ship if only to see exactly how bad it gets
There’s been talk about alternatives to Tumblr lately, so I’ve put together 7 basic little bits about Dreamwidth to help anyone who’s completely new to it get started. It’s by no means a complete list (see the FAQ for that), but it might help with your first steps and to get a general idea if you decide to sign up.
The big plus of Dreamwidth is that it’s been created by fans, and there’s some overlap between the DW and the AO3 teams. So for fannish content, it’s probably the safest space we can get at the moment. And the people in charge understand fandom and care about it in a way a corporation like Yahoo (who owns Tumblr) never will.
Anyway, here are a few bits and pieces to get you started:
1. Privacy options In your journal you can decide who gets to see your posts:
Public – everyone can see the entry, even if they don’t have a DW account
Access List – Only those users you’ve granted access can see this post. This is a good option if you want to share something with friends, but not the entire world.
Private – only you can see this entry
2. Reading List Your reading list contains the entries from all journals you’re subscribed to. Depending on the access you’ve been given, you’ll see only their public posts or also their access-restricted content.
3. Circles Every journal has a circle. This is the collection of journals connected to you in various ways:
you’re subscribed to them, so their entries appear on your reading list
they’ve subscribed to you, so they read your entries
you’ve given them access to your locked content
they’ve given you access to their locked content
On your circle page you can administrate these settings.
4. Filters If you’re subscribed to a lot of journals and communities, your reading page can turn overwhelming. You can create filters to group those journals, so you can choose between having your reading page display all journals or only the ones in this particular filter. You can also filter for personal journals, communities and feeds in this way:
5. Communities Dreamwidth has a special kind of journal – communities. More than one user can post here, so it’s a great way to share posts and discussions. Every community has administrators, who control who can join, who can post entries and what the community’s journal looks like. Anyone can create a community. Comms are one of the things that made LJ so central to fandom, back when it wasn’t broken yet – they’re an incredibly easy way to keep track of shared interests and meet people who’re into the same topics as you. In this they’re similar to tags on Tumblr, only with admins to curate the content, keep it safe and keep out the false positives.
6. Feeds Feeds let you subscribe to content from another site that has an RSS or Atom feed available. Good news – Tumblr does! So if you want to follow someone’s posts on Tumblr in your Dreamwidth account, you can add them as a feed and not miss anything.
7. Tags Tags on Dreamwidth work a little differently from those on Tumblr. Here they’re mainly a way to organize your own entries and make it easier for visitors to your journal to find older content you’ve posted on this topic. You cannot subscribe to a tag.
Dreamwidth is different from Tumblr in some ways, and you’ll spend some time in the beginning to figure it out. But there are far more options for customisation and you get much tigther control over your content and who you want to share with.
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