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May. 14th, 2024 01:43 pmStarting in 2003, I had a blog on LiveJournal using the moniker "e_ticket", and discovered a likeminded community of nerds, weirdos, geeks, gays and bears -- many of whom I am still great friends with to this day in real life.
LiveJournal wasn't my first online community -- I'd been chatting for years before that on AOL, IRC and BBSes -- but it was the first one that felt innately collaborative and very much "real-time" with the events of my life. Other services have overtaken -- and accelerated -- the usefulness and sense of community I originally found there, but they haven't quite replaced it. I miss it terribly, but forge onward.
In the midst of some social-media burnout and general *gestures wildly to everything in 2024* malaise, I was gently reminded by a friend that this site still exists, so I'm back on my BS and might use this for some long-form posting once again.
LiveJournal wasn't my first online community -- I'd been chatting for years before that on AOL, IRC and BBSes -- but it was the first one that felt innately collaborative and very much "real-time" with the events of my life. Other services have overtaken -- and accelerated -- the usefulness and sense of community I originally found there, but they haven't quite replaced it. I miss it terribly, but forge onward.
I stopped posting regularly on my LiveJournal in 2012; my Tweets kept cross-posting there until about 2018. You can still find the original LJ here: https://e-ticket.livejournal.com
I transferred my LJ here to Dreamwidth sometime in 2017 -- and promptly forgot about it.In the midst of some social-media burnout and general *gestures wildly to everything in 2024* malaise, I was gently reminded by a friend that this site still exists, so I'm back on my BS and might use this for some long-form posting once again.
