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1) i fell on the ice again on the way in to work because it was 33 last night and 19 this morning and so the ground is fucking glass and knives, ugh. Nine years as a roller derby skater means I know how to fuckin' fall, all right, but that's got some additional downsides-- I'm pushing forty and have a dodgy hip for some reason, and also I muscle-memory-drilled how to fall on kneepads, so my take-a-knee reflex is less great in regular clothes. Also that ankle I sprained in October is not 100% yet and I probably need to look up some physical therapy exercises because it's not going to go back to normal on its own, is it?

2) There's got to be a way to blacklist tags on DW so I don't see them. Like, that's what tags are for, right? To find what you're looking for and avoid what you hate?
Similarly, is there a way, if you're importing a whole bunch of old entries, to make them not show up on reading pages? I'm seeing huge swathes of somebody's stuff that's backdated from years ago, but it's still showing up clearly chronologically in the order reposted, not in the order backdated, and that's a bummer. I've had to unsubscribe, but I figure, give it a day or two and I'll try resubscribing. But in the meantime-- if I import old entries, I don't want to do that! And if it's repetitively about a fandom I actively hate, if I blacklist it I won't see it, right, so the lion's share of the problem would be gone, right?
Only I don't understand how to blacklist on Dreamwidth. And I saw someone mention a "show on reading page" checkmark you could untick for backdated entries, right, only I don't see that fucking anywhere and I think I must have imagined reading that.
It would be a great feature if it existed!
(If you think you know who you are, that I unfollowed, don't worry, I'm gonna resubscribe. If you want to drop a line letting me know when you're done reposting old entries, that'd be fine too, but I'll actually physically write myself a note to check back, it's okay. I'm not like, annoyed, I just really need not to have my reading list be four pages of old essays about a fandom I strongly dislike, especially right now when I've just gone on a huge subscribing spree and so have no idea who's on here and what they normally do.)

(Listen, I've had Doctor Who blacklisted on Tumblr since 2012 and it's the only reason I stayed on that site, and you wouldn't believe how much Doctor Who shit I've still scrolled past. The nerds I love love that show but I absolutely fucking do not and I just don't want to hear about it, for no particular reason but like, it annoys the shit out of me, and that's fine, right? That's the curb-cutter effect for trigger warnings, right? I literally never want to see what's his name's face ever again in my life, I don't care that they've got a woman I like doing it now, I don't care about the show and just don't want to know.) (No, that's not the fandom in question at the moment but it's there for the record.)

3) I reread a bunch of my old fic last night while the cat was on my arm so I couldn't type. I used to be pretty decent at pacing. Clearly, it's a skillset I possess. I need to, like. Focus. I don't know what to do.
Just keep plugging away, I guess. I need a finished story to edit, is what I need. That's my current goal. So I gotta keep plugging away on that. Even if the pacing is awful and it's dragging and the whole thing is too long and a mess, I need to finish it and get it where it was going and then I can revisit and decide what to do. Having it half-finished is useless.

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I think the only way to block that stuff from showing up on your reading page is to have a restricted reading filter that excludes certain users. No tag blocking at this point :(

There's no universal tag blocking but you can block tags per user appearing on your Reading Pane. It's a paid feature (The minimum purchase of paid account is 1 month for $3, with a very small discount for buying longer amounts of time).

https://kore.dreamwidth.org/1321059.html takes you through it. I used it for the first time earlier today, although when I followed along I hadn't yet created a Default filter, so I did so, and threw all my current subscribe list into it, then added the specific tag from the specific user that I wanted to block.

oh, this is brilliant, thank you!!

I am pretty sure something like "DW Savior" exists which allows you to block content/keywords, much like Tumblr Savior, but I've never used either so I'm not much use when it comes to finding/applying it, sorry! Maybe someone else will know more.

Good luck with the story, though; keep plugging away, and remind yourself it's better to have a mess than a blank document. :D A thing I tell myself, frequently, with limited success...

Ouch! on the ice thing. Perhaps knee pads should be standard winter wear in cold areas! My mother, who fell and broke an arm a few years ago in an icy parking lot, would probably agree.

Edited 2018-12-07 19:13 (UTC)

The "Don't show on Reading Pages" checkbox appears when you click the "Edit date" link next to the entry date when editing or creating an entry.

I use it quite frequently, because I make a boring weekly tracking post which is not private but also I suspect not very interesting to most people, so I post it behind a cut. If I'm posting it a day or two late for reasons (this happens more often than I'd like, but eh, done is better than perfect), I backdate it to the right day and then tick that box. I also tag it diligently.

oh man thanks! that also is great to know. i think i have a lot of old stuff i'm going to have to manually post in here, and I was sort of resignedly scrolling my reading page like oh man this is gonna be me soon... but I'm glad to know I can do that.
I like that-- boring tracking posts are a thing i try to like, slip into more punchy updates to camoflage them, and I used to sometimes do private posts on LJ but I think I like your backdating method better. Because it's not, like... private, it's just boring.