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working on halloween themed cocktails for a party tomorrow. made the Corpse Reviver No. 2 because I had all the ingredients on hand. 1 part gin, 1 part lemon juice, 1 part Kina Lillet, and a dash of absinthe.
Meh! It tastes precisely like those ingredients ought to, which is to say, not particularly like any kind of drink worth drinking. Suffice to say it will *not* be a hit at the party I am attending, so I will not bother bringing a pitcher of it.
If I want to properly do a Zombie I need to make or get some falernum, and it’s supposed to sit 24 hours, so I have time if I do it tonight. But I’m so commmmmfy in this chairrrrr…
In other news, that graphic I found saved on my computer from 2007 got reblogged like forty gajillion times, which was cool, and I was super pumped at first because I thought for sure I was finding all the people on Tumblr who remember LJ and how the Internet used to work, but basically nobody followed me and of the people who added commentary, many seemed to believe that they were the only person who’d been there? And it’s like… where do you think i got that gif in the first place to find it again years later? I also was there? As were many of the other people reblogging this before you? So…
It’s sort of depressingly isolating to think that none of these people thought about why this person would be posting this graphic unless they also were there? And it just reinforced to me how Social Media now is just seeing a thing you like and just repeating it to your friends who then repeat it, and it’s a weird echo chamber and they’ve pretty actively removed any way we have of actually talking instead of just echoing. It’s… it’s weird. I don’t get it.
I don’t get any of this. I’m very confused. On a more happy note, though, I’m done with chapter 8 of Full of Grace and that’s going up tonight or tomorrow.
Wasn’t that an LJ-style update? LOL. I used to write a daily entry. And it would be like that. Sometimes bulleted. And I’d agonize over a proper subject line, and pick my mood. And then there’d be at least one comment, and often a thread, addressing one of the themes raised. At least one person would say “yay!” to a fic update, and someone else might ask for the ingredients of the drink. And I’m getting nostalgic about a stupid website, but it seems like– how hard could that be, to have a site where people could post comments and read one another’s journals?
And if you wanted to comment on an ongoing issue, you’d link to the other person’s post and say this thing, hmm, my words on this thing, and discussion would ensue.
And it’s not like that was better– clearly! it wasn’t great! hence the whole strikethrough! but there were basic human needs! that were met by this! and the thing I reblogged earlier today with the chat with the person being like did you see the thing I posted and their friend being like yes you reblogged it from me– yes but reblogging isn’t talking about it! I want to talk about things! Sweet Christ.
I will get like four likes on this, and if they haven’t disallowed comments yet I’ll probably get one of those, but I can’t reply to them without reblogging my own post, and I won’t since that fucks up the formatting.
SCREAM INTO THE VOID
CLICK OUR ADS
working on halloween themed cocktails for a party tomorrow. made the Corpse Reviver No. 2 because I had all the ingredients on hand. 1 part gin, 1 part lemon juice, 1 part Kina Lillet, and a dash of absinthe.
Meh! It tastes precisely like those ingredients ought to, which is to say, not particularly like any kind of drink worth drinking. Suffice to say it will *not* be a hit at the party I am attending, so I will not bother bringing a pitcher of it.
If I want to properly do a Zombie I need to make or get some falernum, and it’s supposed to sit 24 hours, so I have time if I do it tonight. But I’m so commmmmfy in this chairrrrr…
In other news, that graphic I found saved on my computer from 2007 got reblogged like forty gajillion times, which was cool, and I was super pumped at first because I thought for sure I was finding all the people on Tumblr who remember LJ and how the Internet used to work, but basically nobody followed me and of the people who added commentary, many seemed to believe that they were the only person who’d been there? And it’s like… where do you think i got that gif in the first place to find it again years later? I also was there? As were many of the other people reblogging this before you? So…
It’s sort of depressingly isolating to think that none of these people thought about why this person would be posting this graphic unless they also were there? And it just reinforced to me how Social Media now is just seeing a thing you like and just repeating it to your friends who then repeat it, and it’s a weird echo chamber and they’ve pretty actively removed any way we have of actually talking instead of just echoing. It’s… it’s weird. I don’t get it.
I don’t get any of this. I’m very confused. On a more happy note, though, I’m done with chapter 8 of Full of Grace and that’s going up tonight or tomorrow.
Wasn’t that an LJ-style update? LOL. I used to write a daily entry. And it would be like that. Sometimes bulleted. And I’d agonize over a proper subject line, and pick my mood. And then there’d be at least one comment, and often a thread, addressing one of the themes raised. At least one person would say “yay!” to a fic update, and someone else might ask for the ingredients of the drink. And I’m getting nostalgic about a stupid website, but it seems like– how hard could that be, to have a site where people could post comments and read one another’s journals?
And if you wanted to comment on an ongoing issue, you’d link to the other person’s post and say this thing, hmm, my words on this thing, and discussion would ensue.
And it’s not like that was better– clearly! it wasn’t great! hence the whole strikethrough! but there were basic human needs! that were met by this! and the thing I reblogged earlier today with the chat with the person being like did you see the thing I posted and their friend being like yes you reblogged it from me– yes but reblogging isn’t talking about it! I want to talk about things! Sweet Christ.
I will get like four likes on this, and if they haven’t disallowed comments yet I’ll probably get one of those, but I can’t reply to them without reblogging my own post, and I won’t since that fucks up the formatting.
SCREAM INTO THE VOID
CLICK OUR ADS
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Date: 2015-10-30 04:31 pm (UTC)I hear ya about wanting to talk about things. Facebook announced their new emojis thing and I was like, the last thing we really need is a dislike button. We need to get rid of the like button so people are forced to actually speak.