Back home at the old front porch

[vulgarweed]

So there's a little bit of a movement afoot to get folks back on LJ for some old-fashioned posting at length and the kind of posting and discussion that just doesn't work very well on Tumblr and I'm all for it. Though I've certainly been part of the problem. Tumblr is just so easy - push the reblog button again and again and my blog is covered in smutty fanart and funny cat gifs. (No one's disputing that Tumblr excels at those forms). And there's always so much new to look at. Participating on LJ takes more work, because you actually have to have something to say. Which I often do not.

The worst things about Tumblr is that long conversations are impossible to read and follow for very long, especially because of the way they branch out. Ugh. And the lack of privacy settings irks me too. We're raising a whole internet generation who think "friendslock" is a Sherlock AU where all the characters are witty, quippy 20somethings living in improbably spacious Manhattan apartments. I love Tumblr. But there are still alternatives.

So Happy Solstice everyone! Writing recap next post.

Comments

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

I gave the Corsair one Kudos on AO3 and then remembered that I wasn't signed in. It's lovely and the way you worked in so many different universes is rather brilliant. Especially using Adam as the diabolus ex machina to save reality (and having him be Mazikeen's son!).

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you so much! That story was a big challenge - it was written for go_exchange and the recipient wanted a story that involved The King in Yellow, and then it just exploded on me, because there were so many ways it could all link up.

Adam is the best diabolus ex machina! And the thing that's always bugged me about GO, the big unanswered question is, we know who Adam's father was, but who was his mother? The question's never even asked, much less answered. So of course I turned into a headcanon where DC-Vertigo!Lucifer is his father and Mazikeen is his mom. This isn't the first time I've written that! (Also, I want pet Mazikitty with her fucked-up face, don't you? D'awww)

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

My understanding of Antichrists is of the vaguest, but I always rather thought that his mother had to be human, in the same way that Christs presumably have to have a human parent as well. But of course if we are looking for a complete opposite, then the mother could be Mazikeen and the father could be a human.