This journal used to have another name. It was aggressively wanked and trolled and I renamed it and dropped my flist and communities so that I could resubscribe only to the communities and people that I like. This journal is now Friends Only.

I've moved to Dreamwidth, and that's where most of my posts are. All of my old posts here are locked. I use this journal to cross-post so that people who aren't on DW can still read me, but you have to comment on DW. I also read my non-DW-using friends list, comment on entries, and belong to communities here.

Because LJ, unlike DW, requires that I grant access to my locked posts to anyone I want to keep on my reading list, for security reasons I will not add "reader" journals with no entries or identifying personal information; I only add people I know and trust.

How to get unscreened commenting privileges on my DW journal, if you don't have or want a DW journal, but are someone that I trust enough to give them to here:

Click here while you are logged into LJ in another tab or window. Register an email address to go with your OpenID after you log in (it will tell you how) and upload your 6 free icons, if you want to. Then subscribe to my journal and grant me access if you want access. If I know and trust you, you'll get access.

Comments on this post are screened. If you want me to add you and you don't think I'll recognise your journal name, please comment and tell me who you are and where I know you from.

My main journal is now on Dreamwidth. I will be cross-posting here, but there will probably not be any more public posts here as I will be using this journal to keep in touch with people who don't post on Dreamwidth and to read and manage communities here.

I renamed this journal and dropped everything in order to streamline my life and get rid of some problems I've been having here on LJ. It took me over 4 hours to read my flist, so I hardly ever did; I always missed posts, and because many of the people here that I really care about don't post often, theirs were the ones that I tended to miss. I had over 600 names of people and communities on my reading list here. I didn't even remember who some of them were or why I had added them. I did know that there were people I had added and knew casually through old fandoms who were sharing my locked posts with people who have no business reading that stuff. I cut everyone I wasn't having regular conversations with that we both seemed to enjoy. I also cut people who don't post things that I enjoy reading (and don't post personal stuff either), because part of the problem with reading my flist is that there was too much stuff I didn't want to read. I cut a few people who are posting more on Dreamwidth than here because I read them there.

If you were cut when I renamed this journal, you don't get added back within a week, and I'm not reading you somewhere else, it's because of one of three reasons.

1) We've been mutually friended for some indefinite period of time but we don't really have much in common and seldom communicate. Maybe we just hung out together because of a fandom we were both in.

2) You have someone on your friends list I really, really don't trust and I have reason to believe you're closer to them than you are to me. If you miss me, subscribe on DW; you can read my public posts and I can read yours, but I don't have to share my locked entries.

3) It was a mistake (I cut over 300 names, I am bound to have missed someone I didn't want to miss). If you think it was a mistake, comment on one of my public posts (like this one). This journal will be mostly FO from now on.

I will not add "reader" journals with no identifying information, entries or interests. I don't care if you're over 18 or over 21. I don't care if teenagers read my porn; what I care about is knowing who reads my personal entries. If lurker or sockpuppet journals friend this journal, I will ban them.