Dorothy Marley's Journal

Forgive my spam, but I have a metric ton of Dreamwidth codes from my various accounts. I know a lot of people are very unhappy with Livejournal's latest fiasco, so if you're thinking of checking out Dreamwidth, here's an opportunity to do so. Please feel free to pass the codes along to friends and so on.

For me, I was actually going to opt to use the Facebook thing to crosspost entries from my real-life nickname account because many of my real-life friends and family use Facebook and they like to know that I'm alive and well and see pictures of my cats and stuff, but then stupid LJ put my stupid real-life legal last name on my LJ profile page, so that killed that idea. (This is a good post from Cleolinda, who tested what the crossposting does and how it looks.)


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I finally buckled down to the Very Important task of updating my fiction index. I'd been meaning to consolidate all the multi-post stories on Dreamwidth anyway, and while I was at it I updated the story headers, finally getting rid of some of the mailing list artifacts that aren't really necessary anymore.

For one thing, I had great big asterisked and allcapped warnings about the slash content. It was a good idea ten years ago, when a lot of people didn't actually know what slash was and might very well click on a story expecting either lots of gore or perhaps fiction about Guns N' Roses. Now, however, I feel that "warning" about slash sends a negative message that I certainly don't want to perpetuate, and the information about slash is pretty well known these days. Especially when the pairings are right there in the headers anyway. One day, I will have to go through and update the mailing list formatting, which means going through and changing all the asterisks to emphasis or whatever. Today, however, is not that day.

Updated Fiction Index on Dreamwidth (All the stories are consolidated into single posts here)

Updated Fiction Index on Livejournal (Stories longer than LJ's 10,000-word/60K limit are split into parts)

I also added download links to all the podfic versions I've made of stories. Since I've never actually posted them to my journal before, here's the complete list of podfics:

Due South/Twin Peaks

Cold Heart. [Download the podfic (83.6 MB)] Benton Fraser/Dale Cooper, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio. NC-17. Twin Peaks Crossover. 19,702 words.
Summary: Fraser is acting strangely, and an unexpected visit from a man from his past only makes Ray more determined to discover what's wrong.

Law & Order

Cascade. [Download the podfic (19.71 MB)] 4,554 words.
Summary: After the arrest of Father Joe Krolinsky, Mike Logan has a talk with his father.

Louder Than Words. [Download the podfic (73.36 MB)] Mike Logan/Ben Stone. NC-17. 17,814 words.
Summary: As Mike Logan investigates the Lowenstein case, he and Ben Stone begin to re-evaluate their broken relationship.

Stargate SG-1

All the Pens That Ever Poets Held. [Download the podfic (6.91 MB)] Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson. 3,277 words.
Summary: While stranded on a distant planet, Jack O'Neill thinks about home.

Excuses. [Download the podfic (2.97 MB)] Jack O'Neill/Teal'c. 610 words.
Summary: Jack O'Neill ponders the progress of his relationship with Teal'c.

Taking Care. [Download the podfic (3.26 MB)] Challenge Story. 1,427 words.
Summary: Jack O'Neill has had a very long day.

Twin Peaks

The Secret Tapes of Dale Cooper. [Download the podfic (4.09 MB)] Dale Cooper/Albert Rosenfield. 832 words.
Summary: Cooper didn't address all his tapes to Diane.

The Private Letters of Albert Rosenfield. [Download the podfic (2.98 MB)] Dale Cooper/Albert Rosenfield. 620 words.
Summary: Albert writes a letter.

Despite being one of the victims of the "invalid user" bug last night, I do have a Dreamwidth account now:

http://dmarley.dreamwidth.org

There's nothing there yet, because I figure the servers are pretty busy right now processing accounts. I'll work on importing my journal later.

I expect to be getting invite codes soon, probably in the next couple of days. As of right now, the only person on my previous list who doesn't already have one is eccequambonum (*waves*), so I expect to have four more codes available. If you were missed in the code deluge drop a comment and I'll add you to the list.

As I've said before, I have no plans to leave LJ. I'll likely be crossposting from Dreamwidth because it's easier, but given the light traffic on my journal I'll be leaving comments open on both services for now, unless there's a reason for keeping the conversation in one place (or it starts driving me nuts :)). If you're staying here on LJ, you probably won't notice a thing. :)

Spreading the word:

Dreamwidth Studios will be in open beta beginning April 30, 2009. There will be seed accounts (permanent accounts) available in limited numbers at that time, and also paid accounts starting at $3. You can also create a journal with an invite code if you know someone who already has a beta account or who plans to buy a Dreamwidth account. (Me, in the latter case. :))

To that end, if anyone wants an invite code from me, please respond in a comment to this post and I'll put you on a list on a first-come, first-served basis. My understanding is that the invite codes will be distributed only as the maintainers feel that the site can support that number of new free users, so code availability will almost certainly be fairly limited, especially at first.

If you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about, the short version is that Dreamwidth is a new journaling service based on the LJ code. One good phrase, from foxfirefey, is "rebooting LJ from the inside." I was going to give a explanation about "Why Dreamwidth Is Cool" here, but then friendshipper went and did it much better. You can also read Zvi's very useful "An introductory guide to Dreamwidth in closed beta from a non-expert".

For the record, I have no plans to utterly abandon LJ. I have too many treasured relationships here to simply up and leave without knowing that said relationships can be continued on Dreamwidth. Also, as much as I feel that the LJ upper management are dicks who would just as soon see fandom disappear from their servers (and might possibly succeed, eventually, in making that happen), I have a vested interest in keeping up with my favorite fandoms who still have communities hosted on LJ.

In any case, Dreamwidth is making it easy to move and crosspost and read, so I don't have to completely abandon one journaling service for another. I'll be keeping roots down at LJ, but I think I'll feel much better having a home at Dreamwidth, too.