Ironically

Trying to round up people on Tumblr before they disappear has caused me to interact with more people on Tumblr than I have in actual years.

Ok, I mean, I was on there daily and reblogged a lot, but I didn't create stuff on Tumblr. And (as I've mentioned) interacting with people was fraught bc so much of it so weirdly public and hard to track.

So now I'm seeking people out and encouraging them to come to dreamwidth and trying to follow up with folks and it's waaaaay more interaction with Tumblr than I have had in a long ass time, and DW, and and and... gosh it takes a lot of people-energy to be a fan.

A Tumblr User’s Guide to Dreamwidth

http://aniamra.tumblr.com/post/180782010970/a-tumblr-users-guide-to-dreamwidth

-Just to get this resource into people's hands - this is super useful! Good explanation of the differences between DW and Tumblr, and some of the cultural differences, too.

Tweaked the Journal Style

The main style is still Mobility, I just played around with the background image (yarn, bitches) and the colors.

The Mobility style got so popular in post-Tumblr users that I wanted a clearer way to just look at my blog and immediately know it was mine.

I used this HTML color tool to pull colors from the image I used as my background - https://html-color-codes.info/colors-from-image/?imageLoader= - Reasonably happy with it so far.

Reminder - play with this to do crossposting

https://ifttt.com

PSA - Look before you open your car door.

Seriously, please, just LOOK out the window before you open the car door.

A school aged girl nearly doored me tonight on my way home, in the bike lane, with a headlight on and everything, because SHE DID NOT LOOK BEFORE SHE OPENED THE CAR DOOR.

So she opened car door into the bike lane a couple feet in front of me, and by the grace of God and good brakes and the fact that I was suspicious of the car not having any turn signals on approaching a T-intersection, I managed to stop before I hit the car door headfirst with her between me and the door.

Just say, "Check for bikes!" to your passengers before they leave the car. That's all you have to do. Literally, you can save someone's life with this one, very simple thing.

But *you* have to do it. The person on the bike cannot do it for you.

Reading Wednesday

I'm reading this! It's great!

A Conspiracy of Truths
by Alexandra Rowland

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34328664-a-conspiracy-of-truths

I believe the author is fannish but I can't remember her username. :/

Edit- she is, and she did AO3 style tags for this book at her Twitter

https://twitter.com/_alexrowland/status/1032314242320326656?s=19