Unintended Consequences

[kitewithfish]

Remember me writing about going shopping with The Boy kitewithfish.dreamwidth.org/344994.html, and bought a summer dress? It turns out he was running a long game in going shopping with me.

Yesterday, it's finally warm enough to wear a summer-weight dress and not get frostbite. I put on the New!Dress

Kite: Dress, you are very short!
Dress: indeed I am! I fall only to mid-thigh on you. In fact, I am really a long tunic-top for a rather tall lady, but I am just a short dress on you.
Kite: I did not realize this. Boy, did you realize this?
Boy: Yup. *Ogles my legs.*
Kite: Boy, did you purposefully steer me towards a short dress so that you could perve on my legs?
Boy: Yup! My cunning plot, it is fulfilled! But it's a very pretty short dress, nevertheless.
Kite: Yes. I know. It is a very pretty short dress, as the man leaning out of his car window informed me this morning. At high volume.
Boy: I applaud his taste!

In conclusion, I apparently have nicer legs than I thought, and I will be sharing them with the world today.

Comments

[kitewithfish]

Yay! You did the openID thing exactly right!

Dreamwidth is an lj-clone- meaning that it is largely based on similar coding. They look very similar. There are major differences.

1) philosohpy- You might know about this particular part of LJ's history: they gave into pressure from a Christian group to delete communities and journals that listed "immoral" things in their interests, like rape, incest, and pedopihilia. In the process, they deleted a number of communities for rape survivors and deleted journals for people writing fanfic that involved those topics. http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Strikethrough

A bunch of people decided they didn't want to write on a website that was so mercurial in temperament and so Dreamwidth has made a point of promising never to bow to outside pressure and remove content. They held to their guns on this, too. PayPal, informed by some other "morality" group, asked Dreamwidth to remove sexually explicit content or get another means of accepting money for paid accounts. Dreamwidth decided to get another financial partner instead. So, they are awesome.

Also, DW is much better about finding bugs in its coding than LJ- Lj tends to add features and then let people find out the bugs for them. DW tests things really deeply and then adds them to the site. It's much smoother.

2) the friending process: on lj, if you friend someone, they a) appear on your friends list for easy reading and b) can read all of your friends-locked posts. On DW, these two things are completely separate- you can add someone to your Reading List, and read all of their public entries without allowing them to read your more private posts. You can choose to allow someone Access to read your friends-locked posts without following their journal. It's more nuanced and I like it better.

3) Dreamwidth is smaller- there are lots of people who established a journal on lj and don't care about lj's sometimes stupid policies re:deleting or using accounts to generate money through advertising. There are lots more people on lj and the communities there tend to be more active. But DreamWidth is smart about it: you can add a livejournal account or profile to your reading list on DW as an RSS feed (very, very easy to do) and then you can read content posted on LJ on DW.