Happy Christmas!

[badly_knitted]

 
Wishing all my friends a Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever you happen to celebrate. I hope you're all healthy, happy, and able to be with the people who mean the most to you.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Happy Christmas to you!

Thank you for all your friendship and inspiration over the year :)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you too! Despite everything going on in the world, it's been a fun year!

[cornerofmadness]

Happy Christmas

[badly_knitted]

And to you! Love your Christmas Spock icon!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. Yeah years ago Mrs Spock (on LJ) made a bunch of ST icons. I still use them

[badly_knitted]

A very talented icon maker, obviously.

[cornerofmadness]

She was. I think she's gone from LJ entirely

[badly_knitted]

That's a shame.

[cornerofmadness]

I do regret losing so many to tumblr

[badly_knitted]

So many people have left LJ and most seem not to have migrated elsewhere, they just deleted their accounts and vanished.

[cornerofmadness]

yeah it's sad. I made DW my main home but I still copy over everything to LJ. I never clicked with tumblr

[badly_knitted]

I haven't even looked at the new fangled platforms, not interested in them. I'm still on LJ, but it's a lot quieter over there than it used to be.

[cornerofmadness]

I did but didn't like tumblr, am spending time on discord which is hysterical in a way because it is SO like the chat rooms back in the early 00s when I first joined online fandoms.

I still have my lj for a few things

[badly_knitted]

I was a slow starter, I didn't get connected to the internet until late 2008, and I feel like I've ben playing catch-up ever since. So many things that I'm still learning how to do. I've ben fumbling my way through for years.

[cornerofmadness]

I get it. I feel late to the party and I joined a decade before you but literally last compared to all my pen pals many of whom I lost to it

[badly_knitted]

It was entirely the fault on one of my penpals that I bit the bullet and got connected. She got me hooked on fanfic... She doesn't even have a computer, she just printed stuff out at work. Now here I am, 13 years later, writing fanfic, and I doubt she's even read anything in years. She's retired now. Funny the way things can turn around.

[cornerofmadness]

I hear you. I've been active in fanficcing since the early 80s so I keep following where the fandom goes but now I'm getting a little old and set in my ways.

And you definitely write a lot which is really cool

[badly_knitted]

I've told myself stories about characters I like for as long as I can remember, but everyone I knew thought I was weird, so I figured it wasn't something most people do. I was 46 when I discovered fanfic was a thing, and it changed my life to discover that literally thousands of people all around the world write about their favourite characters. It was freeing to realise I'm not so weird, so I started writing my stories down instead of just thinking them. Then I discovered communities with weekly or monthly prompts, and writing took over my life.

I'm trying to ease back on the writing a bit now though. I want time to read what others have written, and also time to do more crafting. I still plan on writing every day, just not pushing myself so hard.