i feel stupid, and contagious

In case anyone on my f-list hasn't heard yet, Livejournal will be deleting suspended and inactive journals/communities soon. So if any of you have comms, RP journals, or alternate journals you haven't updated or logged into for 24 consecutive months, it'd be a good idea to log in and make a post to keep them alive. ETA: LJ has clarified that they'll only delete accounts that show obvious signs of inactivity - no posts or comments, that sort of thing.

So much for archiving.

HP fandom's especially relevant because of the sheer number of comms and fests that are here on LJ, some of them quite old. I've got at least 8-9 RP accounts to say nothing of the RPG comms and fest thingums with Inell and Flora - so we might be posting to those in rapid succession, in case anyone is watching them.

On the other hand, deletions of suspended accounts might mean some usernames will be up for grabs again. Which means I'm once again having my periodic LJ identity crisis. Still want to change my username, still hesitating for fear people won't know who I am anymore, rinse lather repeat.

How strange would it be if I could just grab heather when it's purged? Would that be weird? Or should I go with a total change? hrrrrmmmm.

*waffles* OPINIONS WELCOME. If I stick to pattern I may not end up changing anything at all, haha.

+ I'm almost caught up with Fringe. LOVE IT. I'm adding it to my list of things to post about eventually. Those of you following me on tumblr will hopefully forgive the crappy picspams until I get it out of my system.

+ In other news, I'm seeing Inception tonight. I CAN'T WAIT. JGL. And, y'know, some other people. Here's a vid of him being ridiculously wonderful on Letterman last night.

Shiny!

http://heather11483.dreamwidth.org/

It really is quite shiny. I can upload multiple icons at once and expand comment threads -- with a free account. There are NO ADS -- with a free account. I can import my entire LJ into DW with comments and tags and such, and crosspost to both journals at the same time without having to use Semagic or any other of those programs that I never could figure out. Among other things (here's a good post with some info). It's not really the LJ-clone I thought it was.

Anyway. I'm not leaving LJ because, well, all of you are here ♥ (and also, I don't want to). *g* But I'll probably crosspost or something. Mostly, I can't resist shiny toys and I want to be wherever fandom is; if any of you are moving, I don't want to lose you.

If any of you are there already, feel free to add me! I don't know who all's there; it's in closed beta still. Open beta starts on the 30th. Here is some info about the beta process, OpenID and the best way to get one now and once open beta starts. If I can get invite codes I will be passing them out to as many of you as I can, starting with people I've chatted to about it here or on Twitter or on YM or wherever we talked about it and then going from there, I reckon. No idea when I'll get them or how many I'll have but I expect I'll be able to get some at some point. I'll probably buy my account when I can, so that should help. Someone was awesome enough to get me a code so I want to pay it forward. Plus I want, um, actual friends over there, so. *g*

♥

... is anyone else getting LJ comment notifications really slowly today?