This is fascinating

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

It's like...BLOGGING blogging. Tumblr is what happens when every form of social media interaction build a city together. You can explore it forever, find niche shops and wild clubs and cliquish parties, stay an anonymous people-watcher forever or put yourself out there and find best friends for life. The crowds are always shifting; you don't know who you'll run into, who's watching you, who'll jump in on your conversation--you could get lucky or very unlucky. It's an endless metropolis.

This feels more like a college campus. We know who's here, more or less, and who’s in our clubs and classes, and where to find the literary arguments and the theater kids' hangouts, and we're sitting around each others' dorm rooms, talking about our feelings and the things we like. I like it.

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[sanguinity]

Dreamwidth really is a nice place for a chat. You *can* chat one-to-one on tumblr, but it's hard to have a conversation with a small group of friends there, whereas it's much easier here.

And you know what? I *like* having conversations with small groups of friends. There's been a lot less of it since people decamped for tumblr, and I've been enjoying the increased activity here these past days. :-)

...and very selfishly, I can't help but think it'll be good for holmestice, too, to have new people coming in to Dreamwidth. One less hurdle to participating if one is already here, yes?

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

Oh yes, I think so! I always want to do Holmestice but then hesitate to interact with an unfamiliar platform, and now I’m here and it only took me an hour to get comfortable navigating so it’ll be easy next time.

[sanguinity]

Oh, yay! We'll be very happy to have you. Be sure to shout if you have any questions. :-)

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

I will! You can initiate me into the mysteries of the sisterhood.

[tripleransom]

If I can finally do Holmistice, you can. It always scared me because it was so heavily weighted toward BBC Sherlock. I was always afraid that no one would want anything I offered to write!

[a_candle_for_sherlock]

Oh I’m glad you’ve realized your work is wanted! The Victorian Holmesians are a smaller group, but they’re always hungry for new content, and very encouraging.