Executive Decision: I'm throwing a week-long party to kick 2018 out the door.

[capri0mni]

And you're all invited.

On Friday, I made a post on my Tumblr blog, announcing that there's a new Community on Dreamwidth for Tumblr refugees to find each other: the_great_tumblr_purge, and it's been the most popular post on my blog there in months.

So I thought, since I invited people to join Dreamwidth, I should also do something with/for them, and give them a chance practicing actually using the platform. ... Especially since there's a specific discussion thread on Tumblr, about why Christmas is less popular than Halloween in that community (summary: Tumblr skews toward young and marginalized people, and enforced time with birth families over friends is fraught).

And so I further figured that refugees from Tumblr will want a place to escape to, even if it's a virtual place, and even if it's just for a few minutes. So:

From Noon, Eastern Standard Time, December 25, 2018 (9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, 5:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time), to Noon (9 AM/5 PM) January 1, 2019, I'll be allowing anonymous comments, and posting here more than on Tumblr. And my topics will be "Favorite Things & Fun Things," because it's a Party, after all.

I will tag these posts "Year-Out Party 2018" in case you want to filter them out of your reading pages to avoid spam. ...I'm also inviting Dreamwidth old-timers to come in and help welcome the newbies, of course. ...But just in case.

(Oh, and yesterday, I finally made a sticky introduction to this journal, outlining the aspects of who I am that influences what I write here, the kinds of things you can expect from me, and what I consider "good manners" [What I expect from my readers and chatters]. I'd really appreciate it if people who know me fairly well would check it out, and tell me if I'm presenting myself accurately. Thanks!)

Comments

*shaking pom-poms*

[auresse]

This is LOVELY! I'll be sure to drop in from time to time. I don't actualy 'do' Christmas- so I don't have the pressures and responsibilities many other 'olds' have.

Re: *shaking pom-poms*

[capri0mni]

I don't really "Do" Christmas, either (I was raised very vaguely Christian: Quaker, turned Neo-Pagan/Wiccan sometime in my late teens, and turned from Neo-Paganism to atheism almost 14 years ago[?]). But I do believe in ritual and custom for the sake of people-to-people connections. And picking a generally-agreed upon time to do that helps. It certainly helps me, personally, keep track of time passing, and delineate different eras of my life.

Besides, 2018 has lasted far too long, and will probably take a concerted effort of a whole bunch of folks to kick it to the curb...

Ya Know?

Re: *shaking pom-poms*

[auresse]

your backstory of faith and approach to spiritual life resonate very strongly with me. I'm a Unitarian Universalist.
We don't 'have a god' either, and no dogma. I love my church family for it's diversity and loving compassion. we have hindus, jews, buddhists, pagans, atheists/agnostics, humanists and christians. Ritual is Very Important for humans- we're social creatures and we need to connect and reaffirm our sense of purpose and community.

Re: *shaking pom-poms*

[capri0mni]

:-)

The kind of executive branch action

[jesse_the_k]

...that delights instead of horrifies! Thank you. I'll be seeing you.

Re: The kind of executive branch action

[capri0mni]

Yay!