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Out of interest, what are people's views on an individual having a separate personal community for their fic, vids and art?

I ask as someone who makes a lot of terribly rambly posts about all sorts of inconsequential nonsense, and I was therefore wondering whether people would like to be able to just get the stuff they're interested in without wading trough all the other stuff.

A while back, I did set aside a community name for myself, but then I was undecided about whether it was a good idea.

Thoughts? I know there's quite the split down my flist of people doing separate communities vs their own single LJ. As I say, just curious. :)

In other news, I have one more fic paragraph. Word count 300-ish. Hey, it's something. :)

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I don't mind everything being on the one LJ. But then, I have a fairly small and select flist. But I tend to skim posts quickly and pause to engage when I'm interested and when I have time. (Often I am interested, and would love to comment, but something truly evil like the need to write a sermon calls me instead.)

Heee! Yeah, me too. Plus my interests are so eclectic, I often am not aware I'm interested until I read something random in an unexpected place. :)

I like to keep everything in one place, personally. My only unlocked posts are fic, vids, etc, so if someone is only interested in those things I just don't friend them back. If any of my mutual-friends aren't interested in those things, it's easy enough for them to just scroll past. I don't think there's a single person on my f-list who is interested in everything I talk about anyway, heh.

And it gets a bit complicated friending-wise, IMO, when people have more than one LJ. I prefer to only friend someone once, but that might just be me being weird. ;)

Nope, that's some of the main reasons I scrapped the idea of my own comm, but I was just interested in what other people think.

Thanks! :)

I've been debating doing the same thing. I'd still post the everything in my main journal, just have a comm to post links to, so people could friend that and not have to put up with my random blithering spamming their f-list.

It's a 'maybe eventually' thing though.

Word count 300-ish. Hey, it's something.

Yay! I've managed to realize just how in over my head I am, but I did make a major structural change that could be considered progress.

Yeah, that would be me too! I do like having everything i my LJ, so I guess I'd just post links back for fic and post all my icons/vids in both places. I just don't know whether anyone would join. lol

I've been thinking about this as well, but as I rarely post anything other than vids and maybe a vid ramble I haven't thought it necessary.

I think the split can be handy for people who post a lot of maybe RL or non fannish stuff or say A LOT of icons, arts, fics etc. I've friended some individuals comms lately because I really only want to read their fics and not read their thoughts on the current economic climate etc. Though if I developed a "relationship" with that person I would friend both. :)

Yeah, good points. I guess that's really my problem. I post fannish stuff inbetween all the other crap I post normally. So, whether people want to sift through all of that...?

Sometimes I don't fiend other people for their fic etc. too because I don't then want them to be able to read all my frinds-locked posts. Whereas if they have a community, that's not an issue.

Hmm, all good food for thought. :)

Well, I've made one for my art, as you know, because I hadn't done much art by that stage and I liked the idea of it being all in one place.

For fics and that, I have too much back catalogue to easily go through and transfer everything. *shrugs* I generally don't see it as much of an issue if the author/vidder/whatever in question have a good tags/masterlist/something to make it easy for me to find things on their LJ.

I keep on thinking about making a community for my photos...particularly if I do start taking more.

Well, I was thinking I'd just link to my LJ for previous fic and vids, but I could repost icons. It'd just be a place to have updates, so that people could join that rather than following me, per se. :P

I'm sure I'm overestimating people's want to view my fannish stuff, but *shrugs* :)

*shrugs* It's really hard to know with these things. You make such pretty art.

*grins* Flattery will buy you anything! *smishes*

I post everything in one journal. All fandom fics,vids,icons are made public while my personal posts are private. That way, people don't have to feel obliged to friend me.

But I have thought about a journal JUST for fandom things so it's really up to you. :)

Yep! I'm just toying with the idea. :)
Thanks!

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