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Mar. 27th, 2022 18:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldabeSo, I'm planning a Social Media Break.
Whenever I'm bored (aka...a lot) I just pop open tumblr or sometimes twitter or even AITA on reddit to just get a quick hit of serotonin or something to keep my brain churning along. I do very occasionally doomscroll, but really I haven't logged into twitter since 2019 and I raaaarely go to my tumblr dash, so-oh wait! I do scroll facebook! I'm only offbeat sometimes.
Basically like, I'm not loving how social media can really get me down a lot. It's a little like roulette - is this time going to be a cool fanart or meta on a fandom I like, or the first step down a four day anxiety spiral? Such fun! I also wonder if the anxiety spiral is part of what is killing my ability to work on my own fic, which has been a major struggle for, um, years now. (Other options include: Pandemic, and Hell Job. I left Hell Job, and I can't do much about the pandemic, so you know, this seems worth a try.)
But as social media has become my automatic boredom cure, I'm literally gathering up a bunch of things to DO when I would just open a new tumblr tab. I've downloaded more mobile games for my phone, I've bought some KJ Charles ebooks that I know I can just open and browse, I'm getting romance novel and fic recs from friends (feel free to leave any in the comments!) and I'm just trying to find new quick and mobile Solutions To Boredom. Wish me luck?
I'll probably keep coming to Dreamwidth as my experience here has always been entirely different. Ha, maybe I'll even post more! And like, I'll follow links to social media stuff and all, I'm not cutting myself off from friends or anything. I'm just trying to modify my own habits. Let's see how it goes!
Whenever I'm bored (aka...a lot) I just pop open tumblr or sometimes twitter or even AITA on reddit to just get a quick hit of serotonin or something to keep my brain churning along. I do very occasionally doomscroll, but really I haven't logged into twitter since 2019 and I raaaarely go to my tumblr dash, so-oh wait! I do scroll facebook! I'm only offbeat sometimes.
Basically like, I'm not loving how social media can really get me down a lot. It's a little like roulette - is this time going to be a cool fanart or meta on a fandom I like, or the first step down a four day anxiety spiral? Such fun! I also wonder if the anxiety spiral is part of what is killing my ability to work on my own fic, which has been a major struggle for, um, years now. (Other options include: Pandemic, and Hell Job. I left Hell Job, and I can't do much about the pandemic, so you know, this seems worth a try.)
But as social media has become my automatic boredom cure, I'm literally gathering up a bunch of things to DO when I would just open a new tumblr tab. I've downloaded more mobile games for my phone, I've bought some KJ Charles ebooks that I know I can just open and browse, I'm getting romance novel and fic recs from friends (feel free to leave any in the comments!) and I'm just trying to find new quick and mobile Solutions To Boredom. Wish me luck?
I'll probably keep coming to Dreamwidth as my experience here has always been entirely different. Ha, maybe I'll even post more! And like, I'll follow links to social media stuff and all, I'm not cutting myself off from friends or anything. I'm just trying to modify my own habits. Let's see how it goes!
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Date: Mar. 28th, 2022 13:15 (UTC)ridiculous future bullshit. This is a futurefic AU off of a complicated longfic AU, but can be read as a standalone under the idea that some of the characters cultivated to immortality and are now living in a present day that has some differences due to the worldbuilding (for instance, there are the Five Nations instead of modern China). Worth it for the Top Gear crossover, the youtube video, and the reddit post.
And On That Bombshell (6552 words) by sami
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), Top Gear (UK) RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, the lab-coat-wearing producers
Additional Tags: Transcript Format
Series: Part 7 of ridiculous future bullshit
Summary:
Tonight! I interview the worst driver... in the world.
Richard looks at a man in leather trousers...
And the N5 Motorworks Rulan S is on our track.
Live Thread: The Hauntedest Place (1413 words) by sami
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī
Additional Tags: ridiculous future bullshit, Social Media, Chaos Gremlin Wei Wuxian, under a fake name
Series: Part 29 of The Same Moon Shines, Part 11 of ridiculous future bullshit
Summary:
JY: Okay! Here we go! According to my research this building is really haunted, all, you know, murders and terrible things. I'm going to spend the night there. Not alone, obviously!
He laughs.
JY: Obviously I'm not holding the camera. We're going in together, aren't we, er-gege?
r/JYisWWX (2330 words) by sami
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: OCs, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Kinda, cultivated to immortality, Social Media, ridiculous future bullshit
Series: Part 30 of The Same Moon Shines, Part 13 of ridiculous future bullshit
Summary:
Stevie Knicks @
I'm not saying Lan Ying and Jiang Ying are the same person (and presumably a Highlander) but I'm not NOT saying that
Stevie Knicks @
YES OKAY HE'S NOT A HIGHLANDER HE'S ONE OF THE SEVEN IMMORTALS OF THE FIVE NATIONS I GET IT