Fan Girl Wannabe

I haven't checked my personal (or work) email in 3 days.  Tonight I found this message from DW:

<quote>Dear fullygoldy,

Your account has been randomly selected to receive xdawnfirex's payment
through our sponsor-a-free-user program.

The account type that was purchased is:

Paid Account for 12 months

Congratulations on your paid time! </quote>

WOWOW!!  I was just thinking I should get off my but and renew my subscription tomorrow.  So I will - by making a similar donation :)

Thanks, rainne  !!  I'm going to enjoy my free year!

I've gotten a couple of messages that people have unsubscribed to me lately, and today, when I was subscribing to someone, I noticed that 3 of my circle were no longer subscribed to, and I promise you I did not voluntarily unsub.  So, you are probably seeing notices now that I have subscribed to you *again.*  And I will have to go look at your journals to catch up on all the stuff I have undoubtedly missed.

I've subscribed to a lot of people on my LJ flist over here so I can read them here (because they are fandom friends) instead of reading them on my LJ flist.  The set up stuff for DW says this is possible, and I was fairly certain it was working when I was just using open ID to read over here.  But since I've paid for my account, I'm not getting any of those external-to-DW people showing up on my DW reading page.  And after doing some research, I've found that yes, these people have been posting during this time period, and I have been missing out.  The thing that initially tipped me off was a comment were_duck  made about a conversation happening in the Beer and Marmalade community that I never saw.  Until then, I was just thinking everyone else's lives had gotten as busy as mine.

If I had known this wasn't actually going to work as advertised, I wouldn't have spent a whole day rearranging my reading pages on each site to contain the specific content I thought I was going to get.  Does this not actually work or am I just doing it wrong?

I've got this shiny new account on DreamWidth, and I'm planning to use it exclusively for my fannish posting (and for my LJ archive, JIC).  This is so I don't have to filter/lock my fannish posts anymore.  So I'm going to be going through my LJ flist and thinning it out, because I want to read my fannish friends on my DW flist, and my RL friends on LJ.  If you don't have a DW account, and you're fannish, I'll be subscribing to your feed at DW, and filtering you off my LJ default view.  THIS is because, a lot of you with accounts in both places are cross-posting (Yay!), but I keep getting confused about where to make my replies.  I'm only medium-tech after all.

If you're a RL and fannish friend, I guess I'll have to filter you off of my LJ default view, but not defriend, cause I still want you to be able to access my RL ramblings if you want.

Hmm, here's a bug: all the boxes for tagging etc, the post are on top of the text box.  The text is now wending it's way through a maze.  Hmmm. at least it was that way until I started filling in the boxes.