https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/ You Don't Live Like I Do - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:24:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios diffrentcolours personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/11283946/3088724 https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/985436.html Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:24:00 GMT https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/985436.html <p><a href="https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/150150.html">The Friday Five for 20 March 2026</a></p> <p><strong>1. What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account (or both)?</strong></p> <p>In 2000, a lot of the UK Goth scene ended up on LiveJournal. I tried my hand at blogging by hand-writing HTML on a shell account on a nerd friend's Solaris box in the States, but quickly realised that the comments and community were an important part. Partly I moved so I could post sickeningly cute comments on my then-gf's LJ. That... didn't end well. But I started my LJ in 2001.</p> <p>I was a fairly late mover to Dreamwidth after LiveJournal started its long slide downwards; I didn't <a href="https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/257.html">hit the migrate button until 2017</a>, and I didn't delete my LJ account until 2018 when a then-coworker linked to it on work IRC. There were a lot of very cringe public entries from decades before I didn't particularly want to be associated with.</p> <p><strong>2. How many DW or LJ communities do you subscribe to?</strong></p> <p>Other than <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/'><b>thefridayfive</b></a></span>, not many! DW never seemed to get the right critical mass for communities. I welcome suggestions!</p> <p><strong>3. Do you have a favorite community or one you check out often to see what's new?</strong></p> <p>See above!</p> <p><strong>4. How did you pick your user name?</strong></p> <p>About the time I needed an LJ username, I was listening to a <em>lot</em> of The Velvet Underground, and the line "Different colours, made of tears" from <em>Venus In Furs</em> was stuck in my head. Unfortunately, that was one character too long for LJ usernames, so I had to elide a vowel. I'd never heard of the TV show "Diff'rent Strokes" before.</p> <p><strong>5. If you could change your user name, would you?</strong></p> <p>I don't think so. I have many usernames in many places, but I like this one here!</p> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=diffrentcolours&ditemid=985436" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/985436.html friday five meta public 2 https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/257.html Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:57:33 GMT https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/257.html I&nbsp;have finally joined the Dreamwidth-hordes over the whole LJ / Russia TOS&nbsp;stuff. Currently importing 16 years' worth of posts and comments from LJ. Blimey, that sounds like a long time.<br /><br />Entry is public, comments are screened - hit me up with your DW&nbsp;usernames (and your LJ ones if different)&nbsp;and I'll try to map you over.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=diffrentcolours&ditemid=257" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://diffrentcolours.dreamwidth.org/257.html meta first post public 0