Hello!

Apparently lots of people are moving here from tumblr now. So, hello Dreamwidth! It's looking very 2009 in here :)

If tumblr does end up dying I think I'll miss the reblog structure — everything I've seen floated as a tumblr alternative seems to instead have the more classic blog-style split between Posts and Comments, which I think encourages a slightly different mode of interaction. It's not as naturally set up for this kind of interaction, for example. 

Speaking of tumblr alternatives, I sincerely doubt Pillowfort's going to become the Next Big Thing, because they seem not very good at making their site able to deal with high traffic. But I do kinda hope they'll defy my expectations, because I've managed to snag my preferred three-letter username, and getting to have a three-letter username on a popular platform would be so cool you guys

flakse som lys

Oh, and I was going to explain my new username. It's from a song I really like, about staying hopeful when things seem shitty. (I sometimes sing it to myself when I need to remember that.) The lyrics are a little hard to find on the internet, so I'll post them in full below, even though they're in the wrong language for anyone but me to understand.

( Dåser rasler i morgengry )

Part of me does want to try to translate the song so I can show it to others, but I know for a fact that poetry translation is a really hard thing which I'm not particularly skilled at. So probably that's not worth the effort unless I'm doing it purely for my own entertainment.