meridian_rose

It's come to my notice that I don't always see people's post on my flist. Not because they're locked to me, nor because they've been posted out of order.

See, first thing I check my email and flist. I read it backwards from the most recent post until I reach entries I know I've seen. I usually go one page further back to be sure; anything from two to ten pages of entries which includes personal journals, comms and newsfeeds. Depending on what else I'm doing, I'll repeat this process several times throughout the day/evening, usually seeing a couple of new pages each day @ ten entries a page.

Somehow, though entries slip through my simple approach. I think it's to do with the timezones. LJ posts according to local time, I think, and this gets confusing when you're posting 'now' which is my 'five hours ago'. It tends to happen mostly [maybe solely] with American flisters, which makes this the most likely cause. [I don't have enough people in my DW circle to know if it happens there too.] It's the only explanation I can think of, though I'm always happy to hear other suggestions. I'll probably have to try and visit people's personal journals more often to scan through the first ten items or so and make sure I haven't missed them.

So, if you've sometimes expected I might have left a comment on a fic/next chapter of fic or meta or icons and I don't it might be that LJ does not want me to see it and has hidden it miles back in my flist entries. I wonder if my entries sometimes disappear off into the LJ aether too.

And if anyone else has noticed anything like this, I'd be very interested to hear about it.

Also, this is just one more reason I adore fic writers who give links to previous/next chapters in their fics so I can catch up on missed entries or just refresh my memory; fic series tags also work.

First off, thanks for answering my poll about my next icon theme - if you haven't yet, go back two entries and do so please! I'll close it soon and sign up for the tvcrush20in20.

I've been thinking about threesomes and shipping and seeing a debate today on pairings vs moresomes, I thought I'd make a post. You see, when I approach a threesome I see it as a triad, not a triangle. There must be some attraction between all involved and eventually a threesome should occur. But let's see what you all think about threesomes and the way in which they are described:

Polyamory in fic:
Please note that I've given examples but the fandoms don't really matter, I just want to make it clear what I mean. Also, I only did polls because people (me included) like polls and are more likely to participate that way – please comment if you have anything else to say :D

1. Does the order matter when describing a ship?
For example is "Erica/Jack/Hobbes" the same as "Erica/Hobbes/Jack" and "Jack/Erica/Hobbes"? Or do you expect something different from each threesome mentioned?
[Poll #1672047]

2. Relatedly, does a fic tagged as "Damon/Elena/Stefan" imply to you that :
[Poll #1672048]

3. If you write, or would consider writing threesomes, do/would you give any consideration to the tagging - do you agonise over "Darken Rahl/Cara/Kahlan" versus "Cara/Kahlan/Darken Rahl" or do you go with whatever the fandom most often uses/what you prefer?
[Poll #1672049]

5. At your journal, or somewhere like A03 which allows multiple tagging for partners, would you consider it beneficial to name all the partnerships?
So if there's a series of encounters culminating in a threesome, would you tag it just as "Holmes/Watson/Irene" or also as "Holmes/Watson, Holmes/Irene, Watson/Irene"?
[Poll #1672050]