Keep it going
Apr. 18th, 2019 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressSo here is something I didn't even realize I missed until right now, and it's more or less thanks to verdantry that I realized it.
When you go to a Big Event, it's a well-known phenomena to have "con drop" afterwards. The festival is done, afters is behind us, there's no more songs to sing or volunteer tasks to complete, and all the great many friends have packed up and gone home. Oh sure, you'll see them all again at another event, another year, but this one is done and gone behind us.
And then you log onto your computer in the days not-so-long after, and scroll quietly through your livejournal feed, and get the little reports. You get to relive the event, through someone else's eyes. You get a thrill of delight when you read your name, recognize the ways that someone you love cares too for you, and included the memory of you in their presentation of What Was.
I love reading event reports from things I've gone to. I love it even if I don't cross paths with the person I'm reading, I just adore getting to experience the thing all over again, this time in a slightly different what-might-have-been. And it's a mostly dying thing, as so many fewer of my friends flock back to dreamwidth after the events, and Facebook is so completely useless for it and decentralized.
As always, I will try and be the change I want to see in the world. But know that this is a good thing, when you talk about the lovely adventures you've had. You're letting me keep the good times going, just a little bit longer.
~Sor
MOOP!
verdantry that I realized it. When you go to a Big Event, it's a well-known phenomena to have "con drop" afterwards. The festival is done, afters is behind us, there's no more songs to sing or volunteer tasks to complete, and all the great many friends have packed up and gone home. Oh sure, you'll see them all again at another event, another year, but this one is done and gone behind us.
And then you log onto your computer in the days not-so-long after, and scroll quietly through your livejournal feed, and get the little reports. You get to relive the event, through someone else's eyes. You get a thrill of delight when you read your name, recognize the ways that someone you love cares too for you, and included the memory of you in their presentation of What Was.
I love reading event reports from things I've gone to. I love it even if I don't cross paths with the person I'm reading, I just adore getting to experience the thing all over again, this time in a slightly different what-might-have-been. And it's a mostly dying thing, as so many fewer of my friends flock back to dreamwidth after the events, and Facebook is so completely useless for it and decentralized.
As always, I will try and be the change I want to see in the world. But know that this is a good thing, when you talk about the lovely adventures you've had. You're letting me keep the good times going, just a little bit longer.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2019-04-19 01:36 am (UTC)(and also because it's externalizing my brain and my memories, as you mentioned in that other comment thread, and my memory is extremely well-adapted for certain things, and extremely poorly-adapted for others, and Specific Events is one of the things my brain is terrible at holding onto if I don't write them down - which means that a year later I can come back and go "ohhhh that was such a lovely event, I remember all of these delightful things!" in a way that would otherwise be...pretty much impossible for me.)
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on 2019-04-19 02:03 pm (UTC)There are a lot of "I've gotten my invitation!" "I've sent in my registration!" "I'm packed for the weekend!" "I'm home safely!" messages, in addition to "I'm planning on giving a workshop on X" and "I really liked your workshop on X".
This really does help mitigate con drop. It also (intentionally) helps build the sense of community surrounding the event.
It's not LJ/DW, but it works.