wherein Lucy sounds like an entitled jerk

[luciazephyr]

Well, my birthday is in four days, it seems. I tend to forget, since I don't really celebrate it in any way. Takes me a moment of mental math to even remember what my age is.

But I feel the urge to make a weird, assholish request.

No way this isn't gonna be awkward, um.

OKAY SO every year, even though I'm like "meh, birthday", there's always a few extremely generous people who give me gifts! Weird, I know! I tend to get a lot of LJ time out of the kindness of their hearts. I am super flattered, you have no idea.

Buuut um.

Guys: don't buy me LJ time.

Given how LJ has treated their users and how they've changed their interface to the point they've made it literally unusable to some people, and given their plans to force more changes to make shit even worse, I genuinely don't think they deserve the money.

I don't use LJ but for crossposting. I'm almost exclusively on DW. Hell, I only check my FList on LJ once a week at the most. Because LJ sucks and gives zero fucks about what its userbase wants.

So if you want to get me paid time: I am deeply grateful and appreciative, but keep your monies.

And maybe consider migrating to Dreamwidth? It's awesome over here.

Comments

[everbright]

*nodnod* I can get behind that. Thanks for letting us know, ya know?

[luciazephyr]

fffff it makes me feel like such an asshole. like, super presumptuous. HAY GUYS, MAKE SURE YOU GET ME GIFTS. not what I intend at all. I've just gotten paid time for the last five years or so and don't want LJ to get any money this time? idk. /face in hands

[sarken]

JSYK, you didn't sound entitled at all. :)

[spacepiratecatdude]

Yeeeeah no. You're probably a jerk for lots of reasons that I don't know about because humans are jerks. But wanting to keep your friends from giving evil Russians monies when those Russians clearly don't care about you? That's just considerate.

Also, HAHA I have found you here. You are now in my circle! BWAHAHAHAHA!

[killerkaleidoscope]

No, no, that's perfectly sensible. If you're going to meet a friend who sometimes likes to buy friends coffee when she runs into them, warning her ahead of time that you recently swore off caffeine is a courtesy to her.

Happy nearly-birthday!