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Hitchhikers and Weasyl
12 years ago
Tonight I picked up two hitchhikers, who were stood on the side of the road in the village where I live. I picked them up, because I was going in the same direction, and would only have a detour of about 2 kilometers to get to the place they wanted to go, which was a house in the forest, located 13 kilometers from where I live.
It was a man and a woman, between 25 and 30 years old or so, both spoke very good Swedish, but she had a Finnish accent, and he had a German accent. They were really nice, and I believe they were hippies, as they come from a commune in Copenhagen, and had just bought this house together with many other people, to have as another commune.
It made me think back to the 1990's, when one of my best friend's mother moved in to live with a vegan/pacifist/hippie-commune, and I was there quite a lot.
I was just thinking about how rare it is with hitchhikers these days. In the 1980's one often saw people hitchhiking, and my mom said that in the 1950's and 1960's when my mom was a teenager, they were hitchhiking almost everywhere they went.
These days, it is so uncommon; picking up these people today, was only the third time I am picking up hitchhikers in the past five years. Not that I blame them. I would not dare to hitchhike myself, really, not unless something happening, like having my car break down or something like that.
Now from some ponderings in general, to a completely different topic:
I find it outright appalling and disgusting, how the FA staff were dealing with the recent stalker-issue. This whole thing is really making me want to leave FA. However... I have just found so many wonderful friends and people here, that I really don't want to lose touch with you all.
I am not going to leave FA. Not yet, anyway, not until I have found something that can replace FA properly. I don't like SoFurry, for many reasons. I do not like the layout, or the way the site is structured. I have also had problems with SoFurry admins in the past.
I am also not very fond of Weasyl, especially not the layout, or the thing with having your commissioned pieces in 'collections' rather than being allowed to upload them yourself. You're only allowed to upload the commissioned pieces yourself, if the artist is not on Weasyl. So... what if I upload a commissioned piece on Weasyl, and get comments on it, and if the artist gets a Weasyl-account a year later, I would have to delete my commissioned piece and lose all the comments.
I haven't figured out how 'groups' works yet on Weasyl. I like the groups on FA, even though a lot of them are pretty inactive. If the group-thing on Weasyl turns out to be good, that is something I will like, but right now, I haven't even seen any groups on Weasyl.
So, anyway. Today, I just made myself an account on Weasyl. You can find me at https://www.weasyl.com/profile/silkyfur
My profile is so far empty, but I plan to start using Weasyl, and upload pictures and journals there, as well as here. If all, or nearly all of my friends eventually become active on Weasyl as well, I might leave FA. If several of my friends are still mostly active on FA, I am going to keep being here, to be able to socialise with those friends.
As much as I truly would like to leave FA, as a result of the staff's behaviour, I do not want to leave a great community, where there are so many great individuals.
It only takes a few arseholes to ruin something beautiful for the many.
It was a man and a woman, between 25 and 30 years old or so, both spoke very good Swedish, but she had a Finnish accent, and he had a German accent. They were really nice, and I believe they were hippies, as they come from a commune in Copenhagen, and had just bought this house together with many other people, to have as another commune.
It made me think back to the 1990's, when one of my best friend's mother moved in to live with a vegan/pacifist/hippie-commune, and I was there quite a lot.
I was just thinking about how rare it is with hitchhikers these days. In the 1980's one often saw people hitchhiking, and my mom said that in the 1950's and 1960's when my mom was a teenager, they were hitchhiking almost everywhere they went.
These days, it is so uncommon; picking up these people today, was only the third time I am picking up hitchhikers in the past five years. Not that I blame them. I would not dare to hitchhike myself, really, not unless something happening, like having my car break down or something like that.
Now from some ponderings in general, to a completely different topic:
I find it outright appalling and disgusting, how the FA staff were dealing with the recent stalker-issue. This whole thing is really making me want to leave FA. However... I have just found so many wonderful friends and people here, that I really don't want to lose touch with you all.
I am not going to leave FA. Not yet, anyway, not until I have found something that can replace FA properly. I don't like SoFurry, for many reasons. I do not like the layout, or the way the site is structured. I have also had problems with SoFurry admins in the past.
I am also not very fond of Weasyl, especially not the layout, or the thing with having your commissioned pieces in 'collections' rather than being allowed to upload them yourself. You're only allowed to upload the commissioned pieces yourself, if the artist is not on Weasyl. So... what if I upload a commissioned piece on Weasyl, and get comments on it, and if the artist gets a Weasyl-account a year later, I would have to delete my commissioned piece and lose all the comments.
I haven't figured out how 'groups' works yet on Weasyl. I like the groups on FA, even though a lot of them are pretty inactive. If the group-thing on Weasyl turns out to be good, that is something I will like, but right now, I haven't even seen any groups on Weasyl.
So, anyway. Today, I just made myself an account on Weasyl. You can find me at https://www.weasyl.com/profile/silkyfur
My profile is so far empty, but I plan to start using Weasyl, and upload pictures and journals there, as well as here. If all, or nearly all of my friends eventually become active on Weasyl as well, I might leave FA. If several of my friends are still mostly active on FA, I am going to keep being here, to be able to socialise with those friends.
As much as I truly would like to leave FA, as a result of the staff's behaviour, I do not want to leave a great community, where there are so many great individuals.
It only takes a few arseholes to ruin something beautiful for the many.
The first paragraphs in this journal by Qarrezel explains it pretty well: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4343379/
The whole thing has been hitting a bit close to home for me, as I recognized the stalker from other places I have been in the past, and he lives only 60 minutes away from me.
And...that is terrible!!! If the admins had any common sense or hell, common decency they should have come down on the stalker like a tonne of bricks. Obscene that they would punish the VICTIM!!! That makes me very angry.
And sad, too. I feel so sorry for her having to go through that!!!! Nobody should feel so threatened or harassed.
It is a little scary that someone like that lives so close to you!!! I wonder if he would ever be violent. Please take good care of yourself, you are too nice a person I would hate for anything to happen to you.
I've been considering making an account on Weasyl just to keep track of a few artists...I may do just that. :P
But anyways. How have you been? :)
I have been doing quite allright lately. Sometimes getting a bit overworked and tired out, but I have had some good times too lately, especially when I've been spending time with my RL friends, and I've also been kept happy by interacting with good people here on FA.
The past couple of days or so, this stalker-thing has really been getting to me, though.
I am sorry to hear that you have been feeling depressed lately. I sincerely hope that your skies will brighten for you! <3 Feel free to talk about anything with me, if sharing might make you feel better.
and i added on you weasyl, my username is blau!