matt1993 | DWversary??

Today is the first anniversary of the day I joined DreamWidth... wow.

How did DreamWidth manage to probably be the first social network I was still using a year after I joined it?

LiveJournal - Of course I've been obsessed with LJ since 2009, but back when I actually joined it on August 19, 2007... not so much. I didn't do a whole lot on it for a while and went on a long hiatus early on. August 19, 2008 happened to be during that hiatus.

Facebook - I don't remember when I joined it, but probably about the same time as LJ. But like with LJ, I kept losing and regaining interest in it for a while. I also remember my first Facebook account being suspended because no one would verify the high school I went to (since there wasn't even an option for the high school I actually went to), but I don't remember when that was. So I may or may not have been using Facebook a year after I joined it.

Blogger? - For a dual-credit computer science class (the same one that Ours Will You 1-Up spawned out of, I believe), one of the assignments was to create an account on Blogger... at least I think it was Blogger. So I did, but I only ever made one post on it. Even if I wanted to update it now, I can't because I don't remember my username (and who knows if it's still up, anyway).

Miiverse - I joined it when I got my Wii U on December 25, 2012, and was active on it for several months, but then went on a hiatus from it and December 25, 2013 happened to be just before I came back from that hiatus - and then posted regularly for several more months only to go on an even longer hiatus.

And despite my having been on DreamWidth for over a year, I still only have 736 entries fixed :(

It's hard to describe this journal in just a few paragraphs... but I'll try

Just an autistic guy born in 1993 (hence the username) who's had this journal since I was 14. Has trouble phrasing things well especially in earlier entries, so keep that in mind.

My interests have fluctuated in the 17 years since I've had this journal, but the following has remained constant:
- I like Mario games (mainly the platformers, Mario Kart, Mario Party) and Super Smash Bros.
- I like Garfield
- I like Homestar Runner
- I like Enya
- And I've always loved the idea of wacky crossovers between ANY of my interests, whether it's in the form of a short-lived webcomic in 2006-2008, a short-lived backwards lyrics site in 2008, writing down weird dreams in 2009-2011, playing Tomodachi Life a lot in 2014-2016, or what most of my posts are about these days: playing around with Character.AI starting in 2023. I still can't believe I'm actually in a world where an AI of Enya can talk to AIs of Mario or Garfield or even my favorite obscure characters like Mary O. from Super Mario Maker. :O

Go to my sticky entry for more.

I Ramble Too Much About

1 - 155 uses
10 - 94 uses
11 - 77 uses
12 - 75 uses
14 - 56 uses
15 - 62 uses
16 - 48 uses
2 - 199 uses
2009 - 65 uses
2011 - 48 uses
25 - 55 uses
3 - 197 uses
4 - 131 uses
5 - 141 uses
6 - 105 uses
7 - 107 uses
8 - 108 uses
9 - 84 uses
ages - 62 uses
apocalypse - 108 uses
artificial intelligence - 135 uses
august - 48 uses
autism - 57 uses
backdated entries - 124 uses
backwards lyrics - 125 uses
backwards music - 139 uses
birthdays - 62 uses
celebrities - 59 uses
christmas - 58 uses
classes - 58 uses
college - 81 uses
colors - 65 uses
comics - 128 uses
comments - 62 uses
computers - 86 uses
crossovers - 238 uses
crushes - 65 uses
death - 50 uses
depression - 71 uses
detect button - 58 uses
dreams - 119 uses
dreamwidth - 76 uses
enya - 154 uses
essays - 80 uses
friends - 75 uses
garfield - 64 uses
glitches - 101 uses
holidays - 53 uses
homestar runner - 99 uses
homework - 122 uses
humor - 76 uses
inside jokes - 188 uses
internet - 50 uses
livejournal - 269 uses
lj comments - 54 uses
lj entries - 94 uses
lj friends - 55 uses
lj userpics - 85 uses
mario - 304 uses
math - 115 uses
meme - 52 uses
music - 103 uses
names - 51 uses
nes - 49 uses
nintendo - 401 uses
numbers - 80 uses
ours will you 1-up - 65 uses
pathvain_aelien - 116 uses
pokémon - 59 uses
procrastination - 128 uses
prtsc land - 68 uses
public entries - 307 uses
puns - 64 uses
quiz - 135 uses
quiz galaxy - 56 uses
randomness - 55 uses
regrets - 57 uses
repost buttons - 425 uses
sarah mclachlan - 48 uses
school - 155 uses
screenshots - 62 uses
stress - 91 uses
stupidity - 65 uses
super mario world - 65 uses
super nintendo - 67 uses
super smash bros. - 74 uses
tags will come later - 249 uses
unpopular opinions - 55 uses
userpics - 98 uses
video game music - 102 uses
video games - 448 uses
videos - 74 uses
webcomics - 96 uses
wii - 72 uses
wii u - 71 uses
worrying - 73 uses
writer's block - 248 uses
yoshi - 64 uses
youtube - 83 uses
zero - 49 uses

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

ayebydan

That is more entries than a lot of people have! You are making great progress :)

matt1993

Thanks :)

I think the reasons I still feel bad about it despite being over halfway done are:

1) I really want to, as soon as possible, get my DW to where those of you who use DW only can experience my journal the same way my LJ friends do, without all the broken images/videos, missing tags, etc. caused by importing my entries from LJ to DW automatically.
2) There's been links/images/videos even in my LJ entries that have been broken for years, and I've always been disappointed in myself for taking so long to get around to fixing them.
3) For a while last year, I was afraid (on some level) that LJ would actually shut down at some point because I didn't know what was going on. Even now that time has passed and I now feel like there's less than a 1% chance that LJ will actually go down anytime soon, I still know that I'd completely freak out if it did happen before all my stuff looks okay on DW.

Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Which is mostly Character.AI these days

DWversary??

DWversary??

no subject

no subject

It's hard to describe this journal in just a few paragraphs... but I'll try

Expand Cut Tags

helscome my prolif. its not done.

I Ramble Too Much About

Page Summary

Style Credit