Signal Boost: SignalBoost✔ bookmarklet and How To Express Emotions

[beatrice_otter]

So, first, astolat created and melannen modified a little bookmarklet that is super easy to use to signal boost!

melannen posted: Signal Boost: SignalBoost✔ bookmarklet

 

All you do is log in to DW, go to the page you want to signal boost, highlight any text you want to quote, and then click on the bookmarklet. If it's access-locked, you'll get a pop-up warning you and asking you if you want to continue. On any other webpage, it will automatically redirect to the DW posting window.

It's not quite as easy as reblogging on tumblr, but almost.  So if you, like me, often want to share cool things your circle post and wish there was an easier way to do it, there we have it!

On a very different topic, here's a really interesting post on what problems people often have expressing emotions if they weren't taught how as children, and ways to learn how to do it better and also connect with people and (hopefully) get support and connection while you do it:

 

staranise posted: (no subject)

 

But if you haven't been socialized to acknowledge and express an emotion growing up, you don't have those paths ready-made, either to express an emotion or to request social interaction. So there's a ton of us carrying catastrophically huge emotion around who don't express it in a recognizable way, nor know what kind of response we want. We have to build all that neural infrastructure from scratch.

 

This is great

Comments

[copracat]

This is great! I was talking to a stranger the other day and we got to discussing sewing and the awesomeness of people sharing patterns and tutorials on the internet, and all I could think was yeah, that's my people.

Somedays I am really happy to be a person, knowing other people.

[beatrice_otter]

Yeah, exactly!