George R.R. Martin is known as a bloody-minded writer , lopping the heads off your favorite A Song of Ice and Fire character ( sometimes quite literally ) with a rash abandon that barely pass on you time to grieve before the next blood line - spattered literary massacre . His latest putting to death may be one of his most tragical though : Martin has offed his own Livejournal .
Martin ’s Livejournal page , wonderfully titled “ Not a Blog , ” has been operating sinceJuly 2005 , perhaps the flower of the political platform ’s fandom reach , but what ’s made it so perfectly sorcerous is how the writer has stay there long after Livejournal ’s popularity was eclipsed by other sites . Users drop the last ten flooding to the likes of Facebook , Twitter , and Tumblr , but Martin was still there , Livejournaling aside . blaze , he was still at it after even more masses abandoned the service last year in the viewing of Livejournal’sRussian owner censoring political language . Martin remained , offer insights into his future record , or where he was at with the apparently never - ending process of writing the latest chapter of the ASoIaF saga , The Winds of Winter .
And that , in a way , was part of the entreaty of “ Not a Blog . ” In an age when fans can so easily lease with creators on social spiritualist chopine , the idea of take to keep up with a Livejournal in the year of our lord 2018 just to check in on Martin ’s latest thought — the only place for prescribed correspondence from him — was a moment silly . But also endearing , in the same way Martin refuses to write books on anything butan ancient computer running WordStar 4.0 !
But now , 13 years subsequently , Martin is moving on . The move was announced ina final postto Livejournal today , but the author ’s “ Not a web log ” will live on — now officially integrate into part ofhis prescribed site . The site even made a moderately practiced facsimile of the original ’s esthetical !
It ’s an remainder of an geological era , indeed . But even as “ Not a Blog ” live on in a slightly different form , the Beric Dondarrion of internet pages , there ’s still a gloominess in Livejournal losing what might be one of its last , and most prominent , force user .
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