Back with a Plan
Apr. 7th, 2020 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alchemistdoctorHello.
So one of the main reasons I hadn't been using DW much is cause I had this weird pressure, like this is a Real Blogging site, I have to Really Blog on it, like have an actual plan for my writing and use full stops and be Coherent.
But like: Twitter is ruining my soul and not long enough. Tumblr had most of the Elders leave and is now a weird mishmash of 12 year olds, literal children who have no shared life experience, I love them but they are babies, and Social Media People who have Followings and I just can't deal with that. And Reddit is... Reddit. Like don't get me wrong I'm not deleting any of the above, I'll keep my accounts because I want to see what my few friends post, but in general, they don't do well for me actually Posting.
The other thing about DW is that in order to Make Friends you have to comment on other peoples' posts and that Stresses Me Out. I love getting comments but giving them feels like taking some kind of Internet Shield and throwing it away, vulnerable to the Discourse Arrows, and it's TERRIFYING
So here I am, deciding. New way to use DW.
1) no pressure for full blog post. Tiny blog post okay. Twitter size bite okay. Do not have to tag perfectly. Whatever. Tags can be edited later.
2) I don't have to comment. If I want to I will and if I don't want to, I will not, and sometimes maybe I will just leave an emoticon to express "I read this".
3) It's okay to need a social media outlet in a time when everything is falling apart, and it's okay to police those outlets as I like, which means yes I get to put up what I want and yes I get to block people I don't like and yes, I am allowed to be a little bit of a bitch on my own page, cause it's mine.
So yeah, I'm back. With a plan.
So one of the main reasons I hadn't been using DW much is cause I had this weird pressure, like this is a Real Blogging site, I have to Really Blog on it, like have an actual plan for my writing and use full stops and be Coherent.
But like: Twitter is ruining my soul and not long enough. Tumblr had most of the Elders leave and is now a weird mishmash of 12 year olds, literal children who have no shared life experience, I love them but they are babies, and Social Media People who have Followings and I just can't deal with that. And Reddit is... Reddit. Like don't get me wrong I'm not deleting any of the above, I'll keep my accounts because I want to see what my few friends post, but in general, they don't do well for me actually Posting.
The other thing about DW is that in order to Make Friends you have to comment on other peoples' posts and that Stresses Me Out. I love getting comments but giving them feels like taking some kind of Internet Shield and throwing it away, vulnerable to the Discourse Arrows, and it's TERRIFYING
So here I am, deciding. New way to use DW.
1) no pressure for full blog post. Tiny blog post okay. Twitter size bite okay. Do not have to tag perfectly. Whatever. Tags can be edited later.
2) I don't have to comment. If I want to I will and if I don't want to, I will not, and sometimes maybe I will just leave an emoticon to express "I read this".
3) It's okay to need a social media outlet in a time when everything is falling apart, and it's okay to police those outlets as I like, which means yes I get to put up what I want and yes I get to block people I don't like and yes, I am allowed to be a little bit of a bitch on my own page, cause it's mine.
So yeah, I'm back. With a plan.
