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riddled June 21 2012, 05:18:51 UTC
Oh my god, I get so distressed whenever ~lobsterquadrille is taken as a username elsewhere. I'm like, really? That one-off Lewis Carroll poem? WHO IS OUT THERE USING MY CUTE LITERARY REFERENCES AS THEIR USERNAME AND CAN I EITHER MURDER THEM OR MARRY THEM.

And yeah re: the void. I can use different voices / levels of intimacy or detail depending on if I'm writing privately or for a wider audience -- but I have difficulty reconciling what sort of voice I should affect for an in-between, esp. when I don't know who's even listening anymore? Figuring out audience & an appropriate venue for the RL snippets has been so hard, since Livejournal was always the place for daily RL updates, deeper emotional analysis, etc, but if no one's listening anyway, then I might as well just write about it privately and therefore go into more detail. Whilst IJ became the place I post the most often (& is the best place to suss out my RL, probably) but I try to clamp down on the RL there because some of my followers are just random acquaintances I met in a game sometime, annnnnd 99% of my housemates are on there so I feel weird going into too much detail about things that concern or relate to them, too.

idk, it's strange. I definitely miss the days of everyone being all up on LJ because then it was an easy, personal way to stay in touch with Norway friends, Toronto high school friends, Vancouver buddies, and you guys. Maybe I could just do a huge-ass friendscut and keep posting every so often anyway? hurm. ... BUT THEN I HAVE THREE DIFFERENT JOURNALS/BLOGS TO UPDATE. /sob, the dilemma of social media

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moiread June 21 2012, 09:12:56 UTC
I don't want to add to your stress/obligations/whatever! I love your big periodic RL update posts on IJ and your cool-stuff-Julie-found posts on Tumblr! I was just hoping there was someplace else that you updated more often, in a more casual, let-Chelle-creep-on-your-daily-slices-of-life kind of way, like a secret second Twitter account or something. But if there isn't, no big. While I would selfishly love to hear from you more often in any medium, in my experience, people don't stick with resolutions to post more ANYWHERE unless it fulfills some need and works with their existing habits and all that. Like, if it was a system that suited them, they'd already be using it and wouldn't have to resolve to post more, you know? Or they wouldn't have left it behind when their habits changed. And I can respect that. So you do your thang, and I'll just creep on you wherever there IS content!

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riddled June 21 2012, 15:44:18 UTC
THE THING IS, I would love for there to be another medium that did fit my needs, because IJ doesn't quite. I'd have been all over Twitter except that I like being able to tl;dr. hurm I will mull over this.

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