Journaling: it's what's for breakfast
I'm working on getting my Dreamwidth subscriptions/access settled, trying to balance my time constraints with my desire to get to know the many awesome people I've been missing. Now that I'm actually committing to this cross-posting thing, I think I might unsubscribe from people who are cross-posting to both sites with open comments so I'm not getting a ton of doubles, but I am going to ponder that first. I seem to be in the opposite situation of a lot of people where my problem is not with giving access (since 99% of what I post is public anyway) but with having too many people on my flist for me to keep up with it. IDK, IDK. It's a work in progress; don't be surprised if you find me randomly adding/removing/unsubscribing/subscribing/whatevering you over the next couple of weeks. Hee.
At DW,
liv is hosting a Non-Fannish Friending Meme and that, along with the cross-posting thing, has gotten me thinking more about my blog and how I'm using it.
I came to LJ for media fandom, and my participation has been almost entirely fannish since then. LJ has always been a place of fun and escape for me, a place where I can find other people who share my fannish interests and squee and to interact with them on that level, and that I don't want to change. As such, I've kept a lot of my non-fannish interests on the outskirts of my LJ, referencing them only occasionally but not dwelling too much because the community I'd built around me was based on fannish experience. Then I had Puplet and I realized that while media fandom is still absolutely one of my interests/hobbies, it is not now (nor has it ever actually been) my only one, and there are other things I love just as much that I want to talk about these days. It really hit me when I was reading the comments to the above-mentioned meme and saw the "What are you passionate about" question. Here's my answer:
I'm passionate about parenting, music, vidding, natural childbirth and women's rights, television, books, enjoying the outdoors (primarily via hiking & kayaking, but also camping), road trips, seeing the world, exploring my country (US), trying to be a good person, alternative/naturopathic medicine, stupid jokes, pets/animals, Dragon Age: Origins, learning photography, learning piano & guitar, Dinosaur Comics, collecting smushed pennies, anthropology/ethnomusicology, eating yummy food, and my family and friends.
(Item of note to me: my job and what I actually do at work is not in this list - try to remedy that some day if possible.)
Anyway, I have often felt the self-imposed pressure to try to make my journal entries "worthwhile" before posting, which has meant to me that they should try to be fannishly focused or at least have interesting links. Well, no more I say! I am embracing the boring! Hee. Which is my purpose here really, to just notify (warn?) myself/my reading list that I'm going to be posting more non-fannish things (or perhaps the word should be "differently fannish!") and not feeling guilty about it. At least that's my intent. I have a lot of good intentions and we see how that goes (exhibit A: my still unfinished Sweet Charity vid from 2008 *facepalm*).
As always, you are welcome to remove me from your reading lists at will! Except those of you whom I will stalk even as a ghost if you do so. I'm watching you. *eyeballs*
On the differently fannish front I would like to report that while we've had Dragon Age: Awakenings in the house for over 24 hours I STILL HAVE NOT PLAYED IT and that is making me sad. Stupid work. Stupid needing to sleep. I decided not to import my one character (I have THREE, hee) who died at the end of DA:O into DA:A, even though they would let me, because it ruins her narrative. HER STORY IS BEAUTIFUL, OKAY? I feel like putting her into DA:A, though it affects no one but me, would just be Wrong. This is my life.
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there.
At DW,
liv is hosting a Non-Fannish Friending Meme and that, along with the cross-posting thing, has gotten me thinking more about my blog and how I'm using it.
I came to LJ for media fandom, and my participation has been almost entirely fannish since then. LJ has always been a place of fun and escape for me, a place where I can find other people who share my fannish interests and squee and to interact with them on that level, and that I don't want to change. As such, I've kept a lot of my non-fannish interests on the outskirts of my LJ, referencing them only occasionally but not dwelling too much because the community I'd built around me was based on fannish experience. Then I had Puplet and I realized that while media fandom is still absolutely one of my interests/hobbies, it is not now (nor has it ever actually been) my only one, and there are other things I love just as much that I want to talk about these days. It really hit me when I was reading the comments to the above-mentioned meme and saw the "What are you passionate about" question. Here's my answer:
I'm passionate about parenting, music, vidding, natural childbirth and women's rights, television, books, enjoying the outdoors (primarily via hiking & kayaking, but also camping), road trips, seeing the world, exploring my country (US), trying to be a good person, alternative/naturopathic medicine, stupid jokes, pets/animals, Dragon Age: Origins, learning photography, learning piano & guitar, Dinosaur Comics, collecting smushed pennies, anthropology/ethnomusicology, eating yummy food, and my family and friends.
(Item of note to me: my job and what I actually do at work is not in this list - try to remedy that some day if possible.)
Anyway, I have often felt the self-imposed pressure to try to make my journal entries "worthwhile" before posting, which has meant to me that they should try to be fannishly focused or at least have interesting links. Well, no more I say! I am embracing the boring! Hee. Which is my purpose here really, to just notify (warn?) myself/my reading list that I'm going to be posting more non-fannish things (or perhaps the word should be "differently fannish!") and not feeling guilty about it. At least that's my intent. I have a lot of good intentions and we see how that goes (exhibit A: my still unfinished Sweet Charity vid from 2008 *facepalm*).
As always, you are welcome to remove me from your reading lists at will! Except those of you whom I will stalk even as a ghost if you do so. I'm watching you. *eyeballs*
On the differently fannish front I would like to report that while we've had Dragon Age: Awakenings in the house for over 24 hours I STILL HAVE NOT PLAYED IT and that is making me sad. Stupid work. Stupid needing to sleep. I decided not to import my one character (I have THREE, hee) who died at the end of DA:O into DA:A, even though they would let me, because it ruins her narrative. HER STORY IS BEAUTIFUL, OKAY? I feel like putting her into DA:A, though it affects no one but me, would just be Wrong. This is my life.
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there.