writing buddy! / ex-envy / readership / vulnerability respected & consensual

[belenen]

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So bunnika and I are gonna be writing buddies and take turns coming up with prompts that we both write on. I'm surprised that we haven't done this before in our dozen-ish years of LJing together (or if we did, that memory is lost) but I feel

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[sandracaprice]

I read all your posts, but I only sometimes reply. I learn a lot about consent and social justice from you, and I can say with all honesty that I think I have grown as a person from reading your LJ.

[daphnep]

This is really well said and I think I've grown to use lj in a similar way--as much to puzzle out my own thoughts as to document them.

Which is funny because when you started this post, I was like "hmm, I wouldn't have anything for that writing prompt." But where you took it, I can relate.

[jeune_fleur]

I find it really nice you got a writing buddy! :D it's nice because you'll keep each other active and inspired to write.

I love vulnerability. I feel like that's the ultimate way people can be so powerful. I look up to people who allow themselves to be vulnerable, and I always strive to be so myself as well. I feel like that's a way of truly connecting with people.

[webgirluk]

I can understand why you would have many readers and the reasons you gave were my thoughts too as you unfolded them here. In fact, my boyfriend said he read one of your posts linked in one of the anti capitalist facebook groups he hangs out in once.

My journal used to be really interactive but I feel it was partly because I had a success rate at the time of bringing people I already knew here, rather than it being about people finding me here and liking what I wrote. Also, friends locked is limited but I've not been brave enough to "go public". I love your final line about LJ being like a best friend. So true.

[ragnarok_08]

That's great that you have a writing buddy :)

Being vulnerable takes a lot of courage, and I look up people who allow themselves to be vulnerable, that it can be a way to connect with others.