21 days for Dreamwidth
May. 1st, 2011 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unikorentoI found a meme! I will do this meme! I am seven days late!
1. Why did you sign up for Dreamwidth?
I'd kept a journal on lj for almost 8 years, but in the last few years I'd posted less and less. In the end, that journal had become just a way for me to keep up with my flist, and to organize meetings with my roleplaying group. I read, but never participated.
I missed writing in my journal, but somehow it had stopped being my space, and I was intensely aware of the fact that everything I wrote down would be read by people I saw on a daily basis. I didn't feel comfortable posting about issues like weight loss or mental health or studies or... well, anything particularly personal or serious. I tried, but it just made me feel anxious afterwards. And doing more than lurking in fandom didn't even seem like an option.
I still check the friendspage of that journal, and some of the RL people there haven't even noticed I'm gone, since I've not really been active in a long time anyway. Might've been sort of a dick move on my part, but I needed to re-claim my anonymity without having to make a big deal of it with filters and such. I'm not actually a particularly private person, and I don't feel the need to be very anonymous with my internet friends. I suppose I could say that my move to DW was fueled by my want to protect my internet life from real life, not the other way around. (And, of course, since I feel more relaxed now, I can squee shamelessly about all my shows and general fannishness without having to worry about cluttering anyone's friends page.)
2. Why did you choose your journal name?
I think it sounds pretty, but still describes something fairly hideous. "Uni" because I knew I wanted to try and write down my dreams as often as I could, and "korento" because insects are short-lived. And I always thought "korennot" are impressive to look at.
"Uni" means "dream" in Finnish, and "korento" means.. uhm... well, "fly". Finnish makes a distinction here that English doesn't, so I'll specify that it's not a regular fly, but a fly like a dragonfly or a damselfly. If I were a fly like the kind you find in a barn, I'd be called "unikärpänen".
3. Do you crosspost? Why or why not?
Yup, to LJ. Not to my original journal (it really is as good as dead), but to a mirror journal of this one. I originally started it just so I could follow the bigger fanfic comms on LJ, but now it's as much my journal as this one. I feel perfectly comfortable using both, I think of them as one and the same.
4. What do you do online when you're not on DW?
Facebook. Msn. Skype. Torrentz/Pirate Bay. Spotify! (I spent two hours today just compiling playlists that I might never actually finish listening to. I love it like pie.) But, honestly, if I'm online I probably have DW & LJ open as tabs.
5. How about when you're not on the computer?
I watch TV/listen to podfic, and crochet. I go running. I hang out at my friend's place and play computer games. I go to class. I hang around campus and try to study. Sometimes I go out to have a pint or go dancing, if I can find anyone to accompany me.
I almost wrote "out with Maggie" here as the first thing. I'm still learning to be without her. She's been a key element of my every day for six years, and it's hard to change rituals that ingrained. It doesn't feel right not to include her.
6. What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you?
That my silence doesn't equal indifference. If I do drop off for a month or longer, it's likely I'll still keep up with everything, but be too engrossed in whatever shiny object/nervous breakdown/personal apocalypse/puppy that occupies my time. I'm a flaky flake of flakiness, but I do care.
7. What is your favorite community on Dreamwidth?
Does the formersupernatural_newsletter count as a community? I miss it! SPN fandom is huge, and the newsletter that appears daily on LJ is way more than anyone can chew. I liked having the smaller newsletter that was just for DW. I'd look through it, and during the week I'd usually have time to work through the whole thing. It helped keep me open minded within fandom. I got to read varied stories that I wouldn't usually look at, because when there's so much to choose from, you usually get bogged down thinking about specifics ships or storylines you want or don't want to read.
1. Why did you sign up for Dreamwidth?
I'd kept a journal on lj for almost 8 years, but in the last few years I'd posted less and less. In the end, that journal had become just a way for me to keep up with my flist, and to organize meetings with my roleplaying group. I read, but never participated.
I missed writing in my journal, but somehow it had stopped being my space, and I was intensely aware of the fact that everything I wrote down would be read by people I saw on a daily basis. I didn't feel comfortable posting about issues like weight loss or mental health or studies or... well, anything particularly personal or serious. I tried, but it just made me feel anxious afterwards. And doing more than lurking in fandom didn't even seem like an option.
I still check the friendspage of that journal, and some of the RL people there haven't even noticed I'm gone, since I've not really been active in a long time anyway. Might've been sort of a dick move on my part, but I needed to re-claim my anonymity without having to make a big deal of it with filters and such. I'm not actually a particularly private person, and I don't feel the need to be very anonymous with my internet friends. I suppose I could say that my move to DW was fueled by my want to protect my internet life from real life, not the other way around. (And, of course, since I feel more relaxed now, I can squee shamelessly about all my shows and general fannishness without having to worry about cluttering anyone's friends page.)
2. Why did you choose your journal name?
I think it sounds pretty, but still describes something fairly hideous. "Uni" because I knew I wanted to try and write down my dreams as often as I could, and "korento" because insects are short-lived. And I always thought "korennot" are impressive to look at.
"Uni" means "dream" in Finnish, and "korento" means.. uhm... well, "fly". Finnish makes a distinction here that English doesn't, so I'll specify that it's not a regular fly, but a fly like a dragonfly or a damselfly. If I were a fly like the kind you find in a barn, I'd be called "unikärpänen".
3. Do you crosspost? Why or why not?
Yup, to LJ. Not to my original journal (it really is as good as dead), but to a mirror journal of this one. I originally started it just so I could follow the bigger fanfic comms on LJ, but now it's as much my journal as this one. I feel perfectly comfortable using both, I think of them as one and the same.
4. What do you do online when you're not on DW?
Facebook. Msn. Skype. Torrentz/Pirate Bay. Spotify! (I spent two hours today just compiling playlists that I might never actually finish listening to. I love it like pie.) But, honestly, if I'm online I probably have DW & LJ open as tabs.
5. How about when you're not on the computer?
I watch TV/listen to podfic, and crochet. I go running. I hang out at my friend's place and play computer games. I go to class. I hang around campus and try to study. Sometimes I go out to have a pint or go dancing, if I can find anyone to accompany me.
I almost wrote "out with Maggie" here as the first thing. I'm still learning to be without her. She's been a key element of my every day for six years, and it's hard to change rituals that ingrained. It doesn't feel right not to include her.
6. What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you?
That my silence doesn't equal indifference. If I do drop off for a month or longer, it's likely I'll still keep up with everything, but be too engrossed in whatever shiny object/nervous breakdown/personal apocalypse/puppy that occupies my time. I'm a flaky flake of flakiness, but I do care.
7. What is your favorite community on Dreamwidth?
Does the former
supernatural_newsletter count as a community? I miss it! SPN fandom is huge, and the newsletter that appears daily on LJ is way more than anyone can chew. I liked having the smaller newsletter that was just for DW. I'd look through it, and during the week I'd usually have time to work through the whole thing. It helped keep me open minded within fandom. I got to read varied stories that I wouldn't usually look at, because when there's so much to choose from, you usually get bogged down thinking about specifics ships or storylines you want or don't want to read.
