21 days for Dreamwidth

[unikorento]

17. How many people on your reading list do you know IRL?

On DW, two. tinypinkmouse is an old study- & flatmate, and umbralin and I have been in the same roleplaying group for... oh... 6-7 years. (Which now made me pause, because - holy shit, has it really been that long? O.O)

18. What don't you talk about here, either because it's too personal or because you don't have the energy?

I make an effort to always be honest in my journal. Making things up is a problem I have in real life, and writing things down is my method of keeping myself in check. So, there's not much I don't write about. It's easier to keep things in perspective that way. Some of my entries I filter and some I keep private, and after each one I can ask myself "who am I ok showing this to?" and "why can't the others see it?". I try to stay as public as possible, so I can't create a world (and a personality to match) that would be bad for me. It's too easy to always explain things from just your own point of view, and then let the encouraging, loving comments of others make you feel validated.

But that said - sometimes writing things down doesn't help. Sometimes it just brings up things that you don't need to dwell on constantly. I tend to not write about what I call my own personal suicide-and-self-harm-circus. Mostly because I think that if I wrote some of that stuff down, I might just be egging myself on. And because it's embarrassing, and I'm not 16 anymore, and I do know better. It's all a question of perspective. Those things, the scary, bad things, only make sense when I'm by myself and it's dark and my voice of reason went to sleep already. I don't write it down because it's a ghost that needs to stay a ghost, and not something I can rationalize into "just one more part of my life", at least until I'm out of the woods. Maybe I can write about it in a few years, and then I think it'll probably even be helpful.

19. Any questions from the audience?

...am I supposed to write something here? No? Well, ask, if there are questions. If not, then don't :P

20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?

Yay for yaoi!

The anime scene was never really, properly my corner of the world, but there are occasional shows and movies that catch my interest. I prefer my western media slash to yaoi, but I'd certainly never turn my nose up at it. Usually I wait for my more involved friends to point me in the direction of what's good/what they think I'd like, and I go there. So far, it's never let me down. It is pretty. Sadly, I've not watched any anime (not to mention yaoi) in a long time. I think things worth watching are still being released, but I don't think I know anyone right now who has their ear to the ground.

21. What's your favorite thing about Dreamwidth?

I like the way the tags are organized, and I like the tag cloud on the main page. I like that it feels like LJ used to, back in the early uhm... 2000's (the 00's? the aughts?).