A new place
Dec. 26th, 2009 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsSo for reasons none-too-definable I was feeling kind of boxed in on LJ. Plus my LJ bore the name of my old website which I hadn't updated in forever and which was mostly full of now-perhaps-embarassing 'fics that were on FF.net anyway, and to try to untangle it into something I would invest myself in now wasn't worth the hosting money, so I just shut it down (that would be ShiningHalf.com; probably all in the Way Back Machine).
So did I want to pay LJ for a rename ticket just to stay in a place where I felt boxed in? Not really. I started to think a new journal would be the thing, and I'd heard good things about Dreamwidth, so wth, let's give this a whirl.
I will also admit, I went through what was essentially a divorce about a year and a half ago, and pathetic or not, I'm still not completely over it, so that may be part of my problems. I also just kind of felt like prattling on about my fanfic universe or whatever would seem somehow unfashionable or unserious where I was hanging out---not to pin it on any of my friends, that might be quite an unfair assessment of them, but if I felt self-conscious about it, the blockage is still there.
So I decided to make a new journal, where I could prattle about Castlevania and petty things without a care for who (if anyone) reads it and might judge as to how "serious" or "in the loop" I am. Some of my friends I will certainly tell that I've moved, but given the nature of the enterprise I think I want to get myself settled first and not jerk them around until I feel ready.
But that's pretty much the deal; here I am! I even found a theme I liked (although my fox photo icons fit the colors better than my old Oekaki fox pic; I should draw a new one anyway, but I'm in pretty serious writer/artist's block---counterproductive not to admit it or to beat myself up about it...).
To anyone who happens into this, Douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu!
So did I want to pay LJ for a rename ticket just to stay in a place where I felt boxed in? Not really. I started to think a new journal would be the thing, and I'd heard good things about Dreamwidth, so wth, let's give this a whirl.
I will also admit, I went through what was essentially a divorce about a year and a half ago, and pathetic or not, I'm still not completely over it, so that may be part of my problems. I also just kind of felt like prattling on about my fanfic universe or whatever would seem somehow unfashionable or unserious where I was hanging out---not to pin it on any of my friends, that might be quite an unfair assessment of them, but if I felt self-conscious about it, the blockage is still there.
So I decided to make a new journal, where I could prattle about Castlevania and petty things without a care for who (if anyone) reads it and might judge as to how "serious" or "in the loop" I am. Some of my friends I will certainly tell that I've moved, but given the nature of the enterprise I think I want to get myself settled first and not jerk them around until I feel ready.
But that's pretty much the deal; here I am! I even found a theme I liked (although my fox photo icons fit the colors better than my old Oekaki fox pic; I should draw a new one anyway, but I'm in pretty serious writer/artist's block---counterproductive not to admit it or to beat myself up about it...).
To anyone who happens into this, Douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu!
