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kaybeeSo. A blog. Scary. Formal-ish-er writing in a space longer than a tweet. I do this all the time for school and work and just for fun but having a page just for a blog- it’s scary and weird. I’ll figure it out. The idea really appealed to me, and I figured if I was gonna post a link to my blog somewhere it might as well have a lil thing on it to start. I’ve got some ideas on things I wanna write about but they’ll take time and maybe some slight research (I kinda can’t help myself).
My friends blog about their lives, the games they play, and the stories they make. All of these are a bit difficult for me: I’m unbelievably opposed to sharing basically anything real about myself outside of contextless snippets in a post or pictures. It’s also why I stopped posting selfies lol. My name’s Kim or KB and I think stories about dames are neato, and that’s all you need to know. The only video games I play nowadays are visual novels and things that are goof-off-with-friends games, which can be written about but I feel a bit silly writing about VN’s. The text is already there, for you to read, and you can just read it yourself. I guess “writing” is different than “posting” in a material way to me because I do love posting screenshots with comments alongside ‘em.
And finally, the stories they make. This is the scary one. I can turn something around a lot in my own head and like it a lot but the thought of sharing anything with another human being- horrifying. Vomit-provoking, literally. It’s why for the most part the writing I’ve put out in my recent time has been fanfiction- it’s a crutch but it’s one that feels safer to me. More comfortable to lean on existing apparatus’s of thought and interaction, even if I’m adding my own interpretations atop it. Beyond this- the medium of the written word has its appeal but I’m a visual dame. I need to learn how to draw better and program better and etcetera before I want to put anything out there, in any format. So that’s on the backburner.
So for this blog; keeping it simple at the moment. Initially it’ll be just stuff I’ve posted about in twitter but given more time to cook into what I feel expresses myself more earnestly. So yuri, art, books, you get the gist. I’ll try really hard to blog only about things I like and care about but no promises on me getting really mad about TLT or something and just going off for a bit. But for the most part- you’ve probably read my tweets, and this blog will almost certainly just be more comprehensive versions of those, for a bit at least.
My friends blog about their lives, the games they play, and the stories they make. All of these are a bit difficult for me: I’m unbelievably opposed to sharing basically anything real about myself outside of contextless snippets in a post or pictures. It’s also why I stopped posting selfies lol. My name’s Kim or KB and I think stories about dames are neato, and that’s all you need to know. The only video games I play nowadays are visual novels and things that are goof-off-with-friends games, which can be written about but I feel a bit silly writing about VN’s. The text is already there, for you to read, and you can just read it yourself. I guess “writing” is different than “posting” in a material way to me because I do love posting screenshots with comments alongside ‘em.
And finally, the stories they make. This is the scary one. I can turn something around a lot in my own head and like it a lot but the thought of sharing anything with another human being- horrifying. Vomit-provoking, literally. It’s why for the most part the writing I’ve put out in my recent time has been fanfiction- it’s a crutch but it’s one that feels safer to me. More comfortable to lean on existing apparatus’s of thought and interaction, even if I’m adding my own interpretations atop it. Beyond this- the medium of the written word has its appeal but I’m a visual dame. I need to learn how to draw better and program better and etcetera before I want to put anything out there, in any format. So that’s on the backburner.
So for this blog; keeping it simple at the moment. Initially it’ll be just stuff I’ve posted about in twitter but given more time to cook into what I feel expresses myself more earnestly. So yuri, art, books, you get the gist. I’ll try really hard to blog only about things I like and care about but no promises on me getting really mad about TLT or something and just going off for a bit. But for the most part- you’ve probably read my tweets, and this blog will almost certainly just be more comprehensive versions of those, for a bit at least.
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Date: 2025-01-02 11:35 pm (UTC)New things are often daunting at first, but Dreamwidth is flexible and you can use it for whatever appeals to you. Some folks here do use it like Twitter with tiny, frequent posts. If you like that sort of thing, watch for them to follow. Other folks use this for sharing links or videos or images. Recurring posts are good for maintaining activity, and that entry has lots of ideas on what to blog about.
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>>I’m unbelievably opposed to sharing basically anything real about myself outside of contextless snippets in a post or pictures.<<
That's okay. You can post about other things than yourself. You could do an entire blog on nothing more than "look at these cool things I found online." I link things often enough that some readers use my blog as a newsfeed.
>> Beyond this- the medium of the written word has its appeal but I’m a visual dame. I need to learn how to draw better and program better and etcetera before I want to put anything out there, in any format. <<
Visual is fine too. DW supports image posting, but the storage system is crap so most people just copy theirs from elsewhere.
If you want to level-grind the fundamentals of art, check out Drawabox.
>> So yuri, art, books, you get the gist. <<
There's some yuri on here but you may need to search Interests to find it. Art and books are both very popular. If you don't want to share your own stuff, you can read communities for fun things and link them, which is very useful because it helps more people find the communities.