It's been such a long time since I've used an account like this for anything other than fandom endeavours. To be fair, the LiveJournal Days began mostly as a result of wanting to be more involved in fandoms. But while my occasionally obsessive interest in various media continues to be a rather huge part of my life, I'm apparently old now and the kind of free-time and energy that is necessary to engage in that kind of activity is pretty much zip, nada, and nilch. And let's be honest, it's mostly the lack of energy more than anything.

But ever since LiveJournal has fallen out of fashion, I have very much missed having this kind of "platform" available to me to talk about whatever it is that I want to talk about, whether there is anyone reading or not. I still get a kick of looking back at what I used to write - embarrassing as it may be - on my old LiveJournal account, but I guess it's some kind of tangible record of who I was and what was important (or seemed important) to me at the time.

Why not a journal? It's not like I want to write about my day or my newest show/book/movie/comic obsession explicitly to share it with anyone, and a nicely bound journal would work just as well. And really, it's because my words-per-minute for typing is much, much higher than my handwriting. Also I have mediocre penmanship at best, so it's not like I have a copperplate script to show off. Also that habit I have of smudging everything with my hand (despite being right-handed) because I obviously didn't learn how to hold my pencil properly, or something along those lines. Bullet-journaling is all well and good when you have some kind of cutesy or elegant handwriting at your disposal, as well as any kind of design-sense and a fearlessness of mistakes. I can't even bring myself to make a single mark in any of the very cute journals I have either bought for myself or that have been gifted to me because I'm convinced I will somehow do it wrong.

In any case, I have never been one for Twitter, I remember that Instagram exists about once a year, and Facebook is mostly how I pretend to still be involved in the lives of people who live far away or who are too busy for us to catch up regularly. And there is Plurk when I want the immediate gratification of someone to yell with about something. But sometimes there is a lot of word-vomit that I would like to empty out of my head. I mean, of course I spend a fair amount of time in my day writing medical reports about the toileting habits of my patients, or their grade of periodontal disease and how the clients responded to subsequent recommendations about pursuing a dental prophy for Rover, etc etc, but I think it would be a nice to change it up once in awhile!

Anyway, I don't think anyone I know is actually using Dreamwidth for anything other than roleplay, so I think I can safely call this an exercise in self-indulgence.