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Jan. 30th, 2019 05:06 pmSo ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
liv posted this thing about cut tags and the fear of being "boring". I commented way too long, which is why I'm crossposting that here as a proper post. Hey, anything to get my words for the day!1
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So I don't know you, I've only been following your journal for a few weeks (after a random "hey that looks kinda interesting"). I might unsubscribe, I might not --I certainly won't say I've read all the things you've posted, and I think this is the first time I'm commenting.
But this entry definitely twitches me, as someone who is also long-winded and occasionally boring, and most importantly, keeping a journal for myself damnit. I long-form write because it is *better* for my brain and sanity, and I publish as much of that as I can bear (and heaps less than it used to be) because I like that kind of engagement and my brain has never been a private playground, not really2, 3.
So here's a reminder for your brainweasels and mine: a cut does not mean dullness. It's just another way to organize thinking and presenting information in the internet era. Some people will skip your cut entries. Some people will skip your really short non-cut entries. That's their decision, and nothing should be put on *you* to have to be universally appealing.
And on reader's end...like, you gave some pretty good reasons why someone might prefer a cut tag. For me personally, I only ever request them if the post has images wide enough to muck up the rest of my reading page. That's because I'm able to scroll past the stuff I don't care about on my reading page (this is not meant as a judgement, literally that my computer equipment and physical/mental health provide for that). I recommend people reading my journal be at the same space, or unfollow me, because as it turns out, I'm not perfect for all readers. It's cool, I like the ones I've got.
This is a lot of comment, and now I feel strangely pulled to apologize for the length. That seems like an especially silly thing to do in this case though, so you're just going to have to deal with it. It's okay --I don't mind if you skim past it! ;)
~Sor
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MOOP!
1: I have written 750+ words for 53.5 days in a row. (I will finish tonight's before I go to bed, I promise. I might even impress Austin by finishing them before I am curled up at his place!)
2: This is a fascinating thing to just say casually in passing and expect I won't notice or follow up. What the hell, Kat? I mean, it's *completely* accurate in some ways --I want other people to be able to share the hallucination provided by the three pounds of fatty jello I keep behind my glasses. But just like...huh. A lot of my best introspective4 observations come to me in random flashes like this when I'm not paying better attention.
3: All footnotes are original to this post. I try *really hard* not to footnote-orgy in other people's journals.
4: I saw a tattoo at Arisia that said "Nosce te Ipsum" and then horrified jere7my (mostly on behalf of his classicist wife) by saying something along the lines of "oh yeah, I learned what that meant from Sluggy Freelance!" I should really just get my act together sometime now that I'm a grownup and cosplay Oasis already.
Well no, having just re-read the entirety of Narbonic, I should cosplay *Mell*. And see if I've already written a character post for her, and do that if not. Oh keen, she was number 13, very good.
liv posted this thing about cut tags and the fear of being "boring". I commented way too long, which is why I'm crossposting that here as a proper post. Hey, anything to get my words for the day!1***
So I don't know you, I've only been following your journal for a few weeks (after a random "hey that looks kinda interesting"). I might unsubscribe, I might not --I certainly won't say I've read all the things you've posted, and I think this is the first time I'm commenting.
But this entry definitely twitches me, as someone who is also long-winded and occasionally boring, and most importantly, keeping a journal for myself damnit. I long-form write because it is *better* for my brain and sanity, and I publish as much of that as I can bear (and heaps less than it used to be) because I like that kind of engagement and my brain has never been a private playground, not really2, 3.
So here's a reminder for your brainweasels and mine: a cut does not mean dullness. It's just another way to organize thinking and presenting information in the internet era. Some people will skip your cut entries. Some people will skip your really short non-cut entries. That's their decision, and nothing should be put on *you* to have to be universally appealing.
And on reader's end...like, you gave some pretty good reasons why someone might prefer a cut tag. For me personally, I only ever request them if the post has images wide enough to muck up the rest of my reading page. That's because I'm able to scroll past the stuff I don't care about on my reading page (this is not meant as a judgement, literally that my computer equipment and physical/mental health provide for that). I recommend people reading my journal be at the same space, or unfollow me, because as it turns out, I'm not perfect for all readers. It's cool, I like the ones I've got.
This is a lot of comment, and now I feel strangely pulled to apologize for the length. That seems like an especially silly thing to do in this case though, so you're just going to have to deal with it. It's okay --I don't mind if you skim past it! ;)
~Sor
***
MOOP!
1: I have written 750+ words for 53.5 days in a row. (I will finish tonight's before I go to bed, I promise. I might even impress Austin by finishing them before I am curled up at his place!)
2: This is a fascinating thing to just say casually in passing and expect I won't notice or follow up. What the hell, Kat? I mean, it's *completely* accurate in some ways --I want other people to be able to share the hallucination provided by the three pounds of fatty jello I keep behind my glasses. But just like...huh. A lot of my best introspective4 observations come to me in random flashes like this when I'm not paying better attention.
3: All footnotes are original to this post. I try *really hard* not to footnote-orgy in other people's journals.
4: I saw a tattoo at Arisia that said "Nosce te Ipsum" and then horrified jere7my (mostly on behalf of his classicist wife) by saying something along the lines of "oh yeah, I learned what that meant from Sluggy Freelance!" I should really just get my act together sometime now that I'm a grownup and cosplay Oasis already.
Well no, having just re-read the entirety of Narbonic, I should cosplay *Mell*. And see if I've already written a character post for her, and do that if not. Oh keen, she was number 13, very good.