I'm also going to probably be really bad at keeping up or doing it, but I really should try

I've been meaning to do it for so long cause it does feel very therapeutic to me and helps to organize my thoughts?

I've been meaning to come around here and dump some thoughts but then I just kind of roll over in bed and do nothing which is... not good lmaodjlks so maybe I'll try to whip something up over there

I might just link to posts sometimes since I'll probably leave them open, in case anyone wants to skim over or anything for the sake of like... my explaining why I'm being terrible atm or something

this is for like now specifically I'm thinking of, but idk

I write in a physical journal these days XD

I'm not sure why, just not in the habit to do it on DW, although I had been thinking about it.

I thought about doing that too, but I'm really lazy with physical writing LOL

I like typing mostly because my thoughts go really fast so my fingers can't keep up haha

I feel that! I'm kind of tired of not having white out for when I mess up and I'm like, "maybe I should just use DW" and idk maybe I will lmao

awww lol

you are so fancy with your white out, I just scribble over everything all the time lmao

No, the problem is that I don't have any! XD

lmao XD

I'm just tiredo f messing up :C

as I do here

pffff nah

hey I think this is a good idea, and I maybe should think about doing something like it!

idk why, but I neglect journals on dw even though I used them exclusively for journaling/buying things on LJ

I FEEL THIS i kind of miss lj journaling..

well, LJ kind of had more big communities, i feel? i made some friends just by joining comms i was interested in, and we got to know each other via journaling

i like dw!! but i don't know, it's a different vibe? I'M GLAD IT'S NOT JUST ME and i'd like to try using journals more though!!

YESSS I was just talking with my roommates about how much I miss lj community culture

I mean like I doubt I would benefit from it like I used to because I've become so overly aware of everything I do and am too embarrassed to exist LOL

I still think about things I posted in public and I'm like oh god why did I do that.............

I mean... this is worse with my personal journal even LOL but I have always considered writing out whatever thoughts as a good mental exercise

and with the loss of lj personal journaling as like a Thing, I kind of stopped doing it and have tried to get back into it BUT I FAIL but also I should keep trying

it really is a different vibe

oh my god some of my public journals were so embarrassing too!! but i think we were all just like that... we followed peers who did the same stuff, we engaged with it

I do miss a lot about it, plurk is okay but there's something about it that can be harder... maybe because it's like putting something up and having to reply and reply to it to express something and feeling weird about it?

AH see there i did a silly plurk-novel to express a thing and feel like maybe i shouldn't have, haha

It's basically putting your thoughts into the aether and because how plurk is, you're kind of unconsciously waiting for a reply even if you weren't meaning to start a conversation

... yes, that's exactly it, thank you

yw

i feel this a lot and i'm trying not to lol

Yeah I miss lj communities. Platforms like plurk and twitter are more one sided, conversation wise.

I miss having a hub for fandom activities. Especially now when I get back into things and there's nothing that feels the same as lj.

Dw is good for what it is! It's just more rp focused vs fandom/journaling.