Oh, honey, I totally get what you're saying, and I was definitely not questioning anyone's decisions about how they've run their journals or what they post.
My boss has thing. We run shit where I work. A whole lot of it. And sometimes it comes back and bites us in the ass in a big way, and when it does, we address it, and then he stands up in front of the employees and says, "Moving Forward," and then we do.
But it'd be a shame if we didn't learn anything. Didn't question what it is we are willing to stand behind and what we aren't. I'm not naive enough to believe everyone I know or have ever met would be okay with what I post online, but at least if they don't I can say, "Don't like that, then you don't like me," because that stuff's real and honest, and I have no shame in it. Take it or leave it.
That's not to say I don't sometimes consider f-locking just to spare people my emo moments. I'm not afraid of what I say when I get like that, but I can certainly respect that it's not fun to read and not everyone who adds me looking for schmoopy fic is going to want to see that side of me. Same as I've got some fic journals floating around just because I know not everyone who reads my Gen stuff wants to hang to come into my slashy journal to read it, and blah, blah, blah.
I'm not saying we shouldn't compartmentalize, just that we need to not have to worry that things in one compartment might know about the things in the other, because you can't just divide yourself up like that and still be whole.
Damn, I should not try to figure out what I am talking about at four in the morning. I totally fail. LOL.
The long and short of it is, I just want people to know that it's a lot easier to not have secrets than to it is to keep them hidden.
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Date: 2009-01-27 10:03 am (UTC)My boss has thing. We run shit where I work. A whole lot of it. And sometimes it comes back and bites us in the ass in a big way, and when it does, we address it, and then he stands up in front of the employees and says, "Moving Forward," and then we do.
But it'd be a shame if we didn't learn anything. Didn't question what it is we are willing to stand behind and what we aren't. I'm not naive enough to believe everyone I know or have ever met would be okay with what I post online, but at least if they don't I can say, "Don't like that, then you don't like me," because that stuff's real and honest, and I have no shame in it. Take it or leave it.
That's not to say I don't sometimes consider f-locking just to spare people my emo moments. I'm not afraid of what I say when I get like that, but I can certainly respect that it's not fun to read and not everyone who adds me looking for schmoopy fic is going to want to see that side of me. Same as I've got some fic journals floating around just because I know not everyone who reads my Gen stuff wants to hang to come into my slashy journal to read it, and blah, blah, blah.
I'm not saying we shouldn't compartmentalize, just that we need to not have to worry that things in one compartment might know about the things in the other, because you can't just divide yourself up like that and still be whole.
Damn, I should not try to figure out what I am talking about at four in the morning. I totally fail. LOL.
The long and short of it is, I just want people to know that it's a lot easier to not have secrets than to it is to keep them hidden.