Ember

Firstly, thank you alyandra for introducing me to Dreamwidth. I’ve been craving a place like LiveJournal for years and I guess I’ve never searched smart enough to find this place. If I can somehow get access to my old LJ account, I’ll consider attemptting to import my posts here if that’s still even possible. But if not, I’m very much ok with a somewhat clean slate. I say “somewhat” because of my choice to go with my typical recognizable handle “isolte” instead of a completely new one. Maybe it’s a misplaced idea of integrity that I find it hard to rebrand my online self when it comes to making new accounts on personal social media type websites? Who knows? All that matters is I’m here to break free of the character limits, thoughtless “threads” and “discussions” of Twitter and Facebook (or I guess it’s called Meta now as of a few days ago?)

I hope to start journaling my dreams again.. how fitting that this place is called Dreamwidth and still mind blowing to me that I haven’t found this place with my numerous “dream journal” web searches over the years. But anyway, I also plan on including some day to day potentially mundane activity logging once in a while because as I get older, I look back at Twitter and Facebook and always wonder what the fuck I was doing or what I was actually into at the time because those spaces don’t adequately archive things together in a sensibly chronological format??? It’s like those places were designed to trick the user into believing everything is happening RIGHT NOW as if the time and date of the post is irrelevant. It’s gotten crazy to hear people say, “I saw this on Twitter,” or “I read this on Facebook,” (or Reddit for that matter) as if that’s all you need to know about it’s credibility. 😂

*sigh* I hope that coming back to a platform that places a greater importance on time and thought will help me find me again because, honestly I feel like I lost myself sometime ago and I’m way overdue to start searching for myself again.