Considering maybe splitting up the journal

[cashew]

I'm genuinely wondering if maybe I should split up the fannish shit from the non-fannish shit. On the one hand, it would keep the archives clean and easy to search. On the other hand, it's not like it keeps the identities separated, unless I'm willing to make a bunch of alt accounts rather than separated communities with different stuff in it.

Also, it feels like it might be too late to actually separate the fannish from the personal this late in the game. Maybe if I started off making the journal account locked and posted all my fannish shit in separated little communities to archive my fanfics and whatnot, that might make sense. But having to log into separate accounts to "start anew" as it were is kind of like...meh.

In short, I just have not yet found a satisfying way to keep my personal blabbering and my fannish blabbering separated. Also I tend to hop fandoms way too quickly. But then again, I feel like sometimes I'm writing into the aether anyway so I might as well make things easier for myself when I look back on things.

Or maybe I should just migrate all my fannish stuff into a community so I stop spamming the f-list with fannish blathering. So torn.

Comments

[tanithryudo]

Are you talking about Dreamwidth? If so, I don't see a big reason to make more accounts. Personally speaking, I don't mind being spammed. I just reply to the stuff I am interested in anyway.

[cashew]

Yeah, I figured you're probably the only person reading regularly. LoL. XD But I guess I'm feeling restless and want to organize, and splitting up fic from random blathering would make finding fic much easier.

Because I feel like right now everything is mixed together, so if I ever want to go back to look for stuff, it's really difficult to find. But the problem is at the time of writing an entry, I have no idea if I want to be able to easily find it again or bury it in the sands of time. Hence this "maybe if I split up my blathering and my fic posting, things will be more clear...somehow."

[tanithryudo]

I think google search will pick up stuff in the public posts at least, with regards to searching.

Other than that, I personally don't find myself going back to search really old stuff all that much. Old fandoms are...over and done with at this point, lol. Do you really find yourself going back through old history all that much?

[cashew]

Actually, I do end up going through a lot of my older stuff. Some of the older review posts, game notes, meta blabbering, and I'll re-read some older fic when I re-visit old fandoms. Especially since some of the gaming meta stuff, I spent quite a while blabbing about and it continues to plague my mind as I encounter similar design philosophies in new games. Plus, I replay a lot of the older games I actually enjoy.

Basically, it's a way to see how my own perspectives have changed and a reminder that how we think now is definitely not how we thought 20 years ago. (We've been on LJ-clones for close to 20-years now! 😭 This DW account was created in 2010!!)

What started off as a throwaway fandom thing for mostly making icons and posting rants has grown to some kind of giant thing of I don't even know what to call it. So...yeah, I'm kind of struck by the desire to pull out the worthwhile stuff for easier review.

[tanithryudo]

Ah ok.

Well, regarding your original pondering... I guess, the question is, is the hassle of managing multiple accounts (having to login/logout for different posts) worth whatever gains made with regards to organizing stuff? Secondly, is this solution scalable over time? Third, is this going to involve going back and changing old stuff and if so, how much of a hassle that's going to be?

[cashew]

All very good questions and worth pondering. At the moment, I've decided to use a closed community account to do bookmarking (mozi), so I can copy-paste stuff I want to revisit into the community. Rather than splitting up cashew, I'll use mozi to host a second copy/index of things I find myself revisiting. So it's gonna be an on-going project. Hopefully, since the material on mozi is going to be catalogued with hindsight, the organization will be saner than what's happening on the main cashew account...

Plus, as a community account, I can avoid having to log in and out... It's not a new start, but I'm hoping mozi is more organized than what's happening here. orz ...