Theodora Elucubrare

There is very little new to say about online self-presentation, but there's nothing new under the sun either, so whatever. I'm thinking about my tone specifically -- I try, at my best, for lyrical breezy: long, loosely connected sentences with, hopefully, a light humor amid the complaints, that can bloom into bigger things. Each post is a Journey from wherever I started to wherever the grammar of the sentence and the process of writing took me. This post probably doesn't exactly have a Point, but it is interesting to see how this style and tone have evolved over the years -- 2017 is definitely almost but not quite there; and I definitely fall out of the bouncy complaints into real ones when I'm miserable, and the style itself is much too self-pitying, self-aggrandizing, and melodramatic. The resolution is, therefore, to stay bouncy even when doing that self-pity.

The real problem with dreamwidth, as it was with livejournal, though, is that it feels less conducive to dumb off-the-cuff posts -- the fault may very well be in me, but I very much feel that I need to have something to Say on these sites, despite the fact that they're not as formal as, say, Wordpress. Even this post feels like it needs to be more substantial.