I tried compartmentalizing into a personal journal, a fannish journal, a fic community, an icon community, and a recs community. Too much stuff, OMG!
Having compartmentalized to the extreme, I'm now drawing back and wanting to post all at one journal again. The main issue for me is that a lot of the people I have friended on my personal journal are people I know in RL and who sort of... hmm... already know my backstory? Whereas most fannish people I've met are mainly here for the fandom and don't know that random person in highschool I might feel like rambling about. There are issues with audiences having context and understanding what I'm talking about, but I want to worry about it less, because I think if I'm liberal with the LJ-cut, people will be able to read according to what interests them. I know that for some journals I really like getting to know the people behind the fannishness, and often keep people on my radar long after we've parted fannish ways because of that personal aspect.
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Having compartmentalized to the extreme, I'm now drawing back and wanting to post all at one journal again. The main issue for me is that a lot of the people I have friended on my personal journal are people I know in RL and who sort of... hmm... already know my backstory? Whereas most fannish people I've met are mainly here for the fandom and don't know that random person in highschool I might feel like rambling about. There are issues with audiences having context and understanding what I'm talking about, but I want to worry about it less, because I think if I'm liberal with the LJ-cut, people will be able to read according to what interests them. I know that for some journals I really like getting to know the people behind the fannishness, and often keep people on my radar long after we've parted fannish ways because of that personal aspect.