Ask Me Anything Meme #18 Why did I start journaling?

[milleniumgypsy]

I am so tired I'm going to diiiiie. Did some sculpting though on my Loki face, I'm liking how that's coming along.
Watched Agents of Shield, which was amazing!

But let's get to my Ask Me Anything question before I pass out. I can barely concentrate enough to remember my train of thought as it's happening. ...SQUIRREL! Oh my god of mischief all the distractions around me are going to make it so I never finish this entry and sleep I can't multi-task right now I can barely single task

Why did you start a livejournal? leia131

Hmm... various reasons I suppose.

Well, I'd always wanted a journal- I'd tried to keep various paper journals growing up but it never really stuck. But still I liked to write and journal of important events (or even unimportant events) seemed like a nice idea.
So then I started a Deadjournal (I think) because livejournal still had codes and I needed a friend code. x3 But I didn't end up doing a whole lot with that, so my online journaling didn't really get going until I got a friend code from the amazing conuly, and friends of mine from Neocolours were also here. :3

Also I was kinda lonely and in a poor family environment, and I've never been good with expressing my feelings. I am waaaay better at expressing my feelings in writing and... well you probably know how hit and miss that is.
I can't remember where I was going with this. The woman on the Seth Meyers is talking about her boobs what is going on here
OH RIGHT! WORDS. About my feelings. Oh dear.
Anyway, I wanted a place to put my feelings down, or at least try to. I think it's helpful! Shoot, I can barely talk to Scottie about my feelings without making a big mess of what I'm trying to say and I trust him implicitly. I was raised to conceal don't feel, so it's difficult for me to not bottle. But when I started this journal I didn't have Scottie yet.

Now I have the journal as a place to show my artsy things too, and I'm a lot better with the social aspect of the journal too. I love you guys!

Why did you start your journal friends?

I don't know if this entry even makes any sense. o_o'

yaaaaay sleepy gibberish
I'm going to finish up and pass out. xP

(Scottie says that I'm very devoted to my followers, since I'm still up and typing and not in bed like I look like I should be, ehehehe)

Comments

[daturabelle.livejournal.com]

i'm really interested to see how your loki face is going :)

i started my lj because i had friends that had moved interstate and it was a good way to keep in touch with what was going on in a day to day type basis.
since then, i've reconnected with friends and met a whole bunch of new ones all over the world that i've even spent time with in real life during my grand adventure last year.
lj is the most awesome thing ever :)

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I'll post another picture, I just hadn't had a lot of noticeable changes since the post I made on the previous day (there's a picture there if you want to look :D). Normally I post a picture with every sculpting update, but human faces can have a lot of minor changes that take a lot of time and I didn't want to bore people. n_n'

It's so interesting to me that connecting with IRL people is a common thing for starting here! I strove to keep mine a secret from everyone IRL. It was a huge deal when I gave Scottie my lj username. There is only one other person on here that I knew IRL first, and she had found my journal on her own. xD LJ was a safe place for me to post my thoughts, and to find friends.

It would be awesome to meet friends from here, that's cool that you have! :3

[becofoz]

I can't remember why I started LJ. I can't even remember how I found out about it!

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

Well, the important thing is that you're here! :3 I remember all sorts of weird things lol.

[meathiel]

I always found it easier to write than to talk as well. ;-)

I've got an LJ because one of my penpals moved to Russia and our letters ALWAYS went lost. She had a LJ ... and here I still am 8+ years later. We're still friends, btw! ;-)

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not alone in that! xD I can be fine with just talking in person, but certain things like feelings can be next to impossible (unless they're fangirling). I feel bad for Scottie because he can often tell if something is bothering me but getting it out of me is like pulling teeth (and sometimes it just won't come out). I don't know why that is. :P

Aw, that's sweet! :3
I had a penpal once but we ended up losing touch because neither of us were terribly good at keeping up with letters. LJ is so much more convenient!

[theacidqueen.livejournal.com]

i had a deadjournal before i got a friend code, too! haha good times! i was a computer geek when i was younger, and i liked journal sites because i could mess with the html and css. i also had a ujournal. somehow livejournal is more appealing, though.

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I think I tried another site too before I got my friend code here, there just wasn't the draw to stay at those other places. It probably helped that friends from forums I was active in were already here, so I felt less like I was talking to an empty room to start. xD

I was a computer geek too when I was a kid. I liked coding my journal here, and I was on neopets too coding things there as well. (It's funny how lazy I've become with that lately though lol, but I've finally started coding again!)

[jeune-fleur.livejournal.com]

I started my journal for similar reasons, besides I had a friend there so I wanted to follow her :333

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

That would be similar too, even with the friend! Unless it was a friend from RL, I had friends here that I wanted to follow from other places online. :3