Ask me about things.

[silveradept]

Blogging is a very public-facing platform. You get to see what I want you to see, scrutinized, edited, and presented for you. If I so choose, I can present a perfect-seeming life by simply excluding all the parts and pieces where I feel like crap, have done less than my best, or want to just curl up into a ball somewhere and be left alone until I feel human again.

For some people, they put their inner lives behind the access filter. Often by necessity, we find, for the world outside is remarkably cruel to people who talk honestly about themselves and who don't get the privileges of appearing normal and complaining about normal things. There's a lot of trust issues involved when it comes to talking about what's going on in your life.

Thing is, most people get on a blogging platform because they want to talk. And they find the community that gathers around them are the people they want to talk to. (Sometimes even more so than the people in their physical lives.)

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This is the part where I admit that I have no idea what to talk about. Linklists with commentary, easy. Other issue commentary, pretty easy when it hits the fired-up buttons. So, in the grand traditions of...something, and possibly as a way of trying to do something regularly, I'm opening the floor. Ask me questions. I'll answer them as much as I feel I can.

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[silveradept]

Knowledge and information interests me on a personal level. (Good choice in professions, right?) But the article that always seems to be missing for me is the one where the people are able to be honest and have frank, accurate discussions with each other about the things that make them unique, whether kinky, fannish, furry, geek, nerd, or whatever. (That even includes the boors, the asshats, and the -ists). Not about someone finding their like-community (although that's important - when I give a response to 3rdofjune, I'll probably touch on that quite a bit), but everyone being able to come together, regardless of their viewpoint, and have a real discussion without fear, prejudice, or violence. I know it bites both ways, though, and so I'm trying to figure out what that would be like for both the subculture and their greatest detractors to be able to freely exchange and examine information and everyone coming out better-informed, even if their decisions don't budge.