creative social circles and new projects

Awesome picture, right? I love Creative Commons and their ability to give me awesome pictures for my posts.

I’ve spent the last hour updating some things, tweaking some code, installing some plug-ins and scripts, and just in general making myself a happy, happy webmistress. I have plans! PLANS! I have desires. There are things I want to do with my newfound “open and honest” website. No more hiding behind a moniker or friend-locked posts. Oh, that doesn’t mean I will go off the deep end. It just means that I am forcing myself to be willing to share pieces of me that I usually did not share.

Do you hide behind internet anonymity? Why?

One of the reasons I used to do so was because of my ability to pick up stalkers online. It’s not like I set out to gather them. But when they started breaching my very carefully separated circles, because they figured out how to find me, I quickly renamed myself and reinvented the way I presented myself online. I never changed my personality but I made it near impossible to invade the territories I had created for my various ongoings online. Swaps had one set of information, role-playing games had another, message boards had still another form of identity.

I still have a separation between role-play and everything else. I prefer the anonymity because I still have not quite opened myself up to share my creative writing in any form. Slowly, carefully, I am trying to bring in a few grayed areas; if a couple friends join a game I am in, which is in desperate need of new blood, it will mark a milestone for me. Message board meets RPG. Real-life, “person I see every day” friend meets my creative writing in an aspect that most have never seen.

We shall see what happens.

In the meantime, I am quite content with getting my things set up in preparation for my new projects. What are they? They are secrets for now! I cannot show you an unfinished product! That is like showing off my new outfit and walking out stark naked. I bet you’d like that. Wouldn’t you. Perv.