#Online presence

[sreegs]

i've seen people talking about this before: growing up online in the 90s and 2000s, you didn't give any personal info away including your age. that was normal defensiveness (and frankly we should still do that).

i was just thinking about my experience with that and how, many times, in my little groups of forum buddies and people I met in other online spaces, it was a SHOCK to learn their age. obviously most of them were older than me, but i guess what i didn't really think about is how that helped me be friendly with older people who are just there to enjoy things the same way you are.

now i'm on the other side of that equation. the people i run into online are more likely to be younger than me by a decade or two. there's books to be written about these topics, ageism and your presence online, but i guess what i'm getting at is: if someone in your circle of acquaintances, discord or blogs or what have you, is like 20, 30, 40 years older than you, and they're just being their pleasant self, it's not weird. treat them like you would anyone else.

same thing goes for people younger than you. don't be condescending in either direction. it wasn't long ago that you simply didn't know the other person's age. and truly, you still don't. but, yeah. the obvious thing to add here is, this is different if they're being creepy or making you uncomfortable through their behavior. but their existence isn't an affront to you if they aren't doing anything wrong

[cjoat-boost]

March 4, 2024 Edit of this still relevant post from February 27, 2024

For those that view any of my online presences (including my blogs)…Um, this is something for you to know.

Please save this post so it doesn’t get buried by queue.

My& Current Health Situation

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I wish to communicate this to y’all now so that…I don’t end up worrying anyone when this happens. It may have been noticeable by some folks that I’m dragging, heavily. I’m not having a good time right now with my body. With this comes with an onion of issues detailing certain aspects of what I’m going through.

I know I have a lot of obligations. Not only as a creative and content creator; but as a friend, a mentor, Guardian or even older peer, and myself. I’ve neglected myself for too long. I have been noticing my vitality decrease; and my CFS and POTS flaring up further.

Social Justice is something I’m always perceiving and sensitive to; and as such, the strain I’ve noticed too late has been worsening. Includes many emotional meltdowns and outbursts from me that I can no longer control or hold back.

Trying to figure out how to exactly sort through the mass tangles of my traumatized emotional and mental state isn’t as simple as I hoped for me. While I’m creatively burned out, I am suffering Autistic burnout. A double whammy of all things.

I’m finding myself getting “stuck,” unable to physically move for hours at a time. I’d move upstairs to eat something but end up being there for what’s normally an half hour task…for nearly 2+ hours. Even so, trying to force movement to do tasks that is considered “everyone can do these” is mentally painful and physically locking. Even if I have to desperately use the bathroom when I’m about to fall asleep, my headmates (AKA alters) have to switch to co-front or “snatch me back” in order to get my body moving. That’s with the sudden rocket spike in heart rate and blood pressure, and loss of balance (at the very least).

I’m already struggling to cope with many things due to the fact that I haven’t been able to draw much at all; or create anything and write anything. Especially trying desperately to fulfill my word on things I had the energy to do, but no longer do. So much of my struggles I can’t properly transmute. It’s so upsetting.

Thus, there’s going to be a sudden and abrupt shift in posting or messaging. I don’t know when. But it is coming.

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(Especially since I’ve been feeling mania over the weekend. All weekend, Saturday and Sunday, I manic cleaned large portions of certain areas I occupy as well as my housemate. Today I’m feeling the aching in my joints badly, with my calves swearing hell at me. I’m wearing my wrist brace too, I just…I’m rambling.)

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I wish for you to know what’s happening if you don’t see or hear from me, my headmates, or any of my online presences (as depicted here: https://cjoatbysamwise.com/cjoats-links ) No one is being forgotten. I’m not abandoning anyone. I’m not ghosting anyone. What I do know (still coming to terms with it ngl) is I need to stop, fully stop, and recover. It’s looking like my body is going to do that for me by force. It’s going to be abrupt and sudden to the inconvenience of many, including my housemate, unfortunately.

I don’t know how long this will last. But I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep “hustling” like this. Does this sound repetitive? I wanted to communicate before suddenly I’m unable.

Does this sound repetitive? I’ll end it here. I wanted to communicate before suddenly I’m unable.

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I’ll end it here with how you can support me while I’m down, only able to and wish to (I’m aware financial situations are a big struggle at the moment, there is no pressure to.)

Provide support by these links:

Thank you for reading until the end; have an awesome week ahead. Please remember to hydrate and eat. 🫶🏽❤️‍🩹

[elitadream]

Hello there, glad to see you're doing fine Elita! I recently caught up with your latest posts. As someone who was an avid follower of your blog a couple months back, it's bittersweet but also very nice to see you moving on and embracing other things. You seem more focused on your wellbeing now, and I fully support that. You go girl! xx

Thank you! ☺️ "Moving on" is a very apt choice of words as I feel like it perfectly summarizes things on my end. It was fun for a little while, being highly invested in fandom stuff, but I wouldn't go back to that even if I wanted to. I've got my own projects and career, I've got big things going on in my life. I'm really just here to gush about all kids of subjects now (when I happen to have some free time, that is)! 😄

Oh and definitely. I literally feel ten times lighter. It's hard to explain, but stepping back for good was probably the best choice I've made this year. It feels great. I'm very happy. 💗

[thescreamcorner]

Speaking of gentle reminders..... Pointing out that putting every single trigger, symptom, alter name/age/other identifying information will attract abusive and toxic people is not victim blaming, it's words of wisdom from victims themselves.

In no way does someone doing this justify the harm that a perpetrator causes to them, and people who have been groomed and abused by people who found them online are not "at fault" for what happened, but many of us (slightly) older folks learned through experience that more often than not minors end up in a very vulnerable position when they post information like this on a public platform.

There's upwards of thousands of people who are eager to take advantage of children and will utilize this information for their own gain-- not to mention actively ENCOURAGE them to keep oversharing and being in a risky position on the basis of "everyone else is policing and victim blaming, they just don't want you to be true to yourself."

I promise you, we care because a lot of us have been there. And if insisting on online safety and more intense privacy/anonymity helps to protect even ONE child from the hands of a predator, then I don't give a damn if people want to try and twist the narrative and see me as shitty or selfish. The safety of kids matters way fucking more than any bullshit validity contest.

[smilepilled]

Words of (important) advice to anyone struggling with their mental health while in online spaces, based on my personal experiences. Please reblog if this is useful to you, or if you'd like otherwise. Understanding these things has helped (and still helps) me in ways I can't begin to describe. Thank you if you choose to read; I may add on to this post if I remember anything.

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【 01 】 "No Discourse" Rule.

More often than not, most of any discourse online is exclusively a free headache that, in return, does nothing to proactively ensure people's wellbeing — it's like punching a solod iron wall over and over and expecting it to bend (it will not). You are more than encouraged to learn about things from multiple viewpoints and hear about people's cases, but in the end, it's always best to stay clear from it. So many efforts are put into meaningless theory wars, and it's always best to step away while keeping yourself aware. This will preserve your energy, sanity, health and time.

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【 02 】 Don't Gotta List 'Em All.

You honest-to-cod (🐟) don't have to list every single disorder you have to pass on the message that you are in this situation. This is something that I did a lot, and in the end, it's needlessly exposing key functions of your brain. This can enable people to use these symptoms and/or eactions to triggers against you — manipulation, grooming, turning you dependant, et cetera. I personally like to say I "have some loose screws" or that I'm "weird" for the sake of simplicity — be careful with what you share, for it can be turned against you maliciously.

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【 03 】 Some People Suck, And That's That.

Some people will be ableist, sanist, inhumane and hateful no matter how much you try to make them understand or how much you try to make amends with them. Some people will be extremely childish (or just unhealthy) to the point they will hold every single mistake against you. This is not a problem on your end, and you must learn on your own terms to move on from people like this. Mistakes from other people are necessary so that they can learn — being angry at them actively will only hurt you, and temporarily bother them. You can make peace with them by understanding they've been tricked (propaganda, learned bigotry, etc.) into being so ragingly ignorant or spikeful. Free yourself from even giving them a reaction at all.

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【 04 】 People Are Not Always Evil / Coming For You.

Similarly to the point above, make sure to not immediately assume the worst from someone. Some people struggle with conveying tone, or comprehending it, or with choosing words — and many other things regarding communication. Some people are genuinely curious when they ask you about something, wanting to learn about it in spite of their own ignorance about it. While it is not your obligation to educate/inform them, it's always best to remember that these opportunities are highly valuable for you, and people like you as well. Through understanding, people can learn to not have emotional reactions to certain patterned behaviors from disordered and/or disabled people — and that's a win for everyone, even when they're not disabled/disorderwd, because it humanizes the people next to you with logic. The communication between individuals is a golden, mystic key to peace.

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【 05 】 Your Account/Blog Is Yours; Treat It Like That.

Someone doesn't like what you post? They can block you, without strings attached. I personally often worry a lot about being blocked, because it can mean I've done something unspeakably bad — but thinking of the way people can just curate their online experiences always helps me calm down, at least to some extent. Also, you DO NOT have to change your interests, your views or your way of posting to fit into other people's standards. Keep in mind, however, that specific standards and actual valid criticism are two different things; being accessible, kind, and having proper tagging (or content warnings) are generally important things. Plus, while you should stand your ground, you must also know when to listen to advice or constructive criticism (never destructive). Don't change for others, but don't keep making the same mistakes.

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Be Kind To Yourself && To Others. 🤍

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[katiajewelbox]

April 2024 has been a busy month for me, with an online workshop, preparations for my first live event at the Garden Museum, progress in setting up the garden, and work on my thesis from home.

Although I hate to "beg for likes", I would greatly appreciate it if my friends online could help support my efforts to build my science communication presence as Katia Plant Scientist.

If you could please recommend my public social media pages to fellow plant lovers and like, follow, subscribe, and comment on my posts that would help boost their popularity with the algorithms tremendously. This interaction shows that my pages have fans and they attract attention. Thank you in advance for this valuable support.

See you next month!

[fangirl-nadir]

The neurodivergent urge to completely redo my online presence. New pfp, new intro post, new blog colors, the WORKS

[freelancefuzion]

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[jarredlharris]

Is this what having an existential crisis feels like?

Yesterday, I posted the following on a number of my social media sites:

I decided to write a post here instead of tweeting/posting about this because (1) I don't have to worry about breaking up what I want to say into smaller tweets/posts and (2) I can then just post a single link to each of my social media sites rather than reproducing the thread on each site.

As I think about it, I'm starting to think it might be more accurate to say I'm having an existential crisis over my online presence, whether I even want to continue it, and what I want it to be like. After all, it's something that has been building over quite some time. In fact, it probably goes farther back than what I'm going to discuss today.

A lot of it started to really come to a head as Twitter (I will never call it "X" even if Evil Big Bird threatens to delete my account if I don't stop calling it "Twitter") really began circling the drain. People not only started making exit plans, but began to execute them. Many friends and acquaintances have announced that they either do not feel safe remaining there or cannot in good conscience support the site by their continued presence. I have not joined them, but I understand and respect the decision they made.

To me, the most frustrating part of this, however, is that everyone's exit plans are different. Some of the people I follow now hang out on Blue Sky. Some are on Threads. Some are on Instagram. Some made one Discord server or another their home. Some came here to Tumblr. There's no longer a single place I can go to keep in touch with all these wonderful people who mean something to my life. And while I've tried to keep a presence at many of these places, it's stretching me thin and I don't think it's a sustainable course of action for me in the long run. So while I'd never ask any of these people to stay in a place they find too toxic and harmful just for my convenience, I'm most sad that the death of Twitter is turning into a veritable "Tower of Babel" moment.

In the long run, I'm just going to have to choose which sites I feel I can and should focus on and accept the reality that I'm going to have to say goodbye to some people -- or at least not remain quite as close to them as I might have been at one point. And choosing who to say goodbye to by nature of where I limit my own presence too also weighs on me. These are choices I'm not going to enjoy.

Add to this the fact that I'm feeling a bit lost for a direction for my continued online presence. I'm not sure what I want to talk about anymore. There are a growing number of days I'm not sure I have anything to talk about, if I'm being honest.

I don't feel that I"m a hugely creative person most days. I have a few great ideas. I think those some of those ideas are pretty important. For example, I think that my past discussions about changing our understanding of what it means to call someone or something "sacred" was incredible. (Though I'm also finding it's far from original to me.) I'm glad I did a couple Twitter threads and (I think three) YouTube videos on the subject.

But the idea that calling someone or something sacred is to acknowledge that it has inherent value that cannot be given or taken away is not exactly a complicated topic. I'm not sure I can say much about the topic that I haven't already said. And I'm not the kind of person who can just keep repeating myself (and that's what it would feel to me like I was doing at this point). I'd start to feel silly and talking just for the sake of saying something.

The one site I seem to still be going pretty well on -- and it's a somewhat new one for me -- is Quora. I seem to be doing okay there because I can answer questions. I particularly like answering theological questions. Mainly because like in so many places, the theological questions largely seem to focus on Christian theology (and certain specific "brands" of Christianity at that). I like answering those questions in a way that bring my Norse polytheistic views to the table, reminding people that there are other ways to tackle the "big questions" that even challenge some of the assumptions of (most notably evangelical) Christianity.

I haven't found much interest in that level of discourse on the social media sites. It's also one of the reasons that I've been drifting away from the deconstruction communities I've been involved in the past year or so. They're still mainly focused on theology from a Christian standpoint. That's fair, since a lot of people in those communities are still Christian and trying to figure out how to rescue their faith from the toxic theology they were originally stewed in. And even those who have no interest in remaining Christian tend to be only interested in theology insofar as it relates to processing the harm they received from that toxic theology.

I've considered just focusing on Quora for this reason, though I'm not convinced that's the right answer. And even there, I start to wonder if I'm doing anything worthwhile.

So that's my possible existential crisis. Thanks for listening.