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I think of my Dreamwidth (LiveJournal) as my home on the internet: it's the first tab I open when I go online and it's where my "stuff" is. I have a professional(ish) site for my poetry but that's a portfolio of published short stories and poems. I think what I like about it is the privacy - a lot of digital gardens that I've seen, and the people who tend to talk the loudest about "learning in public," are often about coding or business, which seem like low-stakes things to mess up? but I'm here talking about my time in a cult and converting to Judaism and I appreciate that I can do that with others but not in front of the entire internet, you know? (There's also privacy concerns because I'm a queer schoolteacher in a place without LGBTQIA+ employment protections.)

I've adopted some digital gardening techniques or habits into my journaling, mostly linking back to previous posts on the same topic and creating tables of contents for series of posts on the same thing. (I refuse to use Dreamwidth tagging. I don't even have a good reason except that I never got started.) Now that I'm thinking about it, though, I never update the older posts with links to newer reflections - I should start doing that!

I had a poke around your site (hope you don't mind) and I love your characters page. I might have to make one, that seems like a lot of fun!