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[rivka]

I just made a much more personal post than usual to Respectful of Otters.

Now I'm freaking out, for reasons which make no sense. I've talked about this stuff on newsgroups and in LJ for years. What makes my blog feel so different?

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Re: the freakout, my guess is that blogs are meant to be read by strangers more, and you've exposed a vulernable side of yourself. Not necessarily a bad side, maybe not even one where you can be hurt, but one where, once you've said it, you have little control over the future. You've sent some powerful information out there, worked some powerful magic, and you're not sure what effect it's going to have.

That's exactly what it is, exactly what it feels like. Thank you. I feel like, "I don't know what people are going to do with this - and whatever they do, whether they praise it or ignore it or use it as a stick to beat abortion-seeking women with - they'll be doing it with a piece of my soul."

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Yeh...but that's what makes a good blog (or a good novel, or whatnot). You can talk theory and fury and humor all you want, and that's very engaging, but when you sell your soul, you gotta deliver. You want we should send the shakedown squad after you?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that anyone who uses it ill, should you find out about it, is likely to be smacked silly, from so many directions, they won't know which way is up.

In case you'd not guessed, you have fans... serious fans, who care.

TK

(who is, with permission) going to be pointing to this, over in his LJ).

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks, Terry. Of course you can link.