Way back in the Nineteen-Nineties, My girlfriend of the time and I had made some new friends on the internets. We were excited about these friends, but we were also very excited about this concept of anonymity that these internets allowed. So we chose to adopt several identities a piece, both male and female for each of us. This would have impossibly predictable disastrous effects for us, but out of that came anj idea that I, for one, really liked. This was before the web and before social media was really a thing and at the time, people who wanted to support each other did a thing called a "web ring" or "link ring". In this ring all of the people would share a link to the next person or the organization as a whole somewhere on their web page when that happened, or in their .sig before the webz. It was just a way to acknowledge that you supported your friends. Not a bad thing at all.
Several years ago I had a major health incident and when I got to the hospital they gave me a 30 percent chance to live. That's a pretty heavy number for friends and family to hear. Because it's not quite impossible odds, bugt not good enough that you're pretty sure he would make it. Now obviously, I did. But it left a mark on me. It became a very important number to me, and I like the idea of naming the umbrella idea after that. It does inform most of my decisions now. I do in fact think to myself "I have survived Those odds, why wouldn't I win this time?" when I am asked to make a risky decision. I've written a lot about the 30Percent before, so I don't feel the need to elaborate much more.
DramaAdjacent
Has been the name for my online journals for some time. Chosen for a few reasons, which I will try to explain this way:
- First and foremost, it seems like there is always some kind of insanity going on either with people I know or people they know. I have chosen to hang with a highly dramatic cloud most of my life. Some see that as a real problem. I like to think it means I know a lot of risk-takers who don't always bow to authority and accepted norms. I'm ok with that as long as we can both allow me to step away when I need to.
- When I came up with this title, I was trying to seperate out the drama from my life. This became a reminder that I could live on other's drama while trying to be seperate myself from it.
- I wouldn't say I completely achieved that previous goal and having a heart attack is relativvely dramatic no matter how you do it and I like sarcasm.
So, I've lit up DramaAdjacent again. I think it's a good name for a journal and I intend to write weekly or bi-weekly if nothing is really going on. I've given myself a head start by putting up two articles while announcing it. It helps if I don't feel like I just started. Not sure why, but hopefully an edited version of this document makes it onto the site. Maybe as a page or something instead of an article. Have to think about that one.
Dramatic Scraps will be my tumblr blog. I don't intend to make this into a paid blog until I feel like I should; meaning, I'm just using the free version until all of this starts paying for itself. Whereas I intend to put fully formed articles or theories or thoughts of my own writing on DramaAdjacent.net, Dramatic scraps will be my notepad for recording interesting flights of fancy or things that catch my eye on these interwebz. There's no real theme there, just stuff I want to look at later for a multitude of reasons.
Please notice the lack of an "S" on this one at the end. Mistakes were made, I apologize. I have been known to join the crowd and spout my malformed thoughts on twitter. I switch between this and tumblr for my stuff my respectable friends don't need to see. Just keep walking, if you didn't know before you don't need to know now.
Still tethered to this one for pop culture crap and keeping up with rawk stars. I have contempt for all the social medias, but as an aspiring creative, I feel like I have to be on them.
So there that is. That's where we are currently with things that are up and running. But I have more up my sleeve coming soon and all those other words of showmanship. The next post will probably deal with those announcements. Enjoy your day.
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