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I've been experimenting with using markdown rather than html markup for my journal entries recently, which is why some of the formatting has been a bit odd.

Anyone who isn't familiar with it, or not with the implementation in DW, there are some good resources, but apparently I wasn't cluey enough to actually bookmark them.

I'm basically typing !markdown at the beginning of the post, and then using this markdown cheatsheet for reference. My experience so far -- not quite like using markdown in the other contexts I use it, and I'm having a bit of an issue judging things like how the headings and whitespace will convert, but I anticipate that it will become second nature. And it is faster than html, particularly when one gets to tables.

...and found myself on livejournal in 2008 reading sideara on The Seven Kinds of Journal Post Topic. I got there from a later post of theirs: The Recipe, Or What you don't know about LJ/DW

a. These are interesting in and of themselves. But
b. They make me question what it is that I'm blogging for. And why I follow people, and read. And whose stuff I comment on.

Thinking (as briefly as I can) about b,

I mostly blog because I have Thoughts I don't want to forget. Sometimes these are trivial and funny, sometimes they are family history, sometimes they are random bits of the internet, because it is easier to search my journal than try and work out when I might have been looking at something. So I'm not blogging for the social interaction, at least not at a primary level. I appreciate the social interaction, but I don't always have the energy to reply to everyone, and I'm not good at it some days (which is why some days are smiley days, where I respond to as many comments as I have energy for, but each comment consists of a smiley. Comments that require more response wait for later, and sometimes later doesn't come).
I follow people because I love reading what people have to say. I love the small details of people's lives, the interesting links that they have gathered, the way that everyone uses their blogs so differently. I don't care about frequency of blogging, I don't care if the journal is used to express the anger that doesn't have a safe outlet elsewhere. I care that you are willing to share that with me (and however many others, but this is about my experience), even if I don't respond
The commenting one is harder. There is a profound disconnect in my head between commenting on a Facebook post with '*sympathies*' and doing the same here. Because there, I have an idea of the time, I'm more likely to be responding in near to real time, and I'm usually commenting on a single event. But the lovely daily blogs that some of you put out (and I love them. I really do. I love the idea of blogging every day, I just can't get my shit together to do so, so I appreciate seeing that there are other people out there that can. I also appreciate that there will be something that I can read every single day, without fail, because I know enough people who do that, so even if half of you aren't dealing for whatever reason, I will be able to 'catch up' with enough people to satisfy my inner extrovert without exhausting myself) are so much more nuanced, that I feel that doesn't make sense. And so I respond if there is something I can pull out that it makes sense for me to respond to. And yet, even still, I sometimes feel like I make my comments All About Me. Which hits my anxiety, and I don't deal with commenting/responding to comments. And commenting on fiction, oh, lets not go there. I haven't managed many of those (none on DW, some at AO3) in months, because my brain loses all ability to make sentences when I try.

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