semiotic_pirate | Contemplating a Shift in Identity

Well. I want to get a survey out here without using a poll. So I will probably post date this so it appears at the top of my journal. I really basically want some feedback as to my decision here that is detailed below. This is also meant as a forum to answer any questions about that decision. Thank you for your support.

I am contemplating retiring my semiotic_pirate persona for a while. It is just that I feel like I've exposed too much of myself over time to too many people. This wasn't my intent when I first started this and going about meeting people in real life shifted my intent until this journal swaggered off on its own and well. I need to take a break for now.

This isn't to say I'm giving up LJ. Just taking semiotic offline for a while. I, going to start up another journal and I don't want to reveal the new user name. At least not for a while because anonymity can be a good thing. I intend for this person to remain as anonymous as they can because I lost a good friend due to my fuck ups here and I regret that greatly.

Some of you are aware of the happenings in the recent past, some are not. However, a great deal of why I'm retreating a bit here on LJ is as a result of that recent past. If you receive an email from me disclosing the identity of my new username, please be discreet.

Please understand that I am not doing this to punish anyone, I'm doing this as an act of self preservation and as a way of healing a wound that right now is a little raw.

EDIT: I'm not planning on abandoning this lj, though I have initiated a purge of the flist. Sorry if I crossed you off by accident

lizborden.

PS: For those of you who lusted after my main identity icon, no, I'm going to keep it for future reference and use at some point. It is too precious to me and I would not want to annoy the artist who created it too.

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alternately, you could change the name of this account... filter and/or friendslock posts (present and past), unfriend some strangers, etc.

Best of luck, ma'am. I don't know what you've been going through, but I did notice that you were going through some tough times. Hope it all works out for you.

Thank you. I'm reconsidering leaving this identity in toto, I do like the small circle I have created here. I'm just going to take a vacation from it for a while.

Hokay. I'll leave you on my flist for now. :) The stuff you do make public is usually interesting... hopefully you'll keep posting articles/links/etc.

Cut that "for now" out of that sentence. Woops. :)

I understand. I accidentally deleted you for a second or two before re-adding you. I won't be gone forever, probably not even for long at all. I just needed to think about all of this balogna.

I don't blame you. I've taken extended leaves from various circles/communities I've been in (IRL and online). I haven't even come back to some. Sometimes the easiest way to distance yourself from something in the past is to disassociate yourself from the entire context of that "something."

My opinion? It's your life and your LJ; far be it from me to judge your decisions about what to do with either. But I do hope you manage to sort things out.

Thanks. It hurt a lot to lose someone I still consider a friend to the drama that is LJ. Guess this was just me reacting to that pain.

*SIGH* there's a lot of that angst and drama going around. See my latest series of posts. We have to be our own #1 concern. Take care of yourself. I can certainly relate to anonymity. it's difficult to retract what has been put out into the ether. 8^)

I'm definitely thinking it would be good for me to keep in touch with the people I've found here that I have come to care about - yourself included. It just seemed that, with the drama overload I just experienced, I felt the need - not to abandon ship or anything so final as that but perhaps just to berth myself in a calm lagoon.

Thank you for commenting.

i just came back from a week away. not away from everyone but I really backed off. i had to. So I totally understand how this can get to you. Even if I slip through the cracks, Scot will know where.

BTW, I found out in March that you can delete your LJ for 2 months (at least) and still have your posts and comments in place when you reactivate it. You can also surf your f-list with it deleted if people don't unfriend you. just FYI. believe me, i know where you're coming from. be well.

vacations are nice.... especially healing ones. :)

whether you walked the plank a bit farther than you might have wished after later reflection.

There is no shame in retreat.

Smooth sailing.

Yea, keepin the semioptic pirate icon.

Sorry to hear the drama is getting to be too much. I hope things ease up for you.

Contemplating a Shift in Identity

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I've wondered from time to time

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