About Me

[sunlit_skycat]

Hi, I'm Sunlit_Skycat, also known as Rae in some spaces. I enjoy reading speculative fiction that imagines other worlds. On Ao3 as   Sunlit_skycatand tumblr as sunlit-skycat .

This is my fandom blog, so I'll mostly be posting about things that I read and write in a non-professional capacity. I'm still figuring out what I am comfortable putting out under this name, so I don't have any posts that I'd want to lock on here yet. I tend to memorize URLs than I subscribe directly, so please don't take it personally if I don't subscribe to you back.

Current fandom interests: Pale by Wildbow, Worm by Wildbow, Destiny.

Comments

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I enjoy reading speculative fiction that imagines other worlds. <<

I am a huge fan of worldbuilding. I love Alan Dean Foster. But Bard Bloom does the most far-out worldbuilding I have seen; World Tree is an example.

My Serial Poetry page will give you a tour of my (mostly worldbuilt) settings. "Build with the Mind" is about a worldbuilding class and its notes include not only extensive resources for worldbuilding but how to a run a class or workshop for it.

Feel free to drop by during one of my regular prompt calls and give me worldbuilding ideas for current or new settings. Our newest is Peculiar Obligations, we're making organized crime Quakers. The things my fans put me up to, I love them. :D

>>I'm still figuring out what I am comfortable putting out under this name, so I don't have any posts that I'd want to lock on here yet.<<

Consider how online relationships and intimacy develop:
https://davidjcarr.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/relationships_online.jpg

Compare with offline relationships:
https://blog.difflearn.com/wp-content/uploads/circles-1-e1461269919742.jpg

And the stages of emotional intimacy:
https://www.visionpsychology.com/five-levels-of-intimacy/

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-7-levels-of-developing-intimacy

And the stages of physical intimacy:
https://www.lovepanky.com/love-couch/sweet-love/stages-of-intimacy

In all cases, intimacy progresses from the outside toward the center. You may not place everything in the same order, and that's okay; but you will have some sort of hierarchy from less intimate to more intimate. Think about what that is and how it feels to you.

This will help you figure out what you want to share on your journal, and whether you want to use the lock or filter features to keep some things more private. Generally, start with casual things that are safe and then begin to add stuff that will help you and your audience get to know each other.

I love the Random Question Generator that snowflake_challenge recced this year. Tap that until you get a question that you want to answer. Post it and your reply. Over time you'll build up a good sketch of yourself.

>> I tend to memorize URLs than I subscribe directly, so please don't take it personally if I don't subscribe to you back.<<

That is so cool. :D I'm not picky about subscriptions. You are invited to come check out my blog and see what you think of it.

Re: Thoughts

[sunlit_skycat]

Ah, the main thing is that I'm trying to avoid being overly identifiable from a corporate context. How much do I want my professional life tied in with my fanfiction and my political views? Eh. It's generally just an annoying thing.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Okay, safety is a different issue from comfort. If you worry about how your online activity could affect your job, then there are various methods for dealing with that.

Explore anonymity resources online.

Think about how much you wish to talk about which topics. Anything you want to do a lot, but not risk mixing with work, is worth separating into its own area with an obscure username and as much privacy buffer as you can manage. So for instance, you might have a blog just for fanfic and fannish discussions; and because both fandom and activism are a lot bitchier now than they used to be, you might want to separate politics from that also. This is especially true if you want to be highly active in either fandom or activism, where people from one group might find the opposite content disruptive.

While it's possible to use filters and access permission to separate things, I wouldn't consider these sufficient in a case that involves employment safety. Corporations are stuffy at best and dangerous at worst, with the exception of a few prosocial ones, because most of the really liberal folks are in some other structure such as a cooperative or credit union.

For what it's worth, Dreamwidth has much better privacy tools than average for online venues. Learn how to protect your privacy on DW.

I find your caution very prudent. America is a post-privacy, post-boundary society with next to no protections left. So then it's a matter of finding what tools you will consider sufficient to your needs, that you can feel comfortable and safe using. While it is impossible to block everything, it is possible to make bothering you so tedious and inconvenient that few if any people will get through the gauntlet to do it.