To Be Obscure or Not to Be

Attention is a thing I have such complicated feelings about.  On the one hand, I want to interact with people, which is of course impossible if no one knows I exist or is inclined to interact with me.  On the other hand, there is definitely such a thing for me as too much attention, and certainly such a thing as the wrong kind of attention.

I think one nice thing about not posting on Tumblr anymore is that I'm more cut off from the various harassment mobs on that site.  Though that was never really a problem for me directly when I still posted there, probably largely because these mobs are often both mobilized by and used to target more popular users.  Because following/picking on the big guy makes them feel powerful or whatever.  Like I got individuals who would try to harass or pick fights with me occassionally but those tend to be easier to fend off than hate mobs.

It's a difficult problem, because being obscure makes some things I would like to do much more difficult, but it certainly reduces the amount of...problems I am exposed to.

I also think that while no one has total control over how well-known they are, a person's actions absolutely have an effect on that, and the effect any particular action may have is absolutely not random.

Heart of Shadow Thematic Musings

Heart of Shadow is a lot of things for me, but one of those things is...sort of a response to the very common idea of the villain being unable to love and so therefore fated to be defeated or whatever, etc, etc.  And I mean, there's a lot of ways to kind of interrogate that idea, but I'm certainly having fun with this particular angle.  Like, what if the villains have the 'power of love' too?