I have a separate journal for my RP shenanigans (llamafordrama, if you're an RPer and/or interested) because it's what the cool kids at Insanejournal were doing and I desperately wanted to be cool. I had no idea what to do with it, but I created one on IJ, then on LJ because I did most of my RPing there, and then on DW when the mass migration happened.

I've been using it for muselists and posting drafts of apps for awhile now, but recently I've also started up a project I've been contemplating for awhile: a timeline of my RP history. I've been doing journal RPs since 2005...and online RPing a lot longer if you count the The Scarlet Pimpernel email RP I was involved in in middle school. Wish I could remember what that was called.

The timeline is a very slow going process... there's a lot of history to dig through, and the dates aren't always very clear. It's also kind of sad, remembering friends I was so close to that I don't speak to anymore, or realizing there are characters/games I played in that I forgot the names of and can't put on the list.

It's a similar kind of sadness I feel when I look at my old LJ, which I've had since 2003. So much of my life and so many of the people in it are wrapped up in those entries. But it's kind of terrifying to wade through. Not only did I get my LJ before they implemented the tagging feature, but it's only in the last year or so that I've actually gotten serious about using tags as an organizational/archival tool. 9 years of my life are not properly indexed. There are worse things, of course, and I'm not anal enough to go back and tag them properly, but it does make me a little sad to think about.

It also makes me really, really admire people who do archival work full-time. If organizing one small section of my single short history is this much effort, then I can't imagine the work that goes into doing things like keeping a history of the internet, or of fandom, or of a geographical region.