On Being Yourself

I believe Parfait Doll did a post somewhat similar to this theme (that is, being yourself online), but this post is really meant to be more about my own experience. That being said, the Parfait Doll article had some nice points on how to be yourself online, but a couple I didn't entirely agree with. For example, using your real name? Might be okay for some people, myself included, but it's entirely understandable for people who wish to stay under an alias, and they're certainly not always just hiding! The internet isn't as full as pedophiles and stalkers as the internet seminars some of us were forced to attend in 4th grade might make it seem, but there are some sketchy people out there! Moving on...
Some of you may have noticed that my speaking pattern has changed a little bit since I decided this would be a more personal blog, and honestly that is somewhat intentional. Before, when I was trying to write articles for other people, somehow it got through my head that people wanted to hear from a sweeter, kinder person than me. Now, in real life I consider myself polite and generally nice to people, and online my typing pattern can be rather formal anyhow (though I exaggerated that oftentimes on this blog as well), but really there was a big part of myself I wasn't letting myself show on my blog, and that was my humour.
Sometimes, when typing an article out, I'd write in little quips, only to quickly delete them. At one point I just decided that I shouldn't try to be funny on a ~professional~ blog, and that people might not enjoy that. Oh God how wrong I was. I've been reading more blogs lately, and I've found that the ones I stick with most often are the ones with authors that actually have a personality. I love pretty pictures as much as the next person, but somehow I like to know the personality behind the pictures. If there is none, that's kind of lame.
Believe it or not, I'm kind of a class clown. I'm not one of those people who interrupts classes all the time or is an ass to people, but I do joke around a lot when it's appropriate and trust me, I make fun of myself plenty. I really feel like a lot of Lolitas might have a bit of a clown in them-- it's hard to take even yourself seriously when you're wearing a dress full of cupcakes and rainbows.
So, in the future I hope to actually let my personality shine through. I'm not going to subject you guys to my ~randomness~, but I cringe just as much as most of you when I read blogs like that, but I'm not going to erase little quips I make anymore and maybe if I have some funny stories I'll tell them to you guys :) (I tend to have a lot of them... my English teacher would actually get worried last year if I didn't come in with an interesting fact or funny story to tell ^^; )

Finally, I found this gif on Tumblr, though to be honest I'm not entirely sure from where D:
I'll let you guys know where I found it if I can find the source because this is like my new favourite gif! I love gifs that have huge landscapes or scenes even more than tiny cute pixel gifs :D

Thanks for reading!!