Yes, I am alive

[chloris]

Hello! *waves sheepishly* I know I disappeared and have been completely ignoring comments/nudges wondering where I am. I apologize for that. It was terribly rude of me. For some reason I seem to have developed a very big mental block about coming to lj/dw at all - I haven't even been reading anything here. However, I do think about everyone I know

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[xebgoc]

those that do not do tumblr miss you.

honestly, i hate tumblr.

it makes no sense to me.

i hate that you can't have a conversation like you can here on LJ.

all tumblr seems to me to be is people passing stuff on that other people made.

and maybe not being able to have conversations is the point of it, but I don't like it. I troll through some tumblr sites because they have pictures of people that i used to get here on LJ, but I limit it to about 10 minutes each night because mostly the sites i do look at duplicate what i already saw somewhere else because all anybody does is repost others' stuff... and so the cycle begins again - a bit like an ouroboros.

[dieastra]

Everything you said. I only go to Tumblr when someone links to a specific thing and tells me to check it out.

Maybe my figure pictures would be a hit on Tumblr, but if everyone is just reposting I am a bit afraid of nobody knowing the original source anymore? And does the person originally posting it, even know how much they are loved by everyone? It feels a bit like sharing stuff without giving credit.

I'm really missing you, Chloris, you always had such nice posts and also nice thoughts on mine.

[chloris]

*hugs* I've missed you too!

You don't have to get on tumblr but you also don't have to worry that people won't know it was you who posted. It is all about reblogging - which has the history of the post attached (the names of everyone who reblogged or liked the post) and has the original poster linked. The source is always right there on the post making it easy to see where it came from. Reposting (which would be making a new, original post) someone else's work is quite frowned on.

So there is definitely credit to the originator. Also, I get notifications every time someone likes or reblogs anything I've posted so I know exactly how much my posts are enjoyed and by whom.

[dieastra]

Thank you for explaining! It really wasn't clear to me

[chloris]

Well, no matter where you post there are going to be people who will repost your work to other sites if they want to. I've had people repost my art from lj to tumblr, to forums, and to many other sites as well. At least within tumblr there is a culture which keeps credit with the originator.

Thanks for the links! I'll have to peruse them. :)

[chloris]

I can't say it makes a lot of sense to me either! But it engages my graphics brain and distracts me with shiny.

Yeah it is a lot of reblogging and repeating but it works once you are in the middle of it. My blog is about 10-20% new material - my own posts - and I follow a few people who post mostly their own fic, text posts, and art, but most people reblog most of the time. You could scan through tags since they are ALL new posts but some of them (like David Tennant's) move very fast. I have some pretty hefty filters that help.