Random Fannish Meanderings

[dawn_felagund]

I have had a busy, busy day so far today, rearranging my closet and moving my stuff from the drawers in the bedroom into the new furniture in the guest room. I have also banished my sentimentality (almost*) and donated a bunch of old clothes and shoes to Goodwill. Some of these I have had since high school. Most of it I haven't worn in years, but

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[heartofoshun]

Apparently, someone recced AMC, and someone replied with a "countecomr-rec" (or something like that), in which nasty remarks were made about the story. I believe the "counter-rec" post was deleted--at least, I could never find it--but the conversation in reblogs of the original rec led me to believe that they were not critical remarks about the story but nasty, uncivil remarks. I am sorry, but I would really like to know what these things said. Do you have a link? I know that I have posted recs for AMC there, at least once maybe more than once

[dawn_felagund]

I'll see if I can find it again and I'll email you. Although I thought you were one of the people who was involved! Maybe I'm misremembering. It was several weeks ago that I found it. The person who made the remarks was no one I knew.

I have not worked out my Tumblr game yet.Me neither, but I barely post there. (However, I expect I'll have to increase my presence when I start in earnest on getting the HL restarted.) I mostly link to stuff posted elsewhere. I haven't had any problems with anyone. Yet. I'm sure that will change once I'm there more. I have noticed a combination of the nasty canaticism that I associate with ff.net and the thin-skinnedness that is fandom in general

[heartofoshun]

I cannot search anything on Tumblr well either. I tried a few combinations and didn't hit anything that looked promising. I know I posted one huge fic rec list. But I think I have also recced AMC separately as well. But I am coming up with blanks. I will be embarrassed if I find that I did defend you and forgot about it. Last I checked I was still not suffering from senile dementia although my memory is not as flawless as it once was!

[dawn_felagund]

I only found it by Googling "Dawn Felagund." It doesn't show up on Tumblr, even though the original post was tagged with my name.

[ladyelleth]

That might be because posts that get reblogged and tagged only show up in the respective user's tags, not the side-wide ones. I have a link to the initial nasty/inappropriate comment, if you'd like the entire discussion... but I thoroughly agree that it would be weird to stumble on that situation. Luckily it was more than a year ago and seems to have skirted more drama than those few reblogs.

Also, consider this a renewal of the offer to be available for tumbling help? :)

[dawn_felagund]

I do appreciate that! (Are my assumptions based on my experiments with reblogging "Read more" posts correct: that it is impossible to reblog the actual text behind the "Read more"? :D) I might have to take you up on that, if the offer still stands when I'm done my thesis and getting the HL relaunched. I am pretty tech-savvy and have figured most everything out pretty easily so far, but it is always nice to know I don't have to reinvent the wheel!

I did find the original post. It was ... strange ... to find that conversation (a year later!), like suddenly getting to listen in on people talking about you.

[ladyelleth]

Almost, yes! There's the opportunity to reblog a post containing cut text as a quote and it'll show up as

"username: above-cut text
[[MORE]]
below-cut text"

- blog title with link to post

But to be entirely honest, I think it's about as likely to have that happen as it is to have the test copypasted manually, which is to say, I've never actually seen it (I had to check to see what'd happen if a cut post was reblogged as a quote). Even on tumblr I've always understood a cut to be a privacy feature as much as it is on LJ (i.e. also but not primarily to truncate length; that's where the 'long post' tag comes in as a courtesy, and XKit also has a functionality to auto-truncate posts beyond a certain length), and while I'm probably viewing things through a journalling platform filter, I'm still pretty sure you'd be ok.

Unless something unforeseen happens, the offer will still stand when you're done with the thesis and HL. Do I have to state that I'm delighted that that's in your plans!

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you, Elleth! I am not wildly opposed to seeing a piece reblogged; I'd just rather avoid different versions floating around if I edit something, even just to fix a typo. (I don't see myself every posting anything long on Tumblr. But it's good to know that it is possible to post something shortish, like a poem, with a very low chance of the actual text being reblogged.)

[heartofoshun]

I found it too! And I adore your replies. Very logical and clear (not to mention partisan on the right side! I know I am awful!).

[ladyelleth]

Ha, thank you; I try! (No, you aren't. You're just as partisan on the right side as I am. :P)