Long time, no see
Thanks to Hannibal fandom, I've finally given in to the horrifying new world that is tumblr. I resisted for so long, but if I want to be involved, I know I have little choice. I've written a few things for that fandom--a couple short fics, and one long fic that's nearly finished (and OMG, IDEK what to do with myself, it's sort of incredibly popular
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Yeah, I'm still not crazy about it. It's like they go out of their way to make it difficult for users to have a dialogue and build relationships-- like you either have to reblog the entire post and add your two cents at the bottom and hope the original blogger sees, then bothers to go ahead and REBLOG the whole thing again with their response...or you send an ask (but it's limited unless you're following each other) and when you respond privately that ask disappears from your inbox FOREVER...Or you can occasionally leave comments on posts, but they can't be responded to, so you have to go into the fucking html and copy and paste into a new post?! WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!!
I miss this place so, so much :/
But, Hannibal fandom is seriously so amazing. Like, all the warm fuzzies I got from Bandom, but with the added fact that my ships are all canon (gay characters! bi characters! pan characters! actual married Murder Husbands and Murder Wives :DDDDD) and on top of it, basically everyone involved loves the fans and encourages us. The creator/writer/director Bryan Fuller retweets fanart and talks about fanfic and how he himself is just a fic writer, basically, taking someone else's material and transforming it, and how loves that we do the same thing, and he thinks it's beautiful and is so glad we're sharing in on it. And the leads and a lot of the supporting cast also read and rec fanfic, like WTF is my life??! They enjoy and encourage it!
They, as well as the production company, writers, and other behind-the-scenes folks love us. They listen to fan feedback and adapt the story accordingly! They interact with us in a very genuine and meaningful way! They work all sorts of hilariously awesome fandom references and terminology into the show (like Murder Husbands, OMG, I died when it became canon)
aaaaand, tl:dr, if the only way to be in fandom is tumblr, fucking fine, I give in :DDD
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tumblr is awesome for sharing things you like with each other, but when it comes to actually communicating and connecting with people, it really, REALLY sucks.
actually, the other day i was searching the tags for something, and i stumbled upon an adorable campaign (by people clearly new to fandom) to get people to switch from tumblr to livejournal, because lj was better for interaction and fic. there were even instructions.
recently, though, a bunch of my online friends and i have been lamenting the lack of lj in our lives, so perhaps there's going to be a shift back in this direction?
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Oh man, that would be amazing if LJ made a comeback! (and just my luck, lol, right as I give in and go over there). I just don't think tumblr is somehow any better for sharing things, I guess? Like, how hard is it to click a damn link someone put on their livejournal?! And within a fandom, it's obnoxious that pretty much EVERYONE reblogs the same shit, so your dashboard gets spammed with the same things over and over. And there are people I follow who post upwards of 100 things a day, and I've had to put their usernames in tumblr savoir so I can even LOOK at any other content from other people.
I just think the interface sucks, and it's been around long enough, there's no good excuse for it (how ridic that there are no filter options and people have to use extensions to make tumblr functional?!).
I know, I know, all complaints, blah. It just confuses me how quickly fandom flocked over there, and how long people have stayed. If I had any other choice, I'd have said "fuck this."
once again, tl:dr, how are you? Are you still working on the plan for gay/trans youths? I thought that was so awesome. I'd love to do something like that!
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