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dawn_felagund

Fannish 411!

Apr 28, 2013 21:23

Okay, so first of all, I caved. I'm now on Tumblr. I'm still figuring out how it works! I haven't posted anything yet. I'm planning to use it for fannish and writerly stuff only; this place will still be where I babble about a combination of RL, writerly, and fannish stuff. I'd certainly appreciate anyone who wants to follow me or who has any good ( Read more... )

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dawn_felagund April 29 2013, 21:40:23 UTC

http://www.tumblr.com/

It's a blogging site. It strikes me, myself a neophyte, as what a lovechild between LJ and Twitter would look like! :D

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dawn_felagund April 30 2013, 00:57:05 UTC

*hugs back* Being used to LJ, it's certainly ... different.

phyncke April 29 2013, 02:39:11 UTC

I don't know anything about tumblr. I guess I should check it out. LOL :)

dawn_felagund April 29 2013, 21:41:51 UTC

I dunno, reading the posts downthread kind of makes me regret my account a little! :D

heartofoshun April 29 2013, 02:43:43 UTC

I friended followed you there. I am "Beleriand" on Tumblr. I really kind of hate it. It is lame for discussions--all but impossible--and has a whole bunch of Tolkien types (might even be nice people, but annoying), fairly new to the fandom, who want to argue and fight and rant over all kinds of trivial issues or battles that were fought and won or lost years ago and about which people agreed to disagree ( ... )

brookeoflorien April 29 2013, 05:27:12 UTC

I'm off Tumblr now, but as far as I know, unless you want to leave just a short like two sentence comment on an entry, reblogging is the only. It's really annoying...if all you want is a quick comment, it's that little speech bubble thing at the top of posts near the heart to fav entries. It only works if it's an original post and not a reblog though, unless the person who reblogged it has installed hacks for their tumblr.

Hopefully this isn't an annoying answer to a rhetorical question!

heartofoshun April 29 2013, 06:22:33 UTC

Thanks! that is really useful to know. I could not figure out what that little bubble was there sometimes and not others.

brookeoflorien April 29 2013, 16:37:43 UTC

You're welcome! It took me awhile to figure it out and it still annoyed me that it's not there all the time.

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spiced_wine April 29 2013, 07:43:53 UTC

I followed you on Tumblr (Vanimore).
I don't really blog anything, I just reblog pretty pics or stuff I find interesting.

heartofoshun April 29 2013, 16:46:16 UTC

Your choices are amazing!

spiced_wine April 29 2013, 16:53:03 UTC

Your choices are amazing!

OMG That Cosmarxpolitan set. I was in fits!

That is what Tumblr is for me, although there are certain more 'political' things I reblog if I find them important, but really things that make me laugh or I find inspiring: pictures and some quotes. I use the 'ignore' button a lot to keep away from the kind of stuff you have been seeing there re: The fandom. It would drive me to drink.

dawn_felagund April 29 2013, 21:50:21 UTC

I've been really using the site for just ten minutes and will second Oshun! :D

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pandemonium_213 April 29 2013, 10:21:14 UTC

Tumblr. Oy.

What Oshun said. To the 12th power.

Yes, I have a Tumblr, but I am on a moratorium of any posting, reblogging, or even "liking." I'm now just an egregious lurker. Here's my most recent post on Tumblr, dated 21 April, that comments on my impression of the venue:

Pros: Entrancing (and sometimes obscure) artwork, historycrushes, photos of beautiful places (real or otherwise), goofy gifs, science-as-art ( ... )

heartofoshun April 29 2013, 16:49:02 UTC

Caveat emptor.

Oh, wow! Yes. My mother used to yell from the kitchen door:

"Behave yourselves! I am not coming out there to referee any fights!"

pandemonium_213 April 29 2013, 17:11:21 UTC

There was a very funny bit on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago in which Peter Dinklage dropped by as the BIL of Bobby Moynihan's "Drunk Uncle".

Paraphrasing here...

Dinklage (slurred words): Y'know what's on my Tumblr?

Drunk Uncle: What?

Dinklage (pauses): Regret.

The video clip is in the linked article.

heartofoshun April 29 2013, 17:41:22 UTC

I never saw a "Drunk Uncle" skit before. That is hilarious and painful--that guy sounds exactly like a relative of mine on Facebook, who posts multiple times a day (and multiple times an hour on Friday and Saturday nights). He has made Laura angry on Facebook several times. (I die laughing--she "likes" something innocuous that he posts, or a picture, and he makes highly inappropriate comments about her profile pic or something of the like! It's great. Comic relief in the Drama that is family life in a large extended family--outraged Laura and drunk uncle--she is SO polite though.)

Anyway, Peter Drunklage is great. Speaking of tone, he hits just the right tone on the word "Regret!"

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