I don't even want to know how long it's been since I've posted here...

[h_loquacious]

It's at least three months though, because it's before Wales (and London)

And Newfoundland.

(I may have gone on all the trips this spring/summer.)

The trips were fun. I saw puffins. And Stephen Fry. And many other things besides.

I feel like I'm falling out of fandom/internet things. Except for GoodReads. GoodReads and I are likethisWell,

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[myr_soleil]

Oooh, what's your tumblr? I want to follow you! :)

[h_loquacious]

Well, it's hardly-loquacious. But I'm not kidding, there is literally nothing there. You're welcome to follow me, on the off-chance that I do figure it out and post something. (If you follow me, you only see what I post, right? You don't see the things that I follow, which are only on my dashboard? I swear, I wasn't exaggerating my level of confusion...)

[h_loquacious]

Okay, so I lied. It turns out I might actually use Tumblr. So what's yours?

[myr_soleil]

Isn't it fun?! :D I just followed you, I'm lookupatthesky. :)

[limonatafic]

Stephen Fry, wow!

I don't get tumblr either, which is practically my refrain around here as everyone seems to be migrating there and I'm like "but what?" I do follow a few blogs (are they blogs??) but I never look at my dashboard so lollll idek. But haha I believe in you! You can figure this out!

I'm so behind on my reading though. :((( I was going to read a book a day these past few days to get back on track, but life is so nuts right now that I haven't been able to. I'm dreaming of being able to knock out a few on the trip back.

[h_loquacious]

Yes, although it was Stephen Fry talking about techno stuff, which was a bit less fun than it could have been. Still Stephen Fry though.

I think Tumblrs are blogs. But probably best not to take my word on it. I'm still trying to figure out what this "re-blogging" business entails. Essentially the only thing I know how to do is look at my own dashboard. But perhaps given several weeks, I will work my way up to a text post!

I am behind on all the things. It is really excellent. I'm trying not to stress out about it. Good luck reading on your trip!

[funbol]

O HAI.

I was thinking about you not posting on here anymore a couple of weeks ago. I was wondering about that, but then, everyone seems to have disappeared from here this year (and I never post myself, so I'm not one to talk). I'm glad you're all still around GoodReads, or I would miss all of you. That book club sounds like fun though. I may take a look around.

Did you enjoy London/Wales?

And yes, speaking of people disappearing, I'm pretty sure everyone just moved to Tumblr and we didn't get the memo. I'm so glad you mentioned you don't understand it, BECAUSE I DON'T EITHER. It confuses me tremendously. My plan at one point was also to set up an account and to badger Grace into explaining it all to me, because I am no good on my own. Maybe I should follow your example and set up an account. But idk, I don't get the first thing about Tumblr. I just go over occasionally to stare at all the pretty gifs. Because they ARE pretty.

[h_loquacious]

Summer has been a bit crazy/exhausting. I meant to post.

I like the book club because it at least gives me the illusion of making progress on the stack of unread books on my bookshelf. I do better at achieving goals when I have a semblance of structure.

I sort of get parts of Tumblr. Sort of, but probably not really. Hee. Perhaps we should both set up accounts and then jointly badger Grace about it. To minimize repetition for her, obviously.

Le sigh. I just feel badly about my general incompetence, and subsequent imposition on people who understand things. Plus there are my general social media shyness issues. Blah. Stupid Tumblr. I understand LJ....

[funbol]

I joined that group. I will see about maybe signing up in September, because I've been stuck in a bit of a rut lately. I'm reading three or four books at the moment but then I don't want to read on in any of them. Even though they're not bad books, not at all. So yes. Plus, the idea of someone else just telling you "read this" is fun.

Hahaha, I will think about an account (because you know I'd need at least a whole week to even come up with a username). I understand LJ too. It's easy. I'm sure Tumblr is easy too, and I get the basic "start-a-blog-and-then-you-can-reblog-pretty-things". But I don't get everything else. What are the tags? If you click on them, you get EVERYTHING with that tag and it's sort of chaotic. Where do you find blogs that post stuff that interests you? etc.

[h_loquacious]

I do like that I can't procrastinate with books on my shelf thanks to the group.

My tumblr username is essentially the same as my FFN, but with a dash in between words.

The tags are somewhat unhelpful. And what is the following etiquette? Is there any? Such confusion.

Oh, London and Wales were lovely, btw. Wales is beautiful (though the driving is crazy, no thanks to our GPS) and London was just amazing. I wasn't there long enough. I need to go back.

[justlook3]

I don't necessarily get tumblr either. But I'm there. Under justlook3. Mostly posting Marvel Cinematic Universe, Elementary, Disney and odd little non-fandom things: history, vintage stuff, pretty things, baby animals.
I don't follow a whole heck of alot of fandom tbh just a couple of blogs that seem to have their finger on the main info. Fandom burns me out these days and I'm really over meta and discussion. All I want is pretty pictures and the occasional fanfic so tumblr works well for me.

[h_loquacious]

I think the issue is that part of me isn't se what I want? IDK. I've always been more verbal/written than visual, which I know is WEIRD. I like pretty things a lot, but honestly, I'd rather if you told me a story.

I don't really want to follow ALL the fandom. I think I woule just like to follow one other fandom. Or something. IDK. It is complicated. I like the sense of community. Or rather, picking a subset of the ocmmunity that I feel like interacting with.

I probably need to take tumblr slowly...

[spyglass_]

HIIIIII. I MISS YOU.

Cathy told me you got a tumblr, so now I am following you! I will help with Tumblr things because that is where I seem to be living now. If you start using it more consistently, you will need xkit and tumblr savior (which lets you blacklist things you don't want to see, i.e. if you don't want to see my Jane/Lisbon posts, you can blacklist the tag "jane x lisbon" [what I tag them as] and everything I post and tag as "jane x lisbon" will be hidden from your dash).

There is no real etiquette for following people. You can just follow them, or you can say hi via their ask box. There are plenty of text posts! Fic memes and meta and other stuff. But mostly there are lots of pretty gifs and that's important.

ANYWAY HI.

[h_loquacious]

HELLO. HOW GOES IT