1) It's been the kind of week where I drag out the Christmas writing playlist and start outlining Christmas fic BECAUSE. What do you mean it is only September? Bah. I don't care
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There isn't much substantive conversation on Tumblr, not that I can see.
Every now and again, I'll try to start a conversation with someone but it always has come back to bite me in the ass. I even had someone take something I had posted out of context and put it up in a closed forum where I was a member. I guess they didn't know I went there still on occasion.
Now if I have an urge to comment on someone's post, I put it in drafts. Nine times out of ten, by the time I remember I wrote it, I can just delete it and move on.
The thing that bothers me most about Tumblr is the amount of unchallenged misinformation that is floating around, getting reblogged. It drives me batty but I've decided it's mostly not worth getting into it with people. Now I that I know I can have folks muted so I can't see their text posts, it's better for my blood pressure. It's better for everyone.
I didn't know you had a tumblr so I added you. I hope that's okay.
Of course! I have added you both places. I am not intentionally incognito over there, I just wanted a new username. :)
Now I that I know I can have folks muted so I can't see their text posts
Wait, I had no idea you could do this? Though there isn't anyone I am following right now that I would need to mute I don't think. Knock on wood.
There does seem to be a fair amount of scurrying en masse from one thing to the other over there. I guess it's just … idk. Fandom is so *big* now, and if it is forming communities via tumblr it is happening in some way that I don't see or participate in. And I miss that!
People change user names all of the time there--you fit right in! I can't keep up with it. "I don't remember adding this person," I think to myself when a new one turns up.
It's so much easier to form communities around a common activity. That's why I keep doing my thing here and on DW--xf_book_club is still pretty active. We fired up Fringe Exchange on DW, too. And I'm in a community for The Americans, also on Dreamwidth. Tumblr doesn't work for discussion. It's very iffy for disseminating information. It's just a great place to reblog pictures as far as I'm concerned.
"I don't remember adding this person," I think to myself when a new one turns up.
Right??! And I am such a giant fumble klutz with my phone that I actually do accidentally add people sometimes (especially for things I just follow via tags - I have accidentally added a number of gymnastics blogs for example) so I always have to do detective work to figure out whether this is one of those or just a name change from someone I was already following!
Also, here are some things from my prompt collection:
2. Scared of the basement. (surreallis) 3. Technolo-fear. (annerbhp) 4. Zombies. (splash) 5. Ordering out for team night. (nanda) 6. snow day. (gabolange) 7. Pet naming pressure. (nanda)
At least I am not alone in feeling that way. Like seriously, I have *tried*. Either I will just never get it, or what I'm looking for isn't there to get.
Yay prompts! I miss commentficathons. Those were fun. Even if I was never any good at them due to not writing at all fast, lol.
I think that what you can do with and on Tumblr seems to vary a lot depending on what layout you use; some seem to allow for more text and interaction. But the whole nature of the place is Talk (and Repeat and Repost), Don't Listen.
That's what's made it impossible for me to get much out of it. I dabbled a bit, but I'm online to interact with others, not to sit and look and surf and lurk.
ETA: as far as I can tell, communities are not forming there. Communities require two-way interaction, and that ain't happening.
Yeah, I mean … as a platform for image/gif sharing and for signal boosting things you really love, it's definitely got advantages over livejournal/dreamwidth. It does have a tendency to concentrate attention on people who are already well-known because those are the things that get reblogged over and over, and that's a bit unfortunate. That's an internet-wide problem atm though between google's page rank and facebook's top post algorithms. But the thing that bothers me most is that "hey we all like and reblog the same things" is just not a substantive way to interact with people.
Fandom has always been really good at forming communities, formally or informally, you know? (And also of busting them up, but that's a different story, lol.) This is so different. And I wonder if it's maybe because fandom is so much bigger and more general now and so it's just never going to look like the days of mailing lists or forums or journalling platforms again.
but I'm online to interact with others, not to sit and look and surf and lurk.Ha
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Every now and again, I'll try to start a conversation with someone but it always has come back to bite me in the ass. I even had someone take something I had posted out of context and put it up in a closed forum where I was a member. I guess they didn't know I went there still on occasion.
Now if I have an urge to comment on someone's post, I put it in drafts. Nine times out of ten, by the time I remember I wrote it, I can just delete it and move on.
The thing that bothers me most about Tumblr is the amount of unchallenged misinformation that is floating around, getting reblogged. It drives me batty but I've decided it's mostly not worth getting into it with people. Now I that I know I can have folks muted so I can't see their text posts, it's better for my blood pressure. It's better for everyone.
I didn't know you had a tumblr so I added you. I hope that's okay.
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Of course! I have added you both places. I am not intentionally incognito over there, I just wanted a new username. :)
Now I that I know I can have folks muted so I can't see their text posts
Wait, I had no idea you could do this? Though there isn't anyone I am following right now that I would need to mute I don't think. Knock on wood.
There does seem to be a fair amount of scurrying en masse from one thing to the other over there. I guess it's just … idk. Fandom is so *big* now, and if it is forming communities via tumblr it is happening in some way that I don't see or participate in. And I miss that!
Your icon is adorable though. :)
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It's so much easier to form communities around a common activity. That's why I keep doing my thing here and on DW--xf_book_club is still pretty active. We fired up Fringe Exchange on DW, too. And I'm in a community for The Americans, also on Dreamwidth. Tumblr doesn't work for discussion. It's very iffy for disseminating information. It's just a great place to reblog pictures as far as I'm concerned.
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Right??! And I am such a giant fumble klutz with my phone that I actually do accidentally add people sometimes (especially for things I just follow via tags - I have accidentally added a number of gymnastics blogs for example) so I always have to do detective work to figure out whether this is one of those or just a name change from someone I was already following!
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I can't ever actually watch Once Upon a Time, because I will be sad that Swan Queen isn't a real ship. due to the number of gifsets I've seen!!
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That's exactly how I feel about tumblr.
Also, here are some things from my prompt collection:
2. Scared of the basement. (surreallis)
3. Technolo-fear. (annerbhp)
4. Zombies. (splash)
5. Ordering out for team night. (nanda)
6. snow day. (gabolange)
7. Pet naming pressure. (nanda)
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Yay prompts! I miss commentficathons. Those were fun. Even if I was never any good at them due to not writing at all fast, lol.
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That's what's made it impossible for me to get much out of it. I dabbled a bit, but I'm online to interact with others, not to sit and look and surf and lurk.
ETA: as far as I can tell, communities are not forming there. Communities require two-way interaction, and that ain't happening.
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Fandom has always been really good at forming communities, formally or informally, you know? (And also of busting them up, but that's a different story, lol.) This is so different. And I wonder if it's maybe because fandom is so much bigger and more general now and so it's just never going to look like the days of mailing lists or forums or journalling platforms again.
but I'm online to interact with others, not to sit and look and surf and lurk.Ha ( ... )
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