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[sekrit_omg]

Tumblr makes me completely miserable. Every time I go on it I feel less interested in participating in fandom. I realize that no one is going to stop using Tumblr because I hate it, certainly not the people I interact with in fandom, but using it pretty much gives me legit anxiety and I don't want anything to do with it. Conflicted about this,

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[mesangecoeur]

"But I've never had a single interaction on Tumblr that I couldn't have done without"
This is where Sarah pouts.

[sekrit_omg]

Just, would all of those conversations have made me want to stab myself in the eye with a fork less if they'd not been in some crunched-up ridiculous fanmail form where I couldn't even see what I'd typed to you in the first place? Yeah. I can barely manage to continue them. I guess other people just don't have this problem.

[mesangecoeur]

Yeah, I can see how the formatting might bother you... I mean I'm slightly annoyed by it, but I don't really have a problem with it. I tend to be fond of Tumblr because it reminds me of LJ, with easier access to fandom things via tags.

[sekrit_omg]

Oh man, Tumblr does not remind me of LJ at all! Weird.

[kyley_b]

This Sarah is pouting, too. I thought what we had was special. :(((

Okay, no, seriously. Until recently I always just saw Tumblr as another facet of one huge ("huge" is being used very loosely here) fandom, that encompassed a lot of websites, but overall was pretty united. But like, a few days ago I ended up going to this group chat (which ended up being horrible because Tumblr also has a way of making you feel really uncool and unwanted!!), and everyone was talking about their favorite artists. And I listed a few of mine, which obviously included some big names on DA, and no one had any idea who they were. That was really upsetting, because now it seems like all these new people are just starting out on Tumblr, and it's like they don't care at all about what has already been done, or who's really talented, or like, the history of the fandom at all. Like, they don't care to be involved with the rest of the fandom as a whole, because they're too busy making themselves feel cool on Tumblr? I don't know, I'm having a hard time putting

[sekrit_omg]

I tried to reply to this a while back and Firefox ate my comment when it closed on me this one time, thanks Firefox. Dumbly I am writing this comment in Firefox again.

These group chats, I don't even know what you're referring to. Tumblr had chats? This is news to me.

I should write a history of the SP fandom or maybe compile an oral history or something. here's another thing about fandom that I think we're losing through Tumblr: People used to really care about the meta side of things. There was this whole kind of historiographic introspection that was really, really interesting. When I keep saying "people used to talk" I mean literally people used to have long comment threads about why they thought SP characters did the things they did, or why writers wrote the things they wrote. When new episodes aired people would often leave their "awwww kyman u0u" comments on single episode discussion posts so that instead of littering everyone's dashboard with 100 posts of the same variety, all the senseless jubilation was collected in one

[kyley_b]

Ugh, I feel like I missed like, the golden age of fandom. I'm totally in favor of you compiling a history, so I can read it late at night and cry about all the things I never got to experience. And if kyman nonsense was in one single thread, that'd be so much easier to overlook, rather than just avoiding Tumblr for the night and eating ice cream alone.

Maybe I should make an LJ newsletter of the Tumblr highlights.

[sekrit_omg]

>> all the things I never got to experience

- Everything important was written by 17-year-old boys
- Every single story was "plot, what plot," because never mind porn, nothing had a fucking plot
- Nothing got finished
- Every single fic was set in high school

[negniahn]

I didn't even know you were on AO3. I don't have an acct there but it would be great, I think ....... if it was remotely popular (in this fandom

[sekrit_omg]

I suspect AO3 is about to get huge in the SP fandom.

>> once you send something, you can't see what you sent anymore?

Yep, nope.

Editing this comment to say that honestly, it's nothing personal against anybody at all. I just hate the site. it causes me serious anxiety in the fandom context.