Heh, well, it's probably very telling that I took one look at Twitter and knew instantly that it wasn't for me. 140 characters? That's not even an entire sentence for me!
And I guess the 'endless stream of pretty' just doesn't... do anything for me? At least not compared to the frustration that builds when I want to A) comment on the pretty, or B) not see the same bleedin' pic twenty-five times because the person keeps 'replying' to something said under it!
And since most of my flailing is textual, I suppose I just can't feel the squee on Tumblr. When I like something, I talk about it! Not just, y'know, look at pictures of it. But then, you're right too about the 'limited to visual media' thing: a lot of my fandoms aren't very visual! I'd be super-screwed if I wanted to squee about, say, the next Foreigner novel or my recent re-read of the Chanur series. To squee with me about that, people have to type. :D (Dear Tumblr people, it's not hard, I promise! Just, y'know, move your fingers! It's probably easier than posting an image!)
I hate when that happens.
Yeah, I... I really do! There's a reason I never used to read WIP things; Homestuck being such a new fandom, though, practically everything's a WIP! But learning that Hemostuck's now on indefinite hiatus was a pretty huge blow, and I ran off to DW to sulk and feel like a fandom grampa, grumbling about kids-these-days and haven't-got-the-gumption-we-had-back-when. :D
And SeasonsStuck is indefinitely hiatus'd, too; and 'Jewel in the Scarlet Crown' appears to have been abandoned; and 'Isolation'; and...
A bit of good news today, though -- I was beginning to worry that 'Season' had been abandoned, but it just updated! :D
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Date: 2013-02-12 08:22 pm (UTC)And I guess the 'endless stream of pretty' just doesn't... do anything for me? At least not compared to the frustration that builds when I want to A) comment on the pretty, or B) not see the same bleedin' pic twenty-five times because the person keeps 'replying' to something said under it!
And since most of my flailing is textual, I suppose I just can't feel the squee on Tumblr. When I like something, I talk about it! Not just, y'know, look at pictures of it. But then, you're right too about the 'limited to visual media' thing: a lot of my fandoms aren't very visual! I'd be super-screwed if I wanted to squee about, say, the next Foreigner novel or my recent re-read of the Chanur series. To squee with me about that, people have to type. :D (Dear Tumblr people, it's not hard, I promise! Just, y'know, move your fingers! It's probably easier than posting an image!)
I hate when that happens.
Yeah, I... I really do! There's a reason I never used to read WIP things; Homestuck being such a new fandom, though, practically everything's a WIP! But learning that Hemostuck's now on indefinite hiatus was a pretty huge blow, and I ran off to DW to sulk and feel like a fandom grampa, grumbling about kids-these-days and haven't-got-the-gumption-we-had-back-when. :D
And SeasonsStuck is indefinitely hiatus'd, too; and 'Jewel in the Scarlet Crown' appears to have been abandoned; and 'Isolation'; and...A bit of good news today, though -- I was beginning to worry that 'Season' had been abandoned, but it just updated! :D