One of those days.

[krait]

I'm having an awful week with regards to finding out that fic I love has been hiatus'd/discontinued/abandoned... and I'm not saying anything further, because most of the authors are part of the Tumblr crowd and that seems to be the HQ of I'm A Delicate Snowflake How Dare You Say Anything About My Fic Are You Pressuring Me Everyone's So Mean I Wish All My Readers Were Unable To Communicate With Me At All.

There are several people on Tumblr who don't fall into that category, of course; and I would like to be friends with them/comment to them/babble excited feedback in their virtual ears! But they're on Tumblr, where it's impossible to start a 'conversation' more complex than a 500-character, no-line-separation anonymous ask. *sadfaces*

Also I'm just feeling old, because I still cannot figure out the point of Tumblr -- like, how is it satisfying to just... what, collect a random stream of images and 'reblog this if' memes? What does that do for Tumblr users that I'm not grasping, because to me it's roughly analogous to saying that your hobby is cutting random pages out of magazines. Not articles, or not mostly; not special-interest magazines on topics you enjoy; just grabbing a big handful of random magazines from a dentist's office recycling bin and pulling out random pages to keep. Some stuff's from 2008, some stuff's fun to read, but most of it's just advertising or out-of-context pictures without context. And you spend hours doing this, then for a break you go look through the cutout piles of twenty other people. [/oldfan]

I suspect a third of this annoyance I'm feeling is really me redirecting my frustration at my current painting project, and/or the tension of fighting with the new laptop for hours to get everything set up and copied over and reset and such. Doesn't make me feel better, though.

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[sahiya]

I don't get Tumblr either. It looks cool for some things, but for posting fic? No thanks. And it was recently brought home to me just how drastically different Tumblr fandom and LJ fandom are. Someone who was used to Tumblr fandom took over an LJ comm and eep. Talk about culture shock.

[krait]

Ahahaha, now I wish for screencaps and a F_W writeup, because I bet that was some epic culture shock! :D For all parties, probably.

[sahiya]

We've worked it out. But it took work, believe me.

[pantswarrior]

Posting fics, and having conversations about meta - things that Tumblr is completely useless for.

Oh and GUESS WHAT MY TWO FAVORITE FANDOM ACTIVITIES ARE.

It's really no wonder I gave up on even looking at my Tumblr after like a week.

[krait]

GUESS WHAT MY TWO FAVOITE FANDOM ACTIVITIES ARE

Ha, yes, this! This is exactly where I run into "but what does it DO!?" feelings about Tumblr, because to me fandom is fic and discussion; if you're not doing that, then what on earth are you doing? Especially when you complain that you spent X hours on Tumblr -- doing what, seeing the same fifteen images forty times? (I swear, as if the lack of discussion wasn't enough, the repetition on Tumblr drives me up a wall!)

[pantswarrior]

I fortunately didn't get that much repetition, but that may be because I only followed like ten people that I knew from other sites before giving up, because even though they were interesting to talk to on other sites, I couldn't talk to them there, so all I was doing was seeing pictures of actors from the Avengers movies. I'm not terribly interested in pictures of actors, no matter how attractive most people consider them.

And then there was the "reblog this to win a prize - you can reblog up to three times a day to increase your chances of winning" type stuff. Which some people I know were actually doing. THAT got repetitive, certainly...