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Tumblr is a micro-blogging service, which means it was never meant for sustained anything. Ideally a post should be short, simple, and to the point. Hence another reason text posts and conversations wouldn’t take off here, but pictures and visuals thrive. But it also further subordinates the value of text, and the value of conversation via text.
Tumblr is a micro-blogging service, which means it was never meant for sustained anything. Ideally a post should be short, simple, and to the point. Hence another reason text posts and conversations wouldn’t take off here, but pictures and visuals thrive. But it also further subordinates the value of text, and the value of conversation via text.
On the other hand, you have to work harder to form actual relationships with other users. I think this is a good thing. In order to learn about people and have more substantive conversations, you have to move beyond placidly reblogging and following whoever is popular, and into writing asks, sending messages, exchanging emails and what-have-you. When you have to proactive I find that kind of relationship more valuable simply because 95 % of the people who follow you and vice versa won’t be interacting on that level. <ref> reply by [[mresundance]] to the fail_fandomanon comment: {{source| url = http://mresundance.tumblr.com/post/136055016412/why-im-still-posting-to-livejournal-and | title = Why I'm Still Posting to Livejournal and Dreamwidth | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/6e7AiaJnO | archivedate = 2015-12-28 }}, December 27, 2015 </ref>}}}}
On the other hand, you have to work harder to form actual relationships with other users. I think this is a good thing. In order to learn about people and have more substantive conversations, you have to move beyond placidly reblogging and following whoever is popular, and into writing asks, sending messages, exchanging emails and what-have-you. When you have to proactive I find that kind of relationship more valuable simply because 95 % of the people who follow you and vice versa won’t be interacting on that level. <ref> reply by [[mresundance]] to the fail_fandomanon comment: {{source| url = http://mresundance.tumblr.com/post/136055016412/why-im-still-posting-to-livejournal-and | title = Why I'm Still Posting to Livejournal and Dreamwidth | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/6e7AiaJnO | archivedate = 2015-12-28 }}, December 27, 2015 </ref>}}}}
{{Quotation| ...yeah I think it’s been tamer on tumblr because of the viral nature of it and also it gets so much more judgey because it’s an opt out system instead of an opt in.
Or, idk, I mean in between the the rare fandoms and squid/hogwarts castle I think I’ve become jaded.
{{Quotation| No, I think you’re onto something with the opt out vs opt in system. On lj you usually had to go looking for specific communities to find the weird stuff (or have a friend whose idea of a good time was asking you if you’d read the Girl Scout cookies fic yet, but in her defense that fic was genuinely hilarious ilu katie <3) which meant that aside from the occasional troll, everyone was there because they wanted to be there. Everyone was on the same page. On tumblr the tags are a big mix of every kind of content under the sun loosely bound together by a few keywords, especially now that the site’s begun automatically putting posts in the tags without user imput. Fandom can’t divide itself up into small communities based on mutual interests anymore. There’s no privacy. Add that to the way fandom trolls have hijacked sj terminology and moral purity politics to bully anyone who produces content they don’t like, and it’s no wonder fandom’s gotten less creative over the years. It’s depressing. }}
{{Quotation|I wouldn’t say people have gotten less creative, just more cautious about certain subjects and where they post them. I haven’t noticed changes in kink memes over the years, except that many now implement “must post warnings for these triggers in your subject header.” You still get crack fic on kink memes, you still get the more “outlandish” prompts on kink memes.
And maybe that’s a good thing. You don’t want thousands of people seeing your specific kinky thing sometimes. Sometimes you just want a handful of people to see it.
I think the age thing is also a factor. With LJ, you could make things “no one under 13″ and “no one under 18.” I mean sure we all lied about our ages but the attempt was there, the expectation that truly young kids wouldn’t read your smut was there. On tumblr, you have no idea who’s following you, who stumbles across your post. All you can do here is make a post saying “if you’re underage please unfollow me” but that does jack shit unless the people following you actually do that.
Also I think fanfic is used less to shock and horrify and more to entertain and just be generally good writing. Which I’m honestly ok with, the “read this Dobby/Squid fic omg!” trend seems to have gone away. I still have non-fandom friends who think of fanfic as something gross or ridiculous, who will never see it as a legitimate fan practice, because of shit like that. Someone showed them a fic to shock them, and now they think all fanfic is like that. <ref> [http://www.webcitation.org/6dR4Lwbwp </ref>}}}}
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