Eljay, my old friend!

[kariye]

*clings* I have so much HATE for Tumblr right now. Where the hell is my speech bubble? I don't see one anywhere. I can't figure out how to reply to posts, much less reply to a reply. After now two and a half hours of googling the shit out of it. And installing missing e. And eating half a box of raw brownie mix in frustration. I'm closing

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[rynne]

I feel like the fandom curmudgeon, but I still prefer LJ to tumblr. There's this weird denigration of text posts on tumblr, and everyone communicates in gifs or other images, and that was just never my thing. And it is so hard to have an actual conversation! I have a tumblr, but I mostly use it to lurk.

[kariye]

Too true. I didn't want one in the first place because I'm such a textually based person, not visual. It's words that do it for me. But I got drawn in because that's where everyone links to their new fic in my fandoms, it seems. And it's so alive - which, sad to say, is rather unlike LJ these days. I've been on LJ for ten years and it feels rather desolate of late. Pooh.

[gaycrow]

I feel your pain. I can't understand why everyone's flocked to Tumblr. I just don't get it.

I'm also not keen on Facebook, although I do now have seven(!) friends there. Don't really get that either.

I have succumbed to Twitter, though, and quite like that, but Live Journal is still my favourite haunt.

I guess I'm just an old fogey.

[kariye]

Yeah, I don't get it either. But they have, and the energy over there is amazing, esp after these last months of feeling like LJ really is a bit moribund. I didn't feel it when people first started talking about it, but I have recently. But LJ is so much better for what I want to do!

I don't have a facebook - I refuse. I only use social media for fandom activities because I'm so suspicious of it all. But I get to use a pseud for fannish stuff, so that's fine.

I don't have a Twitter, either. The very brevity of it doesn't appeal to me, though I understand many love it. I really do feel that if I could just *figure out* tumblr, I could love it. It's very amusing to hang out there. I just feel isolated because I can view and reblog, but not talk to anyone. But, then, perhaps reblogging *is* talking to people and I just need to understand that. Which I don't.

[cordelia_v]

We are still here, and we still love to talk to you (and to each other).

I am on Tumblr (under my other Lj name) and on FB (under my real name) and truly: neither of them is a satisfying substitute for the discussions and friendships one has here on LJ, IMO. And yet, that is where most people seem to be these days.

But I am glad to see you here. And you are so right about the incredible usefulness of AO3 descriptions and tags!

Care to pass on the link for that story? I love most of those tags, too, and if it is a fandom I read in, I'd love to get the link.

[kariye]

Just as I love to talk to you guys. Seriously, I wouldn't know what to do without you guys in my life, even just knowing you're there, hanging out in overlapping spaces. Some of you have been part of it for so long. I've had my LJ for ten years - I became an adult with some of you sharing those spaces

[cordelia_v]

Oh, please DO friend/follow me on Tumblr (under my other writing journal name) and I will follow you back. I have slowly realized lately that some---sadly, not all---of the friends I have on LJ are over there, too, and I'd love to interact with you there.

That said, I am mostly lurking there, because it is not clear to me what the norms AND the technical aspects of interaction there are. But I can practice with you and other LJ friends, and you will forgive my noobie-ish style on Tumblr, I'm sure.

[kariye]

Ok, I can't find you. I went and looked. I know your other name obviously, and it's not popping up. Can you PM me here or email me (kariye.djami at gmail)? I have exactly the same thought! To practice with you guys because you won't mind. The thing I'm seeing, though, is that certain aspects of tumblr aren't private - so if I do something, it won't show to just you but to everyone. I have both of the problems you mention - norms and technical aspects. I was questioning someone over on my DW about both of them. Norms such as if someone posts a link on tumblr to her fic on AO3 (which is why I got one, to be honest), do you "like" that post in addition to leaving kudos on AO3

[poshlil]

Well, you already know my thoughts on this but - talk to me about decaf tea. I mainline tea anyway, it comes with being mostly British, but after midday, I switch to rooibos, because I'm sure the caffeine was partly responsible for my appalling sleeping patterns. (Though to be honest, perhaps not. I've been drinking it for months now and I still never sleep.)

Hurrah for AO3 though. I've been getting lovely comments on the ridiculous fic I just finished, which made me smile so much because I was so sure no one but me would read it. I just needed to get it out of my head.

[kariye]

You posted a fic! (I haven't been checking LJ as much so if you announced it here, I totally missed it.) I'm not subscribed to you on AO3 - are you the same name? What fandom are you in these days

[poshlil]

I did! It's British comedy RPF - I'm mostly hanging out in the Mighty Boosh fandom - so probably nothing you're overly interested in. ;) But I'm alyelle on AO3 if you did want to go poking around. (I probably mentioned it in a throwaway line in an entry somewhere, so I'm not surprised you missed it. I keep most of my fic "announcements" on Dreamwidth, which no one follows anyway

[cruisedirector]

I love AO3 and I hate Tumblr. Apart from the Pit of Doom, impossible-to-filter-properly craziness of Tumblr, I swear that every fandom I've peeked at seems 10 times wankier there, which I think may be a function of the necessary cliquishness just to find the people who are actually talking about things in one's own fandom that one actually wants to see and the impossibility of locking things from people one knows will make trouble about them. After all these years I've turned back into a fic-reading lurker, searching AO3 tags extensively.

[kariye]

Amen. I've turned into a total AO3 convert over the last year. That's how I do all my reading - actually, not even by tag. I've been reading in Teen Wolf for the last four months by going through the bookmarks of everyone whose own fic I liked. And then I subscribed to everyone who wrote something I like, much less selectively than I've always friended on LJ because I know I'll just be getting fic in my inbox and that's easy to decide what I want to do with with minimal effort. And I have glutted myself on fic in this manner. It helps, of course, that TW is a hugely active fandom. Which sucked me into tumblr. *wry*

[cruisedirector]

I have never seen a single episode of TW but I've read about six stories because my oldest friend in fandom was into TW from pretty much the first episode and kept posting recs. I only know what Derek looks like. I have a mental Stiles from fic who may be completely wrong! (Also, I read one TW RPF that I can't even remember who linked to because guess what the kink was, hahahaha.)

[kariye]

hahah, no idea at all about what that kink was, nope. Not a certain kink we might share.

Actually, I was just remarking (bemoaning?) to perverse-idyll how much more vanilla kinks in all my fandoms have become. Not sure if it's as fandom comes more and more out of it's own closet and wide-known.

It's a stupid show. That's kinda the point. Hee.