it is 10 am and I have not been on Tumblr even once

[girlbookwrm]

Things that I do when not infiniscrolling through the hellsite:

• Work on my mom's Christmas present (I'm defacing a copy of the Silmarillion for her amusement)
• hang out on Dreamwidth like a lot
• noodle at the Steve VS the Guggenheim idea (boogiewoogiebuglegal  yoU AND ICEWHISPER ARE REAL BASTARDS YOU KNOW THAT??)

so I think I maybe actually like being free of the blue purgatory? I want to try and spend less time on Tumblr, going forward. I don't think there's any website that quite matches it for social media experience -- it suited me really well, I adapted to it very quickly and I've gotten endless hours of amusement from it, BUT.

it was the vibrancy of the community I found there that worked for me. That community can be built -- or rebuilt -- anywhere. 

Comments

[girlbookwrm]

YEAH LET'S PRIORITIZE BUILDING A COMMUNITY ON A SITE THAT WON'T DELETE MY FAVE BLOGS (i.e. YOUR BLOG) FOR NO GOOD GODDAMN REASON.

Fandom has lost enough history and enough material from living in other people's spaces. I for one am Very Goddamn Done with THAT bullshit.

[potofsoup]

Your comment here has SUSTAINED ME all afternoon. Yes, we need a safe space for fandom, and it's high time that we take matters into our own hands.

[girlbookwrm]

I swear I think this Even More after seeing what Hoehibition Era Tumblr really looks like

[potofsoup]

I haven't really been on tumblr since the announcement 2 weeks ago -- how horrible is it?

[girlbookwrm]

Every time I stumble across a post that's blocked because it's been flagged as mature, I die inside. They're just *gone* and I hate that feeling. I also very much hate the feeling that I've been kicked into the kiddie pool. The humor is still there and the friends I've made are still there, and there's plenty of content, but something has definitely died.