tumblr is not for communicating

you to defect to dreamwidth?

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Hey folks, I fucking hate the new Activities panel, which means I now no longer can read the full text of anyone’s reply to me. I have to click through, go to the page of the post in question, and scroll through every notif to find the replies someone has left. There is apparently no way to just… read all the replies, in full, on a single page, so I know what people are saying to me. (They’ll still show me THAT people are replying, and just enough of the sentence they wrote [WHICH IS ALREADY LIMITED IN LENGTH] that I can’t possibly infer the rest, but not the whole reply.)

Nope!

Tumblr isn’t for communicating. Anyone trying to have a conversation on this site, fuck you, is the pretty clear outcome of this.

I mean, I’m still gonna try, but I can only even make the attempt because after eight years here I’ve still got less than 2k followers and most of those are probably bots. I only have an average of 20 responses on any post I make, so if someone replies that’s not that terrible to wade through (unless it’s a reblog with thousands of notes, in which case if someone replies to me on it I probably can’t find their reply without an intimidating amount of searching). Anyone with a larger following and more active follower base is going to be absolutely un-interact-able with via replies!!

It’s like they’re trying to take away the things people use to actually use this site…

Anyway I’m trying, guys, but they really don’t want us talking to each other on here.

alexs-prompt-folder:Anonymously - or not - tell me what passage, fic, line of narration, or anything

but it's ok if you don't, memes

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Anonymously - or not - tell me what passage, fic, line of narration, or anything you remember me by as a writer.

I love the way you write banter!

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Ah, thanks! It’s the thing I enjoy doing most, in fic, and always have.

Side note: I got this not realizing the askmeme thing had posted from my queue so I was like Oh! Hm, what’s this about? What a strange and lovely message to get apropos of nothing, and it made me laugh really hard when I got another message and was like ohhhh riiiiight I posted that thing, silly me.

I’m going to answer more of these asks later, it’s been lovely to get them and I’m running around like a fool at work but have been having spates of inactivity, so. Thanks to everyone who sent something! :)

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rhyperographer https://rhyperographer.tumblr.com/ said:

                         That really bites, but dreamwidth is not my

jam. :( If you choose to go elsewhere i get it though.

Oh, I’ve been on dreamwidth for nine or ten (eleven? 2020-2009 oh yeah that’s 11) years, I’m not going anywhere, I’m just– also there. With my old LJ handle from my baby days, dragonlady7, which I’ll have you all know was a reference to an original novel I was writing so there.

I don’t post much there; I set up a crossposter from here to there so everything I do is mirrored there, but the formatting is fucking horrible, and I keep meaning to set it up so that instead it crossposts everything from there to here, so I’ll go make my entries there, and then all the weird random reblogs in my queue that get mangled in the reposting don’t keep going over there. But it nearly killed me to figure out the IFTTT recipe (from a fantastic tutorial, it wasn’t even that I figured it out myself!) in the first place, so I don’t know how to a) undo it, and b) set up a different one, so I have not fixed that yet.

I’m not leaving Tumblr particularly, it’s just that as it’s less and less possible to use, I’ll get less and less interaction here, and it’ll meet my needs less and less. I’m also terrified of losing contact with people I care a lot about and people just– poof disappear off of Tumblr all the fucking time and then there’s no recourse. On the one hand I do love that this is like the last bastion of anonymous Internettage where you can have a fannish identity and not worry about your mom reading your furry vore or discovering your uncomfortably self-revealing erotica or whatever. cough But on the other hand, that means that when your weird little handle goes dark, the people who came to care about you as a human have no way of ever finding you or knowing what happened to you.

My DW still has a bunch of inactive feeds on it, the Livejournals of the people I lost in that migration. They’re preserved there, just a list of inactive names, who I periodically go back and mourn. A few made it over here, a few are still plugging away on DW, but most of them just went dark, and I’ve lost most of my early fannish Internet context and it’s a lonely, lonely feeling. I genuinely cry about it sometimes.

It’s been so long, and it’s gotten so dark, and I’m so afraid of losing more people. It’s hard to get old, I guess; my grandma used to say that a lot but I understand it now in a way I couldn’t when I was 20. (She died genuinely pumped at the prospect of a reunion with her beloved late husband, who’d died twenty years before. It’s not a bad way to go, whatever you believe; I’ve never known anyone else who died, in the end, as gracefully as she did, though the week preceding the actual event was pretty rough. Ha. No; she complained a lot, but she knew what was coming and she was ready. I hope I can be so graceful. In another fifty-five years, mind; she was 96 and I’ve only just turned 41. No thanks! I just miss some friends, is all.)

fieldbears: mediumaevum: Funky beasts from a Book of Hours...

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mediumaevum https://mediumaevum.tumblr.com/post/173892002344/funky-beasts-from-a-book-of-hours-attributed-to-an :

Funky beasts from a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school. They are often referred to as “grotesques”.

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