i can't do it
Dec. 12th, 2018 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I started unfollowing people on Tumblr, starting with people who were all over my dash, and you'd think it'd be fine, right, like no big deal, right, these are people i'm following on other platforms, i'll be fine, it's--
i couldn't do it! i can't do it, i can't unfollow people. not yet.
i guess i need to back away from tumblr and see that y'all are really here after all before I actually unfollow. It's okay. I can just let Tumblr sit there.
(On a related note, if we're Tumblr mutuals and you suddenly notice I'm not following you, it's because I spent a wild, like, two minutes on there unfollowing people and then panicked and stopped.)
i have a lot of followers on tumblr, y'all. like, over a thousand. it's weird. i don't think i'll get that popular anywhere else. i haven't had any reason for it, lately, haven't gone viral again or posted anything original or interesting. it's weird to see the follower count, though. i took a screenshot so that later in life i could remember.
i know that's small potatoes, there are tons of accounts with tens of thousands of followers. on lj, having 100 followers was a lot. it's just a different culture.
Anyway. As I was poking around yesterday I did manage to confirm that I've got my whole LJ backed up here; it told me the import failed, when I did it in like, 2009, and I just never had the strength to really look at what a mess I was sure it was, but I just looked and yeah, all my baby bullshit from 2001 onward is here. Comments too!!! So.
I did go back and edit my very first post because the first thing I did was list out my roommates' government names and just talk about them like, right out. "I don't like [fullname guy] very much sometimes, he's not as clever as he thinks he is" kind of bullshit. What! Girl, what? What are you-- oh you're just about to turn 21 and you don't really truly know what the Internet is, nobody does, because it's 2001 and also you're dumb as a box of rocks. So anyway. I just pulled real names out of the first couple entries and I'll have to make that an ongoing project. I mean, that shit's been up nearly twenty years now, but it doesn't have to be, and it's time I took responsibility for it.
And I did narrow down that I started posting on Tumblr in 2011, and started cross-posting from there in September of 2015, so I need to go back into my archives here and manually pull out stuff and cross-post it. I'll have to look; I don't know that I had much content here, at first. I also had short-lived accounts on other sites, like MySpace, and I don't think I can archive that content, so it's just going to have to be dead links.
oh my gosh my first tumblr post:
I had been thinking, "2011 isn't that long ago" but then I look at that and i'm like, oh, no, i was quite young then, it's some time ago now. Ha!
i couldn't do it! i can't do it, i can't unfollow people. not yet.
i guess i need to back away from tumblr and see that y'all are really here after all before I actually unfollow. It's okay. I can just let Tumblr sit there.
(On a related note, if we're Tumblr mutuals and you suddenly notice I'm not following you, it's because I spent a wild, like, two minutes on there unfollowing people and then panicked and stopped.)
i have a lot of followers on tumblr, y'all. like, over a thousand. it's weird. i don't think i'll get that popular anywhere else. i haven't had any reason for it, lately, haven't gone viral again or posted anything original or interesting. it's weird to see the follower count, though. i took a screenshot so that later in life i could remember.
i know that's small potatoes, there are tons of accounts with tens of thousands of followers. on lj, having 100 followers was a lot. it's just a different culture.
Anyway. As I was poking around yesterday I did manage to confirm that I've got my whole LJ backed up here; it told me the import failed, when I did it in like, 2009, and I just never had the strength to really look at what a mess I was sure it was, but I just looked and yeah, all my baby bullshit from 2001 onward is here. Comments too!!! So.
I did go back and edit my very first post because the first thing I did was list out my roommates' government names and just talk about them like, right out. "I don't like [fullname guy] very much sometimes, he's not as clever as he thinks he is" kind of bullshit. What! Girl, what? What are you-- oh you're just about to turn 21 and you don't really truly know what the Internet is, nobody does, because it's 2001 and also you're dumb as a box of rocks. So anyway. I just pulled real names out of the first couple entries and I'll have to make that an ongoing project. I mean, that shit's been up nearly twenty years now, but it doesn't have to be, and it's time I took responsibility for it.
And I did narrow down that I started posting on Tumblr in 2011, and started cross-posting from there in September of 2015, so I need to go back into my archives here and manually pull out stuff and cross-post it. I'll have to look; I don't know that I had much content here, at first. I also had short-lived accounts on other sites, like MySpace, and I don't think I can archive that content, so it's just going to have to be dead links.
oh my gosh my first tumblr post:

I had been thinking, "2011 isn't that long ago" but then I look at that and i'm like, oh, no, i was quite young then, it's some time ago now. Ha!
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Date: 2018-12-12 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-12 09:15 pm (UTC)My old Tumblr posts are hard because I first joined to participate in a Fatshionista Outfit Post Stravaganza and I'm so thin in those photos, I was like 30 pounds lighter than I am now and I was at the height of my roller derby career so most of my weight was in my quadriceps and hamstring muscles. Christ those are hard to look at now. And I think I don't look any different, but then... no, I'm super old now.
The killer one was one that had my dude in it. Oh my god his hairline. No, he needs to cut off his ponytail now. It's not good. That snuck up on me. Yikes.
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Date: 2018-12-13 03:04 am (UTC)