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quigonejinn) wrote2017-04-19 11:41 am
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Apropos of nothing but five (!) years on Tumblr, I have to say that it's kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinda delightful to come back to a more journal-y format. Tumblr feels a lot like San Diego Comic Con in all of its glory and all of its misery.
Like, there are so many pretty things to look at! So many text posts to read! A never-ending torrent of multimedia content, along thousands and thousands of strangers, with hundreds of people at any given time standing and holding forth and waving their arms and loudly expressing themselves, and sure you can meet your friends behind the Marvel booth, and it's so so so nice to see all these people who are also interested in something similar, but oh God, it's so loud, and most of these people are so wrong, and is it really worth fighting through all those crowds????
In contrast, when I posted to DW yesterday, old fandom friends, some of whom I haven't connected with in years, showed up to drop me a kind comment and welcome me back around. Some people that I had an acquaintanceship with on Tumblr came by, too. People talked to each other. People talked to me. It was kinda like propping the garden gate open, y'know? So that anybody who wanted to could come by for a cup of tea and a chat in the nice, cozy kitchen. It was so nice, too, going and looking at the recent posts page and being able to catch up on what people that I liked and knew had been doing since the last time we talked -- and not just doing, of course, but also what they had been thinking and reading and doing and feeling. You can pick that up from reblogs, and there were always tags and the occasional personal text posts, but reading people's DW posts really feels like getting to hear one-on-one from them.
It's a very different way of being in fandom, I think. God knows we managed to make it wanky back in the day, and I'm sure things'll change if more fandom people end up on DW, but for now, I'm really glad to back on DW. The garden gate is open! I have thoughts on meatballs!
Like, there are so many pretty things to look at! So many text posts to read! A never-ending torrent of multimedia content, along thousands and thousands of strangers, with hundreds of people at any given time standing and holding forth and waving their arms and loudly expressing themselves, and sure you can meet your friends behind the Marvel booth, and it's so so so nice to see all these people who are also interested in something similar, but oh God, it's so loud, and most of these people are so wrong, and is it really worth fighting through all those crowds????
In contrast, when I posted to DW yesterday, old fandom friends, some of whom I haven't connected with in years, showed up to drop me a kind comment and welcome me back around. Some people that I had an acquaintanceship with on Tumblr came by, too. People talked to each other. People talked to me. It was kinda like propping the garden gate open, y'know? So that anybody who wanted to could come by for a cup of tea and a chat in the nice, cozy kitchen. It was so nice, too, going and looking at the recent posts page and being able to catch up on what people that I liked and knew had been doing since the last time we talked -- and not just doing, of course, but also what they had been thinking and reading and doing and feeling. You can pick that up from reblogs, and there were always tags and the occasional personal text posts, but reading people's DW posts really feels like getting to hear one-on-one from them.
It's a very different way of being in fandom, I think. God knows we managed to make it wanky back in the day, and I'm sure things'll change if more fandom people end up on DW, but for now, I'm really glad to back on DW. The garden gate is open! I have thoughts on meatballs!
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Actual human interaction. What a mind boggling concept.
The ability to express a thought with some kind of permanence?!?! Of course, now the performance anxiety will set in. LOL.
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So my #1 performance anxiety thing is less, though yeah, I do get the pressure of WHAT DO I SAY? The nice part, though, about DW is that I feel like I can talk about just my personal life or some rando thought I have without needing to phrase it so that it will be reblogged by as MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE and that I HAVE SOMEHOW FAILED IF I DO NOT GET PEOPLE TO REBLOG IT.
It's so nice to talk to people, though, and feel like there is another human actually on the other side.
Total randomness, but I must know, and it's been bugging me on MULTIPLE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS NOW: who is that in your icon?
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The icon is Tom Hiddleston in a crash helmet ;)
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that man is so ludicrously charming. not even my low-grade resentment that idris elba isn't going to be the next bond, and that it might be hiddles, can overcome the charming-ness of that.
thanks. THANKS.
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(I ended up crashing out of The Night Manager even though it was SO pretty and I wanted to like ti SO much. It might have been a fault of the underlying story, but the writing just seemed flat as hell. Plus, if I'm promised a Whitehall beaurocratic knife fight, I want an actual beaurocratic spy knife fight!
Also, it's deeply amusing to me that so many of my icons that I uploaded, like, FIVE YEARS AGO are still applicable to conversations in 2017.)
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It's funny you should say that! Indie also peaced out of TNM. I can see how it would be a bit of a slog. I think part of the reason I stuck with it was that I was on the couch with the flu and it was winter, so all of that posh seaside travel porn was super appealing to me. :P
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Because I read this and thought "hmm yes good words" and went right for that non-existent button.
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Sigh. We're all just rats pushing buttons now. :(
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[insert gratuitous comment about the big ol' meatballs of one Wm. Bush]
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AND ..... :)
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2) Okay so as you know I wasn't in fandom during the heydey of LJ, but I am definitely open to being in fandom on DW! Except for I don't know anyone or how to do it and I'm firmly enmeshed in tumblr and can't keep up with a million social media forums.
3) ....related to the above, I have a personal DW and a fandom DW and I don't know how to keep them separate or if keeping them separate is even really useful/necessary in this environment.
4) I miss chatting with you! We should talk sometime, whether through actual chat or through DW comments.
5) For some reason it won't let me post this comment using my fandom account because it says my message "looks like spam," so let's see if I can post it with my other account. (Edit: it worked, which means that I suppose there is no utility in trying to keep my personal account separate.)
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AND YOUR KIDS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE IDEAS ABOUT WHAT TO HAVE FOR DINNER. Mine just eats milk and mash and puffs every night. Also, likes to chew on shoes. Yes, actual shoes.
True story: you were actually my introduction to LJ, all the way back in the day. I remember you linking to it maybe back in college, and me being like PHHHT WHO WANTS TO READ PERSONAL UPDATES FROM PEOPLE??? THIS IS THE INTERNET!!!!
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Also ahahahahahahh I had the same reaction to hearing about LJ for the first time, but joined because everyone was doing it (it was still invite only!). It was the recipient of a lot of college roommate drama and a lot of grad school angst. My college friends still use it for their most drama-y moments that are not appropriate for Facebook.
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I agree with what thez said about being so used to pressing a button. I don't write much in the first place, but Tumblr and, even to an extent, Twitter have made me even MORE prone to consume and lurk instead of engaging.