stunt_muppet | Things I want to do but probably shouldn't:

1. Write a whole bunch of John/Karkat specifically to piss everyone off.

Hey, hey, fandom, come over here I have something really exciting to tell you. Are you listening? Are you ready for it because I think you aren't it might just blow your mind right out of your face.

Ready okay here it is:

There is no such thing as an inherently bad pairing. Or an inherently good one, for that matter. There is no intrinsic moral or utilitarian worth to be had in any pairing given that they're all just ideas/devices for us to have fun with a media source on the internet. You don't have to like any particular pairing, but your feelings about them do not make them good or bad.

Now shut up and sit down and stop throwing fits about it. Cripes.

2. Sign up for Yuletide. Last time I tried that I defaulted and I'm pathologically incapable of doing much of anything on a deadline so it's pretty well covered why it'd be a bad idea to sign up for Yuletide but it always seems like so much fun and I am a greedy bastard who likes getting presents. :(

Plus, last time I signed up the fandoms I volunteered for (and the one I ended up getting assigned) included the movie The Fall, which is so unceasingly flawless that when I tried to write for it I tied myself in knots trying to construct Meaningful Symbolic Magical Realist Blather that equalled the unbearable perfection that is The Fall and predictably enough didn't get anywhere.

If I was going to sign up this time, I would sign up for movies like Van Helsing and Priest, because yes, there's a category for the Priest movie. The thing is, much as I enjoyed them, both of those movies were complete bollocks that I went to see mainly because there were pretty people in them. I would feel much less pressure writing for them.

Although I suppose if I wrote for Priest the recipient might expect me to know things about the manhwa and I really don't, so...

Also the Gabriel Knight games are on there and if I had played the last one I would sign up just to write that, MORE GABRIEL KNIGHT LOVE YEAAAH.

3. Make some icons out of the pile of fanart I've right-click-saved from Tumblr. Oh wait I already did that.

Six Homestuck (mostly Equius and Equius <> Nepeta), 5 Transformers Animated (Sari, human!Wasp, Blackarachnia), and one random humanized Pinkie Pie because I can. Oh, and one Tarman from Return of the Living Dead, because the picture was funny.

Fanart credits:
1: Sraya (dA)
2. Koshou (dA)
3,4,5: xamag_chan (dA)
6: Ask Gamzee on Tumblr
7,9: NorthernBanshee (dA)
10,11: Mamonna (dA)
8: Unfortunately I found it on danbooru so I don't know who to credit. :( But if you do drop me a line.
12: Prettykitty (ponybooru)
13: Google image search fuck yeah.

Credit if you use would be lovely. :D

Don't make fun of my amateur icon skills. :(

4. Join Tumblr, for that matter, given that about a third of LJ seems to have moved there. Where are you gu~ys?

But I'd feel weird being on Tumblr - there's no real way to post fic or blog on there, you just have to reblog from other blogs, and I can't figureout how one's supposed to hold a conversation of any kind. Also it seems to be primarily fanart focused and while I've been going to the open model sessions at our local arts center I'm still not good enough to have any kind of consistent offering.

5. Spend an hour on the computer making a post when I should be doing something productive like cleaning my room or getting ready for work.

OH WAIT.

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I don't understand moving from LJ to Tumblr. I use them for completely different things! Tumblr is great for shiny pictures and short quotes. LJ is for longer posts and conversations.

Agreed! I'll sometimes lurk on other people's Tumblrs for the sake of shinies/spoilerpics, but I haven't felt the need for an account - I am a more textual type.

That's mostly what I'm doing now - I've got the Tumblrs of people I know here bookmarked, as well as some others I've found, but I don't have anything to put up there myself - certainly not any original artistic content.

And yet I seem not to talk to anyone who is on Tumblr if I'm not on it myself. Hmm hmm.

And yet so many people seem to have done so, migrating almost entirely to Tumblr and only popping in to post an "I'm not dead" every so often. And meanwhile I'm over here like "but what about meta? What about lengthy blog posts? What about having a conversation where every sentence of it doesn't have to be reblogged to even continue the dialogue why would you even do that waaaagh."

I sometimes feel like fandom as a whole is getting a shorter and shorter attention span. Damn whippersnappers can't even focus long enough to have a real conversation, rassa frassa just wanna look at pretty pictures git offa mah lawn. *shakes fist*

I've seen that happen too, yes, and I have the same reaction. I love Tumblr, but I don't see it as an alternative to LJ, more like a complement.

I sometimes feel like fandom as a whole is getting a shorter and shorter attention span.
Heh, that might have a lot to do with it :P

I don't understand Tumblr at all. It seems to make sense as a platform for collecting fanart and posting it in one place, or quotes, or macros, or the like. But it seems horrid for conversations.

That's pretty much it, yes. I know some people do manage to have conversations there, but... I find them very hard to follow.

I'm in it for the shiny pictures, really. LJ (well, journal-based platforms in general) is muh better for conversations.

I do Tumblr a lot lately because it's perfect for the oddly brain-dead state of mind I've been in for ages -- ooh, good photo, pretty picture -- reblog reflexively! Heh. It doesn't replace LJ as a way to have online conversations.

I think a lot of fandom seems to be feeling like that lately - maybe we kind of burned out on meta after the last round of meta-heavy Thinky Thoughts about kyriarchy and the place of fandom in literary circles and now people just want to look at pictures?

It does kind of suck if you have no way to provide those pictures for people, though. Suppose I should just get one anyway.

I miss meta too in some ways but I've been losing most of my time to RPing. And also, my version of meta tended to feed wank wars, whether I intended it or not. IDEK.

I stopped reading Homestuck after a short while, so what's wrong with John/Karkat essentially? I keep seeing wank about it with no explanation.

Yeah, I loooove Tumblr but it seems to be biased for artists over writers, and conversations are hard to hold on there like on LJ. So I'll never move over there 100% because I really do need a site for actual convos and fics and stuff. But I'm there (lannistersroar)!

I honestly don't know. From what I can discern, it started at a point fairly late in Act 5 wherein Karkat confessed to a hatecrush on John. John responds that he is, quote, "not a homosexual" to shut that down. For some reason, some segments of fandom seized on that as ironclad canon, with changing it akin to shipping Kanaya with a man and thus erasing a queer character. As such shipping John/Karkat was wrong wrong wrong.

Except there seem to be plenty of people who ship John/Dave who decry John/Karkat as inherently bad, so...yeah, I got nothing.

I've noticed that - conversations seem to involve reblogging the same thread over and over so it shows up again and again on your dash. There's no real threading or even a comments section of any kind. I don't know if I could get used to that - it's very isolated.

Still, I'll probably get an account just to be there. I miss seeing people! I'll add you once I get the account set up.

Tumblr has some serious structural flaws which prevent it from being a community-building space--it's basically impossible to hold a coherent conversation--but there's lots of shiny stuff in easy reach. Personally I've been moving away from the community aspect of fandom for a while though, so I don't mind. I think you're about as hermit-like as I am, so you might not mind, either. However! I'm not kidding about the shiny! You'll probably end up blocking it twice a week just to get anything done, heh.

And of course I am kayliemalinza over there, too.

I've noticed - there isn't even really a space to comment. You just have to keep reblogging stuff back and forth. It seems very echo-chamber-y. And while I do value my alone time, I am also discovering that after too much alone time I go a little stir-crazy, even online, and I'll end up going to anonmemes and chans for any kind of conversations. I'd rather do that in a place I can have my pseud attached and keep track of conversations.

I have already lost hours to some of the more backlogged tumblrs, believe me - I'm well aquainted with the block button even without having an account.

I'm pretty much on Tumblr most of the time too. It's more of a microblogging site than a social networking site like LJ is, and yeah, it's pretty hard to have conversations on there (though it's not impossible), but considering the headspace I'm in right now, it's low-maintenance and very addictive. I'm still on LJ, but I've noticed that activity has gone down here quite a bit, so if you still really want to keep up with people you'll probably have to get an account.

I've noticed - a big chunk of Transformers fandom seems to have decamped there, if nothing else, which I guess makes sense because it's such a heavily visually-oriented fandom and thus well-suited to the image-heavy nature of Tumblr.

I don't know, I just kind of miss the big comment threads that used to develop in people's journals. Anon chatting is nice and all but I'd like to do it with my pseud attached and be able to follow a thread.

I understand. And you can still have conversations and threads and whatnot on Tumblr -- it's not the most intuitive system, but it's possible. And I've seen meta and other interesting discussions on there too. It's just one of those things where if you want meta and discussion, you have to start creating it yourself and see who pays attention.

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