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thefourthvine) wrote2012-07-20 11:36 pm
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Tumblr?
Okay, so I am sure you are all very tired of seeing posts by people going, "Who is Tumblr? What is she, that all our fans commend her?" But! I have a question, brought on by
thehoyden, who is, it goes without saying, a terrible person. And so, yes, this is another How Does Tumblr post. Sorry.
See, I have always rejected Tumblr as Not for Me, because walls of text are not welcome there, and I am an entirely text-based creature. And I will probably always be a more or less passive Tumblr user, but - I was considering posting, like, shorter, single-thing recs there. For recs that will never fit in a set! Or whatever! It would still be all text, though. Is that a thing I should do? OPINE AT ME, Tumblr denizens! Assuming any of you still read this text-based medium.
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See, I have always rejected Tumblr as Not for Me, because walls of text are not welcome there, and I am an entirely text-based creature. And I will probably always be a more or less passive Tumblr user, but - I was considering posting, like, shorter, single-thing recs there. For recs that will never fit in a set! Or whatever! It would still be all text, though. Is that a thing I should do? OPINE AT ME, Tumblr denizens! Assuming any of you still read this text-based medium.
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... Though I prefer this particular text-based medium, because Tumblr goes way too fast for me.
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So I would prefer recs being posted here. :o) Or at least cross-posted here, because I still secretly hope to see one of my stories recced. (Geno/Sid western au! Coming up! Why is no one but me excited about this?)
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/selfish comment
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Also from a selfish perspective, but. I don't have a tumblr account, and I'm not really intending on getting one. Not because I couldn't thrive there, but because I only have so many hours in the day and I've verified already that tumblr and I don't get along, because of that. *solemn* So while I do have a few tumblrs that I wander by occasionally and skim, I'm not trying to keep up there and I can't.
tldr: I'd be sad if the recs were tumblr only, because I'd rarely see them and I love your recs so.
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I don't know if there is a way to cross-post, though.
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I follow a few tumblrs with a reader, but that's it. A lot of aspects of tumblr's entire interface don't work with my reading style or the amount of time I have. So anything I read on tumblr comes from either following other people's links, or shoehorning specific tumblrs into other formats and other online systems.
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(and yeah, seen recs too)
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Just don't leave, okay? :)
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Let us know if you go with that idea!
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I'd also be happy to read shorter, single-thing recs here, for the record.
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While I think that text posts are fine on tumblr (people actually do post fic there, although WHY WHY WHY, I cannot even begin to parse), it is also true that tumblr posts are short-lived, hard to search, tend to wash away in the perpetually oncoming tumblr tide, etc.
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For the recs, however, I'd rather see them here. tumblr is so very... post-textual.
(Gif sets, on the other hand, are developing into an entire artform of their own, which makes me think that tumblr may actually benefit fannish creators.)
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I'm also really happy that DW is taking the first steps to image hosting.
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Personally, I would be quite content to read your single recs on this here journal. But if you want to do something else, that would be cool too, if you post signposts.
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And since I do go back and look for older recs, I'd vote for a cross-post (not a RSS feed) here on DW/LJ.
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I'm not a fan of reading text on it, not least because you can't comment or reply to it -- and isn't that part of the fun when it comes to recs? Or fanfic, for that matter, which people also post there for reasons that baffle me.
Also, I know you have the set-of-recs format and all, but I can't imagine anyone is going to point fingers and say You Are Not Following Your Self-Devised Format if you were to break away from it whenever you felt like it for single recs and whatnot. :-)
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Okay, on a more serious note, do the Tumblr thing if you wish, I'm all for everyone doing whatever makes them happy. I just... don't quite get tumblr. Or, hmm, it's fun for 5-30 minutes of surfing images-only, but the idea of following things on Tumblr makes my head hurt. The formatting of stuff is odd, and there's a certain shortness of posting and phrasing that always makes me feel like I've stumbled into a conversation already in progress.
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If you look at specific tags like "domestic avengers" for example you'll see LOTS of blocks of text. Some people post whole fics to tumblr. There's also a lot of fic reccing.
What I would suggest as a compromise to cross-posting everything here would be to make a reminder post here once a week or so "recs posted to tumblr this week, go here!" and just link to the tumblr, because you don't have to have an account in order to read someone's page. It would be a lot less work than trying to crosspost everything.
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Really? Is there a text-based primer for that? I haven't found it, nor found a way to post anything or comment or do anything except read and reblog.
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I find Tumblr a bit nauseating, personally. All the refreshing/scrolling doesn't give my eyes a place to rest.
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One thing I really enjoy using Tumblr for are quotes from fic. Whenever I come across a really great line, I tend to put it in Tumblr. That's a kind of rec, but I think its also an example of how the Tumblr design/interface is really more set up for certain things like images, quotes, and links... and less for actual humans having actual conversations with each other about fic. (Which, as much as I'm a confirmed Tumblr user, is the thing I most dislike about it.)
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honestly, everything everyone's said is true; i don't think it's an either/or situation.
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Anyway, I've found that people use it for words as well as pictures, and take this opportunity to post a link to one of my favourite Tumblrs, sex is not the enemy: here's the word tag -- if you click, there's nothing but safe, reliable words there, but they're words about sex and porn and other NSFW things like that.
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