Pokes this thing.

[pameluke]

So the last months my brains have decided that tumblr is just too stressful. Which is weird, because tumblr is how I learned to do fandom, so you'd assume I've got some built-in resistance to the madness. Apparently not. 
Or maybe it's simply that anger is exhausting, and there's so many angry people on there, that sweep me along in their angerness. It's so hard for me to not care. I just don't have the spoons.

The thing is, I've finally got my writing mojo back, and I'm really into fandom exchanges lately, so I figured, let's give this dreamwidth thing a try. Livejournal and its likes have never been part of my internet life, so it all feels brand new and shiny, even though it so very much isn't.

But I kinda like it.

I'm not entirely sure how canon specific fandom works on here, but at this point, I'm mostly into multi-fandom exchanges anyway, so I've got time to figure it out.

So that's it I think. I still need to write a Yuletide Round-up, and a Round-Up of my year in fic writiing, and then I think I'm ready for the new fandom year. 

\o/

Comments

[ravenna_c_tan]

I agree, Tumblr can be exhausting. To me it's one giant firehose with very little actual connection to people and no real way to have a conversation. Which I guess is fine if all people want to do is squee or rant, but what I liked best about Livejournal/IJ/DW was it was more direct connections.

This is Cecilia, btw, but I friended you from my fanfic journal. I'm not as active as I'd like to be--only do 1-2 fests a year and don't read or comment a huge amount--but I'm still around!

[pameluke]

I don't know, I actually still like Tumblr, it's where I started to participate in fandom, and since I never had the LJ/DW fandom experience before, I can't really compare.
Plus, I have to admit, I really like all the graphics and pictures.

Mostly it's that keeping up with my dash and engage in all the various anger and protest and disasters just became too much. I can't seem to disengage, which became utterly exhausting.

There's something calm and relaxing about engaging merely through text form.

[ravenna_c_tan]

There are graphics and pictures in the LJ/DW spaces too, just not as heavy. In the old days when people were on dialup, it took a looooong time for the pictures to load so people always put them under a cut and text was king. I see a lot of images not under the cut anymore these days! But yeah, not in the same way that it all flows on Tumblr.