Sigh - I miss tumblr

[kitewithfish]

I miss Tumblr

Not the current version of tumblr, which I can go and visit, which is like the children's exhibits at an art museum, with half the important but controversial people left out of the conversation and all the bits covered up by papal fig leaves

I miss the weirdness and the art and the random porn that also commented on character and stumbling into a three-month-long fight in a fandom I legit have never heard of that turned into a gif dance off and a watercolor porn fest at the same time.

It was weird, and now it’s gone, and I love dreamwidth, don’t get me wrong, it’s much much better at having conversations and community and I think it’s better at keeping people from being harassed, and maybe I’ll get into Pillowfort if enough people I like show up there, but. Man.

I miss tumblr.  

Comments

[author_by_night]

I completely understand, even if I was never into tumblr myself. However, I have had sites I loved shut down, and it honestly hurts. :/

[kitewithfish]

<3

[recently_folded]

Yes: the random stuff that trickled through your dash even though you never actually subscribed to that. I was just thinking today that I miss, particularly, all of the links to articles on politics or media or culture, things I would never necessarily seek out whole blogs on or even comms on that topic, but that I enjoyed sprinkled in through the madness. The whimsical is gone, and I miss that. It's all very well to be all serious and lengthywordy here on DW, but I miss a good shitpost, the games of one-up, the collectively-written sentence-at-a-time fics, the odd image that is just kinda cool even though that's not what anyone's blog was about. *sigh*

[author_by_night]

I hope DW gets more of that spunk! LJ used to have it, but ages ago. I never got into tumblr, but it sounds like it had the fun LJ had c. 2005. That's what I really miss. And I'm all about lengthy posts, but lengthy posts on fun stuff or fandomy things as much as more "down to Earth" topic.

[kitewithfish]

The whimsical is gone, and I miss that. It's all very well to be all serious and lengthywordy here on DW, but I miss a good shitpost, the games of one-up, the collectively-written sentence-at-a-time fics, the odd image that is just kinda cool even though that's not what anyone's blog was about. *sigh*

DW is great, but yeah, that moment of "Welcome to Out of Context Theatre!" is a bit rarer here...

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Dreamwidth is more like a coffeehouse than a graffiti wall. I can see why you miss Tumblr. I am sad that it got ruined, even though it was never my cuppa tea.

Re: Yes ...

[kitewithfish]

Ha, you're rigtht- Tumblr did have a great graffiti element going for it - or a bathroom wall! You don't know how the post got there but it's there now and everyone has Feelings!

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

See, that's exactly why it got shut down. It was TOO free expression. It said a lot of things that society doesn't want said, and can't afford to have said too much. This is why graffiti is illegal: certain ideas, and certain people, are not permitted public voice. Graffiti is when people take that voice by force and refuse to be silenced. It irritates the hell out of the authorities when "those people" won't shut up. So of course Tumblr got painted over by the censors. They're basically allergic to freedom.

No, I don't like seeing "motherfuckr" sprayed on walls, although I have seen some glorious pieces painted on trains. I don't like people praising Trump as a 'great president.' But they have a right to their ideas and a free society needs places of open discourse. Without that, we're limited to what is pleasing to the masses. Doubleplusungood. So I mourn the loss of Tumblr-that-was, even though I never spent time there. It was of value to me as a safety valve for other people. And sometimes people would point out a cool thing on there and I'd go look, like pointing out cool graffiti on a wall.