Look, just follow Undertale fanart blogs, then at least you can get mad about the complete lack of a musical community on tumblr in contrast to its visual art one.
The lack of a musical community is a matter of format, methinks. Traditionally, Blogspot has a much stronger association with music sharing and production in terms of blogging communities.
The lack of a musical community is a matter of format, methinks. Traditionally, Blogspot has a much stronger association with music sharing and production in terms of blogging communities.
Blogspot is dead and also the people there never really talked to each other that much.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Anyway I am also predisposed to be skeptical of people who are overly critical of the left, especially if they frame it in "SJW" terms.
It's different here because I know you guys, but I don't have that luxury with most people.
Fair enough. Usually that indicates Gamergate-esque rhetoric, even if they don't explicitly frame it in those terms.
I just really dislike this other extreme as well. The people who assume that you MUST be a Gamergate type if you're not 100% uncritical of Tumblr's concept of what social justice entails.
I can think of a few decent music blogs still hosted on Blogspot—more than a few, actually—but most of them are just "look at this cool thing I found" or "here's a cassette some peeps sent me in the mail" with little direct online communication involved.
Now, on the other hand, Tumblr is a great platform for direct communication in certain forms and for visual media, but when it comes to music it's a bit behind the curve architecturally, which hinders the development of musical communities based on the site itself.
That said, I remember downloading a noise album by someone I follow on Tumblr. Still been meaning to listen to that. Also, Airs' Tumblr is pretty much the only way to get any news about them.
I tend to be more critical of the left than I am of the right, in part because I'm left-leaning so it'd be - you could say - redundant to critique the right so much. I am also pretty erratic with how much I contribute publicly to political and progressive chatter.
The idea that I'm your worst conservative nightmare because I'm critical of e.g. Tumblr leftists (instead of actually having a talk), or whatnot, has always bothered me; but so are the types who attack a caricature of progressive, commonly framed as "SJWs" or similar, like InternetAristocrat. I'm more irritated by the former and tend to give both the benefit of the doubt, since people are more complex than that and speaking with the individual for who they are is more interesting anyway.
Tumblr has, on the whole, been very good for my purposes so I'm not complaining.
anyway . . . i tend to be somewhat forgiving of poorly-reasoned social justice on tumblr because most of the people on there are teenagers who will mature as they get older and have a wider experience of the world
i know that sounds patronizing but honestly i didn't sound nearly that smart when i was a teen so, y'know
Most of my Tumblr is either people from here, or artists I like (mostly Homestuck-related but that's changing since Homestuck is nearly dead), so I haven't seen a whole lot of "no one criticizes The Party and gets away with it" in my dashboard...
Predictably, I follow webcomic artists and assorted weirdos who post stuff like abandoned buildings or draw cute fox-people. Although I really could use more of the latter; there has been a dearth of good furry art on my dash of late...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Maybe it's just becuase I don't tumbl as much as I used to, but I still haven't quite adjusted to the new reblog format yet.
The association "text not indented == this person's words" is hard to break. >_<
sometimes i think about writing a Zelda/One Piece crossover fic, but some combination of shame, and fear that i haven't thought the concept through properly, has stopped me from doing this so far
also Homestuck/Doctor Who, which i know has been done before
other things i have considered: a rewrite of lonelygirl15 for my imaginary TV station, a rewrite of Bleach because i didn't like how the story went, a rewrite of Harry Potter in the style of DBZ
rewrites of other people's ideas, not new stories that i want to tell
I'm actually kind of offput by fanfic in general, which is hilariously hypocritical because I've read plenty and written my own at times.
in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels there is a bit where the characters talk about why fanfiction is terrible because the characters are inevitably pale reflections of the originals
which is funny because the Thursday Next novels are set in a society where people can travel into books (also there is time travel and the crimean war has lasted into the present day), which makes the series essentially an elaborate meta-tastic crossover fanfiction featuring characters from a wide array of classic novels (mostly Regency and Victorian stuff but there's some of everything in there)
basically what im getting at is that you are not alone in your weird contitive dissonance
I think stuff like "askblogs" are indicative of people who basically want whatever piece of fiction they love to be a reality; or to pretend it's so much bigger than it actually is, so they can spend more time in it. There's rarely another reason to wonder what a character's favourite food is.
Fanfiction/fanart is practice for bigger things and incentive to draw/write ("I like this thing, why not depict it/depict an elaboration of it?"). There's also supposedly a lot of Queer Processing in those communities but I stopped listening to that podcast partially because they mostly talk about DBZ and "Omegaverse" fanfiction.
idk if i want fiction to be 'reality' per se, but i do find i often want the worlds of stories i like to, like, persist outside the boundaries of the story, so i can enjoy exploring them further?
probably why i gravitate towards fictional settings which allow for diverse scenarios, like One Piece and Doctor Who
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Have you seen the Kmart tape collection on Archive.org yet, Lee? I linked it a few days ago but I don't know if you looked at it...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I think stuff like "askblogs" are indicative of people who basically want whatever piece of fiction they love to be a reality; or to pretend it's so much bigger than it actually is, so they can spend more time in it. There's rarely another reason to wonder what a character's favourite food is.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
@Lee: Also most of the 1990s tapes start with this delightfully cheesy jingle:
I think stuff like "askblogs" are indicative of people who basically want whatever piece of fiction they love to be a reality; or to pretend it's so much bigger than it actually is, so they can spend more time in it. There's rarely another reason to wonder what a character's favourite food is.
don't see anything wrong with that
Mostly it's annoying to think about; it's normally just a collection of minor vices. It can be indicative of obsessive tendencies, if you're no longer a kid, for example. Some people need that sort of super-focused, extended escapism because they're miserable and/or damaged; I'm sympathetic to that, but at the same time, it could become harmfully immature.
There are people who have thrown massive fits because, eg, someone made a fan-ask-whatever that doesn't coincide with their mental image of a character. More commonly there are people who argue for days on end about how Character A is a canonical feminist (or isn't) and the anger comes from associating too much with that character (and being afraid of seeing oneself negatively), pretending the characters actually have minds of their own instead of being fictional tools of an author (and thus feeling like they're, I don't know, your friend or something), or being afraid of losing face in the cabal that has formed around some piece of fiction on the internet, because you're supposed to be knowledgeable and insightful about Homestuck, dammit. The internet can bring people together but these communities, when too focused and dedicated (as they often are), become very socially-stunted.
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i just found a music person i like and they have a tumblr, but it's all just tracks with nothing else so what's the point
I just really dislike this other extreme as well. The people who assume that you MUST be a Gamergate type if you're not 100% uncritical of Tumblr's concept of what social justice entails.
anyway . . . i tend to be somewhat forgiving of poorly-reasoned social justice on tumblr because most of the people on there are teenagers who will mature as they get older and have a wider experience of the world
i know that sounds patronizing but honestly i didn't sound nearly that smart when i was a teen so, y'know
idk
also Homestuck/Doctor Who, which i know has been done before
i feel very unoriginal
it was not very good and the author never finished it, which made me sad
rewrites of other people's ideas, not new stories that i want to tell
which is funny because the Thursday Next novels are set in a society where people can travel into books (also there is time travel and the crimean war has lasted into the present day), which makes the series essentially an elaborate meta-tastic crossover fanfiction featuring characters from a wide array of classic novels (mostly Regency and Victorian stuff but there's some of everything in there)
basically what im getting at is that you are not alone in your weird contitive dissonance
want whatever piece of fiction they love to be a reality; or to pretend it's so much bigger than it actually is, so they can spend more time in it. There's rarely
another reason to wonder what a character's favourite food is.
Fanfiction/fanart is practice for bigger things and incentive to draw/write ("I like this thing, why not depict it/depict an elaboration of it?"). There's also supposedly a lot of Queer Processing in those communities but I stopped listening to that podcast partially because they mostly talk about DBZ and "Omegaverse" fanfiction.
probably why i gravitate towards fictional settings which allow for diverse scenarios, like One Piece and Doctor Who
this is an indisputably great crossover
There are people who have thrown massive fits because, eg, someone made a fan-ask-whatever that doesn't coincide with their mental image of a character. More commonly there are people who argue for days on end about how Character A is a canonical feminist (or isn't) and the anger comes from associating too much with that character (and being afraid of seeing oneself negatively), pretending the characters actually have minds of their own instead of being fictional tools of an author (and thus feeling like they're, I don't know, your friend or something), or being afraid of losing face in the cabal that has formed around some piece of fiction on the internet, because you're supposed to be knowledgeable and insightful about Homestuck, dammit. The internet can bring people together but these communities, when too focused and dedicated (as they often are), become very socially-stunted.
EDIT: Page-bottomer, niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee