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[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I'm trying to decide what I want to use this space for, and I'm kind of tempted to use it for the posts that I tag as "thinky thoughts" over on tumblr.

tumblr's great for a lot of things - obviously, I've been blogging there for almost a decade. But it can also get overwhelming sometimes.

My personal account there is semi-dormant since I tend to think of that as a place where I can hyperfixate on my fandom of choice and interact with other people in that fandom - but I don't currently have a fandom that I'm obsessed with the way I was with my last one.

I do miss that feeling, though. A lot.

So I think I might use this space to dump all of these thoughts that I have about social media and fandom and the various discourses that keep me up at night. This is a better forum to have those kinds of conversations. Even when I reblog other people's opinions on tumblr, it feels too much like I'm an audience member watching a conversation rather than an actual participant in it. Especially when so many of the speakers are actually just whispering in their tags.

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[ms_katonic]

I've had the same experience with Tumblr, with Thoughts on a post, but not wanting to verbalise them for fear of either derailing a discussion or dogpiling from other people. Even reblogging with thoughts in the tags is no longer a guarantee you won't get negativity, not now those get sent to the OP as well.

And then I saw a link to your other post on a Tumblr post someone reblogged and felt very excited at Dreamwidth being a thing again and realised what I'd missed. So, er, here I am. I don't know if we share fandoms but an awful lot of the general meta applies cross-fandom, and DW is so much better for actual conversations. I hardly had to block anyone on LJ, but on Tumblr I seem to be doing it every five minutes.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I'm vaguely interested in a hundred fandoms or more, but I'm not actively creating or consuming in any of them. If I see stuff, I smile and enjoy it but that's about as far as I'm going these days. I'm in a meta headspace, for whatever reason, and I think that DW is the place for that more than tumblr.

I do still like tumblr, but not for conversation. There, it feels like even when I clearly state that a post is my opinion, people still take it like I'm stating facts. No! I'm doing it to start a conversation, not just to have people agree with me and reblog and leave it there. XD