It's interesting because as someone slightly younger whose first fan experiences were on Instagram (yeah. i know. it wasn't great, and the absolute absence of warnings on anything were uh. Interesting!), and who then migrated on Tumblr (and couldn't get into Twitter), it feels like I've never had the personal/actual talking parts of fandom. But yeah, for me on Tumblr sometimes reblogging things isn't what I like doing because even if I do have somewhat of a tagging system for my blog... it's still kinda showing everyone who follows me the Thing if they haven't blocked a specific tag. That and it's a lot like screaming into the void sometimes. (I'm also realizing maybe on Tumblr I like using tags to ramble because it feels more like whispering to myself than, like, the actual post.) Twitter ? That thing scares me. It doesn't feel like there's a lot of context to anything on it, you can't have nuance in 240 characters, and I am afraid of posting literally any kind of fanart over there because of this. (I'm not sure if I'm even on topic at this point i am very tired)
The most sense of community and actually discussing stuff with people online I've had was on a roleplay forum in 2014- I've kept some lifelong friends from back then. There were both the roleplay and longer posts and a real time chat box! It was great. Discord, to an extent, have given me some Actual Discussion Time but only in one or two specific servers.
Honestly ? This is why I decided to join Dreamwidth when you started talking about it because. uh. I wanted to try out actually talking to people for once. Which is something I've barely done in online fandom spaces simply because... there wasn't really a way to, unless my friends are into the same thing. I'm glad I found someone who encourages me on my fanfic endeavors irl, and also likes the elder scrolls and laughs with me about my wacky headcanons. I don't think I've found any place where something like that could happen yet.
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But yeah, for me on Tumblr sometimes reblogging things isn't what I like doing because even if I do have somewhat of a tagging system for my blog... it's still kinda showing everyone who follows me the Thing if they haven't blocked a specific tag. That and it's a lot like screaming into the void sometimes. (I'm also realizing maybe on Tumblr I like using tags to ramble because it feels more like whispering to myself than, like, the actual post.)
Twitter ? That thing scares me. It doesn't feel like there's a lot of context to anything on it, you can't have nuance in 240 characters, and I am afraid of posting literally any kind of fanart over there because of this.
(I'm not sure if I'm even on topic at this point i am very tired)
The most sense of community and actually discussing stuff with people online I've had was on a roleplay forum in 2014- I've kept some lifelong friends from back then. There were both the roleplay and longer posts and a real time chat box! It was great. Discord, to an extent, have given me some Actual Discussion Time but only in one or two specific servers.
Honestly ? This is why I decided to join Dreamwidth when you started talking about it because. uh. I wanted to try out actually talking to people for once. Which is something I've barely done in online fandom spaces simply because... there wasn't really a way to, unless my friends are into the same thing. I'm glad I found someone who encourages me on my fanfic endeavors irl, and also likes the elder scrolls and laughs with me about my wacky headcanons. I don't think I've found any place where something like that could happen yet.