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[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

 holy crap. my dreamwidth inbox is well over 100. what is this, a tumblr ask blog? 🤣

I've just taken a week off work but I didn't get as much juice out of it as I'd hoped to. Ah well. At least I had a week away. I'll have to figure out the recharging part some other time. 

how are you all doing? I've been thinking more thinky thoughts about social media, so expect a ramble about tiktok and filters at some point. And possibly some form of dystopic novella to go with it. 

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[independence1776]

Hi! A lot of my creative energy right now is directed toward sewing 18" doll clothes (and it's fannish sewing, too!), but I'm idly and mostly subconsciously letting myself process just how toxic fandom and people who just can't help but interact with things they hate has made me afraid to take risks.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

*hugs* the sewing sounds amazing. the toxicity and fear much less so. I'm with you though. I don't know htat I want to dive head first into a fandom again right now. Definitely not one with a bunch of people under 25 in it, at least. (ageist, yes, but also that seems to be the demographic who are loudest and most likely to harass)

[independence1776]

This is what I made!

My two primary fandoms are Tolkien and Star Wars. Tolkien, at least my parts of it, are calm for the fandom. Star Wars… there is no avoiding drama even though I make an effort. But even existing on Tumblr for the past decade (even the couple of years I flatly refused to have anything to do with fandom on the site; I had a tulips & log cabin-centric blog then) has done a lot of harm due to all the anti and purity culture, villain discourse, and all the other BS. Sometimes I'm honestly not sure being there has done more good than harm.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

I've been lucky enough to only see that stuff via the comment blog. I never had to deal with the purity BS on my personal/fandom blog - probably because most of the people I followed were in their 30s or older. But also it feels like things have gotten particularly bad in the last 2-ish years, and I haven't been personal blogging much in that span of time.

*hugs*

[independence1776]

I've only ever had the one blog and didn't unfollow people when I switched to non-fandom stuff, so it still appeared on my dash via people refuting it. (If I see someone I follow spouting that nonsense, I'll unfollow, but that hasn't happened.) Yeah, it does seem to have gotten worse in the fairly recent past. Possibly the pandemic and everything else going on made it worse via people trying to control things in a time when they have no control… and without realizing this is yet another thing they can't control.