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On August 21st, like it, kudo it, favorite it, or whatever other ways there are to leave the writer feedback, then leave her a little love note.
Go to AO3, FF, Tumblr, fic archives, livejournal, wherever you read fic, and make a point to leave a comment on a fic (or fics) or send the author a message about her/his work.
One of my favorite ways to comment on Tumblr is to repost a ficlet, with my comment added. It both gives the piece a wider audience, and lets her know I liked it and why.
So on Friday, read some fic. If you like it, comment on it, even if it's just a "Loved it!" or "Thank you so much for writing my favorite pairing!"
Spread a little love.
Go to AO3, FF, Tumblr, fic archives, livejournal, wherever you read fic, and make a point to leave a comment on a fic (or fics) or send the author a message about her/his work.
One of my favorite ways to comment on Tumblr is to repost a ficlet, with my comment added. It both gives the piece a wider audience, and lets her know I liked it and why.
So on Friday, read some fic. If you like it, comment on it, even if it's just a "Loved it!" or "Thank you so much for writing my favorite pairing!"
Spread a little love.
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Date: 2015-08-21 04:00 am (UTC)I like your personalized version of this signal boost better than the one I C/P'd ♥
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Date: 2015-08-21 04:16 am (UTC)What Tumblr has that no one else does is nekkie pictures. I'll tell you that right off. If you want to find a picture of a naked ginger with a pig (and I'm not talking about fucking it), I bet Tumblr has at least one. Make that two. It'll have one with a girl and one with a boy. It has lots of pictures of pretty things - sunsets and birds and kittens and hot men and waterfalls and amazing places around the world. It is a very visual place, which makes it extremely odd that I don't particularly enjoy it.
I don't like Tumblr for fandom. Conversation is more confrontational than the polite, if sometimes heated, discourse on livejournal. It is very difficult to have an actual conversation on Tumblr, and it's built that way. It wasn't meant for people to talk. It was meant for people to share pretty stuff and repost it ad nauseum.
Tumblr is people calling other people's opinions bullshit, or telling people they're not really a fan of x unless they do this one thing. Tumblr is mostly reposting other people's stuff, rather than sharing original content, though there definitely are people sharing original content there. There are in particular a LOT of talented artists on Tumblr.
Tumblr skews young. While there are older people there, like say this fifty-year-old woman for instance, it is very much perceived to be the playground of the young.
I've seen more hateful things on Tumblr than I have anywhere else on the internet, including Facebook, and I've seen some crazy crap on Facebook.
And, I'll be honest, I haven't looked at my Tumblr for more than a few minutes in over two months.
And yeah. I've always got to be weird. lol
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Date: 2015-08-21 07:47 pm (UTC)That's been my impression of the site so far, and mostly why I've stayed away. Thanks for the confirmation! :)
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Date: 2015-08-21 11:46 pm (UTC)For me, Tumblr has been the most help in educating me about different kinds of queerness, all the spectra of sexual, romantic, gender expression, etc. I've LEARNED a lot, because these young people (and I say that will ALL affection) are just sharing all out - I would never have talked about some of these things, even if I'd known they existed, when I was a teen or young twenties. They talk, they rant, they complain, they support, they define, they refine.
But for fandom. Nope.
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Date: 2015-08-21 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-21 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-24 10:55 am (UTC)I love what you say about the little ficlets tho and here's a factoid: my writing output, and the number of fandoms I have written for just ZOOMED since I joined tumblr. The ask box/prompt mentality, and people's willingness to reblog those prompts makes it very rewarding to dash off a little fic here and there. And it's so easy to promise someone a three-sentence fic and end up writing 3000 words. (No pressure lets the muse turn up or not as she sees fit!)
And as to fic writers appreciation day ... I got some lovely appreciation but I had to laugh ... it's the one day in a while I hadn't had any comments on my fic. :P
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Date: 2015-08-24 11:34 am (UTC)Funny about Tumblr prompts. I've reposted more than a few memes asking for prompts, and have never been prompted. I've had meme questions once or twice, but I don't get much participation on Tumblr except for reposting and liking. It could very well be my
obsessionfocus on BSG, which is, you know. Old. ::dramatic sigh:: I don't write much else. Yet.