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beccatoriaRight, I've been gone forever. I spent the first half of April in the USA for my grandpa's funeral (well, memorial service, he was cremated right after he died, but people wanted to take time to organise a big memorial service when scattered family could all attend). It was good to see some people I haven't seen in a really long time. It was also sad.
Anyway, I came back and then there was a whole bunch of VidUKon stuff to get organised with, plus a load of house-related stuff I just didn't deal with after moving in but before going on vacation.
But also...I don't know. Journalling communities are kind of dying, it feels like. I'm not helping with that, even though I like them better. But they take more time and investment. Tumblr and twitter can suck up just as much time but you feel yourself interacting constantly. There's just non-stop entertainment. It's not me on my own madly typing into a computer. I like the time-sink-grab-bag-of-cool-stuff that tumblr offers and I like the way of easily keeping in touch with so many people that twitter offers.
But I've realised I don't like the way both of them make it hard to engage in wider conversations. Twitter's too brief, and tumblr - it's...far more based around friends running at you and yelling, "THIS IS AWESOME!" or "THIS IS HORRIFYING!" Everything you see comes with implicit approval or disapproval; you don't just "find" stuff, it's always being presented in the context of who's showing it to you. It has a tendency to echo chamber because it's basically people passing around stuff they find cool. Which is a really neat thing about it. Until you...don't agree with what people are saying. Then it becomes really hard both because tumblr also has a terrible format for longer discussion and because culturally, I don't really feel it's built for it. It's built for squee and outrage and it does those things really well as group activities. In forums people react to things with words - things that aren't necessarily being said by people they already know. In journal communities, people link to and talk about stuff and say "hey this is smart, I agree with this!" but usually with added words. It's a point from which you jump off and talk about stuff and even if it's not your intention, that means you get a ton of different reactions to the same thing, not a ton of identical reblogs. It feels less monolithic.
I dunno. That's my experience anyway. It makes being on the "wrong" side of an issue kind of lonely. You don't want to harsh people's squee. You don't want to look like an asshole. It's hard to say, "Guys I think this is kind of misjudged..." when the thing you're talking about's terribleness is basically a meme. Especially if your point isn't that it's all sugary deliverance.
But also I'm getting tired of feeling like I don't want to say stuff. It's making me as tired as saying stuff and then feeling like I'm being a jerk.
So probably the answer is just to realise that I'm not a tumblr person. Or like, I am, but...not for the talking. I should do my talking here.
It's honestly a little intimidating. Which makes me feel very "tiniest violin." So whatever.
I don't get why people give Marvel so many free passes. That "lol, DC can't get out a Wonder Woman film but Marvel have a RACCOOOOON!" meme can die in a goddamn fire.
How does that make Marvel look good? Why are we using the fact that Marvel are making an offbeat minor-character ensemble movie with one woman, before they've managed to make a single movie ABOUT a woman, as some sort of evidence that they're better at this shit? When they've gotten to a place where they've made so many of these movies, they can do things like Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man and they still choose them over Captain Marvel or Black Widow?
Especially since it seems to have been resurrected with this latest round of movie news. So now the fact that DC may be also doing an offbeat minor-character movie with a token woman (Metal Men) before they've managed to make a film about their iconic female character STILL means this is an appropriate comparison? It's the EXACT SAME FUCKING SITUATION.
I don't. I just don't.
Marvel releases a movie with a Space Raccoon before they have a female lead: sign of their adorable wackiness!
DC potentially releasing Metal Men before they have a female lead: DEAR GOD THE MISOGYNY.
Okay, I genuinely feel better for having gotten that off my chest.
One day soon, you can all look forward to me ranting about the Cap 2/Man of Steel comparisons, but I should probably save that for another day.
(Don't worry, I like Steve Rogers, I wouldn't actually shoot a puppy.)
Anyway, I came back and then there was a whole bunch of VidUKon stuff to get organised with, plus a load of house-related stuff I just didn't deal with after moving in but before going on vacation.
But also...I don't know. Journalling communities are kind of dying, it feels like. I'm not helping with that, even though I like them better. But they take more time and investment. Tumblr and twitter can suck up just as much time but you feel yourself interacting constantly. There's just non-stop entertainment. It's not me on my own madly typing into a computer. I like the time-sink-grab-bag-of-cool-stuff that tumblr offers and I like the way of easily keeping in touch with so many people that twitter offers.
But I've realised I don't like the way both of them make it hard to engage in wider conversations. Twitter's too brief, and tumblr - it's...far more based around friends running at you and yelling, "THIS IS AWESOME!" or "THIS IS HORRIFYING!" Everything you see comes with implicit approval or disapproval; you don't just "find" stuff, it's always being presented in the context of who's showing it to you. It has a tendency to echo chamber because it's basically people passing around stuff they find cool. Which is a really neat thing about it. Until you...don't agree with what people are saying. Then it becomes really hard both because tumblr also has a terrible format for longer discussion and because culturally, I don't really feel it's built for it. It's built for squee and outrage and it does those things really well as group activities. In forums people react to things with words - things that aren't necessarily being said by people they already know. In journal communities, people link to and talk about stuff and say "hey this is smart, I agree with this!" but usually with added words. It's a point from which you jump off and talk about stuff and even if it's not your intention, that means you get a ton of different reactions to the same thing, not a ton of identical reblogs. It feels less monolithic.
I dunno. That's my experience anyway. It makes being on the "wrong" side of an issue kind of lonely. You don't want to harsh people's squee. You don't want to look like an asshole. It's hard to say, "Guys I think this is kind of misjudged..." when the thing you're talking about's terribleness is basically a meme. Especially if your point isn't that it's all sugary deliverance.
But also I'm getting tired of feeling like I don't want to say stuff. It's making me as tired as saying stuff and then feeling like I'm being a jerk.
So probably the answer is just to realise that I'm not a tumblr person. Or like, I am, but...not for the talking. I should do my talking here.
It's honestly a little intimidating. Which makes me feel very "tiniest violin." So whatever.
I don't get why people give Marvel so many free passes. That "lol, DC can't get out a Wonder Woman film but Marvel have a RACCOOOOON!" meme can die in a goddamn fire.
How does that make Marvel look good? Why are we using the fact that Marvel are making an offbeat minor-character ensemble movie with one woman, before they've managed to make a single movie ABOUT a woman, as some sort of evidence that they're better at this shit? When they've gotten to a place where they've made so many of these movies, they can do things like Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man and they still choose them over Captain Marvel or Black Widow?
Especially since it seems to have been resurrected with this latest round of movie news. So now the fact that DC may be also doing an offbeat minor-character movie with a token woman (Metal Men) before they've managed to make a film about their iconic female character STILL means this is an appropriate comparison? It's the EXACT SAME FUCKING SITUATION.
I don't. I just don't.
Marvel releases a movie with a Space Raccoon before they have a female lead: sign of their adorable wackiness!
DC potentially releasing Metal Men before they have a female lead: DEAR GOD THE MISOGYNY.
Okay, I genuinely feel better for having gotten that off my chest.
One day soon, you can all look forward to me ranting about the Cap 2/Man of Steel comparisons, but I should probably save that for another day.
(Don't worry, I like Steve Rogers, I wouldn't actually shoot a puppy.)
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Date: 2014-05-03 07:19 pm (UTC)*ahem*
Also yeah, tumblr makes me feel like I can't correct people or get mad about shit because of the potential to be harshing someone's squee which. I try not to, but y'know, you can't be happy all the time. Also there's a whole bunch of other stuff about tumblr that I dislike intensely and I just wish would go away, but I can't leave because it's such a visual site, and I love it because of that, and sharing stuff is pretty easy. So I guess I'm staying for now. (Also as visual sites go, it works way better for me interaction-wise than Pinterest does because at least there's actual interaction on tumblr from time to time rather than just "X liked your pin!", "Y is now following your Z board!")
But yeah, I think journal sites are definitely in the dying stages. It's a shame. I prefer interacting like this.
(I got nothing to say about twitter because most of my posts on there are garbage anyway!)
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Date: 2014-05-03 10:24 pm (UTC)But, like you say, it's so pretty you don't want to leave. It's perfect for just wasting time looking at cool stuff, but...but you can't talk. And as well as the squee, of course, there's the outrage, which is often very legitimate (as is the squee), but again there's this...well, I don't know, can you harsh someone's outrage? *waves hands vaguely*
I've never even been to pinterest, but I don't think it sounds like it'd work for me...
I prefer interacting like this too which is why I feel kinda guilty about how easy it is to just float through tumblr and twitter, condensing my thoughts to a few key ones instead of indulging in longer conversation. Man, I should change that. :/
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Date: 2014-05-10 06:42 pm (UTC)I think you can harsh someone's outrage, I'm sure it's possible. In fact, probably correcting someone on something they're getting outraged about counts as that (i.e. they're being annoyed for no reason, or the source of their outrage is just wrong). I haven't seen it much, but I bet it happens.
Honestly, you're right to stay away from pinterest! I find it really addictive because one its big "things" is craft, so I come away wanting to do a million and one things. Also there is a commenting system on there, but it's not built for conversation. At the end of the day it's a link/picture sharing site, and that's all you can do with it.
*nods* I know what you mean. I used to write WAY more stuff here before twitter came along.