this is not the hill on which I'm willing to die any more

[rose_griffes]

A year ago I started a Tumblr for fannish stuff about Person of Interest. And now I think I'm gonna log out and stay away for a while, because Tumblr is making me a tired and cranky fan of the show. I hear that if you follow other people rather than going in the main tags, you can avoid the inevitable ridiculousness about ships (Mine's right! Yours is wrong!) and characters ("Let me tell in excruciating detail why I hate the character you love!"), but I don't think it's worth the trouble right now. Soooooo... stayed logged out for an indefinite period of time. Maybe for Lent? Hm, could be.

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[chaila]

I gotta say, I wasn't even following a specific fandom really, at least not anything that was currently airing and regularly sparking all that much discussion or disagreement, and still my fannish life improved by a factor of 100 when I just stopped going to Tumblr cold turkey. I just don't go there at all now. Especially since I never could stop myself from checking the main tags for things. There is ALWAYS something that is terrible in the tags, and much of it is directed at female characters. I'm not sure how to feel about avoiding Tumblr making me fannishly happier, since Tumblr is apparently where fandom is going to be now. :/

[rose_griffes]

I really get it now. Person of Interest fandom was pretty small when I first went there, which made it a generally easy-going place. And it was my refuge from the badly-modded LJ comm. But it doesn't feel like a refuge now. (And yeah, I can't ever stop myself from checking the main tag. *sigh*)

I'm not sure how to feel about avoiding Tumblr making me fannishly happier, since Tumblr is apparently where fandom is going to be now. :/

Yeah, I know. :(

I still don't know how Tumblr earns a profit, by the way. It is a mystery.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Tumblr as a fandom-centered place makes me sad. I stopped having anything to do with fandom over there a while ago, deleted my BSG-centric blog, and am much happier following a tiny group of people and posting my own photos instead, once in a great while. It's less of a community, but it's a lot more sane. I hope you can find balance with it. :/

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Frankly, with the dog as a BIG distraction, I'm not missing it just yet.

I think I'm just a bad match for the kind of place Tumblr is. I get too wrapped up in stuff that I can put into perspective better on LJ. Dunno why, but there it is. (Though really, tumblr is a bad format for a lot of fandom-related things, which many people have said... and yet fandom is still migrating there anyway. Or only going there in the first place, with the younger fans.)

[mamahub.livejournal.com]

So sorry. Hugs!

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Tumblr and I are just a bad match, I think. I'm pretty sure I'll be a happier fan without Tumblr, or with limited doses. Too bad so much traffic is there now instead of on LJ. *sigh*

[blacktop50.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the bad times on tumblr. Sending hugs and cookies your way. I only go there for the Caviezel pictures, so I have no idea of the craziness in fandoms there.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Tumblr is mainly shallow, with the pretty pictures and so forth. But there's enough going on now with the growth in PoI fandom, that some of the usual sad trends (harsher criticism of women than men being the main one I'm thinking about) are showing up more often. And it's a really bad format for fandom discussions, which makes the fannish jump there all the more confusing.

A lot of this is me: I really don't enjoy debate or arguments*, so when I get annoyed enough to make a post of my own, I'm already emotionally invested in the situation rather than calm and rational...

*I like talking about different viewpoints in other formats, like your forum or a post on LJ. But Tumblr just doesn't feel the same. And with forums or LJ comms, I can control my visits there, but with Tumblr, the main tags are a bit like the Wild West.

In some ways Tumblr can really bring out the worst in some fans. Those of us who enjoy Elementary, for example: the main tag was so bombarded with angry posts from BBC Sherlock fans pre-emptively hating the show that we ended up making a separate tag, just to have a 'safe' space to talk about the show. But with smaller fandoms, there's nothing like that. It's either see everything or don't watch the tags.

[tinny]

Tumblr is only good as long as you can stay away emotionally and just enjoy the pretty (and skip the text). That's never been all that satisfying. I always wonder at people whose main fannish place is tumblr - I pity them, mostly.

But then, ship wars exist in any fandom and you can stumble over them on lj just as likely. *sigh* I tend to stay in my own little corner (since I almost never am in the main ship anyway). Unfortunately, that's not so easy on tumblr.

Oh well, fandom as a whole is kind of a sad place these days with all the splintering going on. Oh, maybe I should stop whining, so I don't come a cross as a total sad sack right from the start. ;)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

But then, ship wars exist in any fandom and you can stumble over them on lj just as likely.

Same with unreasonable character hate, etc. The main comm for Person of Interest is on my list of places to peek at rather than hang out. *sigh*

I tend to stay in my own little corner (since I almost never am in the main ship anyway). Unfortunately, that's not so easy on tumblr.

Exactly.

And yes, it's really frustrating to have fandom in so many different places

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I just realized why your username was so familiar to me. Look, icon I use that you made! :D

[tinny]

Oh, wow. Sweet! It's always awesome to be recognized. Fandom can be a really small place sometimes. :D

I still have one of those UV icons in use, myself. Oh, the good ol' times.

(I don't expect to be recognized at all. I have just a few friends and tend not to go out to the big comms. I have too little time to involve myself in the discussions, anyway. But when we had a fan meetup to go see Frankenstein at the theatre last year, almost all the tumblr girls there recognized my tumblr name, and I was very confused why. I'm noone. ;))