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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[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.