Well then

[zenolalia]

I've closed my tabs and logged out of tumblr for what I suppose will be the last time.

I spent a decade on that site. It was my news, my social life, and my fandom hub.

Probably, I gave more of myself to it than I should have, really. But in return, I got so many things that I can't imagine finding anywhere else.

I don't know what I feel.

But, it is the dawn of a new day.


(The joke: it's the middle of the night in my time zone)

Comments

Re: A lackluster pun

[zenolalia]

Callout post for @Zenolalia aka Z aka Zizi aka Queue

1. A heinous fetishizer. Reduces queer people to being asses.

2. A cishet colonizer who forces the word queer onto people. Obviously if Zizi were really Trans and Bi they would never say the Q slur. Just another arohet slut pretending to be oppressed

3. Thinks website that started as 18+ only porn sites should cater to the needs of their users instead of protecting children who lied about their age to access the dicks from those very dicks. Basically a child rapist. Probably running a sex trafficking ring right now!

4. Pretentious bitch. Stop condescending to people who have made it clear they won't listen no matter how much you simplify your rhetoric. Instead, just keep simplifying out until you say something we can decontextualize into proof you're evil.

5. Stupid slut who said (extremely simplified version of a thing). Obviously doesn't know what they're long about.

[full_course_identity]

It's a new day indeed! This is such a weird time. I am... very uncertain of the DW format. I'm so used to Tumblr, dA, and Facebook. Those have been my social media platforms pretty much forever.

But at the same time... that's kind of the exciting thing here, isn't it? Exploring a new website, with a new type content. I'm going to continue to monitor alternatives--honestly, I'm also dropping off Facebook and dA if I can, so I'm about to have big holes in my browsing activities--but I think I can make this my central hub.

... although a big problem here is that, uh, my fandom is only active among teenage antis on tumblr. So. Gotta fix that! If I have to chase people down and cram this musical down their throats, I mcfuckin will.

Oh! I've seen you talk about Homestuck before and in these comments, but, what other fandoms are you in/could get into?

[zenolalia]

Well, I don't like horror movies and lack the puzzle skills for args, but I love analyzing the techniques the two genres use, and how they steal back and forth from each other so much. The last 3 years has been a very rapidly evolving time in visual horror!

I love my little pony and will never stop, even though I'm one of those heinous Chatoyance stans (and if you don't know that name, consider yourself lucky. That was a wank with a body count, and the death wasn't even from suicide).

I want very badly to like Shera and the princesses of power, but it's shockingly poorly written in the first three episodes. Enough so that I can't make myself watch any further yet. And the drama surrounding the staff and fandom of the show doesn't help at all.

I love the world build and characters of ffxv, I just hate the story, so I'm 100% au there.

I am a major proponent of taking Detroit Become Human out of David cages hands and making it the beautiful story about the kindnesses and cruelties necessary to create a revolution when the world sees you as a scoreboard or a vacuum cleaner, and nothing else.

I'll probably be catching up on the zombie idols anime soon.

Nearest and dearest to my heart, my very first fandom : Kingdom Hearts. I've lived and breathed KH for 15 years, and in one month, just one month!! I will finally know the truth about my babies.

AS LONG AS PEOPLE STOP POSTING UNTAGGED SPOILERS FROM THE LEAK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh, and anything with magical girls, whether played straight, inserted, commentated, satirized. Any magical girls.

And keijo. Because butts.

[yvannairie]

You're probably onto something. I have a 'low-effort' tag that kinda serves that purpose, and I'm gonna intersperse it with my Best Of The Garbage That Was My Writing During The Tumblr Years.

I'm really looking forward to being a regular fan who can just write my thoughts w/o having to fear being catapulted into viral frame by a bad phrasing, though.

[residentpyromaniac]

Sorry to butt in here, I'm nosy curious. What musical are we talking about? I like to think I like musicals, even if my favorites are scattered all over the genre map.

disk horse satire

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

Can confirm. As a literal child (I am under 25 and therefore my brain is still developing), I was forced to view Z's posts which contained the q slur, which I did not consent to, and those posts weren't even tagged as nsfw even though they were about my sexuality as a minor. I was practically trafficked myself, as one of the many victims of that blog.

Also using long words like "decontextualize" is ableist :/

[cassini]

[not being a social person, im not at risk of losing community links and social archives. i can imagine the cohesion a lot of people got from tumblr would be harder to lose ]

[cassini]

[best thing ive read all day ]

[capribornio]

I 100% agree in your every thought about Lanque. I hadn't considered Rogue, but it truly is the ones that makes nore sense, I think.

[capribornio]

About Nepeta: You're right and you should say it.
Kanaya's isolation growing up is becoming even more fucking tragic seeing how the jades interact in the Friendsim, I think.

[capribornio]

Wait, why do you think the new Shera's badly written? I haven't checked it out yet, but I'm curious.

[zenolalia]

The premise of the main antagonistic relationship hinges on a giant gaping plothole.

Spoilers from here on:

The good interpretation is that they just wanted Catra and Shera to fight and didn't care how they got there so they slapped something together in ten minutes.

The likely interpretation is that they somehow didn't realize what a mess they were creating by having Catra say "I would do anything for you, anything!" and then, less than thre eminutes later, and in the same scene, declaring She-ra her mortal enemy forever, instead of her best friend and the only family she's ever known.

And that's in the first episode, btw.

It doesn't really improve.

Having been glutted on quality writing in chldren's media for the past few years, I've taken the disappointing turnout with Voltron and She-ra pretty hard.

[zenolalia]

God, I know. I didn't think she could become even more of a tragic figure but I was wrong.

Still, she gets her Good Ending, and that's definitely something.

[cassini]

[i had some spare time ]

New day, new place

[championshawke]

I really feel you there. Tumblr was the piece of social media I'd used the most consistently and for the longest, and it was the first place that really introduced me to fandom. I'm going to miss it, and dreamwidth is so different that it's really going to take some getting used to.

But, on the other hand, maybe that difference will be good. I took a pretty huge break from fandom because I was tired of the constant discourse, and it seems like dreamwidth both has a chiller community and isn't set up to facilitate viral discourse the way tumblr was. As interesting as the discourse could be at times, I think it will be good for me to get away from it.

So here's to new and discourse-free beginnings!

Re: New day, new place

[zenolalia]

DW (and anything with functional blocking and community filters) is designed to give you a lot more control over your spaces.

That definitely helps cut down on discourse of the viral hellscape that tumblr created, but it's not without its own risks.

Basically, I'm really hoping that shifting back to this style of fandom interaction (forums were my first, and then livejournal) doesn't come along with the worst fucking thing ever invented: communities dedicated to absolutely pissing all over art/fics/ships people don't like. I don't mind a good bit of wank and a hatefest, but there was this persistent habit of re-posting other peoples art and fics and OC profiles and just being unbelievably cruel about it, because they "can't see it anyway."

Except someone always tells them.

It was very proto-blackpill.

We'll see, though. Fandom has evolved a lot in the last decade, so maybe that won't be quite so popular anymore.

[zenolalia]

Oh shit, that's fucking awesome!!!! Hot damn, I love it!

I'm hoping that posting it in a comment is tacit permission for me to use it?

[cassini]

[absolutely~ and ty ]

[full_course_identity]

Be More Chill! It's... really, REALLY fun, but I admittedly don't have a whole lot of musical experiences--yet. While it's absolutely my main fandom, I've been slowly checking out others recommended by other fans.

[full_course_identity]

Oh my Gosh, I love all of that, but I... gotta ask: I've been an MLP fan for a pretty long time, but somehow missed whatever you're referring to with Chatoyance. Do you have any references I could look up, to find out what happened? I'm intensely fascinated.

[kari_izumi]

Well, I'm glad you're over here now. I found your blog six months ago or so, but for some odd reason I was blocked from reblogging anything (a result of when the site went catawumpus some time ago and started autoblocking people who had never interacted before). Your posts about the Tumblr Purge were excellent BTW.

And yeah, count me as someone that does not want any other GAFF-inspired offshoots. That's the one bit of good that came from open-style Tumblr blogging: nipping that shit right in the bud.

[kari_izumi]

ooooh, Keijo!!! :3

I remember some people had a conniption fit over the premise, but I thought it was a rather funny subversion of the shounen power-up trope. such a shame the manga was cancelled and there won't be a second season of the anime.

[residentpyromaniac]

Huh, I actually had no idea Be More Chill was a musical. I assumed it was another Netflix thing that popped up when I wasn't paying attention... Guess that's what happens when I'm consistently year(s) late to musicals.

Either way, I'd be happy to talk more about it! Just probably in messages, so we aren't clogging up zenolaila's post here.

[zenolalia]

If you wanna hop to PMs, by all means, but you don't need to worry about. I like seeing the inbox notification.

[full_course_identity]

PM is up to you! As Zeno just said it was okay, I'm happy either way. :3

I really, really, highly recommend giving the OST a listen, and then, if you like it, checking out stuff about the Off Broadway version. They'll be On-Broadway soon, and... man, even though I prefer the vocals (and a lot of the cast) of the OST, they've improved everything about the show in so many wonderful ways.

This is my first time really caring about a musical--like, to the extent I am, anyway. I liked some movie versions of stuff like Chicago, I really REALLY like the Hamilton soundtrack, Heathers and Dear Evan Hansen is AWESOME, etc, but. I've never truly cared about a musical enough to keep up with the behind-the-scenes and the actual fandom like I am now.

So this is all just so new and exciting for me, haha.