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

[yvannairie]

Ngl the bitterness this morning was pretty overwhelming. Tumblr's pace of posting was so good at making me get things done 200-300 words at a time, and "quality" was a nice surprise, not an expectation. Idk how I'm gonna stop myself from getting writer's blocked by my perfectionism.

[zenolalia]

My suggestion to you is the same as I gave some of my other friends:

Shitpost.

Just fill the initial, like 3 pages of your blog with one liner shitposts, until you've convinced yourself that DW is just as shitpost friendly a medium as anything else.

The interface, with it's complex rich-text editor and near complete HTML support, makes DW feel more "serious," but if you can churn out a few dozen shitposts, you'll begin to get over that hurdle.

[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.