dreamwidth makes me feel like a baby. did you guys use to blog like this
Yes!!!! And we liked it that way! You could make a post and it wasn’t vague! It was a full on rant about your roommate who you know follows you. But you had privacy filters on so only your fandom friends could read it and none of your IRL friends.
You never had to worry about a personal post blowing up. You posted your fandom stuff in communities and your random thoughts of the day we’re restricted to your own blog.
Comments! You could have a whole conversation that made sense. Do you know how long it took for us to get nested replies on here?
Community! Not just Communities as in the feature but a community! You would make a post and everyone would comment on it. Directly! It didn’t feel like a derail by having something to say and you didn’t have to hide things in the tags. And you could reply! And it went directly to them and not buried under 20 other reblogs of replying to other people. You could post fic and actually get comments and start a conversation. I legit think a lot of fandoms issues as a whole is because we don’t have a lot of platforms where having conversations like that exists anymore. It’s very much just us screaming into the void.
Tumblr was never supposed to become the fandom platform it did and it’s ill equipped to function as such. Which has resulted in a lot of fracturing and isolation.
I’m not saying it was perfect or with drama. Just that when the drama hit, it was always juicy and complex, instead of just two complete strangers screaming at each other because of a misunderstanding
I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like “this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol” when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every “classical” looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad
In case you’re curious here’s what I mean.
Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):
Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):
Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):
