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elspethdixon) wrote2018-11-02 01:52 pm
elspethdixon) wrote2018-11-02 01:52 pm
So I guess I'm back?
Apparently tumblr is slowly losing traffic as fandom moves to twitter (WTF, and I thought tumblr was a terrible platform), and give that I never really properly adopted tumblr to begin with despite trying, I'm not even going to make the attempt with twitter.
It's been over a year since I posted here, but frankly, it's been nearly that long since I made any attempt to properly engage on tumblr, either, partly because tumblr makes it too easy to just like and reblog stuff and never make any real posts of your own, and partly because now that I do most internet browsing on a tablet where I can't use a blacklist properly, there's a powerful disincentive to avoid tumblr. That blacklist isn't just there to keep me from having to see posts about my NOTPS and to stop my dash from being endlessly clogged with Sterek content - it's also designed to let me avoid having to encounter fellow fans' opinions about how various family members of mine totally deserve to die, and so I keep just avoiding tumblr most of the time.
I need to start posting here again, but I've gotten out of the habit of talking about myself online. Maybe I should start again?
It's been over a year since I posted here, but frankly, it's been nearly that long since I made any attempt to properly engage on tumblr, either, partly because tumblr makes it too easy to just like and reblog stuff and never make any real posts of your own, and partly because now that I do most internet browsing on a tablet where I can't use a blacklist properly, there's a powerful disincentive to avoid tumblr. That blacklist isn't just there to keep me from having to see posts about my NOTPS and to stop my dash from being endlessly clogged with Sterek content - it's also designed to let me avoid having to encounter fellow fans' opinions about how various family members of mine totally deserve to die, and so I keep just avoiding tumblr most of the time.
I need to start posting here again, but I've gotten out of the habit of talking about myself online. Maybe I should start again?
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Tumblr was entertaining, but not really engaging (to me). These days, my main fannish platform is Dreamwidth (although my main source of fanfiction recs is Pinboard). I'm not quite dead, but I'm very low-activity.
Oddly, my main pairing these days is Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes (movieverse). I have no idea why it appeals more to me than Steve/Tony (comicsverse), but it does. I don't know how my brain comes up with its likes and dislikes, but clearly it's in charge and I'm just along for the ride.
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I am, alas, one of those old-school OTPers who can't stand conflicting pairings even in other versions of canon - every Steve must love every Tony, in every universe, ditto for Kirk/Spock, Peter Parker/MJ, etc. MCU, Star Trek Reboot, and the Andrew Garfield Spidey movies have all been very much the wrong fandoms for me :p (The movies basically lost me with the whole "Ultron without Hank Pym" thing anyway and the Ant-Man movies were insult to injury /bitter Hank&Jan fan)
On the other hand, the Venom movie has surprisingly made my Eddie Brock/Venom Symbiote OTP widely popular all of a sudden, whereas before it was me squeeing over the true love of a bitter/sullen Spidey-hating ex-reporter and a homicidal puddle of alien goo all on my weirdo lonesome.
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I don't really see the Ant Man movies as an insult to Hank/Jan. They're still there (okay, they're in the second movie, where Jan was rescued), and I feel that their Epic Romance got a lot more respect in the movie than in the comics. (Although that last bit is heavily influenced by which comics you read; Marvel has multiple and conflicting canons.)