[ SECRET POST #2412 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2412 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 093 secrets from Secret Submission Post #345.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/npWi97Y.png

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr makes me feel so old. I don't understand how fandom works on there. Not in a community-building way, anyway. I just reblog stuff I like, follow people who interest me, and have anything I post that isn't a reblog ignored.

How do you make actual connections on there? I know it can be done.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I don't think fandom is so much about making connections anymore. Which saddens me a little, honestly, because that was what I liked the most back in the day. It was never really about who so and so would get together with or the quality of some BNF's fanfic as it was the friends I made and being able to talk about something we all loved.

That said, I do think there is an advantage in that it's your own domain to share fandom thoughts and feelings, plus there's always a chance something will circle back to you. You can sort of do that on LJ, but while you will have people link to public posts, that takes more time than reblogging. So you don't have the more personal connection, but you have your own soapbox.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree. I came back to fandom after some time away, and it's like the whole landscape changed. I think Tumblr can be fun and easier to participate -- because reblogging/liking is so much *easier* than writing a whole original post about why people should read a thing -- but it's lost the communal feel, imo.

Maybe I'm just in the wrong parts of Tumblr, or maybe I'm just not outgoing enough, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I spend tons of time on tumblr, but I've never actually made any friends through it. Then again, I've been active in fandom all my life, and I've never really made friends through LJ, devArt, Dreamwidth, or various individual/smaller fandom-specific forums. I've always wondered how people do it, but maybe being an Aspie is part of the reason I've never figured it out. IDK

[(Anonymous)]

It makes me feel old too, but I've never been that good at making and keeping connections in fandom anyway--for me the fandom IS the connection.

And honestly, I know it's an awful thing to say, but the young'uns now just wear me out and make me not want to connect. Teens and young adults are generally more prone to angst and drama than their elders, obviously, but I just don't remember my generation carrying the overwhelming load of negativity I'm seeing now.

[(Anonymous)]

Goddamn, perhaps you're just too damned dumb to work it out. Spend less time complaining and more time contributing - then maybe you'll be involved in the community. Thats how it works everywhere, including tumblr

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, a tumblr user come along to dispense their usual rays of sunshine.

Seriously, why are so many of you such jerks?

[dref22]

Easy: Contribute to popular fandoms. Create gifs and gifsets and make photosets using quotes etc and voila!

The main thing: A "popular" fandom. My fandom life is based on a single actor nowadays and I get limited attention. But I sometimes make gifs etc for popular fandoms and my posts get hundreds of notes.

It's normal that Tumblr makes you feel old. Most of the users are like 14-20 years old, so....

[forgottenjester]

This secret confuses me on many levels but I feel like asking any questions would be condescending.

So instead I'll say I'm sorry for your bad experience and hope things improve for you future.

[elaminator]

Everyone uses tumblr differently apparently. I've seen people hold multiple conversations by reblogging but that shit is too complicated for me. If it works for you that's great, but if not... Well, this IS the internet, another site will come along eventually. Maybe it'll be better suited to your tastes.

[ecoerrante]

Tumblr is complicated, and the conditions have to right before a back and forth conversation can really get started between two people from what I've seen.

Anyways, people change as they get older and that includes their interests, which isn't a bad thing. There were things I was really into as a teen that I'm glad I grew out of, and things that I wish I could still force myself to be into if only because I miss the friendships connected to it.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I like your background picture. Cute cat.

[thene]

I dropped out of fandom when I was about 18 and didn't come back until I was almost 24. Part of the beauty of fandom is that it will always still be there when something makes you want to come back to it.

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a white and ginger cat resting on its side on a dark reflective surface, with its left foreleg extended in front of its face as it stares off to something off-screen.]

I've been out of active fandom for a couple of years and I tried making a new tumblr account and posting and interacting with people. I wanted to try to have fun with shows and characters and plots. then I deleted everything and abandoned it completely without warning. I just felt like I was trying to have fun in the same way teenage-me had. But I'm not that person any more, and that sort of thing isn't for me. I couldn't keep it up, and the longer I did the more I felt like a phony.

Sometimes I wonder if anyone else wonders where I went.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, goodness, I know what you mean. I've tried to get into fandom the way I was, once, long ago. But I can't. It's not even a tumblr-specific thing; it's the sphere itself.

I remember the way it once felt to be involved. I couldn't wait to get home and visit my favorite forums, to log on to AIM and catch up with my fandom friends. I wrote and reviewed fic with genuine enthusiasm. I threw myself into the conflicts and dramas of the day and felt as if it all meant something.

But...

Fandom has changed. And so have I.

You've got company, OP. It happens. It's normal. And whether people wonder where you've gone is immaterial. Be who you are and do the things that you want to do. Don't let nostalgia hang you up. It's now that matters.

[(Anonymous)]

i want to take those last two lines and frame them

[ibroketuesday]

This experience is my experience. Beautifully put.

[(Anonymous)]

KITTY!

Sorry, there was probably a secret to go with this but can't see it.