[ SECRET POST #2485 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2485 ⌋

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

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02.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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03.
[Twilight]


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04.
[Lana Del Rey / Marina and the Diamonds]


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05.
[Long Way Round, Long Way Down]


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06.
[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]


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07.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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08.
[Pacific Rim]


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09.
[Game of Thrones]


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10.
[Captain Marvel]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #355.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

it wouldn't be f!s without unfounded tumblr hate :p

[(Anonymous)]

Except for how there are completely legitimate reasons for some people to hate tumblr so it's not actually unfounded? Look, bully for you, tumblr works for you. There are a lot of people for whom it does the exact opposite and has had a huge negative impact.

[(Anonymous)]

There are people who have similar problems with Livejournal. Maybe I got into it too late, but I never figured out how to find anything on LJ except dead communities and locked fan fiction, and even those were hard to find. Tumblr is a lot easier for me to use and find things with, and I've never had a problem talking to people. My good experience doesn't diminish your bad experience, and my bad experience with LJ doesn't diminish other people's love for it; different things work for different people.
tl;dr Why can't we all just get along?

Your good experience has been diminishing my good experience

[nyxelestia]

...yeah, you just got into it too late. Presumably after the Tumblr migration.

The reason why people dislike Tumblr is because it's draining fandom. If people were using both Tumblr and more conventional fandom platforms like archives and journal sites, they wouldn't be having a problem. The issue for most of that is we liked the big fandom community, and now that community is no longer there, and a new version isn't on Tumblr because Tumblr is not designed for community. It's designed for cliques. And if you're into clique-y interaction, hey, that's great! The problem being that those of us over here still on the journal sites don't like cliques, so we just lose out on fandom community and don't really get anything new to replace it with.

Re: Your good experience has been diminishing my good experience

[(Anonymous)]

I got into LJ fandom before Tumblr was created and it was terrible and almost made me never want to try again with fandom ever again. There was this incredible sense of elitism and judgement. There were comms just for making fun of other people's fic and art and a comm for "drama write ups" where if you dared make any mistake or disagree with the BNFs at you got written up and mocked.

Soooo my LJ fandom was filled with cliques and Tumblr never has felt that way to me. Tumblr was the best thing to happen to my fandom.

Re: Your good experience has been diminishing my good experience

[nyxelestia]

making fun of other people's fic and art and a comm for "drama write ups" where if you dared make any mistake or disagree with the BNFs at you got written up and mocked

...you act as if Tumblr isn't full of exactly shit like this. Because that makes up a huge portion of what I see on Tumblr, and because people tend to put all those in the same place, it's hard to keep up with fandom activity while ignoring shit like that. On LJ, it was easy - don't join those comms. You could stay on top of fandom without having to put up with bullshit like that. On Tumblr, the only method of ignoring stuff while still, say, following fandom blogs and such doesn't work because it relies on people consistently tagging things, which they don't.

Re: Your good experience has been diminishing my good experience

[(Anonymous)]

how is it designed for cliques? i don't follow anyone on tumblr save for a couple of my friends, i just use it to track the tags for my fandoms. i've never once felt left out of fandom discussions just because i don't follow people. it's easy to find things just from looking through the tags.

if anything, i'd say lj was more designed for cliques because you had to be a member of a community if you wanted to chime in on a discussion happening in the community.

Re: Your good experience has been diminishing my good experience

[nyxelestia]

i don't follow anyone on tumblr save for a couple of my friends

That's how.

And the thing about how the Tumblr model of interacting works is that it basically requires you to be on Tumblr all the time, and tracking EVERYTHING. Otherwise, you only see whatever you are directly involved with and miss out everything else. Then you get the situation of thinking you responded to everything, only to realize that one conversation has branched out into about half a dozen separate conversations (instead of having threads on a single conversation like you see here). Half the time you'll be "done" only to see part of it days or weeks later because it continued without you because you missed that one post because either the person didn't tag their shit right at the time, you were not on Tumblr at the time, or someone reblogged someone else's reblog of your own post/response/etc, so you don't get an alert and don't see it.

It's clique-y because you only see whatever you are already directly involved with. Everything else is hit-or-miss, and if you are the kind of person without a smartphone and can't be on Tumblr all the time, then it's a lot more miss than hit.