While I'm boosting myself

[petronia]

1) hikaruyuki did absolutely lovely fanart for "A Proof By Contradiction". It is at her DevArt. Go look at it!

(This is the sort of post that works better on Tumblr, granted. I've been using Tumblr a lot, mostly because I have just about figured out how to write for it. Pleasurable practice.)

2) Trying to score media accreditation, part 1,039 in a series: this year's Festival du Nouveau Cinema. No, not just so I can go boggle at the Ozu-tatami-shot-as-pervertible in "Shame" again. XD;; (It's playing in competition because it is only dude's SECOND FILM - you get up to three chances.) I want to see all the other movies I missed at Venice because tickets were so expensive, plus FNC has a better Asian selection to begin.

Comments

[hikaruyuki.livejournal.com]

*_* Thank you for posting this in your journal. I was able to go back to 2006 and read the author's notes just now, and it was quite a privilege to have a chance to peek into your head and see your thought process (especially how you came up with the title. It makes so much sense now!). Thanks again for writing it, I hope my drawing did it justice :)

[kovaa.livejournal.com]

wait what, how DO you write for tumblr?? i get tired of tumblr but i'm also mostly mindless/slightly addicted to the routine of updating/reblogging now, but i haven't really ventured out in the way of text posts (if that's what you mean) and bscly try to use as few words there as possible :X

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Shorter, and much more as if I were talking to the general public rather than friends - fewer in-jokes and emoticons and such - because I have to assume it's being looked at by ppl tracking/searching global tags. If it gets tl;dr I would actually highlight points. I don't really do text posts all that much, unless it's in response to an ongoing discussion; if I want to write a review of something I blog/reblog the trailer or song and put the review in the description field. I also set up a bunch of commands with ifttt.com so shiz reposts coherently to Twitter and Facebook (linkblogs in particular).

The fandom aspect is particularly funny, because Tumblr is ass at everything LJ is good at, and good at some things LJ is specifically bad at. Tag search, for instance, works like LJ's search-by-interest would, if they were based on the user's actual current interests du jour (as opposed to a joke list they may or may not have updated in 2009, etc.). LJ essentially doesn't let you do fandom efficiently without fostering personal connections, at minimum single-directional lurkfriend ones. You can subscribe to communities, but you only get visibility on what ppl choose to post there, according to said communities' guidelines. Global tag search gives you unfiltered visibility on everything. So the battle then gets fought over getting groups to voluntarily cede occupation of shared spaces (slash OTPers to stop tagging for series names; RPers to stop tagging for actors; people who like to photoshop kitty ears onto photos of James McAvoy to... well, one can't avoid giving offense in life). Tumblr doesn't preclude the ability to assort oneself into friends-list cliques, but lack of dashboard filtering and threaded conversation removes a lot of the attraction.