mere_vanilla

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Tumblr being down right on the heels of staff celebrating World Sleep Day seems a wee bit on-the-nose, don't you think?

I'm impatiently sitting here, waiting for the python (coding, not animal) tumblr backup to run. It's really an odd feeling, watching the post collection pile up; I keep thinking about how... permanent... we all thought tumblr would be. A funny sentiment, considering that the appeal of it all was how impermanent everything was. Though how much of that was due to cowboy coding of the site is anyone's guess. I suppose the permanence impression stems from how detached tumblr staff seemed/seems? Which makes sense, as tumblr always felt like someone's too-ambitious senior project for a computer programming class that they just decided to leave up and leave alone. So, what happens when there's essentially Internet free real estate? It becomes a repository of niche (note the 'h', here, please) adult content, of course! /sarcasm

I'm also wondering what's going to happen in the day-to-day of fandom stuff. Used to be, on tumblr, you'd eventually find out some kind of news that was going on in the fandom world. I mean, what would I do without hearing what kind of trope is new in my chosen fandom? (body horror warning: (anybody remember the hot second in 2014 or 2015 that 'stomach mouth Batter' was popular in the OFF fandom? Anybody?) (/body horror warning)

Part of me is also glad to get a push to participate in dreamwidth and other websites; tumblr felt a lot like I had accidentally wandered into a high school while I was looking for my local library or something--despite the fact that my tumblr experience (^TM) was more of a community college with occasional child-friendly days. Part of me, though, also feels a huge amount of fear and anxiety; tumblr felt like such a fandom hub that I almost don't know how to interact with such a different fandom platform. I'll have to learn how to "read the room" all over again.

Well, at any rate, here I am, here I'll be.