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Popsugar Reading Challenge 2017

(Almost out of time now... I have no chance of completing it, but I'd like to get at least a few books in before the year is over. Maybe even round it up to 30? We shall see...)
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Today in "oh, that's something that could go to the longform blog!": a todo list/tracking post for the Popsugar Reading Challenge I'm trying this year.

( Books! )

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Fanart: The Seven Ravens

( (corvids!) )

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Bingo!

A-HAH! Last day of the month, but I made it.

moonlight shadows	hay fever	karaoke bar
camping trip	wildcard	message in the bottle
sunburn	air condition	waterfall

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Fill: June Summer Bingo - "waterfall"

( Whatever, it's a metaphor. )

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Fill: June Summer Bingo - "air condition"

( Babs got herself a lot of fans. )

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Fill: June Summer Bingo - "sunburn"

( Cass Cain and Steph Brown (DC comics, batfamily) enjoying a rare sunny day in Gotham )

Current Mood: hopeful

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Fandom participation, go!

*takes a deep breath* heeere I come.

Jumping into DW inspired me to try and get "more active in fandom", whatever hell that means. For me, apparently, subscribing to the

fandomcalendar ... and then actually finding a couple things that sound vaguely interesting. I joined two comms! Watch me go!

Anyway, Thing One is

fffc's June Special, summer bingo. Behold, my bingo card:

moonlight shadows	hay fever	karaoke bar
camping trip	wildcard	message in the bottle
sunburn	air condition	waterfall

(A card, by the way, which I was kind of anxiously waiting for, only to find that I already got it and just didn't get any comment reply notification about. DW, what the hell, what did I do wrong this time?)

I was thinking fanart, because I really want to draw/paint actual pictures again - I've been struggling with even picking up a pencil lately and I haven't gone beyond sketching for months. Can't say the topics are ideal, but at this point nothing would be (or if it were, it would just be too intimidating).

The only tiiiny snag is that I'm not in any fandom to work for, but that's a different can of worms.

Thing Two is

treatyoselfcomm, which I'm ~~planning to sign up~~ signed up for as a cheerleader. (the skinny: creators hoping to finish their shit are matched with people who will cheer them on). I don't have a good experience with Big Bangs, but this appeals to me because it's so laid back and doesn't require me to perform.

We'll see how this all goes.

Current Mood: gloomy

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Thinking about Tumblr

For a while I've been more and more aggravated by Tumblr, which is at this point still my main online space. It's the reason why I've been playing with Wordpress.com, spent so much time organizing my multiple Twitter accounts, and, obviously, why I'm even touching Dreamwidth.

I hate how I'm only passing on content; it makes me feel so empty, like a waterspout who has nothing to add and just passes the flow onwards.
I hate the Drama. I know that can happen anywhere (especially on the internet; especially in fandom circles), but I just can't stand the way everything Goes Hard on tumblr.
I hate the aphobes and the biphobes and the TERFs. And I hate the endless chains of "aphobes are The Devil" "biphobes are The Devil" "XY is The Devil". I know they are. You know they are. But we need to keep repeating it because there is no way to keep our spaces safe from them. Because there is nothing like "our spaces", it's just the one continuous blue hellscape.
Speaking of: I hate how posting and commenting on tumblr is always like speaking to an auditorium. Usually it's empty... even when you don't want it to be). Sometimes it's full of haters... even when you really don't want it to be.

It's just so damn exhausting.

Now to be fair, there is a lot I still love on Tumlbr.

I have friends there. Few, but they're there.
~~I have a community there~~ I have a semblance of a community. I know it's not real - I don't talk with most of the people I follow. But I know about their lives (or some imaginary versions of them) just as much as I do about my coworkers' lives. It just makes me feel less isolated than I actually am.
I like the Wild Mass Guessing aspect of it. The thread speculative pieces (like some of the "Earth are the Space Australia" posts) are something I absolutely adore.
The various "XYZ tumblrs" (biology tumblr, linguistics tumblr, etc etc). I love how tumblr can bring out people with very specific fields of knowledge.

Honestly, I have no idea what I want to do. Sometimes I dream about just... quiting tumblr for good. But I'd miss the people. And I don't even know where else I'd go. Here? Twitter? I don't think I can leave tumblr when I still have people I care about there. So I'd have to keep up with two social networks. I tried to do this with Tumblr and Twitter, and I don't think I can do it.

I've been increasingly hoping for a fandom exodus... somewhere, anywhere. Maybe DW, why not. But I realize that "community moving somewhere" is nonsense. "the community" (whatever that is) doesn't move; it just dies in one place and is recreated in another. There is always something lost.

Probably me.

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I have no recollection of this place...

Oh hello! Nothing like biting the bullet and deciding to make an account on a website, only to find out you already have one. Now to think of it, I guess I made it way back when me and Dusty Soulss were trying to analyze the Daredevil kink meme.

Which, RIP project that never got anywhere because Life and Laziness. That said, look! I found some actual result in the email thread!

red on black tagcloud of requested tags; 5 largest are "c:matt.murdock", "c:foggy.nelson", "slash", "gen", "r:matt/foggy"

red on black tagcloud of requested tags; 5 largest are "c:matt.murdock", "c:foggy.nelson", "slash", "gen", "r:matt/foggy"

Charming.

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