It seems like a lot of people on my flist--including me--have been noticing this lately. It seems like it's been happening for a while and it's gotten to a point where it can't be ignored.

IA - I think the thing with tumblr is that it lends itself to immediate fanbabble. In terms of say, .gifs, pic spams and the lot. It's also pretty agile in terms of that feeling, whereas a journal format makes you think somehow, and for LJ you tend to need to learn code before you can engage (html linkages, for example), whereas with tumblr you just plug and pay as it were.

I pretty much migrated to DW because I was able to post over 10k of fic in one go, and then AO3 came along, and I'm pretty lazy about my fic, I just throw up stuff and forget about it. I still stick around LJ though, but I've been noticing that even people who were active on LJ (like gyzym) has taken to tumblr exclusively - and I know that she has her reasons, but she's one of those fen that's a pied piper of fandom (lovely person, no doubt) and a lot of people are hovering in her gravity, so to speak.


I hate it--Tumblr definitely doesn't work the same way.

Quoted for truth.