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1. There's an SPN rare ship... thingy happening jointly on Tumblr (![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
srs2012) and DW (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
srs2012). By jointly I mean all the information is on Tumblr, but the actual activity is happening on DW. It's a competition with a team for each rare ship that collects enough members. The info post is here, and the latest list of ships with teams is here.
I... don't really understand how it works? You join the team of a ship you're interested in, your team produces a fanwork every so often (usually, as I understand it, by divying up the competitions so each person ends up writing one fic / making one piece of art).
I'm not signing up, because I'm busy and don't want to commit to More New Things, but someone interested in rare ships and braver than me should check it out.
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2. So, Tumblr. I have very mixed feelings about Tumblr. On one hand, there's fabulous fanart (for example, what I've saved under this tag.) Also there are gifsets recording silly con interactions (like this one, say, or this one), and I'm pretty much guaranteed nifty graphics or gifsets of the latest episodes best bits (like here, from 8.05). Not to mention the collections of images of people's Twin Peaks tattoos, or a picture of the Log Lady that someone has painted on an actual log.
OTOH, Tumblr does a fabulous job of convincing me that looking up fun things to reblog, and reblogging things already appearing on my dash, is some kind of act that is beneficial to humanity. Which is, you know, just silly. (Much as I enjoy enabling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gryfndor_godess's Jensen Ackles habit.) I can only be grateful that I'm utterly ignorant of anything to do with graphics, or no doubt I'd be making things by now.
So, hmm. Fun, pretty, basically frivolous. There are a very few LJ people who now post many of their actual thoughts on Tumblr, but beyond that, I can't say my fannish experience is being much enriched. It's just... shinier now.
I do love the fanart, though.
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srs2012). By jointly I mean all the information is on Tumblr, but the actual activity is happening on DW. It's a competition with a team for each rare ship that collects enough members. The info post is here, and the latest list of ships with teams is here.I... don't really understand how it works? You join the team of a ship you're interested in, your team produces a fanwork every so often (usually, as I understand it, by divying up the competitions so each person ends up writing one fic / making one piece of art).
I'm not signing up, because I'm busy and don't want to commit to More New Things, but someone interested in rare ships and braver than me should check it out.
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2. So, Tumblr. I have very mixed feelings about Tumblr. On one hand, there's fabulous fanart (for example, what I've saved under this tag.) Also there are gifsets recording silly con interactions (like this one, say, or this one), and I'm pretty much guaranteed nifty graphics or gifsets of the latest episodes best bits (like here, from 8.05). Not to mention the collections of images of people's Twin Peaks tattoos, or a picture of the Log Lady that someone has painted on an actual log.
OTOH, Tumblr does a fabulous job of convincing me that looking up fun things to reblog, and reblogging things already appearing on my dash, is some kind of act that is beneficial to humanity. Which is, you know, just silly. (Much as I enjoy enabling
gryfndor_godess's Jensen Ackles habit.) I can only be grateful that I'm utterly ignorant of anything to do with graphics, or no doubt I'd be making things by now.So, hmm. Fun, pretty, basically frivolous. There are a very few LJ people who now post many of their actual thoughts on Tumblr, but beyond that, I can't say my fannish experience is being much enriched. It's just... shinier now.
I do love the fanart, though.
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