somniloquence

Ugh, I hear you. I am so so glad I have Sonia because if I wasn't really writing for her, the one or two comments I get on every story on AO3 would completely kill any desire to write. I try to remind myself that the kudoses I do get would just be "this is cute." or whatever on lj but it's...I dunno, even the comments I do get, half the time it's "where's the sequel???". Is that seriously a compliment to you?

As for tumblr, wow it is NOT designed for interaction. I can't believe that asks disappear from your inbox after you answer them, and you can't reply to a reply! (Although I think fanmail is a little better for that? Dunno, never used it.) As far as I can tell, Sonia has a million friends she made on tumblr but she talks to them all on twitter, NOT tumblr. Like the content is on tumblr and the discussion is on twitter. Bzuh? WHY WOULD YOU DESIGN A PLATFORM THIS WAY. I hate hate hate that everything I DO post that's fannish, if I want people in that fandom to read it, I have to like, tag it and then EVERYONE WHO LOOKS IN THE TAG will see it. Including hateful assholes. There's none of that public-but-private space like on lj where something could be seen by anyone but in reality was mostly going to be seen by your friends. there's nothing equivalent to lj comms where you could have, like, a separate group by interest but it still had kind of a friendly vibe. there's definitely nothing equivalent to flock. tl;dr: there's a lot to love about Tumblr but there's a lot to hate also.

I'm sorry you've been feeling shitty. ♥