Exit Music for Stages of Grief
So between actually seeing the CEO's best El*n impression as his tumblr persona, the changes, and just all the general weirdness - yeah, it's incredibly negative but Tumblr as we knew it and loved it isn't coming back: it's going away.
I'm still working through my grieving process, which is why I'm even here right now. But I'm pretty close to done. I'm unsure when the last thread is going to snap, but that's sooner than later at this point.
I'm going to make it a point to put my whereabouts in my about so it's easy to find me, but uh. Just get ready for the fact that I'm not going to be on Tumblr anymore. Instead of happy, memeing community I am actively finding it a negative experience just to load my dashboard (I cannot stress enough, not because of any of you, but because of the site, usability, TOS enforcement changes, and a million little straws of weird policy problems) and it's causing me anxiety pretty much any time I open it.
Discord, AO3, and DreamWidth - my user is heyninja (in the order of highest to lowest probability of finding me). I haven't reopened my DW completely yet but I probably will soon, and it'll likely be half-private unless I'm posting fic or something along those lines.
Sometime later, when I have the $$ for it I'm going to go back to my self-hosted blogging roots, which I'll probably make an update for so it can be found.
If anybody's got any better migratory ideas I'm all ears, but the options I'm seeing so far are pretty scattershot except for Discord.
I am tired, grieving, and getting whiplash from either being angry or being anxious. Truthfully, I don't want to sit here and watch Tumblr complete becoming the socmed Frankenstein trying to be everything to everyone, no longer actually what Tumblr used to be, while the CEO gleefully picks on individual users as if punching down makes him look cool.
Mutuals: I love you. If you have discord handles or servers you wanna throw my way, just go ahead and add me, say hey so I know it's you, toss me a join link, I will be over the moon. If you're nervous about it, throw it in my ask box or message me, I won't publish things you don't specifically say to. My gradual evaporation hasn't been because I don't care about you, or because I don't want to see your posts. But I am going away, a little bit at a time. I hope we can find a way to still grab each others' hands, but I can't stay here forever, not anymore.
































