I'm A Blogger, Not A Scientist

I'm Erin, she/they, 28, USA. artist, medical laboratory scientist, & total geek.

[diaryofandnwoman]

[emporium]

How did you find tumblr?

I really enjoy talking with tumblr users so I thought I'd try posting more prompts to get some conversations started.

I was in a nostalgic mood this week and was trying to remember how I first came to tumblr. It got me thinking that it would be cool to learn other's origin stories. I'll go first.

Even though I'm a big nerd who loves Star Trek (DS9 4 life) and Anime (Fairy Tail forever) it was WordPress that brought me to tumblr. Back in 2010 while in college I worked part time for a WordPress theme shop called Obox Themes. They were looking for new markets and decided that tumblr themes would be a good area to get into. I fell in love with how easy it was to modify my digital home and how there was a whole community of people hacking and releasing themes. Creating a WordPress theme from scratch would have been impossible with my skillset then but with tumblr I could do anything with my handy CSS guide and a few energy drinks.

Over the years what kept bringing me back was the themes. They were funky, weird and sometimes a little broken but who cares. It seemed like the entire web was trying to be grown up but tumblr was Toys R Us, they said it’s ok to be a kid. I loved that. Whenever I felt like I didn’t belong anywhere else I’d come back to tumblr and make a new theme (https://www.tumblr.com/themes/by/nick). I use to love clicking on the installs and seeing what kind of fun folks were using my stuff. What kind of people liked the weird stuff I did. It's your turn. What brought you to tumblr?

[pocketss]

lost in the moss

[workingonit-currently]

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[soberscientistlife]

[amysubmits]

It also doesn’t factor in disabilities. How long it takes you to read a book or shop for groceries can vary if you have a disability that impacts your functioning in those areas. Even if you don’t qualify for a ‘disability’ - we all have different skill levels in different areas and those can impact how fast or efficient we can be at doing different things. 

[gay-irl]

gay_irl

[formlessdemi]

[alaija]

[i-have-too-much-time]

[forestfullofberries]

[thecindercrow]

Lackadaisy season 1 teaser

[elemei]

Floodhaven Knives / A collection of knives used in my Blades in the Dark campaign.

[timotheusrietbergen]

[marinella-ela]

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

There's something so deeply calming about watching megafauna prance and gambol about like they're little lambs

[orcusnoir]

There he is

The bear in area

[bismuth-soup]

His arrival was foretold in ancient murals

[hollowboobtheory]

you ever take a uquiz and realize halfway through that you don’t respect the author and their opinion is useless to you

[hollowboobtheory]

everyone shut up except this person

[professionaljester]

food brand: we can change a few things with our food no one will notice

their autistic customers the second the change is made:

[lochnessmonster-deactivated2013]

doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR

GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS

THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO

HOPEFULLY

[castiel--for--king]

We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.

[ourglennrhee]

maybe

[tumblartifacts]

7/22/2013

[stonerzelda]

[wepon]

happy decade anniversary to this post

[escuerzoresucitado]

[startrekuniverse]

Mariner: I mean, he has a poster of you up in his bunk.  Una: A poster? You mean like a pin-up poster? Mariner: It’s a poster that is pinned up.