25K Draft Project - Tumblr History Revisited
Ever since I started using tumblr in 2011, I have been using my drafts for:
posts I wanted to tag + post later
posts I wanted to look at again later
posts I wanted to use as reference for something.
The thing is that I was not good at cleaning out my drafts. The last time that happend was in 2013, which I only know because this is the last month that shows up in my Mass Post Editor:
So now I have to deal with this:
Could I just delete all of them?
Yes.
But the reason I have all these drafts is the same reason why I won't be deleting them: I am, at heart, a digital hoarder. If you're shocked by the number of my drafts, you don't even want to know how many recipes, how many saved jpgs, or how many pirated history books I have on my hard drive.
So since I am back on tumblr for real now (instead of coming in every couple months and then running again, partially because just the thought of my drafts was just... too much to deal with), I am going to do a sort of tumblr history project.
9 Years of a Tumblr Life
So this is what I'm planning:
I'm going to go through my drafts
I will tag all of those that I put in there before 2022 as '25k Draft Project'
I will also give them rudimentary tags using xkit
I will queue them
I will aim for about 20 posts a day, if I can swing it. Yes, I am aware that at this rate, it will take me 3 1/2 years to finish this project. I hope I can up the number of posts a day, but we will see. It's also possible I'll abandon this project in a few months, but then you will still get hundreds of posts from 2013, 2014, 2015....
Why is that interesting for you?
Only about 10% of the posts in my drafts are fandom-related. Most of it is
things that I thought were pretty
discourse
stories and poems
things I thought were interesting
life hacks
cute animals
and tumblr-typical shitposting.
So if you're interested in tumblr history? This tag is going to be a treasure trove.
So yeah, follow me and join me in my journey through 9 years of tumblr.
Also, for good measure:
Drafts I will delete instead of post:
everything I don't like anymore
everything that has misinformation
Also, if you're a long-time follower of mine or have followed me recently for mxtx, helluva boss or hazbin hotel content, you can always block the tag '25k Draft Project' <3 I love you and I don't want to annoy you with this.
So, let's have fun together?