I’m so beyond happy just happy that you’re back on tumblr. Something was always missing all these years and it was your mental notes to us and I dunno it was always like talking to you or the other way around or we’re having a conversation that I always want to have with someone but don’t. I had a hugeeeeee crush on you when I followed you years ago. That’s all.
I’m never sure to what degree i’m talking to myself and to what degree I’m trying to perform for all of you. I love this crush talk. There should be more crushes on tumblr and everywhere else. That shit is the good, fun part of things. More crushes 2020! It’s all we have as the world dies!
Also I love that these anons keep coming! Also, shout out to the multiple anons who sent messages letting me know you’re not all the same person. If you’re all actually just the same one person, much respect, because sending multiple versions of that message was pretty fucking brilliant.
Being back on tumblr is interesting. I know I need more than twitter when i’m procrastinating and/or can’t sleep. I try not to say the same stuff on both of them.
What I love most about tumblr is that unspoken group you find who are all paying a little more attention to one another than everyone else and how much texture there is within those people. How we influence one another. The hidden links and echoes between posts. I love replies to my posts. And I love yalls posts, especially when they’re personal and gutsy. And to me the best thing about tumblr is the ask function. It has no equivalent on other platforms. I liked it when it overlapped 100% with DMing on here. You’d have to start your question with *private* or else anything you said risked being treated not as a message but as a published prompt. I fucking love that. And to the credit of all of us I never once saw anyone publish a message that had been marked private like that. That’s actually really fucking dope. I also clearly love anonymous questions and comments. There is something real happening there. What might otherwise feel like social posturing or a kind of performative act ends up feeling really pure or really cowardly when it’s anonymous, depending on the content of what’s being said. That’s really rad. And you can’t DM anonymously on twitter or on instagram either I bet. So that has been great to encounter again during my little return to tumblr. Honestly even if I tried to walk away from here again it would be hard to do if I kept getting interesting comments and questions. I just fucking love to talk to people. I’m one of those takes an absurdly long time to leave a social situation if there’s good conversation happening types. So thank you, anon, my old friend, for being welcoming and interacting with my shit. I really appreciate you.