Visual Mind Chatter @visualmindchatter - Tumblr Blog

I can't even keep track of all the social networks that people are making "just in case!" accounts on, then I come back here and see ads for shoelaces and promoted posts that say Welcome Home! Is this home lol?

I guess if I do come back here I better follow some more people. And if I turned up in your feed for what seems like no good reason, Hi, I'm Mel, about a kabillion years ago I used to make SOAD and prog gifs and ramble about nothing in particular. Kinda like this post.

Anyway. How have you been?

#I don't know what's going on #but I do miss the stupid long tags

But people are still liking and reblogging my ancient SOAD gifs omg.

So out of all the blogs I was following back in the day it looks like only about 8 or 9 have posted in the past few months, and the majority have been inactive for about as long as me.

Hmm.

Omg are you all still here? Do I need to come back here to live while I watch Twitter implode? Lol.

Well. Hi.

Visual Mind Chatter turned 11 today! I can’t recall the last time I visited but I can’t seem to bring myself to delete it, so happy birthday to my lil forgotten blog ❤️

#tumblr birthday #tumblr milestone

Just seemed appropriate to come back and visit while System of a Down is doing their livestream and all. Cause I may not post here anymore but I still love them with all my heart and soul and follow them and quietly obsess over them whenever somebody will listen to me, and still got as close to the stage as I possibly could when I saw them in 2019 when concerts were still a thing and sang along at the top of my lungs. And some kids way younger probably thought who is this old lady lolol. And I figure if a guy who is 50+ can be on stage screaming, somebody around his age can be in the audience screaming back. \o/

And I still love seeing the prog fans and still obsess over that and still occasionally I still find new music that I fall in love with and flail around the house screaming by myself lol because I have no where else to fangirl. And really at this point I refuse to get into another fandom and publicly squee over 30 year old guys, because I could be their mom and they’d probably find that weird lol.

And there’s like six or seven people I follow who are still posting lol, and of my followers maybe 80% haven’t logged in for the past several years but if you’re still around HI!!!! I still haven’t found a place that was more fun than Tumblr when I joined, because it was the only place I could let my obsessive fangirl out in public and have fun with people who totally get it. I love you all!!

On a side note, people are still liking and reblogging some of my gifs, omg, most of them are six or seven years old. It must be possible to upload things in much better quality now.

Golly it looks different around here

Logged in after I don’t even know how long (One year? Two? More?) and in addition to having no clue who half the blogs on my dash are these days, I found that the ‘review flagged content’ thing is certain that one of my old gifs of a shirtless Greg Lake and one of my gif sets of System of a Down on stage are adult content and have been hidden from the world.

I had no idea Tumblr had become so prim and proper lol.

So apparently my mostly abandoned blog here had a birthday today, according to Tumblr, so I thought I’d come in and blow the dust off it and look around and be all nostalgic.

Happy birthday little blog. I still love you. ♥

#and people still reblog my photosets omg #that's kinda cool

Meanwhile people who have forgot this blog entirely are now saying "who the hell is this and why am I seeing posts?” lol On the other hand I saw a few familiar names so if you remember me, Hi! Hope everything is good with you!

#Sometimes I miss tumblr #and this little blog #and fangirling

Another random thought... the way we’ve been losing musicians right and left, I think I am going to carefully wrap System of a Down up in bubble wrap and pack them in a safe place for the remainder of the year. I know they’re still relatively young, but 2016 has been pretty harsh so I’m not taking chances.

#need to keep Daron in a safe place #can't lose anymore beloved guys

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Greg Lake 1969 ~ King Crimson in Hyde Park

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Reblogging myself from 2012... I think this was either the first or second gif I ever made. Seemed appropriate to repost it today.

I can’t remember the last time I logged into Tumblr, and it’s been almost a year and a half since I last posted, but today I had to be here. I had to come in and say goodbye to Greg Lake, who has been such a big part of my life since I was around 16.

ELP had been broken up for a while when I discovered them, but that didn’t matter. I found everything I could, I bought albums. I fell in love with their music and began exploring everything related. I fell in love with Greg, too. He may not have been the biggest musical crush I’ve had, but he’s endured the longest.

There has been a lot of speculation about his health in the past few years, but I was still stunned to hear he’d died. This year has been so devastating... I am done with 2016. Totally done.

Thank you, Greg, for being an awesome musical presence in my life. Thank you for introducing me to some of the best friends of my life. Thank you for being there for me with your songs when I was at my lowest points.

It’s been so long since I’ve been a regular here that I think many of the prog fans i used to follow and who followed me are long gone, but if there’s anyone there I hope you’re doing okay.

Rest in peace, Greg.

♥

#Greg Lake #so much sadness

Happy 40th Daron :)

I don’t know how I’d have managed the past couple of years without your music in my life. I could never explain just how much it has meant to me. Thank you so much for your music. Thank you for sharing it with the world.