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[alreadyreadthatfanfic]

But seriously, on the whole? I’m gonna miss this place when it finally enters it’s final FINAL FINAL death throes, because for all of its faults, all of its shitty design, Tumblr was undoubtedly great platform in one respect at least: the micro-blogging format here was ideal for lurkers.

Reblogging coupled with the unique style of tag-comments the fandom developed here suddenly made visible the big chains of lurkers who normally don’t interact with the work or its creator directly, but they pass it along in their own little circles, putting up your content up in their own spaces, adding all these heartwarming tags like “it’s great!!”, “omg i love u” or “i’d read that”s.

I create sometimes, when the mood strikes, but I was always mostly a lurker, actually! Especially back on LJ. 

I’m old enough for my ancient, defunct LJ account with less than 10 entries to be still floating out there somewhere, and old enough that migrating to DW is less painful due to nostalgia factor. Yet, it is a nostalgia factor brought on mostly by the fact that for years, LJ was primary place to lurk on! 

After clicking through all the “yep I’m old enough to view those entries :) :) :)” buttons on the way, of course.

((The image below: old-school “Lurker Day” LJ/DW banner, one of many you can still find out there - this one’s from soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org))

Comments

[saxonvoter]

I agree. I've been a lurker in like 95% of my fandoms. Before tumblr I just read fanfiction and looked at fanart, and then on tumblr I would reblog and like fanart and fanfiction and graphics and meta-discussions. I've dabbled somewhat in fanfiction, but still... Lurker at heart.

I love your username, by the way. I've had to say that a lot of times when a friend recommends a fic.