What fucking ho, lads

I know Tumblr shits the bed every couple of weeks at this point, but I've been moving to other media just in case. I'm not going to delete my blog --- I have far too many followers (and thus far too large of an ego) for that --- but this does feel slightly more serious than before. Perhaps it's just that people are fed up of, well, Tumblr shitting the bed every couple of weeks. Can't say I blame them.

The problem is, where else is there to go? Take Dreamwidth -- yes, we made the transition from Livejournal to Tumblr, but I suspect long-form journaling has had its day. Pillowfort, even if it isn't a scam, charges $5 to register; Mastodon is too frantic for my tastes; nobody's heard of Ello. All of these sites have different userbases from that of the blue hell, too: though sites like Pillowfort have a similar structure to that of Tumblr, I doubt its content will be as inclusive. A focus on fandom lends itself more to, well, fanworks than it does to reblogging pretty pictures. Similarly with Ello, which is a lovely place for reblogging pretty pictures but likely indifferent-at-best to fandom culture. Ultimately, for all its faults, Tumblr fulfills a niche nowhere else currently does. Otherwise, I imagine far more people would have abandoned it far earlier. 

I suppose it's the hipster/fandom divide of 2012 all over again, but what happens to the many, many people whose blogs are a combination of the two? I don't want to run two blogs on two platforms; frankly, I'm too lazy. Furthermore, with all the options available, I doubt all of the people I enjoy following will move to the same new platform, if any at all. It's honestly a shame Yahoo is running Tumblr into the ground, because I do think it's something relatively special, if only for its popularity: as far as I can tell, there just isn't a good alternative for it.

Of course, all this assumes that this is The End. I don't know about you, but I suspect Tumblr hasn't run its course yet, if for no other reason than because moving on is something that some people -- self included -- cannot be arsed to do.

On Hugh Laurie's Meaty Thighs

i mean shit bro have you even seen them

they're so big