Are we back?

[kellifer]

Livejournal, I'm seriously trying to hang on, I don't want to quit you, but you keep freaking out and also telling me that unknown users are accessing my account when IT'S ALWAYS ME.

So, I made a tumblr. Or, well, I HALF-ASSED a tumblr before I realized that it might make me cry to keep trying to use it and then that site went down too. I'm kellifer-k on there but it's just an expanse of nothing that I haven't fixed yet because of aforementioned site down-age. However, I am going to try and figure this thing out so if you're on there, let me know because buggered if I can find out how to find people any other way other than asking them. (johanirae is the only person I have found and is therefore the only person I'm following at the moment).

It kind of scares me, so I'd also appreciate any noob tips. How do you get pictures/your profile/anything on the sidebars, is that all pages stuff? Ugh, I don't know, I love how this is advertised as a simple blog platform and my brain is all OH MY GOD NO, WHAT IS THIS FRESH HELL? Googling 'how do I use tumblr' isn't as helpful as you might think.

ETA: H-okay - I think I've figured this thing out, so for better or for worse, here i am on tumblr. My first act was to reblog something so I feel I'm getting into the spirit of the thing.

Comments

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't post entire fic, yikes. I've tried reading a fic on there ONCE and it made my brain hurt. I would be more likely to post a teeny fic bit or recs. Oops, just made a post and didn't tag so will be doing that!

Is there an easy way to figure out what tags are available - I just tried to tag something and HAVE NO IDEA ugh.

[destina.livejournal.com]

There is a tag search, but because tags are freeform, there must be a billion of them. There isn't any kind of uniform tagging system. You make up your own. Fandoms do develop tags for pairings and whatnot, which you will eventually stumble onto. Some people do uniformly use spoiler tags to protect others, more or less, but Tumblr is a hugely spoileriffic environment without the same courtesy protection as LJ has had, so be forewarned about that; people post spoilers right and left. Other than that, tags are freeform. On one of my recent posts my tags were 'ugh kill me now', 'i really hope they are not fucking with us', 'merlin spoilers', etc. *g*