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

[xcziel.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately (but often amusingly) the tagging is basically like the "free form" tags over at AO3 - its really just another place to put comments or for people to find things for themselves when they go back through their own posts.

There is no standardized tagging system. Just use the most generic search terms you can, like "Renner" - that will bring up anything with "renner" in it: "jeremy renner", "crazy renner", "renner gif", etc. Using the tags for a specific set of blog posts will usually work: "rennsday", scifigrl47's "Financial Friday", etc. but everything depends on what the blogger decided to use as tags - some are very conscientious and tag EVERYTHING, some just tag the URLs of people whose asks they are reposting (like twitter @s) To find the original blogger you have to look at the source, which sometimes can only be found on your "reblog" page. Otherwise, post authors are not tagged - meaning you can only search for people in the "Find Blogs" field.

Tag how you feel comfortable - your followers will know to check for personal tagging idiosyncracies and bear them in mind. Also - cool tags are very much a desirable thing. They go hand in hand with a lot of Tumblr, tag and URL ~humor~. {8D