#the gull rambles
okay but what if I just start using tumblr as my main nerdy social media again
so i think i’m gonna try this whole ‘import your blog to wordpress’ method of backing up my tumblr because why save things to a hard drive when you can save them to a cloud amirite
will report back on whether or not it works
i downloaded the newxkit extension to show only original posts, so I can look back through my blog and see what of my content i want to cross-post to pillowfort and like
I haven’t been a big journal keeper since I was a kid, although I kept up with infrequent angst-fueled journalling through high school and probably college? and i never thought much about the fact that that’s dropped off too in the last 5 years, because sure, adulting started and I was busy, you know? But that’s the exact amount of time I’ve had this blog. And we all know you post your thoughts and feelings on your blog, but I am just now realizing how much this space has been a public journal for me. Through like, a lot of big stuff, too, graduating from college, moving back in with my parents, coming out, my first relationship, the first fandoms i really participated in, getting closer to the people who are my best friends and my family. That’s a Lot, guys.
This is why i can’t go through old physical writings I have, whether they be my journals or other stuff, because there’s a lot of feelings wrapped up in those spaces, and this is kind of the same. I don’t believe tumblr will stick around forever; a lot of us have thought that it would die a slow death after the yahoo purchase, and I still think that’s at the root of what’s been happening around here in the last few years. I will be backing this blog up in the next couple of weeks, and I don’t have any intention of deleting it, but personally I think the day when tumblr folds is coming soon, and then it will be gone whether i want it to be or not. And anyways my blog is a very different place than it was a few years ago; a lot of my friends and mutuals have already left tumblr (which could be a whole other post of Feelings, honestly, given the fact that we were all dragon age fans and bioware is supposed to make a DA announcement soon. I’m not exactly the Last Holdout in my circle, here, but a lot of people I shared those games with then are just…gone. I fb friended a few, I blocked someone else who recently started posting TERF rhetoric, others only log on sporadically. My DA fandom community here is just not what it was).
idk, I wasn’t expecting to have so many end-of-an-era feelings about this, but they really just smacked me in the face anyways, huh.
