#trending in tumblr
I don’t know why folks are acting surprisedthatDracula Daily has captured the interest of the Tumblr community the way it has.
Like, it’s a piece of discursive epistolary fiction framed as a series of personal missives among a rotating cast of intensely weird viewpoint characters being drip-fed to its audience in serialised daily updates.
This is not unprecedented, is what I mean to say.
(For those in the notes going “fucking Homestucks”, I feel obliged to point out that I could also be name-checking 17776, or any number of trending Weird Fiction podcasts, or… like, I’m not drawing a line between two data points here. This is a trend.)
If you wanted to get all academic about it, you could probably get a decent paper out of drawing a line between Tumblr’s preoccupation with serialised epistolary fiction and reblog chains of rambling personal anecdotes as a primary mode of engagement.
