This week we made you Toast-themed T-shirts. Buy them, that you might display your Internet savviness and that I might pay my bills and buy expensive cheese for another month.
Also, I got a Tumblr. What does one do with one, exactly. How do you talk at people. Is that even a function of Tumblr. So far I’ve just been putting some extra-long jokes on it and that seems to be working pretty okay, but let me know if there’s something better I could do.
Nicole presided over the triumphant return of Feel the Burn, and I’m actually going to put it to use this week. I AM THIS CLOSE TO BEING ABLE TO DO A PULLUP. I can tell.
Delightful essays about the changing concept of childhood in Victorian literature. Everyone likes Victorian literature. You just think you don’t.
Nicole also brought back My Life In Middlemarch! And next week she will be leaving us, and Samantha Powell will guide us through those rocky days until Nicole returns.
If you think Ayn Rand’s The Rainbow Fish was a standalone and not the beginning of a long-running series, you’re a fool. Those two monks won’t quit inventing new kinds of art anytime soon, either.
I leave you with this question to ponder over the weekend:
“If she says “No,” do you still exist?
Have you ever existed?”
Tags: meta, the week that was, toast points
I am following you on Tumblr! Good job, great job!
Followed. And what even is Tumblr. I have it too and mostly just use it to read the sublime Animals Talking in all Caps.
Gods, Tumblr confuses me so much. I want to see conversations. The few times I visit, all I ever see is “so and so reblogged this.” I DON’T CARE
reblogs are the conversations! People often put their own opinion in the reblog.
Tumblr is weird. Mostly everyone exists in their own little bubble where they reblog things that they care about, and some people who manage to do this in a cool or entertaining way get more followers. Like competitive scrapbooking.
The best description I’ve heard for Tumblr is that it’s Facebook for people who communicate through images and photographs. There are communities and I’ve found it to be a very welcoming place.
Tumblr is weird. Mostly everyone exists in their own little bubble where they reblog things that they care about, and some people who manage to do this in a cool or entertaining way get more followers. Like competitive scrapbooking.
I love Tumblr. I use it to upload my Hannibal sketches ( shawarmerie.tumblr.com, hello!) and stare at other people’s art, all day. I was bookmarking all my favourite artists before until the bookmarks folder got unwieldy, and now I’m following 160 tumblrs, mostly art, animation, some fitblrs, some fat/body positivity, and a shitload of fan content.
I followed you (as alevelmeaner)! If you usually access tumblr on a computer, you should get xkit. It makes tumblr so much easier to use, because it lets you click on comments and respond to them. Otherwise, if you’re reading it on a phone or tablet, I guess you respond by taking pictures of people’s comments?
I followed you on tumblr! I’m acciomjollnir there. I basically use it to just reblog things I find interesting and/or attractive.
I followed you on tumblr! I'm acciomjollnir there. I basically use it to just reblog things I find interesting and/or attractive.
I love your monks more than I should.
A tumblr?!?! Yahoo!
I see what you did there….
reblogs are the conversations! People often put their own opinion in the reblog.
I like Tumblr too! It is kind of weird, like there is a specific style of communication on Tumblr and you have to figure out how you want to use it, but I really think it is a great website. Your Tumblr is your personal blog and you can decide whether you want it to be single-interest-based or kind of an amalgamation of everything you like. And then you can follow other people who have similar interests or who you feel have interesting perspectives on issues. Tumblr is a really open place to me. Like one of the only places where I feel like people of color, trans people, gay/bisexual people, poor people, etc. can all say what they want to say and talk about the issues that affect them without being dismissed or threatened (although there are still mean anons of course). It’s also a great place to look at pretty pictures, but if that’s all you want, Pinterest might be better. To me, Tumblr is a much more social endeavor than Pinterest.