I know we're all joking about the curse finally lifting but it's the only "modern" social media site I get genuine enjoyment out of. And for all that I praise dreamwidth and mastodon to every fandom person I meet, there's a kind of visual fandom experience that only tumlblr is- I can't even say "optimized for," as tumblr is not optimized for anything. Mostly gif gazing. TikTok is for videos and Instagram is for carousels. Fanartists will migrate to even more inhospitable lands but I have survived that before. But where will I go to have narrative parallels highlighted via gifset juxtaposition? Where will I be graced with the sight of my blorbo covered in blood like I am graced by a freshly bloomed flower on my morning walk? Are you telling me I'll have to rewatch my shows??? Unthinkable.
sort-of relevant news
- Animal Crossing Pocket Camp is shutting down next November 😠Everything will technically move to a paid offline version of the app with no leaf tickets or microtransactions, which on paper is great, but I'm waiting to see how much content will actually make the cut to see whether I should cry or be happy. Also no more friends and visiting their camps which ): which is a bummer for an Animal Crossing game, a franchise that's always been about connectivity.
- Automattic will move all Tumblrs to a WordPress backend 👀 Very curious to see whether this will make tumblr better or wordpress worse.
link dump
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a11yawareness is a mastodon account sharing tidbits on accessibility in web development.- Finally getting around to tinkering with FreshRSS and there's so many settings I need to explore!!! I wish I could convince everyone to switch to RSS readers for their news but alas. I use the instance 32-Bit Cafe provides for free and you can read it on mobile via the webapp or a mobile app that supports Google Reader API. I've just set up ReadYou for this purpose, which is also FOSS and has a very pleasing material design UI.
media log
I was in a state after coming back from the holidays so I, huh, binged all of The Boys in like a week. It was fun and I love Karl Urban. He's perfectly cast, as is Anthony Starr and I'd say up until season 4 the plot is pretty tight and entertaining. S4 is a bit meandering and the shows's biggest flaw (thinking that simply referencing real life events in a superhero show counts as satire) is front and center. High production value but to think this is doing something novel with the themes/genre is definitely a stretch. This level of edgy was maybe vaguely subversive in the 90s, but this is coming from someone who could never get into Garth Ennis. Also, I thought AO3 would be full of Butcher/Homelander but it isn't?
I also saw Nightmare Alley, which was underwhelming but gorgeous, so definitely my least favourite of the Del Toro movies I've seen.
I've done quite a bit of reading, so I'll update on that with a dedicated post.
