Lydia agrees with me: there are limits to what Tumblr is good for.

[dira]

I like Tumblr to the extent that it's a venue for completely ephemeral interaction that consists of showing each other gifs and having feels about them. But some people post fic to it, apparently, which I find alternately puzzling and grumpy-making. And yet, I have enjoyed some of that fic! And yet I refuse to reblog it because no. So I shall now perform the Doing It Wrong performance art piece that is Reccing Tumblr Fic on Dreamwidth/LiveJournal:

Now You're Standing in a Big Disaster by gyzym. Derek is doomed, and Stiles doesn't intend to have any regrets when he's gone.

[Untitled] by saucefactory. In which Dr. Deaton helps Stiles even the playing field.

In Which Derek Has a Nice Month and Gets Thoroughly Freaked Out By It by jebiwonkenobi. What it says on the tin, with bonus excellent Stiles. ♥

[Untitled Kidfic] by nightrevelations. In which Derek's niece needs Stiles-cuddles.

Comments

[dira]

FWIW, Gyzym actually has a very clean black-on-white layout, and that link is to her original post, so there's no annoying layers of quoted text.

[elizaria]

Thanks for letting me know :)

Embarassing confessiontime - I can't help but feel like DNW to encourage fandom to have Tumblr as the new trend. The prev being fanfiction.net > LJ > DW > AO3 meaning I'm getting old and acting like a grumpy person a lot older than my 35. Sigh. Maybe I'm just too much of a nooo, change is bad.

(Ok, fic archives and personal websites should be in there in that timeline and DW should probably be paralleled rather than as a next step maybe. Oh and I forgot Yahoo groups and mailing lists)

[jerakeen]

(geocities pages with neon pink text on black background and completely random gifs!)

[elizaria]

Or even worse, gifs as backgrounds - I remember someone had a starry background but the stars blinked. Really distracting.

Geocities and angelfire - a historical institution of bad website design. Angelfire's still around though.. I think.

[jerakeen]

But those blinking stars were the BEST THING EVER back then! You had to put them somewhere! And if your background's gonna be black it might as well be the night sky. It only makes sense.

(Can you tell that I had a geocities page? It was awesomely tacky.)

[elizaria]

Oh I did too. And yeah, definitely black. With really green borders because I used pics from Pitch Black as the banner (the green light Johns/Riddick fightscene -"Stay in the light". I might've seen it one time too many LOL). I think I had the fics on grey background though with black text. All links was in really shiny green though. And the left sidebar was... I learned how to make gifs for links. So they were blinking green things /0\

[jerakeen]

I bet now tumblr doesn't seem so bad. :D

[elizaria]

LOL sorry, too many years of sane webdesign in between ;P

[dira]

Given that tumblr is just SO UNSUITABLE for this purpose, I'm hoping that this is just a detour, like InsaneJournal or something, and eventually people will give up on posting fic where it doesn't belong. And in the meantime, look, a cute story about Derek having a nice month! :D