That's a lot of links I am not capable of reading right now but you know what? The idea that you need to shed and disavow your previous existence on Tumblr is definitely one of the reasons backlog love just... isnt' a thing, and I forget sometimes how anti-growth Tumblr is as an enrivonment until someone mentions something as fundamental as that and I just go ooooooo for a while before getting sad about it.
I don't think I've ever deleted shit off Tumblr, tbh. All my bad arguments, all my public spats, all my catastrophising breakdowns, they're all there, and I kind of just assume that people are going to be able to tell that Van From Five Years Ago is not Van From Right Now, Who Is On Meds And Also In Therapy, let alone the Baby Radfem Van From Eight Years Ago. But then again... the way I've been running my blog (i.e. focusing more on internal cohesion rather than reach through search and the like) based on the assumption that someone who likes me for my content will look back through my content to find more of it has ensured that I'm so obscure that I'm prolly never gonna end up in the middle of the kind of firestorm having your old dumb shit out there might cause.
And I can relate to "I can respect that even if I don't agree with it" -- the benefit to having the context of absolutely all of my bullshit right there is that I understand where my flirtation with anti-shipping came from, I understand where my TERFy and SWERFy baggage come from, and I can look at what I was going through to better understand why I would ever think that, god. That's the other benefit of just trying to maintain cohesion/continuity in my own work over... whatever it is that curation provides for people, I guess.
IDK. From this comment alone I think I might be missing something about why Tumblr is so popular b/c I've pretty much always followed people for the stuff they make, (and when people stop making original work I stop being interested in them) and if they have a reblog tag I can block, I often do that. The only curatory feeds I care about are my friends, b/c I need to know how to cater to them, pretty much.
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I don't think I've ever deleted shit off Tumblr, tbh. All my bad arguments, all my public spats, all my catastrophising breakdowns, they're all there, and I kind of just assume that people are going to be able to tell that Van From Five Years Ago is not Van From Right Now, Who Is On Meds And Also In Therapy, let alone the Baby Radfem Van From Eight Years Ago. But then again... the way I've been running my blog (i.e. focusing more on internal cohesion rather than reach through search and the like) based on the assumption that someone who likes me for my content will look back through my content to find more of it has ensured that I'm so obscure that I'm prolly never gonna end up in the middle of the kind of firestorm having your old dumb shit out there might cause.
And I can relate to "I can respect that even if I don't agree with it" -- the benefit to having the context of absolutely all of my bullshit right there is that I understand where my flirtation with anti-shipping came from, I understand where my TERFy and SWERFy baggage come from, and I can look at what I was going through to better understand why I would ever think that, god. That's the other benefit of just trying to maintain cohesion/continuity in my own work over... whatever it is that curation provides for people, I guess.
IDK. From this comment alone I think I might be missing something about why Tumblr is so popular b/c I've pretty much always followed people for the stuff they make, (and when people stop making original work I stop being interested in them) and if they have a reblog tag I can block, I often do that. The only curatory feeds I care about are my friends, b/c I need to know how to cater to them, pretty much.