Stop, drop and flail

[birdsofshore]

By Alekina

I-- I don't know what this is. How-- I-- ? There used to be words, and sentences, and things, and now there's just THIS ART.

It's the hand. Harry's hand, and Draco's wand, and OMG THE TROUSERS, but the HAND, NGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH, I just-- OH GOD WHYYYY, I USED TO HAVE A LIFE AND NOW THIS.

I was good and resisted posting it here full size so that you can all go to tumblr and worship the artist in person. But really I want to wallpaper my house with it. Or just my retinas. I could have it surgically implanted on my retinas, yes?

It has been quite a while since anything got me right in the feels like this, like I'm just FIZZING with H/D and my entire body is just a ball of SLASHY FANGIRL ECSTASY, and it just won't stop.

Draco's arse. It's some form of Dark magic. But the hand, though. *whimper*

Comments

[birdsofshore]

OMG, yes, you were blessed indeed *genuflects to you*

The massive number of notes is really impressive and must be heartwarming, but we need to TALK TO ONE ANOTHER, not just click LIKE aaaaaaaargggggghhhhh

[snowgall]

It's so different, the two online cultures. But I see benefits to both. In particular, on LJ it seems like people either comment on posts right away or not at all (not including fic posts, which are different). And later comments on the same post will probably not be seen by earlier commenters--they've moved on. I assume for instance, that you and I might be the only ones who see this comment I am posting now. If I were reblogging this to tumblr, however, then anyone who follows me would see it, and if you reblogged back anyone who followed you would see it. Maybe that's good, and maybe that's bad.

So it's nice on LJ that you get to see the whole comment thread in one place, but it seems rather static after one day. Whereas on tumblr, people can find old posts and reblog them and then not only the original poster, but also anyone who follows the re-blogger can rejoin the conversation. It can keep old conversations bubbling continuously, as long as they are interesting.

It's different for sure. And sometimes some conversations are better in one place over the other. But I've come to appreciate both.

[lordhellebore]

I assume for instance, that you and I might be the only ones who see this comment I am posting now.

I usually read all comments on posts I find interesting. That used to be the case with many in past years, but idk if that's changed.

[snowgall]

♥♥♥
I'm a little new to LJ myself, so I can't be sure if anything has changed or not. I just notice that if I comment too late on a post (anything after the first day) it often seems as if I've missed the party. And even if I comment early enough, if other comments are in other threads then I have to make a point to go back and look for them. Or I guess I could click the "track this" button...I've never tried that. Do people do that?

But thanks so much for replying to my little comment :)

[birdsofshore]

If I were reblogging this to tumblr, however, then anyone who follows me would see it,

I don't necessarily agree... unless people are constantly on tumblr (which I know a lot of people ARE) then they won't see it at all. I seldom go on tumblr, so I know I'm not the norm, but even when I go on once a day I have NO idea what's been happening the previous day, it's like a jumble of STUFF. Really, I find it impossible to follow and no way to filter - for instance, if you made a post on LJ about a subject I wasn't interested in, I would not go back to that post or look at the comments. It's super easy to filter. If you were on tumblr having a conversation via reblogging and adding notes, every single tiny thing would show up on my dash every time. It's like sitting in a room full of excitable people and you cannot filter out any of the noise. I'm too bloody old for tumblr :((

[snowgall]

Yeah, I generally agree about the noisiness. I think there *might* be ways to filter out some of it through 3rd party extensions and stuff (Xkit maybe has something for this?) but it takes a bit of work and know-how. But I kinda need to check it out semi-frequently to keep up with what my daughter posts. She even asks me if I saw her posts each day! (funny thing: she never checks out mine)

One thing that is nice in this case, however, is that the original artist is on tumblr and posted her (? maybe wrong pronoun if transgender, sorry) artwork herself so she can see all the notes she's getting on that site, at least. What's really annoying is when someone grabs some artwork that maybe was originally posted to LJ and re-posts it to tumblr (with no link back to LJ) and then the original artist doesn't get all the accolades. Even worse if no credit is given to the artist at all. That burns.

But if we had been on tumblr, then you could have just re-blogged my post instead of having to make a new one. And I would have seen that, even if I didn't follow you already. But I do follow you, so I guess the point is moot :)

[birdsofshore]

Ahehehe! I still like LJ *stubborn*