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[berelinde]

Heidenreich wrote...

So I see this tumblr thing, and I have no idea how to use it. someone esplain. I r old n not hip.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind that, either. I signed up to enable me to stalk gone-batty (I can't ship Fenders, but I love looking at Fenders art), but this whole reblogging thing has me confused.

In other news, I finally figured out how to change my portrait. Maybe one day, I'll figure out how to upload my own image.

And Anders related stuff... well, after the next chapter, I'm going to have to put my fanfic on hold while I finish some IE modding obligations. The Gibberlings 3 has an aniversary coming up, and I've got three NPCs languishing with no ToB content, and they're all pretty close to being done. I don't know if anybody here is following my fic (it is the lamest fic on the internet, but that doesn't mean I don't care), but I'm not abandoning it. I just need to clear some obligations so I can move on.

Edit: Oh, carp, that would get ToP. Just saw this today.


Would it be hideously inappropriate for me to repost a commission? In honor of figuring out how to update my portrait, and all...

Modifié par berelinde, 20 août 2011 - 09:41 .

[CulturalGeekGirl]

Tumblr is weird. It's almost like a hybrid of twitter and livejournal (thank god I'm in a place where people actually know what livejournal is. Kids today, you say "livejournal" and they look at you like you just said "usenet." Don't ask what happens when you say usenet.) It combines twitter's transience with livejournal's lack of length restrictions, and makes it kind of complicated and annoying to comment on things or reply to people. Not that I don't use it; I totally use it.

First, you make an account... like you do. To see some posts, you have to either search for tags or follow some people, (much like on twitter or lj).  Your home page of tumblr is your "dash," which is where the posts of everyone you follow and all their reblogs show up. You can also make your own original posts from there, naturally.

While Livejournal is all about comments and self-contained discussions, and twitter can be about short, private conversations, the only way to comment on something on tumblr is to "reblog it" with new or added text in the comment field. If you do this, anyone who follows you will see it. You can also reblog something without comment, just to show it to your followers. Finally, you can "like" something by clicking the heart icon; this just favorites it without sharing it with everyone who follows you (it also lets the author know you liked it.)

The main complaint about tumblr (other than the fact that it satisfies all of our novelty addiction with more precision and vigor than pretty much any other service the internet provides, and it can be hideously engrossing for hours on end) is that a lot of people are really terrible about attribution. They'll post a comic or art or quote without linking to the source, so this thing will become a runaway hit on tumblr without the original creator getting any credit. It's super frustrating, especially when you find a funny comic and someone has literally edited out the attribution. Not cool, bro. Whenever you post something on your tumblr, be sure to link back to wherever you found it.

Hopefully that helps?

Warning: tumblr likes fenders. A lot. I may only think that because gonebatty was one of the first people I followed on my "Bioware-related-stuff' tumblr, but it's definitely a theme I've noticed.

Tumblr also likes porn. A lot of uncensored porn. So be very, very, very careful about using it at work. (I am saying don't use it at work. Unless you work in a porn.)

Modifié par CulturalGeekGirl, 20 août 2011 - 10:38 .

[Toastyblue2]

Arquen wrote...

I don't much like tumblr only because things get lost so easily on there. Posting artwork and stories and then they get reblogged a billion times and you have no idea who the original author/artist was.

That being said... tumblr is a great place to find smut.. Anders and otherwise. Lol.

Is easy to use Heidren. Just make an account, pick a layout, then search the tags ... like "Anders" or "dragon age" if you find a tumblr account that posts awesome stuff you can "follow" them and it links it back to your account and will show you when they update something.

I'm in the Old People Crew, and in a few hours, I think I got the hang of Tumblr. My biggest complaint about it right now is that the cut-post coding seems buggy, and my queued posts keep spitting out not-cut posts. I panicked because I was worried that, like on Livejournal, people would start frothing at the mouth and screaming, "OMGGGGG, U MESS UP MAH FEEED U SO RUDE", but everyone was pretty cool about it.

And as for followers, I just started following people on these forums, because I'm open to all sorts of Anders being with pretty much anyone, and kitten pictures are pretty nice too.

By the way, speaking of Tumblr (shameless promotion incoming) I'm now posting and will be posting over the next few days Wings of Feather and Bone, my Warcraft/DA crossover, which is full of Jaina/Anders goodness and has a sneaky m!Hawke/Anders, too.

Posting a pic to stay on topic (because we can never have enough artwork up in this thread):


by Dolmheon @ dA

[berelinde]

CulturalGeekGirl wrote...

Tumblr is weird. It's almost like a hybrid of twitter and livejournal (thank god I'm in a place where people actually know what livejournal is. Kids today, you say "livejournal" and they look at you like you just said "usenet." Don't ask what happens when you say usenet.)

Dear CGG, you are a goddess, in the sense that you are a beautiful etheraeal creature and deserve the respect that all knowledgeable, intelligent ethereal creatures deserve, but I'm afraid that I don't really know what livejournal is. I've fumbled around, tried to join a few groups (mostly to follow the spork that was done to my NWN2 fic, and I was understandably denied membership). The point is, I'm just not that cool or that savvy to understand what's going on. I try, but it's like explaining a frog dissection. Yeah, I want to get it, but it's still kinda weird. I do understand life. I'm not an idiot. I just don't do technology as well as I'd like.

Modifié par berelinde, 20 août 2011 - 01:07 .

[Arquen]

LOL, berelinde I saw your icon and was like "whoisthat?" then saw your name and go "thasberelinde!"

Sometimes I get so used to people's avatars it throws me off when they change them, LOL. As far as Tumblr ... as I said it isn't my favorite and CGG is right it is VERY NSFW. There is no censorship on there and no filter either. If you look up Anders or Fenris prepare for massive amounts of Fenders. If you do Dragon Age you will have everyone and their dog who plays, comments, likes, hates, wants to say something about, etc. on Dragon Age.

What I hate the most about it is there is no way to save what page/place you were on. Then you have to reload and scroll through the whole deal again. I have an account, but haven't used it at all. I prefer DA for my own stuff. I was a livejournal junkie */flex* I even made/hosted a few groups on there. Alas, my LJ now lies in ruins. I blame it on when they started making us have ads.

Usenet... *gigglesnort* --- good quote on the wiki "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea. Massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." — Gene Spafford, 1992 -- pretty much describes every forum/twitter/LJ/Tumblr... like EVER.

Also, who decided about these porn weeks? Why is it Anders week? Who is in charge of this madness!?

[SurelyForth]

Arquen wrote...

Also, who decided about these porn weeks? Why is it Anders week? Who is in charge of this madness!?

Someone decried a lack of NSFW Anders on her dash and declared it Anders Porn Week. And then Anders Porn Week happened. In other news, I realized that I actually have a threshold for how much Anders porn and sticky sweet AU Andersfics I can tolerate in a week. 

I'm hoping that next week is Varric Porn Week.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 20 août 2011 - 03:54 .

[YamiSnuffles]

SurelyForth wrote...

Arquen wrote...

Also, who decided about these porn weeks? Why is it Anders week? Who is in charge of this madness!?

Someone decried a lack of NSFW Anders on her dash and declared it Anders Porn Week. And then Anders Porn Week happened. In other news, I realized that I actually have a threshold for how much Anders porn and sticky sweet AU Andersfics I can tolerate in a week. 

I'm hoping that next week is Varric Porn Week.

I also apparently have a threshold I never knew about before. I would have never thought I'd tire of looking at Anders or drawing Anders. Tumblr taught me I was wrong. I could personally do with an Isabela week just to balance out the huge pile of men that have been on my dash all week. Although I suppose a Varric week would give me an excuse to come up with more Varranders spam.

[MG800]

On tumblr I feel like 60 year old gradma who suddenly discovered internet.
**** you too, technology - but it's worth the sweat just to see the all the wonderful "Anders in cardigan and kitten shorts" day posts. 
And modern Anders. And, a lot of porn. And male desire demons. I'll never regret it  

Modifié par MG800, 20 août 2011 - 06:17 .

[CulturalGeekGirl]

berelinde wrote...

CulturalGeekGirl wrote...

Tumblr is weird. It's almost like a hybrid of twitter and livejournal (thank god I'm in a place where people actually know what livejournal is. Kids today, you say "livejournal" and they look at you like you just said "usenet." Don't ask what happens when you say usenet.)

Dear CGG, you are a goddess, in the sense that you are a beautiful etheraeal creature and deserve the respect that all knowledgeable, intelligent ethereal creatures deserve, but I'm afraid that I don't really know what livejournal is. I've fumbled around, tried to join a few groups (mostly to follow the spork that was done to my NWN2 fic, and I was understandably denied membership). The point is, I'm just not that cool or that savvy to understand what's going on. I try, but it's like explaining a frog dissection. Yeah, I want to get it, but it's still kinda weird. I do understand life. I'm not an idiot. I just don't do technology as well as I'd like.

Forgive me, it was very late last night when I wrote that. I wasn't trying to say "only the unsophisticated don't know about livejournal" rather I was trying to imply that livejournal is no longer really culturally relevant. Livejournal is an obscure, much maligned, and largely forgotten niche technology. You needn't feel bad if you don't understand or use it... it was something, for a while, but now it's sort of this strange holdover.

The thing is, in a lot of ways I liked the format of its friends lists, posts, and replies more than I like any modern social media or blogging software, so I "miss" it, even though its complexity and stubbornness ensured that it never caught on as widely as stuff like facebook, twitter, and now tumblr. I'm hardly the person to talk to about tech... horrifyingly enough, I still don't have a facebook.

Tumblr is something that can stupify even though young and clever with its obtuseness. If anyone would like, I can try a legitimate, ground-up description of the history and use of these services, but that might be a bit too off topic, even for this thread.

[Toastyblue2]

YamiSnuffles wrote...
I also apparently have a threshold I never knew about before. I would have never thought I'd tire of looking at Anders or drawing Anders. Tumblr taught me I was wrong. I could personally do with an Isabela week just to balance out the huge pile of men that have been on my dash all week. Although I suppose a Varric week would give me an excuse to come up with more Varranders spam.

I'd be down for some Varranders. Heck, I'd be willing to contribute. I need a break from my current fic and it would be a perfect excuse.

I just saw the call for Disney DA week, and I'm not so sure that it's something I can do. I'm no artist and even my fluff tends to be on the gritty side.

[CulturalGeekGirl]

Oh Varric... if he was romanceable, he'd easily top Anders as my favorite LI. Pun completely unintended, but I'm leaving it.

I'm listening to his legacy banters, and unf... while Anders is so perfectly fragile and broken, Varric breaks the fourth wall, has quiet dignity, and wryly jokes about the fact that people are always trying to kill him. Then he explains how when you write a story, the characters take over, and I just want to tackle him. Seriously. Also, dwarves are built for tackling... low center of gravity means they don't go down easy, like skinny half-starved mages do.

[Heidenreich]

I've been an internet nerd since I was 10 years old pretending I was 16 in AoL chatrooms, and Tumblr makes me feel like a little old biddy trying to figure out how this new fangled whasitcalled works, dang flabit!

When I get some free time I'll play around with it a bit, but, odds are, I'll give up and stick with DA and stalking Yami for new YamiCrack. *nod* especially since I can smell the extra-money-this-month-for-a-commission fairy. She smells like Teriyaki Beef Jerky and A&W Rootbeer. Best snack EVER.


Which, to stay related to this thread, is TOTALLY what Anders would smell like. At least if he were in modern day, and was my boyfriend, because its the best snack EVER.

Modifié par Heidenreich, 20 août 2011 - 08:22 .

[CulturalGeekGirl]

I like the "Anders smells like elfroot" idea, and there are modern equivalents. I knew a guy once who used a bunch of handmade herbal soaps, and he smelled like stepping into the forest on a warm spring day.

I think Anders would smell more like the forest in autumn, where you get that tiny hint of death, of the start of perfectly natural decay, but everything still smells spicy and earthy and alive. Justice, on the other hand, smells like thundersnow: that whiff of ozone and sharpness when electricity is everywhere, and that beautiful, clean, waiting smell that tells you winter is properly here... now.

[SurelyForth]

Anders smells like elfroot and honeysuckle, to be precise. But that's just because "and" is always floral in my broken brain and honeysuckle is a natural antibiotic that I pretend he uses because it smells good.

Justice is definitely ozone.

Sigh. Things I have thought about way too hard.

[CulturalGeekGirl]

If Anders smells like honeysuckle (which I don't deny he would), I'd imagine he smells like honeysuckle smells outside, when you're walking down a path and trying to get home before dark and you're faced with a wall of honeysuckle that has completely overgrown the path... so you get hit with the beautiful sweetness of the flower but also the earthy, leafy-green smell of the rest of the vines, and then you have to either hack through, crawl through, or go around... because that stuff is tenacious.

Can you tell I'm about to move away from my native forests, and am already feeling homesick?

Also, if we're talking about healing herbs, I picture hints of goldenseal and possibly myrrh.

Modifié par CulturalGeekGirl, 20 août 2011 - 09:40 .

[Sepewrath]

berelinde wrote...

I get Scooby Doo image from this.

[TripLight]

Sepewrath wrote...

berelinde wrote...
*snip the ruh-roh*

I get Scooby Doo image from this.

You gotta admit though, Anders is a total Shaggy.

[Amondra]

Commission I had done of my Thera and Anders

[berelinde]

Very pretty! What does the white text say? Sorry, but there isn't enough contrast for me to make it out.

[Vicious]

Okay I just re-finished the game with Rival Anders. Easily the best companion in the entire game. But it sounded a lot to me like he was going to commit suicide if he didn't die in battle...

[Amondra]

berelinde wrote...

Very pretty! What does the white text say? Sorry, but there isn't enough contrast for me to make it out.

Yeah she noticed after she sent it and re did it lol. on top it says "My sweet doll of silk that I keep so high on a shelf..."

And on the bottom it says "...how I admire you from afar"

[berelinde]

Amondra wrote...

berelinde wrote...

Very pretty! What does the white text say? Sorry, but there isn't enough contrast for me to make it out.

Yeah she noticed after she sent it and re did it lol. on top it says "My sweet doll of silk that I keep so high on a shelf..."

And on the bottom it says "...how I admire you from afar"

Aha! That explains her annoyed "Would you just shut up and get naked?" expression.

[LT123]

Vicious wrote...

Okay I just re-finished the game with Rival Anders. Easily the best companion in the entire game. But it sounded a lot to me like he was going to commit suicide if he didn't die in battle...

Yeah. He's really screwed up in the templar ending.



If you side with the mages on rivalry, his speech is exactly the same as it is on friendship. It's pretty jarring.

[ParnAkuma]

SurelyForth wrote...

This thread! Why so quiet, this thread?

Anyway, here's an Anders. It's a little Fight Club, but Anders is hot and I'd not kick that Hawke out of bed, either:

by wickedbluebehemoth

This is amazing.

[Arquen]

Is it just me or when you look at that pic you get this eerie feeling that you DON'T want to MESS with crazy of that magnitude.

That being said... 1st rule of fight club... hehheh