Desvelado

chrisreinhard:

I hate that my number of followers goes up when I post photos of myself, but when I write about introspection and life I hear crickets. I get the impression that while all of you are well-meaning, there’s not a lot of substance to the format here. Some of you are writers, I get that. Some of you are artists and you share your work. I get that, too.

But the inane recycling of sexy photos is wearing on me. It’s turned this place into something shallow, superficial, and most of all, impersonal.

It’s such a bitch transferring all my old posts to another medium but I might go back to Blogger and just keep Tumblr for things that aren’t so important. At least when I was there I knew people were paying attention because they were intrigued by what I had to say.

I like to think people read the more text-y stuff even if they don’t reblog it (or like it—says the writer who posted about 550 words of a novel yesterday to a silence that would be enlivened by crickets…)

hunsonisgroovy:

I remember seeing something on my dashboard a month ago relating to Tumblr Awards. It’s based on the people they follow and their posts. Here are my awards:

1. Best original posts: dylicious
2. Best reblogger: sparo
3. Best Music selection: dsquared92
4. Best Video selection: jakeandamir
5. Best Photo selection: stewardesses

These next “awards” involve more than just posting the best of something.

1. Most Posts per day: livesophia
2. Most intellectual Tumblog: othernews
3. Most developed Tumblog: stevenbeelen
4. Most photos of themselves: Insidethebox
5. Most creative Tumblogger: breefield

Lastly, these “awards” are just based on personal preference:

1. Tumblogger who I’d like to meet one day: acewepeel
2. Geographically closest Tumbloggers:  24freedinners & sweetpea0531
3. Hottest Male and Female Tumbloggers: insidethebox & martinis-in-a
4. Tumblr Dating/Crush/Online/Stuff: insidethebox & lindsayneedscoffeee
5. Best Friends on Tumblr:  tysonmoffitt & nikolasmason
6. Overall awesome Tumblr: ryanselvy

Okay, it took me a good while to figure this all out with all the bribery going on.

Sweet!