The prodigal fan returns, day 2

I have to admit I never loved Tumblr. It took me for-freaking-ever to figure out what the hell a reblog was and why I might want to use it, much less what a queue was, and the comments system is abysmal. There's no good way to have much of a conversation on posts there. But it's where fandom gathered, so I'm doing the best I can. The pics and gifs are pretty; I'll admit that much. And I've met some truly precious folks there, like my sweet disaronnus <3 <3 <3. I don't look forward to the fandom exodus (if indeed that's where we're headed) from Tumblr, though, because we're going to lose people in the process, and that makes my stomach hurt. Y'all are my people, in nearly every way that matters. All of you.

I really, really, really want there to be a permanent fandom home sometime during my lifetime. I want to know that the conversations and metas and manips and gifs and squee are always going to be there, just like we're now pretty confident that our fanfic will always be there via AO3. We can back up our journals, but we can't back up everything that makes fandom our home.

Anyway, look at me being all melancholy, haha. Just know if you're reading this, you're important to me, okay? I don't want to lose you personally, and I don't want fandom to lose you. *hugs like whoa*

Semi-randomly, my LJ is backed up here, and I spent some time last night looking through a bunch of my oooooold posts. Wow, you know? Who was that person?

Hi hi hi

If I've subscribed to you/granted you access and you have no idea who I am...I'm sorry! I'm desperately trying to keep track of everyone who's migrated here from Tumblr, so I hope it's not considered rude to do so.

Sherlock friending meme

Ooh, check it out: yaycoffee made a Sherlock friending meme!

Gonna post there; also posting here in case anyone's wondering who this Fangirl-with-the-cat-nomming-a-feather-icon is.

Username: fangirl_says
Tumblr name: fangirl-says
Go-by name (if different): Mon (but fangirl works for me, too)
Reader/Writer/Artist/Other: 99 percent reader, enthusiastic fangirl of fanfic and fanfic writers, generic fan; one percent writer? Maybe?
Where can we find your stuff: Fangirl_says (just highly-disorganized bookmarks and reading for now) Mon_de_plume (some fandom, some football. I know; it's weird.) Fangirl_says on Pillowfort (whenever pfio is back up.)
Ships: johnlock's my otp, obviously (and toplock is my not-so-guilty pleasure), but I'm open to other ships. Thorki, Stark/Strange, Carol Danvers/everyone omg, Janet Van Dyne/everyone omg, Benedict Cumberbatch characters shipped with basically anyone
Other Fandoms: MCU, mainly, with forays into various and sundry others. Is Benedict Cumberbatch a fandom?
Any other interests/info you want to share: I'm fandom old and painfully uncool. Bi/kinky af. Politically liberal. Wishing bad things on the current occupant of the White House. That's enough to be going on with, don't you think? ;)


Ooh, and also, there's the_great_tumblr_purge, a comm for those of us who are Tumblr refugees.