Questions: treehouse reversebang, tumblr, hockey

[pentapus]

Some questions
1. Is anyone interested in another Treehouse Reversebang round? What if the fandoms were reduced to Avengers, Hockey RPF, and Books of the Raksura? (Ok, and maybe Naruto. And Methos... crossovers.)


2. Is there some kind of idiots guide to Tumblr fandom? Because I do not understand this strange medium. And how much of fandom is over there? i.e. how hard should I be trying to understand this thing?

Oh yeah, and is there some equivalent of the lj user icon? I like to draw chibi icons, but is there some kind of equivalent in-demand graphic for Tumblr?

3. Is there an idiot's guide to Hockey RPF fandom? I don't mean the pairings I mean... where the fandom is. I am discovering that I am really out of practice at being in a current fandom. *facepalm*


Thank you, flist, for taking the time to answer all the queries I come up with. I feel extremely lucky to be able to just ask when I can't figure it out myself. :)

Comments

[tielan]

1. Yes. As long as it was at least Maria, and possibly Steve/Maria. :)

2. tumblr takes some getting used to, I think. It's very "ooh pretty pictures" but conversations are much more difficult than they are over here.

Not sure about equivalent of the lj user icon. There's the user icon/avatar thingy that appears besides people's posts. However, if you want to draw chibis for specific fandoms/characters/pairings, there will be plenty of reblogs of your work! Being as graphically oriented as it is, tumblr is great for artwork and drawings, as well as photos and gifsets, etc.

However, be warned, you're also rather likely to find people on tumblr who'll save your graphic, and post it without attribution or linkage back to your tumblr, so they're the ones who get the notification of reblogs.

I tend to just keep an eye on the people I follow and the tags for the female characters I like best. Which right now is pretty much "Maria Hill".

[pentapus]

1. Haha, you know me, I want it to be Natasha, Natasha, Natasha. We'll see! I probably owe you for last time, I guess. :P

Thanks for the Tumblr tips. I've been wondering if I should start signing my drawings in the corner with a little pentapus because of Tumblr's lack of attribution...

[tielan]

Well, there's a lot of Natasha-love out there already. I'd like to see more Maria-love myself.

[pentapus]

Oh, totally, as far as coverage, Maria gets the short end of the stick. I'm lucky that in this case my character of interest is quite popular.

[tielan]

I think the closest I've been to my character of interest being popular would be Sam Carter of SG1, and even that was mostly in the context of her relationship with Jack O'Neill.