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

[steammmpunk]

Hi! Sorry to butt in, I'm not even sure you'll remember me since it's been so long XD. But I'd like to put in my 2 cents for #2 since I've been using tumblr for awhile now and generally like it better than DW/LJ. It is quite different, some fandoms are rather big (avengers is one of the big ones I think, and I keep seeing hockey RPF as well, but I'm not sure that's big).

Following works similar to friending/adding to your circle thingy, if you login to tumblr your main page (dashboard) will show the posts from the blogs you are following (like your reading/friends page).

Navigating is part tagging and part following community type tumblr blogs (where they gather certain fandom contents by reblogging). If you search for tags, only the first 5 tags on original posts will show up (for example, if you post your own art or fic/ficlet and put identifiable tags - like avengers, black widow etc. - within your first 5 tags it will show up when people search for it. If you reblog it and add tags that will not show up on search.

There is a equivalent of the lj user icon, it shows up small but people make it bigger and I have seen people post icons for others to use (and there is definitely a demand, but depends on fandom).

Communication is not as easy, but you can leave comments in some cases and you can answer them by making new posts with your replies if you like. People use ask as well, you can either privately or publicly answer (or not). Feedback is mostly likes and reblogs and that will show up as # notes.

I'm not sure if this helps at all, but I'd love to see your stuff on tumblr even though we are not in same fandoms anymore (I was actually talking about seeing my favorite fanartists from LJ/DW days on tumblr today and came to DW in ages and saw this post haha). There are lots of fanarts there, one of the reasons I like. So let me know if you have more questions, or if you decide to join tumblr and stuff. Take care! (oh, I am steammmpunk.tumblr.com there if you like to check it out)