I have serious nostalgia for the Tumblr Girl Detectives Reading Club, both for itself and also for the state of the Sherlock fandom in those days. I'm sure my glasses are rose-hued, but gosh it was so open and welcoming and thinking back it's hard to believe (though not really, since: humans) that it could have degenerated into the toxic sludge pile it became.
I second the desire for active engagement (in threaded comments). And I'm just now realizing, and should add this in a comment on greywash's post, that the ability to blacklist is something that totally made Tumblr usable for me, since it meant I could follow a ton of people whose brains I liked, but mute all their posts about stuff I didn't care about. Of which there was a lot. It let me engage with the people without needing to be super into exactly the same things they were into.
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Date: 2018-12-05 06:56 pm (UTC)I second the desire for active engagement (in threaded comments). And I'm just now realizing, and should add this in a comment on greywash's post, that the ability to blacklist is something that totally made Tumblr usable for me, since it meant I could follow a ton of people whose brains I liked, but mute all their posts about stuff I didn't care about. Of which there was a lot. It let me engage with the people without needing to be super into exactly the same things they were into.
Anyway, good post!