blast from the past

[sethnakht]

whether this account will see use depends on where the migration directs itself ... but it's fascinating nonetheless to see what a difference it makes on mindset to be back to a text-based platform, I almost feel an essay coming on

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[glompcat]

Right? It's actually really disorienting, since these sort of sites were such a huge part of my internet life during undergrad, yet I haven't used a site formatted this way since I left LJ in 2010.

[sethnakht]

Disorienting and yet ... strangely freeing. tumblr holds one captive to images, to the dash of scrolling down the dash, and coming here has made me realize how stressful that all can be. There's something remarkably nice about just being able to talk to one another like this without having to think of reblogs on the horizon, to be able to read without a press of movement and flutter and color on the edge of awareness. But the old-fashioned feel of the UI will certainly take some getting used to again, that's for sure.

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