Signal Boost: Good Omens Meta List

[cimorene]

ithiliana posted: Good Omens Meta List

She's including meta from all sites here, and welcoming suggestions! Although it sounds like perhaps not ones hosted on Tumblr?... Even ones on Tumblr, which she hasn't found yet because it's a pain to navigate. Tumblr is rather awkward for saving things on anyway though, so I haven't even tried to go back and find the ones I've reblogged and favorited yet, but there's no denying I've read more there than anywhere else in the GO Renaissance Era (albeit much of it not in a traditional meta post format).

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[ithiliana]

Tumblr recs are fine. I just have a hard time working out how to credit them and summarize them.

[cimorene]

Yeah, I don't blame you... they're even a pain to read sometimes. Sigh.

[ithiliana]

*nods* The ones with the huge number of names and lines and all sort of spacing, and my eyes just go BLURP and my brain goes ded. I found some great essay-length meta about Tauriel over on Tumblr a few years back when I was working on an essay about fan reception of OFC, etc. (still in progress, sigh, like so many of my others). Seriously good stuff--also with lots of great images. And I ever assigned creating and posting on a tumblr for one of my online classes, and gave it my best shot: I'm afraid I, and everybody else in the class who wasn't already on Tumblr (maybe that was three people who loved it) never got it.

[cimorene]

I used to use the Opera browser, which had a neat built-in feature that would strip the formatting from pages and resize them horizontally to fit on the page on command, but they got bought or started sharing private data or something like that.

However, the current version of Firefox at least has a button for reading format in the address bar that usually works okay on things like single posts that are actually essays. It gets confused by things like reblogs and comment fields or other sorts of pages where the text is in multiple different areas, though. It works a bit better than the various browser extensions and plugins I used to use to get plain text readable versions of websites, though.

It's not that I find Tumblr itself impossible to navigate, or spend time on, or enjoy, or post with; it's just that it's so HORRIBLY ill-suited to text-based interaction: the way reblogs and permanent links work, the way renaming blogs and redirecting works, the lack of comment threading, the spotty way styles are implemented... yikes. The only area it stands out as better is in the creation of mostly-text mixed-media posts with embedded images and videos, like the Tauriel one you mentioned no doubt was, because of the point-and-click interface and the integrated image hosting - it's much better for that than the alternatives (sadly so, really, because it isn't enough to make up for all the other drawbacks).

[princessofgeeks]

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