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Feb. 14th, 2025 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavstill cleaning out my tumblr likes! (from 21,000 back in november to 13,000 as of this post; i try to delete 500-1k on days when i'm bored and don't feel like drawing.)
random observations after seeing what my 2016 likes:
* wrow i forgot how big overwatch was in fandom circles; probably my last true mainstream fandom i was reasonably in. other big fandoms between then and now were dragon age inquisition, the force awakens, and marvelverse stuff. i strongly suspect mass effect 3 is coming up soon.
* i ... honestly feel like i was a far more boring person back then? the likes are a lot of fanart with no real depth or story (just a semi-popular posed character) and discourse posts that i either actively disagree with now, or are so "one layer deep" that it circles back into vaguely contemptous satire. one way of looking at that slightly differently is appreciating my maturity that's happened in ten years alone, and that i'm far less likely to just nod along with something if it's put in front of me.
* that said i do appreciate that i was consistently kind to everyone by leaving kind and thoughtful comments; never got mean. slightly slow in the head little golden retriever is not the worst thing to be. :P also seemed to pretty consistently make giftart for people; it's something i remind myself i do whenever i worry about being accidentally too misanthropic to people who don't deserve that.
* slightly amusing to see other flavors of complain-y discourse have not changed one bit (bring back squicks, 'you can dislike a character Just Because' etc).
* melancholy at realizing that all the creative works were at least never AI (somebody hand-made all of 'em even as ..... unpolished.... as they were and that's worth something); something you can't say now. the art style is also surprisingly distinct compared to the flavor that's hot today. today has a lot more dynamic work (dare i say a certian flowing dynamism I see a lot in talented Chinese artists) versus the more flattened-down style before.
it's been an experience. glad i'm doing this.
random observations after seeing what my 2016 likes:
* wrow i forgot how big overwatch was in fandom circles; probably my last true mainstream fandom i was reasonably in. other big fandoms between then and now were dragon age inquisition, the force awakens, and marvelverse stuff. i strongly suspect mass effect 3 is coming up soon.
* i ... honestly feel like i was a far more boring person back then? the likes are a lot of fanart with no real depth or story (just a semi-popular posed character) and discourse posts that i either actively disagree with now, or are so "one layer deep" that it circles back into vaguely contemptous satire. one way of looking at that slightly differently is appreciating my maturity that's happened in ten years alone, and that i'm far less likely to just nod along with something if it's put in front of me.
* that said i do appreciate that i was consistently kind to everyone by leaving kind and thoughtful comments; never got mean. slightly slow in the head little golden retriever is not the worst thing to be. :P also seemed to pretty consistently make giftart for people; it's something i remind myself i do whenever i worry about being accidentally too misanthropic to people who don't deserve that.
* slightly amusing to see other flavors of complain-y discourse have not changed one bit (bring back squicks, 'you can dislike a character Just Because' etc).
* melancholy at realizing that all the creative works were at least never AI (somebody hand-made all of 'em even as ..... unpolished.... as they were and that's worth something); something you can't say now. the art style is also surprisingly distinct compared to the flavor that's hot today. today has a lot more dynamic work (dare i say a certian flowing dynamism I see a lot in talented Chinese artists) versus the more flattened-down style before.
it's been an experience. glad i'm doing this.
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Date: 2025-02-17 08:14 pm (UTC)talk about how friendships across age gaps are so much more normalized on the internet and how kinda cool that is.
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Date: 2025-02-20 03:27 am (UTC)