#cat's meta

Originally, I made this account to share my writing and my meta. Neither has ever been going well for me here in my 4 years of tumblr, I never had a huge audience. While my meta analyses sometimes gained a decent reception, more often than they were not the kind of meta people wanted to read because they contained too many facts, and in a fandom that values fanon over canon such think pieces are not welcome.

Meanwhile, anything I ever posted about my writing (progress updates, new chapter announcement or snippets) was basically me shouting into the void with one or two people reblogging them (thank you from the bottom of my heart!), but that's where the chain usually ends.

Now, while this new enshittification won't give me a larger range, it will give me less control over the range that I have and make it impossible for me to know if anyone dunks on me whereas so far I could remove their reblog and block this user. In the rare case that my thoughts spark a discussion, I would be cut from that, and I don't want that either.

This new feature is not an improvement, it's a downgrade.

And it makes my tumblr experience feel less safe.

So how to proceed from here?

I haven't been motivated to invest time into this platform for a long time now and every update had made me less inclinded to do so. Social media and fandom should be fun, not a piece of work. I briefly thought about deleting my tumblr, but that wouldn't delete the copies of my posts that someone else has already reblogged.

I created an external blog for meta analyses when I realised that I needed to make them available to a wider audience because the majority of people who enjoy them and draw something valuable from them usually don't frequent tumblr anyway. I'm glad I undertook that step because my desire to post them here has been on the decline for years and after this update I'm even less inclined to ever post such a piece on tumblr again. I share new articles on Bluesky, which I've made my home over the last 2 years. Since my writing is getting better receptions there as well, I'm going to limit all updates on that to there as well for the time being (read: until tumblr staffs rolls back this enshittification) and turn my tumblr into a reblog blog.