#feels very myspace/deviantart era

[aurosoulart]

I got a new desktop theme that gives me this very fun little personalized popout box and I am having way too much fun with it

#feels very myspace/deviantart era #i want to mess with the code a bit so the sideblogs in the lower left are labeled as such #and i want the link icon to say 'carrd' next to it #auropost #anyways if you're on desktop you can see this box via the little plus icon next to my blog title!

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1: I love that a trope in teen tv that will never end is Shakespeare placement! If I ever wrote a teen show, I would just have Kit Marlowe placement just to fuck with everyone.

2: Duuuude the Romeo + Juliet vibes were strong but so ominous. I love this show

1: This show stresses me out, reminds me that millennials definitely got the stylistic short shrift in terms of their teen content/clothing choices (well, unless one was goth/emo)

2:  debate with myself on whether or not I would have benefitted from tumblr's influence as a teen; the internet's a double edged sword it seems

1: Like ... a lot of how Tumblr manifested was simply kind of an extension of what I did as a teen, except with Livejournal & slower. I do treasure having to have *really* dug for stuff/influences/ reading music blogs made by cranky post punk experts ... on the one hand, Tumblr was. he last gasp of enthusiastic & earnest dweeb Internet, on the other hand ... it was my first close up exposure to how horrifying people could be on the Internet (not to me personally b/c I must have an Internet guardian angel, or something) to people they didn’t know. Like Tumblr effectively combined the ability to customize your own site (the best part of Blogger, creating your own from scratch, MySpace, and LJ) with the novelty factor of shit like WeHeartIt, StumbleUpon, Last FM; the community dynamics of various boards, LJ groups, etc. & the instantaneous feel of Twitter. It was also “seedier” than Facebook, and it was very very good at being able to absorb the function of sites like Deviantart + other platforms ... as well as positioning itself as a great place for Internet flaneurs to go. And it  had the allure of the “old” internet in the sense that Tumblr was def. for “weirdos”, in part because it nurtured a lot of creativity, obsessiveness, community, debauchery, etc. ... as long as you didn’t take likes & reblogs too seriously & stayed away from certain parts, it was a great place. When they got rid of replies for a bit, it kind of fucked shit up though! As a young teen, I feel like I was better served by the old Internet ... but I would have been less *alienated* (maybe I would be MORE alienated, who knows?) under the Tumblr/Gen Z era.

2: I agree with your take on tumblr and I also appreciate having to dig really hard to find the music and aesthetics I liked. I also pieced my style together by digging through thrift stores. Teens seem to be so much slicker and cooler than I ever was.

1: Like I really appreciated having to become a truffle pig for culture! It helped me to become a better researcher ngl!