Stupid Like Button - the importance of communication

I'm still angry about the addition of a "like" button at LJ. I damn near almost pressed it the other day and stopped myself because either don't comment or take the time to leave a comment. That's one part of what makes journals better than Tumblrs. Connection.

So I left a comment. That's how discussion can happen. That's how you can share opinions and trade stories and discover new things.

All the vapid Tumblring has trained me to click the like button instead of leaving a comment, yet I managed to resist the urge. What we have in this space is valuable and we should protect and nurture it.

For bonus points I want to brainstorm with someone but because fandom only lives at Tumblr these days and Tumblr has no communities it's almost impossible to find the right people to connect with. And if you post at the "wrong time" any post you make can get lost in the avalanche of reblogs (I've seen some of the same damn posts eighteen times over the last couple of days. This wouldn't happen with personal journals and communities corralling debate into a few spaces instead of every single blogger endlessly reblogging the whole damn thing)

NaNoWriMo Day 14

Thanks must go to bluecoattallmadge, who proved Tumblr can sometimes connect you with people, for brainstorming with me. I've written 487 words of an outline and I'm counting those because without them the fic would not get written.
Plus 148 words in a random scene for one of my many original fic WiPs.
Total today: 635, must do better, but now I have an outline I can probably get most of that fic finished tomorrow!
NaNoWriMo total: 17035
deficit: not even going to look today