What Will Suffice

So, as you may know, I have a Tumblr, but am planning to retire it, for the following reasons:

1. My Tumblr looks like everybody else’s Tumblr. And it even has the same title as a different (and, ahem, better-read) Tumblr. There doesn’t appear to be a way to rectify that.

2. If I had to pick between words and images, I’d choose words every time. But Tumblr is more designed for visual media. My Tumblr thus not only looks derivative, it also looks, well, bad. Because I am, aesthetically speaking, kind of deaf.

3. I had a moral crisis over whether I was, in fact, participating in a medium that was bringing the North American attention span even lower than that required by television. It was a bit hysterical and dramatic of me. But that’s me!

4. I began to wonder if having a Tumblr wasn’t somehow misrepresentative of me, given that (a) I do not live in Brooklyn; (b) I do not derive any income from writing on the internet; and (c) neither of these things is likely to materialize in the near future. Oh, and (d) I own a camera, but only rarely take any photographs with it.

5. Despite the “follow” feature, I have great difficulty believing that anyone reads Tumblrs seriously. Not that anyone’s going to read this seriously. But you never know.

6. And the requisite reason: Julia Allison has a Tumblr. Don’t worry, I won’t link to it. And if you don’t know who she is or why that should be a problem, I invite you to check out the link.