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I keep posting to the wrong blog because Tumblr won’t let you change your primary blog account but I don’t want to change the name because then I lose all you creepers who never let me know who you are but definitely read my blog because I’m totally not just mumbling down the dark tubes of the Internet.

But you know what? I’m not a professional blogger. I knew that even before I read the 15 Reasons You’ll Never Have an A-List Blog.

So who cares if my posts are sporadic and topically wishwashy? Not me. Not you three people who I know for sure read this.

Guess I’ll have to get my 15 min somewhere else, eh, Warhol?

That I’m Tumbling at alanamusing.tumblr.com which I wanted to call Amusing - get it? But someone else had it.

And now you know the long and sordid tale of how I named my new main Tumblr.

Epilogue

Tumblr does not allow you to change your main blog which is a huge pain because I send my posts to my Facebook and now I can’t do that without changing the name of this to Alana Musing which I was trying to avoid doing.

Not cool.

I will, however, at least for the time being, be linking to this blog from there. Or maybe I’ll just get my Internet tubes tied.

After much deliberation and much changing of my online identity, as it were, I’m changing the name of this Tumblr to

A_Musing (alanamusing.tumblr.com)

Please keep following as I tailor my blog more towards writing, acting, film & film making, photography, art and fashion. I’ll be posting about my personal projects, success and failures, as well as continuing to reblog random and interesting things that fall into the above categories.

Thanks to my loyal readers!! Here’s to better days!

- Lanii

This whole Tumblr at NYFW has got me thinking about niche and blogging. I’m home most of the day. I’m a writer - even if I didn’t finish my degree! And I’ve been blogging in some form or another for at least 11-12 years. 

After putting my blog through the awesome website Tumblr Stats and noticing some trends in type of post, I’ve decided to start making a shift. I have to go through all 1648 posts and weed out the trends in topic of post and see if I can have a go at making my blog a little more thematic.

Don’t worry - I won’t stop randomly saying shocking or weird things and going on rants. I don’t think. Or maybe I’ll make a Tumblr called Lanii Rants and do them all there. We’ll see.

At any rate, stay tuned!

L

…that there’s actually some semblance of order to the chaos that is this Tumblr?

If you never visit my actual page and only see me through the feed, mightn’t know that! So, check out the categories below and go for an adventure through my neurosis, beliefs, rants, nerdy impulses and, of course, love.

Acting

Writing

Life

Love

Star Wars

LOST

Poetry

Art

Photography

MTV sucks

(Source: magicalmischief, via sevenlittleindians-deactivated2)

One of the things I love about Tumblr is that it’s not a blog.

It’s not a forum.

It’s Tumblr: a place to post whatever it is you like/enjoy/admire/find inspiring and then other people can “like” it or “reblog” it, which is another way of liking it. Replying to a regular post by reblogging it, especially a text post, is purposefully difficult - having to navigate down the original post and all the other reblog/replies is not only annoying but it can become very hard to follow the “conversation”.

And so, if you are soliciting a response - which a post in and of itself is not necessarily doing - you have to actually ask question with a question mark at the end and select “Let people answer this”.

Clearly, Tumblr is not set up for back and forth conversations and therefor is inherently a very postive place to be. If you like/enjoy/admire/find inspiration in something someone else posts, you can like and/or share it! You don’t even have to follow the Tumblr if you don’t want. And if you don’t like it, you just move on with your life. No need to go through the trouble of reblogging and replying and getting all hot under the collar talking to someone who may not even ever bother looking at your addition. When I see someone’s reblogged one of my posts, I just think, “Cool”. If someone follows me, then I check out their Tumblr and see if I want to follow back. But I definitely do not check to see if the reblogger has added on to the conversation. Because, to be frankly honest, if I haven’t asked a question, I don’t care.

I don’t use Tumblr as a place to have a debate because it’s a terrible place to have a debate. I post what I like or feel and you can consider it a declarative not an interrogative. Unless, of course, I ask a question and select “Let people answer this”.

If I post something you’d like to have a debate or discussion about, feel free to email me at laniibegood{at}gmail.com. Otherwise, don’t expect a response.

This is not the YouTube Comment section - as fun as they can be. And this ain’t Blogger.

This is Tumblr.

Respect the design.

P.S. To the those who reblogged my atheism “rant”, which it definitely was not, in order to start a debate should email me if you’re open to talking. If you’re just systematically going through my post and trying to refute my statements (which I have no idea whether you are or not because I haven’t read your reblogs) then, enjoy your “me time”.