Five Tumblr Communities to Follow

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

For those of you who don't know, Tumblr is a blogging site where people share images, videos, music, and more in an easy-to-use interface. Its Buffyverse fanbase has grown exponentially this year, as have the communities devoted to various characters, pairings, and the shows themselves.

My top five picks of this year, in no particular order:


1) Buffy Secrets/Buffy Ship Secrets (recently divided to slow down the bitter ship wars): People can submit secrets and opinions pertaining to BtVS and AtS, and much discussion follows. Not for the faint of heart! :D

2) Cordy/Angel: It's always a pleasure to see a community like this one, where the maintainers are devoted to both regular posting and intelligent posting, giving a daily fix of C/A that's more than just images and often comes in the form of reblogged discussions and squeeage. I originally followed the community as a non-shipper, but C/A won me over with enough of those wonderful, thoughtful posts.

3) Spike Memes: Romance Impaired Spike, Innuendo Spike, and many other incarnations of Spike at his most entertaining (and befuddling). This blog runs on submissions, so it's not as active as we'd all love it to be, but each post is a gem. Remember, we kid because we love!

4) Spike/Buffy: Expect a constant overload of all things Spuffy, and with a new management wholly devoted to the ship and quick to share their thoughts on the photos they reblog. This blog is unusual among the shippy blogs in that there's almost always something to reblog, and you can count on new posts appearing on our dashboard as often as ten or twenty times a day.

5) Whedon Caps: Their blurb reads, "If you love the combination of Joss Whedon and pretty screencaps then this is the right place for you." Not exclusively Buffyverse, but BtVS and AtS do make up the majority of its caps.

(Runners-up: Lilah Morgan, Stupid Faces of Whedon, Whedon Ladies, The Denisof Family, FyBuffyverse. Full list of communities here.)

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was thinking about this as a great category but I'm less experienced with Tumblr so I would've only come up with half of these. :D

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about dividing this into several posts, but it got too large and involved, so I settled for just the five. :)

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

Oh! Thanks for this! I hadn't seen Buffy Ship Secrets or Spike Memes. Following now.

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy Ship Secrets is a mixed blessing, since it does seem to have minimized the wank, but the secrets have gotten even nastier since it was created. :/

[ahigheroctave.livejournal.com]

Ooo, thanks for the recs. I've been looking for some good Buffy comms.

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

There's a full list of them at the end of the entry, if you're looking for any other specific ones. :)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Great to see a spanking new community/website recommended. Thanks for posting.

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

Tumblr is rich with BtVS fans who aren't necessarily interested in the meta or fic of the LJ group. It's refreshing to find so many new fans there. :)

[catbirdfish.livejournal.com]

Oh good idea! I'm lost when it comes to fandom on Tumblr.

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

Mm-hm. It does get to be a mess when there are too many people in fandom and no way of organizing them...it took me months to find all the BtVS comms hidden deep in Tumblr. :)

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I follow the first two.


Gabrielle

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

They're both wonderful comms! I've simultaneously loved and hated the secrets blogs especially, but they're worth it just for the debates that follow sometimes. :)

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

That Spike Memes community is brilliant!

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! It's my favorite fun!comm. Shame it isn't more active... :(

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the list. I haven't figured out how to submit pictures to Spike/Buffy community, but I love watching other people's stuff. As to "Buffy Secrets" and "Buffy Ship Secrets", I've chosen to follow the latter. It looks more Spuffy friendly. Am I right?

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

You can try using this url: http://fuckyeahspuffy.tumblr.com/submit or just posting it to your own journal and sending them the link to it.

Both secrets blogs are run by the same person and followed by the same group of people- the ship one is just exclusively for ship-related secrets and the other for non-ship secrets. Both are Spuffy friendly and unfriendly, depending on who's submitting what...

[yourlibrarian]

Good to see places where the fandom is active.

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

Tumblr appeals to people who aren't as interested in discussion as pretty graphics. :) I've been pleasantly surprised by the size of fandom there.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing! Uh, dunno if I'll follow that Ship Secrets one anytime soon though. That sounds pretty frightening.

This blog is unusual among the shippy blogs in that there's almost always something to reblog, and you can count on new posts appearing on our dashboard as often as ten or twenty times a day.

Hee. I actually follow lots of shippy blogs and find them pretty active too, so I have come to the conclusion that the ships I follow are just awesome. :)

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

It's a little frightening sometimes, and I ship all of the Big Three Buffy Ships, so someone's always bashing on my ship... but sometimes, the defenses alone are enough to make it worthwhile. :)

Hee. I actually follow lots of shippy blogs and find them pretty active too, so I have come to the conclusion that the ships I follow are just awesome. :)

Lucky! Which BtVS blogs are so active? I think I follow almost everything (with the exception of the Bangel Love Club blog), and only the CA and SB blogs are generally regularly updated... :/

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

There is a Bangel Love Club?

Okay.

I think I follow the same ones you do, and yeah I've noticed that those 2 are exceptionally active. But I also meant that I follow heaps of other non-Buffyverse blogs that are actually more active, which I find strange since ~what is bigger than the Buffyverse, man?~

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

I have no qualms about celebrating my love for Bangel, but the background for that blog is so classless that I can't bring myself to follow. :/

But I also meant that I follow heaps of other non-Buffyverse blogs that are actually more active, which I find strange since ~what is bigger than the Buffyverse, man?~

*blinks* There's life outside the Buffyverse? Lol. I follow a few random pairing blogs, but since all my ships are mostly obscure now, they rarely post. I'd assume that shows that are still on/Harry-Potter-that-will-endure-forever are much more active in fandom for now.... But give 'em seven years and see if they're still going strong then. ;)

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

the background for that blog is so classless that I can't bring myself to follow. :/

Okay now I'm curious.

Yeah, you assumed right. ;) And we will see, indeed!

[coalitiongirl.livejournal.com]

See for yourself (http://bangelloveclub.tumblr.com). NSFW! :/

:D

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

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