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there are lots of beautiful magazines that i'm a huge fan of. none of them are exactly what i want, and i have a reasonable idea of what that is. i think that's good reason to create something. so i'm looking for people with the same taste. people that'd buy an independent fashion mag featuring photography with the grainy, film feel as opposed to the glossy, digital look. photographers and writers that would be interested in contributing to such a publication. those with experience that might provide some free consultation because they'd want the project to be a success.

i am quite sure those people are on tumblr. it's so easy to use. and all corners of the internet are full of vile. still, i'm thinking i might want to look into other platforms. well, if i ever get serious about this i'll certainly need to look into additional platforms. the idea for now was to be passively building an audience with time and effort i already give up to sorting through fashion and portrait photography. still is.

i'm getting some of the followers i want. wish there was a way to avoid the less savory. not like i'm going to stop posting pretty, young girls. might not tag thylane and laneya photos anymore. which is lame.
 
yo how many followers do you all have?

i've only got 270, and it's time to change that. i know what has to be done for accumulate mass followers, but i've been resistant. until today, i was only following 230 blogs. i'm extremely picky because i use tumblr to find photos more than to share. but i'm going to temporarily change that, as following gets you followed. hopefully i don't lose too many when it comes time to purge. my goal is over 1k followers by 2016.

i also realize i disadvantage myself by being such a selective, low-output poster and reblogger. that i will not change.

http://dontletthemfade.tumblr.com & http://softasfuckfashion.tumblr.com
 
2,354 followers ; following 237

Follower count has been pretty much 2.3-2.4k for the last 1-1.5 years but I havent used Tumblr for almost 4 months now for personal reasons. Dont know if I can ever go back.
 
^ big up

i use it the same way, more to find stuff than share stuff. years ago i'd spends hours on sites like visualoptimism, saving thousands of pics on my hard drive. tho i did find some satisfaction in having them all organized, it is just easier to scroll on tumblr and click like.

like today, i had to reblog some deus ex(favorite game) concept art first new post i had in awhile, check likes, someone unfollows...
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i especially enjoyed when i saw a post from an aesthetic blog that had some personal family shit and chick was like "fuck if you don't like it" lol =)

but yea "the purge" in need one as well. think i wanna make something more personal with more words...

btw i appreciate your selectivity. can recall more than a few times, follow someone then scrolling next day and it's just post after post for what seems like an eternity, like are you for real fam?... UNFOLLOW ;p
 
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JoeTheStoner said:
saving thousands of pics on my hard drive
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my hard drives are a nightmare. if you select a cm of my desktop, it opens thousands of files. including galaxies within galaxies within galaxies (folders where i just threw everything into one folder, including past folders where i did the same).

bumping this thread because tumblr has been doing a purge of its own. hotlinked images from tumblr used to never go bad (even if the original post was deleted on tumblr). no longer the case; they've recently begun the transition into red Xs in white boxes with haste. too bad. before tumblr i used to host on blogger. those are all still up half a dozen years later.
 
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